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>This is not a book.
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yeah he should have scared the faggots off with the lurid cunt descriptions up front, but i guess he wanted to drop just the faggot idiots with the book description first.
I'm picking this up later today. What do you mean it's not a book?
>>7407205
"This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants of God, Man Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will."
Could you tell someone, who admitedly isn't that insightful in writing but loves Lovecraft, why people are bashing his prose so relentlessly?
It's just bad. He was a good story teller, and a terrible writer.
They hate him cause they can't be him.
>>7406793
DUDE CTHULHU LMAO xD
I never see Harrison discussed on this board, he's like a non-shitty version of Moorcock
Latro in the Mist
Latro in the Mist
Book of the Short Sun
The Wizard Knight
Lord of the rings
Silmarillion
Children of Hurin
Heard good things about Le Guin.
That's where it ends unless you count in cool pulp like Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.
Critique thread. Make sure you've read it all out loud to yourself at least once before you post it here.
Been working on something for a while, but pastebin didnt take all of it and a chunk of text at the end was out of place, so https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Urk8BOxHerPO-SK2UPBakrEjL9USlxXk7NKvnUns7JI/edit
request access plz
Give opinions so far, note I'm planning on fixing the grammar related shit.
Oh and if you have ideas for titles comment.
[...] Cleopatra rose, jerked her shoulders impatiently, and snorted.
"I should have thought it better to be natural," she blurted out. "If it's natural for me to have dark hairs on my upper lip, then surely I should not remove them."
Again Mrs. Delarayne dropped her book and glanced round very angrily. "Don't be stupid, Cleo!" she cried. "What do you suppose 'natural' means nowadays? Has it any meaning at all? Is it natural for you to blow your nose in a lace handkerchief? Is it natural for you to do your hair up? Is it natural for you to eat marrons glacés as you do at the rate of a pound and a half a week,—yes, a pound and a half a week; I buy them so I ought to know, unless the servants get at them—when you ought to be living in a cave, dressed in bearskins and gnawing at the roots of trees? Don't talk to me about 'natural.' Nothing is natural nowadays, except perhaps the inexhaustible stupidity of people who choke over a little process of beautification and yet swallow the whole complicated artificiality of modern life."
As Mrs. Delarayne turned her refined and still very beautiful face to the light, it became clear that she at any rate did not choke over any "little process of beautification"; for she was at least fifty-five years of age, and at a distance of two or three yards, looked thirty.
I've never been to /lit/, but could you guys maybe recommend me obscure publishers, archetypes of writers(movements, whatever), or anything else I'm unlikely to have read through googling random terms?
I read a book every couple of days, and have been doing this since I was about 13. I got bored in school a lot after finishing work early so I started reading a book a day then, and it's a habit I haven't broken in nearly 15 years. I genuinely feel like I am running out of worthwhile books. I've read a ton of non-fiction, to an exhaustive level for nearly anything I'm interested in, and I feel like I'm running out of fiction that is worthy of my time. For example, I've read everything on the Goodreads top 1000 except for a few modern fantasy type things like Harry Potter, Hitchhikers Guide, etc.
Outside of the classics, my focus has mostly been on postmodern stuff outside of the classics/obvious popular choices, so I feel like there may yet be some deep vein of interesting literature I haven't explored, and I'm essentially just making this post in hopes someone will mention something that will give me a new road to travel in reading.
My favorite books/works/whatever are:
Winesburg, Ohio(and essentially everything else Sherwood Anderson)
Wittingstein's Mistress
Finnegan's Wake
An Anthropologist on Mars
Labyrinths(Borges, this title seems like it's probably not unique to the one book)
The Canterbury Tales
Oh, and for reference, I can read at a workable level in Spanish, French, Italian, and English. I'm working on German, and could probably handle most books in that language at this point. I prefer to read in the original language, but I know one of my weak areas is that I've ignored a great deal of Asian literature. I would love some really solid recommendations in that realm that have great-tier translations.
Have you read Motorman?
>>7405365
Ohle, right? Double checking since it's a fairly generic title on the surface. If so I've read four or five of his books, including that one.
What of Beckett have you read?
anyone here ever work in a bookstore?
-chain or independent?
-strangest/worst/most memorable purchase/customer?
-any interesting stories?
also bookstore general thread
>>7405328
i mastrubated in a book and my cum sealed it, when an old lady bough it she cant stop smelling it.
I work in a second hand book store, recently we started stocking records too, we're independent.
No one buys books anymore, so the store just barely keeps afloat thanks to the owner's deep pockets. My job is exceptionally easy.
We're discerning with what we stock, so I mostly don't have to deal with shitty books or people who buy them. An exception to this is the self-help people. They always come in and ask for the same fucking books, i tell them we don't have them and they leave, but they NEVER STOP COMING. Just of the top of my head they usually ask for:
The power of now
The 4 hour work week
The Alchemist
The happy Sikh (or some such shitty title, the titles always have "happy" in them)
They also never have the courtesy to look on the shelf first like most customers, rather they just walk straight in and ask.
People get pissed when I don't accept their books, they come in with like 5 bags of trash no one wants and, after i tell them I don't want any, ask if they can just dump them there, because they don't wanna carry them and they're that worthless to them. I tell them no cause we don't want bags of shitty books crowding the store and they can get very angry.
I've fucked in the back of the store after hours before, if that's interesting to you.
One dude comes by almost every day and checks for bibles, we can't stock bibles anymore cause he'll buy every one and is clearly mentally ill so we felt like we were exploiting him, we stopped stocking them years ago and he still comes by very regularly.
>>7405794
Honestly the only store I go in besides groceries are used book stores these days. I've always wondered how you price beyond condition. Are owners proactive/technologically literate to search for what books sell for online?
Does metamodernism exist as a literary movement, well maybe not movement, but literary/artistic period?
Or is it trying too hard and too early to put a name on something.
I guess the metamodern breakdown is:
/lit/: DFW, Zadie Smith, Bolano, Eggers
/film/: Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Wes Anderson
/tv/: Breaking Bad, Parks and Rec, Arrested Development
A while back I figured it'd be a few years until we know if it's something for sure but what do you guys think, of course there is no need for classification in general, but what is the step to take after post-modernism?
I wouldn't fuss about it anon who's in his second or third year of undergrad. I really just wouldn't fuss about it.
Metamodernism isn't really a thing. Postmodernism is such a broad term that it encompasses the writers you mentioned (although I haven't read anything by Eggers, nor will I as I've heard he's shit). We can say something is metamodern, but all we're doing is labeling it without really knowing what makes up metamodernism and how it differs from postmodernism, and if it even does. But the facets of the works are generally still postmodern.
>>7403948
Not really fussing, this is really the only forum to discuss the kind of thing.
>>7403955
Yeah I was thinking that as well, it seems that it's just trying to combine twee and (if this is even a thing) New Sincerity writers
I recognize this isn't really a big deal, just wondering what you guys thought
>Get a job
>Live as a NEET is over
>Spend 12 hours a day away from home
>Get back so fucking tired all I do is having dinner and going back to bed
>Repeat
>Have so little spare time I read nothing but short stories and playsand comics
>l'ennui is real
How can I cope with this crap /lit/?
>>7402696
Time management, weekends and a proper diet.
12 hours, really?
>>7402712
12x5=60
so I assume he has a 60 hour work week?
not too uncommon 2bh
Finally this is over...Let's discuss.
Kool Aide suicidal meme
Enjoy the 70s
But you never did the Kenosha Kid.
>>7402412
Superman never saved the day :(
We're pretty much done, goys.
If you'd like to add shit to the Final Chapter, DEATH ORGY, feel free.
PARTS 1-5:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIdoWxLOs7tVlO8MHISFAm1stJ7FEta-fL0dBe88J1g/edit?pli=1
DUMP DOC:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qvlkrn0P_0z4JOp4oJ9L9dKq0I382bAQqAbnLtNsmhM/edit?pli=1
FINAL CHAPTER:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AnRcYxfBIcVv7NRgIgvVtq1wSSudoIs39qurTi_IW-M/edit?pli=1
Pic related isn't the official cover, but it's still fantastic.
>>7400900
Remember, dump doc is deleted.
Pic related ought to be the official cover
Any reason we can't use it?
>>7400900
hi-res of this pl0x
Poetry thread
I wonder if people actually frequent this board...
A damaged mind with a picket sign
THE END IS NEAR, THE END IS NEAR
But I'm still fine.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR PANIC AND FEAR
Even a blind man steers clear
The prophets drop tears
There is news for them to hear.
WAVES ARE CRASHING
GLASS IS SMASHING
We are over the pier
YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD
NOW IT'S CLEAR
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.......
the end is here
>>7384991
what's with the rhyming
It's as if someone placed me in a large cylindrical washing-machine and turned it to steady. Something from the outside but from the inside it's vomit inducing and repetitive.
>>7385045
Poetry can definitely rhyme.
And could you elaborate? Sounds like fun though.
What you're about to read is entirely unconventional and very experimental, so if you were looking to savor some old school rhyme and meter digs then keep gawkin':
Shake that
ass. Shake
that ass. Shake
that ass, Shake–that ass.
Ass, shake. Assshakeº
That ass shake ass that
Shass take thass at shake
ass shake that ass shake it
rump yeah dump in the rump
yeah junk in the dump
yeah trunk in the rump
yeah shake
shake
that ass
that
ass
oohh yeah
denouement
shake
that
fucking
ass, person.
>'At one time I was deluded into believing I took pleasure in reading it; but the endless recital of battles which are all the same, those gods who are always interfering but never do anything, that Helen of his who is the cause of the war but then plays scarcely any part in the action, and that Troy which they keep besieging without ever taking - it all used to make me weep with boredom. I used to ask scholars if reading Homer bored them as much as it bored me; the honest ones admitted that the book dropped from their hands every time, but added that one had to have it in one's library, as a monument of antiquity, like those rusty coins which cannot be put into circulation.'
/lit/erally blown the fuck out
What a pleb lol
>>7411137
I bet 90% of lit people are bored by lit and just read it because it gives them a sense of accomplishment.
>>7411163
Speak for yourself lad
Hello /lit/brarian. I'm looking for a book that will make me want to read more books. Give me the best in your arsenal. I'm a - formerly successful - high school junior that has risen his middle finger to the air ever since browsing /pol/ and taken the depression of realizing how much the world needs a hero and how you can't fill that gap. I was put in to NHS even though I refused to apply. I was the only person in the school who got a perfect score on our math SOL, got 94% math PSAT(old), and I have given up on life's fulfillment to go below my potential. Are there any books to make me care about exceptionalism and the chase of perfection in my life?
Start
With
The
Greeks
> has risen his middle finger to the air ever since browsing /pol/ and taken the depression of realizing how much the world needs a hero and how you can't fill that gap
Life isn't a fucking superhero movie.
Just read anything from the canon desu. Any good piece of lit will train that simplistic worldview out of you.
>>7411130
You should read Chesterton for the opposite reason.
Let's try something fun. Chose any or all of the following:
1. Write your entire autobiography in exactly 10 words.
2. Write your (moral/ethical) message to the world in exactly 7 words.
3. Explain all of human history in 10 words.
1. I was loved, lonely, foolish, lost, sometimes happy and hopeful.
2. Love your neighbor, find your God; now.
3. We went from mud to mud hut to pizza hut.
Born in death, risen with Christ and waiting on Him.
Love Jesus Christ with all your heart.
Reptiles lie and ruin everything but Jesus ultimately wins anyway.
1.ft
2.fy
3.ad
How did Plato use the immortality of the soul in order to ground scientific knowledge?
In your answer, you can relate among other things to Plato's Theory of Ideas, the divided line allegory and any other aspect of his philosophy that you consider relevant to this question.
>>7410136
should have started with the greeks
this isn't the homework board
>>>/hm/
>>7410160
i dont think that is either anon
