What are your favorite books about serials killers or murderers?
My diary, 2bh
Panzram
burgerclap psycunt
Merry Christmasto you all
What will you be reading over the holidays /lit/?
Did you find that comfy tome to occupy yourself with?
Just a reminder to spend your holiday reading instead of shitposting.
You could be reading right now
>>7497110
comfy japanese lit
finally got to starting with soseki and kawabata
>Shopping carts: a memoir
>mfw my family got me all of Stefan Zweig's collected works
we're gonna reach central European comfiness levels boys
>lend one of your favorite books to a friend
>realize you're probably never going to see that shit again
>"Christmas loans"
I wonder who could be behind this concept...
>oh no my $4 paperback might be lost forever, now I'll have to download a pdf if I want to read it again
life is suffering op
>get book back
>it's all wrinkled and bent
ITT: Overrated garbage.
Overrated garbage
it's shit
Overrated garbage
Has anybody here read Tolstoy's debut novel Boyhood?
It's 120 pages long, published when he was 24, and I really can't believe what kind of literary environment must have existed for this kind of thing to be deemed worthy of publication. The first 70 pages or so focuses on the events of two days, when a 10 / 11 year old Tolstoy goes hunting for hares with his family, and is then told he is to move to Moscow to further his education. There he falls in love with another young boy, and then for a girl who attends a dance at his home. Each chapter is around 3 / 4 pages long and largely consists of character descriptions.
>>7496638
>There he falls in love with another young boy
Wait, what? Wouldn't this have gotten him hung or castrated back then?
>>7496912
its just Platonic love Anon, only kissing and above the clothes rubbing and hugging, nyoro~
Has anybody here read Joyce's final novel Finnegans Wake?
It's 600 pages long, published when he was 57, and I really can't believe what kind of literary environment must have existed for this kind of thing to be deemed worthy of publication. The first 600 pages or so focuses on I have no fucking clue, when a riverrun past bend of bay and swerve of shore, and then goes on to stream of consciousness rambling for 90 pages. Then Joyce references some obscure cave painting that 3 people in the world have seen. Each chapter is around 3 / 4 pages long and largely consists of nonsense.
What is the best book released in 2015?
Is it "This book loves you"?
This
4.25 on Goodreads. It must be good
tokyo drift and kolsti
Write a review of the last book you read.
Endless boring conversations - The Idiot.
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edogawa Rampo
This small collection of stories suffers from the style of bad Japanese translation that has almost become a genre unto itself, though the oddness of the awkward pose perhaps carries its own charms.
The stories vary from ingenious to inane, but just which is which is often indeterminate, even within a particular story. One wonders for example if the extra twist at the end of "The Human Chair" -- a twist repeated enough in this collection to be somewhat of a hallmark -- is meant to truly be of relief to the audience or subtly establish new ambiguities, the latter a striking technique to be sure. Most of the time, the stories are too whimsical to be truly mysterious or disturbing but Rampo has to be commended on his creativity and willingness to experiment, like a philosopher, by pushing familiar settings to absurd limits.
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>>7496367
>hey guys
>write your personal thoughts and experiences about books i never read so I can stealnthem and post on lit like they were my own
>o-okay OP
Fug off
>starting with the Greeks
>missing out on one of the greatest written works in the history of man
Why would you do this to yourself?
Gilgamesh is pretty cool.
>>7496179
I'm going to finish the greeks, then go back to the Mesopotamians.
But that mans having too learn Mesopotamian for practically one work. At least with Greek i have a decent amount to work with.
>reading in translation
How do I get my pleb tier gf away from memecore genre fiction?
>Harry pottery nerd
>prized possession is a signed John green novel
>shys away from my recommendations (McCarthy, Dostoevsky, Camus) because she feels like they will make her "lose hope in the world"
Surely there's an accessible launch point into /lit/fiction that I don't know of.
>>7496029
Tell her to start with the Greeks
>>7496029
>memecore genre fiction?
>posts pynchon
>>7496042
I was implying the shitty YA sort.
She doesn't like King though so she's not in too deep r-right guys?
What the shit did I just read?
>>7495504
shit.
>>7495504
shit
>>7495504
shit
Herodotus' The Histories is one of the most books I've ever read. While being a mixed bag including laborious descriptions of cultural practices, the stories and events recorded in The Histories are some of the most engaging I've never read.
But Thucydides has been a drag from start to finish. The speeches are incredible, but other than that, there's very little enjoyable or interesting about History of the Peloponnesian War.
If you've read Thucydides, what did you enjoy about him? Did you also Herodotus too? If so, more or less?
>one of the most books I've ever read
>the most books I've
>most books
It is the most book of all books.
>>7495386
It's political philosophy with a focus on trying to determine what can be learned from the events of the war between Athens and Sparta--it's not really supposed to be entertaining, but strictly educational and philosophical.
From what I read Thucy is notoriously hard to read. That's why I asked for the Landmark edition for Christmas. It's got pictures and shit.
This book is terrifying. How did you get through it?
One dreary page at a time
Act 3 is shit, acts 1 and 2 were GOAT.
Women and plot ruin everything.
Does the author actually expect me to read the dumb bullshit pages or am I supposed to skip them
youre a fucking idiot dude
He shouldn't have ever written it
>>7494780
the way to read this (piece of shit) is to treat is as several separate stories and read them one by one. It's a combination of those choose your own adventure books and meta-reading, where you need to twist and turn the book, flick backwards and forwards, strain your eyes etc.
It's a garbage book though I wouldn't bother.
Just finished Sons and Lovers... What does /lit/ think of DH Lawrence?
He wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Sons and Lovers was pretty steamy for a book that came out in 1913.
>>7494428
I't the only book I've read by Lawrence, and I loved it. The part at the hospital where Baxter admits why he started fight with Paul was filled with pure feels.
I want to get one of these. I am looking at the 80 dollar version. I basically just want to get it to use pdf files on it, because I can get those for free. Is it worth it? I like that it has that battery life, my 3g ipad doesn't last a week on one charge, it only lasts like a day.
Kindles suck for pdfs
It's great that you're considering an e reader.
maybe not Kindle...... Unless you like DRM.
keep on saving paper though
>>7493445
>DRM
explain?