ITT we
>Author
>Diagnosis
Starting off simple
>Kafka
>Avoidant personality disorder
>hard mode
>avoid using autism or aspergers
>George RR Martin
>Prader-Willi Syndrome
>pushkin
>borderline
im 100% on this
Rules
>Post a short excerpt from your writing
>Other anons try to guess how many books you read a year
Obviously this isn't a critique thread, go here >>7559103 for that.
I'll bite.
‘Twenty-one, eh?’ The bouncer turned the chit over in his hand,
‘Uh-huh.’
‘And you expect me to believe that?’
Beim blinked.
‘Y’know what?’ Said the bouncer, pausing only for effect, ‘Twenty creds and you’re in.’
‘I… Twenty?’ He’d already paid fifteen.
‘Uh-huh… That’s only half the price of some quality horns to cover up those boyish little nubs.’ Retorted the bouncer, giving those same nubs a little jostle.
Beim’s brow furrowed and his lips parted far before he had cooked up a witty come back. Thankfully for him, the entrance doors whisped open before he could make it obvious.
‘What’s the hold up?’ Boomed a voice from a pair of broad shoulders and a jagged crown, ‘Grotty better not be givin’ you trouble.’ Noted the new arrival, his arm falling to rest on the Bouncer’s shoulder.
‘This tike’s with you, Stakko?’
‘Tike?’ Retorted Beim
‘Oh come on, kid.’
‘Yeah,’ said Stakko, nodding Beim to his side, ‘this tike’s with me.’
A grunt from one and a smile from the other was all it took for Beim to strut his way past the bouncer, casually snatching back his counterfeit chit.
‘Oh and Grotty? Thanks for not making the kid pay, eh?’ His lips curled into a smirk before shooting the bouncer a wink. ‘Put it towards my tab.’
The entrance to the club itself was just as unorthodox as Beim’s admittance had been. Where as one expected to see a group of expectant - or expired - revellers and worn out couches, they were instead greeted with sharp lights and a thick durasteel chamber with thicker doors on both ends. As the door behind shut and the stale air began hissing through the vents, Stakko gave Beim a thud to the shoulder.
‘Remember…’ He began, the lights fading as the hissing began fading to nothing,’There’s no such thing as a bad trip. A’right?’
‘A’right.’
And, as if on cue, the far door hissed open, letting a flood of both bass and thick orange smoke wash over them.
>>7562302
That's very nice, man. I wish I could write like you. I'm guessing you read about a dozen books in 2015?
Who else loves HST? I think Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is one of the greatest political works of all time, next to Plato's Republic and Leviathan
>>7562265
Love the man, hate the meme. Thompson is briliant, insightful, highly entertaining, frenetic, captivating and funny. The Raoul Duke persona crippled him, and I think it causes a lot of people to completely miss his thoughtfulness and just consider him EPIC DRUGS LMAO man.
Campaign Trail truly is great, but I wouldn't rank it that high myself. My favourite of Thompson's work is Hell's Angels. Thompson is insightful and thrilling, and the prose is masterful, smooth and captivating. The opening from Hell's Angels:
>California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Fricso, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur...The Menace is loose again, the Hell's Angels, the hundred-carat headline, running fast and loud on the early morning freeway, low in the saddle, nobody smiles, jamming crazy through traffic and ninety miles an hour down the center stripe, missing by inches...like Genghis Khan on an iron horse, a monster steed with a fiery anus, flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter's leg with no quarter asked and non given; show the squares some class, give em a whiff of those kicks they'll never know...Ah, these righteous dudes, they love to screw it on...Little Jesus, the Gimp, Chocolate George, Buzzard, Zorro, Hambone, Clean Cut, Tiny, Terry the Tramp, Frenchy, Mouldy Marvin, Mother Miles, Dirty Ed, Chuck the Duck, Fat Freddy, Filthy Phil, Charger Charley the Child Molester, Crazy Cross, Puff, Magoo, Animal and at least a hundred more...tense for the action, long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, armpits, chain whips, swastikas and stripped-down Harleys flashing chrome as traffic on 101 moves over, nervous, to let the formation pass like a burst of dirty thunder...
If you haven't already, I urge you to check out Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone. It's a collection of his best articles.
HST is a bad word where i am from
Love his work, and his message. And he died as he lived: with a BANG. And I don't mean his suicide: he had his ashes shot off in a giant cannon, followed by patriotic fireworks.
Hail, King Gonzo
Could anyone provide me with PDF? Could be in english or polish
>>7562229
there's an epub and a mobi on library genesis' fiction page
>>7562858
Thank you very much! If someone has pdf i would be grateful tho!
>>7562921
Why would you want a pdf
>love story
>writer uses a lot of big fancy words
>shitpost on /lit/
>post on it anyway
p psychotic
>>7562193
>tfw you will never go crazy and invent your own form of a nascent scientific field
Jdimsa
Do you reckon he fucked Lucia?
so, /lit/ i have a problem
my essays have structural issues. they're more collections of observations than statements on the work. i don't usually have a single theses as the backbone of the essay unless it's a comparative study. i don't want to be a complete aspie but i also don't want to sound like a crazy hobo.
do you know of any books that can help me structure my thoughts? i don't mean one of those "here's how to do introductions and here's how to MLA guides", i'm aware of the formal requirements. i need something a bit more substantial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SuErDxh_Vs
Helped me with my essay structure
>>7562153
well i don't think it helped much me with my essay problem but i liked the music
bump
i know some of you are good at this
Is there literature that will make me scared. Will make me want to turn on all the lights and television.
>>7562352
jeje monsieur
>>7562352
Screencap worthy
how do you feel about flannery o'connor? when women writers are brought up here i often see virginia woolf mentioned but not ol' flann so much. personally, she really dills my pickle.
>she really dills my pickle
I'd let her dill my pickle if you know what I mean
>>7562128
i do.
>women
"Women" is a noun, OP, not an adjective. The word you're looking for is "female". Hope this helps.
what the fuck am I reading, did Piers Anthony write this when he was 14 years old?
>Zane is le supreme gentleman
>believes women are pristine and pure, despite multiple women repeatedly telling him he's wrong
>women offer him sex everywhere he goes
>"hey you saved me from that thief, follow me into this alley and have sex with me as a reward"
>"hey you just killed my dad, we need to find out why he wanted us to meet. Follow me into the bedroom and have sex with me"
>>7561928
Its literally a book for young adults. What do you expect? Do you read hunger games and expect Issac Assimov?
>>7561938
>young adults
I was not aware of that.
Doesn't that make the whole eternal rape and "ravaging her body" stuff from hell, which is mentioned very frequently, pretty far out there for kids?
>>7561938
hunger games has much more developed and complex characters than assimov
Hey /lit/,
I've read most of the Camus/Sartre canon recently and now I was thinking of reading Kierkegaard but I've seen people saying I should first read Hegel. So, which books should I start with?
>>7561751
To read Hegel you need to read Kant. To read Kant you need to read Hume. To read Hume you need to read Descartes etc etc.
TL;DR start with the Greeks
>>7561754
I would if I had that much time. Can you at least name 1 crucial book by each of those writers (I've read Iliad, Odyssey and some other Greeks stuff so skip that)
Thing is lot of these writers talk about lot of stuff. Could anyone point me to some of their crucial books concerning existentialism that was born later because of it.
What's the best English translation of Journey to The West?
>>7561648
just patrician up and read the actual travel journals the story is based on
>>7561947
>This
Really.
ITT: The best publication of a certain novel
I'm talking aesthetics, content, preferably both
Pic related
>>7560059
oxford consistently beats penguin on all fronts (maybe not some translations), ESPECIALLY for pic related
notes+subjectively nicer covers+better paper+better collections (like HoD+3 short stories)+not penguin
>>7560059
Not very good cover art desu. His face seems to be cropped off.
Jesus Christ what a terrible thread
Pic related is my pick.
I saw someone post about these vintage contemporaries and picked up a few that seemed interesting.
This one was really great. I would never had found it if I hadn't looked in the publishing line.
Tommy P even gives his regards on the back cover.
Cool-- never heard of that one OP.
I really like that vintage contemporaries line, especially James Crumley.
Also, pic related seem super /lit/ but I never see it mentioned on here.
>>7561364
I picked that one up as well. Haven't gotten to it yet but definitely seems right up my alley.
this t b h
it's actually pretty acclaimed, but people don't read it nearly enough, especially today
Let's see how /lit/ performs when it comes to erotica
>ITT: We write an erotic novella one sentence at a time
And but so.
that faggot wanted me dead.
I asked him to call me Hebe while I licked his asshole.
![Flannery-O'Connor_1947[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IwlVazI.jpg "Flannery-O'Connor 1947[1]")
