The book you are currently reading. I'm with Fahrenheit 451, page 55 and so far I don't really like it.
Why are you reading that shit?
>>7642873
This. It even gets worse.
>>7642873
I came here to post this.
How to be edgy in 2016
After anti-natalism what's next
As a nihilist, I find your use of "edgy" to be quite amusing. Surely there must be other words lesser minds like you can use to describe those above your intellectual capacity?
>>7642850
God that pic is funny.
>>7642850
I am just trying to gauge possible trends.
4chan is obviously not the place where they'd manifest in any early or meaningful way, but strands sometimes can become pronounced
How do I trick the future into believing I was "really smart"?
Its important that I not be remembered for who I am but instead for who I have tricked the future into thinking I am.
>>7642807
Become a phrasemonger. They don't even have to be witty.
Like this.
“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
You'll be rich too. And people wil sing your praises.
Monger the phrases!! I can not emphasize this enough!
>>7642824
Forgot image.
Write what's on your mind
pussy
boobs
Hungry
Pizza
>>7642644
I just came so nothing.
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"New Sincerity" was used as a collective name for a loose group of alternative rock bands, centered in Austin, Texas in the years from about 1985 to 1990, who were perceived as reacting to the ironic outlook of then-prominent music movements like punk rock and new wave.
>critics have suggested "new sincerity" as a descriptive term for work by American filmmakers such as Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Todd Louiso, Sofia Coppola, and Charlie Kaufman, Zach Braff, and Jared Hess,[19] and filmmakers from other countries such as Michel Gondry, Lars von Trier, the Dogme 95 movement, Aki Kaurismäki, and Pedro Almodóvar.[20]
>In response to the hegemony of metafictional and self-conscious irony in contemporary fiction, writer David Foster Wallace predicted, in his 1993 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", a new literary movement which would espouse something like the New Sincerity ethos
>"New sincerity" has also sometimes been used to refer to a philosophical concept deriving from the basic tenets of performatism
>As another example of New Sincerity as a cultural movement, some writers have pointed to the adult fans of the Canadian/American animated television show, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
How are all of these things connected?
>>7642446
a very thin thread made of autism
>>7642452
Basically this.
The way I see it, as David said in IJ, "to be human is to be gooey" and all that assorted stuff. All those things revel in knowing melodrama and a disregard for "cool" posturing. They are upfront (read: sincere) about what they are.
At least in most of those examples. Lost in Translation, Garden State, Rushmore, all revel in pathos (the first two, expressly as the feelings of their creators). I wouldn't consider PTA as new sincerity; his films are too, I don't know, stylized? Sure.
I mean, you could argue that Lost in Translation and Garden State (arguably two of the most prominent "hipster flicks" of the 2000's) all try to play at some sort of chic factor. Lost in Translation with its neo-New Wave ambitions and Garden State with its attempts at capturing some sort of young adult zeitgeist. However, the creators willingness to portray themselves (Sofia Coppola implicity, Zach Braff explicitly) as lost and alone makes them "sincere" movies.
Dogme '95 was an attempt to do away with all the pretensions that come with cinematic style and go in for a very raw style that could be seen as a sort of more sincere style, but calling it a movement with a "manifesto" is about as pretentious as you can get, really. I wouldn't really consider those movies part of it, so even though they are more "cinematically sincere" than, say, Lost in Translation, at their core there is a greater sense of pretension which disqualifies them from new sincerity.
None of that probably makes sense, I was just rambling my reactions off.
So I'm halfway through the Flemming Bond series. It's been a pretty wild ride and very well written. Curious what the favourite books of the set are for some of you.
Pic related has probably been the best with From Russia in second. The 70 or so pages of Casino were possibly the best I've ever read.
Also, I was poking around for some other good spy novels and Le Carre's George Smiley series has come up. Although it seems to be aesthetically different from the more action-adventure oriented Bond tales, I've read rave reviews. Can anyone confirm?
>>7642145
The last 70 or so* whoops
"'I had a little Bessarabian hell-cat. I had won her in a fight with some gipsies, here in the hills behind Istanbul. They came after me, but I got on board the boat. I had to knock her unconscious first. She was still trying to kill me when we got back to Trebizond, so I got her to my place and took away all her clothes and kept her chained naked under the table. When I ate, I used to throw scraps to her under the table, like a dog. She had to learn who was master. Before that could happen, my mother did an unheard of thing. She visited my place without warning. She came to tell me that my father wanted to see me immediately. She found the girl. My mother was really angry with me for the first time in my life. Angry? She was beside herself. I was a cruel ne'er-do-well and she was ashamed to call me son. The girl must immediately be taken back to her people. My mother brought her some of her own clothes from the house. The girl put them on, but when the time came, she refused to leave me.' Kerim laughed heartily. 'An interesting lesson in female psychology, my dear friend.'"
What the fuck compelled you to read all the Bond novels
I can't remember the name of this one book I read in high school, and I alsoforgot most of the plot. I remember it being a good book, I just didn't have the appreciation for literature back in those days and now I'd like to re-read it again. I'll try to summarize the plot from what I remember:
It's a story about teen/young adult who doesn't know what to do with his life/down on his luck. For some reason or another events lead up to him doing 4(?) unselfish actions to 4 different people. I remember one of the people he helped was a woman who was a dedicated runner, but was never able to come in first place. A new contest is coming up so he gives her a shoe box that has no shoes symbolizing that she should run in the contest barefoot. She comes in second place.
Also I think that these events are tracked via poker cards (diamond,hearts etc.)
Might be Marcus Zusak - I Am The Messenger
>>7641395
sorry to bump, but this is it, thank you anon
I don't want to sound like a pleb but this was really a pain in the ass to get through. Dante's character is one of the most unsympathetic I've ever had to follow. Couldn't relate with him at all.
I would probably had to read it through again to really appreciate the vision of the Hell that Dante presented but after first reading it didn't leave any marks on me at all.
Also I think that it aged horribly due to altered conception of Christianity. I don't know...I was pretty hyped for it though.
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I'm talking just about the Inferno, how are the other two standing?
Maybe you're just a pleb. What translation you reading?
>>7641048
>Couldn't relate with him at all.
Am I really reading this?
>>7641200
Yes, you are reading it.
http://www.parentherald.com/articles/17911/20160128/the-winds-of-winter-release-date-update-george-rr-martin-book-nowhere-near-finished.htm
Hello everyone, I am a lazy fatass fuck. It takes me 7 fucking years to write a penny-dreadful, film-script based "novel". And it doesn't matter that it's my full time fucking job, literally the only thing I'm required to do, or that I jack off at 67 years of age by taking bum fuck vacations all over the world to live off the prestige of my now stagnate series that I can't fucking finish, that I'm constantly giving interviews and bullshit for the industry, and that I'm writing OTHER books that literally no one gives a fuck about. That's right, I'm not writing for the series that is the sole reason for all my fame and which everyone wants, no, I write other books that are truly shit and no one gives a fuck about. And when those that gave me all this money call me out on this shit, the best I can do is twiddle my fat fingers, flip them off and then whine on my blog about how ashamed I am of being a lazy fatass fuck. Oh, did I mention that I waste time playing videogames? I have all this responsibility, I'm 67 fucking years old and I waste time playing videogames, because that's really going to get the job done and get all these people off my back.
>>7640988
No one cares faggot
>>7640988
>implying he writes for your pleasure, not his
i know it hurts your ego, but he's not beholden to you
Hello everyone, I care enough about Game of Thrones to write a two-hundred word rant about it.
Thoughts?
>>7640788
Pretty and poignant, though a tad too cliche IMO desu
>>7640788
Trite and cliched. Too on the nose.
overblown and not wholly original. polaroids have been popular for a while now.
Have you ever paid respects to your favorite authors by visiting their graves, houses, etc.?
When I was in Russia this past summer I visited Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy's estate and final resting place), Dostoevsky's apartment and grave, Gogol's grave, Chekhov's grave, Pushkin's favorite cafe, Nabokov's home in Peterburg, and probably a few others that I can't recall at the moment.
>pic related
The guide said that the small window in the top middle was the supposed home of pawn broker.
I've visited Sade's castle and village once. Beautiful place.
Went to the Spanish Steps in Rome,
Keats died somewhere around there.
I visited Áron Tamási's grave and childhood home in Transylvania. It was really nice. The author's niece and her husband own the place and they turned it into a memorial house with lots, lots of manuscripts, diaries, letters, photos and interviews. Some first edition stuff, too.
It was also the first place I visited that had no Romanian text at all and had everything in Hungarian.
Who are your favourite short story writers? Can we have a thread about some less popular writers of short fiction (ie not Hemmingway, Chekhov, Carver, Salinger, Gogol)
My favourites are Kjell Askildsen and Breece D'J Pancake (and Katherine Mansfield, but she's quite popular I think). Anyone else ever read these writers? Have some unheard of favourites?
I've read Breece DJ Pancake and enjoyed his stories Trilobytes, The Hollow and A Room Forever.
Pinckney Bennedict has a collection called Town Smokes. He's another West Virginia boy that made it to a fancy school and had some famous writer teachers who helped him along (like Pancake)
James Alan McPherson (one of Pancake's teachers) had a collection of short stories called Hue and Cry that I really liked.
Scott Wolven wrote a collection of short stories called Controlled Burn mostly about New England meth hicks and Idaho white supremacist militia types. He's a bit more noirish than Pancake and doesn't have Pancake's lyricism but he does tell some interesting stories.
Mary Gaitskill's Bad Behavior was pretty good and sexy and depressing.
Harold Brodkey's first collection of stories First Love and Other Sorrows was pretty awesome.
His later stories were a mix of interesting and "Jesus fuck you are self-absorbed you narcissistic asshole".
This trap queen
I found blood meridian to be comparable to moby dick, what are some other novels like these?
never read moby dick but i have read BM.
may i suggest Count of Monte Cristo? its memed a lot because its really THAT good.
if you can suffer through 100 pages of Ayn Rand you might like Anthem.
>>7640381
Moby Dick's primary influence is the Bible, Blood Meridian's primary influences are the Bible and Moby Dick. Read the bible if you haven't.
>>7640381
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams was a little closer in theme and characters to Moby Dick, but wasn't a complete rip off. I enjoyed it throughly.
>450 pages in
>All the Ennet house chapters are the same
>drip feed of useful information
Does it progress to be the book everyone hypes it out to be or will I not enjoy the remaining pages if I didn't enjoy the ones thus far?
i have to go to work in like an hour, i don't really have to shit that bad, but if i don't squeeze one out now i know the urge to turd will strike like halfway through my shift, and since the building was built by some corrupt contractor there's no guarantee the bathroom won't be busted, fuck what should i do
>>7640255
that book is ass
If you don't enjoy it for the day to day lives of the characters stuff you won't find it getting any better. That is the main focus right up until the end.
In this thread we appreciate the masterwork that is Finnegans Wake.
Babadalgharaghtakamminarronkonbronntonnerontuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurunk.
This is one of the thunderwords which actually depicts the falling of the tower of babel and the division of language.
babadal - stuttering of babel
gharagta - from the hindi for thunder
kamminaronkon - from the japanese for thunder
bronn - from the greek for thunder
tonnerron - from the french for thunder
tuon - from the italian for thunder
thunn - from the english for thunder
trovarr - from the t. alberto barbosa for thunder
hounawnskawn - a combination of the swedish and irish for thunder
toohoohoordenen - a stuttering of the danish for thunder
thurunk - from another irish way to say thunder
As you can see, it is an onomatopoeic word that demonstrates each new language describing the event. It is a celebration of different languages and the pleasure of speech itself.
i was scared to start FW after finishing Ulysses. It felt like he was sucking away my english and replacing it with a new language. I can only imagine FW. this is incredible though.
>>7640270
The fact that the book is a cycle invites you to dip into it wherever you want. It is truly one of those books which enables you to get from it what you can, so to speak.
>>7640276
>The fact that the book is a cycle
Care to elaborate? i know nothing of FW, only actually what the OP said, really excited to read ulysses and then FW
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