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DUDE CHEESE LMAO
>>8148244
I don't get it
>>8148244
You're not allowed to post about books on /lit/ until you've finished them.
Just finished reading pic related. I thought it was awesome and had a fantastic ending, what did /lit/ think?
First 200 pages or so makes for exciting and awesome horror fiction. The rest of the book is pretty bland.
>>8148201
Lol, it's not even 200, more like only 50 pages of goodness and then 300 pages of mostly blandness
Beside the Thomas Harris books, are there any good novels about serial killers as told from the killers perspectives?
Have I understood you right?
>>8148131
Perfume
>>8148131
American Psycho, maybe.
I just finished reading "The Taking" by Dean Koontz. It was (initially) about an alien invasion in which the invaders are so advanced they simply bend reality to their wills.
Moving themselves or us through walls, corpses get up to do their bidding, our technology only working at their whim, creating storms at will and beginning to replace our biosphere with theirs in hours.
The ending was shit and ruined the mystery and horror of it. Can anyone suggest any books where aliens invade but are so beyond us that they dont need to bother with body snatching and death rays? Where their motives and methods defy comprehension.
>>8148093
bump for interest
>>8148093
Roadside Picnic?
>>8148093
The Genocides - Thomas M. Disch
Forge of God - Greg Bear
Fade-Out - Patrick Tilley
Wolfsbane - Frederick Pohl & CM Cornbluth
The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
All deal with dispassionate, unseen aliens (???) almost disinterestedly fucking up humanity's lot. Of all of them, The Genocides is the most fatalistic and depressing, followed by The Kraken Wakes. Both very English. The other three are a bit more fun, but should all still meet your criteria.
[HELP] I have to write a homework connecting a philosopher with the contemporary problems and I need help.
What topics could I connect Spinoza's thought with the society's contemporary problems?
And, in the case of Sartre, how could I connect him with this same contemporary problems?
>>8147951
Closet Homosexuality
Should be obvious why.
Is it possible to work with spinoza or Sartre and the corruption?
>>8147951
homework is a spook
Greatest American writer?
I'm reading Wise Blood now and I think O'Connor is one of the best, but I don't think I could say greatest.
>>8147929
No. Not even close.
Bill Gray.
ITT: comfy lit
>>8147882
That is not comfy.
It made me feel such sadness.
>>8147882
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
I know this isn't directly related to literature but I'm guessing it's very important to /lit/.
Remember that girl who had that booktuber channel which she deleted after we all commented horrible shit on it? Is this her? Was her name Rachel?
A guy on a creepshot thread on /b/ claims he has her Facebook, if so.
>>8147853
not her
>Was her name Rachel
It was Katie
>>8147859
Ah fuck, strikingly similar though.
Which is more tragic, the death of an individualist for a collective cause or the death of a collectivist for an individual cause?
Also, who is more worthwhile, the dedicated individualist or the dedicated collectivist?
>>8147768
>the death of a collectivist for an individual cause
Do you mean the death of an entire collective or just a single collectivist?
>>8147775
A collectivist, just one person.
>>8147768
>>8147802
Fuck collectivists, at least individualists value their own lives.
>schizo
>coming up with ideas for writing is easy af
>accumulating the willpower to write more than a few pages is impossible
how do you force yourself to work?
Think of how you can enable yourself to work. Can you write in a strict linear fashion? Get on a document sharing service and work on your magnum opus.
Do you need to work on a scene and edit it in? Get a note sharing app like lesser pad to export the text files to your computer.
Do you need to see a fancy map in front of you? I've been successful with mindedly.
>>8147736
Pretty much the only way I've ever gotten any significant portion of novel writing done was by going out to a library or cafe and sitting around there for several hours with a pen and notebook in front of me until at least a few pages got filled. Isolating yourself from the internet or any internet-capable devices helps a lot.
>>8147751
>mindedly
what's mindedly? a google search only gave me definitions of absent- and open-mindedly
>And he's all right now, in fact, he's a gas
>But he's all right now, he's William H. Gass
>He'll never pass, pass, pass
gassposters please leave
>And he's all right now, in fact, he'll pass gas
>But he's all right now, he's William Ass Gass
>He'll never pass, pass, pass that gas
>Willy M. Ass Gas Blast
I've finally decided to tackle this thing over the next few months.
Other than just reading it, what have you found to be the best supplementary sources that explain it?
-I've heard David Harvey's lectures and books are pretty good.
-and that Althusser's reading of it was fairly influential to marxist literary theory today
Any suggestions?
What was your experience with Capital?
Abandon ship and read Human Action
marx is a waste of time; dont do it mate
>>8147560
his writing is extremely clouded by the dominant ideology and values of the time and place he was living, he just seems to repeat those same values back, which doesn't add much.
he also doesn't seem to have a very interesting, or transferable, methodology.
While I did indeed love them when I first read them years ago, why is it that the ASOIAF books had such a huge fanbase while hundreds of copies just sit on the shelf?
Was there some special type of marketing involved?
>>8147223
*copies meaning knockoffs by other authors
>>8147223
Mouth to ear marketing.
I think that the fact that they are not finished yet drives readers to speculate and to try to compare notes with other readers. That's why they are so assertive when suggesting others read them.
Have you accepted him as the savior of American literature yet?
>Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation, this calyx, replaces the pupil so it no longer receives but sends, and every hair is on end, though perhaps only outspread on a pillow, and the nostrils are flared, mouth agape, cheeks sucked so the whole face seems as squeezed as a juiced fruit; I know, for once Lou went into that wildness while we were absorbing one another, trying to kiss, not merely forcefully, not the skull of our skeleton, but the skull and all the bones on which the essential self is hung, kiss so the shape of the soul is stirred too, that's what is called the ultimate French, the furtherest fuck, when a cock makes a concept cry out and climax; I know, for more than once, though not often, I shuddered into that other region, when a mouth drew me through its generosity into the realm of unravel, and every sensation lay extended as a lake, every tie was loosed, and the glue of things dissolved. I knew I wore the wild look then. The greatest gift you can give another human being is to let them warm you till, in passing beyond pleasure, your defenses fall, your ego surrenders, its structure melts, its towers topple, lies, fancies, vanities, blow away in no wind, and you return, not to the clay you came from — the unfired vessel — but to the original moment of inspiration, when you were the unabbreviated breath of God.
holy fuck that is overwritten
>>8147554
I thought you were dead, Hemingway.
>>8147177
>Have you accepted him as the savior of American literature yet?
we'll hes 100 years old so even if he was the savior he no longer is, we need a new guy in his 30s or 40s that actually has some work left in him to save us
If you could live in a house with a all the books you ever wanted and enough food and water supply for a lifetime but you could never have any human interaction. (No internet no visits no phone etc.)
Would you do it?
No.
Nope
>>8147169
Obviously not.
