/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10333878]

Will I ever read a book better than The Trial or 1984?

[Anonymous No.10333882]

>>10333878
The Trial is up there...

[Anonymous No.10333889]

They are not even their respective author's best works in an objective sense. Also obligatory is highschool treating you well etc.

[Anonymous No.10333892]

>>10333889
Yes, college is treating me well. What are their best works, bucko?

[Anonymous No.10333944]

>>10333878
Yeah, you haven't even dipped all of your toe into the shallow end

[Anonymous No.10333978]

No because you will never read any books other than Harry Potter, The Trial and 1984.

[Anonymous No.10334009]

>>10333944
Oh, wow. Tell me about the deep end senpai.

[Anonymous No.10334022]

>>10334009
>In the toils of orgasm – she said, she said – she’d be whelmed in a warm green sea through which, dulled by the murk of it, pass a series of small suns like the footlights of a revolving stage, an electric carousel wheeling in a green ether. Envy’s color is the color of her pleasuring, and what is the color of grief? Is it black as they say? And anger always red? The color of that sad shade of ennui called blue is blue but blue unlike the sky or sea, a bitter blue, rue-tinged, discolored at the edges. The color of a blind man’s noon is white, and is his nighttime too? And does he feel it with his skin like a fish? Does he have blues, are they bridal and serene, or yellows, sunlike or urinous, does he remember? Neural colors like the fleeting tones of dreams. The color of this life is water.

[Anonymous No.10334043]

>>10333878
A fellow r/books enthusiast, I see.
*nods respectfully in your direction*

[Anonymous No.10334044]

>>10333878

Start with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.10334047]

>>10334009
I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

[Anonymous No.10334065]

>>10333978
came here to say this

[Anonymous No.10334073]

>>10333878
BNW is better than 1984 and neither are as good as The Machine Stops, which is one of the lesser novellas I've read. So hopefully.

[Anonymous No.10334121]

>>10333889
>objective

[Anonymous No.10334145]

>>10334073
1984 is much better written than BNW and only a contrarian would say otherwise

[Anonymous No.10334183]

>>10334145
>>10334073
1984 is the better book but BNW turned out to be a lot more relevant and hits closer to home, I think it's funny how some people quote 1984 when criticizing modern society even though BNW is far more accurate.

[Anonymous No.10334203]

>>10334183
those are all cherry picked examples
1984 reflects modern society just as much as BNW, but it focuses more on language and only briefly mentions the proles not having any interest or will to change things
both are relevant but 1984 is just a more enjoyable read because it's well written in comparison

[Anonymous No.10334213]

>>10334145
>>10334203
>>10334183
I don't particularly care for either, when I read them as a teen I felt BNW was more relevant, you could be right. As for the writing, some passages in BNW stuck with me to this day but nothing in 1984 did. Conceptually I still standby The Machine Stops being better than both.

[Anonymous No.10334495]

>>10334183
A couple years ago when Libya was having their civil war, and isis was beginning to be circulated in the news, all I could think about is if the people in that region are fed disinformation to the point that it must have felt like 1984, no?
Also kept thinking of what it must have been like at one of the major powers in the book. To look at a region which is contested over, and yet have no clue as to why.

[Anonymous No.10334689]

>>10333878
Have you read Moby Dick yet?

[Anonymous No.10334701]

>>10334009
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say, - Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

[Anonymous No.10334713]

>>10333878

[Anonymous No.10335010]

>>10333878
Brave New World

[Anonymous No.10335336]

>>10333889
What do you purport is Kafka's best work in an objective sense?

[Anonymous No.10335350]

The Odyssey

[Anonymous No.10335372]

>>10334713
The Ellimist/Crayak one was the coolest book I remember reading as a kid, good taste

[Anonymous No.10335377]

>>10335010
Why do people call BNW dystopian desu

Primitivists get their land, contrarians get to go design their own society, and everyone else gets to live a life they were literally made for

[Anonymous No.10335455]

>>10335377
A life as cattle isn't a life, the contrarian NEETs don't really have a sweet deal either since they are basically animals in a zoo.

[Anonymous No.10335981]

start with the secret doctrine and work your way