New DeLillo coming out next year
>Zero K' follows billionaire Ross Lockhart whose younger wife, Artis Martineau, has a terminal illness. Ross is a significant investor in a secretive, remote compound where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until medical advances can restore individuals to improved lives. Lockhart hopes Artis can benefit from this pioneering science. 'We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?' Told from the perspective of Ross’s son Jeffrey Lockhart, 'Zero K' weighs the devastations of our time against 'the mingled astonishments of our lives, here, on earth.'
>"Zero K" will be published in May 2016.
>>7362852
Sounds trite
Will read. baka if you don't eagerly anticipate every new novel from Delillo and Pynchon, even when they're not masterpieces they're still very good.
>>7362859
so do you
First ime on /lit/. I mostly read philosophy, my favorites being Spinoza's ethics but I've been wanting to get into novels.Not too long. Maybe a couple hundred pages.
>>7362717
Pic related. It's short, it's easy to read and it's philosophical.
Just lurk more, charts get posted often.
>>7362717
Here you go mate.
5cms was pretty mediocre tho. Good looking but shallow without proper characters who lacked character. It made me feel but just about few minutes after it was over.
How do you feel about reading from a book as opposed to an e-reader? Do you agree with those studies that suggest that e-reader users don't retain as much information as the book users?
No. Those studies are garbage because they include shit like iPad, Kindle Fire and such.
Every study I've seen was only with screens, not with e-ink, like in your picture. I read on both a kindle and paper books and see no noticeable difference in my comprehension. However, E-books are very portable and you can carry around a whole library, anywhere you go.
honestly i disagree with the studies
i like my kindle because i can bring so many books with me at the same time
but i also like having physical books because they just feel good in my hands
>tfw you spend $100 on a leather-bound Bible in English and Latin
My life has become consubstantial with memes. I feel like shit.
>>7362632
So you occasionally buy fancy things. I don't see the problem. Everybody likes a fancy book now and again. Or did you buy eight?
>>7362632
https://www.mormon.org/free-bible
You should
>>7362632
If you are going to spend $100 on a book, that is the one to get.
Hey guys, quick question. I plan to go to the local state libary, take some adhd medication a, take a notepad with me and read this shit.
Started it once but lost track, will I be able to concentrate? Don't want to leave after 5minutes, and will people look at me like I am some fuckboi? I know this sounds stupid but I am a social retard.
Fuck
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die
ITT we discuss animals in literature that make better/more interesting characters than humans
#1: Behemoth in "The Master and Margarita"
I like "Behind the bathtub" by Colette Audry, about her dog and herself.
Animals in Kundera's work are also often "real" characters, or at least interesting even when not characters stricto sensu
In a more fictional (and anthropomorphic) way, I liked "City" by Clifford D. Simak
GOAT
>>7362608
Whenever I pick up mason Dixon, when I get to the dog I put it down in disgust. Yet I loved master.
When I write, at my main character invariably has a name that starts with E.
Do you have any weird habits when you write?
Do you ever think about, if you became a famous author, if there was a quirk you'd be famous for?
>>7362528
that's sad man
Every main character I write is always in average strength or weaker strength physically. They are never really the bravest of the group either. Normally those two traits fall onto side characters. The main character never develops to be stronger/braver than them, either.
Still not sure if this is a bad thing or not.
>>7363466
well if you were always not the bravest guy it is probably hard to write a convincing brave main character, especially for novice writers
Post your favorite novel of all time.
I always felt like this book was criminally underrated.
I love that book. Unfortunately lent my copy to an ex and never got it back.
>>7362505
The cover looks like a pepe to me. I have a serious problem.
>>7362532
Exactly my thoughts.
Why are her books so fucking comfy?
>Saint Maybe
>The Accidental Tourist
>Ladder of Years
>>7362464
Your vagina
>>7362464
bump
Gran just looks so warm and comfy herself.
I'm jumping straight into pic related. How many times will I have to read this book before I understand? Any good guides out there?
>>7362421
>reads "heavy" lit quickly rather than meticulously analyzing every sentence
>>7362425
thanks man
>>7362425
This desu. These books are meant to take a century to read owing to the effort required.
Hey /lit/ what books should I read to become a certified patrician?
My journal, but don't just read it, live by it.
>>7362383
The meme trilogy
>>7362383
The Summa Theologica by Ansem of Cranberries
>there are people on /lit/ who actually read translations
Why would you do that? It's like watching a film upside down.
It's nothing like that.
>>7362377
its like watching a translated film
>>7362377
I don't have time to waste learning other languages when I have so many books to read and I'm already native in the language best suited to reading the widest range of literature on the planet.
Hey guys
I'm new here. Currently I just read Fantasy, but I want to read these clever things I see here. But... How I start? What book I start? And what Autor?
The greeks or DFW. Your call, really.
Since you like fantasy, Don Quijote would be a good starting point
>>7362339
The Iliad and The Odyssey
1) It'll appeal to your fantasy tastes
2) You'll be reading true patrician lit
3) Starting with the Greeks
So, what was the thing that Maxine saw in Gabriel Ice's basement?
Something wacky and ironic
something InSaNeEee, mannn. Remember the sixties? Lmao.
>>7362514
>>7362523
Reading is for FAGS, right? Right? —Ahem, no I read, just not this pomo shit. I can talk intelligently about, like, Franzen and Murakami and Nabokov... I read the first third of Lolita, I can discuss it. So much elitism. Pynchon is just garbled nonsense, deny it. Even I, yes me, couldn't get through that trainwreck called Gravity's Rainbow.
Can /lit/ recommend me some patrician tier gay/bi lit such as pic related?
Maurice by EM Forster
>>7362209
Looks good. Thanks for the recommendation
>>7362210
no problem
On another note, have you seen this lady's review of the immoralist? It's so fucking bizarre.
