What book would you give a child for Christmas, /lit/?
iliad
About to read pic related, what am I in for?
/lit/ calling you a pleb, probably.
>>7413226
Like most people here you probably won't see past the sci-fi/fantasy aspects, and this, dear boy, is when your career as a plebeian is marked.
>>7413226
1. Irritating italics telling you what characters are thinking
2. Sand
>tfw when you've been canonized
Library of America putting out a special edition of Wallace's tennis essays. Probably the only thing stopping them from putting out the rest of his work is copyright.
Wallace = canonized. Suck it, haters.
http://www.amazon.com/String-Theory-Wallace-Library-Publication/dp/1598534807
Very sincere post my friend.
>>7413132
Library of America in charge of canonization hur hur hur
wallace = terminal dork, get him out of my sight nurse, he hadn't any talent
>>7413148
hahaha
“For me, the last few years of the postmodern era have seemed a bit like the way you feel when you're in high school and your parents go on a trip, and you throw a party. You get all your friends over and throw this wild disgusting fabulous party. For a while it's great, free and freeing, parental authority gone and overthrown, a cat's-away-let's-play Dionysian revel. But then time passes and the party gets louder and louder, and you run out of drugs, and nobody's got any money for more drugs, and things get broken and spilled, and there's cigarette burn on the couch, and you're the host and it's your house too, and you gradually start wishing your parents would come back and restore some fucking order in your house. It's not a perfect analogy, but the sense I get of my generation of writers and intellectuals or whatever is that it's 3:00 A.M. and the couch has several burn-holes and somebody's thrown up in the umbrella stand and we're wishing the revel would end. The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years. We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back--I mean, what's wrong with us? Are we total pussies? Is there something about authority and limits we actually need? And then the uneasiest feeling of all, as we start gradually to realize that parents in fact aren't ever coming back--which means we're going to have to be the parents.”
>>7412953
I'm honestly just surprised he's got something to say about post-modernism in general. After what he's written, he doesn't seem the type.
dfw said that shit you imbecile
Why didn't Wallace become fucking Catholic or Orthodox if he wanted order and structure so badly?
Hello /lit,/
How are you keeping yourself philosophically engaged with these dramatically shifting times of revolution, social unrest, and preeminent destruction of society as it is today by way of climate change?
I have given a lot of thought to Nietzsche's Ubermensch, and his overcoming through tragedy. Is there a finer philosopher to read through this new dawn?
What values do you think would be useful to hold onto in the storm? Are there any philosophers that you would suggest to read to help approach these times of calamity?
>>7412899
>living with integrity
>not being a sense driven unconscious animal
>work towards accomplishing something that is greater than yourself in scope and effect
>observe philosophy in nature and yes you moron, this includes human civilization
>draw conclusions that relate the self and the other as an interconnected whole
That's all it fucking is. Just learn to discern what the fuck is Truth. Nobody can do any of this for you
>>7412928
>things things are connected
woah buddy watch it with all them abstractions
>>7412928
>living with integrity
What is integrity?
It's defined based on an unquantifiable amount of parameters that are constantly shifting.
You can't just tell someone to live by integrity and expect it to work. Just think of the first few things that come to mind when thinking of integrity.
- Doing the right thing
- Be a responsible adult
- Show courage
How shallow. How vague.
http://www.cosmoetica.com/B1277-DES888.htm
Pynchon, Joyce, and DFW absolutely BTFO
LONG LIVE VONNEGUT!!!
>>7412847
>http://www.cosmoetica.com/B1277-DES888.htm
Is this man the greatest troll in academia?
>>7412847
The only thing this arrogant ass-hat is good for is copypasta. I need to dump his shitty writing more often.
>>7412847
This author-worship tribalism is retarded. Keep your shit threads on v
what's the cheapest site to buy books from
mainly looking for sci fi rn, wanting to get a copy of dune, childhood's end, ubik, and neuromancer for under 20$ including shipping
www.thepiratebay.la
www.myanonamouse.net
>>7412806
thriftbooks
bookdepository
Alibris.
composite of many other online bookstores
Post your suicide note, /lit/.
Everyone,
Finally, some peace and quiet,
Sorry,
Anon
>>7412633
Out for some milk.
>>7412633
ayy she didnt reciprocate.
BANGING THE DRUM LIKE DUM DE DEE DEYY
I destroy everything I write. From deleting to burning I have prematurely killed all of my stories for the last two years. At least a hundred documents have been annihilated by me. I love to write but when I read it over it just always seems like pure shit. I can't even tell I'd I'm actually getting any better because no matter what I do it just seems like total atrocious god awful shit later.
>tfw never going to finish anything and be satisfied with it
>implying this isn't what writing is
welcome to hell family
>>7412593
People talk about having finished manuscripts here. I wish I could like my stuff enough to at least get to that point. The most depressing part is that I love my plots and ideas but hate what they turn into when I try to put them down. I have so much bullshit going on in my head that NEEDS to come out but I don't have the tools. Its really like having no mouth and needing to scream or needing to jerk off but having death grip syndrome. It makes me hate myself and question why I even have this ability to think up things which interest people (when I tell friends about anything I've tried to write they always seem really enticed by it. I know they might just be doing it to be nice but that's not the feeling I get there always like "how the fuck can you come up with all of that shit?")
I know its trivial but it really depresses me
>>7412625
I can relate. You either hone your craft to the point you can do your ideas justice or you give up. Nothing else to it man. That's life, what're you gonna do? You weren't born with the talent for white hot prose, neither was I, neither was 99% of this yahoo board. Write the best shit you can, that's all you can do
>your age
>your job
>your /lit/ related ambitions
>25
>no job (anymore)
>currently living out of my savings account and living in countries where I can't get a visa
I like to read literature but I hate writing. Is that /lit/?
>>7412572
>22
>STUDENT
>create a visual novel
>>7412572
>your age
21
>your job
Medical student
>your /lit/ related ambitions
Write my two novel ideas, try to read all the books on my backlog, become more adept at Arabic so I can read more advanced works, learn Farsi to read Persian lit
Hey /lit/, where were you when you realized the novel is dead?
Here
>>7412548
It's over, baby.
what's alive? poetry seems to be dead besides a few outliers in South America, the novel is dying, everyone is just writing memoirs. what do we do
>Le quirky satire man XD
>>7412478
vonnegut fucking sucks
vonnegut fuckingis pretty good
Hey /lit/
I'm here for help to find a book that i read in high school, 10 years ago. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of it, The only details that i can remember
1) the cover was red *i think*
2) it was a book about a country that was split up into sections and i think they were colour coded grey was right at the bottom where the slums etc. I'm sure the country was just a circle shape.
I know thats super vague but thats the only details i can remember i just remember enjoying it.
Thanks in advance.
>Pic no related, Random wallpaper.
>>7412224
Off the top of my head I think We (yevgeny zamyatin) took place in a circular city-state.
>>7412300
Thanks for the reply, but i don't think that's it!
The only thing i remember vividly is the fact that there were many zones grey slums. blue poor. orange middle class. etc etc.
Man this is doing my head in.
I guess it doesn't really matter. What does matter is Infinite Jest. Have you read Infinite Jest yet, OP?
Will i enjoy LoTR if i really like ASOIF? Which one is better?
Let's ignore the fact that LoTR came first, and is a major inspiration of almost EVERY fantasy series after it.
Do you know the shit JR Tolkien did to make Lord of the Rings? He made THE ELVISH FUCKING LANGUAGE
A NUANCED LANGUAGE
WITH FUCKING PARTIAL IMPERFECT TENSE
A GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT, COHERENT LANGUAGE
AND ON THE BASIS OF THAT LANGUAGE, AND SEVERAL OTHER FUCKING LANGUAGES, HE MADE THE HOBBIT
YES
HE WROTE THE LANGUAGE BEFORE THE FUCKING STORY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_constructed_by_J._R._R._Tolkien
BEFORE THE FUCKING PREQUEL STORY TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS, HE WROTE A LANGUAGE
HE WROTE A FUCKING GIGANTIC BACKSTORY, TOO
WITH GODS, AND DEMONS, AND ANGELS, AND SHIT THAT MAKES THE THEOGENY LOOK LIKE AMATEUR HOUR
AND ONLY THEN
ONLY AFTER CREATING SEVERAL FUCKING LANGUAGES
DID HE WRITE THE PREQUEL
YES
THE FUCKING PREQUEL
TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS
AND HERE YOU ARE
YOU FILTHY, FUCKING PLEBIAN
TRYING TO TELL ME THAT TENZIN INFO DUMPING A CORNY COMIC BOOK VILLAIN BACKSTORY
IS THE SAME CALIBER OF WRITING
AS THE MAN
WHO MADE
SEVERAL
FUCKING
LANGUAGES
KILL YOURSELF
SERIOUSLY
KILL YOUR FUCKING SELF
SOMEONE PUTS EFFORT INTO SOMETHING AND CREATES A MASTERPIECE, AND YOU SEE IT THE SAME AS THE SHIT A 9-5ER SPEWED OUT IN A WRITER'S ROOM
>>7411934
tl;dr: tolkien was an autist about his made up bullshit therefore he is better
not very compelling
>>7411906
no, because there's no sex in it
>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
What did he mean by this?
>>7411587
He's a serial-killer who butchers his victims and keeps the remains in his office.
that he was seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
great thread.
>>7411587
He's at a medical professor's office who teaches skeletal anatomy.
![LOTR14[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/8PpYxrF.png "LOTR14[1]")
