Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4121. page

>What is beauty to you, /lit/?
bussy

>Do you ever encounter beauty in your reading?
no :(

>>7834097
beauty is looking at a girl sleeping on my bed with my cum dried on her face.

So no, I don't encounter it in literature very often. I mostly read to appear intelligent, picking up quotes by famous authors and ancient wise men to drop on people in debate IRL. America's amazing like that, even in the lower echelons of academia people actually think you are intelligent if you can cite shit you've read offhand because nobody reads books here.

something that doesn't make sense in the logical world, not nonsensical but indescribable

yes

>>7832890
>that pic

Are we approaching the age when we'll be speaking exclusively through dank maymays?

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>>7832890

Fuck that picture has me in tears

>>7832890
>Implying sophists weren't BTFO by Plato

There's nothing to be proud of when what you do becomes a synonym for fallacies and tricks three thousand years later.

What is some easy literature for a learner to start off with?

What is the German equivalent of Camus e.g.?

>>7832449
I´d suggest you Poems by Friedrich G-ttlieb Klopstock. Otherwise maybe something by Erich Kästner. We could skype and you just could ask about difficult sentences or stuff like that. I am not a teacher though, so I don´t really know if Klopstockis appropriate.

Are there any good /lit/-esque German literature forums?

>>7830398
>literally nothing happens
1. false
2. what's your point?

I swear i've seen this exact thread before

what's your game, op

>reading for plot

>>7830373
:,(

nice to hear

depends how you define "famous author"

>>7830237
Nooooope. They are EBIG

>>7830237
good thing I only shitpost so i can say i was only making fun of the community

hank green
baby shoos never worn

>>7830237
No because they are relatively tame compared to my fiction.

>>7825668
Mindfulness in plain english

>>7825672
Found it, thanks. Seems applicable for non-Buddhists as well, right?

>>7825718
Yes. It is made for all people.

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>>7835474
Proud to be redpilled

probably one of the best children's books tbqh

if we're going to have literal threads about literal children's books, i'd rather it this than artemis fowl or goosebumps. yuck.

The Cay

Really ask /co/, but I like most stuff by Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan by him and Sandman by Neil Gaiman being my favourites.

Maus, fun home

I want to hear the pages turn and smell that book smell, you know what I mean

Socrates and those other greek faggots would have preferred audiobooks, reading text is vulgar shit for scribes

Also: does the brain retain information if a person is doing something while listening to an audiobook? What if the person sleeps while listening?

>>7831786
>he shouldn't be divulged nor widely read

u 100 years late m8

>>7831786
>But he shouldn't be divulged nor widely read, and here is why.
He himself said that only the elite would truly comprehend his message.

So he declared himself to be elitist, that's why the Marx-Engels writings were criticized in some of his works.

>>7831786
>This knowledge, however, this wisdom, that truth is not always preferable to falsehood, should be kept away and hidden from the masses.
While I agree, you did just very clearly outline all of this on a public imageboard... not really following your own words there are you?

>>7831686
It was never a good back.

>>7831686
>. I just got the feeling that Holden was his own times teenage edgelord

That is the point, though.

The book perfectly captures the post-war life of a parentless (not really since his parents are alive, but they are absent nonetheless), misguided, tormented by death kid who can't let go of his childhood.

Read it again.

>>7831692
Contrarian pleb, please go.

>>7831704
Now that you point that out, I can see the point.

Still, none of us, who have been raised in 1st world countries, can really see through Holden's eyes. The book has lived its course, and you cant really gain anything but historical value from it. I really don't understand those people ho say it was the most important book they have ever read.

>>7825555
I'm 50 pages in. So far it's been vague and violent. I'm sure it's good. Read it you cock sucking nigger loving jew cunt

its ok but sort of a meme around here
i can get why some people would like it, but the only reason /lit/ posters like it is is because it's SUPER GORY DUUUDE and everyone who has just come from /tv/ or /v/ wants to read something simple they can understand while being entertained by violence

imo suttree is better

>>7825578
What about the border trilogy. I got suttree not to long ago used. The copies beat to shit

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>inb4 butthurt

>>7821030
i'm not hurt, i'm just very disappointed in you

also is it worth reading about theodore roosevelts life, seems like the sort of rustic and old timey wimey theme i'm looking for

>>7835339
>oi mateys
>m-muh
>le

Kill yourself

>>7835341
>timey wimey

Kill yourself