/lit/ - Literature

>>23187328
>the straight story movie
Beyond based

Go easy on me, I've only started to get back into reading last year
Also I own nothing more than a dying laptop and a phone as far as tech stuff goes so i chose something else.
>>23187328
++faulkner
+kiki
+oranges
-potato chips
Cozy deep south anon

Is there a tutorial vid or something on how to make these?

>>23187627
you'll need:
ms paint,
a browser,
the ability to copy and paste pictures.
tah dah!

>>23187632

I made this and I'm too lazy to make something else. Don't really have a favorite gadget or car

>>23187624
>deep south anon
lmao I'm from the east of england, I just like american fiction quite a lot

>>23187265
>>23187632
I finally did it, bros! ...Was it worth it?

>>23187624
I like your reading list and most of your list. I'm not into vidya, but I'm with you on the rest. I'm not OP, however.

>>23187265

>>23188225
holy mother of pseuds

>>23188270
Decent taste in movies, if a bit common, but your taste in books is the absolute worst.

My first time posting on /lit/.

>>23188287
Oh yeah? Why?

>>23188336
It's all a bunch of /x/tier ""informative"" reading which is not only a complete waste of time, but has zero literary merit.

>>23188351
>Academic anthropology, metaphysical philosophy, Zen, and ethnobotany has zero literary merit
Let me guess... Not cynical, atheist, and deconstructionalist enough for your liking?

>>23188225
are you vegan? your diet looks awful

>>23188356
I've already said what I think of it.

>>23187328
they have mccoys in america?

>>23188296
Welcome to the club, Anon.

>>23187647
what the fuck are these books

>>23188296
Should have run while you had the chance. Now you're here forever...

>>23187265

>>23188732
i'd rather be dead than rewatch stalker

>>23188157
Very sophisticated, anon.
Liking your film picks, do you ever post on /film/?

>>23188732
>Valerie
gigabased. What's the left-most film on your chart?

>>23188493
I accept thine concession, sir.

>>23188830
Thanks, anon. I have posted there once or twice, but it's been awhile. I did get some good recommendations there.

>>23188838
>What's the left-most film on your chart?
dogra magra (1988)

>>23188876
This is not an argument. It never was.

>>23188825
We’d get along

>>23188825
I literally spit on my computer screen with laughter when I scrolled down and saw a huge line of fleshlights as your "favorite gadgets."

>>23188899
Well, champ, you responded to me. This is a discussion based imageboard. If you want people to take your ideas seriously, you should be prepared to defend them instead espousing blind assertion into the void. As well, this is the /lit/ board. Of all places, this is where you chose to act this way.

>>23188958
>Take my ideas seriously
Are you listening to yourself? I literally couldn't care less if you take it seriously. In fact, I expect you not to, but nevertheless, I think your taste in books it abominably crappy for the reasons I said. That is that. There is no argument. The only way you can change that opinion is to change the books. I seriously think some of you don't even understand what an argument is.

>>23187265
guess my age

>>23189059
30

>>23189065
Nope, but somewhat close.

>>23189090
35

>>23189093
Getting colder there.

>>23188541
i am a bong

>>23189155
i didn't want to believe it. the gun, the SUV, all your favourite novels are yanks.

>>23188992
>Boohoo you suck because you suck
Congratulations on that piping hot intellect you've acquired. Hope it serves you well in life kek

>>23189106
26

>>23187647
cringe

>>23189169
Nice, getting closer

>>23189172
28

>>23189172
just say at this point. wtf man

>>23188157
>>23188830
Same faggot

>>23189184
Yeah that's fair. 20

>>23188270
meds

>>23189197
Wtf I was still guessing

>>23188296
I've been meaning to read Thrice Greatest Hermes, would you recommend diving straight in or is there anything preliminary you'd recommend?
>>23188732
Based Mishima and Stalker

>>23189201
Sorry anon. I didn't pass the schizo test

>>23189222
kek you responded to the wrong post, but no. just stick to Hermeticism and only dive into kabbalah after years of meditation. otherwise you'll turn into every other anon on this site who thinks the world is satan and can't understand the most basic symbolism. secret teachings of all ages should be required reading though just so you understand the metaphors better. if that's too dense then start with the kybalion.

>>23189161
I just like those aspects of yank culture. plus my family had a yota surf growing up, an import, and it was sick.

>>23189185
No, actually. Lmao. So many fucking retards on this site.

>>23189165
Dude, grow up. I already said EXACTLY why your picks suck. Either be confident enough not to care, or man enough to accept that and move on. Either way, stop whining about it.

>>23190047
No, faggot. Repeating your retarded assertions is not a backing argument. You came at me, first. Don't tell others to man up. What you're doing, is essentially tucking your tail and running after REEing into a crowd. I don't give a fuck about whether or not you disagree. I care that you're trying to lord over other peoples' likes and dislikes while having no uniue opinion of your own.

>>23190047
>t. https://youtu.be/EnBdGTX3vZc?si=f_Nbj7BOeOYHJzBA

>>23187624
great taste. who's the celeb crush?

I'm a 20 y/o community college dropout and I feel stupid about not reading as much as I should have. Didn't read much when I was younger, and when I did I would only read sci-fi like Dune and Hyperion. Now I'm making an effort to really get into reading, going out of my comfort zone. About to start Against the Day, a lot of the book will probably go over my head but I'll try my best.
>>23188541
another Amis chad, respect.

>>23190059
Again, that's because there is no argument. Good fucking grief. You're a literal moron. The only thing you care about is your butthurt little feelings. I'm starting to think you're an actual child.
>>23190072
Not watching that. Grow up, ffs.

>>23188223
Thanks Anon, I never really cared much for movies so I just picked what I had in mind, as for books I'm pretty sure they'll be susceptible to change since I'm basing this list on the few books I've read since my arrival on /lit/ after migrating from that shithole that is /mu/.
>>23188541
++rally
>>23188732
++confessions of a mask
-neuromancer
>>23188825
+rumi
+car
>>23189222
+blake
+deviled eggs
+ps2 slim
>>23190135
It's Rose McDowall, she sang for Current 93, Death in June and Strawberry Switchblade.
>>23190236
~eco
+dario argento

>books
Gravity’s Rainbow
Carpenter’s Gothic
Dr. Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Moby Dick
100 Years of Solitude
>movies
DeerHunter
Barry Lyndon
Apocalypse Now (Directors cut)
L4yer Cake
Come and See
>food
Spaghetti
Country fried steak
Fried catfish
Shepherds pie
Philly cheesesteak
>car
Don’t really have one, not a car guy
>celebrity crush
Unironically Zooey Deschanel

>>23187265

>>23187265

kill all lazyfags

>>23190355
Your tastes aren't mine, save for the literally perfect Dana Scully (it's very cruel she isn't real), but if you take that one blasphemous album off the list, I'd say I feel like I totally get and appreciate everything you've got on there, despite of difference.

>>23190335
Interesting. You're too much more knowledgeable than me for me to judge, honestly.
>Xanax
Lol.

>>23190325
>Come and See
Amazing film.

>>23187265
Books
>Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
>Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather)
>Leaves of Grass (Whitman)
>Oresteia (Aeschylus
>Sometimes a Great Notion (Kesey)

Movies
>City Slickers
>Lawrence of Arabia
>The White Countess
>Swing Time
>The Last Days of Disco

Food Items (? )
>Wine
>Beef Bourguignon
>Gumbo
>Bread
>Cacio e Pepe

Tech
>Computer
>Electric Lighting
>Phone
>Radio/Speakers
>Refrigerator

Car/Crush
>Don't care/Don't Care

>>23187265
Judge me

>>23190282
What is it with you zoomers and pathetically scratching for the last word to have your petulant little flag posted on a conversation instead just saying something of fucking substance? Christ, man. Just speak your mind rationally instead of embarrassing yourself for all to see on the internet.

>>23191238
2010 IMDB user

>>23191181
>that one blasphemous album
whats that, siamese dream?

>>23190236
have you read the alteration by amis? think you'd like it

>>23190323
not that into rally tb h, just the subaru impreza

>>23189222
Easy best in this thread, by far. I would def hang out with you anon

>>23191527
He literally says blasphemous. Its obviously not based billy C

>>23188157
>making hilary hahn his waifu
lolwut

I suck as scaling those properly.

>>23191662
>not feeling the blood rush into your penis at the even just the mention of her name
Plebeian beyond belief.

>>23191383
>pathetically scratching for the last word
>Embarrassing yourself for all to see on the internet
Not much for self-awareness are you, you big baby? Still have tears left to cry because I didn't like your taste in books then? KEK!

>>23187265
Who started this r*dditnigger thread? Because i wanna kill them IRL.

>>23191938
me. share location i'll come to your yard

>>23191992
France, Paris. Under the effieltower at midnight faggot.

>>23191885
cringe

>>23192004
apartment 2, 68 broadwick st if anyone ITT wants knocking out in front of both their mates

>>23191888
If you can explain in detail what's wrong with them, without backing into retarded conflation misnomers, I will happily concede.

>>23187624
Nigga you are based just for knowing Rose

>>23191567
it sounds interesting, will have to check it out!

>>23190323
>Current 93
ugh

>>23192069
Only a homosexual would cringe at what is heterosexual fact. Never speak to me again.

>>23192206
Listen up, you literal drooling retard: for the last time, I already did. Not only that, but I do not owe you explanations for my opinions. It was a courtesy you clearly did not deserve when I did it the first time. As for your "concession," I could not care one iota. Conceed, don't conceed, who cares? Whether you conceed or not (something I never asked for nor cared about) I will go on KNOWING that your literary tastes are valueless. You've really got to grow up. There is ZERO reason to care this much about what a total stranger whom you have never met nor will ever meet thinks about what you read. Your taste in books might be garbage, but I'm even more appalled at your lack of confidence now. All of squirming in an effort to retain your confidence—it merely reveals how fragile it was to begin with. Work on that. Now goodbye, forever.

>>23192004
Speaking of Reddit...

>>23187265
Here is Karl Lagerfeld's

>>23191238
I realize this is bait but the sad thing is that there are people who are unironically like this

>>23193954
Cool, didn't know he was based

>>23187328
American undergraduate
>>23187624
intelligent but immature and easily taken in by social trends
>>23187647
autistic retard who should be euthanized
>>23188157
socially awkward larper who thinks he is intelligent
>>23188225
autistic but probably moderately interesting once he shuts up about being from a third-world country
>>23188270
high-schooler
>>23188296
schizo
>>23188541
well-educated but narcissistic and cripplingly self-conscious and therefore boring
>>23188732
terminally online guy with anger issues
>>23188825
pseud who goesn't get it
>>23189059
high-schooler
>>23189222
closeted homosexual who almost gets it but doesn't quite
>>23190236
enthusiastic but retarded
>>23190335
American - the epitome of one who doesn't get it
>>23190355
someone who is content with his own mediocrity
>>23191238
reddit
>>23191848
deeply depressed, almost gets it but doesn't
>>23193954
carefully curated PR

>>23193991
>socially awkward
Of course, I'm on 4chan.
>larper
Not in any sense.
>who thinks he is intelligent
I am.

Why is it anons like you are always afraid to post their own favorites along side their criticisms? Hmmm? Curious.

What software should I download for this? It looks fun

>>23194294
MS Paint 3D works fine.

>>23193991
>narcissistic and cripplingly self-conscious and therefore boring
very lazy read into a waterpik but yes you're right

>socially awkward larper who thinks he is intelligent
well-deserved

>>23194380
Save that it's incorrect. You fags are so passive-aggressive.

>>23194413
Not bad.

>>23193991
>>23194380
>socially awkward larper who thinks he is intelligent
Save that it's obviously more true of the two of you passive-aggressive fags.

>>23194413
>mini cooper, stella, trainspotting, withnail & i, jason statham
>burroughs, jameson, marlboro zippo, sydney sweeney
the most transatlantic anon ever

>>23194431
Thanks, desu
>>23194449
I am indeed a Bong, anon. Is it really that obvious?

>>23194459
except that half your picks are the most american things going

>>23194459
I laughed a bit at all those old ass gadgets.

>>23194413
Based technology rejector
>>23194521
Based GG Allin fan. I've always wondered whether he read books. He seemed to have quite a colourful vocabulary and spent a lot of time inside, so I assume he must've read a few books in his lifetime. He would've loved McCarthy's Blood Meredian and Child of God

>>23193991
>>>23189222
>closeted homosexual who almost gets it but doesn't quite
Doesn't get what?

bump

>>23187647
back to school

>>23188825
faggot (non-derogatory)

>>23195514
>swans
redeemed your trust fund yet, fundie?

Late to party , looking for recs

>>23189106
32

>>23195343
Well obviously he wasnt wrong in both of his assumptions about you

>>23188541
based tom jones enjoyer

>>23198866
>is on /lit/ but cant even name five favourite books
>has to include the Bible (probably hasnt even read it)
>has to include the most generic Agathe Christie novel that is only named by those that have not read anything else by her
>had to google the reddit top20 movie list because he is too ashamed to place his favourite star wars slop on the list
>the proverbial 'i dont c-care about cars' chud stance
Congratulations anon, you got the worst list in the whole thread.

>>23198866
I like it.

>>23199145
No, his is actually pretty solid. You're just one of the many easy-to-trigger trannitheists around, no doubt.

>>23187265
i love these kinds of threads, wish people posted more often images that combine their tastes from multiple mediums

>>23188732
>dogra magra
always wanted to watch this one but i couldn't find any subs
do you know japanese or?

>>23190355
>tortilla flat
very based and mega comfy pick, anon
any similar comfy picks?

>>23193991
do me

>>23199630
Nta, but I very nearly put Playtime on my list. Excellent film. Brilliant.

>>23195514
No recs, but who's that woman, anon?

>>23199886
bjork

>>23199597
>always wanted to watch this one but i couldn't find any subs
>do you know japanese or?
i watched it on jp-films.

>>23187265

>>23201116
who is she

>>23187328
>>23187624
>>23188732
>>23189222
>>23190236
>>23190355
>>23195514
Great taste

I haven't read a lot of books, please recommend if you feel called to do so.

>>23195514
We are friends. Watch Man Bites Dog

>>23201930


GISELE BÜNDCHEN.

>>23203472
i wasn't asking you

>>23203453
eating chocolate chip cookies listening to slow core in a toyota pickup

>>23203518


YET, I ANSWERED YOU.

YOU SHOULD IMPROVE YOUR POLITENESS.

DID YOUR PARENTS NOT EDUCATE YOU?

>>23203540
who are you

>>23203453
you're "well dressed"

>>23203453
>Watch Man Bites Dog
do you mean C'est arrivés près de chez vous (1992)? why? and yes we can be friends. :)

>>23187265

I already know I'm gonna get roasted for this.

>>23203453

Should've did the changing "tech gadget" thing myself. Who tf has five favorite n"tech gadgets"

>>23203086

The contrast between high brow Russian literature and then seeing "Welcome to the NHK" two rows down nearly killed me.

>>23204471
>Anti-Christ
Probably his best film—or else, the House that Jack Built, but von Trier, in general, always fails at his own ideas. Actually, I would say that THTJB is the first time he did not fail (and yet it still sucks). I don't really "get" your tastes on anything save the car and woman.

>>23204483

My taste typically tends to be anything Christian-Existentialist (Subsequently, Russian) or anything to do with Pessimism.

I think Trier goes too far in his ideas to come out with a cohesive thematic narrative, but I love his style of Cinema. Vinterberg (The guy who directed my fourth film, "Druk") is his contemporary and is very similar in style, but typically does better in getting his ideas across.

>>23187328
beyond based
>paris, texas
>the good, the bad and the ugly
based
>mccarthy
>faulkner

>>23188541
+quijote and eyes wide shut

>>23188732
+stalker

>>23189222
nice numbers and movies. don't care for chaplin though.

>>23190335
>>23190355
excellent movies

I think I fucked the resolution of the image somehow so sorry if it can't be read, but since Sigourney Weaver is the only part of the image that matters, I'm content. I wanted to put in Pauline Etienne instead but I couldn't find a good picture of her in Le Bureau and her hairstyle in that is what works the best. I don't have a favourite car so I just picked what I use for work.

>>23204471
>I already know I'm gonna get roasted for this.
Why? Demons and Another Round are good choices.

>>23194521
You're pretty based for liking Bronson.

>>23204501

I used to browse /MU and whenever I posted something like this I'd get harrassed by a bunch of manchildren who think Car Seat Headrest is the only valid music so I'm still adjusting to civility I suppose.

>>23187265
Mostly read. I’ve listed my favorite books a bunch of the years so to switch it up I’ll add some newer favorites

>books
DH Lawrence
Henry Miller
Letters of Van Gogh
William Carlos Williams
The Snow Leopard by Matthiessen
Leaves of Grass by Whitman
Tao Te Ching and The Zhuangzi

>movies (don’t watch many anymore)
Sin City, Paris Texas, Snatch, Se7en, Chinatown

>food
Steaks, peanut butter, Oreo milkshakes, garlic, raw cake batter, raw cookie dough

>gadgets
My phone? Idk

>car
Don’t know don’t care

>crush
A bunch of random girls around my neighborhood

>>23204483
>The idiots blocks your path

>>23204498
+fellini
-the weird more detailed redrawing of picasso’s quixote & sancho
-dante next to cervantes

>>23205131
>-dante next to cervantes
explain

>>23205234
left a bad taste in my mouth.
i also don’t believe, in literature, that anybody can have taste so catholic that he genuinely likes cervantes and dante - and milton. and yet, people accept all of them. i say there’s a point where somebody can’t really rate that other writer if they rate this one. our eyes, our sensibilities, are only so wide.

>>23204554
The intelligent response would have been a rebuttal, at least a question—you've inadvertently dubbed yourself The Idiot instead.

>>23204483
if i were n refn i think i would commit suicide or emigrate, rather than live in a country where i was publicly graded one step down from von trier.

>>23204492
Even though I wouldn't say I like von Trier, I would still have to be classified a fan or sorts. I've seen nearly every thing he's made and much of it more than once. I don't agree with his perspectives, but I respect he's one of the few directors out there with something to say and making an effort to say it with some refinement of technique. I've never heard of Vinterberg. I'll check him out.

>>23205565
I don't know if I've ever actually watched anything by Refn. I can't remember. I've heard of his films, of course, but they just don't look like they would suit me. Do you think he's better than von Trier?

>>23205467
they are both great works and have many aspects that transcend whatever type of "ideology".
I'm by no means leftie but I can and have appreciated the capital.
I don't see the issue.

>>23205595
quixote, like the iliad and shakespeare’s later plays, is life--tragedy salted with humour; the aeneid, the inferno and paradise lost are literary works of almost superhuman eloquence, written for fame not profit, and seldom read except as a solemn intellectual task.
a favourite book, like a favourite human being, is attractive partly for reasons that are the stronger for being unfathomable. there has to be a personal element about such a work.

bump

>>23205467
>>23205644
faggot

>>23187265

>>23190236
based lynch

>>23190335
based mccarthy and coppola picks

>>23195514
mccarthy chad

>>23193991
another retard who wont post anything cause of how scared he is to get shit on lol

I prefer this

>>23208698
Template

>>23208696
>Blue Velvet
Such a good film. I've watched it so many times. Every time I watch it I feel like I get it, but as time passes I become unconvinced there isn't more to get, and I watch it again.

>>23208703
Oi, thas alotta work bruv... This one's a bit better, but the thread for the anon who originally shared it never took off.

>>23208712
good reason to keep watching it then, I still need to finish twin peaks.

>>23208736
I won't spoil it for you, but in my opinion, Twin Peaks is a misnomer. It peaks with the first season.

>>23187265

>>23208780
GBH is great.

>>23208698
Follow up

>>23208584
you are

>>23187265
Reducing number from 10 to 5 was tough.

>>23187265
Reducing from 10 to 5 was tough.

want to see more people's list

>>23210126
bump

Bump

>>23209391
Interesting choices, anon. Why the Cornell Handbook of Bird Biology in particular?

>>23209391
birb

>>23203453
HONT NO HONTO NO HONTO NO PISU

>>23191848
>cooky
>chick

bumperino

so as a newbie reader i can just choose someone's favourite book here at random and enjoy right?

>>23214713
thicc waffle

>>23188732
can you (or anyone else, really) tell me about "flowers of grass"? never heard of it before.
>>23214721
thank you. i picked it out of the image results myself.

>>23214713
I was thinking we'd get along great until I hit those two bottom cells.

>>23215013
posts on /fa/ but only infrequently
>>23215126
posts on /tv/ but stays away from the ragebait threads

>>23215254
>posts on /fa/ but only infrequently
never browse /fa/ but interesting thats your impression lol

>>23204526
Kill yourself

I hate myself.

>>23215795
I am indifferent toward you.

>>23215795
>pappardelle
HOLY BASED

>>23214797
>can you (or anyone else, really) tell me about "flowers of grass"? never heard of it before.
it's like a hybrid between no longer human and confessions of a mask, but more well written.
>Every cherry tree in sight was in magnificent bloom. Layer on layer of blossoms drank in the warm sunlight, and each bowstring twang seemed to start a little shower of petals.
the protagonist develops a kind of transcendental love for (the souls of) a brother and sister and gets rejected by both. it's a supremely comfy novel, the only work of his translated into english.

>>23215994
sounds pretty kino, i'll pick it up
>>23215021
who on earth doesn't like the rav4?

What I gather from this thread is that anons who have good taste in books often have bad taste in cinema, and vice versa.

>>23188157
you seem cute
post feet

>>23216140
true. only one poster managed to demonstrate taste in both and it was me.

>>23187265
I have mostly shit taste but whatever

>>23217844
>portable CD player
I didn't know that such hipster levels were still reachable in this day and age

>>23218213
he might just be eastern european

>>23216140
yeah i thought everyone went the /mu/ to /tv/ to /lit/ pipeline but it turns out most of them somehow migrated from /a/ or /v/

>>23216140
link to an example

>>23216140
i know my movie picks are shit, i stopped watching them at 15 because i understood only at that time that it is a worthless medium

>>23218359
You just haven't seen good movies.

>>23208752
NTA but I love all of Twin Peaks. Even the season 2 stuff.

>>23208703
odd chart

>>23218832
this
>>23218359
watch
Կոմիտաս (Ասկարյան, 1988)
ボクサ(寺山修司, 1977)
Al primo soffio di vento (Piavoli, 2002)
వాల్మీకి (దుంగన్, 1945)
Игpoк (Бaтaлoв, 1972)
Galini (Markopoulos, 1958)
香雪海 (費, 1934)
O Desafio (Saraceni, 1966)
ምርት ሦስት ሺህ ዓመት (ገሪማ, 1976)
Ko puca otvorice mu se (Babac, 1965)

>>23221483
not the anon you replied to but these movies look interesting, gonna add them to my list

>>23221521
it's a joke copypasta

>>23221525
those that can be found online have decent ratings i have nothing to lose

>>23221532
except letting yourself in for a few hours of boredom because you're gullible

>>23221521
>the shittiest prurient album
>:(

lmao which one of you niggers reported my post

>>23221542
>shittiest
my brother in christ you are incorrect

>>23190355
Ummm based department?

>>23218213
kek

>>23187265
r8

>>23222112
>intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor

bump

No one responded to mine i HATE you guys

>>23224615
Which one is yours, anon?

>>23211657
metropolitan!

>>23224615
The desire for (you)s is a cancer. 4chan was better off before it implemented (you)s.

>>23225216
Most /lit/ movie of all time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BATPzXjmV_s
>people like us aren't doomed to fail, we simply fail without being doomed

>>23225408
Upvoted

>>23218342
>yeah i thought everyone went the /mu/ to /tv/ to /lit/ pipeline but it turns out most of them somehow migrated from /a/ or /v/
I have media ADHD and music/movies don't keep my attention. Western movies/tv need to be fast paced and filled with absurd (but not pretentiously absurd) things to keep my attention and even then I barely remember them.
I never play videogames for the story (VOMIT) but a videogame with good mechanics can keep me entertained.
Some anime kept me entertained in the past but once you watch all the good ones all that's left is trash. I'll have some 90s/2000s maybe even early 2010s anime playing in the background for ambience but it's never really that interesting.
Literature has enough depth to actually keep me focused unlike movie/tv plots and if I have good comprehension and reading speed I can just read faster.
Movies and music rarely do anything at all for me.
Also I basically never browse /a/ or /v/ but those medias resonate with me more than music and movies. /v/ has been /pol/ bait cancer even before 2016 election immigrants and before gamergate.

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