/lit/ - Literature

>>13195759
Frankenstein

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
Virginia Woolf
Ursula K. Le Guin

They’re not “memes” they’re legit quality. Let your tastes guide your interests, naturally

Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
The Ship of Fools by Cristina Peri Rossi
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

My picks would be Memoirs of Hadrian, Jane Eyre and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

>>13195800

This guy knows what he's he's talking about.

>>13195800
Yet you still masturbate to me :3

Liveblog!

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by mccrullers
Gilead by robinson
The Good Earth by buck

I really enjoyed Elmet by Fiona Mozley. I thought it was a fantastic exploration of how violence creeps into everyday life. I also thought the prose had a lyrical quality to it, but my head might just be up my ass.

I've heard good things about this one.

>>13195759

I'm enjoying Jane Eyre a lot rn.

>>13195759
the Good Earth was the only one I read by a woman. I'd read it again

The only one i read was The Bell Jar
It was good

Sadly Harry Potter makes the top 10

>>13195759
Sisyphean

None

>>13195790
fucking god she is so ugly
why is she always making this ONE face like a retard staring into a fan?

>>13195759
Frankenstein is my all time favourite work of fiction. I can't express how powerful that novel was for me. I have a frame of the 19th century first edition frontispiece on my wall.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is another book by a woman author I enjoyed quite a lot and found its atmosphere stuck with me a long time after reading.

>>13195810
>guy
>he's he's

Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park

>>13197051
She's descended from a sect of arctic cricle-fleeing bog trolls who worshipped the moon and the female foot for the several mostly nomadic centuries that preceded their embrace of agrarian lifestyles

>>13195800
>Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

T H I S

Jane Eyre is a fucking fantastic read. Know it has been mentioned a lot in this thread but it is a great book. Tbh some of Charlotte Bronte's lesser known works don't get enough love either, Villette was fantastic.

The Waves by Ginny Woolf is another great one, so unique and poetic.

I also unironically like To Kill a Mockingbird.

>>13197103
>>13195790
ASMR when? Her vlogs are boring

All of these

>>13195759
In my opinion... Toni Morrison sucks

>>13195759
The short stories by Kate Chopin are pretty good

>>13195759
God damn Joanna is such a doll

>>13195759
Joanna's a rare woman who gets better-looking as she gets older

Speedboat or Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

>>13200344
I haven't even seen her at that age, but I can guarantee you right now that I'd rather fuck a 50-year-old Joanna Newsom over virtually any other woman on earth. Come back to me in 13 years and quote me on it, I will regret nothing

>>13200344
>>13200412
She's got those Julie Bowen genes. Looked like such a dork in her 20s but her facial aesthetics are perfect once the puppyfat melts off

>>13195790
>fish mouth
>childish tattoos
Holy pass

>>13200571

>>13195759
Infinite Jest. DFW was a repressed transwoman.

LeGuin was good until she became didactic. The original Earthsea trilogy rocked. It's sequel Tehanu was disappointing, the more so as the first three books were such excellent, Vance level stuff. But she was a lot older by then, to be fair.

LeGuin before she got cringey later in life, Shelley for Frankenstein, and James Tiptree, Jr.
The last was a "retired" CIA analyst that an heroed after killing her husband. Just loved her writing style, her command of the language.

>>13201525
Why should authors write the exact same way their whole lives?

>>13201574
Holy geez! Spoiler that next time!

I haven’t read any of Joyce Carol Oates’s novels but her short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” was actually pretty good.

Check it: https://www.cusd200.org/cms/lib/IL01001538/Centricity/Domain/361/oates_going.pdf

As people have already said, Charlotte Bronte, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Shelley, all got it going on. If you're looking for more modern women writers, I'd recommend Sarah Waters, because that shit is lewd af, and surprisingly well-written considering it's just historical lesbian erotica. Fingersmith and Affinity are some of her best written, but Tipping the Velvet is by far her most overtly sexual work.

Surprised no one has said Jackson.

>>13202017
I'm sorry Ms Jackson

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Twlight? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 50 shades of gay? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I dunno

The Blazing World by Siri Husvedt.

Pretty based if you ask me.

>>13202137
Seriously though, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a god tier bit of fiction.

>>13195759
Wuthering Heights
Geek Love
The Secret History

>>13197051
Are you kidding me, you stupid fool? She’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.

>>13197051
>>13202608
Wow, yeah I've even gotten in a spot of trouble with the GF for having an above the mean frequency of Megan Boyle professional photographs, photos of her feet captured by commercial screenshot software from her Liveblog trailer, even photos of comparable actresses, even adult film stars who share anatomical similarities with Megan's feet, Danica Patrick being the latest and closest approximation, although her tootsies are a bit absurdly primped and pampered so they often look nearly unreal, like Taylor Swift's or Victoria Beckham's feet, immaculate and perfect to the point of being boring. If Danica Patrick could romp or hike in a whimsical walkabout daintily shod in thin thong flip-flops, collecting whatever plant matter and streaks of soil might stick to her sweatie soles and then without bathing, don trendy sneakers and commence an exotic bender with copious Molly and Molly-familial chemicals, dancing herself to the point she perspires through her denim shorts and actually entirely denudes herself and airs out her lady beef and brappers for a good ten minutes before bending quite boldly into a private car sent to bring her home, then Danica Patrick might, tugging off her sweat-drenched footwear from her festivity-inflammed feet, baring her florid soles and her tops etched by the daylong bonding of sock fabric to her variously dancing, strutting, tip-toeing, Crip-walking tootsies, then Danica might approach Megan's aesthetic level, which presently evades the beautiful Danica largely because she is not bold enough, is not nearly as giving and nurturing of her feminine powers as Megan, her feet missing something essential and mesmerizing that wafts up from Megan's toes in viridian wisps in dank tendrils of aesthetic supremacy, the same as good cheese, axilla or certain varietals of wine. But being such a dedicated artist and not an art-hoe, let alone a celebutard, Megan's not destined to forge a great Wikifeet fan community, but that is precisely what makes her feet so incredible.

>>13195759
fangued noumena

>>13197055
>We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Is good. Like a lot of concise but neatly shaped novels it's loveable but probably wouldn't make the top 10, even for women writers only.

>>13198705
>The Waves

Is elite. Completely top level prose work and would put her high up on the all time novelist tier even if she didn't have To the Lighthouse and Orlando to back it up.

>>13200379
>The Passion According to G.H.

Another good one. I feel a bit unsure because the Portuguese anons seems not to rate it, but the translated version worked for me.

fite me

>>13202608
As a man of color, the critical investigation of women's feet confronts me with the bugaboos plaguing all students of beauty: can there be objective, formula-derived or algorithm arrived or affirmed aesthetics? Are juicy, adipose-laden glutes attractive because of pleasing curves and the inviolable notion of nutritional discipline required to maintain such anatomy, red beans as rice in the romantic telling but almost certainly corn and onions for moderns? Or are we truly somehow programmed, by Nature, Society, Capital or Femdom Archons, whatever it may be, and it may well be all of them, programmed to lust after some fuckable biped's meat contraptions for the propagation of genetic information? Is that really the why behind the hot or not, bubbling hormones and lucre?
But with Women's feet, and take for instance, Megan Boyle's petite pale feet as a perfect example, there seem inviolable geometric patterns and phylogenetic topologies that wove through the lineages preceding her, tuning just so her metatarsal lengths and proportions, the mellifluous visual bouncing to gaze from one toe to her next, or the multigenerational wealth implied by her steep, pliant arches and Megan's nimble and fit soles, phenotypes readily extinguished by the slightest deprivation or prolonged psychosomatic stressor during childhood up to early adulthood. With the charmless bodily ease of a supermodel conditioned to awed reception, Megan's gait and graces of motion betray a purposeful clumsy affect performed to disarm anyone in close proximity to her radiant strangeness, beauty in the declarative, the imperative, for Megan, to live is to be beautiful in an ugly world and her behavioral adaptation presents nearly like a proof of this beauty existing, substantial whether particular or waveform, a shadow of the flame of her beauty. Her aesthetics impel, madden and while her eyes terrorize you, binding you to her, this can be considered to some extent a trick of psychosocial and cultural programming, the epigenetics of our ephemeral capitalist Babels, feline, Satanic, deathly. That is to say to examine Megan's eyes or face or most of her anatomy is to be lost in these elaborate constructs whirling about her and find scant evidence for there being any objective substance to beauty, no measurable, discrete quantity, just a hormonal blip or neuro-electrical peak, certainly little that could resist one being assailed for having thirsty lascivious motivations in this particular exegesis.

>>13204415
Being human and male, there is little that can be done to resist Megan's beams, her rays, but wherein her aesthetics we may dwell and searching for her purity most freed of these cosmetic and technologic constructions, we would likely settle upon her remarkable feet, autobiographically documented and portrayed much like professional models who do so only under the contractual toiling of worshipful, doting charlatans who exactingly airbrush and so dishonestly construct beauty purely from the need to sell and ultimately referent to nothing, a virus to command the human machinery to buy. Whole studios work tireless un-invoiced hours to keep the surreal technologically conditioned aesthetics of their clients feet at a level that Megan finds wiggling from her ankles whenever she wakes or eliminates waste so unshod. Winner of lotteries genetic and economic, Megan's feet argue strongly for beauty being atomic and not purely spiritual and libidinal and limbic energies, reeking as much of math as her richly expressed pheromonal biome known to propagate during Megan's frequent artistic fugues, when so departed into a zone of creativity, Megan departs from all conventional hygiene and shuffles about her expressive modes in whichever slippers or boots or Tantric stilts that might so move her process along.

>>13204421
Even her ability to so deftly balance upon the those stilts, speaks to some clever math reducible to her feet's convergence of not merely the exquisite physical anatomy but Megan's own conscious driving of her feet's muscles, her sensory coordination, her sequencing, her graceful motions, the tuned amperages of her electrical and chemical pulses animating and tieing to consciousness, to spirit, the same feet capable of holding an ink blot pen in the scrunched toes and writing calligraphy without spilling an errant drop, all these traits resting upon something quite physical, material, limited, constrained, degrading in subtle, undetectable emissions to impermanence, but they do so much, conjur such magic, and therein make a strong case for the spellbinding female foot being an agent of feminine sorcery, intoxicating and dumbing, but recall too how Megan's feet exist as an ecological watermark, as much an experimental biological test as the rest of us, but in their unusual power, their enrapturing scintillation, we feel in ourselves the pulsing voltage of the other system, the thing dwelling earthen or extraspatially that weaves tentacular and arachnoid and stirs in us the boldest and best things, the peaks of our nature, the mountaintops achieved once, pulsing mysteriously, as if a voltage drawn across space itself and drainable by the so illuminated, by those who see Megan and her feet and then again not see Megan and her feet, to see therein a deeper thing, a more plain and simple set of directions, the game all along, messages conveyable only through certain media, like calendars to clairvoyants, the health of women and the state of entire civilizations is quite obvious by those taken to study foremost their feet.

Step aside, mortals.

>>13197055
read frankenstein recently i liked it alot

>>13195759

How do you think she comes?

>>13195800
>not Opus Nigrum
what a fucking poser

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
Possession by A.S. Byatt

>>13204750
Melancholically, whilst remembering her Father.

>>13204750
these days? disappointingly.

>>13205987
That isn't her

>>13206004
Anon, I...

Geek Love was awful

Dorothy Parker is a pretty great writer
Try some of her stuff!

bump

Women shouldn't write

>>13207245
You know what it took about 65 replies before someone said it. Proud of you today /lit/

>>13207245
Xir, if you said that in earshot, I'd be obliged by all normative wokeness and feminist transubstantiation to hastily drub you with my silicone tuber-shaped personal massager that's much like a black jack but hideously larger. I could strike the hood of a car with it's violet bell-ends and inflict shocking buckling in but one strike. Three and I'll likely puncture the metal. If you come at me with misogyny, I'll bring it, hurling that violet phalli same as a mace, powered by brap retention and the holy slutty spirits to wreave the sourpusses, the stinkers, the churls to the point where women can finally return to fully denuded daily ambulation to and fro their errands to Sapphic temples and feminist forest preserves, wearing at most strappy sandals until the first sign of an oasis or coast or vineyard or garden or orchard or Hamlet or kibbutz and so remove her oppressive footwear and sprint unshod into the waters, the gangbang, the Sapphic foot worship ceremony or whatever

>>13195759
The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXie8FVIfOw

I just went down a James Tiptree Jr rabbithole and found this quote by her,
>"When the next crisis that upsets men comes around, says the protagonist of Sheldon/Tiptree’s “The Women Men Don’t See,” “our so-called rights will vanish like – like that smoke. We’ll be back where we always were: property. And whatever has gone wrong will be blamed on our freedom… You’ll see.”

Damn right.

lispector
zurn
rhys

honorable mentions: duras, barnes, highsmith

>>13206004
One and the same, I'm afraid

>>13195759
Honestly, Joyce is better than Woolf. And James is better than Wharton.

Women writers are pointless; the top female writers are just worst versions of the top male writers. I'm willing to debate this since I have my points at hand.

Look at The Waves and compare that to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The former attempts many the same techniques as the latter, but Joyce is a better thinker the Woolf is. His expressions are richer and more ingenious and beautiful than hers. Honestly, if you read them carefully, Joyce is clearly first rate compared to Woolf.

Of course I'm not saying Woolf is a shit-writer. But once you've read Joyce, really why brother with an inferior product that attempts to deliver the same sort of aesthetic?

>>13208230
Fucking hot!

>>13210053
Well jesus, by that logic, why read anyone else when Joyce exists?

>>13195790
LIVEBLOG is great and hilarious, worth a checkout from the library and a flipping through. Can't imagine anyone actually reading or wanting to read it cover to cover though. It was published for the gimmick of it, even though it contains some good writing. There's probably a good 100 paged autobiographical novella in there.

>>13210119
Well, no... why read anybody that isn't a first tier male writer?

I don't know. I rarely do honestly....

>>13210139
I think its fun to be serendipitous about choosing which pages or dates or times to flip to and see what Megan was up to at that point. I honestly wish more people did similar projects because if done well they become a great piece of information for future historians attempting to understand our time. Imagine a year-long journal from a specific person in a given walk of life, I'd happily read a Lagosian or Laotian Liveblog, because the idea is quite accessible. If they follow Megan's form and fill it with their lives, I think that'd make something worth reading in most cases.