What is /lit/'s honest opinion on The Book Thief?
Idk but what does /lit/ think of this line?
>Each night they slept one inch farther apart until one night, Lydia left.
>someone on /lit/ asks for my honest opinion
>give them my dishonest opinion
>mfw
>>9840480
Garbage.
Boring, overly dramatic "Diary of Anne Frank" wanna be, bad written and with a stupid style.
Morning, /lit/! I know this isn't the right place to advertise, but honestly I don't know where else to resort.
I am a man in his early 20s, set at the height of his physical capabilities and pressuming some degree of lucidity. After years of journeying through carefree dissipation and ever-growing disenchantment I am resolved to pursue my dreams.
Essentially I am looking for a woman. I am told there are a few loitering about the board so, in case this might concern you... here are the main prerrequisites. I need a girl with whom
.marry. it doesn't have to be an old-fashioned wedding or anything of that sort, not even ran through religious competences, but most definitively a symbolic ceremony of bondage; blood pacts apply
.work hard in the endeavour of my anarchoprimitivist vision, that is building a house, set up a neat orchard and a parcel for cows and chicken; which entails being prepared for isolation in the wild countryside
.have a heap of beautiful little children to alight our haven, but being very particular about their education (for instance home-schooling; for instance having sexual intercourse right in front of their cradles, so that they profit from a more natural approach to sexuality)
.remain loyal to Earth and Family to death, without detriment of playfulness and imagination; if any, our farm should be subject to the yin principle (Anima in Jungian terms)
Preferably (not compulsorily) you have to:
.have a beautiful soul, something unique or enthralling about you which elicits my adoration
.posess a kind of intellectual wakefulness, artistic sensibility; or be otherwise observant and caring
.condescend to dogs. I'm crazy about dogs
.not refuse to masturbate me with your feet
.embrace your inner child and exile druges and social conventions no matter how ingrained they are
.be crazy enough to join me in my adventure
So, if there's any girl remotely interested, a dubious thing nonetheless, feel free to post in this thread or contact me via Skype ([email protected]). If not, thanks for taking the time to read.
>>9840438
>>/soc/
>>9840445
Already was. Nothing there but monsters.
>>9840454
>>/b/
>Conrad is a pseud! He was totally wrong and everything he said is a false, white man's testimony and racism! I'll show you!
Could he be more assblasted?
>>9840403
>Could OP be more assblasted?
>>9840403
>this misquote is a perfect anagram for what he actually said
>>9840403
he's right though. heart of darkness is racist
>Reading is just looking at words, hallucinating and trying to find a deeper meaning
>>9840115
>hallucinating
More like stepping into another's thoughts. And I don't mean the character's thoughts.
But otherwise, sure why not. Life is weird, why not look at it weirdly.
>>9840115
>Reading is just looking at words, hallucinating and trying to find a deeper meaning
This is true, and its wonderful
>>9840115
>Reading is just looking at words, hallucinating and trying to find a deeper meaning
And I love every minute.
Zines. Do you know a good magazine I can subscribe to?
>>9840098
>reading magazines in the internet age
Dude I don't even read news websites anymore
Hustler
>>9840098
>reading liberal propaganda
wew
Im trying to get into poetry. Where can i start? Reccomendations? Poems with rhyming and musicality to them please
>>9839803
All good poetry is musical. Reading everything aloud will help you realize rhyme is just the loudest device.
Try Frost if you want something mild, and try Larkin if you want something angrier.
Poetry and art in general is there to instil noble sentiments and intentions, rhyme and musicality is secondary to that and is akin to saying a song is good because it's catchy, it can still lack the alimentary material that art should effuse the soul with.
tennyson is the goat for sound-mastery
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160524005123/en/Amazon.com-Announces-Well-Read-Cities-America
>he doesn't live in one of the most well-read cities in America
>he doesn't read during his commute to and from work
>he doesn't frequent his local used book stores
>tfw DC master race
It's like you want me to think you a pleb.
Flyovers need not respond.
>>9839792
>>he doesn't read during his commute to and from work
>reading while drivinf
>>9839806
>implying anyone drives in the city
Flyover hick faggot detected.
>>9839792
flyovers BTFO
Shakespeare plays are ultimately an archaic novelty by the limitations of pre-absurdist theatre. The characters simply say what their emotions are instead of letting the audience read into them. Any modern audience watching or reading Shakespeare is bullshitting because they were told Shakespeare was really good by some old guy with glasses. There will always be an ironic distancing as nobody could ever believe a character would wax off poetry to another.
>>9839709
Im redpilled and lvoe pepe the frog
alright Anon, what's wrong with a character saying what their emotions are?
>>9839709
>The characters simply say what their emotions are
only plebs think this
I bet you think Hamlet's problem is that "he just can't make up his mind lol"
Reading fiction
Can't imagine how the characters look like no matter how detailed they're described
Who /brainlet/ here?
I'm not a very visual thinker. It's rare that I form strong impressions of a character's appearance. Or even the surroundings.
>>9839611
I also imagine characters very little.
Only when the author specifically describes a character do I follow him in creating an image in my head.
But I am perfectly fine with following a blurred character around with no idea about their mien.
Same. I can't imagine the characters very well, but I can usually imagine the surrounding environments vividly. The characters though are just fuzzy outlines.
>"Philosophy is just opinions and food for thought, that's why all philosophers don't agree with each other and often express different viewpoints."
How old were you when you grew out of philosophy?
That quotation is philosophy itself.
>>9839562
no, its just thinking. there is a reason why not all thoughts are philosophical.
>>9839562
/thread
>And then... HE TURNS INTO A SICILIAN! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!
He couldn't manuge to get the drip on him.
I must be loyle to my cockroach
>There will never be Soprano-core lit.
>Modernity causes a man to only act on his impulses and not toward a greater cause for the betterment of his people like the traditional man.
Okay, that's something I can get behind. Maybe this Evola guy isn't as nutty as people sa-
>Metaphysics
>Occult magic
>Mysticism
Nigga what?
Yeah. I wanted to like him, but I can't get into mysticism.
>>9839532
Mysticism like maister eckhart is also great and guys like jakob boheme so cool, what with them
>>9839502
>Modernity causes a man to only act on his impulses and not toward a greater cause for the betterment of his people like the traditional man.
that's bullshit tho'. Typical: "uuh the youth of today are degenerate, I don't involve myself with the new and emerging social generation, so it's obviously shit. MY father beat me with a leather belt and I turned out just fine." horseshit.
get out of my fucking face.
Hello,
I’ve been posting on /lit/ for a few years now, and while I have enjoyed a lot of the interactions and discussions I’ve had, there’s something about the sub that is really starting to bug me. Maybe some of you feel the same.
I was reading a post yesterday, where the OP (16 years old) was asking for recommendations about more ‘mature’ books. He enjoyed reading YA and stuff, but wondered what else was out there. When someone asked him why he would want to do this, OP said something along the lines of he felt ‘ashamed’ to still be reading these kinds of books.
Someone inuslted him for it. Similarly, looking down the thread I could see that many people who had offered recommendations about mature books had been down voted. I then started thinking about threads that I have commented on. There has been so many times where I have tried to contribute thoughtfully to a discussion – just like the 16 year old OP - but because others didn’t agree, I’ve been ignored.
I can’t be the only person to have noticed this trend, and it’s a bummer. /lit/ is a place where we discuss and share opinions about the thing we love most of all – books. It should be a place where we can get inspiration and, hopefully, learn about writers that ordinarily would have passed us by. But instead, I feel like there are a lot of people here that treat the place as a zero-sum game, where they are ‘right’ and you are ‘wrong’ – and insult accordingly. You don’t like my favourite book? - insult. You explain why in a thoughtful, polite manner that encourages further discussion? - Fuck you. Insult. The more this trend continues, the more the sub declines until all that’s left are people jealously guarding their opinions, unable to hear those of others over the roar of their internal rage.
I mean, I try and my bit to combat this. I don’t insult other people’s opinions, even if they are very different from my own, and I do this because that’s not what the function is for.
Which isn’t to say I’m perfect – I’ve got into some heated arguments on here and said some stuff I’ve regretted, but in those instances I’ve tried to apologise because after I’d calmed down, I realised that while we all have different personal tastes – they are just that: personal tastes. They are not objective. In the same way, /lit/ frustrates me sometimes in how it’s focused on the same books (Hitchhikers, TLoTR, Pratchett, Gaiman etc.), but I don’t derail these threads or the people commenting on them, because this is a place where people should be allowed to discuss their passions without getting blue-waffled.
The world is full of people screaming at each other with their fingers in their ears. /lit/ doesn’t have to become another such place.
I have a feeling I’m opening myself up to a world of hurt with this post, but fuck it – I care about the sub, and want to see it thrive.
>>9839480
*gives u 25.6k upvotes*
>>9839480
Tl;dr it for me. I ain't readin' all this.
>>9839490
That describes most of Reddit.
You will get downvotes for your best insight or most honest opinion (things that might be new to people, or might make them feel uncomfortable) and upvotes for low effort memes (things that are unsuprising and comforting).
That was a lot better than Slaughterhouse 5 imo. Maybe the perfect post-modern novel. Are his other works similar to this? I've only read the two.
>>9839390
It's a ride, isn't it?
I have a copy of Hocus Pocus but after reading Slaughter house V I am reconsidering even giving it a try.
Has anyone here read it and can give me advice?
>>9839412
Yea, it was a great. Surprisingly a real page-turner.
Hey, I posted this picture once but no one could came up with what he actually means, I know it's not moral absolutism, what is it folks?
>>9839350
He's talking about a moral purity test, where if someone behaves immorally once you just ignore everything else he does or says.
At its heart I suppose it's about hypocrisy, but there are worse things in this world that hypocrisy.
anti-fundamentalism
He has a very punchable face and that is why I disagree with him