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Has genre fiction ever been close to literary /lit/?
>>8172584
Please learn how to punctuate your sentences, you dense cunt.
tolkienfags think so.
some detective shit is.
some literary shit happens to have scifi in it.
but for the most part, no, not even close.
Lots of readers are unaware Fyador Dostoevsky was a genre writer.
have you found any of Joseph mcelroys books in used book stores? I've been searching for a year and haven't found a single one. are they out of print? you would think you could find them in Toronto with the 15 different book stores I frequent. what are your favorite books by him, other than women and memes.
oh yeah I forgot. you guys don't actually read.
>>8173395
we just buy shit off abebooks and amazon and libgen instead of walking around like it's the stone age you inbred
>>8172532
I actually saw Women & Men in Toronto at Re:reading a few years ago. Didn't buy it because I don't really care to spend a lot of money on a doorstopper meme book desu.
After today's big news, I guess the question is what did you think of the first 550 pages?
>>8172162
What's the news?
>>8172165
I assume OP is saying it will be less incomplete somehow. I haven't heard anything tho
It's the same guy that posted >>8169455, ignore this thread.
Any books about ABSOLUTE FUCKING THERMONUCLEAR RAMPAGE??????
It's impossible to convey thermonuclear rampage through writing
>>8172114
Challenge accepted.
>>8172101
Gravity's Rainbow
>translation of a translation
>>8172047
>frog faggot
please, that is beyond frogs. if such a thing ever happens the world that allows it should disappear.
>>8172062
I read that my country didn't have a direct translation for Don Quixote until 1957. Also, I'm not even sure we have a full translation of the Aeneid in verse today (certainly not to be found in modern book shops).
/lit/, I have a compulsion to buy books. Don't get me wrong, I read them, but I end up buying and my backlog is huge.
tfw genuienly tried to stop but i keep buying more books
>>8171980
picture of my backlog from a week ago
about 3 more books have been added
Pff, me too. I still need to finish 5 more books before I'm "allowed" to buy another and while I read a lot, I read everything BUT the books here brought last.
I also have this problem
I think it stems from a desire to have a big ass lobrary to loan shit to anyone who coukd use it
did I get the best possible poetry compilations? I got the norton anthology of poetry and the norton anthology of modern poetry, as well as "poems for the millennium" volumes 1-3. It's like, I wanna find new poetry, but I'm also hoping that there's gonna be some cool badass poetry in here besides just some boring shit that talks about god and love and shit. I have high hopes for the norton modern and volumes 1-3 of the poems for the millennium (especially the dadaist part). There isn't like, some ultra badass compilation of poetry that I could have...
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Just listen to trap rap
>>8171953
You probably won't even read 90% of the poems you just bought.
>>8172665
Probably not, but I will read the ones that I find most interesting, and sample a little of each author, as I was doing this morning. I gotta say, the old stuff in the norton anthology of poetry is really fucking difficult to understand. Hopefully the newer poetry will be less epically vague and I can get some sort of sense of what I'm reading from it.
ITT: We pretend this is not 4chan, converse politely and intellectually as we do in real life. Be a gentleman.
>>8171891
sage faggot
>>8171891
fuck you nigger
build the wall, you faggot kike
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FREEbook thread.
Willing to take requests on ww2 diaries of which i have quite a lot in pdf format from anyone who can provide me with Three New Deals from Wolfgang Schivelbusch.
Have you got Junger's "On Pain" or Speer's "Spandau diaries"?
>>8171895
Also Ernst Von Solomans "The Outlaws"
>>8171895
have got Spandau, sadly not junger
What was his problem?
>>8171867
He was a faggot and a failure. He put his feelings on a paper so other faggots and failures could relate to someone.
>>8171867
AIDS
his repressed faggorty.
How to put Roman traits in a corporation or government in a cyberpunk novel?
If you'd researched Rome you wouldn't need to ask this
for what purpose
>>8171807
Don't need to be condescending, /lit/
seriously, what's yalls problem? why can't you fucking talk to each other like people and why is it a fad to call people autists? be cool man, jeez
|CUMMIE| /FOR/ |MUMMY|
>>8171788
Thou art one of simple mind.
>>8171794
Thou art one of simple mind
;)
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I've removed the connective words like "the" and "is," as well as the most culturally unique words.
Can you guess what the original work was?
>>8171694
Something McCarthy?
Would seem typical of genre garbage
Hey /lit/,
I have a problem and maybe you'll have a new perspective or two to share with me.
Basically, I want to write a short story that covers a niche of our society. And I want to say, a niche, nothing more. This is not the WHOLE world and this is not HOW THINGS REALLY ARE, it's just a slit of society I have been watching lately.
Now, my linkage is wrong, but it may be very representative, thatswhy I took it.
Here it goes: Mass shooters and other extrem societal deviants (always MEN*) are always seen as monsters, but society never...
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oh god
You're not writer.
Is Dostoevsky good?
>>8171568
It depends, for me sometimes it's a little slow.
Depends. If you're reading for plot, no.
If your reading for characters and reflection, he's one of the best.
>>8171568
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
