So, I just start reading naked lunch expecting to be gruesome, but anyhow, what's the most fucked up you have read? and why?
>>7522677
Teatro Grotesco by Thomas Ligotti
I think some of the stories are body horror like Naked Lunch and I like ones that are creepy underneath the surface rather than conventionally trying to scare you.
>>7522686
looks nice, I'm searching for the troop by nick cutter as well, have you read it?
Horacio Quiroga - Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte(Tales of love madness and death)
Exactly what it says it is. I read it when i was really young and don't remember the details, but it had gruesome scenes of the death of a horse (iirc), children killing children, etc...
What does /lit/ think of IT?
I personally love IT. Beautifully written, particularly at the parts of a character's childhood.
>>7522659
Hi Read IT
>>7522659
an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis
>>7522659
meme book by a meme writer
In the case of three-month old /his/, /lit/, you ARE the father!
Strange, it looks like /pol/ and /int/
Should have aborted.
Three months already? Damn. Time flies.
Stopping by Barnes & Noble, thinking about picking up The Count of Monte Cristo, but I heard there were a bunch of different versions of it, how do I go about this without autism getting involved?
had a translation i really liked, but can't find it, and don't remember which off the top of my head. sorry anon
>you will never be american
>>7522630
Translations don't matter too much with Dumas. Nobody reads him for his prose.
i have looked everywhere for an ebook of Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima, to no avail. can anyone help?
bump
>>7522694
puke
Is it just a fresh new meme or is it a good read?
Hard mode: you actually read the thing.
800k words, out of print, author distanced himself from it. No one has ever finished it. Definitely seems like a good read and not a meme
Stop reading about life and go out and live it. Every experience is worth a hundred stupid literary novels.
>>7522597
>author distanced himself from it
I heard about the first two things but never this. Care to elaborate?
What edition of Gravity's Rainbow do I get?
>>7522578
>he thinks this is a meme
get the 1995 penguin anon, blueprint cover.
who else loves this
>UUUULAAAAAHHHHH
>>7522557
A friend's older brother had that album. I haven't listened to it in years, but remember enjoying it when I was a child. Are you familiar with Rick Wakeman's Journey to the center of the Earth?
>>7522607
No but I'll give it a listen. If you're interested you really should listen to War of the Worlds, it's all up on youtube. It has everything from cheesy 70s prog to genuinely depressing parts with Richard Burton hamming it up.
>>7522557
I loved this but ive only listened once.
I tried listening to his sons "remix" of the album and honestly felt like it was sullying the original and coudnt finish it
>he's currently reading something that isn't on /lit/'s top 100 chart
>he's still stuck on Origins
You'll never make it at this rate.
>>7522473
I'm reading The Tunnel and The Recognitions, which are both better than everything but the top 5 on the list.
Is writing more exhausting than painting, drawing and sculpting?
I can write well and on top-capacity for, at the best days, only about 4 hours. The idea of waking up at 08:00am and produce until lunch break and then keep working until 09:00 or 10:00 pm is a joke to me.
I tought this was only weakness of my part, yet I discovered that most great writers (and above all poets and verse-workers) ussualy work hard on writing for only 3-4 hours, and mainly read and copy material on the rest of their time. A lot of writers complain about the menal exaustion that the craft make them feel.
As for painters and sculptors, you read a lot about many of them working for several hours non-stop, as Michelangelo, for example.
I myself like to scult clay and draw, and I never feel as tired and nervous while doing this kind of activities than when writing.
So, is it just me or writing is really more consuming when it comes to energy and tought capacity?
>>7522418
If Michelangelo had the desire to write he'd be 10 times better than you'll ever be
>>7522438
That's only because he didn't have access to 4chan.
>>7522418
>Is writing more exhausting than painting, drawing and sculpting?
No, but it is, often times, more personal, more organic: language is consciousness, after all.
I need an english presentation done please at high school level talking about whether it is better for a leader to be feared or loved based on machiavellis the prince and how it relates to modern society pleaseee it doesnt have to be good ill pay 10 dollars by paypal when its done pleaseee
Both, my man
>>7522313
Tell you what, I wrote my Thesis on Machiavelli and I'll condense it all into neat little research notes that you can more or less copy/paste for an easy B+
That being said, I'll need half of the money up front so I know that you aren't fucking with me
>>7522329
How do i know you wont rip me off?
My most recent book haul. How'd I do, bros?
>>7522303
>lit-starterpack
Fucking kill yourself faggot
(spoiler) Stoner is fine though (/spoiler)
>he's writing a novel but can't describe the underlying philosophical themes
>he thinks the author matters
>he's writing a novel but he can't describe the plot
>>7522047
>he thinks the author doesn't matter
Like wearing glasses without the lense. Art is an extension of the artist: it is interpretation of reality externalised; and, therefore, it is essential to critical analysis of the art.
this is important
is the front cover of david bowie's space oddity made out of a cooling azure mosaic of acid tabs?
thank you, also, what books should I be reading? I'm reading Kafka/s at the moment.
>>7521996
can I get some music as well
some guy recommended me an album (which I've now forgoteen) which was I think heavy metal but with yoga.
>>7521996
please
>>7522026
pretty please
I'm turning 24 in one minute.
Is it too late for me to create something of literary worth or am i destined to fade away into obscurity working some shitty job?
4 pages into my novel which i've been writing for over a year.....
>>7521988
Why be so fucking negative, there's a new year beginning. Discipline yourself to write between 500-1000 words every day. You're worth the effort.
Fuark OP, I'm turning 24 in March 2016. Tell me what it's like to have officially lost your youth, soul, spirit, freedom, and brio.
Happy birthday, OP.
To be honest you're probably destined to fade into obscurity and work a shitty job, but that's what pretty much everyone does so you have nothing to lose by writing.
Plenty of writers got published when they were way older than you.
And remember, everyone and everything will perish and nothing will have mattered, so mattering a bit less for a few seconds is no big deal.
