has anyone ever incorporated the internet in written fiction in a way that isn't retarded
>>7482334
mark twain
>>7482334
Pinecone
Joshua Cohen
>tfw I've been hangin with homies and I got tired
>tfw I leave
>tfw I decide to stay on the street on my own, get me a big bottle of beer and read a cheap translation of Pynchon
Am I living the literary autistic lifestyle?
>>7482258
that cover is good imo
>>7482258
are you a "tragasables" OP?
>>7482288
Naaaah, I don't fuck with them muerdealmohadas mane
Is Vonnegut solidly in YA tier is he worth reading? I have read Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, and Sirens of Titan in my teenage years, and have a few more remaining on my shelf that I never read. They were fun books but they were very light, almost like light novels that I read when I was a teenager too. Most of them had a very obvious, shallow message, and Breakfast of Champions didn't seem to have a message at all.
>>7482231
>Most of them had a very obvious, shallow message
>message
you're gonna be a pleb no matter what you read if you keep up this simplistic conception of literature.
>>7482237
Red pill us, bro! Is it too unnuanced to think that a book might have a moral? Let's hear your regurgitated thoughts on authorship, meaning, etc. pretentious cunt.
>>7482340
>your regurgitated thoughts
>implying 'muh message' instrumentalism isn't regurgitation of middle school literary criticism
if you didn't want to talk to pretentious people why did you come here asking for their validation
A rapper "lil ugly mane" wrote a book of sorts. It's very confusing. Can anybody here explain it? http://www.activeabuse.com/clown.pdf
OBLIVION ACCESS is the alchemical decoction of an interminable hydra-headed debate. A chorus of discordant and opposing parties channelled though a medium. Adversaries vehemently insisting and promulgating their positions in a scatted unorganized unidentified sequence. Unified through the isolated voice of a lone entranced narrator. The hollowed out Bard's corpse parasitically reanimated. His idle hands pluck away at any and every instrument the invaders command and then suddenly vanish. Leaving our raconteur mired in a festering silence to sift the the sewage of his dehumanization. Combining through the filth like a prospector for evidence of purpose.
Passerby's unaware of his recent possession stop to laugh and ridicule his maniac barrage of contradictory allegories, pseudo-intellectual deductions, weeping self-reflection/flagellation and tasteless lobbying.
OBLIVION ACCESS is a rejection of critique and analysis. Accepting only absolute destruction or absolute secession from the propaganda of reason. Demanding that all opinion is hyperbole. Looking upon the forced marriage of existence and meaning.science and fact/morality and righteousness. Looking upon them all as dogmatic totalitarian structures.
OBLIVION ACCESS is the nervous thud and roll of martial percussion in the march towards the abolition of the belief that political and philosophical spectrum vary in linear and non-linear morally adjacent / morally hierarchical polarities, qualities or attributes. Challenging this system with matched obstinacy by insisting that all beliefs are but a single cell, existing simultaneously as one. A cursed twisted tomb of microcosmic dark matter. A hysterical writhing pool of filth and etiquette folding in on itself with inconceivable geometry.
>>7482195
Seems like an unlikely man happened upon a thesaurus, tbqh.
>>7482195
This is the most pretentious thing I've read in a while.
so?
>>7482109
Honestly it could mean either. The book store may never run out because nobody is buying it, obviously, or perhaps so many people purchase the book that they order an extremely large amount of copies to ensure that they always have at least a few available for purchase.
it means the publisher is fronting them a lot of copies in a promotional push which may or may not end up on ebay with remainder marks selling for a tiny fraction of the list price
*sighs sadly*
Does good American poetry exist? Rec me
How about you read the fucking sticky
WS Merwin
Billy Collins
Sharon Olds
>>7481947
Walt Whitman is quintessential American
I'm looking for recommendations on Kafka. What books would you recommend that are similar in feeling and atmosphere to The Castle?
Something about uncertainty, cold, a strange sense of something mystical.
I know it's probably a long shot because books are usually unique in feeling (at least for me), but still. I also like how the book was also an experience, in that I didn't necessarily enjoy reading it because it was so tedious and drawn-out, but it really made you feel like the main character did at times. And looking back on it, I get a feeling of wistful nostalgia, like you sometimes get with not altogether pleasant experiences.
Also enjoyed "The Tartar Steppe" by Dino Buzzati, if that matters. For some reason, they seem to evoke a similar feeling in me.
if you're looking for more kafka, then literally anything else he wrote, most obviously the trial
if you're looking for stuff by other people with a kafkaesque feel, then try the melancholy of resistance by laszlo krasnahorkhai and the unconsoled by kazuo ishiguro
>>7481946
I've read pretty much everything by Kafka himself, and while I enjoyed it, none of it was quite like The Castle. It's probably the combination of knee-deep snow and alienation.
I've also read the Unconsoled. It was okay. I'll give the other one a try as well, thanks!
Anything else, anyone?
Any good vampire books out there? I know someone whose really into Anne Rice. I'd like to find them a book in this genre that isn't young adult tier or at least something different that lit likes
Let the Right One In.
>>7481776
>good
>vampire book
Pick one and one only.
well there's carmilla by j. sheridan le fanu and the vampyre by jw polidori. and then of couse Dracula...
Name some notable Stirnerites
awww shit faggots screener copy of The Revenant just leaked, downloading that shit without a spook
Renzo Novatore
>>7481763
>Freud
Is there any good book taking multiverse as a plot device? I just read Adventures of Luther Arkwright and it was horrendous. Haven't experienced anything so pompously empty since second season of Fargo.
To be honest I have no idea how to make this sort of shit interesting.
>There's this universe
>But here you go, have some others
>See, these are a bit different
>...
>Now let's have a story
>pompously empty since second season of Fargo
Nice b8 kiddo
Probably not because ideas like that are used by people who have no imagination but think they do so they use some incredibly abstract physics idea dumbed down to shit that is really trippy which people like.
>>7481737
>Not recognizing the quality of The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright
All right, I'll bite the b8. What was it you didn't like about it? The artwork, the metaphysics, or the plot?
>reading a book that has lots of words I can't pronounce
>trying to discuss it in real life
iktf
Tfw there are so many words you don't know how to pronounce because you've only seen them in books and the internet
>love a few Hungarian authors
>always have to google how to spell their names
THE S AND THE Z AREN'T EVEN ALWAYS IN THE SAME ORDER WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH YOUR LANGUAGE
>>7481606
when i come across this i try to pronounce them with a french accent as to appear as though it is the way that they are to be said
plebs buy it all the time
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet
an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says,
“Morning, boys, how's the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a
bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes,
“What the hell is water?”
If at this moment, you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the
wise old fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I
am not the wise old fish. The immediate point of the fish story is that the
most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are
the hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course,
this is just a banal platitude — but the fact is that, in the day-to-day
trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death
importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.
1
A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is,
it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. Here's one example of the utter
wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: Everything in
my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the
absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important
person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic selfcenteredness,
because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the
same for all of us, deep down. It is our default-setting, hard-wired into our
boards at birth. Think about it: There is no experience you've had that you
were not at the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is right
there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV,
or your monitor, or whatever. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to
be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent,
real — you get the idea. But please don't worry
>>7481573
>IMPORTANT THINGS AREN'T THOUGHT ABOUT!
>PERCEPTION IS SELF CENTERED!
>LET ME STATE THE OBVIOUS BUT USE AN ABSTRACT FORM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO MAKE IT SEEM INTELLECTUAL AS THE READER DECIPHERS WHAT I AM TRYING TO CONVEY!
Pretentious as fuck.
>mfw "this is water" has become in itself a banal platitude
>he reads non fiction
way to be a boring twat.
MAN'S GREATEST GLIMPSE OF FIRE RED
>>7481394
go back to /v/
That's a rare pepe.
What books will explain what is wrong with the underground man.
Or just explain please
he is Hegels worst nightmare basically. he shuts himself off from all external spirit.
He has autism.
Was he an edgelord?
Yes, but he was also a brilliant mind and a talented writer
Yes, but he did something noteworthy with it, unlike most people.
>>7481260
Read The Great Shark Hunt asap, a true goldmine.
