/lit/ - Literature

I've seen threads about good book opening sentences but not ending ones. Post your favorites.

Apt Pupil:
It was five hours later and almost dark before they took him down.

>>16872932
>knows all this lore but not the important fact, that he literally can't post here.
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>also
he has read so much ebcause he doesnt get distracted by anything since he is out alone in his woods.

>>16004649
So what did he call you out on?

I am of the opinion that reading works that directly relate to something (in a non-scientific purpose manner ofc) is less effective at evoking the actual desired sense than reading something only perhaps indirectly related or not at all.
Therefore if you are looking for tales on insanity or shizo mindsets, do not look for the novels that most characterize such but look at something like von Kleist's stories; the dull mind will not see the inner machinations of the characters as more than what they on the surface appear, you should though.
If you are schizo you don't need to emulate it, and reading about something you know seems trivial and not novel.
You will find the insanity in the most mundane actions and behaviors.

>>11421030
>ca

>>11332587
>The guy who wants to bring humanity to other planets has his philosophy influenced by Douglas Adams.

>Ted Hughes wrote The Iron Giant as a way of describing Sylvia's suicide to their children
>Vin Diesel voiced the giant in the animated movie The Iron Giant
>mfw Vin Diesel presented the most accurate portrayal of Sylvia Plath ever put to celluloid

>>5276278
I read Jpod and it was OK.
I think it would've been a better read if Coupland condensed the book, structured it, maybe a plot. Who knows?
Maybe he didn't need to add 40 plus pages of computer chitchat and symbols. Who knows? Who knows?

>>4818183

>Yay or nay?

I'd say meh. I'm keeping it open for myself. I'll probably won't find another job anyway with my useless english bachelor's.

>>4652049

Oh, cool. I agree.

Glad you're just asking prodding questions and aren't actually an antinatalist.

There will always be people with philosophy I think is abysmal though. Oh well.

C'est la vive.

>>4612845

There are imposed hierarchies, and cultural dogma. Not inherent, permanent hierarchies that can't be changed. Social darwinism is used to justify people who inherited riches and power over people who... didn't. It's also been used to justify racism in numerous situations.

It's also bullshit because it's a misnomer. It shouldn't be called Darwinism (an Darwinism shouldn't be a label in the first place, since it's a label created for the express purpose of discrediting scientific evidence of evolution). It's less about evolution and genes across all life and more about human society, exclusively. It's talking about economic hierarchies, social hierarchies, cultural hierarchies, and racial hierarchies. It ignores completely the role of natural resources, other species, genes, and natural disasters. It also proposes a superiority/inferiority hierarchy, instead of a lucky/unlucky hierarchy, which is more accurate.

>>4514026
Easy mistake to make. Just like your brash, 4channy lack of punctuation.

I don't know why I say this since people on the internet are too stupid to adapt literally any helpful lesson, but if you disagree with his post, criticize its substance, not his grammar.

>Inb4 you never criticize the substance of his post and instead opt for another one-liner shitpost aimed at me.

I was into video games for the longest time about 5 years ago. Grew up with a Nintendo 64, and played only games. The only book series I read was the Harry Potter books.

At age 15 however, I decided to stop because they were taking too much of my time and my grades were falling. I started reading.

Now I'm 18, and I'm wondering. When did the average /lit/erati start reading? Like, as a hobby, not just occasionally a book here or there. Where did reading take off for you? Did it ever take off? Is 16 considered "late to the party"?

>tfw you read articles in highly regarded literary journals
>tfw the articles discuss aspects of a novel or genre that you thought were too obvious to commit to paper
>tfw you could have been published for stating the obvious
>tfw academia underwhelms you

>>2763548

>wants to live outside society
>while at the same time sharing his experience

How fucking dense are you OP?

Any good books set in Chicago? The only ones I can think of are Native Son and Jungle.

Sure is fifteen in here.

I need a published monologue that I can perform in under 10 minutes.

Preferably something dramatic like "Red God" by Kevin Bushek.

>>1502215
Whaaaaat? Just a copy of the bible with a ridiculous devil illustration inside?