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Were these actually good or do I just remember it that way?
You just remember it that way. It's as YA as YA can get without being Harry Potter.
>>8004179
Damn. I got meme'd. How about this one?
>you will never raid a McDonald's with Dave
>you will never discuss you childhood, hopes, and failures with him late at night, hopped up on Coca-Cola
>you will never anxiously introduce yourself and your writing to him while both of you are trembling in abject anxiety over each other's first impression
>you will never talk about entertainment and art with Dave as you wait for lit qts to show up inside the Mall of America
>you will never smugly snicker at his witticisms which went over the head of everybody else around you
>you will never discuss loneliness and beauty as a corny 80s action show flickers in the background
>you will never put your hand on his shoulder as he shared a powerful memory from his troubled past
What's the fucking point of living if I'll never get to hang out with David Foster Wallace?
I was about to make an incredibly ironic statement concerning his suicide, but then I Dave'd.
To be completely unironical here, I don't think that I would really be that excited for a meetup with Dave.
He seems like he was a really shitty person overall.
I miss dave
Does /lit/ have an opinion on him?
>inb4 gay
i liked him in murder by death
I loved In Cold Blood for its staggering amount of detail and humanization of a twisted murder
>>8004060
In Cold Blood is probably in the top 5 of 20th Century books/novels or wahtever it is.
Is someone up to discuss this book? is one of my favorites to comeback everynow and then. why is Meitei the best character?
'Waverhouse' is clearly the best character
>>8003955
all the english books have the names translated?
I have to bring it back to the library soon and I haven't even started it yet. Is it OK if I just finish the first volume or is it meant to all be read?
I have a English assignment where I have to read 17 of Walt Qhitman's poems. This book has essentially all of them, but I don't know which ones to read. Are there any essential or outstanding peoces of his work? Thanks.
Read the twelve of the 1855 edition (in that edition, not in the Deathbed one), plus Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Crossing Brooklyn River, and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
There you have his best poems. The other 2 are on your choice.
>17
what an oddly specific number
>>8003779
Well...
Song of Myself just to start.
U. P: up
Stop it Richie Goulding!! Stop torturing me!!
>>8003751
Boylan's getting it up?
You pee up!
I've read Libra and White Noise, but prefered Libra.
Which DeLillo should I read next?
Mao II or Underworld, depending on how much time you want to commit.
>>8003734
Underworld is his best, in my humble opinion.
Does my dad read cuck tier literature?
He goes into book stores and buys only from the popular/best selling ect section
>>8003696
condom-slurping credit-cuck detected
>>8003696
Mad roastie detected. Back to tumblr.
Was Ulysses the first slice of life anime?
Its characters even match the genre archetypes. Leopold-chan is the sweet moe girl. Stephen-chan is the logical, unemotional one (with a soft side). Buck-chan is the boisterous joker. Molly-chan is the perverted girl who's always grabbing her friends' tits. Etc.
This book is just dying to be made into an anime about cute girls doing cute things.
>>8003627
Go back to /r9k/ or /a/, you pathetic waste of space.
>>8003633
Gawrsh anon, doesn't actually having read the book make me more qualified to be here than almost every other poster? ^^;;
God-tier books only ITT
>>8003529
pic related
>>8003532
tumblr pls go
>>8003549
everybody who disagrees with /pol/ is from tumblr amirite?
>when you are slogging through a long book but don't want to put it down because you know that once you do, you will never pick it back up
What's her name, /lit/?
My life
>>8003467
infinite jest
>>8003467
the count of monte cristo
How do I deal with the fact that the Munchhausen trilemma exists and all philosophy is bullshit and all humanities / art / politics is narcissistic posturing?
Everything is such BS on a big pile of BS on a mountain of BS, it's all so hard to take. Everything boils down to BS or trivialities.
>>8003438
Saying all philosophy is bull shit is a philosophical idea.
i.e. You're retarded
why are you posting this again.
Axiomatic (possibly circular) consistent frameworks are completely okay - and truth is secondary to me in general. I say this as a theoretical physicist.
What you may want to ask is the use of things. E.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
discusses a notion of action - things have value while you do them and if it makes your live better, why bother whether there are absolutes which can be known?
Ovid is the greatest storyteller of all time
discuss
hes good
i prefer vonnegut and barth
planning on reading him next. what are some preferred translations?
>>8003541
AD Melville by far. It's poetic, understandable for the most part, and has great notes.
What are some of the books to read in 20s to increase your intellectual prowess?
>>8003403
The Holy Bible
>>8003465
fuck off christfag
>>8003403
Moby dick
Is China Mieville a good writer?
eat shit
>>8003295
Never heard of him. What kind of books does he write?
Also, his first name would have been better if it included an additional 'u'.
Interesting ideas underwhelming execution. Bad endings.
![Trump_the_art_of_the_deal[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mHtH5ZK.jpg "Trump the art of the deal[1]")
