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Proof to me that anime and vidya aren't superior to literature, and that the true intellectuals do not reside on /r9k/ instead of here
>>8229245
cool, another thread to hide
>>8229245
>Proof to me that
>/r9k/, my home board, is not more intellectual than you
>Proof
yes I will get on that momentarily OP, as soon as I sage this thread
dumb frogposter
I have a 20% off (max of $20) coupon for Abe that expires tomorrow. What should I buy?
is that coupon on everything? how did you get it?
>>8229238
I'd get the Faerie Queene and A Smuggler's Bible or Anatomy of Melancholy.
Immeasurable equation. Collection if Sun Ra
Believe it or not, my friends, but there was a time when sci-fi was literary: back before it got abducted by the same brainlets that turned Tolkein's fantasy into the profit-driven shithole it is today.
>>8229225
You've got four authors? Does that really count as a collection? I like your Lem, but still.
>>8229225
Problem with sci-fi now is it isn't overly complicated like it should be or it's just a reskinned action movie or novel.
We all got together and agreed that it is pretty gay.
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Seems like this board focuses more on the classic literature, but I'd like to know more about our times. Enlighten me on the contemporary literature (say, 1990-present), /lit/. What authors, books, emerging trends should I know? Any charts concerning our period?
David Foster Wallace, Tao Lin, the list goes on and on.
>>8229221
anything but Tao Lin, IJ is kind of unavoidable
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Road by Cormac MacCarthy
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Fat Years by Koonchung...
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>>8229439
Some good stuff mixed with absolute shit that won't be reme oh wait you're a tripfag, nevermind.
wow, Schopenhauer really didn't think highly of women lol.
>>8229195
Let's just say he was redpilled to the maximum degree.
'Get women back in the fucking kitchen'
- BASED Schopenhauer
A profound influence on my thinking today.
"Bitches aint shit but hoes and tricks" - Bropenhauer
>mfw there are people on this board right now who think he was wrong about any of it
Do you say "jay are" or "junior?"
>>8229189
i know there's an answer to this, he said it in an interview, but i forget. maybe i wont even submit this response. fuck it
>>8229189
well it's two capital letters spaced out. so what the fuck do you think?
>>8229200
I need to be hostile. I say jay are but I was just curious about you anons.
anyone else read his memoirs? i've read the first two volumes of the non-condensed version and they're absurd - he is extraordinarily patrician
>>8229168
>reading proto nu-males
>>8229178
how is casanova a nu-male
>>8229188
Looks like a fag cuck
Hey /lit/
I just want to tell you that if you ever plan to order a book from bookdepository, just don't.
>pic related
book ordered - book received
>>8229147
i've ordered several books from book depository before and they have always arrived reasonably promptly
also you're too lazy to even retitle a meme picture so fuck you basically
>>8229147
I've ordered some books from bookdepository and each time they arrived after only a month.
>>8229185
>only a month
What do you do before deciding a new book to read? What considerations do you make with regard to notoriety, author, setting etc?
I'm pretty open-minded, I'll read anything as long as it's written by a white man and isn't genre fiction
i just go through various /lit/ charts i have saved lmao
>>8229124
Usually get it into my head that "I am going to read this book because of...". Also helps with not quitting for another book.
I go through my to-read list and just pick what I'm in the mood for.
When will we see the first professor in memetics?
>>8229117
Meme is just layman vernacular for a concept that has existed in philosophy for like a thousand years. Yes, that's how pleb you are.
>>8229129
Same could be said about a lot of things.
>>8229129
pleb or no, at least he's not a summer who needs to lurk mor
What's the general opinion about this book?
>>8229051
Never read it but can tell it's extremely pleb just from the title.
Serious books aren't titled this way.
#rare
I liked it
>it's a story within a story
>>8229047
>the narrator is the protagonist
>>8229047
>The city is the protagnist
>>8229047
>the moon is the protagonist
Orson Scott Card argues that having themes in mind, before creating a character, creates characters as cardboard cutouts, rather than believable characters.
He argues that if the audience were to recognize a theme in some piece, it takes them out of the story, it takes breaks the reader's stream of consciousness.
He argues that themes will naturally form out of interesting character conflict, and setting conflicts, and should be left this way, rather than adapting characters to certain endings or beginings, to fulfill a theme.
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it's a fairly reasonable stance to take.
>>8229023
>believable characters
>>8229023
>it takes them out of the story, it takes breaks the reader's stream of consciousness.
He's right about characters tending to turn into ideograms rather than people if authors focus too much on the themes. However, being "taken out of the story" isn't really a problem for me. Books aren't video games. Recognizing themes is an important part of the reading process.
Infinite Jest in television
So what other shows or movies have you seen this book been mentioned? I can only think of Man Seeking Woman and The Middle where it's basically name dropped.
What would be the TV equivalent to Infinite Jest?
Man Seeking Woman is written by Simon Rich, a very funny writer in his own right. As for The Middle, I've never heard of it and I don't know why it referenced IJ.
>>8228992
One of the main character's in The Middle is obsessed with books and he gets Infinite Jest for Christmas in one episode
with all the rad puppies and sad puppy stuff going on
>>8228977
>with all the rad puppies and sad puppy stuff going on
what are you talking about
literary circles would only by accused of racism by people that would automatically accuse all educated or white people of racism
>>8228977
Probably not but it's 2016. Everything is racist now.
I do think its funny how often in fantasy the author inserts a civilization of black people on the periphary of the story, and their society is a flawless isolationist utopia.
Like the author is terrified of being called racist so he has black people in his world, but doesnt have black people in the story, if that makes sense.
