/lit/ - Literature

What is up with your typing quirk? Why?

I've heard good things about the Way of Shadows books, by Brent Weeks, although I've never read them.

>>1233185

I think you've got enough for a solid start there. None of these are small books, especially if you want to get into the nitty-gritty. If you want to expand more, you're getting into straight political philosophy, which is its OWN big project. Read those and see where they take you.

>>1233109
HELL YES.

Pic also related, my mother read this to me. It's what made me love fantasy.

A solid way to start any essay is with a broad generalization about life narrowing down to some statement about the story.

Also, this is /lit/, not homework help. Do your own shit.

Chill the fuck out, son, you're posting on a slow board. You don't need to bump every two minutes.

Beginner's Reading:

Lies my Teacher Told Me
A People's History of the United States
Steal This Book

It is completely true. I fancy her the most.

Ray Bradbury is awesome. The Martian Chronicles are brilliant- aside from that, I also enjoyed The October Country and The Golden Apples of the Sun. Bradbury is generally a weak novelist- Fahrenheit 451 is the one that everyone knows because nobody on /lit/ actually reads outside of assigned reading for high school english classes. Start with The Martian Chronicles. They are totally worth reading, esp. if you're a fan of science fiction.

>18/F/Philadelphia Area
>Lord of the Rings, Demian, Homestuck
>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, East of Eden, Cannery Row, Friday, The Prophet
>I try not to hate.
>I would be Captain Nemo, but only for a day or two.
>Yes.
>If I don't answer you promptly, it is only because I'm pretty busy today.
>AIM: lithophane robot

Polite sage for cancer.

>>1021769

What? No. Have you even read it?

OP, try The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty or something by Stephen King.

>>1014609

also- AIM: lithophanerobot

-18, Female, I write and occasionally play Warcraft.
- Ray Bradbury is my favorite author; I've read almost everything he's written. Steinbeck comes in second, by a hair. Genre-wise, I like sci-fi in general, as well as poetry and all types of literature. I used to be bigger on fantasy.
- Right now I'm reading The Two Towers, and I've started Demian by Herman Hesse. I haven't had a lot of gumption to read lately, but I'm hoping that will change this weekend! I also like talking about music (anything but country) and theatre (musical and non). Movies and the vidya are fine too.

Polite sage for delicious, entertaining cancer.

I keep a pad of these in strategic locations around my bedroom (on windowsill next to couch, on bedside table, etc). I use one color for where I currently am in the book and another for passages I especially like / feel like I'll need to refer back to. I've been using the same pink note for the past three books I've read. Feels good, man.

Side note: Post-it notes were originally invented for this purpose.

r-rollin'.

(captcha: hanus decision? hanus?)

>>979559

>Neither do plays. Have you heard of acting, props, and scenery? What about plays where there is no dialogue? Hmm?

Have you ever even picked up a script...? There's this thing. It's called stage direction. Words. Even if a play has no dialogue, it must have stage direction- so the

>story does not change

Do you see what I did there?

>So what? All plays use actors, but that doesn't mean that they are all the same and that no relevant distinctions exist between them.

>implying that actors are the driving force behind a play

A play can be enjoyed if read as a book. Let me break this down for you.

Books: Sequential words = storytelling.
Drama: Sequential words + arranged into dialogue and/or stage direction = storytelling.
Comic Books: Sequential art = storytelling.

Do you see the difference, here? Comic books are not literature because they do not rely on words. If you take the words out of a book, you have nothing. If you take the words out of a script, you have nothing. If you take the words out of a comic book, you have a comic book without words.

>you're a fucktard

Argument ad hominem is unbecoming. Was that in your logic book?

I lol'd heartily.

>>979518

The point here is that comic books do not rely on words as the sole vehicle with which to convey an emotion or a thought. You cannot distinguish between comics that have words and comics that don't- they're all comics. They all have the same basic formula of sequential art = storytelling. I'm not saying comics aren't deep, or can't have literary merit, so to speak- they just aren't -literature-.

There are some comic books that have no words. They are not literature, although they may have artistic merit.

Your argument is invalid.

That's some bangin' looking cake.

Polite sage because I have nothing else to contribute.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is probably my favorite classic.

It is entirely enjoyable.

When you read, you're usually comfortable and still.

When you sleep, you're usually comfortable and still.

DOHO.

>>965496

>posts about redwall
>pic: mouse guard
>my face

ORIGINAL SNAKE RIGHT HURR

Polite sage for not /lit/ related.

It would help if you told us what you liked!

Musicwise, invest in classical. Most ladies I meet like Vivaldi and Bach. Pick something well-known and branch out from there.

Bookwise:

The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran- Prose poetry that will probably change your entire life.

American Lion- Award-winnning biography of Andrew Jackson. Creative nonfiction.

A Streetcar named Desire, by Tennessee Williams- premier southern drama. Awesome if you're into plays. See also; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie. Related, drama: Our Town, by Thornton Wilder.