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what's a good story? I don't want any journals or essays or philosophy books, I want a bonafide story. Fiction or non fiction. I just want something incredibly interesting, or something that really enriches your point of view, like makes you think about the human race. You ever seen blade runner, or ghost in the shell, or serial experiments lain, or akira? I like those sorts of themes, they feel so philosophical.
I guess what I'm trying to say, is I'm looking for a book with extremely philosophical undertones, but something that has a story I can...
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>>8061016
and to add, it doesn't have to be science fiction or cyberpunk.
>I want something easy to read that will make me appear to understand philosophy
>>8061030
what should I read a story for?
/lit/, how do I become based like this mensch?
By being born with the ability to flawlessly recite long poems after just having heard them, by being able to recite a great deal of important English literature off the top of your head, by being able to read hundreds of pages an hour, and by having developed a serious interest in complex literature by the age of 10.
In other words: you don't.
w2c jawline?
Who makes these images
>impactful
>>8060871
>problematic
>problematic
>cultural marxism
You can give me good scenario + bad scenario. How much written text and audio do you go through in a day or week? (music lyrics do not count)
Before you reply to a thread in /lit/ do you read all the comments?
I read 1,000 comments a day which has to be at least 30,000 words.
>Cosume
>Not proofreading
>Not talking about literature
>Massive Twat Shitposting
Anything else I missed?
GTFO imbecile.
>>8060849
Being as it's my first day here and judging from your response I can tell this is the wrong place to find people who really do read books. How much time do you spend here? You have the art of meme nearly mastered. Obviously you're one of those people who buys books and never reads them. peace out scum and all your kind as well
Let's talk apocalypse. I want overlooked, underread, interesting if not quality stuff. Fuck off with your middle of the road well known recs.
Preferably biohazard, man made rather than climate. Add your preferences too. I can reccommend Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger novels for starters.
>>8060560
This is my favorite genre fiction and the only good ones I know of are
The Road - McCarthy
Earth Abides - Stewart
Alas, Babylon - Frank
On the Beach - Shute
Riddley Walker - Hoban
The one by Emily St. John Mandel was a waste of time.
>>8060571
Well reading the first entry I wanted to say "come the fuck on" but I actually never heard of other novels except perhaps On the beach.
You might want to start with Ballard's short stories and The Drowned World.
>>8060560
Anything similar to Fallout, or fallout vaults?
The wax is dripping
Flame of no return
Flickering lights
Shatter as the wick turns
Ashes are spinning
Need to settle the urn
Sitting alone in the kindling
Watching the candle
BURN!! BURN!! BURN!!
On poetry community website-
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/wax_792129
>>8060282
That poem sucks, it doesn't even rhyme. And it's not saying anything other than describing the process in which a candle burns.
>>8060282
What do you think of this two liner poem?
I cried and cried when I left Phoenix. So much I used a box of Kleenex
>>8060282
black holes & protons
are on the mind of the man
who thinks of the spaces
between the atoms.
me? i think of
which fast-food place
i'll go to for dinner,
then whether to surf
the net for porn erotica
or just watch espn 25.
When is the movie Jaws going to be novelized? I mean it was a box office hit that spun off three stellar sequels.
Crappy movies have been novelized, why not the Jaws series?
>>8060274
this level of shitposting...
>>8060294
What do you mean?
What do all of you aspiring novelists do for work?
>>8060226
I sell my body.
The sad part is that I'm not even joking.
>>8060247
You holding up?
>>8060226
Nothing. I'm a NEET.
What is the moust profound book you have ever read? Or a book that really touched you and stayed with you. For me it has to be this gem right here. I basically have it memorized.
I've never read it, but I remember some kids had it for required reading in like 8th grade so I've always assumed it was garbage like To Kill a Mockingbird.
>>8060221
Atlas Shrugged is also rather good.
>>8060225
Read it in Grade 6 and don't fully remember it but it was alright all things considered. Of course that was me in grade 6 so take that with a pinch of salt.
Were his novels even that well written?
>>8060199
No way. Minimalism is nothing compared to the jazzean streams of sweet mind flow by my favorite author and auteur James Joyce
>>8060203
>James Joyce
>Ulysses
DANK JOKE
Americans can't into literature.
Who here really enjoyed
>The Little Prince
as a kid?
It's still my favorite book to this day. I just wish the author had given the characters actual names. It's also quite sad what happened to the author,
>you're a horrible person if you can't see that this blob is an elephant in a snake
What a shitty book for kids what the hell is this supposed to teach them
>>8060204
How did you extrpolate that from the story?
>>8060204
>he can't comprehend a children's book
How is this book of Dr. Seuss's /lit/? How would you compare it to his other literary works?
>>8060172
The Lorax was mad better.
>"stars on thars"
smooth, smooth.
>>8060245
It has a great message for children. Adults could go with reading it too.
Why does Of Mice and Men make me feel more than The Brothers Karamazov?
>>8060119
>>8060119
The characters are meant to be relatable. They are specific groups in America so nor relevant to today etc
Of mice and men is a fantastic story, don't feel bad. People shit on Steinbeck because he is easy to understand but he was a great writer
Would you be flattered or embarrassed if a novel you wrote became a high school english class novel?
I would be embarrassingly rich.
>>8060100
likely you would be embarrassingly dead like all of these on the op pic
>>8060090
I'd be flattered that the education system deemed my novel worthy, but frustrated that multiple generations will grow to despise the book (assuming they actually read it, which they won't) and that hipsters on /lit/ will call it entry-level for not being Finnegans Wake.
>quicksilver in the baby folds of her stomach
What did Nabokov mean by this?
>>8060022
>Vladimir "Corncob" Nabokov
>>>/reddit/
literally
quicksilver was injected into her belly to engulf her stomach
>>8060033
>t. faulkner
