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books similar to this movie, only just getting into reading and have read all of camus and i few others with similar 'existentialist' themes but none with character like this film. oblomov looks like it might be somewhat similar?
Catcher in the Rye is actually pretty similar.
>>7660183
It's really not.
Some books that fit:
1. Tao Lin: Taipei
2. Zachary German: Eat When You Feel Sad
3. Michel Houellebecq: Whatever
How to b**b the US government by MDE/Sam Hyde
How is her work? Worth reading? I want to get into Southern Gothic.
fo shizzle, dig on her short stories. start with a good man is hard to find and then make your way
>>7657491
it's okay.
Harry Crews is better
>I want to get into Southern Gothic
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner.
What does /lit/ think of Tarzan? I've read some pulp fiction before (Conan). Is his worth my time? How's the action?
I liked Tarzan. The first book is definitely the best, and the series takes a noticeable drop in quality after the second, but by then you're hooked. It is not very action-heavy, but there are some cool fight scenes. Check it out, it's pretty short.
I'd have a crack at ready the first of each of his series. Mars was my favourite, but Land That Time Forget is ace too.
I read the first one and I liked it, my only experience with Tarzan was the Disney movie.
The book takes off the kid gloves and explains a lot of things like shaving, reading, speech, hunting, etc.
Name a good literary book I've never heard of but that's recognized as great. It can be fiction or non-fiction, from any genre and any language. (Just please not some lame paperback or some college-student manifesto).
>>7661827
Dreams of the Red Chamber
>>7661827
fuck off, anime pedophile
>>7662020
This is just a drawing, gramps.
I'm a very inexperienced writer, really just a highschool student. But i had a scarily realistic and enlightening dream which i wrote down detail for detail, and even though i never visit 4chan, muchless /lit. I wanted to post it somewhere. I didnt try to fix most grammar issues, sorry about that.
>>7661570
I was walking through my high school, prior events had occurred but nothing of note. As I
walked, everything felt off, strange. I couldn't tell you what exactly was off about it but it was a
dream, so everything's a bit shifted. However, it seemed that you could enter and sit in any
class as you please, and with no consequence. So i looked for a class to sit in.
I walk through the hallways, the second floor, I remember most things about the dream
quite well. I walk past the class and I recall myself when I see her in there. She is beautiful,
probably the most beautiful girl that I know, and easily the most beautiful in my school. But at
the time, I only saw her as my friend, my very pretty friend. Sure she had some things being
said about her behind her back, but I’m never one to follow idiotic rumours like those. So I
thought that if I’d sit in a class, i'd find one with a friend since, let's face it, i'm not there to learn
but to screw around and snag a passing grade (a very realistic dream, couldn't even tell i was
dreaming).
I walk in, the class was a little over half full, lights were off, and a movie was being
played. Now what was very much off was i saw her, and her twin sister whom in the dream, I felt
like I’ve heard of, but I never could recall ever meeting her.
“Can I just sit in here and nobody will care?”
“Yea” They both replied to me.
So, I took my seat between the two where there was an empty seat. We didn’t talk too
much because I didn't want to get kicked out, but no more than a minute in her twin sister had
decided to lean her head against my shoulder, with absolutely no prior provocation. It was warm
and there was something amazing, but guilty about the sudden attention i was receiving from
her. With time however, we had come to be more comfortable, i found her arms wrapped
around my waist sort of grabbing at my stomach, and I ran my hand up the outside of her leg. At
this point, i somehow found us lying down, on a sort of bench, rather than the chair i had
previously sat in. She was wearing gray leggings, white shoes, and a red or pink sweater, i
couldn't remember exactly, maybe it was white.
And again i recognized myself in her company, my stomach felt warm, my heart
fluttered. And she went in to kiss me, which i can say i am not unpracticed in. However, as could
as i could be it seemed that she was just showing me the ropes, she licked my ear, then my
neck, then bit my bottom lip and kissed with such a passion that it almost hurt a bit, but she
remained graceful with every move she made. She had a lot of experience, it made no
difference to me.
>>7661575
I had her in my arms, and it was ecstatic, i felt her legs, her body, and everything felt so
real that there was not a single hint that it wasn't real. I could feel her warmth, and her tongue.
But whenever I tried to put a move on her, even subtly, she would stop me and almost show it to
me. She was very intimidating and i just went with what she did. Sometimes she would go in to
kiss me again, only to watch me go in and smile, just to tease me. She would just bite her teeth
together right before...
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I dont think anyone could feel as strongly about it as i do, but i still wanted to post it.
Feedback isnt needed, but it is welcome
Is this plus reading plus writing about what you've read enough to give you a better understanding of literature than an average English graduate?
no because the average english graduate (from a real school, not random state school) read this whole thing and a lot more
>>7660950
Yeah, this is pretty fundamental stuff OP. We went further than this + reading notes back in uni.
But I mean if you're just looking for a reason not to major in lit, take up something else that's more appealing to you. It's not the end of the world
>>7660956
Maybe OP didn't go to Harvard like we did. Can't blame him for passing on an associates in English from his community college.
If someone were to write a book that encaptures 4chan in its essence but does not name it, how would it start?
>>7652655
>be me
"The most horrible experience you will ever face"
>>7652661
that's /thread right there
I need to read an American lit book for my College English class does anyone have any good recs?
>>7662032
If you're an upper middle class white guy in your first year of college, then go for Infinite Jest or Gravity's Rainbow
The turn of the screw
Nah I'm a poor nigger in high school taking a College English class, but thanks I guess
Hello friends, i want to ask about how much do you enjoy the latinoamerican boom literature.
I mean, works from authors like Fernando del Paso, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez,
Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Rulfo, Mario Benedetti, or José Lezama Lima.
Those works, are amazing because they do a vanguardist (avant-garde), experimental books like Rayuela, One hundred years of solitude, Pedro Páramo, José Trigo and anothers.
I honestly find a lot of it shit. Cortazar imo wrote a lot of junk that has no substance at all, still some of his short stories are GOAT
I prefer older guys like Borges, Lugones, Dario.
t. Latin american
>>7661933
I don't read non-whites, I'm redpilled and FOR white society and culture.
Trump will make America great again
BUILT WALL
Borges and Marquez are cool.
The rest of them, I've never heard of.
What do you think of this book?
People say it's one of the best short story collections ever written. What do you think?
Why don't you read it? Its less than 200 pages long
>but but I need my 4chan validation first bawww bawww
i thought it was good
>>7660644
>but but I need my 4chan validation first bawww bawww
/lit/ in a nutshell
I picked up pic related at a Half Price and it draws alot of literary techniques from great writers on how to write literary fiction (not a "How to Write a Bestseller!" kind of book, in other words).
I also read Aristotle's Poetics which was actually a very concise tool for learning how to craft plot and engage the reader.
I have no idea how to write at all and I'm just starting to get into it, as I've only written academic papers and all of my artistic forays have been in the visual arts. I do read quite a bit, which I hear is one of the...
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John Gardners Art of Fiction
>>7660633
"Burning Down the House" by Charles Baxter was our capstone text. It requires a base knowledge of creative writing fundamentals, but comprehension and application of Baxter's essays helped my writing a lot.
Has reading made you more disconnected from people? I'll give you an example.
Someone sent me a lengthy message expressing their heartfelt existential fears. Many of these concerns were precipitated by dramatic circumstances beyond my own exerperience. In response I created what became a 200 word analytical essay.
Language such as 'You seem to express issues such as accepting that people close to you have disappeared beyond your physical grasp. This indicates that you may not be at a desired level of peace with the idea of death. You then express a...
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>reads a lot
>has a harder time connecting with people
Ya dun goofed
>>7658551
>You seem to express issues such as accepting that people close to you have disappeared beyond your physical grasp. This indicates that you may not be at a desired level of peace with the idea of death. You then express a need...
You can't write to save your life that's for sure
>>7658558
You're saying that technical writing isn't nice to read? Such insight.
Tell me more. Maybe you can write it in your lovely prose.
How many books one should read before being considered "well read"?
What authors are mandatory to be called "well read"?
>>7658140
>How many
A fuckton
>Which authors
Dante, Milton, Dostoevsky, De Sade, Joyce, Proust, Beckett, Mishima, Woolf, Pynchon, Gaddis, Delillo.
It's a joke because you never become well read
>>7658140
This is an idiotic question but assuming you're actually serious - it's not the number of books, it's the kind of books. And more than that, how deeply you bother to think about and analyze said books. You can read all 128 Sweet Valley High books, 250 Hardy Boys mysteries, and all of the Nancy Drew canon and remain the moron you seem to be. But if you read just one book apiece (or half, or even a quarter of a book apiece) in a wide range of periods across a wide range of genres you can probably pass...
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What are the reasons to read Proust? Like when people read Walden they read it for the philosophy/introspection and all that, and people read GR primarily for the prose and to tell other people they read it. But what is it for Remembrance Of Things Past? Is it primarily an entertainment read or does it have some themes that are going to change your life? From the short bits I've read about it all the major themes seem fairly basic and nothing to write home about, so I'm curious to what people generally get out of it.
Thx
i read it sometimes to women before sleeping and it was very comfy
someone on lit mentioned that he read the whole seria over some years as i remember with the routine of about 1 hour reading in the morning. i guess its a good work to enjoy the prose and content, but mainly a medium for thinking about your experience and life and point of view, maybe it can give you some projection surface
with such big works, if you dont like them and its not because its too dense in content and you could work yourself through that, better lay it aside and come back or read stuff you like more imo
>>7661633
Simple: he was the French Joyce.
I read it in the original French mainly to refine my writing style.
It's also a very entertaining book, full of keen psychological insights and humorous scenes.
Took me a few months to get through the entirety La Recherche but it was time well spent. The whole novel is consistently good in spite of being unfinished in places.
