>some work that's not obscure but that not enough people are reading.

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I can't fucking believe how many English majors there are at my college who have never read Homer. It's a travesty. It's as ludicrous as being a Philosophy major who's never read a single Platonic dialogue.

You're such a phony

THE SEA WOLF

BY JACK FUCKING LONDON

FAGS

Love this, very interesting yet simple. I like the intuitive thought process, which is entirely assumed and part of the theory.

>>465966
SOLD.

>>465961

wat

>>465956

those dialogues are so illogical and one sided they would have never made it into a peer reviewed philosophy journal.

Worth reading because of historic significance, but in themselves they are pretty shitty. I imagine homer is similar, but I've never read him.

Raymond Carver will write a short story about this thread.

Yeats dedicates this post to Maud Gonne.

>>465975

Yeah they wouldn't have made it into a peer reviewed philosophical journal. Philosophy was very very different in ancient Greece. My point was that virtually every philosopher after him was influenced by him, either directly or indirectly, and every philosophy major I've ever met has at least read the Apologia.

And Homer isn't like that at all. For one thing he wasn't a philosopher.

George Gissing is just trying to get something to eat.

OP does not understand the economics of attention.

THe wider something is known, the more likely will there be communication about it.

THe attempt is honorable, but futile.

Read One Hundred Years Of Solitude already. It's so fucking good.

OP here can you guys please like . . . describe the books and why we should read them?

100-post threads where every post is just a picture of a book-cover with a few words are the cancer killing /lit/.

>>465975
>>465984
P.S. Bitches don't understand the significance of my Platonic Idealism.

I've never seen a discussion of To Reign In Hell, but I enjoyed it. Although, it was kind of silly at parts, the character interaction was wonderful.

The main problem /lit/ has is if you make a thread about a more obscure book, the discussion is not going to be very strong, so it is going to get bulldozed by all the 1984 threads. That, and the general user of 4chan, and thusly /lit, isn't exactly the well-read, sophisticated Gentleman; sure, most will have read basic shit, like 1984, Lovecraft, A Catcher in the Rye etc, but this board was made, and it was populated by all the different people from the other boards (read:idiots). It'd have been tons better off if Moot created it before 4chan became so densely populated with mouth breathers, that way we could have had our own community.

hey, I like the pic.

>>465995

I knew about it :\

>>465994

Then why the hell did you start this thread? Seriously did you expect anything else? People are lazy on 4chan and most are content to baldly state their opinion with no attempt at a coherent defense. If you didn't know this you need to lurk moar.

>>465998

Daww thanks <3

>>465994

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Tells the story of the fictional Buendia family (and by extension the town that grows around them); it tracks their successes and failures, their high-points and lows over the generations. It's magical realism, which means crazy shit happens from time to time, and it's absolutely beautifully written.

Quite possibly my favourite book of all time

>>465994
Raymond Carver is the American master of the Short Story, contested only, perhaps, by Hemingway. He wrote strange, dissonant little stories about average American people, usually failed lovers, unlucky businessmen, guilty fathers. When you read them, you put them down without a reaction; but suddenly, when you start to think about the story a little more, he will have you writhing with tears. His stories are beautiful for the way in which they're distant from us, and yet so close to the true working-middle-class American experience.

I think Gary Amdahl is a very serious-minded and promising literary author. He's dedicated to his craft and talks about it and through it in an exciting way. He only has novellas and short stories published so far but they're good. Check google for some of the interviews he has up online and tell me you aren't interested and seeing what this guy has to offer.

>He included the phrase from all walks of life, and that was, he saw then but only understood later, the last straw for her. They remained married for several more years, divorcing only after the riots in International Falls that are the climactic event and nominal subject of this adventure, but when Leah saw that her usband was just going to keep talking that day, when she suspected the humble contrition was little more than an act he'd committed himself to, like a Method actor (that is to say, with overwhelming psychological resources and emotional commitment to the point of delusion, but only to a character at a crucial but almost indistinguishable remove from the self), she found her respect for her husband weakening dramatically. And there is nothing more fleeting than love, of course, so that was gone too.

>>466008

Thanks bro this actually sounds right up my alley. I had to read some magical realism in High School (I forget the title, it was by a Latin/South American and there was a priest and a girl either got raeped by him or married him or something like that at the end) and I really enjoyed it.

How about Rasa and Indian Aesthetics?

"The Descent of Power: Possession, Mysticism, and Initiation in the Theology of Abhinavagupta" is one of the most poignant and fascinating articles I've ever read

>>466016
Yeats was the original emo kid. Except he did it right. His poetry is full of baw, but it's the right kind, the kind that we want from great poetry. His use of mysticism and experimentation with dreams created in his poetry, a surrealistic but still shockingly familiar landscape full of heartache and sorrow, but none of which ever betrays classical forms and conventions that are necessary to poetic construction. Best poet that wrote in the 20th century.

>>466018

He reads like someone who will be a really really good writer in like 5-10 years.

I'll definitely check him out.

>>466035
>[...]unnamed atheist and former porn star with a trouble childhood is driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

Cool story Chuck.

>>466018
oh, hi there, Gary Amdahl!

Do you know Tao?

>>466029
Finally, Gissing is the Great Victorian author no one remembers. As giants like Dickens and Hardy began to take the stage as the greatest Victorians, and writers like the Brontes and Austin gained fame for being women authors, Gissing's quiet little Masterwork, New Grub Street, fell by the wayside. It's the tale of your average slovenly struggling writer, living in London in the late 19th Century. It's a tale of a man, Reardon, struggling to reconcile his life, his dreams, and his love. It's probably something that a lot of you aspiring writers here on /lit/ can relate to.

>>466045
What like the spiritual concept or is this an author?

The Night Land.

A really cool epic, it throws out some unique sci-fi/horror scenarios. Only problem is the authors terrible disrespect of women, but if you ignore that it is absolutely incredible

>>466052
This looks interesting, added to the list.

I'm surprised OP, this thread is turning out much better than expected.

Bartleby's The Scrivener is a pretty disturbing little short story, well worth reading.

Many argue that it's proto-absurdism; I'd back them up on that, I think the whole point of the book is Bartleby's inscrutability. The whole thing is supposed to be a big "wat". I mean there are other themes too (the callousness of Wall St. etc. etc.) but I think that was the main one.

Come on /lit/erati, one of you must have read this.

>>466058
aye lad, 'tis the best 1800's-era work I've ever read to this day,lovecraft gave it a thumbs-up.

however, common advice is to skip the first chapter. However, I thought it was okay and helped add to the drama of the story.Your choice

>>466088
Nitpick: Hodgson wrote in the nineteen hundreds

English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

Just a good book, I wouldn't call it obscure.

It's mostly about some Manx smugglers who are forced to carry an English Vicar and his buddies to an expedition to NZ to find the Garden of Eden. I know that plot sounds gay and convoluted but believe me it is a *damn* good book. There are a lot of sub-plots too which would take too long to explain, one of the more interesting ones is a small failed Aboriginal rebellion. All of the sub-plots end up tying together very well by the end, promise.

He uses that style of writing where it's pretending to be a collection of documents - the Captain's journal, letters people send each other, etc. He does this very very well. The characters write nothing like each other and are believable.

I laughed, I cried. Well I didn't cry because I'm not a faggot. But still. Damn good book.

Has anyone else read Life of Pi? What did you think of it if you did?

>>466116
I thought it was pretty good. Not a huge fan, but it was OK.

unrelated:
James Frey is actually a pretty good writer. Just started reading Bright Shiny Morning, so far really enjoying it.

>>466100
ohshi-

you know what I meannn

The Immoralist. Menalcas fucking rocks.

We need some Harry Crews up in this motherfucker! Seriously, he's got to be among the most under-appreciated living writers. His stuff is mind bendingly excellent, and yet less than half his books are in print.

Start, as I did, with A Feast of Snakes. It will haunt your dreams.

Anything by Simone Weil.

This books takes place over a few millennium showing how man expands into the galaxy and finding that they are not alone.

You know what I like?

Historical murder mysteries.

The Black Swan is the single greatest non-fiction book of this century.

I read Websters New School and Office Dictionary printed 1943; What is horrifying is I find it more interesting than all the books I read in all of school combined.