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/lit/ has an Infinite Jest summer reading book group!
If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us!
We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 3rd (today) – August 11th with an average pace of 15 pages a day.
Discussions will take place right here on /lit/, hopefully we will keep a thread floating around most of the time, but should activity slow down new threads will be made Friday for discussion to avoid daily spamming of dying threads.
TODAY'S READING...
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>>8233151
Schedule with calendar dates, thanks to the anon who corrected them.
TODAY'S SIDE-TOPIC: What are your impressions of the book so far?
>>8233151
Yo, OP, where'd you find those prints in the pic and where can I find more?
Did anyone else have to read and annotate this in their American Literature class in high school?
>>8233107
>that rape scene
Jesus Christ, that was fucking brutal.
Was it really necessary?
Was it really necessary?
>>8233110
I could dela with the rape scene, but the way he explains how it is justified for him and his junkie friend to murder and steal from a retired nurse is impossible to counterargument.
>>8233107
What was the point of the racist ebonics chapter?
Is it recommended to read multiple books simultaneously or is it better to stick to one and get done with it?
What are you reading habits like?
>>8233080
One book at a time for me. If its a good book then Im invested in the characters
>>8233100
> If its a good book then Im invested in the characters
plebsaurus
>>8233080
I don't see the point of reading multiple books at once unless one is particularly long and you want to take a break from it.
Is it justifiable to read translated literature?
>>8232837
maybe at gunpoint
only if you're english because it is the dominant and therefore best language, and will hopefully one day completely replace all the others.
>>8232837
Yes because if you're reading something famous it will have been translated by an actual translator and not some jumped up video game cuckold.
The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent,
>in the incomplete form of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter
who in his ultimate year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure.
that cracked...
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>>8232815
tu puta madre
>>8232820
does that say "you bitch mother"? i dont know spanish
>>8232815
>that cracked me up and I thought you guys would enjoy it. But what does it mean about Bloom's bifurcated Y-shaped piss? is it saying he masturbated earlier and the dried semen made him piss two streams or what? i'm lost there
Yeah, something like that sounds right. Good job.
Hello /lit/? Do you push through reading a book that you're not interested in or do you just stop reading it?
If I don't see finishing the book as rewarding then I stop.
If you want to know whether you should, I would suggest you try to finish it out. There's a reason you picked it up in the first place and you never know how it will turn out.
If you want my experience, basically what
>>8232812
said.
To be more specific on how I determine if I think it will be "rewarding":
It depends. How "important" it is in terms of "canon" or influence on later works/writers? How much do I dislike it and why? How many other things am I reading at...
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>>8232778
For some reason, I just could not get through the beginning of atlas shrugged.
I would stop after the first couple pages and leave the book for a time, only to have to start over.
Finally I said fuck it and just read, and read, and it turned out to be one of the best I have ever read
Hey /lit/, I know this may sound crazy but I have a story theory I believe really strongly but there are both either sizes to being true of reincarnation, heaven & hell. Here it is:
In reality everything exists but your eyes image the existants of what you can see is real but not real as "real" itself. There are 2 sides of good & evil and these sides are both the brink of destruction. In reality there are laws and rules and families that we care about but mostly family. If one is broken from a law is not that serious. But if you break a family or kill...
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are you high?
>>8232655
They're definitely tripping on something. Probably stronger than weed. Or it's their first time on pot.
dude have you ever thought about how, like, we're just the universe just experiencing itself?
Thoughts on the book versus the movie?
Le nips
the 1998 or the 1962?
the 1998 was just uninspired trash. the 1962 was not very good as an adaptation and probably one of the lower quality kubricks. the thing about kubrick is that he was not interested in the original material, but used them as jumping off points to explore what he wanted to instead of what the author did. sometimes this overlapped, but for the most part it did not. kubrick's lolita wanted to be all about the comedy, but the whole thing falls short without the pathos and the conspicuousness of form in the original, which really has no equivalent...
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>>8232664
>the 1998 was just uninspired trash.
nah. much better than the '62 at least. fundamentally it was lolita still. the pathos was there. the eroticism too. the humour never made it through.
jeremy irons was a good humbert humbert.
it was like a review [long].
>>8232634
short version: there isw only one LOLITA and that's the book
kubrick version is god damn awful as 85% of his movies
Who had/has the worst (facial) hair in all of literature?
I'll start:
>Young George Bernard Shaw
Me
>>8232473
JUST
inb4 Ibsen & Hegel
What shoud i expect?
Is it good?
>>8232414
No, please do not read this book.
>>8232414
Yes, is perfect. Do it.
Expect to be wowed by his understanding of tech and the modern era
It's a pretty good book, just a little bit worse than Vineland
For how much do you sell your books /lit/?
>>8232345
$2 digital, $6 print.
My last book made me $25,000, plus another 5,000 if it sells more than a certain number of copies
2.99 on Amazon. I'm formatting a paperback as we speak
srsly who watches this
>>8232304
They make porn now
>>8232324
Really?
>>8232304
I don't watch it, I paid to attend their literal school
Itt: authors that would be litcore if people here actually read them
Pascal Bruckner
James Salter
>>8232293
Henry Miller
>>8232299
He is fairly recognised here, isnt he? Dont come here that often
What does /lit/ think of Ibsen, and Hedda Gabler in particular?
What are /lit/'s favorite plays?
ive heard he is good and i think i've watched movies based on his plays but i haven't read him no
my favorite plays are waiting for godot (pleb yeah whatever), antony and cleopatra, krapp's last tape, the balcony and life of galileo. also psychosis 4:48, but is that even a play.
>>8232236
>movies based on his plays
Got any recommendations?
I've only read A Doll's House, but it was amazing and got me into more serious literature.
I'm to pleb to greentext
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Wake takes language beyond any boundary of communicability. It may seem that Ulysses represents the most arduous attempt to give physiognomy to chaos, but Finnegans Wake defines itself as Chaosmos and Microchasm and constitutes the most terrifying document of formal instability and semantic ambiguity that we possess a nocturnal epic of ambiguity and metamorphoses another compromise the coupling of the Viconian striving for salvation with the Brunian idea of a discovery of a god within the unity of the world and not beyond it poetics of the pun the hysperic poetic transition...
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