post your 3x3's or your favourite books ever in general

Jesus

>>8625910

What's your middle right?

>>8625918
Looks like Dore's illustration of The Raven

>>8625918
it was the best i could find for edgar allan poe's raven

You're all a bunch of fucking pseudo intellectuals who think you are so superior and intelligent because of the works you have read and studied but in reality you're all a bunch of fucking assholes who waste your time with this nonsense written by people who also wasted their time on nonsense for the sake of fucking time wasting.
Fuck you all , I quit this shit board, this shit website and shitty literature. It's all useless shit that makes you feel like you're better then you actually are. You're all a bunch of fucking resentful meat bags that judge and curse people AUTISTIC AUTISTIC ohhhhhh I bet you fucks have questioned yourselves constantly if you really are autistic or not.
Go back to reading your marvelous books and shit posting your amazing intellectually rich stimulating posts. Fucking faggots. Fuck you I'm out and never coming back to you pathetic miserable fools.

>>8625931
>>8625932

Cool, thanks guys.

>>8625935
what's his problem? i don't think anyone here thinks they are superior to others but even if they do what would they gain by being pretentious on the internet?

I want /mu/ to leave

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>>8625910
I've only read three of your nine, so I can't rate. I loved C&P and Metamorphosis, but I need to revisit The Stranger.

I've wanted to start Nietzsche for some while now. Should I hop right in or should I tackle some prerequisites?

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>>8625910
malcontent college freshman/10

good books though

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>>8625910
>>8625986
Entry level readers still trying to get the canon down

>>8626018
Individual who has developed his own taste

>>8625918
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.

>>8626018
Mmm. I've never seen Middlesex mentioned here. I've had a copy for a while. Been meaning to read it. What did you like about it?

>>8626047
I prefer Palahniuk/Vonnegut-esque style narration. Bare bones phrasing that mostly sticks to visceral descriptions of the physical to set a scene, as opposed to purple prose waxing poetic about the character's different psychological states for three pages. Middlesex is very much on the purple prose side of things, but it does it so well that I found myself really enjoying and appreciating the narrative tangents digging deep into whatever symbol the author was using to try and describe an emotional state or make a point. I'm deeply opposed to that style in general, so I was really impressed with it being done so well that I genuinely liked it. Gave me a better appreciation for that style of writing. This was the biggest reason.

Other part was the general plot following a few generations of recent Mediterranean immigrants in Detroit. I'm from that area and thought he described that family history and that locale really well.

The narrator is intersex (androgen insensitive, I think), and the narrator also handles writing somebody who straddles the gender/sex boundary well. Also hit home for me.

>>8626034
Runnaway>Spring Snow?
Master of Go> Sound of the Mountain?

fuck this /mu/-tier garbage habit

>>8626034

>>>/jp/

>>8625910
This is honestly the first time I've ever heard of Love is a Dog from Hell. Not sure if i'm a pleb for loving the title.

>>8625935
I am better than many people. Definitely better than you. But 4chan is the last place one would go for validation: it's an anonymous image board, you complete jabroni.

>>8626125
You need to read spring snow first but I think Runaway Horses is Mishima's best work.

Master of Go is def a personal favorite, and I think I'm in a minority when I say that it is better than Sound of the Mountain, which I found boring.

>>8626150
Buttblasted Russophile detected

>>8626191
>def

You're all a bunch of fucking pseudo intellectuals who think you are so superior and intelligent because of the works you have read and studied but in reality you're all a bunch of fucking assholes who waste your time with this nonsense written by people who also wasted their time on nonsense for the sake of fucking time wasting.
Fuck you all , I quit this shit board, this shit website and shitty literature. It's all useless shit that makes you feel like you're better then you actually are. You're all a bunch of fucking resentful meat bags that judge and curse people AUTISTIC AUTISTIC ohhhhhh I bet you fucks have questioned yourselves constantly if you really are autistic or not.
Go back to reading your marvelous books and shit posting your amazing intellectually rich stimulating posts. Fucking faggots. Fuck you I'm out and never coming back to you pathetic miserable fools.

>>8625935
i didn't read this shit but it sounds like he's from /jp/

>>8625935
Pretty sure everyone here reads literature because they're lost and miserable and looking for some answers in life, bitch.

>>8626034
Cool dude hows the modern jap lit phase going.

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>>8625910 (OP)
3/6
>>8625986
Comfy/8
>>8626018
3/4
>>8626034
4/6

This the 4th unqiue one I've made and it's still a goddamn meme, though I probably would have never read the Iliad if /lit/ hadn't memed me into it

>>8627442
>Posting Jason Segal meme-ing as DFW and not actual DFW

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Come at me.

>>8626018
I've been meaning to read Ceremony for some time now. What did you like about it?

I read House Made of Dawn a few months ago. Opening was shit, but the second half was fantastic. Really loved that book.

I won't attempt to rate, since all I've read is Beowulf, but I will heartily recommend Grendel by John Gardner.

>>8627571
Grendel is the shit. It covers similar ground to Wicked thematically, I was actually debating listing that one instead.

Ceremony is rooted in a worldview/religious system that says that time is cyclical. Everything has happened before and will happen again, we're all archetypes fulfilling old roles, etc. The narrative structure in the book is set up to track those repeating cycles instead of a strict linear chronological order, you can trace the mirroring duplicate events in the MC's own life and in different characters in antiquity/folklore while you're reading. It worked really well thematically with the MC's culture/religion, which is central to his character's arc.

General themes the book covers are interesting. Effects of war and PTSD. Trying to find peace with your (conquered) culture and (scientifically disproven) religion in a world that's completely oblivious to you/it, while your family is still making it out to be absolutely critical for you and them to adhere to. Lots of muh interesting symbolism floating around too.

>>8627366
Thank the gods this did actually become pasta, i was in this thread last night and i hoped someone had saved it.

>>8627665
I thought he was right until I saw the first half of the post. Guy was getting mad cuz someone called a forest savage lol

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In no particular order, and without the translations matching what I've read.

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So....I'm definitely going to get assblasted for this, but...what are you guys using to make your images?

>>8627739
GIMP

>>8627739
Easiest shit is use picmonkey and the collage layout feature now rate my fucking books faggot

>>8627618
Interesting. I hadn't heard of Wicked before, but I'll add it to my list and bump Ceremony up.

House Made of Dawn also dealt with PTSD, but on that front it focuses on trying to find a place and meaning in a world that never gave a shit about you but from which you've managed to become even more alienated.

The data mining is real

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>>8626034
>reading plutarch
>not in the original greek

>>8627878
Not everyone has the time to spend 10 years learning ancient Greek.

>>8625935
>meatbags
HK-47 is that you?

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>>8627718
Very cohesive taste, anon.
>Sophocles
The best of the three by far.
>>8627614
I like your taste.

>>8627718
sophocles ajax a best
>>8627614
did you read FW with annotations or anything?
>>8625910
desu u most likely at least have fun reading

how do you make these

>>8628078
BigHugeLabs

>>8625910
We get it, you're depressed

Is there a mobile app you guys use to make these charts?

>>8628100
See>>8628094

>>8628104
Not in the app store for iphone

>>8625910
>>8628098
Sorry that was a dumb joke I was just projecting and I really love those books too.

>>8628220
use Photo Grid from the app store

>>8627452
>Posting Goosebumps
>Not using 'Say Cheese and Die'

>>8628036
Good work with a clockwork Orange largely underrated on here. Book and film 10/10

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Judge your worst.

>>8625910
Really nigga, the metamorphosis..

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Really agonized over this.

I wanted to slip Thompson's Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone, Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor, Miko Peled's The General's Son, Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, some Friedman and/or Adam Smith... but it's just 9, so it has to be something along the lines of this.

Also, I have my pretentious template if anyone wants it.

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>>8625910
7/7

>>8625986
7/7

>>8626018
5/5

>>8626034
3/3

>>8626199
4/4

>>8627410
7/7

>>8627426
3/3

>>8627442
kek/lel

>>8627571
8/8

>>8627614
I feel too intimidated to read FW.
4/4

>>8627718
7/7
Haven't read all of the Theban plays.

>>8628036
6/6

>>8628302
4/4

>>8629264
4/4
Against our better judgement was a pretty interesting read.

>>8629322
3/3

>>8628244
thanks

>>8628100
bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php

>>8629908
>Against our better judgement was a pretty interesting read.
Then let me recommend you both The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited and The General's Son.

And Jennet Conant's The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington too, while I'm at it.

>>8629978
Sweet, thanks.

>>8627880
>10 years
kek^2

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Too lazy to do a good job making it

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>>8628302
>storm of swords
>blood meridian
>ulysses
you're a cool guy

>>8629264
I would like the template, anon.

>>8631403
>to the lighthouse, 100 years of solitude
nice

>>8627718
ey the idiot

same

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I flatter myself and think I occupy the divide between affected-pseud and turbo-pleb.

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i have a type

>>8631741
Children of Hurin is tragically under discussed here.

>>8632002
Most people I've encountered dismiss it as a pointless exercise in unremitting misery.

>>8632016
It certainly is tragic, but that is refreshing considering the unrelenting optimism in Tolkein's other works.

>>8627376
people on /jp/ are mostly chill to be honest

>>8625917
jesus

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>>8631456
Sure.

If you want it a different color combination, let me know.

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>>8631456
>>8632530
For example, red and gray with sepia borders.

>>8632530
>>8632537
Can we have one with a woman mating with a horse?

>>8631432
A storm of Swords is severely underrated. The high point in fantasy imo.

>>8632630
It's a mediocrety in fantasy as well as outside it. Fantasy has a suprisingly rich history and a lot of great writers to its name who don't get much love, such as Peake, Vance, Eddison.

>>8632002
The book is great and the audiobook up on audible is even better. It's narrated by christopher lee and it really captures the constant sense of looming that I think tolkein was going for

>>8626170
>jabroni
Jess?

>>8633025
Do you think christopher lee legit enjoyed the nerd shit he was always involved in?

>>8633443
The dude actually met and was friends with Tolken.
>playing a part of the movie adaptation of the most well known work of the passed away author you admire

>>8625986
>Holy bible
meme

>>8631741
Once and Future King is a really good choice.

>>8631741
>Candide
my nigga

>>8625986
You can jump straight into Gay Science, or maybe Twilight of the Idols, but you'd probably wanna read a bunch of philosophy first for the other ones

>>8632638
Hi keely

>>8636523

>Post your 3x3's or your favourite BOOKS ever in general
>Ready Player One
>Literally overpriced toilette-paper

>>8636576
>Felt smooth as a baby wipe.

>>8636594

Now I have an urge to take a shit on that neckbeard manifesto. Wish I wouldn't have gifted it to my cousins' NEET LoL-addict son.

>>8636610
>NEET
Would be lost on him anyhow. Too many 80's refs. Pure enjoyment for this old fart.

>>8636576
kek

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>>8631741
>MogWorld

Holy shit, I'm not the only one who read this. Great book, for what it is anyway.

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Judge me so I can feel alive, internet strangers

>>8636953
The Time Machine is such a good book desu

>>8636960
Reading it when I was young got me interested in science fiction, and books in general. It'll always hold a special place in my heart.

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>Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes

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>>8636977

>>8637002
not bait. I am a man of simple taste.

>>8636977
>>8637028
Not even the "best" YA you could be reading if anything
Also, >Catch 22 by way of The Matrix

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I know before you say it. I'm trying to read more.

>>8636837
It beautifully captures MMO tropes in a story that is quite original. It was genuinely funny, too.
It's a shame Jam was kinda shit.

>>8637100
I've never read it, shame though, I was looking foreward to it before I lost interest in Zero Punctuation a few years ago

>>8637084
>fine arts college freshman lit starter pack

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Magic Mountain
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Lolita
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Everything by Hans Fallada
Everything by Richard Yates
Most other works by Nabokov

>>8636953
Is the wake convincing in its imitiation of old english? im interested in it but not sure if its a gimmick or a fully formed thing. What did you like about it so much? was the language easy to parse?

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>>8625910
7/10

>>8625986
7.5/10

>>8626018
5/10

>>8626034
7.5/10

>>8626199
6.5/10

>>8627410
8/10

>>8627426
6/10

>>8627571
9/10

>>8627614
8/10

>>8627718
8.5/10

>>8628036
7.5/10

>>8628302
7/10

>>8629264
6.5/10

>>8629322
6.5/10

>>8629908
8/10

>>8631403
8.5/10

>>8631432
8/10

>>8631741
7/10

>>8631985
8/10

>>8636523
5/10

>>8636646
9.5/10

>>8636953
7/10

>>8636977
5.5/10

>>8637084
7/10

>>8637205
You don't know how to use ms paint, do you?

>>8637268
It's just not worth the effort.

>>8636523
start with the greeks

>>8632630
Erikson takes big wet shits all over GRRM. I won't even describe what Wolfe does to it.

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I meant to replace "The Naked and The Dead" with "Othello", but whatever.

>>8636953
>The Hobbit
are you 10 years old or somethi-
>the time machine
ok then

>>8637353
I did. Decades ago when I was young, studious, and wanted to fit in with fake pretentiousness. Now I'm old and read for enjoyment.

>>8637260
...Shouldn't it be out of 9?

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>>8637385

>>8637394
You'll learn when you're older.

>>8637422

>"I read pleb shit and learned to not feel bad about it and believe that everyone else secretly likes it too"

>>8637430
Everyone does.
I simply no longer pretend to enjoy yawn-worthy dust collectors. Old pleb freedom.

>>8637456
have you considered the fact that a lot of people actually do enjoy those books?

>>8637242
It's not so much convincing in imitating Old English as it is making you feel like you're reading something incredibly old. The first hour or so reading goes slowly, but as the plot begins to pick up it feels like your understanding picks up the pace of things as well. It feels very complete in terms of its otherness linguistically.

As for what I enjoyed so much about it, it's a story about a terrible person who thinks he's the hero of a very different story. The way Buccmaster of Holland grows more and more sure of his destiny as he becomes more and more unhinged made for a great (in my opinion) story

>>8637371
>are you 10 years old
That's actually probably about how old I was when I read those books for the first time, and why I love them so much now. Going back and rereading them every once in a while brings back good memories and reminds me of why I love reading so much.
You do realize you're allowed to enjoy things subjectively based on personal experience and enjoyment, don't you?

>>8637502
Sure. Our pickles are tickled with different forms of lit fodder. But bashing someone for not enjoying high-brow is typical of youth (and those who enjoy control).

Why do people like Metamorphosis? I don't think I understood it.

>>8637504
Some just like to make themselves feel superior.. The Hobbit was also instrumental in my youth, as were The Chronicles of Narnia.

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>>8625986
6/10
>>8625910
5/10 for trying too hard
>>8627410
solid 8/10
>>8627614
8/10
>>8627718
9/10
>>8628036
9/10 if you're reading Baudelaire in French, otherwise 8/10
>>8628302
7/10
>>8631403
8/10
>>8631432
6/10
>>8636523
-28/10
>>8636646
6/10, possibly 7 for including Don Quixote

>>8636523
Ready Player One is really shit, but Wicked, Mockingbird, and Ancillary Justice are all solid. RPO is such shit though. It's main subject matter is VR and it doesn't even handle VR in a well done or interesting way.

>>8636953
Yes to Dune, Hobbit, Beowulf, and the Time Machine.

>>8636977
lel/kek

>>8637363
Things They Carried is solid.

>>8637560
100 Year of Solitude is GOAT

>>8637798
Shut up. Ready Player One is really good. More when you knew or at least played along with some of the 80's culture. Which I believe was absolutely amazing. It presented to me such nice gems i didn't knew before. Plus it's crude honesty is very nice.

>>8637798
Me:
>>>8636523 (You)
Thanks. RE: RPO - It was the 80's refs for me. I ate them up. Not so much the VR. It was my gen.

>>8637394
I prefer William Faulkner view.

>“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

While I agree that you should usually read as many good/great works, you need to read and watch mediocrity to fully understand why it did not work.

>>8637260
what the fuck does Tao Lin have to do with teen culture? Teens read YA. This picture is cringey and makes no sense

>>8637924
He's loved by /lit/

>>8626191
Just finished Runaway Horses, I hope youre not saying I shouldnt continue on to Temple and Decay