Hey /lit/,
I need some short, depressing reads.
What are your favorite short novels/novellas that deal with death, loneliness or related subjects?
Anything under 300 pages goes.
Why short? Are you a pleb?
>>7713080
The Lime Twig's definitely a must-read.
>>7713080
The Book of Disquiet
Halfway through read The Death of Ivan Ilyich and am now at my grandmothers death bed. Should I continue and do you have any other suggestions for things to perhaps read instead?
She is dying of cancer and is Christian and is taking it very well. She is very practical about the whole thing and says that she has gotten to see her children grow up and to know her grandchildren. I am in no way religious and didn't know if I could continue reading the story as it was hard seeing her in the state that she is.
why don't you fucking read the book before you make a stupid blogpost about your grandma
I remember reading this book on a summer afternoon at the park. My uncle, who would go on to have three affairs, two illegitimate children and one heart attack, was with his wife then, my mother was hanging by the public restrooms in case of an emergency (which never emerged); and I entertained certain sexual speculations about a girl who had smiled at me on the bus the week before. How I wish I was 17 again.
>>7712489
One if the most boring books ive read.
Tolstoy is such a drag.
Want to read War and Peace, is boring lile this one?
What are the best books that argue in support of Christianity and the concept of god? I'm looking for non-fiction preferably, but will take fiction reccomendations as well
Read the Tao de Ching and find god instead.
>>7712080
Start with Plato and Aristotle. Once you've read Republic, Laws, Symposium, Menon, Phaedo, Categories, Ethics, Metaphysics move onto City of God by Augustine and selected writings of Aquinas (500 or so pages on metaphysics). With that you may want to consider Descartes Meditations and Leibniz and after that move to Kierkegaard. With him finished try Joseph Ratzinger and Edward Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics, Scholastic Essays and maybe some Alvin Platinga.
If you want to go the easy pleb route read Peter Kreeft, his Faith and Reason, Ethics, Platonic Tradition and Aquinas.
>>7712086
Kierk'd.
What are the saddest books /lit/ has ever read? Give us some real depressing books. Pic related is one of the most tragic books I've ever read.Fortunately it has a happy ending.
>>7715413
Ah tragedy.
Gothos' Folly was painful. Like Shakespeare's great tragedies, only painful like having your soul ripped apart. It's hard to find though, only a few beta readers were allowed to read it.
Fresh off reading Stoner last weekend - rates pretty high up there. Possibly because it's infinitely relatable.
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ITT: we enjoin people we hate to leave /lit/ forever
>the guy spreading /pol/ cancer
>the antinatalist guy who keeps coining his own buzzwords like "life-junkies" and trying to explain how life sucks with thermodynamics
>>7715356
>the frog faggots
>the retard who thinks Zizek has merit
>the ignorant baboon that hasn't read Sam Harris but shits on him
>>7715409
>implying you need to read Sam Harris to shit on him
Hi, this valentine's day, I went and became a beta fuck, wrote some poor poems for someone but got humiliated instead.
So I was wondering if I should keep reading XIIe century shit or move forward?
i love you anon but you know the entire french court of love was based on queen elinor never fucking you
>>7715153
I wasn't expecting that, but after reflection the alexandrin form was not respected in 1/4 of the times and the font held no real value. Shs even said it was embarrassing. But I've been reading a good Troyes novel and I enjoy it so far. I was thinking about reading the Lais after that, but I'm not so sure.
>>7715128
Anon you have to realize that women don't want to be courted with poems anymore. They want to be courted with Ayyyyyy, Emojis, Netflix, or Alcohol/Drugs. Instead of writing poems for the woman you want to ask out just ask her for her number and text her for a bit with emojis and then ask her out in person or over text(If and only if over text if she mentions a place she wants to try or a food she wants)
Hey lit,
Doing an independent study in college on Jewish-American Literature (undergraduate). I'm curious to know what you all think the best works of Jewish-American Lit are.
Here's what I and my professor have covered so far:
Deuteronomy 1-8, Ezra, and Nehemiah
Theodore Herzl - The Jewish State
Kafka - The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Judgement, (also two parables)
Abraham Cahan - The Rise of David Levinsky
Henry Roth - Call It Sleep
We're doing one work per week. Next week's work is: Isaac Bashevis Singer - The Magician of Lublin.
For the future we have tentatively planned to cover works of Wiesel, Bellow, Wallant, Philip Roth, and David Grossman.
Any recommendations to further my knowledge of Jewish-American Literature?
>>7714902
>Jewish-American Literature
>Deuteronomy 1-8, Ezra, and Nehemiah
>Theodore Herzl
>Kafka
America got really large, huh?
Elie Weisel
Herzog was okay.
I'm finally breaking down and buying a kindle.
Which one should I get?
paper white obviously
>>7714429
a Kobo.
>>7714436
But the paperwhite with 3G is 190 bux :(
What do you think about John Fante?
boring misunderstood white boy shit
>>7712461
Good period pieces.
>>7712461
I don't.
Anticipation Edition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
http://imgur.com/A96mTQX
>What are you currently reading?
>What are some of your expectant sff releases for 2016?
>Who is your most anticipated new author?
>What do you do when a book is building up to a glorious climax, then walks away leaving you dry?
Old thread >>7692308
>>7702339
>>What are you currently reading?
Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, good shit
>>What are some of your expectant sff releases for 2016?
Bakker's completion of the Aspect Emperor trilogy, and Sott Lynch's new Gentleman Bastards book
>>Who is your most anticipated new author?Myself
>>What do you do when a book is building up to a glorious climax, then walks away leaving you dry?
Call it disappointing and make sure I don't commit similar mistakes in my own work
>>7702339
>currently reading
Under Heaven and
>expectant releases
I'm hoping for the finale to Hobb's Fitz series, but I doubt that will be this year. Thorn of Emberlain and Oathbringer should be enough to entertain me in the fantasy space. Still have too many scifi classics to read to bother keeping up with that genre's modern output.
>most anticipated new author
If they're new, I probably don't know about them, so I'm incapable of feeling anticipation.
Last thread someone asked for folklore tales, Croatian Tales from Long Ago by Ivana Brlic Mazuranic. Translation is kinda shit because the author made Slavic words into English so it just sounds really strange if you know the original.
On the anon who wanted Lotr quality in sf, Book of the New Sun, Lord of Light, Lathe of Haven, Solaris, A Scanner Darkly.
anything good written on or trying to describe/explain the transcendent experience of truly great art?
i find the best art brings me to a feeling of heightened consciousness like some frozen moment when you hear complete silence or the sun is hitting just right and everything feels fallen in place and as it should be
>>7715374
back to /r9k/ and watch some consciousness-raising anime, faggot
What do you guys think of Tim Urban's WaitButWhy?
>>7715301
i don't know but that pic triggered the fuck out of me.
has it been made by jewish cultural marxists who try to imply that scandinavia should take in more dirty Arabs to subvert western civilization and breed out whiteness?
take these pictures back to tumblr where they belong, we're 4chan here, and that means redpilled.
There is not room for more non-whites, and that's FINAL.
>>7715322
Do you have some kind of autism?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/02/the-entire-world-fits-in-new-york-city/
>>7715345
fuck off, shill
white people are being genocided
Non-native English speaker here. I haven't taken any course on writing and I was wondering if it's possible to write good shit without any structure whatsoever?
The less structure it has, the more revered it'll be. Just look at Finnegans Wake.
>>7715253
What is your language?
>>7715259
this, fampai. structure is totally gauche at the moment.
Daily reminder that when you procreate, you engage in the absolute quintessence of "begging-the-question" as well as committing an egregious offense against another human being
>>7715162
/lit/ - literature
>>7715162
Fuck outta here, Dworkin
>>7715191
No you idiot, the "egregious offense" is the gamble you take on behalf of someone else who has to live an entire life, possibly fraught with turmoil because of your stupid selfish choice.
Is reading the science of logic necessary to understanding any major philosopher after Hegel? Is it okay if I just read his other stuff and come back to it later?
>>7715024
Logic isn't a science.
>>7715024
From what I hear, no. It's really abstract stuff that makes Phenomenology of Spirit look easy by comparison and no one really engaged with it.
>>7715093
Hyppolite engaged with it. (The teach of Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, etc)