>2016
>not owning a reprinted first edition of Ulysses
Admire the beauty lads
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tss what happened to duffy did he die or sumthin
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Nice hands, are you driving to give your bear bf a handjob and swallow all his cum ?
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>>7667869
The Oxford World's Classics 1922 text is better in every way though.
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>Rhymes "ocean" with "commotion"
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>>7667702
>rhymes bagel with Hegel with Schlegel with Schlegel (the other one)
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>rhymes kegel with Smeagol
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>rhymes
Does anyone else write their personal masturbation material?
>pic related, I've written a few stories about sexual encounters with her
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>>7667453
Wasn't she in skins? Also link.
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So, you essentially create self-insert fanfiction?
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>>7667461
You could say that.
>>7667457
Yes she was. Read 'personal' can't share them if there personal can I?
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Which author have you read that seems the most intelligent? Not necessarily the best books, just someone who you admire for their intellect.
The closer they are to modern times the better.
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Can you give us some examples?
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>>7666603
Bertrand Russell.
But I know he's fairly basic. I know there are probably quite a few people out there that I don't know of or can't read because they speak in some weird quasi-english impenetrable academia language
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>>7666589
Check out Dorothy Sayers.
To all of you non-English people here, do you like to read in your mother tongue or in English?
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Vietnamesefag here. I read all of my books in English because I really hate my fucking language.
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>>7666117
I hate spaniards translations and books are cheaper in english.
So that.
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>>7666117
None of that English crap for me, I use my momma tongue - good ole red-blooded American.
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Hey /lit/ my senior quote is due soon. Do you guys have any cool quotes? Thanks!
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dude weed lmao
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>>7665007
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
---Abraham Lincoln
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"What is real? What isn't?" - Andy Coughman
Recent purchases thread.
Bought some Japanese books that I couldn't find online.
The 3 on the top left are The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and below them are 3 Mishima novels (The Sailor Who Fell; Mishima's essay collection; Sound of Waves).
There's also Junichiro Tanizaki's short stories and Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen. Those are the ones that have a translation.
If anyone cares about the other ones, ask.
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>>7664597
did dfw stage his suicide and become a japanese pleb author?
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thats a whole lotta ching chong
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Thoughts?
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>>7663466
>no good books
Accurate
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>>7663467
their easily in the top 50 books of all time
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>>7663469
Maybe if you're an easily impressionable 19 year old who takes /lit/ memes seriously
All of those books are garbage
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>want to read Gravity's Rainbow
>bad at math and physics, nearly failed AP Physics back in high school
what do
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Read it with a guide
You aren't supposed to get all the technical shit anyways
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>>7662563
>read book
>study concepts as they come
>Don't be bad at it anymore
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I want the Pynchon being super science meme to die. He's not a fucking hard sci-fi writer, if there's anything you need to watch out with him it's history stuff, not science.
Whats the name of your novel anon?
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>>7653946
Jawbreaker
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Also Jawbreaker
>>7653948
Get fucked
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>>7653946
The Suicidal & Schizonautic Saga of Pierre, the Cunt-Punter.
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>School of Resentment is a term coined by critic Harold Bloom to describe related schools of literary criticism which have gained prominence in academia since the 1970s and which Bloom contends are preoccupied with political and social activism at the expense of aesthetic values.
I think Harold Bloom's prophecy that criticism of literature through the lenses of ideological bias, such as feminism, gender theory, Marxism, etc has come to ring true. Considering how identity politics and grievance culture has embedded itself so deeply in modern society, to the point where no group or crowed is able to insulate itself from its influence, what do you think can be done to save literature from being scrutinized with contemporary sensibilities to the point where some things are outright removed from, or simply never make it to the modern person or families libraries because of unnecessary application of sociological perspective. Any perceived infraction or disagreement is oft enough to completely dismiss the entire thing. Young minds and entire generation will be denied master pieces because of stupidity!
I know this is heading down a slippery slope fallacy, but there is no doubt that things are escalating. We're at a point where The Onion is becoming less and less funny satire and more a surreal reminder.
In the past when books were altered or banned for language that groups like the religious right deemed unacceptable, the reasonable people on the left would be there to combat them, but now it is the left whom are teetering towards the same path; not by outright banning it or book burning -- but by casting them aside to the "not progressive enough bin" and trying their damnedest to shame other people into thinking like them.
Racist, bigot, xenophobic, homophobic, problematic -- all words which could ruin the reputation of a book, and not allow it to reach the mind of someone who would otherwise benefit and become a better person from its contents. I hope I'm not alone in thinking that the coddling hand of the SJW is a cancer on /lit/.
Discuss
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>>7653028
fuck off plato, you hack.
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>>7653023
Those on the left who still hold certain values to be true would probably have to realize it and concede in helping members of the right who aren't cuckked in order to help combat this lunacy.
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Old one at 300+.
Post 'em and be judged.
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>>7652300
At least give your child some classic fairy tales to read, he's gonna grow up to be a pleb with that shit.
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>>7652300
Wow. Is that a first edition The Snowy Day that I see? Keats nearly lost his mind writing that book, and he never fully recovered. His follow up, The Sunny Beach, was complete shit.
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Literally
Firetruck
This is pleb tier anon, get your child the Grimm fairy tales you plebeus maximus
Dubs decide what we read next.
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Everybody Poops
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The Symbolism of the Cross by Guenon
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Emoji Shakespeare
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Does /lit/ approve of Sylvia Plath?
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the /lit/ hivemind probably rejects her because she's a woman. i'm not too familiar with her work but i thought The Bell Jar was pretty good, in a way. i have had a few close friends with depression and it really captured the illogical nature of it.
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i read the bell jar and found it pretty sincere. disregard her tumblr fans.
A Post Your Favorite Book Thread
a need new books
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>>7665011
Toss up between pic related and The Brothers Karamazov.
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>>7665013
I'd heard a lot about this one. Added to the list