who are your favorite essayists, /lit/?
>>7611245
THAT'S enough internet for me today...
The list to end all lists!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokklubben_World_Library
Hey /lit/ when you've finished a particularly lengthy and complex book and you want a nice literary palate cleanser, something to just read mindlessly, what do you usually read?
Mines just stuff like pic related and half bullshit Navy SEAL autobiographies and such
Usually a YA novel or something simple when I don't feel like getting into something big.
ulysses
I've never read anything mindlessly before, what's it like?
Hey /lit/, I'm writing a story, and I wanna know what's more monstrous and cruel in your eyes:
A. Murdering a rando on the street for no reason as they walk home
or
B. Murdering the person you've been dating for like a month for no reason
Trying to decide on character arcs and shit. Any arguments you have against either side is much appreciated. Thanks!
Rando IMO
It'd be more cruel and evil for the character to kill something like a cute puppy or stray cat though, and probably easier to fit into the narrative
You could have a list of convincing reasons to snuff out the girlfriend after one week let alone one month
>>7610799
B. Murdering the person you've been dating for like a month for no reason
A month is a long time, the person grew attached, let you in to their world. Opened themself just to get a killed.
The random could be sad if you worked out what he/she has, but shit happens and people die all the time due to an accident.
Has anyone read this series? It's supposedly what inspired game of thrones and I'm wondering if it's worth a read
>>7610686
Read the first three and enjoyed them. The characters all have the same fucking names but that's historically accurate. Worth a read but by no means are they masterpieces
>>7610705
How similar are they to GOT? Are they better written?
>>7610686
doesn't look like literature
have any of you read these as a kid? what was your favorite?
I've always wanted to adapt these to visual novels for some reason.
>>7610567
>You Are Going to Die
>>Child staring dejectedly at the reader
that's some dark shit, man
>>7611041
fuck
What does /lit/ think of Schopenhauer's essay 'On Thinking For Oneself'?
>>7610538
Didn't read it, I'd rather think for myself.
>>7610543
Okay.
What are your thoughts on the concept of thinking for oneself?
>>7610555
Stop asking me and think for yourself
what is /lit/ opinions on chester himes?
He's a mean dude with a bad attitude.
not bad
Wish he'd stop asking me for fucking smokes at the bus stop
I said no four fucking times Chester
Just finished reading this. Is it good?
superb thread
/lit/: the thread
you loved the part when he reminds his life among swiss kids
Are there any classic psychoanalytical essays/books that talked explicitly about sex, especially male lust, in terms of its imposing interior unconscious desires onto an exterior object or person?
I know this is almost a fundamental assumption in psychoanalysis, that the psyche constructs its internal reality and imposes it outward, but I was hoping to find explicit statements and (ideally) methodology.
>>7609495
anima as fate - cornelia brunner
>>7609495
That's not "exactly" what psychoanalysis is about though, your terms are a little vague
Give Freud a try if you want, that may help you
>>7609495
You won't get what you're actually looking for.
You're looking for a book which explicitly gives you a description of the psyché behind sex, there is to this day none since the only domain looking into that is the freudian psychanlytic method, so follow anons advice and read Freud, he may give you his position on the way things are based on his own observations and conclusions.
Read it with a certain distant view, you may enjoy his thinking or hate it. Depends if that was what you were expecting. In both cases, it's a nice beginning since he's got a definitive, constructed opinion on the subject. Then if you enjoy it, follow the psychoanalytic lead about the subject, if you don't, search for philosophers about this.
Good luck
Books I've decided to pick by the end of this month:
1) Brothers Karamazov
2) Crime and Punishment
3) Lolita
4) Don Quixote
5) Anna Karenina
6) The Trial
7) The Search of Lost Time
8) The Devine Comedy
9) War and Peace
10) Les Miserable
Is my taste good? What should I expect from each book in the list? Which books in the list should I avoid? Also, suggest good translations.
>>7609042
What do you mean by pick by the end of this month?
>>7609042
STFU and stop posting. Lurk for a year. Come back.
>>7609042
How could we tell if your taste is good, that is a list of books you have never read.
No Goodreads thread? Let's get 'er goin', shall we?
I'll start:
>https://www.goodreads.com/kringaz
Come hit me up senpai.
https://www.goodreads.com/sebastian
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7281407-jessica-evans
goodreads plebcrew hoooooo!
https://www.goodreads.com/fugitivo
whats so bad about april t b h
It's springtime, everything is alive and blooming in nature, which is the exact opposite of what the spiritual and emotional side of people, which is dry and infertile.
He's tormented by this because he longs for a spiritual rain that would make our souls healthy and fertile.
Sinuses.
>>7608362
Because of April fool's day, a day where it's a feasible excuse to be the immature person you truly are, because you absolutely know you're living a lie.
Be honest, which one had the better legacy.
Not talking about comparing the works of these two, but comparing the works that were inspired (or otherwise rehashed or ripped-off) from these two.
>>7608007
Lovecraft, no doubt.
I dunno man, if you count everything that ripped off dungeons and dragons as having ripped off Tolkien then we're looking at a whole different kind of game.
>>7608007
Be honest which one had the better legacy, Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus?
Not talking about comparing the works of these two, but comparing the works that were inspired (or otherwise rehashed or ripped-off) from these two.
What's so great about this book /lit/? Jake's just wandering around doing nothing, and complaining about his penis. It's boring. What am I missing?
I guess you have to like that kind shit OP. I liked it for the bullfighting bits, the sense of adventure and how it perfectly details what it's like to be at the mercy of a wishy washy white bitch.
>>7607487
>at the mercy of a wishy washy white bitch
This and
>muh alcoholism
Alcoholics are like Christians. Bunch of bullshit camaraderie just because we fall under the same title.
>What's so great about this book
Absolutely nothing. You got meme'd.