I just finished Our Friends from Frolix 8, and before that finished Ubik. I thought they were great.
What are your favourite books of his?
i find that either i love the books as i read them, then tend to forget them afterwards, or i find them hard work and something of a slog, but keep thinking about them later and they grow in my mind
ubik is in the first category, the most purely fun and well constructed tale, but afterwards that was it. but i think my favourite is VALIS, even though i nearly gave up at one point, because it really stayed with me and i think it's such a sincere, original, mind-blowing work.
>>7682052
I'll be sure to read VALIS next then. I haven't read Man in the High Castle, so I wanna read that one too.
>>7682060
the thing about VALIS is, the more of his other works you've read, the better it is. i'd save it for later
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What made you stop targeting a yearly book count (be it on goodreads or otherwise)?
Having a yearly "time read" target seems much more rewarding if you really need to push yourself to read (all of us can be ill disciplined in some points of our lives, especially you early 20 somethings just getting into the grind, struggling to make time for your hobbies, this must be the first time you've actually had to choose between reading and unwinding with a good show/movie/video/othereasyformofrelaxation? I'm assuming the ones who aren't in the grind and have jobs they enjoy (involving reading, since I presume the ideal job for anyone here would be "literary") are the kind who have already mastered the art of choosing between rewarding but initially repulsive activities and less rewarding but initially compelling activities).
Pic related.
>tfw gotten into a habit of adding books as "read" on goodreads even if I haven't finished them
>tfw hoping a patrician qt will message me on there
>tfw can't even remember anything about the last ten or so books I've read
>tfw I'm reading every other chapter of Infinite Jest at the moment and will probably just read a detailed summary of the plot and mark as read before finishing
Never started
Don't (type(like(this)
Who /losingmotivation/ here?
I'm 24,598 words into the fifth installment of my six-part memoir, but recently the will to complete this work has completely abandoned me. I've tried drinking more coffee, energy drinks, taking more walks and eating more fruit and so on but nothing is working. Mommy confronted me today about my writing and asks if I would like her to book a meeting with a therapist so I can talk about my past with him / her. I said no and I can tell she is feeling very guilty at how her "angel" (her words) has turned out.
How do you keep motivated when writing /lit/?
It's all come crashing down.
>>7681971
>six-part memoir
>frogposting
forsooth, I cannot believe this post was made in good faith
>>7681984
If you're accusing me of lying then I can only tell you that I am not and hope that you believe me. After months spent in the Eden-like refuge of my imagination I have again been forced to confront a world in which I can only suffer and long to escape. Summer is approaching and as usual these months will inflict me with loneliness, regret and longing. I have progressed so much with my work and I am confident that any sensitive and intellectual individuals who read it will at least appreciate my dedication to a specific Form and my consistency in articulating aspects of my life in great detail and with great psychological insight and analysis. But now my humour is flagging. Maybe it's because I've reached the section of my work dedicated to my teenage years, in which a nascent self-awareness burdened me a great deal. But the value I've previously dedicated to this work, a value disputed but an agent whose opinion I had reason to respect, has diminished to the point where my life seems flat, empty and without a worthwhile purpose. I still refuse to distract myself by playing the part expected of an individual raised in my culture, or to dedicate myself to personal pleasure and the happiness it entails. I really feel as though the final sentence has been written.
>>7681971
Write about how you lost motivation to write
This series is pure Humanity Fuck yeah! Violent, psychotic characters, cheap as fuck too.
The battle scenes are brutal, especially part 2. Just read it.
>>7681915
hella f*cking epic bro! rad af!
*High five myself*
Do you ever sometimes despair at the fact that memes or memeculture may be mentioned or be an integral part of any future great literary works? I honestly believe memes are worse than heroin or maybe even meth.
>Never tried heroin
>Never tried meth
>"knows they're bad"
You're a meme
You're a meme
>>7681833
>what is seeing an addict have anorexic sex for tiny crystals
>>7681833
Wasn't knocking the individual experience. Hell I don't know maybe one day I'd like to divulge in a bit of meth or heroin or maybe a meme or two. However the overall impact of these things are pretty awful and I think even worse than meth heads or crack heads are memeheads.
Was it gay?
of course
>>7681840
y tho
>>7681829
It was the gayest.
What are some good books for NEETs? Possibly about NEETs, possibly catered for NEETs, just anything you think would be good for NEETs.
>>7681810
Can I get a link to this? I can't find it anywhere.
Oblomov
Notes from the underground
Hikikomori by Saitō Tamaki
whatever by michel houellebecq
I'm writing a short story about a man who wakes up in an endless room filled with endless junk. As he continues walking through the room, he finds himself in increasingly strange situations, which he finds has already been painted, which eventually drives him to insanity.
>>7681763
Isn't this just a little too obvious? I'd read it, don't get me wrong, it just seems like the allegory is too obvious
Why make the room endless? Just have him wake up in a real room. You can do all the same things.
>>7681903
OP here, you've come up with an allegory I haven't apparently, I don't know what you mean
what did they put shakespeare's corpse ina bardybag
>>7681755
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
Saged.
What's worth reading by him?
Nothing. Check out Freedom if you feel you must.
>>7681750
DFW's obituary
>>7681757
Oh that's a good call. Read this and nothing else.
Top 5 author thread?
I really want to discover new writers and good books but don't know much besides the classics.
My current favorites are Vladimir nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez. I read A clockwork orange and enjoyed it but i cant see Burgess as one of my favorites. I'm current reading Brave new world and Huxley seems ehh as well. I know Fyodor Dostoyevsky is praised but i dont know if i want to start with him yet.
>>7681685
start with the greeks
>>7681685
Start with the greeks
read the fucking sticky
Reading more than one book at a time: yea or nay?
>>7681601
I do it all the time when I'm reading something long. Sometimes you just need to take a break from one book and come back to it later.
>>7681601
Last year I think I peaked at seven books at once. At least a couple of them didn't get finished but I think it's a decent way to read. Think of that old Pepe pasta, if you get tired of one book rather than stopping completely just pick up another.
It doesn't work too well if one of the books is by Joseph McElroy though, he requires your undivided attention.
>>7681601
3 or 4 books at once.
I never read more than one book of a genre at once though. It's a history book, a pulp scifi book, something that's legitimate literature, and so on so i'm always in the mood to read, even if I'm not always in the mood to finish what I'm in the middle of.
.I am not worthy to speak loudly of Adolf Hitler, nor do his life and deeds call for sentimental arousal. He was a warrior, a warrior for mankind, and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reformer of the highest order, and his historical fate was that he lived in a time of unequalled cruelty, which felled him in the end. Thus the ordinary Western European may look upon Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death.
>This is now a meme.
>>7681587
What a nut, damn son.
Can /lit recommend vampire literature?
Fiction, history, folklore, etc. I'm particularly interested in literary criticism/theoretical interpretations of the figure of the vampire (obvious approaches being class and sexuality)
Dracula is a good place to start especially if you're interested in literary criticism
Not OP, but any good vampire hunter books out there with a modern setting?
This post triggered me so hard.
I've never been to this board, and I have a feeling that asking about Audio Books might trigger some people.
But I want to go on a long walk because I have a general depressed feeling and want to get some endorphins flowing. I also dont want to be left alone to my own thoughts so I want an audio book to keep me company on this walk.
I've spent my entire life (only 21 y/o) reading high fantasy and some more abstract stuff like Lovecraft. But I want to finally try "reading" a book that is 100% grounded in reality, and may even teach me a thing or two I didn't know, while entertaining me.
I think what I want is a good Crime and/or Detective novel.
Let me get to the gist of it
TL:DR What are the best Crime/Detective novels ever written, and which would be the best to accompany a fat dumby having an existential crisis while he goes on a long midnight stroll?
(pic related: its the last few books I've read, and god dammit, I'm pretty tired of getting invested in fantasy worlds that provide me with information that is in no way relevant to my real life)
bump?
Also, sorry ahead of time, I really genuinely have no idea what the "board culture" is here. Sorry if I "trigger" anybody by going against the norms. I promise this is in no way bait.
p-pls
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