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about 150 pages in, feels like dfw-lite
its an easy read and not bad
what does /lit/ think? love it? hate it? who cares? is franzen a hack? i think so!
>>8086254
franzenstein's monster returns
>>8086256
has he wrote anything else that's notable? it feels like is style is so specific you'd feel like you're reading the same book
Middlebrow schlock.
Which books I should read about body language, pyschology,manipulation?
>>8086145
"Not Being Autistic" -Anonymous
>>8086145
Influence: Science and Practice
What does /lit/ think of this long ass series? I just finished book 4 (wizard and glass) and i honestly don't feel like the series interests me anymore. Some parts of it are so captivating but sometime the plot feels so slow I put it down and read other stuff. Is it worth continuing this loooooooooong series?
>>8086073
Do you like wasting large amounts of time on unintelligent drivel? Do you find that your life is so devoid of meaning that you fill the hole with a figurative candy like a compulsive eater, and become metaphorically obese with useless drivel pouring from every useless hour you spend on earth?
>>8086073
It's my favourite series with a Black Male protagonist
>reading King
Sounds like you memed yourself, my friend
Anyone else disappointing in the human race? Books for this feel?
>>8086064
>muh I'm smarter than everyone ideology
Grow up, kid.
>>8086064
Sartre's Nausea
Just got my degree in English lit. Thoughts?
>>8086057
What now?
>>8086057
Welcome to unemployment, friend.
We've been waiting.
>>8086060
Should I kill myself?
Start with the Greeks is not a meme. I did not start with them and now I am a confused literary plebian who has no feeling of chronological order. I am terrified, miserable and confused. My room is full of copies of "Infinite Jest" and Dorian Gray books laying on the floor. I am a mess.
Start with the Greeks is not a meme.
Start with the Greeks, then.
>you need to be spoonfed
I read all of Finnegans Wake at 17 and both loved and understood it, all before I ever touched a greeky book. I'm not even a super smart person, just adequate
>>8085955
Didn't you read? My room is FULL of copies of "Infinite Jest" and Dorian Gray books laying on the floor
How can I make my writing better? I ask my friends about my writing and they all tell me I write like a 9th grader. Here's a sample of my writing, from a short story I wrote.
My feelings after this were feelings of dread, the years of my thefts had caught up to me, and they weren’t going to be nice. My first theft consisted of feelings that were of panic, and adrenaline, and it left me feeling great. As I continued these feelings eventually subsided, and became natural to me. My sins were normal to me, just a part of life, but to others they were sins. It was at this point the realization of what I have been doing had hit me. The rest of that right consisted of tears, and stolen alcohol. More thefts presumed after that, but they continued to make me feel worse. My work became sloppier, I had trouble focusing, no longer did this seem natural to me, it seemed like sin. In due time all sinners receive their punishment, but I wanted mine to be on my own terms. As you know, that is how we ended up here today. I guess you could say the boy was the catalyst of me coming here, he helped me realize what I was doing was sinful. I know my punishments will come, and I’ve accepted it. All sinners must atone for their actions one way or another, and this is mine. However, what will become of me once the punishment ceases?
Anyone?
>>8085910
You're mixing intensity levels. Either be more banal, or less.
>>8085910
Couple of things come to mind.
>using the same word over and over in quick succession is generally a bad idea unless you're doing it on purpose for stylistic effect
>you aren't very descriptive. Few adjectives, few adverbs, little description beyond the absolute skeleton. Like the above it can work if you're doing it on purpose, but you aren't so it looks "like a 9th grader".
>you're jumping around way too much. Ties into the above, because you finish up an idea (e.g. your feelings about theft) in about 2 sentences and then abruptly start talking about something related without any segue.
>stop spamming commas holy fuck
What are some good athologies of this guy and similar poets?
>inb4 Cantos
>>8085850
Cantos
>>8085851
anon pls
>>8085850
Buckowski, John Green
What are your favorite arthur rimbaud poems? I have a book of his work and am wondering if I should just read it chronologically or if I should focus on a few of his more famous poems? What poems is he most known for?
>>8085788
He's mostly know for Illuminations (a collection of prose poems), A Season in Hell (a long prose poem), and The Drunken Boat (a long poem). I've only read the first two, which I recommend highly, and some of his earlier work, which was a bit lackluster. So my advice to you would be to seek out his prose poetry, that's what he does best in my opinion.
Read him like you feel it. He is most known for:
Le Bateau Ivre
Une saison en enfer (I know it's not a poem)
Sensations
Voyelles
Le Dormeur du val
Ma bohème
Morts de Quatre-vingt-douze
Oraison du soir
Ophélie, La Comédie de la soif and Le bateau ivre are my favorite
where the fuck can I read this fucker
The library...
>>8085785
my parents smoked a lot of crack when I was a kid. sold a bunch of my library books for some fucking reason. tried explaining it to the library but they didn't even believe me
eBooks are also a choice.
I was thinking about buying these books.
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Trouble with Being Born by E. M. Cioran
Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) by John Williams
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë
Does lit approve of my purchases?
>>8085690
>The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
It's a torture porn fantasy novel, why do you want to buy it?
>>8085723
no comment
>>8085690
Swap out Cormac McCarthy's corncobbery for "Waiting for the Barbarians" by J. M. Coetzee.
In my experience, people who have studied English, creative writing, or journalism usually make the worst writers. They take forever to make their point; there's 10 pages of fluff for every page of worthwhile content.
Any thoughts on this?
>>8085544
no. yur wrong
> Wild posting because I need a place to share this:
You are the question I could never answer. My theory that ends with an ellipsis; my hypothesis that evades empiricism. The one mystery I could never figure out. How could I ever hope to stay away?
>>8085544
The kind of people who study English or creative writing are the kind of people more interested in idea of writing itself than trying to communicate an idea, as a consequence all of their writing is aimless waffle.
you guys like this book? is it good?
>>8085498
it's shit
it's excellent
it's book
>https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/3gxa9t/me_24_m_with_my_girlfriend_22_f_of_8_months_she/
Where were you when based Zizek literally cucked reddit?
I wasn't on Reddit to witness the event, that's for sure.
How about you OP?
>>8085488
not on reddit
>>8085488
I wonder if Zizek's wife is jealous of Stalin.
lit, my younger brother's graduation is today. mine was 4 years ago and I've done nothing with my life. It makes me so sad I don't even want to go. Is there any book out there that embodies this sort of sadness and futility, the feeling that your life is just a miserable failure and you hate the entire world for being a cruel, fucked up place?
Elliot Rodger's My Twisted World is all about whiny rich kids who can't get anything done
>>8085479
thanks for making me feel worse, that was a pretty low joke. you didn't actually make me feel really worse, I'm just sort of disgusted by your poor taste. That's very temporary though, I'm already over it. In fact, as I type this I feel a bit better. So thanks.
You're me except it's my sister. Four years for me too.
I feel completely stuck. Dropped out of school.
Reading the fourth part of "My Struggle". Lots of youth memories of falling in love, meeting girls, realizing I have had none of that which makes me even more depressed. I just want to meet people, find some girl, do all those thing's I've been missing out on. But I'm just a shy fuck. And also not attractive. So, sort of finding a job wouldn't do much, sure it would be nice but I would still have nothing. No friends or girls or anyone to be with. Just going to thd job. That's not hapiness. I just want to burst out of this bubble. Also live in a shitty small village so there's really not a whole lot of people to meet. I feel like I'm completely done by now.
Um. Book redonmendations. I don't know. You've probably read The Stanger.
