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my buddy came over and saw my books. he asked to borrow one. he said pick something good. so I gave him infinite jest lmaooooooooooooooo
>>8117266
So you gave him the D(fw). When's the wedding?
>>8117280
0/9
>>8117266
In my culture a homosexual shares his personal copy of Infinite Jest to show his mate that his body is ready
What does /literature/ think of this book and Author?
>>8117180
Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs are pretty good, the rest of the Hannibal series is shit. Just like the movies
This is almost irrelevant and belongs on /tv/, but of the two films based on Red Dragon (book), Manhunter by far superior to Red Dragon (film)
Just watch the show "Hannibal" and read something else.
>gf is fantasing about rape and getting off to fuck-machine porn
any philosophical/psychological literature on the depth of female sexuality? freudian or otherwise
right now can't tell whether to trash my gf or go with it
>>8117052
maybe you should get pissed off and say that shit is awful. or maybe she's a victim of sexual assault, and that's a common coping strategy. If you're uncomfortable, just sit down and say, yo this shit makes me feel weird and I don't like it. You shouldn't roll with what you're uncomfortable with.
fiction but two of the sexiest books on freudianism and female sexuality:
>The White Hotel by DM Thomas
>Gordon by Edith Templeton
>>8117076
Freud was full of shit. Psychoanalysis was debunked.
Is there any literature on abstaining from love?
your diary tbpqh
>>8116997
You could just read the part of tCoL49 that takes part in The Greek Way over and over again.
What does /lit/ think of Walter Benjamin?
>>8116942
bad
Required reading at my secret cabal of atheist jewish bankers trying to destroy christianity and the white man.
>>8116959
How is this not a meme already?
What the fuck?
a woman wrote it
>>8116911
It was a meme, you fucking /pol/-emigree summer newfag.
>>8116911
Because it's by a woman author, and the majority of /lit/iots are too bitter to admit that it's possible for a woman to create something of artistic merit. Why do you think they all shit one Gertrude Stein--one of the greatest writers to ever live?
Pic related
>>8116723
Go to thread upcatalog for advice and critique, perhaps a few words of encouragment! Here is your advance: nowdays one doesn't need to write clearly, but beauty is paramount, and you nailed the second part. Cheers!
>>8116723
>>8116760
Why do you bitches keep making these threads? Do you need validation from strangers that badly? Take this shit to /soc/.
Also, your handwriting is just a smidge from being good. Form your o's, e's, and a's more neatly. You have a good sense of regularity that isn't found in the noobs (lawl) in the other thread like this.
>>8116723
Study carrigraphy
Reminder that you will not be successful if you spend more than twenty minutes per week here. Put down the technology.
>>8116718
fuck off baby boomer looking shit
>>8116718
i give up any kind of dream.
My life is masturbating to tranny porn and eating ramen, and i regret nothing.
>>8116724
fuck off
Will he ever top taipei?
Tao, you've been trying to force yourself as a meme here for about 5 years now.
No one on /lit/ has ever read your shit, and no one will.
Fuck off.
Not a hard task. I can assure you there are better writers posting on /lit/ righr now.
>>8116588
I've actually read Taipei
I...I feel like I was raped...
Does lit have a chart or list of African American literature?
Oh, you mean Ooga Booga literature?
Do you mean Basketball Literature?
Just so everyone is aware, being racist does not make you look cool.
Check out Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey.
Thinking of ordering this.
What does /lit/ think of it?
To understand Joyce's later work you need to understand what it's like when you have the same BFF-tier best friend for like 20 straight years, and you hang out constantly and talk on IM programs all day and play Counter-Strike every fucking night, and you develop an intricate interior language that only exists between the two of you. You can text him what looks like complete non sequitur shit and it will make perfect sense and evoke entire conversations and anecdotes and inside jokes with spiralling meta-self-referentiality. He can combine three weird inside jokes...
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>>8116480
It sounds interesting. Thanks anon.
Oh boy, it's this thread again.
Ok grammar nazis, is there anytime it's ok to use "should" instead of "would" like:
"I should like to tell you..."
"I should think so."
etc.
Or is it just pretentious?
Use it when it makes sense. "I would think so" implies the speaker would think affirmatively if he were smart, where "I should think so" implies the speaker should think affirmatively because he IS smart.
>>8116374
how am I not surprised that trap is from tumblr?
use "should" for conceived obligations
use "could" for mere opportunities
We name authors often unheard of here.
Calder Willingham
>>8116265
Turgenev, Lermontov.
Lermontov is especially weird, because he must speak to a lot of people here, for better or worse.
>seemingly-intelligent, competent adults who wind up having the writing skills of a fucking sixth-grader
How does this even happen? I've met so many of these people. It's not even that they misspell simple words like retards, it's that they have a fundamental ignorance of basic grammatical principles (don't know how to use commas, how to properly punctuate around quotation marks, how to string together sentences, etc.) that, even if not formally taught in school, should have been picked up through osmosis over the course of their lives anyway. How the fuck do you live in this country for forty years and still consistently manage to fuck up "they're," "their," and "there?" Do you just shrug your shoulders when you come across a sentence that uses a completely different variation than you would and assume it's wrong? Do you just ignore this when it happens time and time again involving reputable material? Are these people willingly remaining ignorant? My grammar is fucking shit but when I come across something that doesn't match up with what I do, I fucking look it up to see if I've been doing it wrong.
>>8116168
>he thinks writing skills are the same thing as grammar
>>8116176
In this context, they're synonymous. Stop being a pedantic faggot because you know exactly what i meant. Not being able to properly communicate your message through writing constitutes a lack of writing skills.
I imagine it's because writing is no longer taught at the same fundamental level that it used to be. My nephew isn't even taught cursive writing anymore, and his spelling words are significantly dumbed down from what mine were like in the 90's
Hello /lit/ I just moved to England more specifically to London, the weather is shit and is really not as I expected.
What book can you recommend me that is set in relatively modern London, is happy and talks about city life.
Where did you move from?
>>8115858
Read Satanic Verses, but not for the reasons you mentioned.
>>8115868
I moved from Argentina, but spend the first part of this year in Italy
