(It's not pronounced Quick Sote and it doesn't rhyme with boat). Donkey Hoe Tay.

Welcome to this, the seminal work of Miguel De Cervantes. Don Quixote is such an influential work that even today, some 400 years after the story was written, the word "Quixotic" can be found in the English Language, and that its meaning is based entirely on the characteristics of the fictional creation bearing the name from which the word derives.

(Can you imagine someone being described as "potterish" 400 years from now, because they are a bit like the creation of Moneybags Rowling?)

The book is a comedy, and a shrewd observational one at that. It rewards the careful reader, and a careful reader is what you will likely have to be, as the English in this translation is not entirely modern, and is a little more flowery and baroque than you will see in the works of today. Still, if you can parse my roadkill-mangled sentences, you should be fine with this vintage chorizo.

Note to the fucking lawyers who scour this page in masturbatory anticipation - the book herein was published more than four hundred years ago, so it's well out of copyright. Good day to you.

it gives me great pleasure to present for your use:

The Library of /lit/!

This library is where books live. It's here for two purposes:
1.) If you have books, post them here nao!
2.) If you want a book and it's not here yet, this is the thread for your requests.

POST SOME BOOKS!

Hey /lit/, I don't come here to often but I'd appreciate it if any of you can help me out. I need to read Sigmund Freud's The Wolfman, Adam Haslett's You Are Not A Stranger Here and Love's Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom. I'd greatly appreciate it if you guys could help me out.

This library is where books live. It's here for two purposes:
1.) If you have books, post them here nao!
2.) If you want a book and it's not here yet, this is the thread for your requests.

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>>	zombae 10/03/10(Wed)01:01 No. 7583 File: Frank_Herbert_-_Dune_6_-_Chapterhouse_Dune.pdf-(701.61KB, Frank Herbert - Dune 6 - Chapterhouse Dune.pdf)

>>	Literati 10/03/12(Fri)04:37 No. 7585 >>7583 nice dune dump, appreciated.

>>	Sponge 10/03/15(Mon)02:35 No. 7592 >>7565 hilarious.

So I just began reading Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk and there's a short story in it called Guts. I'm terribly sorry if this is a repost, but for the rest of us who haven't read it before, here you go.

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts

What does /lit/ think of Tom Clancy? I have read "Patriot Games" and i am currently reading "Clear and Present Danger". I think he's pretty good, he handles suspense very well and makes you want to not stop reading.

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>>	Literati 10/03/05(Fri)09:34 No. 7552 >>7550 I've a stack of nearly twenty books that take priority. Maybe after I've taken care of them, but I doubt it.

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Literati 10/03/08(Mon)18:36 No. 7570 I've never have read any of his books. But when bush was in office he said there was no way to win this war. Saw him again after our new pres was in office his story was yes we can win this war? I don't put alot of stock in what he says but I thing he is a good story teller. I'm not downing him, but found him to be strange.

>>	Robo Steve !LACoHXQS.w 10/03/13(Sat)19:55 No. 7589 File: 126853893581.jpg-(27.98KB, 322x500, 0399143904_01_LZZZZZZZ.jpg) >>7532 Read and Loved Rainbow Six *the book not the game worth a read for sure.

Our ever-clever machinations are sure to grab hold the fascinations of those who grasp their potential applications, and the vast implications of the fact that they rose simply from circumstantial situations, whose conditions never ever once until now arose, and even now we in the nation's finest universities are not even entirely sure of exactly how the universe was capable of creating both this and the subtle scent of the supple rose, whose blossoms fall into our deft grasp and take hold of the daftness of our passions, and even now in their mansions, the captains of their industries are focusing their faculties and facilities on the reproduction and simulation of that peculiar stimulation, whose wonders know no bounds, and make lovers love in leaps and bounds, and drunks buy rounds and rounds for the mounds of their peers passed out on the barroom floor, for even now they know the score, all the scores and scores of them, drowning and yet thirsting for more and more and more, and now the barkeep hesitates to pour even one drop more, waits until finally they make for the door, and he hesitates no more and drowns himself and washes up upon the shore, naked and drenched, a giant among Lilliputians, whose tiny minds could not before comprehend what their eyes now find, and he makes his way toward a path that winds and wends away from the view of his eye, and with that and his mind, he peels away its subtle guise, and lays it straight among all the other sticks and splinters that comprise this world, as the snowflakes do winter, and the quakes of discovery do the splinters

/lit/, what is your favorite author, and why?(without spoiling any books)

Mine would have to be Philip K Dick. His writing style and his ideas are incredible. And his endings - they are absolutely amazing.

>>	Literati 10/03/08(Mon)20:39 No. 7571 Victor Hugo - His clever way of phrasing things, the manner in which he portrays the bleak absurdities of life as both humorous and despairing at the same time, and his uniquely twisted characters.

>>	Soumy 10/03/09(Tue)06:39 No. 7574 File: 126814558026.jpg-(98.61KB, 1024x768, GaimanPratchettHC-725803.jpg) I have problems.

>>	Literati 10/03/09(Tue)19:38 No. 7575 Micheal Crichton inspired me to be a writer, so I suppose him. Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee both became my entry into the horror genre, and the run a close second and third, respectively.

Judge my first page for my book please XD

Arokos wake to find himself on the floor. Black smoke fill the room and he heard the sound of crying and screaming. Arokos choke on the smoke. Arokos felt some blood run down his face. Arokos try to make it towards the door but he couldn't.
“Don't worry Arokos, I'm here.” said guzz the dwarf.
“Guzz, I'm on the floor …. I can't move my legs.” Said with harsh breathing.
“Just hold on.” said Guzz.
In a few seconds, Guzz, the warrior remove the book case off Arokos. Guzz than to start to pull arokos out of the room. The greenish hue temple has become a fiery deathtrap. They hear a few cry out for help as they move down the hall.
“Don't worrie, Arokos... Were almost to the main gate.” said Guzz with a harsh sound. Guzz drop Arokos for a moment to open the main doors. Smoke fly out of the room and for a second. Arokos see something he wish he would never had seen. His teacher, Ike the master of storms was imple with a giant rod with the a skull on top of it.
“come on Arokos..” Guzz took Arokos once more and pulled outside. Arokos eyes widen to see his home is burning, half of the temp was destroyed. Some let the shields down. Arokos realize something. His order was murder from a ally.

I can't decide if this should go here, or /mind/. it kind of relates to both, i think.

Here's my problem: I want to be a writer. I'm most of the way through high school now, and I've basically considered no possible future *except* being a writer since the third grade. However, in that time, I've written basically nothing. At the start I wrote really shitty fanfiction, tried writing original short fiction, which, in retrospect, was equally shit, and never finished, and now I can't even make myself do that. So, my question is, how do I drop this stupid pipe-dream and move on? The idea of officially and completely quitting at this feels terrible, but it's just going nowhere. What should i do?

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>>	Literati 10/03/08(Mon)04:32 No. 7566 I once quit my job so i could focus on being a writer... Didn't happen. Ran out of the money I'd saved to attempt it, two years of expenses, and didn't end up writing anything of value.

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Literati 10/03/08(Mon)15:23 No. 7567 File: 126809059539.jpg-(13.64KB, 215x321, proust.jpg) "...these dreams reminded me that, since I wished, some day, to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subjects to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, I would see before me vacuity, nothing, would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent, or that, perhaps, a malady of the brain was hindering its development. " -Marcel Proust Since this is /lit/ I'm going to make a book recommendation: In Search of Lost Time. The entire novel's about the narrator's becoming a writer, among other things.

>>	Literati 10/03/08(Mon)17:56 No. 7568 >>7567 I've Swann's Way sitting on my desk. I don't want to read it because then I'll feel compelled to buy the other five or so books in that series. I just don't have that kind of money right now.