/lit/ - Literature

>>11738459
scales and blight*

Bless two arrows, a memory smite
Linger throughout a paternal slight
Pale valor, never partake earnest at night
Incinerate an insisting kite, youthful might

A rite will knight the pious and the endearing
His confins are made of gall earring
Repudiate a sharing, first a cradle then a daring
Seal up the prairie, instill an ordained flailing

Seagazing bride, brimming, morning castles
Impregnated cloud, flowery and bare in candles
Bending brows and sons, intrusive ace
A story of a mace, a light-bringing in face

Forged in a shrine
Vibrant, wreaking and almost a stare
Now bleeding a greeting and an heir
You are a day, you are harbinger, you are a care
Tomorrow we'll serve a demon and his pair

An eye for a thrust, summer dagger in rust
Leviathans praised and conjured up her trust
Never a fire on their soil nor a pyre in their lust
Upward crow, leftward rain, star-weaving and unjust

An enchanted elegy engulfed, caress the blood ore
They arrived, pines all around, the luster and a lore
Scales and bligh, self-inflicting shore
A sleeping narrow core, Necromancer's radiant whore
We ate the leaf, the righteous, and the other four

Bless two arrows, a memory smite
Linger throughout a paternal slight
Pale valor, never partake earnest at night
Incinerate an insisting kite, youthful might

A rite will knight the pious and the endearing
His confins are made of gall earring
Repudiate a sharing, first a cradle then a daring
Seal up the prairie, instill an ordained flailing

Seagazing bride, brimming, morning castles
Impregnated cloud, flowery and bare in candles
Bending brows and sons, intrusive ace
A story of a mace, a light-bringing in face

Forged in a shrine
Vibrant, wreaking and almost a stare
Now bleeding a greeting and an heir
You are a day, you are harbinger, you are a care
Tomorrow we'll serve a demon and his pair

An eye for a thrust, summer dagger in rust
Leviathans praised and conjured up her trust
Never a fire on their soil nor a pyre in their lust
Upward crow, leftward rain, star-weaving and unjust

An enchanted elegy engulfed, caress the blood ore
They arrived, pines all around, the luster and a lore
Scales and bligh, self-inflicting shore
A sleeping narrow core, Necromancer's radiant whore
We ate the leaf, the righteous, and the other four

>no trips

>>4603179
Book club guy here, this post will make sense for people who posted in those threads.

I tried to "manage" the book club but i discontinued it because of some miscalculations i made.
I thought there would be more discussions about the books we read but it was staggeringly nonexistent.
Although it was decent for a kind of 'motivation to read' but the important part was supposed to be the exploration among us.
It obviously didn't go as i expected, when i figure out how to fix the issue maybe i'll continue, not sure when/how.

I spent alot of time "coordinating" the bookclub but i think in the end the best thing to do here is just to collectively agree upon some rules that will generate
a self-sustaining system.

I got excited when i read OP, collective projects are filled with great potential, only if harnessed effectively, hence i posted this >>4603145 as an attempt to stimulate ideas.

I think it's essential everyone in the project at hand stays anonymous and we have no central mediator, i am revealing myself just to show my enthusiasm and give my perspective on the "coordinator" experience.
The only reliable way to maintain the self-sustenance is voting (voting site), that way we keep only the good stuff in the book.
My issue with voting was the abuse, some posters can play with votes via proxies to favor themselves. Which is unavoidable atm.
Maybe we work out a solution.
I'll continue without the trip unless someone needs confirmation.

>>4523807
ikr

>>4519794
>>4520239
The poll and random tho.
Whatever then.

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Let the Official book be:

The Good Soldier Svejk

All hail etc

>>4516952
Sloppy poll it is.

>>4516512
My daily dose of murder-thread guy uguu~~

>>4516548
Especially some of the nordic names are cool like Sven or Rune.

>>4516176
That's a really long title for a book.

Shit forgot to add multiple choice.
Welp, we haven't tried with one vote, let it be.
One vote for each book.

Official Book Pact Thread.
We agree on reading a specific book with a fixed time limit.

Book Pact exists to:
Help motivate you to read more books
Create larger synched groups and individuals, reading the same material so we can share opinions, experiences, epiphanies etc.
That way you absorb the most out of a book and it is retained firmer in memory.
Maximum Novelty: You might get into a book/genre/author/etc that you would never do it by yourself, thus breaking your comfort zone, opening your mind and mental horizon.

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If you can't get a physical copy you can get a digital here: http://en.bookfi.org/
Open Goodreads Group: "Book Pact YV"

More info: http://pastebin.com/5kHSEttE (slightly dated)

Previous reads:
Snow Country 27-31 Dec
To The Lighthouse 1-5 Jan
Siddhartha 6-12 Jan
Holes 13-20 Jan
Walden 21-27

Book selection reworked:
In the poll below you pick 3 books, after the poll is over the 5 most voted books will be used for a random selection like in last thread.
This way we avoid books least wanted but also keep the randomness, just in case of a poll abuse.

http://strawpoll.me/1090440

Most of these are from previous polls.
Need more, suggest books under 250 pages that aren't written by Tyrone or Tyra.

>>4491840
That seems like a good idea.
How about in the next selection, we have a poll and the top picks will be chosen by chance like we did now.

I hope it doesn't sound too le chaotic democracy feis.

>>4491607
Seems reasonable or you could treat it as a chance to have a glimpse to another era?
Still, we can discuss this.

>>4491608
You're trying to project your potential behavior to others, you might think and act like how you described but not all of us do.
All your accusation seem to stem from me disregarding your suggestions.

I neglected novels all my life, instead read tons of non-fiction, so i have very little knowledge on novels which was one of the basic motivations to try to create a 'book club'.
I never found bragging about knowing things fulfilling, bragging in general is weak, being admired is great but they are different things, again it's what you value, not me.
Trip is used for the obvious utility.

The reason why i 'block' some books is cause i know the community of 4chan and somewhat /lit/s, there are some books that only the person requesting them would enjoy.
While it's fun to read 'out of the comfort zone', too far from it and too early is a turn off.

My suggestions are drawn from typical "books under xxx pages" from Goodread lists, knowing the crowd i often try to avoid the obvious choices that would rub off the club the wrong way, that's my only "bias".

Your analysis is way off and filled with, ironically, your ego.
I am sorry but no one wants to read Tyra Banks book no matter how many times one suggests it.
Maybe one day, in a non-sincere way.

>>4491575
>i won't read
Why is that?

Posted from my lAptop.

>>4491562
till 27 Jan(uary)

The Absolute Grimdark Fellowship of Abysmal Ancient Rite Tidetearing Omnilove of Neverwhen has chosen its Official Book:

~Walden - Henry David Thoreau~

0 - The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
1 - Getting Even - Woody Allen
2 - Ask the Dust - John Fante
3 - A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
4 - This Is Water - David Foster Wallace
5 - A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works - Jonathan Swift
6 - Youth without Youth - Mircea Eliade
7 - Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki
8 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau
9 - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Some of the suggestions itt weren't chosen for different reasons but mainly for their length.

Ending digit shows us the book that will be read by this symposium.

>>4490821
Why insist on this book?

A Room with a View
This Is Water
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works

My extra 3 suggestions and couple more good ones ITT.

>>4490336
Ok but try to check Goodreads for most accepted title. Because i checked and it's usually part of some other stories, could be great to find it standalone.

>>4490321
You're the Spanish guy that suggested couple of books earlier, right?
I don't know Spanish so writing the full title of a book in English is preferred.

>>4490304
Redwall
The Good Soldier Švejk
Kokoro
Getting Even
Ask the Dust

Need about 2-3 more.

Official Book Pact Thread.
We agree on reading a specific book with a fixed time limit.

Book Pact exists to:
Help motivate you to read more books
Create larger synched groups and individuals, reading the same material so we can share opinions, experiences, epiphanies etc.
That way you absorb the most out of a book and it is retained firmer in memory.
Maximum Novelty: You might get into a book/genre/author/etc that you would never do it by yourself, thus breaking your comfort zone, opening your mind and mental horizon.

-----------------
If you can't get a physical copy you can get a digital here: http://en.bookfi.org/
Open Goodreads Group: "Book Pact YV"

More info: http://pastebin.com/5kHSEttE

Previous reads:
Snow Country 27-31 Dec
To The Lighthouse 1-5 Jan
Siddhartha 6-12 Jan
Holes 13-20 Jan

Given the last thread, there is an apparent abuse of Strawpoll voting (applicable to virtually any online voting system), to combat that we'll change the book selection method from democratic to chaotic.

Which means, starting from today you suggest books under 250 pages and once we have about 10 solid suggestions, in 20th Jan i'll make a post.
In that post each book will be represented by a number, the last digit of the post will have the honor to select the book for us.
The good ol' traditional way.

*I usually bump the thread before it dies as it's too low for anyone to notice to bump, got caught up yesterday, anyways.
The current suggestions are laid in the post below.

>>4483599
That's now how sage works, regardless, why did you tried to 'defeat' an internet book club?

>>4481109
Same place.