I just read this. Is it good?
>>7661216
You tell us dumbass
>>7661216
Not even subtle.
Hey /lit/, I purchased the complete works of Yeats. Which books within it should I read first to start with him? Which collections are his best?
Start with the meme ones.
>Byzantium poems
>When You Are Old
>An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
>The Second Coming
>Who goes with Fergus?
>>7661160
Just read him you fucking retard. These questions are silly and you should be euthanized.
Looking for books like Sebald's Austerlitz and Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station that incorporate pictures into the text. Pic related -- short story with sophisticated marriage of writing and imagery.
This came up on a list. Has anyone read?
Is this a good edition or is sanitized shit?
>>7660992
bump i would like to know this too.
i have the grimms classic library edition and was wondering if the translations are the same
>>7660992
don't know if this edition is extra- sanitized, but the brothers grimm themselves sanitized some of the tales they were told, streamlined them to make them more accessible.
How do Long Sun and Short Sun compare to New Sun and Urth?
Is it true they are in fact prequels to New Sun?
Yes, definitely worth reading. Prequel depends on who you believe, but dont watch any youtube videos until you have read them.
>He reads fiction for the plot.
no. i read it for rambling digressions away from the plot.
>tfw all the best books have entertaining plot and excellent prose
>mfw illiterate dweebs try to make a separation between them
Let's open up a true discussion on him-
Discuss just one part in one story that seemed to strike a cord with you.
I read these so I can contribute to more discussion with these:
Alchemist, At the Mountains of Madness, Azathoth, Beast in the Cave, Call of Cthulhu, Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Celephaïs, Colour out of Space, Dagon, Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Dreams in the Witch House, Dunwich Horror, Herbert West Reanimator, History of the Necronomicon, Horror at Red Hook, Hunter of the Dark, Hypnos, Ibid, Music of Erich Zann, Other Gods, Outsider, Pickman’s Model, Picture in the House, Quest of Iranon, Rats in the Walls, Shadow out of Time, Shadow over Innsmouth, Silver Key, Temple, Tomb, Under the Pyramids, Whisperer in Darkness
>>7660425
This is now a Gass thread. Please discuss Gass and his works.
" If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
there's no truth in us. Why, then, belike we must sin, and so
consequently die:
Ay, we must die an everlasting death."
Was he the first superman?
>>7660363
>" If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us.
This is from 1 John, ch. 1. What actually follows is:
>But if we confess our sin, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
> 'I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Nabokov answered this to a question about his religious beliefs. What does that make him? I don't get it.
Also, what did he mean by "taking art seriously"? Because he didn't believe art has any use or purpose, and you can't learn anything from it.
Ergo, he's a hack.
Hannah Arendt on Nabokov
>his most vexing and terrifying problems aren't epistemological
Sorry m80, my issues are plain old ontological ones.
>>>/his/
wewlad
I miss how /lit/ used to be too. However, is it so hard to browse two boards at once. /lit/his/sci/ masterrace here.
Hey /lit/,
not sure what the board ethics are like here so hopefully asking for book recommendations isn't frowned upon -
anyway, I've recently had an /x/ nostalgia spur after I finally watched the first season of True Detective so I reread a whole bunch of creepypastas that I used to read a couple of years ago and I remembered how much I liked the holder's series (http://theholders.org/) - so I've found that even years later I'm still really digging that dark-mystery-otherworldly-sacrilegious-vibe and I'd love to hear some suggestions for books or authors that fit this theme or at least somehow resemble it.
I know of Lovercraft but have not read any of his books, I'd love to hear other suggestions but in case you're a Lovercraft pro pls suggest what books of his you liked best.
Board Ethics is to check the sticky and the wiki first. The Wiki is a tad shit though.
Try Dagon by Lovecraft.
Is he the unproclaimed king of /lit/?
>autist
>shit
>virgin
i would say so
Can someone help me find out more about this book? I got it from an auction and all I know is it was published in 1902.
You could try, you know, reading it. That's generally a good way to figure out more about a book.
>>7659004
Natural magnetism may refer to more than one thing. A form of it was popular in both the eighteenth (England) and twentieth centuries (USA).
I've been told the author of pic related is the Polish Tolstoy, is there any validity to this claim?
why don't you read it and find out
>>7658988
Fair enough, although having some background knowledge would be nice for its own sake
Are the letters between Joyce and Nora a one of a kind literary discovery, or have people found similar documents from other famous writers?
In your opinion, do these letters have any literary merit?
>>7658914
it's smut for degenerates and non-whites