> that ending
Did Delillo predict Banksy?
>>7518725
Did dellilo get shitty?
DeLillo did 9/11
DeLillo is Banksy
DeLillo poisoned Yaser Arafat
Is it really that hard to understand?
>>7518726
Is delillo an armadillo? Or a chinchillo? Or an even bigger gorillo!
How did Michael Pemulis get so cool? Every passage including him is hilarious and fun and makes me nostalgic for hanging out with friends fucking around in high school.
Cuz the Peemster don't give a fuck.
He's a sociopath. They tend to have magnetic personalities and inspire weaker people to admire them and want to imitate them. Wallace himself said Pemulis was written to be one of the Antichrists of the novel. Personally, I'm with Wallace, because that's all I saw. A mean, manipulative bully.
Micheal Penisless
Does anyone else look forward to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRBeZGYisLg
Finished the book a few weeks ago. It was really enjoyable, the whole plot as a metaphor was maybe a bit shallow, great book nonetheless.
I only came in touch with Ballard because I saw Wheatley is directing this. A Field In England was pretty great.
No one? Only partly /lit/-related, but still.
I am! High Rise is one of my fav Bellard reads, even though like you said, it's a bit obvious.
Have you read Empire Of The Sun or watched the movie? So much of his childhood appears all over his writing
I'm reading Crash right now. I'm a few chapters in and it reads like something by an edge-lord. Does it get better?
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Hey lit, My bf just bought pic related home for me and I love it, I'm 6 chapters in, but I was wondering is all of Murkami's work as good as this or even if there are there any recommendations on books similar either in style or theme?
More Murakami desu
Most of Murakami's other books are more surreal. The rest are pretty good but eventually you'll get tired of him writing the same type of protagonist every fucking time.
Honestly this is at best nearly his worst. You will tire as the other anon said but be excited only to go up from here
This is the greatest thing I've ever read and my life's passion. Please direct to me anything similar.
The Pork Rice Noodle by Ching Chong Ping Pong
>>7518521
Outlaws of the Marsh, obviously. Maybe also the Iliad.
>>7518541
SHANGHAI HONG KONG EGG FOO YUNG
FORTUNE COOKIE ALWAYS WRONG
Where do I go from here?
>>7518514
To a good book, because this one certainly wasn't.
Lost in the Funhouse or Pale Fire
>>7518523
I enjoyed it, you just have to skip the parts where David Foster Wallace forgets you're there and starts masturbating. Otherwise he's very pleasant company.
>book is written by a woman
>book is written
>book is
>>7518495
>4chan threads descend into reddit-style comment chains
>ressentiment frogpeople post on /lit/
Anyone here has read pic related? Also, what are your favorite spanish speaking authors?
>>7518412
Everyone here hasclaimed to haveread it.
On par with The Stranger in my view for its topic but without the exposure.
And
>based Borgie
>>7518412
Scariest book I have ever read.
I see too much of myself in Juancho
>>7518412
Yes, reminded me a lot of Notes from the Underground. The writing is very good aswell, the last passage about the tunnel is really something else.
Assuming you mean prose: Bolaño, Cortázar, Borges, Rulfo, Baroja,Espriu
Hey /lit/. I realized I haven't read enough books during my 20 years of living, due to my slow reading and depression that keeps me from being able to concentrate. Also, most books I've read were YA novels in highschool (which I hated when reading) or other meh entery-level stuff like Lord of the Flies. However, recently I decided I should force myself to read more frequently and intensely.
Literary works that I can say I really love are everything by Tolkien, 1984, PKD's Do Androids and The Three Stigmata, Ender's Gamd and Story of the Eye.
What I already plan to read are Pynchon's stuff, DFW's, Le Guin's, Neuromancer, The Tunnel, Foucault's Pendulum, and that's it on my list, I think.
Don't direct me to the starter kit, already read much of it that I enjoyed like A Clockwork Orange or BNW, but I look for "deeper" shit.
So can you guys please suggest your 10/10 books please?
Anyone?
>>7518410
Read "man and his Symbols"
Jesus fucking Christ, /lit/.
Pic related is the new fad in Italy. The "distilled".
Basically, they're novels cut down to 40% or 30% of their original size. Small enough that "you can finish them in the time it would take to watch a movie" (actual slogan).
Some 23 year old assistant editor just cuts hundreds of pages from novels, conserving only the plot and the main characters. The skeleton of the book. And they have the gall to say that "nothing of the original experience is lost".
I didn't even want to believe it, but they're a real thing. What the fuck.
Does shit like this happen in other countries as well?
>>7518352
To what kind of books exactly they are doing this?
>>7518352
"New fad in Italy" where.
I've never seen one of those things anywhere.
Do you only buy books at the newsstand?
ugh, this is more depressing to me than those cheesy textspeak shakespeare things
opinion on atwood?
>>7518341
Woman, a non-person twiddling on about republicans.
>>7518341
I only read The Blind Assassin and was hugely underwhelmed by it, but at some point I'm going to give her another try with The Handmaid's Tale. Always looks kind of intense and highly strung to me- her face is all angles.
>>7518341
would bang
What do you guys think about authors that lie about their ethnicity in order to get published? Remember the white guy that said he was Asian?
Sometimes "good" writers are good because they have had more opportunities for mentorship, school, and publishing than other writers. I think it is very important to make room in the canon for previously excluded types of writers. And it's sickening to lie about your ethnicity to take advantage of publishers.
The more we include writers who haven't had the same voice and platform as writers in majority, the better their writing will become, the more inspiration they will offer others, and the more freshness and innovation will be breathed into the canon. No one should be able to play a race, gender, or other "card" to get published, but we do need to make allowance and make room.
>>7518332
Based
If the publishers can't tell the difference between a poem written by an Asian guy and a poem written by a white guy pretending to be Asian, then that would suggest that maybe it's not that important to have a quota of Asian male poets in your anthology.
>>7518332
Self publishing should make this entire juvenile discussion obsolete. The market has never been more permeable. Publishing houses are on the way out.
>>7518332
Race should have nothing to do with literature and it never has; it's a poor scapegoat to hide ineptitude.
But guess who moans when they're obviously less talented.
Hey, /lit/. I haven't really read in a while, but I'm trying to get on the good side of a girl who likes to read. She recommended me "The Chocolate War," by Robert Cormier. Is she a pleb? Or is the book actually good?
Bumping for answers
>>7518181
she's a pleb
that's like a freshman year of high school summer reading book
>>7518181
No homo: the book.
So my 15 year old sister asked for and received three books on christmas. They're all from Literally Who authors I've never heard about.
>Aristotles and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
>Vortex
>Carry On
Did she make the right choice?
>>7518105
The Tunnel isn't on there, so, no, she, unfortunately, made the wrong choice--the worst choice, as a matter of fact.
>>7518105
>15 year old sister
>>7518119
If you're gonna reference The Tunnel then you have to post an ePub of it. This is a new rule.
How many Nobel laureates in Literature did you read?
Whom of them do you like\dislike and why?
Whom of them you have not read yet but eager to do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature
>Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain is top tier
>Hermann Hesse
Good but sort of too wrapped up in his style to transcend
>Andre Gide
Didn't really click with me, still interested in giving another go
>William Faulkner
A favorite
>Ernest Hemingway
Better short story writer than a novelist. While For Whom The Bell Tolls may be overrated, he himself isn't.
>Albert Camus
Worth the hype, The Plague is top tier.
>John Steinbeck
Haven't read that much but a decent american writer.
>Yasunari Kawabata
Don't see the appeal, really. He's described as comfy but I find that translates as narcoleptic.
>Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An undeniable talent
>William Golding
Strange inclusion, his only lasting legacy is that one book you read as a HS freshman.
>Kenzaburo Oe
Didn't blow me away but still interested in reading more.
Ive read and enjoyed: Hamsun, Yeats, Shaw, Lewis, O'Neill, Hesse, Gide, Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Camus, Steinbeck, Sarte, Sholokhov, Kawabata, Beckett, Solzhenitsyn, Böll, Bellow, Marquez, Mahfouz, Morrison, Ōe, Saramago, Grass, Llosa.
Seriously people shit on the Nobel but that list has same GOAT literature on it. All of those are worth reading.
I'm not particularly interested in reading the new laureate, but I might check out some of the older ones.
>>7518077
I read 31 of them
