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>mogs the Western Canon
nothing personal, shakespeare
>>21975911 (OP)
Ching chong huang zhuang
I read it and it’s enjoyable but it’s not really comparable and you can definitely tell the rhythms of suspense building at the end of chapters, stuff like “find out on the next chapter!” Are pretty charming but I think p... | 21975911 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,320 |
>I proceeded to window number two. It showed a burning. Eight stakes were lined up diagonally across the image. To these, men and women were bound, enveloped in smoke and flames that licked them from all sides. Against an enamel blue sky, the red flames swirled around the condemned. The sun shone on the window and made... | 21935696 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,317 |
Hi Anons, could you critique my poetry? I’m sorry if this thread is agains /lit/ rules and i skipped over something.
Part 1 “Them”
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7…
A brightness in a crisp cold night nearing winter
She didn’t seem one bit fazed by my existence
Like a bullet, it hit me
She assured me it would be okay
And... | 21926339 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,315 |
What is your favorite Russian novel?
C&P or Brothers Karamazov. I didnt like Ana Karenina much (maybe because I was young when I read it). War and Peace looks good. I am still new into Russian novels though.
>>21930770 (OP)
why do Russians have no fashion sense?
also haircuts...wtf is the deal with their total... | 21930770 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,315 |
Thread for discussion of the performs of opera, theatre and ballet.
Link to last thread
>>21974541 →
First topic: does anyone have suggestions for good translations of librettos, preferably anthologies? I find unless the performance is in person, that I enjoy opera a lot more without the visual and just listenin... | 21985764 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,300 |
How much can an author finesse unbelievable actions to the characters in the name of theme?
I understand the answer is "as much as he wants, as long as it's written well." But, in your opinion, do you think plot has to be beholden entirely to the characters? When does a plot hole become void? Can an author wave awa... | 21930350 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,300 |
Is any of those history of philosophy books worth it? I've been wanting to get a general view on philosphy and the most prominent philosophers, but which should I read? Or should I just forget about it?
>>21956112 (OP)
Frederick Coplestone’s history of philosophy is fantastic
He does a great summary of each philo... | 21956112 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,300 |
“All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.”
>>21935389 (OP)
that's the dumbest thing I ever heard
>>21935389 (OP)
The ignorant can do a lot of harm if they're strong
>>21935389 (OP)
holy kek
d... | 21935389 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,295 |
what would be their beneficial stats? (no rhyme intended)
e.g.
Carlyle's French Revolution
+2 Martial
+1 Diplomacy
+10 opinion with Peasant Leader
-10 opinion with Christian Religious Group
The Way of the Wiseguy, by Joseph D. Pistone
+1 Stewardship
+1 Intrigue
+10 Personal Combat
+5 opinion with Schemer... | 21977385 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,295 |
Judge Holden is not an albino. McCarthy calls him pale, white, etc, but he is never described as suffering from albinism. Early in the book his cheeks are described as "ruddy", and there are many other examples of the Judge being described as having a normal skin tone for a white man. He is not "the color white".
Li... | 21972604 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,292 |
ITT: authors with obvious self-inserts
>>21983671 (OP)
What is it about JJ that makes his writing "difficult"? Explain it to me like I'm a child, please.
His diction and syntax are unorthodox, requiring some level of concentration to parse
You‘ll learn when you‘re older. Now how about some baseball, kiddo?
Lev Tol... | 21983671 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,292 |
>not even five hours into the new month
>already spent 250 euro bucks on books
i wish i had a job
I don’t. I am a neet. I use my gibs.
I wish I had gibs. You Europeans are so lucky.
I spent about 200 dollars on thrift shop books last year, $1-3 a book
I ain’t buying more books until June. I spent too much in Apri... | 21976649 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,287 |
Went to a nice little hole-in-the-wall book store today. Thought I would share some pictures I took. If you've been in a store like this then share your stories and/or pictures.
>>21944659 (OP)
I broke my neck :(
>>21944659 (OP)
I hate paying from my phone....
Anyway, this place was packed wall to wall with book... | 21944659 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,285 |
What is the best translation of Baudelaire?
>>21929073 (OP)
None. Learn the language, it's French, not Chinese
LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD
Unhelpful, most people don't have time for that. Do not say "you're lazy/stupid/etc", this is a cope in defense of an unnecessary, optional endeavor which needn't be undertake... | 21929073 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,282 |
How high does my bench press need to be in order to get a qt soft bookish lit gf?
∞
>>21949132 (OP)
Girls don't care how much you lift. Just lift enough to not have little twig arms. Anything past that and you're only impressing other dudes
Benchpress isn't as important as squat/deadlift, and you only need to match... | 21949132 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,280 |
hey /lit/, so I came across an abandoned house with hundreds of books in it, there was junk piling up to about a foot in each room, I couldn't even see the floor, but I grabbed these books to maybe keep from all that.
Problem is, they seem to be growing some sort of mold, and they smell of mildewy water damage. I've... | 21992674 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,277 |
Could modal realism be the answer to the problem of evil?
>God is omnipotent meaning he can do anything that is logically possible
>It is not logically possible to eliminate a possibility. Even if you can choose A, you cannot eradicate the possibility of B
>If David Lewis is correct then all possible worlds are ac... | 21975235 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,275 |
really enjoyed this one. jack nicholson was fantastic as per usual. does the film adapt the book one to one, or is there more to dive into in the book?
>>21949475 (OP)
If you love the movie, you will at least like the book. It's told from the perspective of the Chief, so the perspective is interesting. I read it when... | 21949475 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,275 |
/lit/ bros I need help. This is the first philosophy book that I’ve tried to read and I feel that I am struggling to grasp it. It’s written in verses which tend to be written quite poetically which is nice until I try to understand what he’s saying. So for each passage I read it, I analyze each line, and I come to an u... | 21971688 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,272 |
Ameribros...except for Pynchon we're getting totally mogged by international literature. How do we recover our former status?
we dont. america is over.
Romance-chads. We're winning BIGLY.
ywnbaw
>>21937055 (OP)
McCarthy is twice better than all 4 shitters. Cartarescu mogged by Murnane.
>McCarthy is twice better t... | 21937055 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,270 |
What are some books that you think would become /lit/ staples if they were more read? Benjamin Constant's Adolphe is about a young man who, feeling alienated from society, falls in love with an older woman. The woman reciprocates and they both get into an illicit relationship. However, the relationship comes at the cos... | 21949743 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,265 |
Recommend me more books like this.
feet
Nothing else like it, sadly.
My diary desu
>>21936130 (OP)
yes officer, this post right here
is there a short version of this? containing only the best parts
based footbro
you have to go back
Tiger, tiger
epub? can't find on zlibrary
Dostoyevsky - The Meek One (Krotkay... | 21936130 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,260 |
Are there any books which motivate an introverted, lackluster, relatively depressed person to find some sense of enthusiasm and appetite for life without telling them to go full normie?
It surprises me occasionally to find out that a writer I considered to be miserable and withdrawn was actually a very outgoing, soc... | 21981081 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,260 |
Why didn't Rogozhin simply frame prince Myshkin?
>>21952625 (OP)
Frame him for what?
for killing what's her face
>>21952625 (OP)
bumpp
Wasn't he too busy having a breakdown? It's been a while since I read the book, but I do remember it being depressing as hell.
>>21952625 (OP)
Because he’s a good person at hear... | 21952625 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,260 |
hey /lit/
i always like to read before bed, but half the time i end up getting really tired halfway through a chapter/section/whatever. Hence 'bedtime books' -- books with very short chapter lengths so you can hang up at the end of a chapter and dont get stuck in some 40-page glut -- but if you have the energy, you ca... | 21951819 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,257 |
>lend sister book
>she creases spine
>>21987406 (OP)
She is the sister... yet it is you who is the pussy.
>>21987406 (OP)
rape
>Thread has the word "sister" in it
>Porn addicts swarm in like flies
Everytime
Oooooo. You so wiiiiiise.
lending books is a fool's game. you may as well give the book away as a gift ... | 21987406 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,255 |
Wikipedia is better than all pop-history books. It contains all the information you need to know, without all the padding that modern publishers require. Not to mention it is consensus based, which should lower the risk of bias. It is just a waste of time to waste precious reading time learning little factoids about so... | 21960655 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,255 |
what kind of literature would impress pic related? I dream of a sorority girl majoring in English at a top tier Midwestern school
Murnane
>>21921679 (OP)
They’re fucking ugly lmao
>>21921679 (OP)
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
Middlemarch
To the Lighthouse
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Color ... | 21921679 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,252 |
>pile of books
>it's all trash
Is there a male equivalent of this?
>>21951340 (OP)
Complete works of Judd apatow
Manga
"12 Rules for Life" has to be in the pile.
>>21951340 (OP)
Sometimes I remember this guy who posted all the anti-Trump books he read. It was a decent sized tables with probably 100-300 books al... | 21951340 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,252 |
In a dreary, nondescript office building, hidden in the heart of a bustling city, there worked a man named Walter. Walter led a lonely existence, laboring away as a low-paid office worker, his life filled with monotony and drudgery. He was a ghost among his colleagues, a forgotten cog in the vast corporate machine.
... | 21975338 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,250 |
Why is it that, relative to their mainland brothers, anglos have historically been more interested in the material and mundane?
>>21940436 (OP)
Blame Frege for importing that from Austria
Why is it that, relative to a smart person, you make sweeping generalizations of dubious merit?
Anglos are literally the platoni... | 21940436 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,247 |
https://www.yahoo.com/news/renowned-academic-noam-chomsky-told-154837585.html
>>21975035 (OP)
Cool it with the antisemitism anon
>>21975035 (OP)
Just cabal members doing cabal things, goyim!
i don't give a flying fuck who did what when to whom. anyone still protecting the existence of this failed universe should b... | 21975035 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,245 |
How does he do it?
>>21957647 (OP)
>King
Formerly, drugs and booze. Currently, habit and persistence.
>Martin
Procrastination.
>>21957647 (OP)
Writing is fucking easy.
Getting anyone to read your shit? MUCH harder.
King's work is simple. Create situation, drop character into it, expand on character to make h... | 21957647 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,242 |
Is there any book that you can confidently say is the best book ever written?
for me it's The Art of the Deal
Yes.
>>21976882 (OP)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Nietzsche explains (from Ecce Homo):
This work stands entirely on its own. Let us leave the poets aside: absolutely nothing has ever been achieved, perhaps, ... | 21976882 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,242 |
I often see this book being memed on here, but is it actually worth reading?
>>21920817 (OP)
No
Yes, objectivism is objectively the objective truth of objective reality
>>21920817 (OP)
Yes, the fact that it makes braindead marxists seethe proof enough.
>>21920817 (OP)
It's "worth reading" in the same sense that ... | 21920817 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,240 |
Hegel's dialectical process involves a progression from a thesis to its antithesis, and ultimately a synthesis of the two. In the context of African American and White American tension, we can apply this process as follows:
Thesis: White American dominance and systemic racism in American society
Antithesis: Afric... | 21953573 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,230 |
How do I get the motivation to read a book for a good 45m-1 hour? My attention span is fucked although I watched a 2 hour movie today in one sitting with minimal distraction and yesterday i watched a ~90m movie with more substantial distractions, at least in the beginning, because it was pretty slow and boring but once... | 21983736 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,227 |
is jg ballard /our guy/?
literally who
>>21935996 (OP)
He's one of /ourguys/, yes.
go back
read more
I finished reading Atrocity Exhibition not too long ago. Pretty fun read. I have to revisit Crash at some point.
He meant J.G. Ballard.
Zoomers think they’re cutting edge for dropping the naming and titular co... | 21935996 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,225 |
What books have the feel of the original Miami vice and the first 2 seasons?
80s cops in a big city, full of action, with major dark undertones.
>>21927172 (OP)
GOD I JUST WANT TO WEAR A WHITE LINEN SUIT AND RAIL 98% PURE COLOMBIAN FROM THE DASHBOARD OF MY TESTAROSSA
exactly, but I cant afford it, so I will jus... | 21927172 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,222 |
I feel uncomfortable about where I go to school and what I major in
>got job at restaurant for summer
>everyone there is either a lifer or going to a shitty school
>majoring in shit like film studies and sports therapy etc
>I'm double majoring in mathematics and philosophy at the #1 university in my country
>I g... | 21973048 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,220 |
What are some essential dadaist reads?
>>21961877 (OP)
what in da fuq!! is that
>>21961877 (OP)
Society is collapsing
>>21961877 (OP)
someone sat down a d made this. someone with a computer and an internet connection, with access to all human knowledge available at their fingertips and a comsiderable ammount of f... | 21961877 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,217 |
You should read a poem every day. In one year that's 365 poems. In 10 years that's 3650 poems. Imagine how wise and well read you will be in 10 years. You will be able to share poetry with people, like a modern travelling bard.
I read all of Yeats' poems this way and now I'm reading John Donne's poems.
>>21991988 ... | 21991988 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,215 |
Science fiction started out as a communist-lenient genre. The earliest examples of what would become "science fiction" was stuff like Red Star that was made by people who founded the USSR. How did this genre become co-opted by liberals so fast by the 40s and 50s? You know, even the fascists and reactionaries in the gen... | 21961709 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,215 |
...write a Zombie Apocalypse novel!
The easiest genre to ever exist! A color-by-numbers genre if ever there was one!
And obviously her was just cashing in on the fucking trend.
Hey, first off, I grew up with this weird-faced creepazoid and devoured his tripe along with, apparently, every other American teenager ... | 21934391 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,212 |
>And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.
What, now that the dust has ceased to be blown hither and thither by perturbations in the air, did he mean by this?
>>21961196 (OP)
Kill yourself loser.
You're lucky t... | 21961196 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,207 |
What is his best short story and why?
There are a few candidates. Among them, my favorite is "The Circular Ruins." It's just such a magical story, and the di Giovanni translation contains some of Borges/di Giovanni's most evocative prose.
>>21983872 (OP)
I always loved Library of Babel, as it was my introduction to ... | 21983872 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,207 |
>Modern poetry su-
The best job I had was moving a stone
from one side of the road to the other.
This required a permit which required
a bribe. The bribe took all my salary.
Yet because I hadn’t finished the job
I had no salary, and to pay the bribe
I took a job moving the stone
the other way. Because the off... | 21983909 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,200 |
It'd concern this guy making his way through an irradiated wasteland, trying to use the internet (which was still up for some reason) to find out where the other survivors had gone to.
He'd survive trial after trial; danger after danger. But he’d keep trudging along because there was evidence that others had survived ... | 21988504 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,200 |
What is he reading?
neechuh
> drunk
> reading
Based man of /lit/
adventures of huckleberry finn
>>21978200 (OP)
>>21978200 (OP)
flaubert
it's not exactly light fucking reading. his taste in books is as dark and twisted as his fucking worldview. In the show, he's seen reading "The King in Yellow," a collection... | 21978200 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,197 |
Burroughs > Pynchon
Burroughs > Faulkner
Burroughs > McCarthy
And it’s not even close
>>21954894 (OP)
>Burroughs > Faulkner
Not even close.
>>21954894 (OP)
I liked Cities of the red night quite a lot as an unrepentant McCarthyfag. McCarthy seems to like Burroughs too, Thalidomide kid feels like a homage to Wi... | 21954894 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,192 |
What is the quickest you've ever abandoned a book? I threw this out when I realized that the electric sheep wasn't a metaphor but a literal object in the world, stupidest thing I've ever read.
Midwit general?
>>21937202 (OP)
Probably top ten biggest Ls of all time
Total fail.
That's one of my favorite novels of al... | 21937202 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,192 |
>Using all modalities of pornography, 91.5% of men and 60.2% of women herein reported having consumed pornography in the past month Notably, 11% of women in our sample primarily consumed written pornography compared to other pornography modalities (with written pornography being 90–100% of the total pornography they co... | 21944474 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,190 |
Has anyone here actually read any of these besides Stoner?
What other books would qualify as "exit-level?"
>>21938697 (OP)
No, I have only read Stoner, and the only other one I've ever heard of is A Short history of Decay. Basically, the list is shit.
>hasn’t heard of Krasznahorkai, The Leopard
newfag
>hasn’t h... | 21938697 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,190 |
In 200 years they won't be reading Kerouac or Ginsburg, they won't be reading Henry Miller or Celine. They'll be reading this man.
There is something Biblical about his writing. Concision to the point of elipsis. A zen master on the level of the sentence. A complete drought of pretense and conceit. I can imagine in t... | 21989534 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,190 |
>Wendigoon gets zoomers to McCarthy and Dazai
>Peterson gets zoomers to read Dostoevsky
>Pewdiepie gets zoomers to read Mishima
>Pursuit of Wonder gets zoomers to read Pessoa
Yet this angers /lit/ for some reason
>>21975050 (OP)
i only read to feel superior about myself, so yes of course it angers me.
>>21975050... | 21975050 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,187 |
Any literature recommendations for a petersonian?
>>21946888 (OP)
yeah hers a good one for you:
ISBN: 978-0736926102
>>21946888 (OP)
WikiHow: How to Kill Yourself
>petersonian
People who call themselves this should never be able to work anywhere ever again no cap
>>21946888 (OP)
Yes, suicide.
>>21946888 (OP... | 21946888 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,187 |
There's nothing I can say about the uniqueness of Glen Cook's take on fantasy that hasn't been said before, so I won't waste your time on that. But just know that, for the most part, I agree with others' sentiments (though the magic sometimes gets a little cliche/silly).
Here's the thing: I am not a fan of fantasy, ... | 21982665 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,182 |
What are you reading tonight?
>>21983723 (OP)
Thanks for asking, anon. You're so sweet.
>>21983723 (OP)
I'm trying to push through the first hundred pages of book #2 of the Wheel of Time but it's so fucking boring. I wasn't prepared for Robert Jordan to repeat himself so much. I've spent hours reading what could ha... | 21983723 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,172 |
I'm writing a book but I want to make sure my setting is interesting. Be as honest as possible. Thank you!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCGC1p08HEQBSvyWOjacbZ8cbBaZufyHM7j14FyleWw/edit?usp=sharing
>>21930208 (OP)
Hovering between pretentious highschooler and a classic prose.
Trying way too hard. Reads lik... | 21930208 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,167 |
Bro, what do you think of Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse? I've just finished reading it recently.
haven't read it
>>21926532 (OP)
Bro, you got filtered by a 1950's high school English class novel.
Not to say it isn't a good book but...
I'm sure this is more your style:
I've just started it, how long does it take to... | 21926532 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,165 |
Two Part Question:
1. What are the best books about/set in Atlantis?
2. I purchased Timeaus and Critias as I heard that is the origin of it's explanations. But I started reading it and was very confused. It looks like a bunch of math equations and stuff. I'm kinda new to philosophical stuff so I was just curious ab... | 21952747 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,165 |
Hey /lit/, im writing a book where a guy who lost a fight ends up shooting himself with a 26 inch long side by side 10g. Im writing this based off of real events and there is no description for exactly how this assumingly 5ft 6in man maneuvers the gun to shoot himself in the gut. The first round he fired at himself did... | 21948925 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,162 |
I’m hopelessly addicted to smoking weed and it’s stopping me from reading more :/
at least you are not addicted to porn
Idk I jack off two to three times a day. Not often to porn but sometimes. I really am a fucking degenerate
Cannabis stimulates the flesh and porn addiction is highly comorbid if not a consequence o... | 21928292 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,162 |
Tips on writing the first line of your novel?
My boner faded today. Or maybe yesterday as well, I don't know.
>>21947688 (OP)
The first line isn't as important as you think. But the first paragraph is. It has to set the setting, tone, and some sense of a looming problem.
My boner failed today. Or maybe yesterday, I... | 21947688 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,157 |
Can you give an example of polyphony besides Dostoevsky?
"The Sound and the Fury" by Faulkner?
>>21955284 (OP)
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
House Of Leaves
JR by William Gaddis
btw Bakhtin is great
>>21955284 (OP)
Woolf does it masterfully in Mrs Dalloway.
It's honestly everywhere in good liter... | 21955284 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,157 |
Say a man worked hard for most of his 20s, ignoring girls, casual sex, partying, etc. to work on his career and/or business.
Say the man is now in his 30s and is financial successful. What does the religious texts say about this man if he were to spend his money on escorts, now that he is rich? Would his actions be... | 21961039 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,157 |
Recommend some good books on the American Revolution.
>>21979493 (OP)
Almost A Miracle - John Ferling
>>21979493 (OP)
Don't know anything to contribute
luv colonial america and there is a surprising lack of quality work in regard to the revolution
>>21979493 (OP)
The GOAT book on the American Revolution is "The ... | 21979493 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,157 |
Post quotes or passages from books that you find interesting. I'll start.
>His face wore that perpetual look of peevish dejection, which is so sourly printed on all faces of Jewish race without exception.
F. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
>>21988849 (OP)
>"I will speak for you Father, I will speak for all the med... | 21988849 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,152 |
Excuse the question but I'm not sure where else I can reasonably ask this.
Are there any fantasy novels that don't do the warrior woman trope?
>>21932866 (OP)
The King of Elfland’s Daughter
Seems quite quaint in the best of ways. Thank you, anon.
>>21932866 (OP)
The Darkness That Comes Before
Seems interesting... | 21932866 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,147 |
>engaging
>entertaining
>boring
>relatable
>>21956383 (OP)
Engaging is a legitimate term
Not in literary criticism. It's a social media term. "OMG this content generated so much engagement!" It essentially means people find it entertaining.
I use engaging and entertaining
I don't ever do literary criticism, I j... | 21956383 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,147 |
Why are Leopardi and D'Annunzio so underrated? Why do those faggots Petrarch and Dante get all the attention? It's not fair.
>>21988158 (OP)
D'Annunzio is really annoying, i think he's mentioned too often. Leopardi is probably not appreciated enough I agree, probably cause Italian translates poorly. Petrarch is meh. ... | 21988158 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,145 |
How did it take Odysseus 10 fucking years to go home? Its like a 4 day boat ride
>>21954031 (OP)
Isthmos was not open yet.
>>21954031 (OP)
Why didn't the eagles just fly him to Ithaca?
They could roll boats over it with logs
>>21954031 (OP)
>How did it take Odysseus 10 fucking years to go home
That's just an ... | 21954031 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,145 |
What does lit think of ~le based Rollo?
I finished his first book, it has some pretty nice pickup advice + insight in intersexual dynamics and psychology, but I just can't keep myself reading the subsequent books
>>21991378 (OP)
Rollo is the thinnest skinned loser
If you want women, all you need to do is:
>be ou... | 21991378 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,142 |
HCE is literally just Wotan. Finnegans Wake matches so closely to the central themes and characters of the Ring, which are apparent in all of Wagner's mature works, that it should be considered its primary source material.
>>21989970 (OP)
YES
>>21989970 (OP)
Can you elaborate? I am not familiar with The Ring at all... | 21989970 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,142 |
The others are just decadent sages and social engineers. Those two jiggers have their poison too but it's much less because they're actually trying to help the individual.
All philosophers concerned with the "good" are truly concerned with chopping your balls off.
>>21982848 (OP)
Why do you read? Only answer is th... | 21982848 | 4chan_lit | none | none | none | none | none | 1,137 |
How do you build a city at the bottom of the ocean and populate it with millions of people while keeping it a secret?
>>635385737 (OP)
Atlantis exists.
>>635385737 (OP)
Creation magicks.
>>635385737 (OP)
Call people who point it out chuds on the internet. Oh wait the internet didn't exist in bioshock times so I g... | 635385737 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,500 |
Out of 10?
>>635789987 (OP)
>>635789987 (OP)
No one has eye color like that
i do
>>635789987 (OP)
Didn't you do this thread already? Lili herself is 10 but her outfit is about an 8. Classic Tekken % DR outfits = 10
They're called contacts, very common in Japan for when you don't want to look like a soulless inse... | 635789987 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,500 |
my HERO....
>>634921026 (OP)
Meira did nothing wrong on trying to steal her powers
Total Yokai Death
>>634920887 →
MSPAINT<antonymofTraitor>!!!!!
>>634921026 (OP)
She just like me, fr fr.
Shion is small lookin'
How I sleep knowing with 100% certainty that Mima will be playable in Touhou 19.
if you are with... | 634921026 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,500 |
>special attack has 41% chance to instakill certain enemies
Now that's unbalanced!
the funniest thing to me is that people actually put effort into making shit like this, frog and wojakposters are delusional
>>635323814 (OP)
Kek
reddit faggot
>>635323814 (OP)
that was a good game. sequel when?
>>635323814 (OP)
... | 635323814 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,500 |
Beyonder mafia time
>but what about beyond maf-ACK
https://beyondermafia.com/game/asYh_6dHJ
>game not found
KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK mafiafags already gave up
I refuse to make a new account.
>>635799981 (OP)
oh thanks for reminding me, I gotta copy over setups from the old site
we are so fucking dead
7 person lobby p... | 635799981 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,500 |
How old is too old to call vidya your main hobby/passion?
>>635698662 (OP)
You're never too old to enjoy vidya
>>635698662 (OP)
13
>>635698662 (OP)
I'm going to be 100 years old getting 360 no-scopes on noobs like you and there's nothing you can do about it
>>635698662 (OP)
if you're 35+ and you play modern vid... | 635698662 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,497 |
well, that was awful
It's ok if you think of it as DLC, and pirated or got it on deep discount. Understandable that RE3 fans were pissed however.
>>635218065 (OP)
I just can't get over how stupid they made Nemesis look. I mean look at him. Also how Jill's outfit is so bland and has zero personality to it
What's wro... | 635218065 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,495 |
He literally ruined Guilty Gear and I'm tired of pretending he didn't.
>>635845580 (OP)
>Lust-provoking image
His creator ruined him which made him ruin the game
>just bee urself
>>635845580 (OP)
That’s not Chaos.
she
Would you drink?
Its she.
>>635845580 (OP)
Disgusting tranny creature
>B-but
Shut up fag... | 635845580 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,490 |
https://youtu.be/nmCr5IDYwLs [Embed]
Yes it is at 30fps. But for a 250$ console vs a High End PC full of crashes and stutters
... My sides!
>>635489553 (OP)
>102 GB
that's a third of the Series S's storage. Games should not be that bloated in size and this shitty
>>635489553 (OP)
I have a Series S and I've nev... | 635489553 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,490 |
Day 29 /v/, what's it gonna be?
I loev Laetitia
left
>>635279558 (OP)
right
I took right. Here is facility so far.
It’s gonna be a limbus company thread of course
Left is literally the best abnormality in the game and right was the worst.
So good job I guess
it was not meant to be
>>635279558 (OP)
i want to ... | 635279558 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,490 |
What do you want to see in the next Pokemon game?
Man this meme would work better if the girl wasn't ugly as shit with a mole on her lip
i don't get it
That's a male pokemon trainer
>>634873730 (OP)
Naked kids.
fire everyone involved in the swsh and sv art departments
A good game.
So it's a faggot with a mole o... | 634873730 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,487 |
I decided that there are only five types of video games.
>Frat shit
Mostly social mainstream action games, though there are single player frat shits. Essentially generic AAA games; Call of Duty, Asassin's Creed, Counter Strike, Overwatch, Doom, etc.
>Nerd shit
Games that require the player to do any sort of math, ... | 635122989 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,487 |
>buy game
>money stolen
>>634916145 (OP)
This is happening daily with Steam in 2nd/3rd world countries and nobody bats an eye.
>>634916145 (OP)
Is this a game people farmed for free xbox gold? If so no wonder and it will prolly be back once it gets adjusted.
>>634916145 (OP)
Which game is it
Unteralterbach.
>>... | 634916145 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,487 |
LAST TIME
>After saving Siggy and Shon, we proceeded to take back Castle Alexia
>on the way, we recruited Howard because the BIG GIRL cried
>and then we headed into Blaine
>There, we had to fight our own potential allies, because contrivance
>Now, we're hoping to properly ally with the survivors, so we can start p... | 634772051 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,485 |
>game has a "community"
HARD pass
>>634357076 (OP)
Ugh. This is soulless, put a basedjak in there for cob's sake.
>>634357076 (OP)
wait a second...this isn't a wojack edit!! what kind of zoomer crap is this?!?!?!?
:(
brain damage, even if you posted this ironically
need a few wojaks, soijaks and a gigachad in t... | 634357076 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,485 |
The vast majority of anime otaku and japanese video game players don't even speak Japanese. They're just ironic weebs following the current fad
I don't speak a lot of fucking languages but still play their games.
Imagine being not only a braindead frogposter but a phonetoddler too.
>>635426345 (OP)
Japanese and Chi... | 635426345 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,482 |
Anyone else find it sobering how low effort hgames on Steam can sell so well meanwhile more deserving indie games made with actual passion are buried under all the shovelware?
How is that fair?
Add booba to your game
Why don't you go bomb valve hq already
Sex games were always the best version of the medium, but ... | 634671317 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,480 |
Is this the sexiest voice in gaming?
No, that would be Laura Bailey
>inb4 some weeb starts naming Japanese VAs no one knows
Laura Bailey does have a beautiful feminine voice, but I really prefer the sexy maturity of Stephanie.
For me it's either her or Jennifer Hale (back in the day, like when she did Bastila). I l... | 634668445 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,480 |
If the deck can do it why can't PC?
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to upgrade VRAM?
How about if I have a very powerful CPU and the game is barely using it.
I remeber crisis runing on cpu alone.
Some games barely use the CPU when the GPU is max.
What if we could set certain CPU core's for graphics?
DDR is optimiz... | 634919923 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,480 |
To the anons asking for Zoo cards to come off the banlist. i present to you what the result would be.
zoodiacs more like poodiacs
>>635949050 (OP)
>no follow up
No, thats too underwhelming, try splashing them in something without xenolocks like tears and see if you can make a much more bullshit board.
>>635949050 ... | 635949050 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,477 |
Is he a villain, or anti-hero?
dude, he is like, SOOOOOO cool, he wears a mask, and has heterochromatic laser swords, and is so mysterious, and barely talks, and is a genius tactician, and his goals and motivations are so mysterious, and he had many teachers, and he was like, the heart of the force, and like, he corru... | 635384098 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,477 |
Did you manage to order her amiibo?
>>634813727 (OP)
OMG... she is so attractive...
>>634813727 (OP)
I didnt even know they got amiibos, all pre-orders are gone because fuck nintendo.
I'll probably just get their scale figures used instead
>love xbc1&2
>3 was so mediocre i dropped it at the giant ocean/lake
... | 634813727 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,477 |
KOFXV Open Beta with Crossplay and All characters on PS4 PS5 Steam
>>635525107 (OP)
Cant wait for the riot games fighting game to come out so all other fighting games just fucking die, specially japanese fighting games. How can the average consumer still buy fighting games at 60 and pay extra for costumes and charact... | 635525107 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,475 |
It wasn't even that good
COME ALL YOU YOUNG SAILOR MEN, LISTEN TO ME
I'LL SING YOU A SONG OF THE FISH IN THE SEA
>>634777624 (OP)
it was good but dragged down by all the tailing and eaves drop shit.
IT'S WINDY WEATHER BOYS
STORMY WEATHER BOYS
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS WE'RE ALL TOGETHER BOYS
last good Ass Creed game... | 634777624 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,475 |
Why cant Bethesda make their games have fun combat like this?
wowza what game is that!!
Where's the fun combat? Did you select the wrong file OP?
Why, it's Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, developed by Arkane Studios and published by Ubisoft!
Bethesda actually focuses on thinking and tactics to their combat, not ... | 635184918 | 4chan_v | none | none | none | none | none | 1,470 |
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