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Just finished faust 1&2. What's your personal favorite quotation and what's your interpretation of Faust 2? Also, did Faust win the bet?
Guys? Anyone?
>>8062308
Most people here only reads vapid shit like IJ, Pynchon and Bolaño, anon. Sorry.
>>8062162
ehr, I might get to it, I was intrigued when I skimmed through the first pages once when wasting some time at the Uni library
>got an MEng degree in a """respected""" subject (at least is makes people overrate my intelligence)
>graduated last summer and only had part time jobs since then
>have final round interview for good role at very big and respected company in London
>it's finance related, meaning ultimate wageslavery doing braindead work while living in a cupboard in City 17
>tfw haven't spent all my...
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>>8062052
Grow the fuck up.
Charles worked in a fucking post office for 10 years before someone actually cared about anything he wrote of cause he's going to be a bitter cunt about employment.
>counting the time on a crisis
>being able to do it correctly
nah, youre just pretending.
I'm tired of hearing about this sort of self-pitying, melancholic drivel. There are so many ways to achieve the things that you want, yet you come here to whine about your life, about how everything would've been so much better if you had made a different choice somewhere. Just because it seems easy to shit out some app and sell it to Microsoft for $6B doesn't mean you would've done that. You probably would've been watching a Warren Buffet interview, wondering why you hadn't gone into finance instead. It doesn't matter what you do, but don't...
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Hey lit, did you like Karl Ove Knausgård?
>>8061813
Very much. His conversations with Geir are top-tier.
he was great as Aragon in Lord of the Rings
>>8061813
looks cute, would pet
Where can I find a copy of The Brothers Karamazov translated by P&V at a reasonable price? Even better, a digital version of it
pic unrelated
>>8061790
>Greene
>Level 1
If they mean John Greene then the creator of this chart is a faggot, John Greene is trash
>translated by P&V
>>8063459
It's Graham Greene you illiterate retarded faggot
Someone on the tinychat gave this to me. How well does this cover essential American literature? What's it missing?
this is really honestly emberassing, disregard it completely op, i really don't mean to troll
They did it as a joke, these are all meme authors (although some of them definitely are important in american literature).
Just look into famous or acclaimed or canonical american writers, find a book that interests you and read it - if you find it too difficult move onto something that is easier and then return the previous work later. You don't need all these flowcharts to tell you exactly what to read, just use them as a way to find similar works to the ones you enjoy.
Isn't Infinite Jest post-pomo ?
Just powered through this on my downtime at work, and it was really good actually.
For some reason I've been pretty stand off-ish of Vonnegut, but now I'm curious about him and his works so;
Vonnegut thread
>>8061659
It's widely considered the high point of his work so it's all downhill from there.
Um, it's ok I guess, but not really that good. Like the Goosebumps of actual literature. Ice nine and Bokonism were kind of funny ideas, but that's it. Vonnegut's prose is dreadful
>>8061659
Vonnegut's stuff is very entertaining and well written, but very accessible so dont expect much praise for him in /lit/ because of this.
Let's talk about something none of you memers ever seem to care for: up and coming writers.
Who shows promise? Who has finally broken through? What does the great fiction of tomorrow look like?
Joshua Cohen
>>8062421
That guy shows no promise and he's had enough published. He has absolutely nothing to say, and tries to be all cool with that internet shit but it's nothing but a gimmick.
Who cares. Western canon remains to be read and reread. Why sift through shit to occasionally find gold when you can just stick to gold.
What's your analysis of Heart of Darkness? What did you like and dislike? What's to be learned here?
colonialism is bad
it's hot at the equator
fever is dangerous
>>8061300
it was racist so I didn't like it
>>8061319
this. where does this white cis-male get off degrading blacks and talking about africa
what happens when you die
convince me it's not nothingness
nothingness
look at the signs nature gives us :o)
>>8061038
well, your brain releases a bunch of dmt and you hallucinate for a bit. then it's nothingness.
>tfw your prof tells you you're a literary genius during office hours
>tfw your prof doesn't tell you anything because you don't have one
>tfw you hear weird noises from the room your prof is since you kidnapped him 2 years ago
but you will be nothing other than an office clerk
hey everyone. I'm looking for some recommendations. I have a seething discontent with the human race. Except, I am not looking for Ligoti, Cioran, or Celine (although I hear those authors are good). No, I am looking for fiction or non fiction, stories about a narrator who just doesn't give a fuck and just fucks with a lot of people and is very strange and feels misunderstood. My favorite book is The Wasp Factory. I am also open to books where the main character, an innocent person, gets put through tremendous torment unwittingly, like prolonged stays in a psychiatric...
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You need to be 18 to post on this board kid.
>>8060545
I'm 22, friend.
the da vinci code
fallen, by lauren kate
my twisted world by elliot rodger
>there are people on /lit/ right now who unironically believe that these three books are the greatest books of all time
Jacques Derrida here.
Before I make another post and engage in any discussion in this thread, I must first ask you to define the following words:
"greatest" (this one I'd like to understand the most)
"unironically"
"(all) time"
And what do you mean THESE books?
This is extremely important and I can't be an active participant of any discussion here, unless I know the meaning of the words you used.
You can't have a list of greatest books without including The Bible.
>there are people who unironically let memes influence their opinion of books they've probably never read
How the fuck do you get published? Not even with novels, I mean a goddamn short story or something.
I know I'm not great, but sometimes the shit I see in fiction journals is just plain rotten
>>8060207
1) Be a white woman
2) Get lucky
Nepotism.
>>8060207
Munch on lots of gnarly old carpet. Maybe they'll throw you a bone in a decade or three.
Describe a more correct theory of human nature.inb4 you can't
>>8059901
DUDE EDGY LMAO
>>8059937
I'm being completely newly sincere. Plus, why would that be edgy?
>>8059901
Rousseau.jpg
So why aren't you reading this?
>>8059631
Vollman just sounds like a low-rent Pynchon t b h.
vollman refuses to engage with the internet and consciously sets his books before the internet age to avoid having to write about it
to me that signifies a failure to engage with the modern world around him - which isn't bad inherently, but he wants to write books about the modern experience, but chooses to eschew a major part of it. that's silly and i think it just means he doesn't understand the world we live in as much as he'd like the reader to think
>>8059716
Are there any good writers that "engage with the internet" ?
All I've heard about is junot diaz and ready player one type crap.
Who cares anyway the internet is not that important.
