Which is it, /lit/?
SS+GOMAD
>>8023672
>They're studying to escape their soul crushing depression and insignificant existence
both desu
>>8023636
Kek
But really, what did he mean by this? I never understood this quote
suggest books for a lonely 18 year old with no future
>>8023615
the holy bible
>>8023615
Catcher In The Rye DESU
I don't suggest books, I suggest action. At 18 anyone can find a future. Don't piss away your formative years faggot
but if you NEED some books ....
The Odyssey
Metamorphoses
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Moby Dick
>she's really gone
can literature ever fill the void left by genuine love?
>>8023549
Read Gravity's Rainbow and lay extra attention to the parts with Roger and Jessica. That really broke me down in a good way after my worst breakup.
But in reality only time and further experience will fix it.
>>8023557
Gravity's Rainbow is a distraction from and a mockery of love, not a confrontation of it. It's like Frank Zappa's doo wop songs on Freak Out! But that's just my opinion.
I know it sounds a bit melodramatic but I really only wanted her, and now that she is gone all I'd like to do is move into the mountains outside of my town and become a hermit.
>>8023566
Charva, my dear
I love you through and through
I loved you back in grammar school when we were sniffing glue
Usually when people bring up C. S. Lewis on /lit/ it's in connection to The Chronicles of Narnia. I'm interested in knowing what the verdict is on The Screwtape Letters.
what i know it's that one should avoid his space trilogy because it's a schmaltzy piece of crap
It's definitely Lewis' fiction at it's preachiest. It's fine, but it is what it is: a series of letters. It's better to read as a play or a parabolic essay, not as a straight piece of fiction like Narnia.
>>8023546
>parabolic essay
what's it?
ITT: Confess your /lit/ sins
For the longest time I thought Hesiod was Heisod (Hey-zod)
>>8023311
I thought Pynchon was some kind of French so I pronounced it "Pynsh-own" and not "Pinch-on"
>>8023346
you were actually closer with the first one, it's just that everyone pronounces it the second way.
>>8023311
I called:
Neiztche "nits chey"
don quixote "don kwicks-ot
Hey /lit/, I'm an unpublished writer about to begin sending out some of my stuff to agents/publishers and journals/reviews.
I have social media accounts but hardly any activity and little followers. Obviously, the only thing that will matter, ultimately, is the quality of the work, but I'm wondering if anyone here has any insight on how much my lack of social media will affect my chance of getting published?
Is it possible to be a new author in the 21st century without a social media presence? I'm not talking about established writers or well-known recluses. I'm asking about new, unproven authors.
>>8023305
I mean the more people that know you the better. You dont have to use it obnoxiously. but no one cares about you anyway until you publish so work on that.
>>8023305
>Is it possible to be a new author in the 21st century without a social media presence?
Of course, it's not that important. Focus on your work and your query letters. It's the publsiher who has to think about the marketing
dont worry about it.
If I listen to one audiobook every day at work can I say I read 5 books a week?
>>8023266
Are you planning to spend your entire day with these? Audiobooks are very long, OP.
>>8023266
Why don't you just take an ereader or some shit. It's a lot faster, t b h
>>8023273
My job is pretty simple and repetitive, and the shift is 8 hours so I can usually finish the majority of an audiobook in a day.
Give me a good reason why I should read literature in a diferent language than my native one.
>>8023227
You'll learn a new skill and make your brain work better.
Something you clearly need xD
Have you read enough to know good prose from bad? Usually the words just sound better in their own tongue. Its really a lot of effort if you are spending years to learn a language just for a few books.
>>8023259
S A V A G E
Literature women will never understand
>Literature
>women will never understand
That's redundant
>>8023223
>tfw Hilary Clinton wins
>tfw feminist will erase all Hemingway from public knowledge
>tfw YA books will be highlight of your generations literature
>DUDE, EVERYTHING AND MORE? I'M READING THAT
David foster wallace
it was the strangest thing, for a brief second ops post gave me the urge to kill myself, not even shitposting
That video sucks and the kid that screams out the window seems fucking insufferable. He is the reason people think DFW fans are faggots.
The Movie:
>kind of comfy
>old books that summon the devil? Sweet!
>subtle and ambiguous supernatural elements
>cool locations
The Book:
>assholes, assholes everywhere
>muh secret Dumas club
>this isnt really about that devil book
>>8023070
Woman in the Dunes
>>8023070
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Every Stephen King novel.
firstmonday.org/article/view/3665/3055
>>8022961
She's cute.
someone pastebin this shit
This is really detailed. Good job to the anon who wrote this.
Why is Dumas such an asshole? Holy shit.The story was so good up until the last 15 or so chapters. Like Aramis, I'm disgusted by what took place, and I don't even really want to read the sequels.
I really really really want to like this book, because it's exciting with lovable characters. I loved the Count of Monte Cristo, but the ending to this takes such a hard left. Help me understand, what am I missing? The John Felton thing I get. Had I been more informed on history, I probably would have liked that sequence a little better, because it was clever. But the sequence after that went too far. Why did Dumas end his story like that?
>>8022818
i had read it ages ago so i visited wiki to refresh the plot
now, it's ridiculous, wiki has a part that milady de winter might be a tranny.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milady_de_Winter#Transgender_Theory
I'm sorry that a woman being a bad person and then getting her comeuppance triggers you OP.
>>8022895
I read that today too. It's probably the faggot that wrote it that put it up there. It's so beyond stupid.
>>8022900
What triggers me is that she is evil incarnate with the most horrible and selfish intentions, and she succeeds in her evil plots. She's Claude Frollo in a novel that up until the point where she takes center stage, is jovial and fun and full of hope. And at the end, she's given a dignified death, and Dumas even makes the characters pity her as she's sentenced to die.
It's silly. If it was a dark story from the beginning, like Notre Dame, then I could easily digest the way the story turned. But it was a happy fun tale, that turned extremely dark. A character that evil should not be allowed to succeed.
You're at a party. Yuppies, academics, writers. You don't fit in as well as you thought you would've a few years ago. You ask an unassuming guy who says he reads what his favorite works are.
What is the most impressive response you could recieve?
>>8022791
Lacan or Stiriner.
"reading is for the borgiouese"
"I don't know"