"The Only Pirate At The Party", I'd prefer the audiobook since she is reading it herself.
>>7589608
Ah... also thanks in advance!
Try a bookstore or your local library. Try to not be a sad sack of shit. Try to make a thread worthwhile.
>>7589611
She's not a savant. She's an enthusiastic, well-marketed amateur.
If she played in an orchestra, people would fucking laugh in her face.
I wanna get into Hunter S. Thompson, what books should I absolutely read?
Are all his works decent, should I just from the first published to the last in chronological order?
I have never focused on an author and I'm kinda curious of trying it out with him.
I'd recommend "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories" which I read it a good few years back; There's a couple of decent short stories tagged on at the end, one of which is kind of a biopoic, from what I can recall...
The only other HST I've read is Hell's Angels, I think that's also pretty well renowned - I thought it was decent but not as good as Fear & Loathing.
None of that qualifies me to pass comment on your idea of tackling all his works in order.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is my favorite book of his, absolutely one of the funniest books I've ever read. Hell's Angels is good, the Rum Diary is good, and I've heard Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is another good one.
>>7589597
>Are all his works decent
decent? i suppose, but i wouldn't read the ones that were merely decent unless you become a super fan. his best stuff is excellent.
>should I just from the first published to the last in chronological order?
that would make the Rum Diary first and that is merely decent, so no.
i'd rec The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved to start, which is both great and short~ish. this will give you an idea of if he's for you and a good intro style wise and chronologically. Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are the other two musts that i've read (if you're not into drugs even in passing, FaLiLV may not click with you as much, tho.) /lit/ usualy also recs FaL on the Campaign Trail but i've not read it yet.
>It's like rain on a wedding day
>It's a free ride, when you've already paid
What are some other examples for things that are ironic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GVJpOmaDyU
>>7589465
The good advice that you just didn't take.
Do you know of any good pro-life/pro-choice books? I'm particularly interested in books in favor of pro-choice because I honestly have never heard any good arguments supporting abortion.
Checkout Robert Spitzer, I saw him give a talk on how "euthanasia" creates a statist duty to die, I'm sure he has something on how killing to make it easier to get a diploma is a mistake.
>>7589181
Then why would you want to read books pro life? If you don't understand the pro choice viewpoint you should read up on that.
I think it's bad to kill babies.
Good mental health books for someone who suffers from a mental illness, specifically psychosis NOS (similar to schizophrenia)?
>>7589162
As a fellow psychotic, I enjoyed The Divided Self by R.D. Laing. Unrelated to mental health books, I also enjoyed reading Joseph Campbell because I've found that "metaphorizing" my delusions is a good way of removing their destructiveness.
>>7589296
OP here, thanks for the suggestions. Speaking of metamorphizing, The Metamorphosis is pretty much exactly how I feel sometimes, it's the only book I've read so far that's really resonated with my illness.
>>7589309
There's always a theme or a motif, isn't there? Mine is dragons.
Just read this book and I liked it. I had a feeling of melancholy as I read through it.
Anyone else read this book? What are your thoughts.
>>7589128
It's OK. Mid-tier Ishiguro. Read "Remains of the Day" if you want something good.
>>7589128
I feel like the Japanese capture that feeling very well. I'd never heard of this particular author before, so I'll have to take a look.
>>7589133
This.
Reposting to umpteenth time:
The Unconsoled > Remains of the Day = Buried Giant > Never Let Me Go > Good Nocturnes > When We Were Orphans > Bad Nocturnes
will add Pale View of Hills and Artist of the Floating world when I finally get around to reading them soontm.
>"There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house"
How can one woman be so based?
I don't know how.
Can you recommend me some really good, edgy and taboo breaking erotic literature, which goes over topics like child rape etc. and not just some teen crap like 50 shades of grey?
Fuck off you degenerate faggot
Just read the Bible instead.
>concerning yourself with YA fiction
Nah, mildly amusing. All his other books are the same though, more the harry potter of lit. But that's all rbooks tier, so I guess you're right...
>>7588987
please kill yourself for being such a faggot
/lit/,
Write your life
Any fool can think of words that rhyme
Many others do
Why don't you?
Do you want to?
Write your life
Just use the pen on your desk
And name
All the things you love
All the things you loathe
Others wrote your life
Now is your time to shine
And have the pleasure of
Meaning what you write
And writing what you mean
Oh, make no mistake, my friend
All of this will end
So write it now
All the things you love
All the things you loathe
Don't leave it all unsaid
Somewhere in the wasteland of your head
And make no mistake, my friend, your
pointless life will end
But before you go
Can you look at the truth?
You have a lovely flowing prose
And all of those
Who wrote on key
They stole the notion
From you and me
>You have a lovely flowing prose
Should have been "a lovely writing style"
Also it gets repeated twice.
Sage.
>>7588982
>Also it gets repeated twice
Except it doesn't.
Instead of reading War & Peace I read Crime & Punishment because it was like 600 pages shorter, did I do good?
pic kind of related but not really
>>7588940
C&P gives less achievement points though.
>>7588940
what did you think of it
>>7588952
It was really intense during Raskolnikov's planning, I got way into the thinking like him which doesn't happen to often when I read but it was also like 1 am when I started it. I don't really know how to feel, I didn't understand the dream sequence where the horse get beaten, but if you read that part it's kind of like an expression of the whole story. Plus the bad guy ends up living happily in the end, all around 10/10 will not put through a paper shredder.
How much one have to read to be able to write something good? I know that reading is important for a writer, but i feel that it's possible to write something really good by reading moderately if you have something to say and learned to express yourself not only by reading, but talking to people and writing technical stuff - like would be the case for a lawyer or engineer.
For me this thought of "You need to read an incredible amount to be able to produce something decent" is paralyzing and eventhough i can see some logic in it, my intuition says its wrong and missing a lot of important factors.
What do you think /lit/?
>How much one have to read to be able to write something good?
Somewhat more than you've read, evidently.
>>7588926
bump for interest
no it's right and the only people who claim otherwise are just trying to justify/make excuses for their own lack of reading
This fucking book man.
You dumb nigger, you were supposed to read this one
What about it? Is it anything as fucked up as the womyns choice section on xhamster?
>mfw I want to write a book or even a short story yet never do and just keep reading
>keep taking notes about stuff I'll never write
I want to do it but for some reason I don't. Does anyone else know this feeling?
Yep it's called procrastination.
The way to beat it is discipline, having achievable short-term goals, removing distractions, and prioritising your life based on what you want to achieve and not being a weak-minded fuck.
Questions?
>>7588862
Should I kill myself?
Just write man, even if it's autistic fanfiction. Don't be afraid to get your ideas dirty.
>"Here's a list of books any writer should have read as a part of his education," he said, handing me the following list:
Stephen Crane-
The Blue Hotel
The Open Boat.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Dubliners - James Jyce
The Red and the Black By Stendhal
(Of Human Bondage - Somerset Muagham)
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Buddenbrooks - THomas Mann
Hail and Farewell - George Moore
Brothers Karamazoff - Doestoevsky
Oxford Book of English Verse -
The Enormous Room - E. E. Cummings
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Far Away and Long Ago - W. H. Hudson
The American - Henry James
>HE should have read War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoi, Midshipman Easy, Frank Mildmay and Peter Simple by Captain Marryat, Madame Bovary and L'Education Sentimentale by Flaubert, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Joyce's Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses, Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews by Fielding, Le Rouge Et Le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal, The Brothers Karamazov and any two other Dostoevskis, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Open Boat and the Blue Hotel by Stephen Crain, Hail and Farewell by George Moore, Yeat's Autobiographies, all the good De Maupassant, all the good Kipling, all of Turgenev, Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson, Henry James's short stories, especially Madame de Mauves and The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady [...]
>>7588798
I don't understand the purpose of this post.
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