DUDE EMPATHY LMAO
>genre fiction
haha it's called do androids dream of electric sheep but there are no actual electric sheep in it haha
What was the most emotional moment in a book for you (describe why)? I'll start; when Raskolnikov dreams of the horse being murdered. Reading that and just feeling completely helpless to what was happening destroyed me for about a week.
>jude the obscure
the whole book
Anyone here have this? Or any LoA? They seem fun to collect
>>7636366
i want that, my DICK gets hard when i see a photo.
>>7636366
they are good. you don't get the chill slipcase unless you are a member though
>>7636369
It does look nice. It's only 13 of his books though, going for 60 something on amazon
How hard is it to get hired as a writer?
>>7636340
It's really easy. Send me a sample of your writing and I'll pay you $80K a year if it's good.
A writer for what? A shitty small town paper? The new yorker? Producting content for 1/10 of a cent for some website?
>earlier today, talking to my 17 year old nephew
>he's a complete neckbeard STEMlord but to facilitate conversation I ask him what he's been doing in English class
>he says he's been reading a bunch of cool essays and even listened to a speech from an author whose name he couldn't remember
>ask to see what he's, extremely excited that I may be able to connect with him
>he ruffles through his stuff and hands me a packet that looks like it was photocopied from a magazine
>It's "Consider the Lobster"
>mfw there are fucking high school teachers assigning DFW to teenagers RIGHT NOW
>dfw appeals to stem autists
not surprising 2bh
>tfw got to read Walden for high school English
>tfw got to read The Birth of Tragedy for high school English
>tfw high school English inspired me to pursue and stay in academia
>tfw now expanding high schoolers' minds like my own was expanded
>>7636309
>tfw got to read Walden for high school English
is that supposed to be good
Best novel by Mario Vargas Llosa?
La Hombre. A prescient novel of tranny living in Peru.
Aunt Julia
>>7636306
Take off your pants you are in the presence of a poet
How much of a philosophical background do I need to read and understand this?
It's useful to be familiar with Nietzsche but that's pretty much it.
Read Schopenhauer and Vico instead
>>7635137
start with the greeks
I'm making a chart of books one should read to understand the allusions and references in Ulysses.
I have seen plenty of anons asking what they should read before Ulysses, so I figured we should just make a handy chart.
Please post suggestions ITT and I will add them to the chart in a few hours.
Poetry of Yeats and Blake.
>>7630304
Also, The Bible obviously. Can't believe you hadn't already added that one OP.
>summa
but why
So, either Jonathan Blow browses /lit/ or people actually read Tommy 'shit teeth' Pinecone outside of meme websites.
Discuss.
Don't know who that is and don't care. The Guardian sucks. "Reclusive" people don't do op-eds in national papers.
my mum reads him lad
PTA made a fuckin Pynchon movie last year m8
I decided while reading (pic related) to cast people I know as the characters in the book. As in I'd envision those real people saying and doing what the characters were up to. Has anyone else tried this? With what book/characters?
From a writing perspective, what you are describing is every traditional novel, ever. Millions of examples.
For casting ... do you mean you want to do a film?
For myself, yes I have written this.
Anybody else like Chuck Bowden? I got into him by chance after finding 'Blue Desert' on a $1 bookshelf and picked it up because I liked the cover.
Really one of the coolest guys ever to put ink on paper.
>>7636317
Edward Abbey/Hunter Thompson/Michael Herr
>>7636317
Chuck Jr stop trying to revive ya daddy's literary estate and get a real job
I just published a poetry collection specifically aimed for the "4Chan" demographic. It's a poetry collection I describe as part decadent travel journal, part sci-fi/fantasy nightmare & part nihilistic daydream.
One cool thing is I describe some of the whoremonger experience in places like Amsterdam & Bangkok if you've ever been curious. Dominant themes are debauchery, madness, loneliness & death.
Check it out if you will (you can view the first 3-4 poems for free to see if you like it): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B51ZNN6?ref_=pe_2427780_160035660
>>7636261
You can read a bunch of free stuff at www.jasonkessler.net too. Much love 4Chan.
Hey, /lit/. My friend is describing a book he read in school in 8th grade, but it's been over 10 years and he can't remember what it was called.
He was saying it was like A Wrinkle in Time with unstable dimensions. At some point, the heroine sees a group of stones in a shop, and the keeper asks her to pick just one. Each resembles powers or something like that. He also remembers a black lake where that girl meets another version of herself, who tells her all the things she's doing wrong. There's also a guy who leads her through these fantasy worlds. Sound familiar to anyone?
We're good friends so I can ask more questions if you guys come up with something to ask. OH, and the book MIGHT have had "blue" in the title.
>can't even escape Heraclitus on /lit/
Someone get this nigga to fuck off
>>7636182
What does a book written in the 2000s have to do with some ancient philosopher?
How much does the cover of a book influence the way you read it? Are you willing to pay more for the same book but with a better cover? Are you more likely to read a book if it has an intriguing cover?
General discussion about the physical appearance of books
>tfw only cover available is the movie adaptation one
I dislike when books have pictures of the characters on the cover. Every reader will arrive at an idiosyncratic idea of what a character looks like within the confines of the author's description. To have a picture of the character is imposing someone else's interpretation onto yours before you even begin the book.
Can anyone help me? I'm trying to remember the name of a historian who was pretty fucking based.
>Lived life of a crusader on pilgrimage, traveling on horse through the middle east
>sailed an authentically recreated ship to see if it was possible for aboriginals to reach far off islands
Only vaguely helpful information I can remember is that he was in an article on cracked.com before the site turned to shit. I think he had a Scandinavian name as well.
Do you mean Tim Severin? He's so based I'm pretty sure he's going to be considered a myth like Brendan.
>>7635741
Thor Heyerdahl
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