/lit/ - Literature

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/lit/'s IRC channel Super_Buick ## Mod ## 08/07/18(Fri)11:12 No. 1177 Stickied

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I have taken the liberty of creating #/lit/ on 7chan's IRC because I thought some of you fellow bookfags might enjoy a discussion there.

irc.7chan.org #/lit/

Go there.

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>>	Super_Buick 08/07/20(Sun)23:48 No. 1330 >>1318 Who has the time to post when they could be reading?

>>	Anonymous 08/07/21(Mon)09:39 No. 1350 >>1330 Who has the post to chat when time reading could be they?

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Soumy Nona 08/07/13(Sun)21:11 No. 360 Stickied

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Soumy Nona's Official Library.

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>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)06:04 No. 1516 >>1514 They may be PFbound.

Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)20:58 No. 1540

>>1368
Freak? He's probably the most normal person here. If you want a book, step out of your mom's basement (GASP!) and walk to a fucking library. It's what most people do and generally if they don't have abook you want at the moment they can't get it for you fairly quickly. Or you can go blind staring at a fucking lightbulb for hours upon hours.

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Coyote Smith!lOTJ1TGMTW 08/07/11(Fri)19:28 No. 180

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Hi /lit/,

Have some short story.

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Coyote Smith!XiurFUKDf. 08/07/23(Wed)16:30 No. 1535

>>1523

Read the story you dumb fuck. Anyway some guy asked me what it meant so I explained why I wrote it. Nowhere in the story do I spell everything out... actually most people find it to be very vague. And the ending is kind of sappy but it's effective.

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)17:34 No. 1536 >>1535 I think I'll just leave it at that.

>>	mr kasi !.DfWbvbd3E 08/07/23(Wed)21:14 No. 1542 >>1519 something tells me that >>1523 answers your question...

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gsboss 08/07/19(Sat)19:16 No. 1297

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im almost done with the sirens of titan by vonnegut and need someone to tell me what to read next. i have-
survivor by Chuck palahniuk
snuff -
gravity's rainbow by thomas pynchon
at the mountains of madness by HP lovecraft
dreams of terror and death -
monk (i got it for the lols)
the gunslinger by stephen king
siddhartha by hermann hesse
might read johnny got his gun again
full tilt
crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
the brothers karamasov -
notes from the underground -
the castle by franz kafka
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>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)12:25 No. 1533 >>1528 I lol'd.

Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)20:55 No. 1539

Replace Siddhartha with Steppenwolf. Take that Stephen King shit out of there.
>>1299
Atlas Shrugged first. Only "It's not cool to like what most people like" consider it worse than Fountainhead. Not that they're not both excellent.
War and Peace is my favorite novel, so I would recommend it or some other Tolstoy as you already have Dostoevsky. Checkov is good too.

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)21:02 No. 1541 >Siddhartha is, IMO, seriously overrated Anyone who knows anything about anything, will realise that Herman Hesse merely rewrote the martin luther story and as an afterthought at the end SUDDENlY BUDDHISM.

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Anonymous 08/07/17(Thu)03:42 No. 1148

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i've read the fountainhead and atlas shrugged, anything else worth reading?

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>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)12:28 No. 1534 >>1527 Also, the ending of Brave New World was just slapped on due to angry publishers demanding an unsuitable deadline.

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)20:45 No. 1537 Despite what everyone here says she's considered agood writer for a reason. Most people also acknowledge her eyes are for the most part complete bat-shit insane. tl;dr No one here knows shit about writing or literature.

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)20:46 No. 1538 >>1537 ideas* what the fuck is wrong with me

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Anonymous 08/07/22(Tue)22:46 No. 1485

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Jonathan McSmith had only been in England for two seconds before he deja vu set in... "The eggs," the Irish Catholic Navy CIA businessman astronaut cop FBI President father of 87 thought to himself, "Their yolks... SO FUCKING YELLOW." He smashed his face into the beef that wasn't as good as the American variety that was fed on corn and family values before downing a whole bottle of cheap white wine due to his crippling fear of airplanes.
"Sir Jonathan!" his boring, lame British friend mumbled, "You mustn't!"
But it was already too late.
He kung fu'd the shit out of a nearby stewardess and then vomited all over everything... Tom Clancy's terrible writing had struck again.

/lit/, when did Clancy start to suck? How many levels of fucking ghost writers are there between the words on whatever the last Clancy branded book were and the actual author? Why does he seem to have the same main character with the same introspections about yellow fucking British egg yolks in every damned book?

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>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)10:08 No. 1530 >>1485 Clancy sucked from the moment he put pen to paper.

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)10:23 No. 1531 the main problem here is that you read more than one Tom Clancy book.

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)12:24 No. 1532 I've never read Clancy, but this blind disparagement of him kind of makes me want to. At least next time pull a direct horrid quote rather than making your point with mindless overstatement for us folk that have never read him.

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Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)02:54 No. 1509

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hey newfag here, how do i extract files with a mac?
inb4 lurk mur

pic related it's me morphed with will smith

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)07:25 No. 1521 unarchiver.app

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)09:53 No. 1529 macs have no games /thread

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Anonymous 08/07/22(Tue)20:17 No. 1461

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Hello /lit/

Im a literary newfag, so to speak, and I was wondering if you could recommend me some titles.

I just finished Fight Club, and am looking for something worthwhile, preferably not fantasy "hurr durr magicK" or anything of the like.

I've heard decent talk about:
The Fountainhead
A Clockwork Orange (Most likely my next buy)
and
Slaughterhouse Five

Are any/all of these worth the money? And if you could give me a brief synopsis, it would be great...

(Note - I live in a hick-ass town out in BFE, therefore, libraries are failures.)
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>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)06:06 No. 1517 Thanks guys, although I've already read Choke and Hitchhiker's Guide, I plan to pick up a few of these in the near future. Namely some Hunter S. Thompson and A Clockwork Orange in the next week or so. Regards, ~Anon

Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)07:24 No. 1520

bought fountainhead a few days ago and read a clockwork orange and slaughterhouse five. slaughterhouse five is pretty good. dont expect anything special at the end of his novels. a clockwork orange is ok if you consider how deranged the author thought society would be like. it also gets a little confusing with all the brit slang. bollocks

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)08:18 No. 1525 >>1520 Actually, it's not Brit slang. It's called "Nadsat" (Russian for "teen"), and it's a sort of pastiche of British and Russian slang that Burgess created.

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Anonymous 08/07/22(Tue)14:47 No. 1433

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ITT: Your favorite books.

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>>	mr kasi !.DfWbvbd3E 08/07/22(Tue)20:46 No. 1468 >>1455 actually, I am. >>1456 I am going to try to be a college professor, so it won't be that bad, poverty wise. Plus I live in a state that is fairly cheap to live in. Anyways, I only need a library card and the internet to be happy...

Anonymous 08/07/22(Tue)21:02 No. 1471

>>1468
I would rape you if I had the opportunity, I wish I could find someone like this IRL, but lack of materialism is considered a DSMIV verifiable mental disorder, so such people are few and far between, and have learned to hide their disturbing abnormality well.

>>	Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)06:09 No. 1518 John Marsden's "Tomorrow when the war began" series (7 books) Good read for young people.

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Poetry Thraed Anonymous 08/07/22(Tue)12:21 No. 1422

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This is /lit/, and yet we have yet to have a single poetry thraed.

ITT: Post your favorite poetry & prose.
(If you want to post original works, make your own thraed, /lit/ is full of crummy writers that have deluded themselves into thinking they're passable, and chances are you're one of them.)

Geometry

Never a mouse
chases ever a tail,
never a mouse ever sees
that always a cat
catches always a mouse,
cats being kittens
who once chased their tails.
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Nigger Soumy Nona 08/07/22(Tue)13:45 No. 1427

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Iove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a nigger.

Anonymous 08/07/22(Tue)20:03 No. 1459

the nights you fight best
are
when all the weapons are pointed
at you,
when all the voices
hurl their insults
while the dream is being
strangled.

the nights you fight best
are
when reason gets
kicked in the
gut,
when the chariots of
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Cosmopolitan Greetings -- Allen Ginsberg Anonymous 08/07/23(Wed)05:26 No. 1515

Stand up against governments, against God.

Stay irresponsible.

Say only what we know & imagine.

Absolutes are coercion.

Change is absolute.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions.

Observe what's vivid.

Notice what you notice.
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