What are your favorite summertime reading books?
Ones to sit under the shade on a sunny day and enjoy with some cold water
>not drinking ice tea instead
Hemingway or something
i don't leave the house at all
the only reason i read is to keep me halfway sharp so i don't completely lose my mind
>tfw winter
Hey /lit/
Never been to this board before but I guess it's the only place I'll get any help.
I'm writing a book called 'Fay Haven'
Cringe or not but I need character names. I'm looking for medieval names of a sort. Give me some interesting names! Be sure to read Fay Haven and look for your suggestion if it ever goes noticed. I'm not asking for you to be a personal army or anything (other boards think I am). Pic related. Needed something relevant so just pulled it from a logo creator.
>>8124876
I should start by giving descriptions on what characters I want but I honestly don't even know where to go with this.
>>8124876
Jotolino Mcloud
>>8124876
Max Stirner
"The Southern Gothic" is just a fancy way of saying 'books about rednecks?'
Pretty much.
>>8124906
This.
corncobbers B T F O
What's the redpilled literature version of pic related?
>>8124785
what is red pill mean
>>8124803
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
>>8124803
It's a board on reddit. /r/redpill.
People on 4chan who talk about redpill stuff are actually redditers trying to infiltrate our site.
is this the most epic booktuber of all time?
https://youtu.be/dEVX42Pg1xw
This was too much.
I hate this place and everyone here.
lmaoooooo
I can't fathom the idea that metanarratives have been rejected and are not coming back. 4chan is not just a kunstkammer - it speaks of general populace' mindset, with distortions, of course; same with Tumblr or any other site of such caliber. If so, it becomes dishonest to state that we are living in postmodernity - as a direct consequence, honest postmodernist art can't exist, only art striving to be post-modern. Shouldn't we call it all nonmodernity - shrunk, almost evaporated time, such that even the history is not viewed in temporal, linear dimension, and a return to metanarratives as a way of coping?
>>8124715
What is a Metanarrative?
>>8124719
Christianity
Marixsm
Scientism
>>8124722
Those may be examples of metanarratives but what is a metanarrative?
Why is this novel so highly regarded? I just read it and I don't see all the hype. It wasn't necessarily bad, but it wasn't that good either.
Anyone care to explain?
>>8124707
I thought the same thing OP. Didn't see the big deal. Couldn't tell if I was just already jaded with existentialism or I just didn't understand the book.
Is this a joke?
Did you not understand the book?Are YOU The Stranger?
You must be Algerian. It's not for (You)
Was DFW trolling with his top 10 list, or is it some levelling?
1. The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
2. The Stand, by Stephen King
3. Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
4. The Thin Red Line, by James Jones
5. Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong
6. The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris
7. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
8. Fuzz, by Ed McBain
9. Alligator, by Shelley Katz
10. The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy
no, he was trying verry hard to affect Regular Guyness, because it was his brand identity.
>>8124661
do regular guys have footnotes deriving the fundamental theorem of calculus
>>8124661
But surely, even the regular guy would sense the patronizing at the Tom Clancy selection, at least?
Did anyone read this? I read the shorter biography by Joshi. I'd like to know if the 1k+ page door stoppers are worth the read.
>>8124577
God damn what idiotic covers
All you need on Lovecraft apart from his writing is Houllebecq's essay. If you want to read more for shits and giggles there are womyn essayists writing about how evil necrotic otherworldly demons represent female empowerment.
>>8124650
The covers do suck dick. But it's a functional 6/10. Joshi gave the green light to much worse in the past (why is it so hard to find intelligent people who perform at the level of at least a hill for every gentlemanly skill, instead of humdrum plains...).
You however, are an autist, likely a 4/10 person overall. If you seriously think that one essay is enough to cover every interesting aspect of that wonderful weirdo's life, you need to stop pseuding this board to shit and let your betters lead the conversations.
anything joshi related belongs in the trash, just read lovecraft's letters or something
What does /lit/ think about audiobooks?
pleb shit and utter trash
>B-BUT MUH COMMUTE
just end yourself already
>>8124551
They're nice
I wouldn't listen to a lot of things in audio form but shit like genre-fiction and fantasy I think lend themselves well to the medium
>>8124551
The reason that I like reading is: the ability to control the narrative. You know, being able to read fast and slow, emphasize some words, underline, stop and really think about a paragraph. Audiobooks take the beauty of reading and pack it up into a nice little package for people that have bad attention spans.
I've seen a resurgence of audiobooks over the last several years in self improvement circles. People on /fit/ know they should read more, but sit down and try and can't. So they turn to audiobooks. It's just going through the motions. Reading is relaxing, you sit down at the end of the day and you crack open the novel, or the essay you've been reading and you continue, swapped into another world. Maybe my brain is broken, but audiobooks don't do that for me. I don't want someone to tell me a story when I'm driving, or on the train. I want to read.
Friends called me to go out but I'm using an old pic of mine while sick and excusing my self to read Aristotle.
I don't think this will ever end.
>>8124509
You sound insufferable
What Aristotle? If it's Metaphysics, Ethics, Poetics or the Organon you did well.
>>8124509
Don't behind intellectual excuses, you just don't want to go because you're insecure and scared people will think you're boring and unlikeable
>Moby *Dick*
>*Sperm* Whale
>>8124490
>Black "people".
There's a white oily substance that fills sperm whales' heads, so obviously sailors figured it was sperm. Duhhhhh.
>>8124490
>he doesn't like squeezing globules of sperm while loving his fellow man
can prose have color?
>>8124371
as much as humor can, I guess
>>8124371
It can if you are autistic enough.
>>8124371
>no.
Does anyone have a PDF of In Praise Of Older Women? None of the libraries within 50 miles of me seem to have it.
>>8124483
neat!
>>8124354
Not what you asked for, but its on Amazon for really cheap.
>November 8
Who else hype?
>>8124330
My NYRB subscription is a treasure, I download like 10 books after every edition.
>>8124330
>translated by
zero hype
>>8124330
I read it in French. Bresson is mostly a fraud with some great editing skills.
His philosophy on cinema is kind of interesting but mostly just DUDE JUST WING IT LMAO inspirations.
Many of his films are unwatchable. A shame he had to force his theory of acting on audiences.