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Books about paranoia or a sense of impending doom. Cameras. Microphones. Feeling like your thoughts aren't safe. The stereotypical schizophrenic they portray in movies.
Thomas
Ruggles
Pynchon
Junior
We had one of these threads a couple weeks ago and I really liked it.
Write up a semester-long college course and other /lit/izens tell you if they'd take them. Include a course title, brief summary, any necessary prerequisites, and the 5-8 books you would include. I'll post mine from last time around.
Apocalypse and Revelation in Post-War American Fiction
A survey course of the apocalyptic narrative and the act of revelation in contemporary American fiction
Sophomore-level course, no prerequisites required
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Arthur...
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First and only bump. C'mon /lit/, showcase that one literary niche you're really well-read in.
how do i motivate myself to write if i unironically think none of this matters
You don't.
It doesn't have to matter.
Do it for your waifu.
Dont motivate. Just write.
Novels with vegan/vegetarian themes?
Ovids Metamorphoses has a cool section in it with Pythagoras ranting about vegetarianism
Is this an accurate list of the best Native American novels?
yeah. you should read them all.
I don't see Blood Meridian there for some reason.
>>8233252
I also liked Black Elk Speaks
>>8233209
If you're interested in the history of cancer treatment, check out Siddhartha Mukherjee's Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
>“Holy shit it's moving—an octopus? Yes it is the biggest fucking octopus Slothrop has ever seen outside of the movies, Jackson, and it has just risen up out of the water and squirmed halfway onto one of the black rocks”
>>8233162
funniest part of GR
Grigori-kuuuuun...
Post dreams that you've written down or that have affected you. Others try to interpret.
I don't think I've ever dreamt about 4chan.
What does that mean?
>>8232903
I once dreamed I got killed multiple times in the same dream by my closest friends, then woke up crying
I dreamt I was walking wit a ffriend when we ccame across a girl. My friend sang to her, then we left. I later came across her and her mother at a funeral. She told me to come sing to her mother, and I told her it was my friend who sang so well. She pulled me into the graveyard, and I sang a tune that sounded like parts of Verdi's requiem. It was difficult to find pitch, and my voice cracked many times. Afterwards, her mother congratulated me and the girl asked me if I wanted sex. I said yes, and she took me to a cheaply wood-panelled room. She took out a condom and told...
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What's with the prevalence of the dead white males meme in literary academia? I'd say a solid 50% of books anyone would study before university level are by women - and the majority of them are absolutely great. I get the whiteness thing but gender doesn't seem to have been much of a barrier in literature.
You'd be wrong
>>8232761
No? Scratch that question mark, no. I only recall being given two or three books by women to read out of up to 30 or so (and as far as I remember I didn't read them because they were shit, so: double no).
>>8232761
Honestly, I don't give a shit who wrote a book. As long as they're good. It's only natural that a society based on a various European cultures has plethora of white male authors that form the basis of its literature.
What does /lit/ think about Pratchett and Discworld?
>>8232755
One of the best comedy/fantasy writers there ever was. Much love to him, and it's a shame he will be remembered alongside people like Gaiman.
>>8232755
It doesn't.
Eh. Pratchett is fun, and genuinely enjoyable, but for me at least it's hard to imagine sitting down and actually reading a Discworld novel. It's absolutely perfect for audiobooks, though, while you're working or walking or whatever, since there's not really any need to pay 100% attention all the time.
/r/books is hyping up this book
how is it
genre fiction garbage.
>/r/books
>scifi
it's trash
Thoughts?
>>8232515
>Stein
Has anyone read the German translation of the New Sun books? I was thinking of recommending them to my father, but he doesn't speak English very well and I'm afraid of it being one of those cases where the translation butchers the original work.
(I haven't) but as you expect, this was marketed as fantasy shlock when it came out, and unless by some exceptional stroke of luck, it will have gotten the translator for that sort of job
the US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature
>>8232306
True.
>the big dialogue of literature
Ahahahahahhah
>>8232306
False. The USA is a rich melting pot of settlers and migrants. They don't need to 'translate' because their literary culture is already one big translation from everywhere else
Also it's a little silly in an increasingly globalised world to make the claim that there is only one 'dialogue' of literature, instead of a massive variety of intersecting dialogues. To talk of big dialogues is to fall into the trap of generalising literary traditions
Maybe I'm thinking about it too much, but I don't understand how to write magic into a story.
In a world where magic exists, the citizens are aware of it, have grown up with it. So could it really be considered "magic" at all? If it was part of their world, would it not be considered science?
If magic existed in a universe, would it be able to be explained by physical laws? Or by definition does it have to lack explanation?
basically, in a world with magic, what differentiates science and magic?
One involves blind beliefs in a all-encompassing system while ignoring obvious flaws and inconsistencies, the other involves fireballs
>>8232246
>If it was part of their world, would it not be considered science?
not if it suspends the laws of physics.
>Or by definition does it have to lack explanation?
you can have a vague explanation about energy or whatever but there has to be a void behind magic such that there can't be any methodological way of explaining how it works, its mechanism. you can't have a physics of magic. but you can have an understanding of how to use...
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>>8232246
most people don't know shit about science
most people aren't exposed to cutting edge science regularly
just use the magical equivalent of public transport and lamposts
