Anyone read this?
what is it about?
>>7677204
I just bought it because it was cheap and the cover (not that one) looked cool. The back says it's sci fi about someone getting assassinated and his psyche shattered and his only hope is somene he knows who can use a machine he built that can reassemble his consciousness. Or something.
>>7675856
Is that Marvin Minsky the AI researcher? I had no idea he wrote sci-fi. Or was he just a consultant?
Life of Pi author Yann Martel heads to Mountains of Portugal: Summary
http://theprimeversion.com/books-life-after-pi-tenuous-tales-from-a-portuguese-village/
>implying /lit/ reads living authors
>>7675907
This anon is right, if I can't ironically compare the author's untimely death with the teeming life in his writing I know that what I'm reading is pleb trash
>>7675840
Am I the only person on /lit/ who really likes Yann Martel's books?
Why are you wasting your time on a Somalian clean water image board instead of reading literature?
Because I don't read
I have two eyes retard
>>7675868
Two eyes retard is what they'd call you if you wore an eyepatch and a monocle
How fast can /lit/ type??
http://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english
yay
nothin personel, kids.
I just finished The Dead (and the rest of Dubliners too). I found Gabriel Conroy quite relatable, and this bothers me –because isn't Joyce trying to show Michael as the only truly good character? Everyone else is caught up in the past, where as Michael is afraid to die for the strength of his love in the present.
>>7675728
Joyce didn't want to portray characters as good or evil. In any case, Michael Furey was the only truly passionate character, but look where that left him.
In any case, if you feel you related too much with Gabriel Conroy, and you dont like that, then you should figure out why that is so and fix it.protip: don't be a snob
>In reference to a passage in the Books of Samuel which refers to a saying about the blind and the lame, Rashi quotes a midrash which argues that the Jebusites had two statues in their city, with their mouths containing the words of the covenant between The Jebusite King and Abraham; one figure, depicting a blind person, represented his son Isaac, and the other, depicting a lame person, representing his grandson, Jacob.
'Michael Fury' is perhaps somewhat comparable to David at this time?
Your opinions?
>>7675716
Learn to draw.
So as I came out of the hospital this afternoon a dude came to me and invited me to his wedding and asked for my help to kill the light inside of him so I gave him some dubstep songs and I left him with his imaginary friend to go to my father's highschool , as I sneaked inside I remembered that my father never went to highschool and that I was in a Barbie factory that was full of drunk Mexican unicorns with lightsabers , I tried to tell them that my leg was made of rubber but they just left using their teleportation powers , I decided to not text my friend cause he was being mean to a dog that we found eating some hamburgers leftovers the other day and I came out of the factory and met this girl telling me that she caused the big bang and that she will make a black hole swallow a meteor coming towards us , I closed my eyes to see into her soul but she didn't want to so I left her and went to Indonesia to meet the unicorns, I finally found them in a cosplay shop in Japan trying to convince a dude to buy a pink sword for 60¥ but the dude complained about it being too small for his taste so I tried to ask them to teach me the teleportation technique and the oldest looking one of them came to me and told me that I had to go into the center of the planet to mess with gravity and earn the ability to fly first so I did it and india started to float out of the atmosphere , I was just sitting there watching Indian people burn in outer space as a giant space ship came by and stole the diamond that one of the unicorns was wearing on his left ear , but a dude named Yamada came to me and said that the girl from before failed on stopping the meteor and that I have to go to the sun's center and ask to meet a massive quark and bring him to mars to generate a gravitational pull enough to change the meteor's trajectory, but as I realized that the sun's center is 25 000 000°C and that i had to get something To protect my hair from burning , the meteor hit earth and destroyed it , as I floated in the blank space around me I heard a voice in my head telling me that everything wasn't lost forever and that I can bring everything to normal but I'll be the only one to remember what happened , I decided to give humanity a chance and see if anything would change but I was wrong and nothing changed , I still hear the voice in my head saying that I should've left it destroyed and created a new planet but unfortunately i didn't know i had that kind of power at that time and now....now I'm stuck in this body....
END
Anon, I hope you're not planning on driving today with a BAC like that.
Spoil a book in just five words.
>>7675545
Child is abandoned during WWII.
Everyone in the town dies.
1. They did bring him home.
2. He didn't die out there.
3. Guy spends time building stuff.
I've been reading my whole adult life, but I'm not getting the "enlightened" feeling of reading a good book. I've felt it a couple of times (mostly during Pynchon and Krasznahorkai), but it's seriously getting in the way of me enjoying fiction.
Do anyone of you know the feeling? Are there any books that will wake my inner child up?
>>7675510
just drop some shrooms bro
What's the most depressing book you've ever read? For me it's probably Fowle's "The Collector".
>>7675486
That book didn't depress me, it made me mad as hell. Holy fuck that ending pissed me off.
It's not a depressing book.
It actually scared me a little since in some sense I empathized with the boring personality of the protagonist, and the fact what he thought was an innocent desire to simply have a woman beside him actually masked a lot of violence and confusion on his part. He's one of the finest "bad guys" in literature in my opinion.
>>7675362
probably not
I'm doing nothing with my life and I'm not writing anything, so ya i think it does
what is this dyslexic aspie cunt's picture doing in a literature forum?
Hey guys i had a question up for debate. When writing sci-fi which is more important? Historical reinterpretation or logical extensions of prior art. Historical interpretation would be like in Dune how the spice and native population interact, while a logical extension would be the mood organ from, Do android dream.., I personally lean more toward historical science fiction.
pls guise
cool
>he will never write a reimagining of Othello
tss would he add more roosters to it or somethin
>>7675176
o i am lafin
>>7675176
But of course, all clucking lewdly
Seeing as how everyone is always complaining about "meme books", what do you actually read?
Meme books
>>7675094
/thread.
we dont read
