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Is there a literary equivalent of this chart?
If not then besides DFW, who else would be on it?
>>8102271
>using /mu/ as a benchmark
Some of those artists, like alice in chains and biggie smalls, were already very popular before they died.
Keats and Rimbaud are the prime examples
Hey /lit/, /ck/ here.
I've been researching different cultural cuisines, and decided I want to learn a little more about other cultures in general. Can you recommend me some reading that really gives you an authentic feel for what other cultures are like? How they behave, what their customs are, and just what their outlook on the world is in general?
I'm a rural American with fairly little experience of world culture, only been outside the country once, and almost everything I'm exposed to about other cultures has been filtered or told through someone with an American worldview. I'm just looking for authenticity, from a native author. Fiction or nonfiction, either way will explain lots about a culture and their outlook on things.
>recommend me a book of stereotypes and baseless generalizations
Try Mein Kampf.
>>8102214
what culture, you cunt.
I'd honestly recommend wikipedia
Was Hollis Lomax Jewish diegetically, or metaphorically?
>>8102113
What kind of ridiculous hunch is that, anon?
>>8102113
Who designed that, the cover of the first edition of Stoner?
I'm having trouble finding anything on google.
What's all the hubub about this guy?
>>8102075
*sniff*
vjell ju sii...
He talks funny, has weird gesticulations and his views on immigration and SJW culture resonate well with 4chan's neoconservative population.
>tfw being a 8/10 semi-intellechad
>tfw neither an artistic nor theoretical subject.
>tfw neither an artistic nor theoretical subject.
What did he mean by this?
surely you mean theoretical or judgemental?
>only real niggas real understand dis one, SMASH DAT REPLY BUTTON
>>8102003
>ugh guys I'm like really good-looking you don't even know
What is that book you call 'The One'?
Could've changed your life, you might think it's the greatest book out there, etc.
I'll begin -- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
My Twisted World.
It describes me to a T. It feels like I am walking in Elliot's shoes.
Shit pick by the way OP.
Johnny Got His Gun.
>>8101952
Mein kampf
Take the redpill already, brainwashed sheeple
I'm only able to read On The Road while on speed.
actually speed makes reading anything better.
does the rest of /lit/ liked to get fuck'd up while readin books?
>>8101710
reading while baked makes it easier to focus, makes the images a lil more vivid in my head.
Reading while on acid is... interesting.
>>8101747
Reading on acid is just crazy. My last trip, 250 mics of acid and 20mg of MXE, had the letters surrounding the one I was reading coming off the page and dancing about. I kept thinking the illusion would break down and I'd either be unable to read or back to normal but it never did.
>tfw cant start a chapter without finishing it
Am i the only one who does this? How do i stop?
>>8101641
Read a book without chapters
>>8101665
was gonna say the same thing. That will break your habit, OP, and force you to stop whether you like it or not.
>>8101641
Same, I need completion of an episode to sleep.
Why is every response to existential crises a call to pile on shitloads of spooks? You know religion is used to take advantage of people, right? You know lit affects religious inclinations in order to portray a veneer of "patricianhood" based on "respect" for "culture" (i.e. pseudo intellectual masturbation), right?
You know that philosophy (ignoring mathematics or science) cannot lead to non trivial conclusions, right? You know that literature is pushed as "an insight in to the human condition" (or anything more pretentious than entertainment) by the publishing-media-academia industrial complex for financial gain, right? Also by pseudo intellectuals who try to look smart.
>>8101457
>ignoring mathematics or science
why is every thread about this shit posted by the same ignorant moron
>>8101457
Well, I guess the only solution is to kill yourself.
>>8101457
You hate organized Religion,
You hate Philosophy.
You hate college level novels.
The last one is understandable, (Fucking book snobs) but the first two makes you a vapid atheist cunt burglar, who I think is still dreaming about porking his FAT mother.
tldr: You're a cunt.
>itt
we write a book one sentence at a time
Margot arrived by way of the Greenline bus.
>>8101258
Margot wondered if the Greenline bus could fit in her coochie
just full stop out right like that? so much for flow
>greenline
clearly a reference to the israel armistice borders
>>8101268
why does this always happen?
Why are half the people on 4chan elitists?
Because everywhere else on the Internet and real life is reserved for mediocre "Everyone's a Winner!" ressentiment retards who hate effort and excellence
Syndrome please go
This is the one board where you can extract from 10 threads one good recommendation. The elitism is a good thing and should be fostered. r/books is perfect for people who consider Dune, GRRM, Franzen and Gone Girl high art
>>8101219
People have a hard time with not liking something. Not DISLIKING, just not liking, to be able to say "yes this book/album/movie has some legitimate artistic merits but is overall a far cry from the more masterful classics". If it's not patrician, it's shit and were gonna be bitter about it for completely unrelated emotional inner turmoil.
I prefer our way over Reddit, where there's no anonymity and everybody is constantly ball-fondling for karma and they're scared of offending one another for having shit taste and so they become defined by their own mediocrity
this site is shit
is there anything better out there?
You're on it.
>>8101054
Are you looking for better cataloging? LibraryThing. It doesn't really have the social media aspects though.
>>8101066
No he isn't
I am looking for psychology books that illuminate character dynamics/constellations I can use for my fiction writings.
Any suggestions?
>>8100783
most books by Tolstoi and Dosty
These are older psychologists ,the Arena still interesting
Alfred Adlers writings
Karen Horney - Our Inner Conflicts
Neurosis and Human Growth
Eric Berne - Games People Play
In you want to focus on people thoughts
Hide and Seek :The Psychology of Self Deception - Neel Burton
Hey guys I really want to try and write a science fiction book this summer, mainly for myself, and I'm not even sure if I'll show it to anyone but I genuinely think I have great ideas
Anyway so I was thinking I really need to read more science fiction literature for context reference points sake, is there any essential charts or lists that anyone has? Would really appreciate it, especially stuff that is similar to ASOI&F only in sci-fi form
>>8100722
I'm not a huge asoif fan, but I can see the appeal of the sprawling character Web. It sounds like you're looking for a space opera. Consider phlebas and Hyperion are pretty good entry level stuff. Not hardcore Sci Fi though, but entertaining.
I've always had a soft spot for Asimov as well, I enjoyed his foundation series and some of his short stories.
At the moment I'm reading the short stories of kuttner and I'm enjoying that immensely. He has some great ideas of the functions that robots and technology will play in a new society. His idea of having to create an artificial human conscience to stop crime was particularly enjoyable.
Otherwise the dune series is always something to fall back on.
H. G. Wells: "The Time Machine"
Yevgeny Zamyatin: "We"
Aldous Huxley: "Brave New World"
Olaf Stapledon: "Star Maker"
George Orwell: "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
George R. Stewart: "Earth Abides"
Isaac Asimov: "Foundation"
John Wyndham: "The Day of the Triffids"
Clifford D. Simak: "City"
Ray Bradbury: "Fahrenheit 451"
Arthur C. Clarke: "Childhood's End"
Alfred Bester: "The Demolished Man"
Theodore Sturgeon: "More Than Human"
Hal Clement: "Mission of Gravity"
Edgar Pangborn: "A Mirror for Observers"
Isaac Asimov: "The Caves of Steel"
Arthur C. Clarke: "The City and the Stars"
Alfred Bester: "The Stars My Destination"
Walter M. Miller: "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
Stanislaw Lem: "Solaris"
Philip K. Dick: "The Man in the High Castle"
Clifford D. Simak: "Way Station"
Frank Herbert: "Dune"
Daniel Keyes: "Flowers for Algernon"
Jack Vance: "The Eyes of the Overworld"
Robert A. Heinlein: "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
Roger Zelazny: "Lord of Light"
Philip K. Dick: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Arthur C. Clarke: "2001: A Space Odyssey"
John Brunner: "Stand on Zanzibar"
Samuel R. Delany: "Nova"
Keith Roberts: "Pavane"
Thomas M. Disch: "Camp Concentration"
Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Left Hand of Darkness"
Philip K. Dick: "Ubik"
Larry Niven: "Ringworld"
Poul Anderson: "Tau Zero"
Philip Jose Farmer: "To Your Scattered Bodies Go"
Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Lathe of Heaven"
Robert Silverberg: "Dying Inside"
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky: "Roadside Picnic"
Arthur C. Clarke: "Rendezvous with Rama"
Joe Haldeman: "The Forever War"
Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Dispossessed"
Larry Niven: "The Mote in God's Eye"
Samuel R. Delany: "Dhalgren"
Cordwainer Smith: "Norstrilia"
Frederik Pohl: "Gateway"
Octavia Butler: "Kindred"
Gregory Benford: "Timescape"
Gene Wolfe: "The Book of the New Sun"
David Brin: "Startide Rising"
Tim Powers: "The Anubis Gates"
Jack Vance: "Lyonesse"
William Gibson: "Neuromancer"
Iain M. Banks: "The Player of Games"
C. J. Cherryh: "Cyteen"
Dan Simmons: "Hyperion Cantos"
Guy Gavriel Kay: "The Lions of Al-Rassan"
Neal Stephenson: "Snow Crash"
Connie Willis: "Doomsday Book"
Vernor Vinge: "A Fire Upon The Deep"
Maureen F. McHugh: "China Mountain Zhang"
Kim Stanley Robinson: "Red Mars"
Michael Swanwick: "The Iron Dragon's Daughter"
Greg Egan: "Permutation City"
Greg Egan: "Diaspora"
Neal Stephenson: "Cryptonomicon"
Vernor Vinge: "A Deepness in the Sky"
Alastair Reynolds: "Revelation Space"
Richard Morgan: "Altered Carbon"
Susanna Clarke: "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell"
Robert Charles Wilson: "Spin"
Peter Watts: "Blindsight"
Neal Stephenson: "Anathem"
Paolo Bacigalupi: "The Windup Girl"
China Mieville: "Embassytown"
>>8100741
Cool cool thanks man, I think Dune is probably where I should go for the start, I'm just specifically thinking of something that has some political/social commentary, but at the same time is set in a really immersive universe, like ASOI&F.
Anyway thanks for the recommendations.
>>8100766
Holy fucking shit man that's a lot of books thanks a lot, I've read a few of the more philosophical ones like K. Dick's work, Bradbury, Orwell and Huxley. I just haven't read much of the more action based stuff, I plan to try and write a book with the combination of the two styles; philosophy + action
We can all agree that Biddy is the best Dickens girl, right?
dickens writes the best female characters. Biddy is of course an angel, to hell with that whore Estella
Estella broke my heart and I kinda liked it, but Biddy is an angel
I wanted to call her mummy and cum in vagina
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