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What writer had the most interesting life?
What writer had the most boring life?
Most interesting: David Foster Wallace
Least interesting: Thomas Pynchon
>>7548882
>now
ITT: Books series you read as a kid.
Fark this takes me back, I read this in 2004.
>>7539784
Ulysses
Was okay but I was writing better material myself anyway
I just got my first book published, Ask Me Anything
Other new authors also welcome
real publish or shit publish?
how much did you get? is it selling well?
>>7546655
I assume by shit publish you mean self publish. Yes, I got an actually publisher.
I get roughly a buck per copy sold. Slightly more for digital than physical, which was surprising I thought I'd end up getting less on the digital.
It's too early to tell if it's selling well, it only came out just before Christmas, and I won't know for sure how many copies have sold until six months time when I get my first cut of the profits.
>>7546651
Please tell me your pic is the name of the book
How do you pronounce the title?
Pain-gwen Ree-dares
Tisuću devetsto osamdeset i četiri.
1984
How can a brother flirt at libraries/bookstores?
>>7544721
by not being autistic
which would mean not browsing 4chan
>Expecting to find worthwhile women in a bookstore
Yeah, ok. Have fun in the YA section.
>>7544730
/thread
Just finished this. I'm blown away by how complex the novel is and yet how fun it is to read.
General V. discussion, I guess. What was everyone's favorite chapter?
I read V. as sort of symbolic of a mechanized degradation in the west. She was losing her humanity throughout the novel (being a cyborg in the end) and the situations she was in became more and more barbaric, arguably. Basically saying technological advancements are making us lose our humanity. Pretty obvious stuff, right?
>>7542871
Its on my shelf right now, and I haven't read it.
>>7542922
Give it a read my man
V was good but it was almost 10 years ago that I read it. I should read it again.
Recently finished Mason and Dixon and I would have say I consider my favorite novel. Really think it's Pynchon's magnum opus.
Looking for something new and interesting. Maybe relatable.
Ovid.
>>7542546
Orlando by Virginia Wolf is probably your best bet. Also, checking wikipedia. /lit/ may have an official trap but we still share some audience with /pol/
write a love letter to your muse
>>7533710
Which muse is that? Image search isn't helping me.
(Yes, I've just asked sauce on a Hellenic demigod)
I fucked up and now I fill up notebooks writing letters to you. Doing that gets me through the worst nights. I hope that you'll get to read them if anything happens to me.
>>7533998
I don't think it would even be a particular one, if it were meant to be a literal muse in the first place.
What are the most depressive books you have ever read /lit/?
Pic related
Depressing? Bloke chills on a beach and starches a nigga. That be some gangster as shit, cuz. Ain't nuthin' to be 'fraid of, I TELL YA WAHT BOBBY.
>>7545536
If you think Camus is depressing, you don't understand Camus.
>>7545536
Not depressive but definetly made me feel sad
This book is not very good. It is entirely too long, and the digressions it lapses into for dozens of pages are neither interesting nor engaging. The problem of "the Entertainment" thoroughly lacks any compelling feature. The characters are bland.
In short, it's boring, and unlike other books that might be boring, Wallace's prose isn't engaging enough to generate interest.
Wallace was a pretty good writer, but this book is a dud. His real genius comes out in his nonfiction, and to a lesser degree, his short stories. We all need to admit...
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>>7547643
le no discernible talent face
Yeah I thought this book was severely overrated.
>>7547643
2"/10
Why is Nihilism so frowned upon by most people?
It's not frowned upon as long as you have intelligence and a wicked sense of humor to supplement it
either they think its a phase for edgelords
or they don't like to confront a nihilistic perspective
little do they know, the passive objective maturity they think they cultivate is also a phase.
One needs the proper attitude in order to fully appreciate what it entails
My mother just got diagnosed with uterine cancer and has one year to live. During this time I need to act as a beacon of optimism, show no weakness around her and also get a gf so she can die knowing her son is heterosexual and not a virgin. I also need to keep up with college because if I get kicked out she'll no doubt blame her illness and by extension herself.
What are some books that will help me cope with this? Literature, poetry, philosophy. I need anything I can to help me transform into the man I now so desperately need to be.
>>7546240
I dont think that what you need to do right now in order to achieve those goals is to read the recommendations from dumbfucks on the internet.
>Kicked from college
Go read your college notes and study whatever the fuck you are studying
>getting a gf
Well go out there with friends or some shit like that
>beacon of optimism
Care for your mother, make her life enjoyable.
The...
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>>7546240
No way! Op, today I lied about my mother having cancer in order to get out of something. I was worried karma would make her sick for reals, but it seems your mum took the bullet instead- cheers!
>>7546268
Basically I need some books I can pour my negativity into, and also some books that will teach me to be less emotional. Maybe some that deal with coping with death.
http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/news/g2544/80-books-every-person-should-read/?slide=77
>contributor to buzzfeed
>black woman
>pick 9 books by women (out of 10), 7 of whom are black
>yfw if a white male did this he'd be a RACIST BIGOT
>"What can we say? We messed up. Our list of "80 Books Every Man Should Read," published several years ago, was rightfully called out for its lack of diversity...
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Fuck you I shouldn't read anything.
>>7545410
>should
Or else what?
>>7545410
Dismantling the patriarchy is exhausting. You sheep get spoonfed and then think you invented taste. Shed your privilege and see the world for what it is.
ITT: Literary one-liners that are burned into your memory forever
>He says that he will never die.
Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?
yes I said yes I will yes
aujourd'hui maman est morte
>To what base uses we may return, Horatio.
She had been anally and vaginally raped.
Why are women so much more literary than men?
>YA fiction
>literary
>>7544611
They're just more intelligent. All the greatest literary works in history were written by women.
>>7544611
They're all reading different books, and they don't have nearly enough alcohol. Not literary/10.
