What do you need to read before you read the Tunnel?
>>7618723
Get on a train, head east, go through a tunnel of pitch black darkness, scream "eaedeerrty!" and then jump off, hitchhike to Moscow, fly to London, sail across the Atlantic in a rowboat, find Atlantis. And Now, now you are ready to open up the book to read the introduction. Come back after reading it and I'll tell you what is Required to actually put your eyes upon the first page.
The Meme Trilogy.
>>7618723
You picked the wrong one; conformist meme poster.
shitty chink genre fiction
bargain bin material
Theyre good kindling
well they aren't written masterpieces but they are at least enjoyable
If you aren't reading for plot then what are you reading for?
To look smart.
For the visuals.
>>7618348
Characters, themes and prose style.
Post your list of top 5 best science fiction authors.
>>7618248
Didn't this thread just get deleted?
How about you name five worth reading?
dick, gibson, and ballard
probably the only answers you'll get from anyone
How did he manage to publish novels in English when he became fluent in his 20s? I know kids with immigrant parents who can't even speak their first language fluently anymore.
His prose is low tier
I really don't know why you find that so impressive. I'm confused every time I read it.
>>7618211
How the fuck is it possible to write a book (even one that may not be so good as you say) in a language that you become fluent in in the 20s?
Why is his works so highly regarded? Most of it is nothing special.
>>7617919
This is terrible bait. Try again.
Fuck off retard. I'll take you shitting on anything else, but not Willy Shakes.
Fuck off, Lev Nicolaevich
The Bangalore Whore who changed the world by /lit/
The thing you got to know about a woman's tits is if you surgically implant c4's into them instead of silicone you can control the world. I know what you're thinking, of course faggot, everyone knows that, but in pre-war India, 2089, no one had even thought of it. No one but me.
I was just minding my own business making poo crayons in the streets of Bangalore to sell for smokes like most 15 year old boys my age, when a whitee man, about the age of my grandfather, walked up to me and asked me if I had ever considered becoming an islamic terrorist.
[you're up next anon]
>>7617764
>lol so randum xDD
stop shitting this board up
>>7617764
"stop shitting this boardwalk up you little shit skin." said whitee man as he looked me up and down licking his lips. "haven't you heard of a toilet?"
I cowered in fear as he said the t word. A word my whole family feared. A word that scared my whole country.
"S-sorry sir. Can I shine your shoe with my poo for some money?" I said as I began to drag my ass on his shoe giving it a nice mohogany finish. "See it's nice, it's nice now, sir."
He kicked me in the head and once more asked, "Ever considered becoming an islamic terrorist, you got the bone structure for it."
>>7617788
>omg so hillaries (:
upboated
I'm bored at the moment and I don't have any new books to read, so I'm going to dump the Kurt Vonnegut parody that Charlie Kaufman wrote for the National Lampoon.
Also, post other /lit/erary parodies or humor pieces if you want.
1/5
>>7617721
2/5
>>7617724
3/5
r there any good places where amateur writers/poets can submit whole works online in pursuit of piquing ppls interest/gaining notoriety? im not referring to lit mags/poetry collections/etc. type stuff but something like a 2DopeBoyz/Pitchfork-type blog promoting up and coming talented poets/short story authors?
if hypothetically 1 of these places didnt exist would the good folks of /lit/ fuq w/ a place that did curate such submissions?
Bump b/c i've got a genuine interest in startin somethin like this if its not already existent but i couldn't find shit relevant diggin round das-W3 n was hopin' /lit/ ppl mite wanna help as well.
>>7617361
Reddit.com
>>7617361
Holy shit my eyes are burning. If you think writing like that is in any way acceptable or appropriate under any circumstances you need to kill yourself.
What happened to you guys hating on Tao? Ever since 2013 it's like he never existed after we couldn't go a day without a thread on how shitty he is.
Has anyone actually read 'Selected Tweets'? I did enjoy Taipei way back when, but I'm reluctant to read anything else by him than maybe this for fear of being disappointed
>>7617356
Fuck off Tao, we were memeing about you in a nother thread not 15 minutes ago
Fuck off
fuck off
read a real book
Tell me about your favourite bildungsroman.
War and Peace, kinda, the development of Rostov
I always fucking forget what this memes. Isn't this just picaresque coming of age shit?
>>7616933
>Isn't this just picaresque coming of age shit?
Picaresque, no. Coming of age, yes.
How does /lit/ strive to not take themselves too seriously?
embrace the fact of death fully
don't read books
>>7616690
I play tabletop roleplaying games.
http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/best100.html
what do you think about scaruffi's top 100
garbage. he's the definition of a pseudointellectual hack
Perfect, he's the definition of an intellectual patrician
>>7616489
>has women and non-whites on it
into the trash it goes
What are the best books for better understanding lit, asides from just reading more lit itself? Any recommendations/reading list on crit/theory would be appreciated
>>7616423
Do you go around telling people you can't think for yourself?
>>7616441
pleb opinion: the post
super entry level stuff:
norton anthology of theory if you want the comprehensive overview
well wrought urn by cleanth brooks for poetry
mimesis in OP pic is good
shakespeare by mark von doren is a good shakespeare overview
>>7616423
Thomas C Foster - How to Read Literature like a Professor
Crash Course: Literature (youtube lectures)
How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Harold Bloom - How to Read and Why
What are some good novels where everyone is an asshole to everyone?
>>7616181
The idiot
>>7616181
A frolic of his own.
Sentimental Education
