/lit/ - Literature

WHat would happen if u cooked a cat?

>23
>Dune
>Brave New World
>We the Living

>>11290161
"me OW"

>>11290167
haha

>>11290167
10/10

>>11290150
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Don Q
Joseph and His Brothers
Paradise Lost

>>11290150
That photo is intellectually dishonest. It shows a housecat inside a pan, a piece of cookware, rather than outside a pan. A pan should naturally contain ingredients, a cat is not categorized as an ingredient by any author worth his salt. I would assign a sort of Avernian ideology to whoever fabricated this photoshop. Here is a photo of ingredients, please photoshop them into the pan and put the cat back outside the pan where it came from.

>>11290245
>intellectual dishonesty

>36
>Riddley Walker
>Hard Rain Falling
>The Last Good Kiss

>>11290150
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>Ulysses
>Hamlet
>L'Étranger

>>11290150
>33
>walden, finnegans wake, fight club

>>11290346
>riddley walker
patrician af

22
>Hunger
>Dubliners
>Journey to the End of the Night

>>11290150
>26
Lolita
Crime and Punishment

>>11290443
Trubba not anon

23
Anna Karenina
The Idiot
Stoner

>>11290150
>18
>Arrian's Anabasis
>Herodotus Histories
>Clausewitz On War

24
Ulysses
Xenophon - Persian Expedition
Snow Crash

> yes i know snow crash is objectively shit.

>>11290167

>25
>Adventures of Augie March
>Cat's Cradle
>Heart of Darkness

>20
>The Book of Disquiet
>Persuasion and Rhetoric
>Chekhov's short stories
>>11290461
I like these
>>11290346
i don't know any of these but they look nice I will look into them

>22
>Heart of Darkness
>Infinite Jest
>Lolita

>>11290165
2/10 pleb

9/10
Bet you read translation

>>11290415
10/10 if I ignore Camus.

>>11290440
Walden is the only book I have ever given up on reading.

>>11290582
Stoner very good choice, the idiot was shite
>>11290599
Trying too hard

>>11290911
>trying too hard
Can't really dismiss that since I'm writing my own translations both from greek and german

20
Moby Dick
Blood Meridian
Butchers Crossing

>20
>Stoner
>East of Eden
>Mother Night

>>11290150
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>Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
>Fanged Noumena
>Anti-Oedipus

>>11290167

>>11291625
i always thought mother night was vonnegut's best. not sure why it doesnt garner more attention.

>>11290150
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Dream of the Red Chamber
Little, Big
The Divine Comedy

>>11291951
>Dream of the Red Chamber
translation recs?

>20
In no particular order
>Fight Club
>Clash of Kings
>The Blade itself

24
Paradise Lost
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Oblomov

>>11290167
saved

24
Foundation Pit
Dead Souls
Simulacra and Simulation

22
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Hunchback of Notre Dame

>>11290167
Based /lit/ humor.

>24
>Godel Escher Bach
>Mason & Dixon
>J R

>>>11290165
Could be worse; I respeck

>>11290237
Someday I'll be on your level...

>>11290415
Did you read Dubliners and/or Portrait before you first embarked upon Ulyssys? I haven't quite gotten to that book yet, but it doesn't seem very forgiving as a reader's first flirtation with the author.

>>11290486
>only two favorite books
read a third book before next time so you won't embarrass yourself, my goodness

>>11290582
P good. Nice to see another LitaRussussiphile around.

>>11290639
I haven't read anything of Stephenson's (sic?) but my sense of humor is such that I think somewhat fondly of him based soleley on the name Hiro Protagonist.

>>11290863
We could absolutely get along, if the little biographies we're sharing are to be the basis for that sort of thing.

>>11290888
ADA
OR
ARDOR
can't praise it enough and highly recommend it as a sort of scaled-up Lolita

>>11291298
9/10

>>11292245
>Foundation Pit
My no-foolin' nigga. Kotlovan is most certainly a contender for the title of "bleakest novel of all time."

>>11290161
you'd have the main ingredient in general tso's chicken

>>11292483
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>11290167
Hearty chuckle

25
Steppenwolf
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
American Psycho

>>11292483
>Someday I'll be on your level...
Idk friend, I only started reading a year ago. I don't think anything is stopping you

>>11290272
This thread was an obviously larp but I didn’t care. The fact that he kept the act up and argued with everyone in the thread telling them his family didn’t understand him was hilarious.

>>11291992
David Hawkes (first eighty chapters) and John Minford (last forty) for Penguin.

>>11290150
>19
>Infinite Jest
>The Recognitions
>Child of God

>>11290167
this has no right to be as funny as it is

>20
>Finnegans Wake
>Ulysses
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>11290165
mediocre taste
>>11290237
good taste
>>11290346
am unfamiliar with all your picks
>>11290440
is this a joke? genuine question
>>11290461
great taste
>>11290486
mediocre taste
>>11290582
good taste
>>11290639
good taste
>>11290700
decent taste
>>11290888
mediocre taste
>>11291298
great taste
>>11291625
decent taste
>>11291951
good taste
>>11292002
great taste
>>11292483
great taste
>>11292770
good taste

>>11290150
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Faust
The Master and Margarita
Journey to the West (西游记)

>>11292002
I still need to read Paradise Lost, so thanks for reminding me.

>>11290167
Include me

>>11290167

>>11290150
>27
> The Vegetarian by Han Kang
> The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
> Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

>>11290167

21
Frankenstein
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Othello

>24
>The Lord of the Rings
>On the Road
>Redwall

>>11291691
as if

>>11292245
>foundation pit
really interested in this one

>22
Counting only fiction:
>Faust
>Crime and Punishment
>Moby Dick

22
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from Underground
Infinite Jest

>>11290167

22
>Book of Chuangtzu
>Malay Archipelago
>Either/Or

>>11290150
>20
Demian
Crime and punishment
Nausea

38
>Maps of Meaning
>Postmodernism Explained
>End of Faith

Rebel wisdom brought to me by dead tree.

21
Journey to the end of the night
Tears and Saints
Notes from the underground

19
The Doll
Solaris
The Brothers Karamazov

>24
>Crime and Punishment
>The Stranger
>Book of the New Sun

>27
>Heart of Darkness
>Book of Disquiet
>Kizumonogatari

>>11290167
nice joke

>>11290167
holy . . .

>>11290167
This format only works with imageboards desu. 10/10

>>11290167
are you fucking kidding me

>>11290167

>>11290911
Why do people dislike Camus so much? I adore L'Étranger and I don't see why there's so much Camus bashing on this site.

>>11296576
Camus is associated with pseuds, so lit tries to distance itself from him to not seem pseudish.

>>11296576
He proved weak-willed on the Algerian Question.

>>11292483
Yeah, I read Dubliners and Portrait in chronological order before reading Ulysses and you're completely right. Joyce definitely intended the reader to have head the others before it, so much will be lost without the background knowledge. Also, I'd suggest reading/knowing the plot of Hamlet too, as it's often referenced in quite heavy detail during the novel.

>>11292910
>3 Joyce books
I mean I respect that and all but really?

21
Oblomov
The trouble of being born
The pale king

>>11296594
An anon contributed to Hypersphere who did a wonderful parody of Joyce. I wonder if that's him.

>>11290167

>>11296582
And what is the Algerian Question? I don't have that much history knowledge rip...

>>11296579
makes sense lol

>>11296648
http://m.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/camus-and-sartre-friendship-troubled-by-ideological-feud-a-931969.html

>>11290150
>26

>Ulysses
>Nicomachean Ethics
>Ficciones

>>11290167
kek

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>>11294770
very cool

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>>11291951
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>>11296603
cool

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>>11294802
ok. ok. wow. just... ok. this is a board for literature, please leave and never come back, so the board's average IQ will gain a point or two

>>11296692
>ok. ok. wow. just... ok. this is a board for literature, please leave and never come back, so the board's average IQ will gain a point or two
I'm sorry, we're not all as politically correct as you, hun.

Try thinking once in a while. It's what your brain is for, doll.

>>11290167
:O

>>11296725
imagine being this fucking stupid

>>11296661
Very interesting read thanks
That article just made me like Camus more desu, especially when reading about the lengths of Sartre's Marxism, which I can't stand lmao.

>>11296734
Not. An. Argument.

Girls have lower IQs, so I don't expect you to under the new counter-culture. I bet you're still on YA, sweetie.

>>11296734
Imagine being covered in ants

>>11296743
No problem.

It's a shame Sartre was so tied to Marxism, but Algeria was a fairly decent gauge of moral fibre.

If you have Joyce on your list and you're younger than 25 please slit your own throat and do a handstand.

>>11296781
why do you need to be of a certain age to appreciate a master of the canon?

>>11296787
He's just jealous because he couldn't get through Proteus until he was 25

>>11296743
Don't worry about it, never allow a writers politics or religion etc spoil your enjoyment of his work. If youre American everything you think you know about a European intellectuals Marxism is wrong anyway.

>>11290150
>27
>Dracula
>The Tragedy of Man
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>>11296843
>>The Tragedy of Man
Good grief. I didn't expect anyone else here to know of that.

I've been thinking back to that book over the last few weeks.

>21

>The Catcher in the Rye
>Picture of Dorian Gray
>King in Yellow

I have different favs but not in English language. Also not sure if Bible counts too.

>>11290150
ENOUGH WITH YOUR BIG DATA COLLECTIONS!

>>11296856
I think it sums up perfectly our struggles.

>To all that lives, the span is but the same.
The hoary trees, th' unseen ephemera ;
They live, rejoice, they love, and pass away,
Till run their course, their instincts satisfied.
Time ceaseth not : we change ; a century
A day; the end is but the same. Fear not:
Thou'lt reach the goal, but think not that this clay
Shuts in man's individuality.
Look at the ant, the swarming bees, with all
The senseless chaos of their myriad works ;
How blind they strive and roam, to sink at last
In death ; but as a solid mass, they live,
Together live and strive, with but one soul,
Accomplishing their being's destiny,
Till comes the end, when all shall cease at once.
So shall thy dust be scattered far, but thou
In a hundred forms shalt live again, and naught
Need'st thou begin anew r . For all thy sins
The son must penance do ; to him, thy gout
Dost thou transmit, thy life's experience

>>11290167
is this the new surprise meme?

18
Quran
Autobiography of Malcom X
Masnavi

23

Growth of the Soil
Walden
No Longer Human

>>11290150
14
12 rules for life
The god delusion
1984

25
Tolstoy: confessions
CS Lewis: abolition of man
Ortega y Gasset: revolt of the masses

>>11297813
Meme
>>11297782
Probably wouldn't be friends
>>11297793
Might be friends, if you're not one of the people that thinks Dazai was a Chad
>>11296875
Would hate from afar
>>11293052
Would friend. Did you read Human Acts by Han Kang as well?

14
> Brave New World
> 1001 Nights
> History of Time
> The Count of Montecristo

>>11290150
>18
>War and peace
>Philosophical investigations
>Death of Ivan Illyich

>>11296925
That was nice.

>>11292910
based rating poster

>>11290150
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Paradife Loft
Crime & Punishment
The Denial of Death