Best. Book. Ever.
>>7576211
What's it about?
is all character like fodyor dostoevsky that spill the Italian spaghetti
thank you
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I don't understand
Nigga u high
Haha that Pynchon!! What a character :^)
I'm looking for books with moral background, that may teach a lesson, that make you think, such as 1984, Animal Farm, Brand New World, Blindless... any recs?
>>7576041
Since you like boring prose and having another's opinion shoved down your throat, try To Kill a Mockingbird.
>>7576041
Plutarchs Lives, Hesse, Most of the South American canon like Juan Rulfo Borges Marquez and Llosa.
Stay away from summer reading books.
The Familiar is probably going to be 27 volumes, about 800 pages each. This guy has either gone crazy, or become a hack. Really though, either way, it isn't good. A 20,000 page book? Even Proust would blush at that.
Each book is about 300 pages of text.
>>7576039
>or become a hack
No: he was always a hack.
Become a hack? All his novels are just a bunch of magazine cut-outs and photos of doorstoppers with ~14 words per page about a quirky dude. If his first book didn't convince you he was a hack, I doubt his 28 other ones will.
Does anyone submit writing anywhere?
Most off the stuff I write is funny, I was wondering if there was anywhere good to submit things like that?
If I can, I'm going to write some more article or list type things and see if I can get it posted up on a humour website. I enjoy writing things that make people laugh, so getting it out into an audience would be great fun.
>>7576008
>Most off the stuff I write is funny
That's true, because your whole post is so funny and ironic. Asking on a humour website for a humour website, sheesh :-)
>I was wondering if there was anywhere good to submit things like that?
Have you heard of reddit? They have super humour, but sometimes it is quite nerdy.
>If I can...
Do you have writer's block? :-(
>>7576029
1) Seems like a good place to start.
2) What's with all the Reddit references recently?
3) I wouldn't normally write that kind of thing, but it seems to be a common format for websites
>>7576045
>1) Seems like a good place to start.
I don't know. Most of the posts on lit I don't understand, or they are just mean :(
>2) What's with all the Reddit references recently?
Oh, you don't know? Ah, I get it, you are a newcomer, too (:
Could you post some excerpts? I need a good laugh today :]
Honeydew, by Edith Perlman. I haven't read anything else she's written, but this was good stuff. Takes a while to get going, though. Lots of slice-of-life stories from a fictional American town, kinda like Margaret Atwood, but less depressing. Anyone else read her?
Nobody know her?
>>7575985
I haven't heard of her. Could you say some more about whom you would compare her to, what her style is, and what some other favorites of yours are (short story authors in particular) to help us get more of a sense of this author? Thanks
Guise help please..
I really love reading and i am studying literature as well but I also enjoy movies and tv shows a lot and i feel like i am neglecting my books when I watch tv...
Any recommendations appreciated
>pic related because fun
You can't really watch TV about books, but you can surely read books about TV.
>>7575965
Balance. Just like the soap opera "One life to live" so are the days of our lives, like dust in the wind. Wild Stallions and so forth.
Just finished this, should I read Go set a Watchman? Also: thoughts about the book
>>7575870
It's shit
What's the consensus on this guy?
I am a dirty sock, in a pile of clean socks
The sock i match with is clean, but I am dirty
I am a dirty, dirty sock.
Nobody will wear me, and because of me nobody will wear my pair
I am dirty but you can't clean me, I'm dirty beyond repair.
I was left out of the laundry, only by chance
A clean sock I would be if my owner took a second glance
No soap suds for me, no rinse and no spin
I'm a dirty sock and I belong in the bin
>>7575833
lol
>>7575831
What do you think of him first? What do you like or dislike? What is problematic in his work in your opinion?
I just bought House of Leaves and so far, I'm loving it.
What an abomination of a trainwreck.
Do you guys know any other good, similair books?
Infinite Jest.
are there any books about social progressivism? i'm looking into how the 'movement' if you can call it that began and how it gained traction? thanks friendos
>>7575527
de Condorcet, Outlines of an historical view of the progress of the human mind
Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics. A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind on Universal History Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth
Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View
Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Spencer, Progress: Its Law and Cause
Comte, A General View of Positivism
Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
>>7575706
thanks. do you know of any critiques?
>>7575527
If you want a article on the growing acceptance of transgender/queer/non-binary sexuality or fetishized sexual deviance, read Berlant and Warner's Sex In Public.it ends with a scene of a man voluntarily being gagged by having milk poured down his throat in a sex show
Have there been any film adaptations of good books that didn't fuck up the story by making the love angle front and center/sticking one in? Pic related
>>7575505
This book/ movie desu senpai.
>>7575505
>not realising that the 'love angle' is very much front-and-centre, but also a fundamental part of the book
On Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon - "I have sat and slept though this novel for five days and words would fail me if logorhoea were not so catching." and "It [Rocket] may have been of such heavy symbolic intent that it went under my head"
On The Decay of the Angel - "This is not writing, this is Barbara Cartland - and Barbara Cartland at least has the courage not to commit hara-kiri over it"
On Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov - "This is the novel to end all of Nabokov's novels - or at least one hopes so"
On The Autumn of the Patriarch - "The book is the equivalent of a bad film stunningly photographed."
On Ted Hughes - Every time I open Ted Hughes's latest book, there is something about testicles, bone tissue or vomit. It's like watching General Hospital . . . "
Or "Apcolypse Now, in other words, would have been more entertaining as a silent film"
Or, on Faye Dunaway (whom he likes) in Mommie Dearest - "She is Lady Macbeth who cannot find a missing button, Clylemmenstra who has mislaid her bus past",
On Shelley Duvall in The Shining (he likes the actress and the movie - . . . she looks like Bugs Bunny carved out margarine"
On Octopussy - "Roger Moore has grown old in our service (perhaps the film should have been called the Octogenarian"
On Robert Frost "A man who posed as an American sage while possessing the familial virtures of Caliguila"
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>>7575498
>it may have of have been of such heavy symbolic intent that it flew under my head.
rickity rekt
Sounds like a bitter old cunt.
How do you write with a unique aesthetic and divest from your influences? All I can write are poor imitations. I do not have a rule of writing all my own. Does everyone begin with a cobbled together style, or am I doomed to be a reader but not a writer?
Follow the 10,000 Hour Rule.
For example, when considering a subject, I can only think of how to write it in terms of how other writers would handle it. At best I create something of a collage of styles, but it all feels like second hand imitation.
>>7575491
So, if you're familiar with Hegelian dialectics -- that.
You'll never create a thesis, but you can create an antithesis or a synthesis. To create an antithesis, propose and then develop either a rejection of or an alternative to a thesis, so, for example, if you don't much like Burroughs, find a new approach to how he wrote.
To create a synthesis, identify a thesis and an antithesis and find a half-way between the two. So, for example, Hemingway and Faulkner are often seen as polar opposites. I think that's spurious, but we'll play for now. Hemingway is often seen as clear, but also stark and turgid in his writing, Faulkner as fluid and beautiful but obfuscating. They are both good, but if you can find a way to merge Hemingway's clarity with Faulkner's aesthetic, that would be an example of a synthesis.
Of course, that's been done. So find something new. Read some contemporary literature.
