/lit/ - Literature

>>22787076
anon, i just wanted to start a conversation
yesterday after anon said i, that in the middle ages nobody had any idea about the greeks until the crusades, my mind was a little blown so i started reading about education back then
i just wanted to talk with my frens

Done a few in the past. Never really like them. The expectation never meets reality.

>First book club
>Middle School
>All girls who I assume are smart (ha ha)
>I’m the only one who is reading the book and showing interest
>We “finish” reading the book and it turns out I’m basically the only one who read
>We start the next book
>boring airport tier book
>I don’t like it
>All these girls who didn’t read the first book love it
>leave book club

Second book club
>Friend group picks Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
>too busy getting high all the time
>don’t recall shit when it’s time to finally discuss the book
>only remember passage in which Vonnegut recalls the discovery of the Clitoris
>our book discussion ends up being pretty bunk and we all just hang out.
>end of book club.

Last book club
>This time last year
>Friend starts reading 1Q84
>I realize I also have it
>we start a casual book club
>I haven’t been reading too often
>slog through book which is too long and also not physically enjoyable to read (1000 page hardcover)
>can’t get into it
>I dnf
>he doesn’t enjoy book
>I decide only to read American Authors from that point forward
>My reading has never been better

>>21432127
Same fren. Got a gorgeous edition of The Count of Monte Cristo with illustrations

>>21052414
Legion by William Peter Blatty

>>20114281
comfy

>>19173950
Also found this. You can edit the book/background for your liking.

>>19173946
Good luck with that, fren.

what novel /lit/ recommends to an 18 yo boy who was raised without a good father figure?

what novel /lit/ recommends for a 18 yo boy who was raised without a good father figure?

What's the most /lit/ language?

every genre is welcome

Hello frens
Where may I download books (pdf, mobi, epub whatever) for free? libgen seems down atm and I need a certain book for a school project.
Thank you for you help.

oh and by the way, fuck jannies

>>16803657
I thought Kant was a comfy autistic boi, Apu Apustaja personified

>>16772732
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

I'm looking for a book or series that's basically Space Fantasy rather than Sci-fi, I suppose something like Star Wars. Also not looking for anything grimdark like 40k. Just want a nice relaxing autumn read travelling across space.

For reference, I've read Dune and thought it was decent but a bit too on-the-nose about it being ABOUT myths and religious storytelling, which for me is something I don't particularly like about strictly Sci-fi books - they tend to be pretty blatantly about some sort of philosophical or scientific idea rather than letting themes hide in the subtext.

He paused for a moment, but then saw her lips open after a second or so and pressed on the rest of his query.
"Do you want to go out with me?"
He said it a good few volumes louder than he had intended, but it made no matter. The message had left his hands and landed in her ears. She blushed (blushed!) with mouth slightly agape, and then smiled coolly and said
"Sure, what do you want to do?"
His knees almost buckled, she said YES! But then he remembered that she asked a counter-question and almost fainted but then didn't.
"Uhm, coffee maybe? I know this old italian-owned cafe up on Lowenstreet, it's like ten minutes from here."
"Coffee, yes. That sounds nice. You know, if you had just said starbucks haha" she laughed. He didn't understand the joke completely, too elated for that, but he felt this confidence again, and he knew it would all be well.
Comfybro and cool-girl went out for coffee that mid-day, and it was wonderful. He made a few stupid jokes about his own person and hers, a few social commentary observations that he thought worth sharing in her presence, nothing too deep but decidedly something that was not mouthpiecing some agenda, which impressed her, and when it came time to share their favourite hobbies, they both found that they were into literature. She was mostly into postmodern novels, but could see the appeal of the classics and the different eras. He was mostly into classics, but could see the appeal of the modernist and postmodernist works. Where they really found common ground was in their love for the absurd. A topic which, over the course of their relationship, would manifest itself vividly.

Would they stay together, marry and raise a family and live happily forever after? Well, only time would tell, but they sure as hell were going to try.

[the end]

>>16357794
What fanfiction are you reading at the moment anon? What are some good fanfics you would suggest?
I, personally have never been able to make it to the end of any fanfic, except one. I start out all excited and loving it, meeting my favorite characters and seeing them in different settings, but after a while the "guilty" part becomes too much and I feel like I should be reading something original, but it really shouldn't be like that. I only finished a HP fanfic that was a fake Order of the Phoenix, but I came across it back when the real book hadn't been released and I just got hooked because I had nothing else to read in a similar vein anyway.

>>16323403
>EVERYMAN, I will go with thee,
>and be thy guide,
>In thy most need to go by thy side

One question
She said, I wrote it down:
“...placing especially high value on Hegel, Wittgenstein, Frege, Anscombe, Sellars, McDowell, and, above all, Kantistotle.”

Where do I find Kantistotle

>>16230194
I miss the days when books were an escape. Maybe I’m too old now and it’s time to write something of my own or just call it a night. I hope you find your book fren, ill let you know if I see it.

>>16203162
actually im going to sleep. good night

>>16083614
Not so quick, you better have read your daily quota of pages.

good night fren