Does anyone have that meme of a guy giving a really dumb answer on Jeopardy involving Michael Chrichton? That's as specific as I can be, can't find it anywhere.
My wifes kid loves his books
>>7616833
I read Eaters of the Dead in Highschool
I wanted to read Jurassic Park as a kid, because I loved the movie. Is it worth it?
Thoughts, /lit/? How does it rank against his other works?
>>7616742
It's his weakest work, in my opinion.
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>>7617047
good ranking
Have you watched the new adaptation? Thoughts?
Also, general Shakespeare thread, I guess.
>>7616596
really want to watch this in the cinema. Only saw like a halfhour of the recently released torrent. Imo, Macbeth has amazing cinematography,I just cant fathom why they didnt push this movie more.
>>7616604
because not that many people give a shit about shakespeare adaptations.
I'm very excited to see it
>>7616596
it's i n c r e d i b l e
On average, how many pages do you read per day?
75 or so
Can range from 40-160 though depending on amount of free time and engagement in the book
69 - 1488
How does /lit/ feel about Raymond Chandler/LA Noir? Just finished The Big Sleep. Would appreciate recommendations for other books by Chandler or in the same vein
>>7616125
I love the guy. I also need more refommendations. I find noir very comfy
>>7616219
jim thompson if you are in for something more crazy
Georges Simenon is good too
Is Hammett any good?
Will I fuck my shit up if I become an archivist?
>>7615804
nah, i'm planning on going into archive/museum/library work as well
>>7615820
I was thinking of going into economy and I'm just about to finish my collegial diploma, but I'm seriously in doubt and it feels like it's not really the time to doubt anything really.
there are a lot of broads in it
i recently got disciplined at work because someone recommended i go into archival/library work and i said "there are a lot of broads in it"
it's currently booming to hell and back in my city, ten thousand of my idiot giggling female coworkers are in it. i wonder if it will be oversaturated within 3 years.
Is it any good?
>>7615154
Sure it is.
>Third-greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. A splendid fantasy
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
>>7615968
>Austen, Jane. Great.
What's the longest thing you've ever written?
18-page short story.
It was okay for a first real try.
my diary desu
Essay on the apocalyptic cycle in William Blake's "Visions of the Daughters of Albion"
14 pages, if memory serves
post you're poems :)
i can't you repulsed me
The fat man's drenched hat crumpled in a shivering fist
He's lost the whole house from around him
Every single shingle shattered into atoms
Only he remains, standing circumcised on torn earth
Where his living room once was stripped to his skin
With a wet hat in his right hand
Umbrella inverted and undressed
Stuffed in the top of a trash can
"right as rain" spokes reach
Grabbing coats and poking pocket books
Its dress is torn to one last spoke
It pours a sliding sheet of rain over the side, over the side
The cracked earth cow-skull dirt in a no-cloud blue sky capsule
Leaks out the ozone's bald spot along with your brand new closed curtains
A dozen frozen roses and cozmo, the thumbed cat
2 women walk up to a penny
One says, "oh look a penny."
Then the other one says, "oh, it's a lucky one."
Then the one goes, "no it isn't."
And they both walk off
We are poems
But I must be goings
1. Last three books read
2. Recommend a fourth for the person above you.
Being and Time
Tao Te Ching
Portable Darkness
>>7608976
The Moors Account - Lalami
The General in his Labyrinth - Marquez
Soumission - Houellebecq
> Siddhartha - Hesse
> Persian Fire - Tom Holland
> How to Practice - Dalai Lama
Is it autistic / illegal to debate the value of your work with an agent who turns it down?
I've completed 4 parts of my 6 part memoir (around 600k words so far) and have started sending around the first in the series ready for publication. The first and only place I send it to (an agent representing many of the biggest names in contemporary publishing) said it was "overwritten" and that it "presumes too much" about how interested the reader is in the "minutiae" of my life. I sent him an email asking to reconsider which he interpreted as a "threat" (I said I'd give him one more chance before I sent it elsewhere).
Would it be wrong for me to write a lengthy document defending and justifying my work?
This has really startled me.
>>7608333
You are my favorite delusional/troll poster.
>>7608356
All great men were viewed as delusional before they made it. Reserve your resentment for lesser beings.
>>7608333
>memoir about asked no name frogposter
Not sure why anyone would want to read about your life
I haven't read any of his stuff, only the shitty quotes ("If people were rain I'd be drizzle and she'd be a hurricane"), but from what I can tell, he's just like every other shitty YA author. Why is there so much hate specifically directed towards him? Is it because he's also on yt?
He's the richest and most popular one
hurr normies hurr YA hurr plebs REEEEEE or something
>>7608149
it's because c/lit/s have probably come into contact with girls who read his stuff and see it as somehow "outsider literature" and therefore intellectual. it must be grating. twilight or the hunger games doesn't have that tinge to it. the perks of being a wallflower does. perhaps now you understand.
What post-modern literature is actually worth reading? I read Infinite Jest, and that was genre fiction tier, some Pynchon, not really worth mentioning, I read Ulysses and that made the other two look like pissants. Where are the real books, guys? these authors feel like robbery, where's a serious author that doesnt rely on gimmicks, and can actually write a damn sentence?
>>7605188
Enid Blyton
>>7605253
no need to be insulting. it's not my fault that Infinite Jest is simplistic and Pynchon is juvenile.
>>7605188
good taste senpai
try perec, gass, and schmidt
Your thoughts on pic related?
>>7615393
Just stared reading it a few days ago. Slow start, but it seems to be getting a bit better. I find his writing style off-putting and the narrative feels choppy. I'm going to try to stick with it in hopes there's a good payoff in the end.
>>7615563
>I find his writing style off-putting and the narrative feels choppy.
Are you sure you're reading Embassytown by China Mièville?
>>7615700
Opinions are like assholes.
Translation:
Hi /lit/. Could you please recommend me which translations I should prefer for:
1. Marcus Aurelius (Meditations or other works)
2. Seneca
3. Epictetus
Who are good translator for each of their works?
Get the Everyman for Marco
OWC for others
Gregory Hays for Marcus
