Tuned in to Literature!

>>213
I like the Great Courses too my good sir, I'm listening (and watching) to How to Listen and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg. I don't like how he spergs out against certain germans and seems to excuse some fucked up Jewish individuals; but otherwise it's very good.
I'm also listening to Journey to the End of the Night by Céline. So far so good, it had its great moments but I have to keep reading. Hopefully it's better than War, it's the only other Céline book I read and I wasn't a fan.

I'm listening to a lot of horrorbable lately. There is a playlist of short stories that are perfect for the time I spent biking.

The only audiobook I have to my name is Roadside Picnic, unless you also count recordings of an amateur reading out things like the Enuma Elish, Popul Vuh, and Il Principe (audio rips of YouTube videos).

>>104
>just another day of living the masshole life
least i got my dunks

When I was a kid, I loved the fantastical, especially science fiction. I would try to impart these stories and tropes into my own life, fictionalizing it as much as I could. As time has passed, that has quite changed: realistic fiction is my bread and butter. I do still enjoy fantasy and science fiction, but nowadays I do my best to attribute even the most abstract, futuristic, alien fantasy stories with elements from my own real life. I find that this has helped me make more sense of both fiction and my own life, though sometimes I feel guilty about the latter. With all of that said, I also find that the stories that offend me the most are stories that match my real life very closely.

>>104
Oh anon, you'd love Charles Bukowski. He's kind of a chud writer but he writes about this.

>>325
I dismembered you for recommending me MIDowski.

>>266
"Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the first -a dull man writing broken English, the second -a broken man writing dull English"

I recently read this book and loved it!

I recently read Pale Fire and totally fell in love but it also took me a bit to read cause of how dense it was… Do you reckon The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is tougher or lighter?

Pale Fire is about as dense as it gets–it's certainly produced the most voluminous set of mildly deranged, mildly genius commentary from online Nabokov fans, if that's any indicator.

cute drawing OP

also just watch the movies lol

CoD was okay but forgettable for me. The set up for crazy things in God Emperor makes up for it, though YMMV.

>>339
this

I used to eat paper and packets when I was a child. I stopped after I ate a candle and threw up.

it makes you smarter

They're delicious

I've only been eating Stephen King novels for the past six weeks. On an unrelated note, I've had non-stop diarrhea for the past six weeks as well. How do I stop this?

>>11
Books are not food.

>>209
IMO you should read "A Short History of Man" by the same author instead, if you haven't already; it's almost as good as "Democracy: the God that failed".

Going to bat for Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy & Army of the Potomac trilogy, and Jamees McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom" & "For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War." Some of the best books on the American Civil War you can find. Perfectly break down the conflict and takes a look at the motivations & goals of both sides of the war.

In a similar vain, "Company Aytch" and "All for the Union" are both great books giving the perspectives from common soldiers on both sides of the war.

>>179
I always forget I told myself I’d give this a read a while back.
Pic rel is what I’m working through now.

Anti-Oedipus is legitimately the best book I've ever read.

>>327
you should really read a thousand plateaus if you haven’t yet. even if you just read nomadology and get back to the rest of it later

>>241
>Is there any character who gets treated more unfairly than Cordelia?
Maybe Desdemona from Othello? Although, in the case of Cordelia, it seems to me more that her suffering exists for the inevitable effect it will have on Lear, and the pity his character evokes, rather than for us to pity her fate. After the first scene we don't actually see her suffer, she dies off stage and we only see Lear's reaction. Meanwhile you actually see [spoiler][spoiler][spoiler]Desdemona strangled on stage.[spoiler][spoiler][spoiler].

This guy is gay.

Watch Shakespeare first (theatre or film) then enjoy the text. Education system gets this in the wrong order (text first) and it turns each generation off what should be their pride and joy as English speakers

I watched Titus (1999) recently. pretty good. Aaron is a good villain and his scaffold speech is memorable

>>276
The problem is more that most actors in Shakespeare are atrocious and that teachers suck. People have appreciated Shakespeare as a purely literary phenomenon for centuries, even if it's not the ideal, and he will continue to be appreciated as such for centuries to come. You can still see the drama in your mind's eye via reading.

>>234
I've only read Julius Caesar and Merchant of Venice. Definitely Julius Caesar

>Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
>No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.

What exactly would you consider traditional? Closest example I could think of is Leo Tolstoy's short novella family Hapiness, but that might not fit the the time range you're looking for.

>>307
Uh pre modern I guess? Thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out.

>>230
What would be the point? More specifically, what would the contribution be to the board if I were to do that? It's unlikely anyone else on here has read a particular book I have read on here, so there would be nothing to share in that way, and there is no market for people to hear the themes of a book they don't know nor care about. It would be a shot in the dark for any specific book I have read to appeal to the demographics of the board. I don't believe any discussion would come from posting like this, and there would be no point in posting my thoughts on a public platform knowing that no conversation would be spurred by it - I have a diary for thoughts like that. It would be rude of me to fill a board with dialogue that contributes nothing to the overall conversation. I could make a thread about whatever I wanted to bookwise here, but it would be inconsiderate of me to vomit whatever I wanted to without regard. No existing thread fills this niche, neither - the "what book are you reading?" thread is a place to talk about books and not about themes. It's a "Brown's Inferno is a cool book about racing to stop a virus outbreak" thread and not a "Brown's Inferno is a cool book that deals with themes of belonging and anonymity" kind of thread.

I don't want to seem like I am talking down on the threads here or on any other /lit/ board (and I do mean to apply all of this generally.) I really enjoy reading what everyone has to say about everything, and one of the wonderful things about internet boards like this is that I am introduced to so many wonderful books and genres that I likely would not have found on my own. It is simply not the kind of place I post. I also am not a very creative person, and so can't contribute to the Poems thread and such. I'm not particularly grieved by this, it's simply the reason I don't post.

Now that I have sat here and thought about it, perhaps a book review thread would be nice to have around here.

>>231
Talking about books is not rocket science, who cares if others haven't read the book. At least you did something instead of complain. Please just post something that isn't you worrying about made up problems. I don't give a shit if you aren't a "creative" person. Just post something fun. Please. You could've put all that effort into a simple but fun book review.

>>231
Im always looking for good book recommendations so i always check the /lit/ boards. Im not as well read as most of the anons itt but reading about a certain book might encourage me to check it out, so your posts are not in vain. I think you are just taking things too seriously, write whatever you want and chances are someone somewhere will engage with it.thats pretty much every creative endeavor.

we're into manga desu

Literature threads are dull because almost nobody reads anymore. There is nobody to have a real discussion with because nobody bothers to read a book or discuss concepts deeply. Try talking about a book and the average person will look at you with shock "A book? People read those?" We live in a culture and a time that despises reading, unless its some lame novel the Times is promoting or a textbook. Society values mathematics, technical thinking. We like to count, do statistics, design systems. Finding meanings in words and contemplating ideas is now considered worthless. So where should I discuss books? There is literally nowhere on this vast internet where I can post about them and get some kind of response, especially if I want to discuss something niche or less popular.