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Hey /lit/ i barely come here, but i need some help
my boyfriend wants me to read to him while he is in bed, but i dont know what to read to him, anything you can recommend for me to read to him?
>>7739470
2666
everyone poops
infinete jest
finnegans wake
the ego and its own
Published writer here, ask me anything
Are you relevant enough for anyone in this image board to know who the hell are you?
>>7747530
Do you prefer honey nut cheerios to the original?
>>7747530
why you such a sellout bitch?
What are some books that talk about what life was like in the 1950's to early 60's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ND3oghPL5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK5jyVCdXwc
The only '50s/'60s-themed books I've read have satirized/criticized the culture of the time (White Noise, American Pastoral) rather than support it or present a romanticized vision of the time (though I would definitely be equally interested in reading something similar to your pic, OP).
>>7739975
Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. It seems like that sort of thing is a reaction to the era's presentation of itself in media. So we're just left with The Andy Griffith Show vs. Madmen as our only lenses with which to look back.
the era after it wanted to do nothing more than to poison the past; so hasty were they to cover their crime, so flushed with guilt, that they burned the library of alexandria almost completely to the ground, scattered the ashes, vowed never to speak of that time again
the 50s were, by and large, a happy, fruitful, peaceful, truly enlightened time. they represented the flowering of the dream of 2000 years of European civilization
however the greater the beauty, the more transient. no more ever again will it haunt our dreams; nobody believes in it anymore, it's...
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Let's have some reviews and discuss them.
He's not wrong.
>>7746579
That's kinda true, though.
Sometimes, I understand why people ironically support totalitarianism.
Lets have one of these /lit/
I'll start with one that's great and always gets posted and talked about but no edition has.
>>7736824
that's 10/10 actually, damn
>>7736828
It is. So much that I'm genuinely curious about how much a good quality custom edition of the book with this cover could cost.
>>7736824
man. that's just fucking incredible.
i like this one, but yours is hard to beat.
ITT: writers whose asses you'd eat
>>7731062
>>7731074
i lol'd
Is Kenzaburo Oe worth reading?
I read The Changeling and it was OK, but idk if I should eead him again...
Also, what are other Japanese writers worth reading aside from Mishima and Kawabat?
Osamu Dazai
I'll report back to you once we get to him in one of the courses I'm taking this semester. From what I've heard though I'm somewhat feeling as if I will dread reading through some of Oe.
>>7728074
Oe was a meme tier writer of genre fiction with no discernible talent!
Where were you when you first read his works? When you first pored over his absolute majesty of prose and magnificence? Where were you when you read our time's greatest master, above Sterne, Proust, Dostoevsky, Joyce, Melville, Faulkner, Homer, even Shakespeare?
Where were you, /lit/?
Please stop.
>>7743531
No, the world must know his greatness! Don't you try to stifle his genius!
When I was 8 I found a stack of old boxes in my grandfather's basement. He had two separate subscriptions in the 70's and 80's, Playboy and Asimov's Science Fiction. The boxes were packed with over a decade of both.
While I appreciated the Playboy's with a certain wide-eyed wonderment, Asimov's Science Fiction changed my life. From my finding of the boxes to college days I always had a copy of Asimov's shoved in my pocket. It stirred in my nascent personality a love of language and literature that would follow me through the rest of...
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Ah yes, Isaac Asimov and his great philosophical works, quote unquote. Because when I think philosophy, I think Asimov.
In truth, your nonstop drive for escapism has been replaced with issues that make you feel something other than meaningless bliss.
The horror! The horror!
>>7743129
>In truth, your nonstop drive for escapism has been replaced with issues that make you feel something other than meaningless bliss.
Actually, it's more that traditional science fiction had philosophy at its core. Take Asimov's robot works for example. In those works the philosophy concerns the nature of humanity(the most popular and over explored area by now). We ask ourself if we are merely flesh machines or something more, yet we know that robots are simply machines....
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>We ask oursel[ves] if we are merely flesh machines or something more, yet we know that robots are simply machines. The question then becomes how much a machine can "feel" and if it can be alive
>Modern science fiction is more concerned with smaller questions(if they bother with philosophy at all) like racism, sexism, or social imbalance
And which of these is more "relevant" to today's society? That is the very basis of escapism; we know that, for instance, strong AI is a fantasy and, at the same time, that major barriers to progress like cultural, social, and economic differences are ongoing and very real.
"But what does relevance have to do with anything?" you say. And there you fall for your own trap: Your "philosophical" considerations of strong AI, and rocket ships, and colonizing Mars, and all the things Asimov writes about, are a conflictless fantasy that has no, zero, bearing on today's world except for the most hardcore futurist.
If you want easy, predictable stories that will pander to your worldview and ideology, just say so. Don't beat around the bush by indicting SJWs.
What are your top 3 favorite books that aren't on this list /lit/?
Hard mode:Nor by any of the authors on the list.
>All that normie stuff
>Literally zero power level
1. Sword Art Online
2. Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari
3. Mushoku Tensei
t. random weeb.
>>7741123
You could've at least tried to pick good LN
>>7741091
Autobiography of Red and Red Doc.
The Hearing Trumpet
Petersburg
"Hey anon! What are you reading?"
This post LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
>>7731323
lolita, its about cute 8 year old 2d waifus, you wouldn't understand haha
>not just saying its about a pedophile
overly modest cucks are hilarious
Hi /lit/
I have a 155 IQ, and let me tell you It's so lonely up at the top of the intelligence tower! A lesser like you just wouldn't understand. I jut can't deal with normal life, and the struggles of dealing with lesser baboons at risk of them tainting my intellect. What should I use my superiority for in the writing community?
>>7740229
Killing yourself.
>>7740229
You sound like this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndW5uiwexL8
>>7740229
You're a standard deviation below me, fool, and you're lonely because you're a cunt and act like a faggot when you're not directly being a cunt. It's not your intelligence that makes you lonely, it's the fact you're a loathsome twat.
How many people actually know that you write?
>>7742842
Most of the people I know since people love talking about their jobs.
When it was just a hobby I'd say, like, 30%? We don't talk about hobbies as much as we talk about work strangely enough
All of my close friends. I show them it too.
>>7742842
Most of my friends.
I normally write erotic short stories of any kind,just inspire me and I'll have an entire plot inside my head.
I don't normally do it because I want to,I only write them for a really special friend.
She says that my stories are amazing and the ideas I implement on them are great.She likes yaoi aka boys love.
>inb4 faggot
My wife and I are thinking about having kids soon. How do I make my kid patrician while still sending him/her/zir to public school?
Let me finger its ass
>>7742548
benis in vagina
>>7742548
>public school
found your problem right fucking there plebasaurus faggasaurus.
What's the essential LatinAmerican-core?
That's it.
Borges
Marquez
Guevara
Bolaño
Arlt
Borges
Vargas Llosa
Marquez
Cortazar
Puig
Bolaño
