Okay, so this has been bothering me for awhile. Googling has turned up nothing. What is exactly is "The Zone"? It seems to include a variety of areas. I'm 557 pages in, did I miss an explicit explanation somewhere?
>babby has never read a book where details are deliberately omitted before, to pique the reader's interest
god fucking help you if you ever touch Dhalgren
>>7489134
I just finished Dhalgren and can say with 100% objectivity that its less confusing than any part in GR
>>7489120
Listen to "Niggas in Paris" by Kanye West and Jay Z. Pynchon was inspired by that song when he wrote Gravity's Rainbow.
What's your favorite series? Here's mine.
>>7489033
looks like generic fantasy shit, senpai.
Looks shit mate
I remember when /lit/ trolled me into reading this shite.
Also American Gods.
Fuck you guys
Meta thread?
Meta thread.
We do polls and infographics about books etc all the time, but does anyone want to help me sort out the chronology of /lit/'s meme authors? What i've come up with is hardly comprehensive and some of the chronology is surely wrong.
>Ayn Rand; from day one, she was this board's troll magnet, leading to pic related
>Murakami; general agreement/frequent subject of posts
>Borges; general agreement/frequent subject of posts
>Brautigan; meme status fizzled, but was really popular for a few days, IIRC. maybe not list material.
>Tao Lin; he came here
>Joyce; ares full of farts, meme trilogy
>DWF; general agreement/frequent subject of posts, meme trilogy
>Pinecone; general agreement/frequent subject of posts, meme trilogy, alleged to have come here, but that was outed as a ruse i think. good thread, though.
>Stirner; >muh spooks
>"trolley problem"; not really an author, i guess
>Kharms; iranbro
>"start with the greeks"; we always had a lot of philo threads but i don't remember a specific greek being a meme until they were encapsulated by the SWtG meme. could totally be wrong, tho.
>Dworkin, current shitty forced meme
DFW was probably earlier? I want to say maybe Orson Scott Card and GRRM go on here somewhere, but not sure they defined the board culture, since we tend to shit on genre? i mean Rowling and Meyers got posted enough to be memetic, i suppose, but only because they were memes of the larger culture, not specifically /lit/.
i was focusing on authors, but we could open it up to all our memes if we want.
Dresden Files were a meme for a little bit. I fell for it and had to read 3 books before I realized /lit/ is full of shit.
not authors, but
>corn
and
>subvocalize
?
bump for memes
What are some books to read when dealing with crippling loneliness?
>>7488713
The Bible. God is always with you.
I'll put my question here I guess. What are some books that deal with finding meaning in life when there doesn't seem to be any? I haven't read DFW, does he fit here?
Writers: what does your book have that others don't? Why should readers choose your work over another's?
Because my book is more addictive than cocaine. Once you take one sniff of my first paragraph your panties will moisten, your eyes will roll over, your tongue will loll out of your gaping mouth and your toes will writhe in orgasmic comedown. If you are 13-56 a woman and like to read, give me your money now.
I deal with contemporary themes and problems, trying to capture our zeitgeist
>>7488704
I haven't even finished writing it yet so fuck if I know.
What some good books about japanese boipucci?
my diary, desu
>>7488533
Hypersphere
Not Japanese, but Sarah by JT Leroy is about a crossdressing tween prostitute.
Good day, gentlemen. I as a Russian virgin of my own literature was reflecting about whether or not should I start off reading this book or any other Tolstoy's work in particular? For it seems to me that this book was likely made either for little girls or stupid homy maids. Nonetheless if it's not so, could you explain why is this considered to be a classic with such a suspicious title on it? I mean I'm told that what was written in the book is all about stupid love and freaking ho Anna Karenina herself and her further suicide (fuck yea, I wish all whores did it prospectively). Anyways, the main reason me being here is your personal and independent advise regarding the book.
fuck off you cunt
>>7488566
Why are you being so aggressive towards me, laddy?
She get's run over by a train.
My Dad asked for the martian for christmas. What's a better book similar to the martian i can get him instead?
>>7488411
He asked for the martian, get him the martian.
Don't be a pretentious faggot.
If you want to get him another book, fine, but at least get him what he asked for.
It's an alright book, ignore the /lit/ circlejerk. If he wants it give it to him.
>>7488411
Just get him what he bloody wants, smartass.
YFW you realize Gaddis and Gass posters are slowly overtaking the DFW and Pynchon posters
>>7488274
This is a good thing, anon.
Compare to this thread and see how much /lit/ has grown over the years: https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S502637
>>7488291
>All those retards criticizing Gaddis
Triggered.
This is the best Herman Hesse book, isn't it?
>>7488171
I know this is the only one I read and I didn't get it at all.
They say the book is good and influential and shit, but I just can't see it.
Please, explain, why is it considered even slightly good?
no. that would be the glass bead game.
narcissus and goldmund is also superior.
you can make an argument for journey to the east as well though it's not my personal preference.
>>7488194
it's good for getting plebs to reveal themselves, pleb
How come /lit/ never talks about magazines? Are there any /lit/ approved mags? (Indie or otherwise)
Are there any journalist here (or anyone aspiring to be one)?
>>7488148
lol
/thread
>>7488175
?
It was a serious question.
I was studying Journalism at Harvard but got kicked out a couple of months before I graduated over some shit. Had to move in with my sister and her husband in the UK.
>mfw haven't even told our father yet
Are her books worth reading?
They might be OK but she didn't deserve the prize as she didn't actually write the books
>her
>>7488122
Yes
All the fucking charts in the sticky are 404'd.
>>7488106
Do you have the chart for "Doorstopper Literature"?
how much time in a library is considered weird or creepy?
Im in there like 3 days a week for 3 or 4 hours and its small so all the librarians can see me, theres like a kids room in there too so im scared that they are gunna think im some sort of child predator or something
Depends on what you do there.
Reading literature? Live there for all we care.
Writing? Have a novel next to your laptop. No one will judge you too harshly for it.
Jerking off? Try to do it in the 500s. No one will notice, or care.
Jerking off near the kids' section? Lord help you, you deserve to be judged.
>>7488008
>Reading literature? Live there for all we care.
I do this, im too scared to bring in my computer and work on other stuff because it might look bad
>>7488017
edit:
I actually read books not literature
>The casting of a black actress as Hermione, a role portrayed in the films by Emma Watson, has garnered the most attention, leading Rowling to tweet, “Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione.”
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2015/12/21/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-casts-harry-hermione-and-ron/
>>7487956
There's already a thread about it.
Also, who the fuck cares.
>>7487956
Rowling is a single mother and a hack
She has indeed been blacked
WHITE SKIN IS IMPLIED, jesus
