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>Hey Anon, what's the book you're currently reading about?
How do you answer this when the book in question isn't genre fiction? Do you give an answer based on the themes or the events of the book?
tell them to rephrase the question to your liking
I just answer as honestly as I can without telling/spoiling the whole story like an autist.
A one sentence summary of the basic premise will do.
>>7678140
>How do you answer this when the book in question isn't genre fiction?
I know, right? Like, how is it even possible for there to be summaries for a Gass book or Lolita? These fucking pop plebs got is so easy with their cliché plots and themes. Thank Bloom I'm not a pleb.
Who's the most overrated underrated writer?
Also, who's the most underrated overrated writer?
>>7678135
dfw to both
on /lit/ pynchon is underated overrated
he gets memed alot, lot of empty dicksucking of him by people who started reading ~1 year ago and are blown away by the inclusion of mathetmatical symbols into a novel, everyone accepts he's a good writer, but there's very little appreciation for his true flourishes of greatness
ITT we post /lit/ related feels:
>ywn symposium with Socrates, Arostophanes, and the lads from the Academy
>ywn get drunk and talk about eros and wisdom with the greatest minds of Athens
>ywn later go home with Phaedrus and tenderly seed his boipussi in an expression of love purer than all others - emulating Achilles and Patroclus before us
>ywn never wake up in his arms and caress his strong thighs and nuzzle his beardless face while he lets on a coy...
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>ywn spank kafka
I don't read enough and I wish I was reading more
I own too many books I haven't read
>>7678078
Fuckin' aye. You can't make this shit up.
just tore through savage detectives
obviously a lot of talent at work but i'm not yet sure whether to say if i 'liked it'
feeling some kind of perverse compulsion to picking up 2666 right away and reading it too. is 2666 much a harder task? are there any connections to savage detectives? basically would it be an especially good/bad idea to do this?
do you have autism? read the fucking book if you want to.
>>7678046
I'm reading it now. It's great. Man up.
>>7678046
I'd say it'd be a very bad idea. A very bad idea indeed.
It's a good thing you asked.
Post the worst book you've read, just because you had to know what the fuss was about.
pic related
the crying of lot 49
Paulo Coelho " The Alchemist"
>>7678045
By no means the worst book I've ever read. I'd never want to spend another minute on it though.
There has been many times where I've seen writers use only one parenthesis, generally at the beginning of whatever they are saying, i.e. an open parenthesis, but not at the end. What is the context for using parentheses like this?
It's a literary device used with the intention to trigger my autism
Sounds like it could be used in stream of consciousness stuff
What the hell kind of stuff are you reading where you see this so often?
>>7677979
I see it in a lot of literary journals, works of philosophy, etc. Not really so much in fiction.
"My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Was Nabokov a metalhead?
yes
\m/
"Music, I regret to say, affects me merely as an arbitrary succession of more or less irritating sounds."
Did he really not like music? Is there any record of him praising a musician?
>>7677870
He said he liked his son's singing voice as well as a few violin pieces, but that's it
Are there any books about Mental Illness or characters that are immersed in a reality seperate from their own? Pic semi related.
>>7677809
Probably Phillip K. Dick wrote about something like that.
>>7677809
The Double by Dostoyevsky is the first thing I can think of.
>>7677809
There is some YA novels that deal with mental illness. I can't think of any specific ones off the top of my head.
Was Raskolnikov at odds with himself and suffering from inner-conflict, or was he merely at odds with the world? Prove your claims
False dichotomy, also do your own goddamn homework.
Why don't you contribute something to start off your own thread instead of posing prompts without putting in any fucking effort?
>>7677818
Am I not allowed to be curious of other's views?
Why do people keep saying "there is no absolute truth" while simultaneously taking part in an argument??Why have an argument then in the first place??
also it is a self negating statement,anyways.
Because debating is fun.
>>7677803
What was the argument about?
People still want to be right because that makes them feel important.
On the flipside there are guys who like to "argue" because under the right mentality it can be a good way of learning and expanding your conception of things.
I'm a literary noob and picked up pic related last week for eight dollars. Is it just a meme to say that you need to read a book in it's native language? Obviously if you can read Russian then that's the better way to go, but who the fuck actually reads Russian?
At the same time part of me feels like I won't be getting the most out of this novel if I read it in English.
I watched a shitty documentary about the now defunct Barnes museum. Someone said that Cezanne was worth like half a billion dollars.
>>7677796
I don't understand what you're saying. If it's a reference to the book I haven't read it yet.
Just finished reading pic related, what does /lit/ think of it, high school tier or literary cannon?
Meme shit
>>7677777
>>7677777
Catcher in the Meme confirmed as shit
"Sad, though, again. Do you know where all the really sad stories I'm getting are coming from? They're coming, it turns out, from kids. Kids in college. I'm starting to think something is just deeply wrong with the youth of America. First of all, a truly disturbing number of them are interested in writing fiction. Truly disturbing. And more than interested, actually. You don't get the sorts of things I've been getting from people who are merely . . . interested. And sad, sad stories. Whatever happened to happy stories, Lenore? Or at least morals?...
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>>7677754
Broom has its moments, but it isn't nearly as good or mature as IJ and most of his shorter work.
I think people tend to want to talk about books that impress them. Broom was a fantastic piece of work for an undergrad, and it's cool that it counted as a philosophy thesis, but it's just not impressive compared to the master works of more mature authors.
It's a lot more fun than his more mature/well-thought-out work though. It's definitely not as impressive as many of the other books I've read but it's a lot more entertaining even if he was noticeably trying to ape authors like Pinecone, McCarthy, and Kafka in it. Maybe even because of that, actually.
It's just so drastically different from his ultra-depressive later work that the contrast is refreshing, somehow.
Strange words from a suicide, I guess that was an early work.
Are we allowed to talk theatric performances/film adaptations of Macbeth?
Pic related:
I wanted this one to work, but Kurzell and the writers really fucked with it in a bad way.
>>7677694
You can also just talk adaptations of Shakespeare
>in b4 "Branagh is the best!"
We know.
He looks like one of those chicks at a new age bookstore... What kind of fabric is that? Saffron silk?
>>7677697
Branagh. Is. Fucking. Terrible.
>WoooOOOooOOOooOoOOoOooiirrrrdssssss.
Disgusting.
This book doesn't make any sense
>The incompetence of the American military
>Blind Japanese samurai and a Japanese otaku 2chan poster
>Stupid concepts like quislings and feral children
>Israel is best rael
>"Muh dogs even though I hated them but now I attack people that do and now I'm in a special K9 unit durrrrrrr"
>DUDE I'M GUARDING RICH CELEBRITIES AND BILL...
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>>7677626
>expecting a meme book to be good
>expecting anything with zombies to make sense
Any zombie apocalypse is inherently illogical. A disease that's not airborne, not spread through bodily fluids in the traditional way, but spread through biting has no chance of spreading. When was the last time you heard about a rabies epidemic? How do you get from patient zero to most of the human population?
Zombies are people without the ability to think...
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>>7677626
Pretty sure Brooks set out to sell a lot of copies. He appears to have done exactly that, so critiquing his work this way is like making a thread about how you don't think Big Bang Theory is as good as Synecdoche, New York.
>>7677644
This. The whole "super serious grounded in reality" zombie apocalypse thing is a terrible meme genre that makes no sense when you actually think about it for five seconds.
It's as retarded as "hard" scifi in that autistic nerds want to read something "serious" even though their genre is a little more than a vehicle for shitty pulp authors to write space fantasies.
