/lit/ - Literature

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

>>3144276
I agree.

Drink a nice cup of tea instead.

You might like it.

>>3144120
I really like her, though I can't say I've read enough of her to really have a favorite. One of the things I like about her is that I don't find her too difficult to understand, but I don't find her poems to be obvious. That is to say, if I read her poem once I enjoy the writing and I get a feel for it - but I still feel like there's more to be tapped into. As I reread a couple of times, though, the poem comes more into focus. Her poetry doesn't ever seem to feel like it's eluding me. It merely takes time. If that makes any sense.

The pic-related poem is one of her easier, less complex poems, I suppose, though I still like it. It's certainly not one of her best though.

It's also, of course, nice to read poetry by such a talented writer who's still alive - that is, isn't from a time that seems to be at all remote or distant from the present, y'know?

If you have no degree at all, quite possible.

What probably makes more of a difference is stuff like the quality of your writing and analytical prowess as well as how impressive your bibliography is. Can't be writing top-quality academic texts on medieval European history if all you're citing is Morris Bishop and Susan Wise Bauer (even though they're both great writers).

This collection by Louise Glück is the first book I've ever pre-ordered (which I did months in advance) and gotten on the day of release.

Anyone else a fan of her work?

The New Yorker ran a decent article about her in last week's issue. Unfortunately, it's not available in its entirety to non-subscribers. Here's the link anyway: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/11/12/121112crbo_books_chiasson

Define "existential crisis" in a way that implies that Siddhartha Gautama didn't have one.

>>3135192
Man had more feels than John Wayne Gacey

Whenever I go out with a lot of my friends and have a really good time, I feel really empty and depressed afterward for a while.

Yeah, /lit/'s weirdly homey. Dysfunctional-homey, but homey nonetheless. The rest of the boards, at least for the most part, all like mental asylums (asyla?).

>>3136452
>Are these books fairly easy to read?
Yes. That's partly I picked them. :-)

No, there just happens to be a separate board for music.

Otherwise that's like saying /3/ lacks good taste in wallpapers.

>>3135391
Not the guy you asked, but it's rather wonderful. It's a really enjoyable read. I think people would benefit reading it before Infinite Jest, but it's certainly good in its own right.

I definitely encourage you to read The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Some other books you may consider for vacation reading:
Don Juan by Lord Byron
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Transposed Heads by Thomas Mann
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

I'll leave it to you to determine which may suite you best.

Got up.
Got a phone call from my mom.
Showered.
Now eating a banana, brewing some tea, and listening to some lovely concertos by Sylvius Leopold Weiss.
Today's off to a great start.

>>3136321
Wow, I totally thought that was the cover of The Trial. What the fuck?

>>3136301
Kafka is what nightmares are made of.

So, OP. Is Joseph K an innocent man wrongly convicted, or is he a man so terrible that he's unaware of the terrible crimes he's committed?

Do you dress like you're on a boat, wear glasses you don't need, and play golf (badly)?

You're being excessively self-conscious.