/lit/ - Literature

>>21632149
Change chewing gum wrapper to drinking song

>>19537148
I always preferred this one.

>>19361858

Hello. I've been using quarantine to read some classic or significant novels. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Here's my list:
https://pastebin.com/BF56Y4sv


I'm still in high school, and I know my list is pretty basic but that was my plan I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2M4usgh8Ss

Is it better to be a starving artist in Brooklyn rather than a beancounter in Silicon Valley?

How do I measure 'high brow' literature?
I feel like I often have difficulty figuring out whether what I'm reading is quality lit. What aspects should I keep an eye on for assessment?

>age
>last good book you've read
>your major
>what you like and dislike about your major

How the greatest authors of literature were like in real life?
Were they as interesting as their work?

>In the last two hundred years we haven’t had a great thinker. My judgement is bold since Kant is included. All the thinkers of recent centuries from Kant to Benedetto Croce have only cultivated the garden.

Absolutely based.

>>13363134
Yes

Of course

How many books do you plan to read this year?

ITT: Post the first line of your novel

>She lay among the swathes of mauve and myrtle, wrapped in cotton from head to foot, coins of speckled sunlight falling on the ground around her, the shuffle of a silver tide some way away the only sound for miles.

>>11638916
>Being this much of a pleb
Sniffer of carrion, premature gravedigger, seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word, you, who sleep at our vigil and fast for our feast, you with your dislocated reason, have cutely foretold, a jophet in your own absence, by blind poring upon your many scalds and burns and blisters, impetiginous sore and pustules, by the auspices of that raven cloud, your shade, and by the auguries of rooks in parlament, death with every disaster, the dynamatisation of colleagues, the reducing of records to ashes, the levelling of all customs by blazes, the return of a lot of sweetempered gunpowdered didst unto dudst but it never stphruck your mudhead's obtundity (O hell, here comes our funeral! O pest, I'll miss the post!) that the more carrots you chop, the more turnips you slit, the more murphies you peel, the more onions you cry over, the more bullbeef you butch, the more mutton you crackerhack, the more potherbs you pound, the fiercer the fire and the longer your spoon and the harder you gruel with more grease to your elbow the merrier fumes your new Irish stew.

>>11593185

Haven't got there yet, just finished reading Counterparts, surprised it doesn't get more love. Very sad story

What was your favourite OP? Araby, Eveline and A Little Cloud have stood out the most to me so far

ITT: music that reminds you to certain books or periods when you were reading a certain book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEJpmDUMKco

(The Waves)

James, you could easily have said he walked around town and ran some errands. Don't have to make an entire book about one day! And stop with the foreign words, we only know English and you've made that confusing enough!

Hello /lit/. It's me, the polling anon from 2016. I'm back to host another poll of your top 100 books, so we can measure the progress of /lit/'s taste and get a chart to help beginners find new books.

If you're wondering why I'm doing this again so early, it's because /lit/ has the ugly tendency to succumb to memes (when I did the last poll, Alan Moore's Jerusalem was "in" and made the top 35 I think, which wouldn't have happened had we done it in a meme-free time). For another example, Bob Dylan won the nobel prize and dominated /lit/'s collective attention for a month or so. If I'd made the poll then we surely would've lost a lot of time to having to delete the "Blonde and Blonde" and "like a rolling stone" entries. not to hate on Dylan who I like, but it would've delayed progress. There don't seem to be any memes currently other than the longrunning ones, but they shouldn't affect the polling more than we can expect.

This time, I'm allowing 3 entries. The first gets 5 points (ie, 5 votes), the second gets 2, and the last gets only 1. That way you can give more weight to the books you like most, and we can get a more concise list that's easy to count and also factors in just how much ppl like certain books.

I've missed you /lit/. Also, enjoy Joyce playing the guitar.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2G-VEFDyLZb2ThRcLJwWrKY4zRMAO8FTqB3JG6AmGnu-LCw/viewform?usp=sf_link

>>9382184
*strums guitar*

eh?... hmph...

I guess it's gonna be one of those days

*hoists guitar over his shoulder*

come on then, let's get this over with, eejits...

>>9089916
Lurk for more references to proust in Joyce letters, he was just jelaous. James was a genius himself tho but had too much of a big ego to recognize talent in someone that "shitted" in his masterpiece. lol

>tfw ywn have a freak folk band with James Joyce