David Foster Wallace fans BTFO!
The cult surrounding this self-asserting sack of pity is insane. How many times have you watched this video? How many times have you heard his on-the-spot assertions and felt somewhere oh-just-so-deep-down that he was right? Take yourself away from that for just a second. Imagine that all his predictions, his opinions and his conceptualisations of the past are all bullshit. Imagine that everything he says is the result of an absorbing narcissism; that he makes stupid faces because he sees himself as the arbeiter of truth and far above the German woman in front of him. The person you worship is a fraud. And there's something incredibly sad and banal about that.
Thanks for posting
This interview is actually making me interested in reading the book.
>>7317132
It's a great interview, and a great book. His writing is a lot livelier than his persona. Give it a shot.
Please tell me /lit/, what makes a good horror story? A sense of mystery? Paranormal? The Unknown? What are some great examples of short stories or novels that really unhinged you?
>>7317087
Seeing something approach
ambiguous evil, uncanny normality, fake idyll, mindfuck twists, like a crime novel without actual crime, organic foreshadowing
if something paranormal is introduced too early it can easily destroy the first two elements because it creates a visible us/them barrier and there is no more paranoia.
Usually the author knows what makes a good horror story really well. Idk, though, I have never been unhinged by a horror story.
>Currently sitting in lecture
>listening to communist professor tell me about Ellison's Invisible Man and white appropriation even though he went to Brown and drives a bmw
>realize that I myself am white as fuck
How does one truly immerse themselves in work that they themselves have trouble relating to. Im not trying to be an SJW, but I really do want to know how you write on and experience literature from the fringes of society when you are an @tumblr cis white male
We're all human at the end of the day I'm so sick of sjws acting like minorities are from another planet
>>7317057
I disagree with you on that. I think that examining literature from a "we are all the same" perspective is limiting.
>>7317057
This. I don't see why white readers should have any difficulty connecting wirh invisible man. Sure the specific experiences of the protagonist are pretty far removed from the experiences of a white person in the 21st century, but underlying the narrative are universal truths regarding alienation and the nature of identity.
How does one become a better writer?
>>7316931
Read :3
How am I supposed to know?
>>7316931
Read widely and analyse what you're reading and write and then read and analayse and write some more.
Thoughts on Hemingway's novels?
His best? His worst?
I've only read A Farewell to Arms. It was good, but I don't know if I think that because I like that kind of depressive, real life, love stories. I do feel that Hemingway tried to make Henry a bit too badass to be real, and his relationship with Miss Barkley was too perfect and idealistic. Not my favorite, but it was good. I'd like to read Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the bell Tolls.
my official rankings of the ones I read
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
Islands in the Stream
A Movable Feast
To Have and Have Not
Green Hills of Africa
I havent read, Death in the Afternoon or The Garden of Eden or Across the River and Into the Trees
I think he was a better short story writer than novelist.
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
>>7316842
Nice OP.
>>7316842
>Read various books at the same time.
I pay prostitutes to read to me
Ok, uhm... Hi /lit/!
I'm new to this board, and the reason I come to you is because I want to develop a good reading habit. My gf and I want to start this "book club" kind of thing, where we read the same book and we discuss it while we make weekly progress on it.
I would like your opinion and recommendations, we're both light readers, meaning we've read books before, but they're mostly your typical commercial books, you know Harry Potter, DaVinci Code, Memoirs of a Geisha, World War Z, you get the idea.
I did browse the wiki, but I don't know where to start, which is why I come to you in seek of help
>>7316824
Start with the Greeks.
Read Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men would be a good start
>>7316824
Start with Don Quijote, the first bona fide novel. If you can't handle that, you're not /lit/erary enough.
So there's a lot of wish fulfillment romantic literature for women, but what's the equivalent for men?
>>7316806
Escapist fiction
>>7316806
Pornography
>>7316812
That's too broad. I mean with a focus on wish fulfillment.
I havent read much of King's work. I can buy this for really cheap. Ive read some reviews and it seems to be that diehard fans are not liking pic related. Heres the thing though, I havent always agreed with the taste of these fans, and I've found things that they dislike to my liking and vice versa, so Im thinking I might like it. anyoje here read it yet? or perhaps it might be too early and no onoe has. in any case I like short story collections and I've been thinking of getting Everything's Eventual by King. is it worth it? only 8 buckaroos.
Stephen King is a horror writer
>>>/x/
>>7316675
His short works are usually good, OP. As for his other books...The Dark Tower saga, the Stand and It are pretty good. Also Bag of Bones is also quite good because his writing style in this one particular book is amazing.
>>7316713
I want to read some of his other important stuff like It, Misery, and the Stand before I dive into Dark Tower. thanks anon.
Verdict?
>>7316582
What is this?
>not writing "You gotta beliebe"
DroppedSeriously OP, what on earth is this thread about? What book is that? What is your question? What is your starting point for a discussion?
Apparently this is Trump's new book.
http://time.com/4089157/donald-trump-book/
Why do I find him so easy to relate to despite never having been religious?
>>7316528
We all have things we worship.
Everybody worships.
he's not religious in the book.
I'm about to JIZZ ARGGHHHH
/r9k/? /b? /s4s/?/his/?
what you doin' here boy?
a yukio mishima thread?
Hey don't make fun of my patron Saint baka desu senpai
So I'm halfway done with reading Confederacy of Dunce and noticed pic related as been mentioned all throughout the book.
Is it worth a read even if I have yet to read any of the Greeks?
Wait, are you implying that you started confederacy of Dunces without having done the Greeks?
How can you understand any of it?
What am I in for, /lit/?
Repentance with the french revolution in the background
>>7316251
PRISONER 24601!!!
>>7316968
>repentance
you mean the general theme, or this obscure georgian film? if the latter, you have nice taste
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/michel-houellebecqs-submission.html?
Knausgaard reviews Houellebecq
>I took Huysmans’s best-known book, “Against the Grain,” with me to my daughter’s gymnastics practice and sat on the benches, drinking coffee from a plastic cup and reading while she somersaulted about on the mats below along with perhaps a score of other 10-year-old girls, in a harsh and glaring light as one hit song after another blared out of the public address system.
What did he mean by this?
janitor m8 please
>>7316227
this was really good, thanks for sharing senpai
