/lit/ - Literature

>>16191376
>A Song Of Ice And Fire
Absolutely not
>Dune saga
No
>The Dark Tower saga
Absolutely not
>Earthsea saga
Read it with your kids when you have them
>Elric of Melnibone
>Hyperion Cantos
No
>Conan The Barbarian
Alright but don’t spend too much time on it
>The Sprawl trilogy
No
>The Foundation series + I, robot
Lmao no
>The Wheel of Time
Absolutely not, even considering doing this should make you feel embarrassed
>The Book Of The New Sun
Maybe, Idk much about it
>The Count Of Montecristo
This is a good starting read because it’s fun and easy for someone who isn’t discerning whilst still being worth reading
>1001 Nights
Can’t say, I haven’t read it
>Don Quixote
One of the best
>Hobbit + Lord Of The Rings + Silmarillion
May as well, could save this for your kids too
>Lord Dunsany's works
Can’t say have no idea
>Heinlein's works
No
>H.G. Wells's works
Don’t bother reading lots of his, you don’t need to
>The Culture series
No
>Brave New World
Sure, so long as you realise it’s a dystopia
>1984 + Animal's Farm
Pay most attention to language attitude in 84
>The Divine Comedy
I hope you know Italian
>Pirandello's works
I know very little, probably worth your time
>Three Muskeeters + 20 years after
It’s probably a waste of time, total of all musketeer books is ridiculously long
>War And Peace
One of the best
>Everything by Lovecraft
Waste of time, read Poe instead

>>16155580
Those who post about anime should be permabanned, it’s always 100% cope for being too addled by dopamine from kids entertainment to read literature
Using anime reaction images is ok (lest we forget how this site came to be), though a true /lit/izen uses reaction images of DFW from that one interview that’s on YouTube; but avatarfagging (especially with anime schoolgirls) is pure cancer and must not be tolerated

>>15267113
>6. WHAT 'LYNCHIAN' MEANS AND WHY IT'S IMPORTANT

>AN ACADEMIC DEFINITION of Lynchian might be that the term "refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." But like postmodern or pornographic, Lynchian is one of those Porter Stewart-type words that's ultimately definable only ostensively-i.e., we know it when we see it. Ted Bundy wasn't particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victims' various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian. A recent homicide in Boston, in which the deacon of a South Shore church reportedly gave chase to a vehicle that bad cut him off, forced the car off the road, and shot the driver with a highpowered crossbow, was borderline Lynchian. A Rotary luncheon where everybody's got a comb-over and a polyester sport coat and is eating bland Rotarian chicken and exchanging Republican platitudes with heartfelt sincerity and yet all are either amputees or neurologically damaged or both would be more Lynchian than not. A hideously bloody street fight over an insult would be a Lynchian street fight if and only if the insultee punctuates every kick and blow with an injunction not to say fucking anything if you can't say something fucking nice.

>>12384977
I don't want to DFW myself
I mean I do
But you know what I mean

>Zadie Smith
would he be proud?

>>11379137

>>11298062
>in France

>>11254154
>screencapping your own retarded posts

>20 page sermon about hell halfway through the book

>>11127116

>>10921331
>Who's Dave?

>>10851788

>>10801232
>wtf did this guy do?
basically a bunch of crazy dudes chopped their cocks off and decided that they should now be referred to with feminine pronouns and this random psychology professor at an irrelevant university sperged out about it and became famous because that's how the post-DFW world is

Hey /lit/, I'm writing a lit-pseud character and need your help. What are things pseuds do?

I'll get us started:

>believes philosophy is relevant
>mentions math and science (but doesn't study it)
>doesn't want to "spoon feed" you, i.e. explain themselves and risk exposure
>believes reading can be hard, but expresses it in a roundabout way (people say Ulysses is hard to read but I found it so easy!)
>reads fiction for the prose
>always impressed by Shakespeare/Bible references
>uses the word "serious" when describing fiction
>loves DFW/Pynchon/Joyce/other litfic darling, but doesn't have a single interesting thing to say about anything they've written (platitudes and irrelevant observations aren't interesting)
>"nuanced" "powerful" "data" "post-"

I've been researching this for a while.

There's some promising leads, but presently no conclusive evidence for transgenderism being inborn (i.e. a condition of the brain) rather than a choice.

However, we don't understand the entire brain, so there may very well one day be.

tl;dr: it might be fetishists, might be a birth defect, nobody knows.

>>10729220

>nuance

Does it bother anyone else when words get popular and everyone starts using them? "Cognitive" has had a similar surge recently. I get the impression of someone who wants to sound smart, but isn't actually smart enough to express themselves with original language. I similarly roll my eyes when someone uses 'data' outside of the context of research, or 'comical' when 'funny' could easily be substituted.

>>10623344
>You can be antisemitic without being racist

>>10541560

If you're looking for an opinion, I think that True communism has never been tried because it's a suicidal concept. Imagine gutting the fed and all but shutting down the military so bob cooter and tyrone can have 10 kids and still have beer money. The concentration of wealth has clear benefits to a nation.

>>10514559
>>10514568
>he didn't major in phil and lit dueling

>>10456530
>intrinsic value
lad i don't think at this point you could become unplebified

>>10436623
>/his/-tier image
>2012-tier b8
poor form

>>10392867

>>10374128
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas