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Which one I better?
Pinocchio.
If Barth's was better it would have made me read it
geez, hard to say, both masterpieces for whatever that's worth.
i'm leaning slightly in the direction of m&d just because I adore pynchon and prefer his brand of humor to barth's...
i will say though, between the two is not so good a comparison as it may seem. while M&D is decidedly ABOUT america, the sot-weed factor is almost only set in america by coincidence. i would say sot-weed is much more a book about the poet, the figure of ebeneezer cooke in specifc, and a parody of the early american novel, not a parody of early america.
Which ethical works successfully defend speciesism?
>>7849445
Just about every non utilitarian work.
>>7849451
So non-utilitarians as a rule consider it fine to make other persons suffer just because they're not human?
>>>>>>>Peter Singer
>lit mag response time is "1 to 3 months"
>"submitted 9/13/2015 (6 months, 11 days ago)"
>>>>>>>>>no response
>>>>>>>>>no simultaneous submissions
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>7849420
>taking no simultaneous submissions seriously
>>7849420
>he submitted the first and only thing he's ever written
>>7849599
>implying I haven't been published already
https://books.google.com/books?id=xdn1as-n4VMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
How has this book not gotten the critical acclaim it deserves?
Institutional racism and sexism desu senpai
Because Iceberg Slim did it first and better.
I prefer this one.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bVJLPKjTUkIC&pg=PA3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
So, why aren't you guys published yet?
My girlfriend loves twentieth century music and recently got really hooked on John Cage. I ordered this book online for her, I was wondering if any of you guys had ever read it? I flipped through the copy of my local library and lost myself in it for practically an hour.
It's just gonna be blank sheets of paper, right?
I don't like cage.
I don't think philosophy can ever justify music just because you say so.
I think that if you want to express an idea in music it must be embedded within the music, un-programmatically, deriving its power from the ability of the listener to infer upward from sense perception to intellection.
The key to understanding so called classical music is in my view simply the adequate development of this ability.
I think stravinsky is extremely worth noting here.
>>7849249
hehehe
Haven't read it yet, but bump for interest
What are some grimdark Sci-fi authors? I want pure fucking edge. I wanna read about space rape.
I would come on her face...
Gap Cycle
>>7849025
Thats a really good photograph OP saving to my collection
Gogol's The Overcoat
I have four books on my desk, can't decide which to read.
Starship Troopers,
Snow Crash,
Johnny Got His Gun,
and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
http://strawpoll.me/7177796
Read something by the Pynch instead
>Johnny Got His Gun,
The only good book in that pile of pre-adolescent American shit
>>7848959
pynchon is worse than those
What are some good "dark" fantasy books?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkEnlightenment/
>>7848937
Pic related, also City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
I know nothing about either of these two books but they are both on my read list. Which one should I start out with? Which one is better?
>>7848803
They're both complete shit and Franzen's a hack. You'd honestly even be better off reading Tao Lin. That's how bad Franzen is.
>>7848826
why is this guy so bad, exactly?
he seems to be reasonably well regarded outside /lit/ i think he was even on time magazine (i haven't read him, just curious)
>>7848836
I've seen threads on the Corrections a couple times on /lit/ lately
Is he overrated?
I personally don't think so, but I seem to come across this opinion a fair bit here on /lit/...
/lit/ just spouts nabokov meme reviews
overrated according to who?
If it means you aren't going to read any other Russian authors then sure
Not really. One of the facts I dislike, though, is that some of his are made into his christian perspective, like "christianism saves you from nihilism" and that shit.
Best way to take care of/repair old books? hardcover and papetback
Binding on the spine is getting dry and falling off
just cover them man
>>7848724
>pito perez
How patrician is this /lit/
Not very. If you want a patrician extra-terrestrial contact book try His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem
>>7848707
>reddit fodder
>patrician
>>7848707
It's pop science, meaning it's a commercial product that was literally designed for the masses rather than the highly educated. The very definition of plebeian
I am not a regular poster here so excuse me if this is old news but have you guys heard that
The author of The Martian wrote a Ready Player One fanfiction
who else #hypedbeyond belief?
http://www.blastr.com/2016-3-22/martian-author-wrote-ready-player-one-fan-fiction-which-now-official-canon
>>7848641
please be bait
>>7848653
why would you think that?
bump
where are the Wier fans
" im twenty six inches tall" so, im supposed to believe that this guy is that ridiculously small?
>>7848638
It's fiction, you can believe or not believe what ever the fuck you want to believe
>>7848648
No adult is that fucking short, was the fuck whas lagerkvist thinking? why the need of making him that fucking small?
>>7848666
idk if u realized this, but he is a dwarf
