/lit/ - Literature

>>20769975
And why wouldn't you? Despite what everyone says it is a decent series with lots of things happening and it is all (well almost all) written by the iceman himself. Good when compared to rest of YA.

I haven't read a book in a long time, and I can't shake this feeling of guilt. What do you suggest I do? I'm planning on reading To the Lighthouse as soon as vacations start in a couple of weeks, but I'm afraid after finishing it I'll fall again into this unwillingness, or even worse, of not finishing it. I'm desperate /lit/ bros...

>>20466320
You can take your cultivation shit elsewhere.

>>20354892
no

> "When she matured a bit more, those legs would attract the gaze of many men."
> - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Unironically what the fuck did Murakami mean by this?

>>19870418
this one
im too lazy to get the original from my harddrive. Also its made for krautchan actually.

>agrees

>>19346973
These are the same genre

Am I missing something in my reading order?

>Pre-8th century
Epic of Gilgamesh

>8th century BC
Iliad
Odyssey

>6th century BC
Fables of Æsop
Fragments of Sappho

>5th century BC
The Analects
Art of War
The Histories
History of the Pelponnesian War
Oresteia

>4th Cenutry
Tao Te Ching
The Trial and Execution of Socrates
Republic
Symposium
Ethics
The Persian Expedition

>3rd century BC
The Voyage of Argo
Euclid's Elements

>2nd Century BC
Polybius: The Rise of Rome

>1st Century BC
On the Nature of Things
Orations
The Gallic and Civic wars
Aeneid
The Early History of Rome

>>19246118
>watch
>>>/tv/

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Top 42 recommended authors and their works so far in /wsffg/ in descending order. In total 104 different authors have been recommended and I have logged 206 recommendations in total.

Gene Wolfe
>Book of the New Sun
>Fifth Head of the Cerberus
>Soldier of the Mist
R. Scott Bakker
>The Second Apocalypse
Glen Cook
>The Black Company
>The Dread Empire
Frank Herbert
>Dune
David Eddings
>The Belgradiad
>Malloreon
>Elenium
Steven Erikson
>Malazan Book of the Fallen
Roger Zelazny
>The Chronicles of Amber
>Lord of Light
J.R.R. Tolkien
Patrick Rothfuss
>The Kingkiller Chronicles
David Gemmell
>Legend
>Wolf in Shadow
Andrzej Sapkowski
>The Witcher
Robert E. Howard
>Conan the Cimmerian
Joe Abercrombie
>The First Law
Isaac Asimov
>The Gods Themselves
Michael Moorcock
>Elric
Scott Lynch
>Gentlemen Bastard
>The Lies of Locke"
Jack Vance
>Dying Earth
>Lyonesse Trilogy
Clark Ashton Smith
>Zothique
Robert Jordan
>The Wheel of Time (YA)
Ursula K. Le Guin
>The Left Hand of Darkness
William Hope Hodgson
>The Night Land
Fritz Leiber
>Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
>Ill Met in Lankhmar
Raymond E. Feist
>The Riftwar Cycle
>Krondor's sons"
John Norman
>Tarnsman of Gor
Jim Butcher
>The Dresden Files
Brandon Sanderson
>Cosmere (YA)
Tad Williams
>Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Robert E. Heinlein
>Starship Troopers
>The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Alfred Bester
>The Stars my Destination
>The Demolished Man
George R.R. Martin
>The Dying of the Light
>A Song of Ice and Fire
H.P. Lovecraft
>The Call of Cthulhu
Dunsany
>The Gods of Pegana
Stephen King
Mervyn Peake
>Gormenghast
Robin Hobb
>Realm of the Elderlings
Sarah J. Maas
>A Court of Thorns and Roses (YA)
Jorge Luis Borges
Boris Strugatsky
>Roadside Picnic
Brian Catling
>The Vorrh Trilogy
H.G. Wells
>Time Machine
John Crowley
>Aegypt
John Scalzi
>Old Man's War
Adrian Tchaikovksy
>Shards of Earth

>>18204744
>church gets shut down by the government
>when it gets overturned as a first amendment violation they try to get at them by banning singing
>one church gets a reputation as super based after they kick out the cops trying to kick them out
>"well, must be the churches fault they're closed"

dad told me about a book where a neo nazi acts like a liberal so he can get away with committing hate crimes without suspicion. apparently he burns down a mansion kills a liberal professor and burns down an apartment building. sound familiar?