/lit/ - Literature

Recently, this year, I read:

>American Psycho
>Moby Dick
>pretty much everything from Kafka
>The Stranger
>Crime and Punishment
>Slaughterhouse Five
>Lord of the Flies
>Endurance (about that expedition with shakleton)
>Blood Meridian

of all these books i enjoyed Slaughterhouse Five and American Psycho the most.
i also really liked the Stranger

anything thats similar to these types?

i was about to start infinite jest but its so fucking long, and im not sure if i will enjoy it.

>>14278009
i don't understand what you're trying to say. you're killing yourself?

>>14205540
no He isn't. are you retarded?

>>12375843
> I want to die in a fucking Holodomor because why not.

"npcs" do... empathy?

I can't even tell if these threads are real, or if they're just some weird shitposting format

We've talked about the linguistic properties of the greentext before, but what about the harder to define words and phrases used on this site? The word 'meme' has so many meanings and everyone intuitively understands them immediately. 'Meme' is now not only a noun but a verb and even an adjective. I'm not great at defining things like this but if someone could come up with a concrete definition for the word 'meme' as in 'a meme degree' or 'depression is a meme disorder'. Not to be confused with the adjective meme as in 'the meme trilogy', which just means that it is frequently memed, the 'meme' I'm thinking of is a pejorative.
Also 4chan has a habit of massively diluting genuinely useful descriptors to the point of meaninglessness (onions and using Reddit as an adjective come to mind)

>>11719037
>great female authors

I fell for the P&V meme and am reading their translation of Notes From Underground, but now I'm hearing that they actually aren't the definitive translators because one speaks bad English and the other speaks no Russian. So first of all what are the actual best translations for Tolstoy and Dosto's biggest works (I'll finish Notes with P&V) and second did I fall for other meme translations by having Fagles' Odyssey and Grossman's Don Quixote on the list?

Is the word "autological" autological?
Is the word "heterological" heterological?

>>10250252
Why?

Can someone please explain to me the difference between the Derridean and the Lacanian models of the "gaze" and the nature of subject/object observation? I am very stupid

>>10073207
>otter hand

helo friends how do I read?

Is starting a sentence with a conjunction okay?

>mfw reading this thread

There's some really interesting thoughts but for the most part I don't really understand this stuff, I need some context. Where should I start?

>>9634090
why did she put the dog collar on herself and not the dog?

>>9449433
>The majority of you douche bags probably had a great time here. Filled with memories of prom and parties and sucking your first dick.
>sucking your first dick

>tfw to dumb to write good stories