>>7428665
I compiled the Death Orgy with the Parts.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIdoWxLOs7tVlO8MHISFAm1stJ7FEta-fL0dBe88J1g/edit?pli=1

All that's left now is:
>Insert the BedroomPunishment story that got deleted in Part 5.
>Capitalize some 'the's from Part 5 - some rapscallion changed them to "nigger" in the process.
>Adjust paragraphs, proper alignment.

Otherwise, it's dandy.

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>>7429139
I also came upon this secret chapter in TLOTIAT that sh/d explain some refs, for the confused.

Do you know if he owns/has read Vonnegut's Wompeters, Foma, and Granfalloons? Even among his fans, it's a lesser known/read work, consisting of a collection of essays, speeches, and interviews. He would undoubtedly enjoy that. For Heller, if he hasn't read both Picture This and Something Happened, I would highly recommend those, but I would guess he has if he is as well-read as you suggest.

For something similar to some of his tastes that you mention that he may not have read, I would also suggest Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. It is very similar to Heller's...
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>>7452050
Thanks anon. Winesburg especially sounds like something he might like. I'll look into all those

>>7452050
>Regarded as one of the most highly influential works for modern American authors including Faulkner.

I probably could have worded that more precisely. It's regarded as one of the more influential works for those authors in terms of setting the foundation for the styles, themes, etc. that you find to be common amongst the modern American authors like Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Hemmingway.

And one more random rec that someone like him would get a kick out of: The Professor...
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>>7450786
why's james cryin? cuz he just got dunked on.

midnight's children maybe?

>>7450786
I unfortunately haven't read Marquez yet so I can't make a direct comparison or link. Maybe you'd be interested in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy b. Yaqdhan and Ibn an-Nafis' Fadeel b. Natiq (Theologus Autodidactus)?

1001 Nights definitely is a good place to start too. You can read the Arabic online from here:
https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9

use the archive
>>7437210

Check the archive before you make such a common request. Here's one thread:
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S7096422

You can use the search function to find more if that's not satisfactory.

>>7450319
>>7450322
thank you. no one bump this thread, please

>>7449892
Thanks for showing us that you know how to copy-paste and search through the archive. :s

>>7449892

This didn't really happen.

People seem to be confused about what a Marxist is on this board

>everything looks like unhelpful self-help
>give me more self-help

On a related topic, what kind of books can I read to learn how to move my hand?

Help

>>7449768

If your life is a serious mess and you think you have actual mental problems, a book won't help you and you should probably seek professional help.

Hmm, well, no. Typically the hero is subject to fate or Fortune, such as in The Aeneid and Greek epics and has no 'choice' but to succumb.

Historically perhaps, but the way things are now the only platform for "great men" to live up to that potential is probably politics, and even then if you have any radical opinions you won't make any ground there.

Also, check out Tennyson's Ulysses.

You'd like it. It, in some senses, reinforces your thought. Im sure it's online

Sort of.

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I like him but I'm really right wing

>>7449630
I dont like anything

The fact is MFA culture promotes "networking" and "self-promoting" to the extent that unless you're willing to go with it you are literally less than scum to these people. The best thing a committed writer can do in 2015 is write something worthwhile and hope his mother discovers it in the basement after his heart explodes.

>>7449409
What is MFA culture?

Also, I think you might be right.

I have artist friends, painters, illustrators, photographers, and it's so much easier for them. Sure some of them try to play the "I"m so shy, self doubt" thing too, but their work gets an immediate feedback. They post a painting on facebook, or draw on Twitch, and instant validation.

Besides the logistical reasons for not sharing writing this way (copyright, sites and magz counting this as already published) I can't...
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>>7449434
MFA is some sort of program in the US that churns out "writers". Professional, schooled "writers". Results are what you'd expect. It's mostly used as a derogative on this board.

>>7449361
even though this obviously b8, 500 words? A fingerless autist could bust that out in ten minutes.

"brekkek kékkek kékkek" said anon

JAMES JOYCE WROTE LOVE LETTERS ABOUT FARTS. There's your intro. Expand on that. That's all anybody wants to know about anyway.

local labour law
zarathustra
the art of being right

>>7449155
industrial society and it's future

>>7449155

Bartleby the Scrivener

>>7449115
Start with Anti-oedipus

>>7449120
Is this a mock suggestion, or for real?

Definitely have it in mind to read Deluze and Guattari

>>7449115

Just popping in to say that Wittgenstein's book on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religion (not necessarily in that order, can't remember) has a fascinating discussion of Freud and psychoanalysis.

A lot of translations of Lacan are really shitty so my advice would be to pick up as much secondary literature as possible from the library and find a writer that explains it half decently. There's a book called 'Lacanian Dictionary' or 'Dictionary for Lacanian Theory' or something...
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>>7449051
>It's very slow and tenuous reading and I feel like I need to re-read everything 3-4 times before I actually understand what's being said.
This is fine OP, read with a pen in your hand and underline something you find interesting or what you'd like to know about a section and ask someone who has read it or ask online, even a professor

There's a shit ton more Greeks to read before you get to Epictetus... Read the Edith Hamilton's Mythology, then Homer, then probably the Tragedies, then maybe Plato. If you're going to read Stoics, then Senneca is the obvious entry point (once you've read all the other stuff). For general lit, the starter kit in the sticky is actually pretty good, or as good as any. Read all that & a year from now you'll be doing great!

>>7449056
If that's the one with Siddhartha, Brave New World and Great Gatsby then I've read pretty much all of them.

Everything besides catch 22 and Lolita.

No

It was shit.

It was all right. I didn't think it was as notable as most people make it out to be, but maybe it was. I'm not in the field.

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>>7448863
Yes.

Gene theory is overly reductive. Read pic related and "Sex and Death," instead if you want to get a handle on how evolution works and is discussed among professionals.

>children's literature

Generally, only when it actually is literature and not just books. "The Little Prince" gets mad play here but stuff like your OP not really. Seems like a mere book (not literature proper).

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/539168-the-difference-between-books-and-literature

>>7448679
You just reminded me of /tv/. I don't mean that as an insult, but what you just said is awfully reminiscent of what they'll describe to you as the distinction between a "film" and a "movie". With the former, of course, being the /tv/ equivalent of "literature" as opposed to the latter, which would be the /tv/ equivalent of a "book".

Still though, I've seen more off-topic discussion on the front page. Surely this is close enough so that we can discuss it?

>>7448679
What do people think of Watership Down? I loved that book when I was younger. Re-reading it I can now notice all the various themes and devices throughout.

It's also weird / interesting how when you break it all down it's just a pretty typical adventure genre fiction