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what's the most depressing novel you've ever read?
cause I wanna read it
>>8161921
American Pastoral
Werther, anything by Emile Zolá.
THE BOOK OF
DISQUIET
BY
FERNANDO
PESSOA
gr8 read
A movie could take you 3hrs to finish.
A book could take 30 days to finish.
Vetting the quality of a book is much more important than a movie.
How do you go about choosing/finding which book you should read next?
i just pick up a book off bloom's list
>Search "top 100 of all time" lists.
>Scan the synopsis of each. Ignore the ones with themes or plots I don't like.
>Queue them up.
or
>Search "top 100" lists of a favorite genre.
>Scan the synopsis of each. Ignore the ones with themes or plots I don't like.
>Queue them up.
or
>Search the entire bibliography of a favorite author.
>Scan the synopsis of each. Ignore the ones with themes or plots I don't like.
>Queue them up.
The real question is, where to find these "lists" that aren't complete shit.
>>8161894
>A book could take 30 days to finish.
kys
Boy. He sure loves his naive childlike girls.
It's funny that he studied with Nabokov.
It's funny how you didn't finish the book
>>8161859
Why do you think he's a complete recluse? Why do you think he's terrified of being photographed? Why do you assume that child with him in the only recent photo we DO have is his son, doesn't tat seem a little outlandish for an 80 year old man?
Pedophilia is not as rare as people like to pretend- what do you think the odds are that NONE of your favorite authors have raped little children?
Nabokov? Dostoyevsky? (Remember that """"fictional"""" confession in Demons?) You don't really buy the 'Lewis Carol wasn't a pedophile' meme, do you? That's just revisionist whitewashing, same as we do to everyone on their apotheosis into the canon. Lewis Carol's photographs were no different from ShowStars or VladModels or a million other child erotica studios today, and anyone who thinks ol' Vladdy didn't masturbate while writing the semi-autobiographical grinding scene in Lolita is willfully blind.
>>8161906
Pedo studies is the new Queer Theory.
Has anybody here read Knausgaard and felt like their life sucked in comparison?
I keep thinking how my own biography would look and it would be so fucking boring in comparison.
I cry to this everynight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22gcb4YHso
>>8161850
i bet you think in search of lost time is a biography too
>>8161886
I'm actually reading it right now. I realize that the conversations between Knausgaard's parents when he was around 2 years old can't be accurately remembered in any way, but still the general narrative of his life:
>growing up in a cozy Norwegian town
>interesting family life
>meets girls and friends at school
>works at a radio station and mental home
>teaches for a year in Northern Norway when he is only 18
>goes to university in a comfy little town
>has an older brother who helps him make friends, find rooms to rent and generally saves him from being an edgy loner
>dates several cute girls
>goes to Iceland with one of them and meets Bjork
>barely ever has a job
>spends months at a time living in remote cabins writing
>is able to buy his first apartment without even having a proper job
It's so cozy and enviable, to me any way.
Pynchon didn't publish another book for 17 years after Gravity's Rainbow.
17 years.
Since then, he's been pretty prolific, having written three novels in the past decade, one of them an outrageously laborious doorstopper.
What was the deal with this gap? What did Pynchon do for such a long time? Did his fans think he was dead?
He writes books simultaneously. It's a known fact that during that gap he started work on both Mason and Dixon and Against the Day.
Nobody thought he was dead, particularly because he published Slow Learner during that time (1984).
This article reveals a lot of mysteries about his life, including his years between GR and Vineland. He's not a total mystery.
>http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html#
>Occasionally he came out to visit the Shetzlines in rural Oregon. “I remember Pynchon on the horse I had,” Shetzline says. “He looked like Don Quixote.” Shetzline’s ex-wife Mary Beal says he mostly stayed up late and watched TV. (Kirk Sale remembers his houseguest arguing with his kids over which cartoons to watch.)
lol
>>8161808
Pynchon must be awsome as a grandpa
What are some literary works that exalt the human body, particularly a physical ideal?
>>8161767
My diary, to be honst.
>>8161767
Strong Curves by Bret Contreras
Btw Puritanical values have nothing to do with nude bans on SFW boards. There are plenty or red boards where you can drop your porn folder. Its often said that your image should never be more interesting than your post, as it causes derailment to the thread. Nothing productive gets done with 200+ replies spouting "who's this semen demon" and "sauce pls"
What does /lit/ think of my premise?
>hell is like an office job in another universe where each demon is in charge of torturing their assigned human soul and as a reward it can ascend to a godlike form, but lately a decrease in mortality rates left many demons jobless while others keep receiving human souls. Our character Emily then gets involved in a hell-like protest against Death, the owner of hell, who fires them by throwing them into a void. Emily floats around endlessly only to later find planet earth where she is found by Jacob, a 25 year old NEET whom happened to be her assigned human and as a result only he can see her. Because she is slowly dying her powers of telekinesis in earth are limited. The story launches from there with Jacob at first trying to kill her only to later accept her as a partner in crime in an attempt to build their own society.
It is full of dark humor and is kinda edgy but I've already written and deleted countless rough drafts to get to what I have now.
Please tell me what you think and no it is not bait
>>8161720
Sorry
Reading this concept alone somehow emulated the feeling of finishing a book you absolutely hated
DO NOT WASTE ANY MORE OF YOUR TIME ON THIS
The Skinny girl and the Fat girl
We can play Supermon withal names
Supper excuse
Bead routine vyes season
90 day wonders
Believing we had to love you
Pierian, slow motion jargon void real interest in touching zeke, catsup
We wouldn't throw her outta bed for crackers.
poem i'm into, title needs work
>>8161725
suggestions?
Xenagogue
Meant the indication
Sliver Plume (possible car accidents)
Moist Net,
Trying to count the trees, the mountains, the white onyx step stones, the graves, the trash
Know to not try
Shave the back of your neck to impress yourself
Oh! Sloppy handwriting; practice in correspondence to pretty inmates (reference inmate numbers here)
The men whom paved the tunnels
They call us their names, and think proud.
Is it a good book? My friend tells me she loves it but I get the feeling the main character is just /edgy/ and not relatable to people who are actually depressed and aren't normies and maybe are a little r9k.
it's a good book. also, you should take it as a matter of course to ignore what other people say about books before you've even read the first page.
and stop thinking in terms of memes, for chrissakes
>>8161602
*a book
>>8161594
Found it relatable when I was 12, sort of but less so at 14, couldn't finish it again at 18. It's probably worth reading in a lifetime, but I'm sure there is something of more substance by Salinger out there somewhere.
Hating the book because the character isn't relatable is tantamount to meming
Hypothetically I've never read a book in my entire life. Where should I start if I want to become more well read than 99% of the population?
You should start by not wanting to be more well read than other people. Comparing yourself to other people is what 99% of the population does that stops them from being so well read, other than reading. Just read and see the book from your own perspective; and if you don't know what that is yet reading can help with that too.
Why do 4channers often have this deep need of comparing themselves to other people and seek to be 'statistically' superior? It's a really sad and juvenile way of thinking
>>8161609
Whats the point if I'm not superior to others?
Still looking for a place to start.
Recent purchaseses/buys thread.
Show us what you spent all that cash on Anon!
>>8161552
I fell for the meme
>>8161571
>not getting the Landmark Herodotus
>>8161575
did the sticky deceive me?
do you think we could get her to read some real literature? maybe if we spameme'd her comment sections. I'd love to see her review something good. even if she hated it.
>>8161527
her YouTube= abookutopia
I hope no one reports this for raiding
>>8161532
I don't wanna raid her. just comment and be like "wow cool video sasha your so cute. you should read infinite jest. it follows this dysfunctional teenager is his quirky family! "
What books would you recommend to someone who is trying to get their shit together and had no positive role models growing up?
Iliad and Odyssey, The Enchiridion, and biographies of great men.
>>8161430
>someone who is trying to get their shit together and had no positive role models growing up
Always struggled with this. I feel like I've spent my early 20's just trying to make up for my adolescence.
Marcus Aurelius-Meditations
Dear friends,
Do you ever take notes when reading? If so, for what purpose? As a mnemonic tool? Or as part of the process of understanding?
Care to tell me?
No, i only highlight passages i find important and/or beautiful.
Non-fiction?
I read the part/chapter once, then pick up my notebook and a pen to take notes while skimming what I've just read. When there's secondary material available I read it before the skimming part. It works very well for me.
>>8161301
>dear friends.
We are not your friends you fucking gay cock sucking cucked faggot.
End immediately your sad worthless life.
Why does it seem like no one mentions Lovecraft's works?
>>8161220
What? I hear nerds praise the shit of Lovecraft all the time.
Is this bait? Because I'm pretty sure we're both on the internet right now.
>>8161223
Warhammer players aren't people
