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Why do so many fans of The Lord of the Rings seem to miss the terrible melancholy that suffuses the series?
It's like they don't notice how everything 'cool' in the books--The Shire, Rivendell, Moria, Lothlorien, Isengard, Fangorn, Minas Tirth, even Mordor--is in its last, bitter days. A new age, OUR age, is dawning, and everything awesome and terrible and beautiful in Tolkien's world is about to go away forever. The series is great, but it's so, so depressing.
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It would be depressing if that faggot didn't destroy the ring. The ring gets destroyed everything's good nigger. Don't fret.
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>>7787134
>everything's good
>everything's
>'s
no, no it isn't
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>>7787094
The melancholy was really put into context for me after reading the Silmarillion
Everything is so bittersweet yet beautiful
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What's the weirdest young adult series you got into when you were a kid?
Pic related.
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i only read the first four (i grew up) but...
>pic related
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L ron hubbards mission earth ... huh.
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i remember reading a lot of deltora quest
>>7787217
oh god i remember checking out battlefirled earth because the librarian was like "this dude started a religion" and i thought that was cool af
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Books with odd subject matter?
Weird books?
Weird, odd, out there, what
And I'm referring to subject matter of the book, not the prose. I don't mean weird as in inaccessible (joyce) or textual gimmicks (danielewski). I mean weird subject matter (I guess danilewski still fits).
Can be fiction or non-fiction. What's the weirdest book you've ever read?
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The Book of Mormon. Weirdest Bible fanfic ever.
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>>7787044
You win.
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The Erl King by Michel Tournier (1970). 10/10. Masterpiece and weird shit.
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Looking to start a sexy poetry thread, somewhere along the lines of e.e. cummings - I Like My Body When It Is With Your Body
Post Your sexiest poems
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Friendly reminder:
Prose>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pottery
Pottery is for cucks
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>>7788995
ayyyy even she knows
POTTERY KEKS ON SUICIDE WATCH
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>>7786970
you like cummings, huh?
. . .
the boys i mean are not refined
they go with girls who buck and bite
they do not give a fuck for luck
they hump them thirteen times a night
one hangs a hat upon her tit
one carves a cross on her behind
they do not give a shit for wit
the boys i mean are not refined
they come with girls who bite and buck
who cannot read and cannot write
who laugh like they would fall apart
and masturbate with dynamite
the boys i mean are not refined
they cannot chat of that and this
they do not give a fart for art
they kill like you would take a piss
they speak whatever's on their mind
they do whatever's in their pants
the boys i mean are not refined
they shake the mountains when they dance
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Anyone got some good extistential books?
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>>7786881
Read that one in high school. Great book tbqh, but doling out assignments and papers, being forced to see it from a teacher's perspective kinda kills it.
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>>7786881
if you want novels I would say "The Hermit" by Eugene Ionesco
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Anything by Kafka.
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The sheer poetic power of this book humbles me. I feel I have fallen under a spell reading Quentin and Jason's parts. The sounds, the rhythms, the meter Faulkner translates into prose is so invigorating I can't contain my enthusiasm.
What are some books whose sheer beauty in prose and construction has blown you away, /lit/?
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Quentin is my favorite Faulkner character. That 2nd part (the shadow of the sash) is brilliant.
If you think TSATF is good, then you really need to read Absalom, Absalom! It's even more fun. And I think it's Faulkner's best.
And get some whisky while you're at it!
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>>7786895
Not op but I feel the same way, quentin's whole section was fucking chilling in a great way. I've only read sound and the fury and as I lay dying from faulkner so far so I'll check out absalom absalom next.
Where does it stand on comprehensibility from TSatF to AILD?
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>>7786929
Absalom is more comprehensible in the sense that it isn't AILD / Benjy style, but it's a much more difficult read. check out Light in August, The Hamlet, Go Down Moses, Sanctuary, Old Man (one half of the novel Wild Palms, the half in Yok. county)
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Im only 35 pages into this book and I'm already getting the cosmic slap from Friedrich Nietzsche!!
What a brilliant mind!!!
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This is the worst and most obvious shit post I have seen this month.
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>>7786829
Halfway through I got bored and couldn't follow his thinking.
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>>7788173
Really? How could you?
But one thing I noticed about him is that he was very condescending towards religious people and plebeians.
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Can anyone recommend a good booktuber? Every new channel I see recommend is a fucking roastie.
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>>7786477
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=booktuber&page=3
holy shit, page after page of roastie.
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>>7786477
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnljdv_duZM
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>>7786578
I said good booktuber, not some roastie
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Any advice on learning Mandarin as absolute beginner? I want to learn this language but I don't know what literature or materials to use (websites, apps, etc.).
Also how difficult is it? Will I be able to understand the basics by the beginning of this summer?
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>>7786351
Chingy chongy chang chingy chong chong chong
Chingy lingy ling lingy ling lang long
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>>7786351
>Also how difficult is it?
Hardest language, because the Chinese can't into efficiency.
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Recommend me a fantasy series or book that has a similar atmosphere to the video game Skyrim.
Cheers.
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>>7786319
open any book and smear shit in the pages.
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>>7786324
well there's just no need for that
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If you want the same experience, take a piece of white paper A4 Bond
put it on the floor, take a HUGE shit on it. Grab the paper and put it on your face like a clown with a lemon pie
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I'm losing interest in my biggest project only one chapter in. It's taking too long to write but I don't want to give up all the hard work I put in, but if I stop now I'll probably never finish it.
what do I do?
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Take your time with it, take a break if need be and write something else? Or maybe it's just not good, and your boredom is telling you that you are approaching it wrong.
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>tfw you know you can finish this novel but you keep skirting around the main characters primary motivation that carries him through it, its like its refusing to be found
>with any other story its not a problem
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>>7786255
I RECOGNIZE THAT IMAGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMVfnIhtWD0
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http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsage.pdf
What are /lit/'s thoughts on Authority and American Usage by pic related?
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Really good.
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Didn't Franzen suggest they had intercourse at one point
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this is less of an eye sore
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
here's a response, though I don't really think it's that good
http://languagehat.com/david-foster-wallace-demolished/
So I just found about this book, what can you tell me about it /lit/?? Should I buy it?
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>>7785927
i want plebbit to leave.
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>>7785927
it's the book of reddit, ask to them and delete this thread
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>>7785927
I can happily say I didn't contribute to this trainwreck.
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In your opinion, what would you consider a list of study to make one 'educated?'
In the past, it was expected for the educated upper class to have a grasp of a number of notable authors(Virgil, Ovid, Petrarch) and an understand of religious text like the King James Bible as well as cultural knowledge of music and theater. For our modern period, what would you expect to be a decent background for an individual to be considered well educated?
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start with the Greeks
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>>7785764
All those same things
Minus "dated" activities like horseback riding and fencing
Plus more technical/scientific knowledge
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Pretty much anything. Most educated people barely earned their degrees and couldn't speak on the topic of their major with any authority. So if you actual do basic shit like read the Greeks and the bible you'll be further ahead than 99% of people.
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so /lit/, Im looking for some essays of "sound" in film. Is there an easy way to find writers who have theorized about it?
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>>7785186
google you fucking mongoloid
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>>7785214
Im looking for work by scholars or specialists.
The question is aimed at people who have studied film.
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>>7785186
There's a great deal of film theory regarding sound. Early theorists typically regarded sound as a detriment to the artform. Sound was kind of a novelty with the "talkies" back in the early 1900s.