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Is there any good book about cannibal jungle people eating each other?
my diary desu
Jack Ketchum's Off Season and Offspring
Moby Dick.
Time for a challenge. Post better writing than this:
"The Brooklyn riverfront was a maze of rusty containers, sharp-boned cranes looking up from the snowstorm. On a night like this you couldn't help but think of the dark army of dead men, sleeping with the fishes, cement shoes in line. No minotaur lurked in this labyrinth, but somewhere out there, on the clanking deck of his cargo freighter, the skipper of the Charon was waiting, like the ferryman of the river Styx."
I know it'll be hard but let's see what you've got.
>>8284036
Is this some crime thriller or something?
Are we meant to improve upon that paragraph or find better prose which describes the Hudson?
>>8284036
>No minotaur lurked in this labyrinth
Cliche and childish.
I had a dream last night where the name Thomas Pynchon and gravity's rainbow kept appearing. I woke up at 3am and I couldn't fucking sleep and I just ordered the book. What the fuck lit?
>>8283872
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
/lit/ what are the best (most patrician) plays?
Where does one start?
I never see /lit/ talking about plays, is there even an infographic?
What are you interested in?
>>8283803
All and everything that is good.
I've enjoyed some of Samuel Beckett's plays recently. Waiting For Godot is essential but Endgame is also very good and severely underrated.
At the moment I'm reading some Bertolt Brecht. Read Mother Courage yesterday and enjoyed it even if I'm I feel like I need to read more of Brecht's 'epic theater' to fully get something out of it. Next up is reading some Ibsen
What is literary fiction?
Why would I read a story which sacrifices characterization and interesting conflicts for the sake of themes?
If I were interested in the ideas of identity, collectivism, or any other subjects; why would I not just read scholarly articles?
I see literary fiction as someone just trying to force persuasive essays into a good story. They are lessening the storytelling for the sake of shoehorning in their themes.
Literary fiction is a made up story, now back to /b/ with you
I just wonder why people think a story having minimal plot is somekind of virtue
>>8283689
>sacrifices characterization and interesting conflicts
Who says literary fiction don't have these things?
>Go to Barnes and Noble
>Romance section is right next to sci-fi section
>All of the covers are one of a woman in a fancy dress, a shirtless dude, or a man and woman kissing
>>8283609
Why would you go to Barnes and Noble?
How about Smart Art Know Brow romance with a cyberpunky tendancy ?
>>8283609
>admits jealousy directed at Chad
the weird frontier between post irony and new sincerity is this geriatric the saviour of literature?
>>8283549
>>/mu/
>>8283634
What? Get off this board if you don't appreciate the Gass
I've finally been reading novels again after I don't know how many years. I'm studying nearly every waking hour for an exam at the end of summer for my grad program and have been reading a chapter of a novel when I need to take a break.
Pic related is the first book I finished recently and I really liked it. It reminded me of some of the classic dystopian things I liked in my childhood like Brave New World. I'm currently about 1/3 of the way through 120 Days of Sodom, which I'm also enjoying although it's really different from Radio Free Albemuth.
Anyone have ideas of what I might like based on this?
Yeah.
>>8283522
men
>>8283544
lol true. I meant novels though.
What do you nerds think of Colin Wilson?
>>8283502
The Outsiders was p good. Stay gold, Ponyboy ;)
>>8283508
Wrong book, dude!
>>8283553
oh yeah is that the one where the arab is shot because the sun was too bright?
its a good one too
Any discussion on the best web place to find books and download 'em?
Not necessarily bought ;) no money. Please?
Plus any book you recommend?
>>8283487
Hello, newfriend! There's a sticky. It answers the questions you're asking.
>>8283487
check the sticky
Newfriend is the right nickname for me.
What is that, where?
what makes a story worth telling?
>>8283473
The impact it has on a reader.
>>8283484
but doesn't shitty literature have impact on shitty readers?
>>8283473
Absolutely nothing.
Is this a good list? Are there other books worth getting?
>>8283419
Yes a Thesaurus.
>>8283419
The Stephen King book was surprisingly good. Not sure about anything else though. Strunk and White is more for formal essays and reports than anything else.
>"how to write a novel"
>author hasn't written a good novel
Was he secretly the GOAT?
>>8283387
Yes
Is Infinite Summer kill?
obviously. I'll ruin the end for all of you. the first chapter hal is fucked off the DMZ his dad's ghost got put on his toothbrush. he can feel now. the end.
>>8283340
This is my second time reading it so you ruined nothing for me, internet miscreant. If you tried to pull this sort of shit to my face I'd demap you so fucking hard, kiddo.
I read like 30 pages and then quit. Moby-Dick was more interesting.
Tell me about this man
charlatan
>>8283306
it was tragic a heavy book got closed on his face once and now he is like that
>>8283306
Go to the right through the front door with Scruton, Burke, Bonald, Maistre, Weaver, etc. Don't go to the right through the weird ancap back way
