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Are there any Elmore Leonard fans on here? I just read When the Women Come Out to Dance (later re-released as Fire in the Hole) and thought it was as strong a collection of short genre fiction as I've ever read
I thought Hombre was great.
>>7815963
Are his Western novels generally good? I've only read his crime stuff before, but I was really impressed by the short stories The Tonto Woman and Hurrah for Captain Early.
I read one crime fiction book. Overrated trash. Why do Americans try so desperately to try and elevate their pulp trash into art?
Post a passage or quote that struck you from what you're reading right now.
"You are doing what?" Mr Quincey glanced at him over the top of the watering-can as if to say: I have seen all this going on; I know all about it because I am God, and even when God was much older than you are he was nevertheless up at this time and fighting it, if necessary, while you don't even know whether you're up or not yet, and even if you have been out all night you are certainly not fighting it, as I would be, just as I would be ready to fight anything or anybody...
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“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
"My eyes turn to the board as they once did when I sat in class and dreamed, entering outer space, passing systems of stars in a blink, or imagining regions of the world which awaited their maps to be finally real, or drawing with my mind's eyeline the belovedly rendered buttocks of Miss Mason, over and over, until there was nothing to see there but ocean, nothing but waves."
“Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”
Savage Detectives
Hey, /lit/
I'm trying to get a new take on how to portray insanity in my work. What sort of literature can I read to see how others have done it?
I do not mean the sort of insanity that involves mental hospitals or is supported by the setting. Perhaps more subtle in ways?
>>7815758
insanity is a very broad term. most people who deviate from normative patterns of thinking, behavior and/or speech are often considered insane.
writing about insanity without having the personal experience will usually mean that your writing will be marred by stereotypes (as so many works are dealing with people suffering from psychotic breaks).
still, if you want literature on the subject, read:
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber & Knots by R.D. Laing
>>7815772
I want to use a second person perspective. So you are experiencing the behavior of other characters in order to further characterize them. You're right it is a very broad term but I am trying to be as vague as possible in an effort to get as many possible "hits" as I can. Thank you for the titles.
various manifestations of "insanity" are at their core caused by subject/environment interaction so the setting, or rather in your case the non-setting is the backdrop
In his book The Selfish Gene, Dawkins coined the word meme (the behavioural equivalent of a gene) as a way to encourage readers to think about how Darwinian principles might be extended beyond the realm of genes. Dawkins's meme refers to any cultural entity that an observer might consider a replicator of a certain idea or set of ideas. Because memes are not always copied perfectly, they might become refined, combined, or otherwise modified with other ideas; this results in new memes, which may themselves prove more or less efficient replicators than their predecessors,...
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>>7815637
>frogposter
>trump
>dawkins
>memes
into the fucking trash it fucking goes
>>7815637
Well meme'd
>>7815637
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tIwYNioDL8
A while ago I saw a screenshot of a page from a graphic novel, reverse image searched it and found the book's goodreads. It sounded so good, eerie and surreal, and the art captivated me; so I actually stopped researching it so it would be fresh. Then of course I completely forgot the title.
What I know:
-has japanese character(s), but seems to be written in English or is translated well
-main guy maybe works at a factory?
-involves a monkey
please help
Question: Was the cover mostly yellow and brown?
>>7815630
sounds plausible. Gimme what you got
Post your poetry.
Hail, a fair stranger
Feminist, dyed hair and cats
Another left swipe
so much
depends upon
the thoughtful
informed post
fraught with
wisdom and insight
beside the
blatant shitpost
I threw a rock in the water. The water was slow so the surface was flat and showed the mountains clear, but not true.
It doesn't show the mountains true. Always that dark flow below, slow, on which the mountains show, pass little clouds of foam.
My stone, what a beauty: round and flat as I could hope for, with all years I stalked the bank, skipping its flat rocks into the water.
Does it mean anything that I wasted the choicest rocks when I walked with a waddle, diapered bottom, and animal instinct bid me pick up the best and let fly?
Standing...
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What is this pretentious garbage. Is it 2deep4me or am I missing something?
Currently 70p in.
>>7836810
>pretentious garbage
You've answered your own question, the same is true for Hesse's other books.
>>7836839
t. only read siddhartha and the wikipedia article of steppenwolf
What's wrong with it?
It's a good book you shitty 4chan hipster
"HURRDURR IM SO ANTI-NORMIE LOOK AT ME DISLIKING STEPPENWOLF"
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than...
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Who cares, that is highschool pot smoking behind the basketball court to impress the hunnies tier prose.
What cliche, lowbrow garbage! Stephen King is such a hack.
>>7836305
>prose
why
Holy shit.
This hit me hard. It's not even one quote or one passage, it's everything. I never came this close to crying over a fucking book.
To the anon that recommended this, thank you. No irony, no sarcasm, no memes, just thank you.
>>7835855
If you're looking for something similar to read - I'd go for "Augustus", I've not got round to reading it but it's also by John Williams and the general consensus is that it's even more emotional, and a better novel on the whole.
DUDE
>>7836396
It's not about weed at all. Stoner is the protagonist's surname.
>Be greek
>12 years in school we study the greeks
>goes in /lit/
>''Start with the greeks''
>PTSD
Well, this statement obviously does not apply to you then, but only to the usual dilettantes that come to /lit/ asking about where to start.
>>7835693
If anything you have a better start then most people
why so many grecophiles in this subreddit?
I have 5h to kill at work. What short story should I read?
>>7835330
Encyclopedia
the pederson kid
>>7835330
>5 hours
>short story
How slow do you read?
Also, Robert Sheckley or Harlon Ellison if you like sci-fi or fantasy without the faggotry and 200 pages of tediously detailed alternate worlds.
There's a pretty cool Chinese book review show called '1001 Nights', filmed at night in Beijing. If you can understand Chinese you might want to check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_q006uH9CvVsw_LSaeSLxttcsjoVpq8J
If not, rate this list of books. [episode number]
2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby [episode 1][2][3]
Primo Levi - The Drowned and the Saved [4][5]
Paul Theroux - The Old Patagonian Express [6][7]
Yang Mu - ‘Someone Asks Me About Justice and Righteousness’ [8][9]
Wang Guowei...
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I have no idea what he's saying but the whole thing looks pretty patrish
>>7831740
Yeah. It kind of goes against the stereotype of the Chinese as brainwashed and parochial, although there's certainly plenty of that in China too. I mean, there aren't many people in any country who enjoy discussing books.
The show is financed and hosted by two of the Chinese youtube clones - Youku and Tudou. Luckily the makers also upload it to Youtube because Youku and Tudou are very slow from outside China.
11mins 15secs is cute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W75DXeK8_c
>>7831778
>"we are taking about Leibniz, you can't help here"
Kek
who here in academia? any level.
i'm starting my bachelor's essay next week. i'll have two months of time to write about whatever i want, as long as it ends up about 30-35 pages long. i have been interested in ai and artificial consciousness for a while and there is such incredible progress in the field so i think i will use it in some way. thinking about beckett's the unnamable. maybe i can compare his fictional isolated consciousness with artificial consciousness. don't know.
what you researching? writing about? being angry about?(i...
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>bachelor's
>academia
lol ok buddy
>playing go
>incredible progress
>2 months to write 30-35 pages
lmao pussy
>The Crying of Lot 49
>California counter culture youths unironically supporting Barry Goldwater because it's cool to be against the grain
>4chan
>20-something edgemasters supporting Donald Trump to spite their liberal high school teachers and college professors
that's just rebellious, contrarian youth in general, trump has nothing to do with it
>>7825291
Oh (you).
It can't possibly be that people just like him better than the other candidates, can it?
>if you don't agree you're contrarian
nice 「logic」
Hey, guys I went to the 34th annual Florida Antiquarian Book Fair last week.
I thought you guys might appreciate some of this stuff.
This is Thomas Mann's autograph in a Dostoevsky book
A misprint perhaps?
