>semicolon in dialogue
>>7433024
The semicolon is the evergreen literary rebellion; it spanks the mind.
>I thought your voice was familiar when I heard you on the hill-top; but when I saw you, I loved you from that moment; and then every other woman’s voice in the world went, for me, out of existence!
Thanks Brimstoker.
>my dick in your moms colon
i cant make myself read, my tiny brain wont let me concentrate on a book for more than 2 sentences and i have to force myself to read. ive tried reading anything, its just my lack of brain.
how do i make myself love concentrating on a book for long?
im 20 and ive read 30 books my whole life
Jesus Christ. Can we have an ADD general?
>>7432963
how did add affect your life? did it come to suicidal thoughts?
Any books like this comic?
>inb4 lovecraft
Haha, Johnny Ryan rules. Fuck books, just read Prison Pit instead.
>>7432854
This, some Borges, I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream.
>>7433250
Also Thomas Ligotti has some aspects of this as well. Some of Clive Barker's Books of Blood and the Hellbound Heart as well.
Is this the most relevant novel of our time? The violence in Paris described in the book happened on the day the book came out. Now that the Front Nationale is the great winner of the regional elections the socialists are actually doing what Houellebecq predicted: Throwing themselves at the feet of anyone who has somewhat of a chance of keeping the nationalists from power.
Is there any active author that is more of a visionary than Houellebecq?
>>>/pol/
racist, white scum.
Why would you put your name twice in the cover?
Pleb here, just finished this, probably the best thing ive ever read, cwhere do i go from here? Thoughts about the book?
I'm just going to make this about me for a second: This was the first book that got me back into reading when i was 20.
OP, its a great read. This is my favorite of Tolstoy's that I've read (yeah I did W/P and A/K too and I'm not sure they were worth it), and as a short story it is the best I have ever read.
This is actually what the dying want... You're never fooling anyone when you coddle someone who is dying. They know they're going to die, just try to make them laugh, ask them what THEY want and most importantly LISTEN. I wish I would have read this before my dad's slow death from cancer. Great read OP.
Been meaning to read it, what translation is the recommended one?
>>7432735
Really get what you're saying. There is alot to learn from this book about how to be a better to people, both healthy and dying.
It's not quite a short story btw, most people consider it a novella.
One of my favourites by Tolstoy, excluding his "big" works (AK, W&P). As for recommendations, it depends on which of his books you read already. If Ilyich is your first, I highly recommend you read more of his shorter works. The Cossaks is the only one I consider as good as Ilyich, try it next, it's incredible.
Once you feel familliar enough with him just read W&P and AK, doesn't matter which first.
ITT: we take any given author and post his best work
>pic related, Hemingway
>>7432666
Gaddis?
Frank Herbert?
Arthur Miller?
Emile Zola?
Henry James?
Woolf?
Camus?
Freud?
I don't think I'm qualified to make any claims of value about Gaddis' works, but from those that I've read, The Recognitions was my favorite.
>>7432678
I was writing your answer, then I saw Freud.
Sorry Anon, I can't do it anymore.
Is there any good self-help book out there?
something worthy of time? or all of them are just: "asdaklhdaYOU CAN DO ITashdgashdgajhgsdBELIEVE IN YOURSELFkjhsadkhjaskjhdasNOTHING IS IMPOSIBLE..."
and so on
Depression:
Feeling Good by David Burns
Some negative patterns in your relationship which contribute to its demise.
Mo More Mr Nice Guy - Robert Glover
Some pretty good and research based books on goals.
Heidi Grant Halvorson - Success and Focus
Richard Wiseman - 59 Seconds:Think a little, change a lot.
>>7432618
The real self-help genre is called philosophy
>>7432668
Agree. Self help is shit, but philosophy is the real gig.
Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, anon.
If you want, you can throw yourself into shit like Nietzsche and Stirner and Schopenhauer and whatever, but Stoicism has to be first.
/lit/, how did your love for books start?
Unrelated, but how do I quit video games to read more?
>>7432569
>/lit/, how did your love for books start?
comic books
>Unrelated, but how do I quit video games to read more?
comic books
My dad gave me a bunch of books and told me to read them and I did and it was great. Been going strong ever since.
Read something that is so enjoyable that you'd rather read than play video games.
When I read my first book all by myself.
"I Love Books" I was 5.
What's the point of reading fiction?
This isn't b8, it's a serious question. I used to read a lot of fiction, but lately I haven't been able to, and it made me think. What's the point?
The only reason I could think of is prose of the likes of Joyce, for instance. Even though that again leads me to think, why?
All this is of course disregarding the idiotic escapist notion of 'entertainment', I'm not interested in that.
>it's a serious question
>I'm not interested in that.
>disregarding the idiotic escapist notion of 'entertainment'
>mfw
Thanks for the picture though she's real qt. Love that hair style.
>>7432567
What's your problem, pal
>>7432604
he writes fiction
Other fiction like 1984 that deals with mind-control, brainwash, and have that overwhelming sense of helplessness? Doesn't necessarily have to be a dystopia or political in general.
Do the Scientology experience.
The Foundation Pit - Andrei Platonov
Huxley's "Brave New World"
How do I write fiction?
Nothing interests me enough to write a story about it. And when I do try to do it, I'll usually get around 2000 words in before I completely resolve the story and there's nowhere else to go with it. If I try to push it beyond that it feels like I'm fluffing it and not actually adding any new content.
How do you actually tell a story? I can't imagine writing 50,000 words about one story. Person has to do something. They do it. The end, that's the story. Right?
Maybe you should get a different hobby.
>>7432525
Well, how do other people do it?
Let's say I want to write a story about something like a guy trying to get started as a professional MMA fighter. I could write a nice little fight. That's a couple thousand words. Now if I do that again in the story it seems repetitive. So now what do I do? Add in a love interest? Well, that's not necessary information. He's a fighter, it should be about him fighting. Talk about why he got into fighting? Okay, maybe that's another 500 words at the most. Everything seems like unnecessary information. So now I'm left with 2500 words about why a guy learned to fight and showing him fighting someone. That's not even worth reading. And that's how every single story idea I have goes.
>>7432520
What fiction books have you read?
So, out of the new meme trilogy, I have read The Recognitions which I thought was about a 7/10, and 2666 was boring desu.
What's the consensus on Women and Men then, is it worth it or just another pretentious piece of garbage?
It's the worst of the three.
Really only notable for its length and being out of print, and that is it. You will NEVER hear anyone else say anything else factual about it.
>>7432482
Dang it, I was hoping for another fun ride like Gravity's Rainbow.
What's this about it being out of print? There's an epub around, right?
>>7432489
http://aldebaran.ru/author/mcelroy_joseph/kniga_women_and_men/
Might want to read a bit of the PDF before downloading and installing the ePub.
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Literary characters that remind you of yourself thread? For me, it's the narrator in Notes from Underground: intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.
Ignatius J. Reilly from A Conferacy of Dunces: intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.
Raskolnikov from Crime & Punishment: intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.
Humbert Humbert form Lolita, intelligent, a paedophile and with a wicked sense of humour.
Can anyone recommend me a book or books similar to Mulholland Drive in style or subject.
I've found a few Latin American detective/mystery novels, set in the 80's and 90's with elements of psychedelia and political conspiracies, where the murders or mysteries are never solved and the protagonists are left battered and worse off than before, or dead.
Anyone have any leads?
>>7432435
By the way, I just looked up Paul Auster because of the thread from earlier and the New York Trilogy looks like it's getting close to what I want.
>>7432438
Paul Auster is not like Lynch. Kafka is like Lynch
>>7432435
what are the Latin American books you describe?
Read the book of Wild at Heart its good
What's the biggest book you've read?
ur mom
>>7432420
Had anybody here read a book cover-to-cover that had a higher page count than Infinite Jest? I'm pretty sure it's way bigger than the other meme books.
>>7432428
I've read War and Peace. Get rekt my meme loving friend.
