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*sniff* *sniff* dat ish why dis ish precishhhly ideology today
*sniff**sniff* yesh, I am a communist, but I must warn you my exsshplanation ish quite a vulgar one.
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This is how I imagine /lit/ posters to look and behave.
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pleb here
if he is so smart why is he a communist?
also what does pure ideology even mean? Is it a good or bad thing?
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Horror general
Discuss literature that provides the most horrific things every brought to the artistic medium
to start things off does anyone know anything that can top I Have no Mouth But I Must Scream? Its concoction of the nuclear apocalypse alone is some of the most impressive I have ever seen, not to mention It's descriptions of each of the survivors and the enigma that is AM is frightful in conception as well as performance, a thing that has the intelligence and power of a god but who's psychological development is stunned and warped creating a thing
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Huge horror buff but can't for the life of me say they ever truly scared me. I adore the classics but one I've picked up just the other day called Penpal by Dathan Auerbach. I remembered reading it when it was just a short creepy pasta like thing on reddit. It gained such a following the guy decided to publish. Went ahead and bought the book, still creepy as fuck. I guess realistic horror in the form of broken humanity is still spookier than any fictitious horror. Still remember a part in that book that made me put it down and just breathe for a little while. Gaaah...
That said, my friend has been shoving "Haunted" by Chuck something or another in my face for ages. I'm not so keen on taking up something out of sheer hype though and I still have a ton to go through so anyone know if it's actually any good?
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Has anyone here read The Ceremonies? Supposedly it was a success when it came out, but I don't see people talking about it much. I'm very near the end of the book, and I'm loving it.
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>>7812458
Never heard of it. What's it about anon? Also what's the writing style like?
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Let's see those Friday morning bookshelves, and have some cozy literary discussions.
Currently reading the two on the right, but I've been flipping through some other shorter works recently (some of Borges short stories, Orwell essays, The New York Trilogy, and the odd Shakespeare poem).
Any suggestions for someone starting to feel burnt out on reading? I haven't run into this problem before. What do you anons find works best? Just push forward and get through it, switch to reading shorter stuff, or take a break to recoup your drive?
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Lovely collection OP, what translation of the Divine Comedy is that?
My advice would be to just finish what you're reading now and then take a break. Why read if you aren't enjoying it?
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>>7798061
Thank you! And, it's the Mandelbaum translation.
That's a fair point, I think I might do that. I've been averaging a book every two weeks or so for several months now, and it's starting to feel more like work than anything at this point. Perhaps a little break would be best.
Though I definitely want to finish Catch-22, first. Despite what I described above, I'm having an extremely fun time with it.
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>>7798061
Mandelbaum
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ITT we post """""classic"""""" books.
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>>7819314
Hey I liked Ethan Frome.
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>>7819314
Everything by these three cunts.
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>>7819359
Emily is the only one worth reading
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>What /lit/ thinks Pynchon is like:
>"Loool, I'll post about myself on /lit/ again!!! *unzips spork* Posting on 4chan while smoking weed and posting Gary Johnson memes is my favourite past time!!?"
>What Pynchon is probably actually like:
>"How did I get on to this /lit/ website? It's filled with degenerates. I never even use the internet either! I'll go and read The New Yorker for thirty minutes before writing an anti-Trump, anti-populism, anti-racism op-ed for the Times under a pseudonym. Then I'll read Chaucer for 30 minutes, silently contemplate it for 30 minutes, and then go to sleep."
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probably accurate
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>>7819067
>Pynchon
>reading the fucking New Yorker
Middlebrow alert! Help, taste police, this man thinks educated people actually read the New Yorker!
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>>7819067
>anti-populism
I will never understand the populism is bad meme
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his nose literally grows only 2 times throughout the story
for the rest it was bretty ok for child's book
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>>7819014
! Is Pinnocchio an analogy for jews?
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>>7819039
Nope. He represents the Italian people/nation.
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>>7819046
Is that just an alternative interpretation written by jews?
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If you had to convince someone to read, what would you say/do?
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>>7818925
"You can read this book, or eat all of these eggs. You're free to scream but nobody will hear you."
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If u don't read your an faggot
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if u read, people will think yuo'e smart, even despite that the average "high browed" author is only maybe slightly a little more intellectigent and perceptive than average..ha ha ha! be sure to peper your speach with obscure references...
watch ...
stirrner: where are the spooks?
prole: hhh... well... here. there are many marxian spooks in the mines, and they are increasingly revolutionary... (etc etc)
any1 who gets this will peg me as a sophisticate for sure
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Does any anons here have Everyman's "Notes from underground"?
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hello
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>>7818904
I have. After twenty pages of autistic rambling I had to put the bloody thing away. I'll stay clear from meme books. Of those of the mad Russian in particular.
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>>7819243
How's the translation?Can you take another picture where you can see his full face?
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales – choose your own edition (as long as it’s in Middle English) Some suggestions: Penguin (ed. Mann), Riverside (ed. Benson), Broadview (eds. Boenig and Taylor)
Which of these is the best edition and why?
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Riverside. Has all the Tales, and all his other works. Good supplementary additions.
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>>7818733
Seconded. You can find cheap used editions in Amazon. It doesnt matter if it's the old one from the 80s, as long as it's the third edition it should be fine.
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Why the fuck would you read the Middle English
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Is pasifism right or wrong?
We are taught that the right thing to do is to not hit back and just walk away, but countries always go to war.
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Man exerts himself over things, things exert themselves over man. Exertion is violence, and violence is everything. Only the dead know the luxury of peace. Those who wish for peace may easily find it by gazing down the barrel of a pistol.
t. me
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>>7818818
you combined like 3 famous quotes and pawned it as your own you charlatan
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Pacifism is an immoral position, in that it forces other people to defend your rights without any contribution of your own. You can't just stand there and take it on the chin without retaliation and survive in the world, there will always be evil people who will use force to exert their influence over you. By insisting on a pacifist position, you are just passing the buck onto others without taking any risk of your own. Therefore, it is immoral as you insist on having others suffer for your safety.
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Manuscript for The Cancer of Superstition, requested shortly before escapologist’s death, is discovered in memorabilia collection
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/16/hp-lovecraft-harry-houdini-manuscript-cancer-superstition-memorabilia?CMP=twt_gu
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OMG
He's still wowing us after all these years
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>>7818679
How exciting, I hope this deals with the greatest horror of all in the Lovecraft mythos, non-whites.
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Pretty fucking neat. I knew he did stuff with Houdini but didn't know about that, or that Lovecraft was a sceptic?
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Is it possible for an autistic person to ever truly appreciate literature? Asking for a friend.
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>>7818593
Depends on the autistic person. It's a complex disorder that manifests in a myriad of ways, but one of the hallmarks of it is an incapability of enjoying fiction. That doesn't necessarily mean that there will never be an autist who can appreciate it, but it'll probably be unusual.
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>>7818593
My wife's friends sister is literally autistic in the non meme sense, and she crushes asian literature. I think she may be running out of shit that is in translation.
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>>7818599
>one of the hallmarks of it is an incapability of enjoying fiction.
Why is that? Just the lack of empathy for the characters?
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What's your favorite piece of literature with the theme of disenfranchised, alienated and angry young men?
Going through a pretty edgy and angsty phase in life and dunno how to cope aside from reading and coding. Sorry if this is cringeworthy.
Pic related, already read this a few years back but started reading it again and boy does it feel a lot more relatable now.
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Just read Walden you fucking retard.
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You've probably read Fight Club, so here's the patrician version
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>>7818555
Steppenwolf - Hesse
Pay special attention to Hesse's introduction where he explains how Steppenwolf is his most misunderstood work.
Nice trips btw
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If the bible had no plotholes and would be perfectly reasonable in its own context, so basically if the bible had good writing, how would the world look today?
Maybe even throw in a good story and remove the cryptic writing to make it more accessible. The lore is pretty solid from what I have seen.
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It would look the same because no one actually reads it
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>>7818442
Are you implying that the bible doesn't have good writing?
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>>7818446
No, I outright said that it has bad writing.
Good kid /lit/ plz
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r8 recent purchases for my 6 year oldgirl. We read a picture book + a chapter a night.
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>>7818418
Not pictured: Dinotopia
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Goosebumps
Animorphs