Here they are folks. The old meme trilogy in their glory.
It's only a matter of time before the new meme trilogy is accepted.
>>7425054
2666, Recognitions, and Women and Men
what's the new one?
Ok.
>>7425056
>2666
shit
>Recognitions
wank
>Woman and Men
why bother?
OP here, these are my picks.
Might sub out underworld for the tunnel.
Gaddis will be the next meme author.
>>7425056
No no no
There NEEDS to be Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
>>7425081
>2666
>shit
>>7425087
do you buy online? (are you the first edition thread maker?
>>7425091
Sometimes, I don't like to pay a lot only if it's one of my favorite books. If it's for sale online the seller knows what they have.
I get most of mine from used bookstores.
>>7425094
His overarching theme of the relationship between money and doing what you love (mostly in the form of expression through art) in all of his novels is amazing. Easily my favorite author right now.
>>7425054
What percentage of this board do you think has actually completed these?
>>7425133
I think most people have read Infinite Jest. Then probably Gravity's Rainbow. I imagine Ulysses is the least read of the three.
you should try reading them simultaneously, alternating word by word
>2016-27days
>not embracing the new meme trilogy
>>7425154
can someone post the first sentence of this, i only have ulysses.
>>7425139
the only one i've read is Ulysses
Threads like this really pull down the quality of the board.
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
>>7425054
>corrected edition
pleb
>>7425179
is this your first week here?
The new meme trilogy is obviously The Pale King, Mason & Dixon and Finnegans Wake. Are you a bad enough dude?
>>7425185
He's in high school.
>>7425184
>implying the gabler edition is not GOAT
there will be no new meme trilogy. these three works were perfectly designed to compose the one and true meme trilogy for now and for all time. they are all large, ambitious, experimental, written by renowned authors and at the same time controversial, all open equally to valid criticism and praise.
>>7425179
There is no reason to trip here.
>>7425201
There is no reason to trip.
FTFY
Guys
What about
Tolstoy
Or
Dostoevsky
What would be the poetry trilogy.
>>7425279
In Memoriam by Tennyson needs to be on there.
>>7425279
Rumi, Shakespeare, Whitman/Pound
>>7425290
We gotta pick specific works, not just the poets themselves
not even /mu/ is this bad. at least they have some variety with their shit.
>>7425299
wasteland, howl, paradise lost
>>7425279
Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Divine Comedy
>>7425306
>howl
Come on ..
>>7425164
in the order of op - IJ, Ulysses, GR:
I stately a am plump screaming seated Buck comes in Mulligan across an came the office from sky surrounded from it by the has heads stairhead happened and bearing happened bodies.
>>7425288
>not Ullysses by Tennyson
NEW MEME TRILOGY:
CRATYLUS
PIMP
PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF ARTAXERXES
>>7425330
thread/
>>7425178
How are they even eligible for meme trilogy? Do I not know the essence of the meme trilogy?
>>7425310
How is this memey at all
Ezra Pound's The Cantos would definitely be in there
>>7425279
wasteland, cantos, the piece of paper that lovecraft's nigger poem was written on
Before I read Ulysses, which edition shall I get? I want a really nice book cover.
>>7425356
How have you lived this long without being able to make really basic, meaningless decisions on your own?
>>7425364
The bookshops I visit have few editions of it, none of which have very interesting covers.
>>7425088
Way too normie mate. It has to have a modicum of obscurity, otherwise it wont attract lit-hipsters.
The normie meme trilogy already has both War and Peace and the Brothers Karamazov.
>>7425310
not meme enough
>>7425356
>>7425388
About to start infinite jest, I hope I don't get too memed
>>7425407
Good choice. Ones you've finished it I recommend reading Infinite Jest.
>>7425330
it's done lad
>>7425375
You are living garbage.
>>7425356
is that pj harvey?
>>7425322
>plump screaming seated Buck comes in Mulligan
i'd read that.
>>7425531
Living. Garbage.
>>7425459
No it's cole sprouse
>>7425538
Some justification would be appreciated.
>>7425531
>Obviously I care more about the actual text of the book.
clearly not, since you haven't read it because you're waiting for a pretty edition to come out
go to /fa/ or something if you want advice on fashion accessories
>>7425556
I've read dubliners and portrait, and I'd like to Ulysses. I'm sure you can empathise with that.
Obviously, there are many different versions of the book with different covers, some of which I will like more than others. Why can't you empathise with that?
>>7425556
>go to /fa/ or something if you want advice on fashion accessories
heh
>>7425569
because im not a huge faggot
>>7425569
the cover isnt as important as the edition, editing quirks, annotations, etc, all far more important than what's on the outside.
>>7425081
>>7425541
well guess i'm a fag then
>>7425582
I reject this
>>7425577
I fail to notice when I said that it was as important.
>>7425629
You said it when you said
>The bookshops I visit have few editions of it, none of which have very interesting covers.
and then went on to not get the book.
i can't believe that /lit/ is trying to explain to someone that you can't judge a fucking book by its cover.
>>7425322
If you create a set of rules, so that grammatik and syntax don't break, I'd read this before I'd read Finnegan is a wake.
I've only read one of the original meme trilogy.
Meanwhile I've read 2 out of the 3 of>>7425056
The new meme trilogy definitely needs to contain Vollman imo.
>>7425310
2 mainstream 4 lit
>>7425402
I really hate these comics. They're neither funny nor intelligent, and the art is atrocious.
>>7425279
behold
>Anything written post-1899
should I read the Odyssey before I read Ulysses
>>7426176
If you want to read both yes, but it's not necessary.
>>7426009
>mallarme and pessoa
how? you just randomly picked these two.
stop making posts this shit.
>>7426189
pessoa is /lit/core as fuck, i didn't even know about caeiro until I came here
got me on the mallarme though, just thought it fit with the zany modernist experimentation theme that these meme trilogies revolve around
>stop making posts this shit.
kek if you're this angry about my post, it's time to take a break from your computer
>>7426178
I would like to read both
which translation of the Odyssey is best?
>>7426267
No idea, I'm not anglo.
>>7426230
>kek if you're this angry about my post, it's time to take a break from your computer
you literally just admitted that i got you
posting all the gaugin pics on the internet won't make you any less of an idiot
>>7425279
Meme trilogy does not mean classics. Should be Tao Lin's Cognitive-Behavioral Theory, Kolsti's collected blog posts, and something more establishment like Ginsberg.
Fuck not with the Kid, lest instead of fucker thou become fuckee.
>>7425087
>underworld
jesus christ are you joking?
>>7425936
These comics are amazing and hilarious. And it isn't supposed to be intelligent. It is aimed at people who are already familiar with the philosophers to the point where they can laugh at their ideas (expressed ridiculously, of course). I quite like the art as well.
>>7425194
this
>>7425139
This is accurate for me, at least. Haven't made it through Ulysses.
Wouldn't this fit in?
>>7425178
there's actually a difference between classics and meme books
>>7429861
Ulysses is both tho.
