What does /lit/ think of this? Anybody read it?
>>7613323
I haven't, but thanks to you I just adied it to my list.
Have you read it, OP? What's it about?
>>7613327
Added*
>>7613323
Not so long ago I was keen on reading it. Couldn't find it anywhere but I got myself Hogg's Justified Sinner which is also a gothic classic.
Adaptation thread.
Novels you'd like to see adapted to film and the actors you'd like to see in the roles.
I'll start:
Suttree
Sut: Brad Pitt
Harrogate: Giovanni Ribisi
J-Bone: Jason Issacs
Joyce: Marisa Tomei
>>7613209
Harrogate as a 40 year old man?
>>7613226
He looks relatively young, and I think he's usually typecasted as a Harrogate type anyway.
>>7613248
what'd you make of the ending?
Is there a replacement?
>>7613176
The bibliotik thread has tons of sources.
libgen you
So I just finished Childhood's End. What is /lit/'s opinion on it? Personally, I can see why Clarke is considered one of the sci-fi greats.
it's good
avoid the syfy miniseries for your own sanity
It's a prophecy.
[Spoiler]In a few years, the universal collective intelligence looming over the galaxies is gonna suck us all up.[/spoiler]
>>7613115
I had actually considered watching it. Thanks for the warning. What went wrong?
Does anyone know if the critical edition of Mein Kampf is only available in German for a reason ? (I'm not asking /pol/ because I didn't understand the second half of the book and it's been bothering me for a long time)
Because it's written in German and published in Germany? It's not rocket science, kid.
What do they mean by critical edition?
Is it censored or did they just comment certain things?
>>7612812
The critical edition has a lot of annotations and explanations. It's honestly poorly written and requires a lot of background knowledge to fully understand which is why this is published by a historical institution
/lit/
My goofy grandmother gave me a gift card to Barnes and Noble. What should I buy and why should it be The Wealth of Nations?
Buy pic related.
>>7612630
>J.J.Abrams
not even once
>>7612630
it's a meme, you dip
wtf is this bs
Can you come up with a worse book
your diary
t
b
h
I liked it desu senpai
>>7612355
Care to elaborate?
I liked it, except for the last 50 something pages
Is it ok to have a thread where we post working torrents for audio books, fiction and non-fiction? If it's not only delete the thread. Don't ban me. I don't deserve it.
Of Mice and Men http://www.torrenthound.com/torrent/17fa4d1763ac2a7239bc5ce3f1b165f508b44e36
>>7611999
Just get on private tracker, I "read" over 800 books since 2008 and they were all audiobooks.
>>7612053
"Private"... aren't they full of FBI?
I paid a visit to the only two bookstores in my town earlier today, ( Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million ) but neither one had a decent copy of the Silmarillion. So I'm going to order it off Amazon. I'm looking for an edition that has some great illustrations, similar to The Children of Hurin. Which publication should I purchase?
folio soceity
So I really want to read this Polish book called The Peasants in English. Any of you have any experience with it? Which translation should I be reading?
I don't think you could translate our specific peasant dialect and atmosphere, but OK, you can try
Boryna is typical polish janusz
>>7611941
there are translations available. It's just a rare book.
>>7611941
Your dialect isn't a special snowflake
Could you recommend some edgy literature? Morose, extreme, purgative, severe, etcetc
Books that go along with books like Paradise Lost, Greek tragedy (particularly The Bacchae), Naked Lunch, Notes from the Underground, The Metamorphosis, Bataille, Hamlet, Sade, etc.
>>7610977
Pessimisstic stuff like Schopenhauer, Cioran, Ligotti
bump for interest
>>7610977
Bumping because also very interested in this.
I guess if you want severe extreme literature, check out Las Casas' A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Hubert Selby Jr is pretty damn distressing too but maybe you've already read some of his works?
What do you guys think of Nick Land?
>>7609902
hes nhot saying anything
Love his earlier stuff. I still read his blog for the 1% of good posts, but he has mostly degenerated into something quite boring.
>>7609913
How so?
Fav subcultural group of all time?
Is there a good literary representation of them?
>Fav subcultural group of all time?
Jewish Germans
>Is there a good literary representation of them?
Do you really need an answer?
>>7609497
There's not a lot of Vaporwave books, in fact, I can't think of one.
>>7609497
>Fav subcultural group of all time?
White people
>Is there a good literary representation of them?
No
Who are the /lit approved poets?
Allen Ginsberg
>>7608255
Homer (^:
>>7608255
Ginsberg, Steve Rogenbuck, primarily all of Alt-Lit
how many books are you planning to read this year?
>>7602865
I don't have a number planned because I'm not autistic.
50 every year till i get dementia
I don't plan to read a certain amount, I just read whenever I want to. If I keep up last year's pace it'll be somewhere in the 40s though