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who is the david lynch of literature?
DFW
>>7869405
Kafka.
Philippe Sollers.
ITT: Books you enjoyed that /lit/, in general, doesn't (And why you enjoyed them).
Pic related for me. Sure, it's written as if it was written by a teenager for a class who thought his writing was perfect because of how self-referential it was, but nonetheless I enjoyed it. It was well researched and exciting in a dumb way - a simple book that I didn't have to think much about while reading (which, as much as we may look down upon such books on /lit/: they are necessary, especially after tackling dense, challenging literature).
I liked the inter-mingling of three narratives; the use of graphology to reflect what was happening in the book (or to emulate scattered notes on various papers, etc); the atmosphere of the book; and the Navidson report (moments of it were genuinely unsettling and I don't know a book from recent days that has been effective in unsettling me).
It's not perfect, it's flawed, but I did enjoy it. I don't think I'll bother with that 27-volume shit he's doing now though.
this helped me communicate with anons. I have with it the same relationship your mother does to an electric dildo: I didn't enjoy it itself, but rather the effects it brought on me.
Read it after people on /lit/ told me how boring it was, out of curiosity. Genuinely loved it.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1quyRx08Qjp
>>7869023
Just when I though lit couldn't get any more embarrassing...
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1iRxwNrmhBo
>>7869036
thank you, i thought that was the right way to pronounce it.
also what kind of accent is that exactly?
Can you recommend some books with smart animal protagonists? Preferably not stuff for kids, but I'm not picky. Thanky!
tailchasers song
>>7868847
Do human animals count?
if so, Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow
>>7868869
Dude, humans arent animals, we're people,
God damn this shit was sad. Seems pretty open to interpretation. Tell me what, if anything, you think Kafka was trying to say with this.
Was his transformation a metaphor for anything?
>>7868596
The bug guy represents someone who's too stupid to do their own homework
>>7868614
he's a bug guy
I think it's fairly evidently supposed to be along the lines of the alienation, dehumanization and crippled self-worth/image of the modern working man.
Is this a good book?
why does this get asked every week.
I enjoyed it.
>>7868284
It's enjoyable, but probably not the best of Vonnegut's works, even though it's his most famous. So if you've read others by him it might not compare. It's a great intro into his catalog though
>I believe in stressing the specific detail; the general ideas can take care of themselves. Ulysses, of course, is a divine work of art and will live on despite the academic nonentities who turn it into a collection of symbols or Greek myths. I once gave a student a C-minus, or perhaps a D-plus, just for applying to its chapters the titles borrowed from Homer while not even noticing the comings and goings of the man in the brown mackintosh. He didn't even know who the man in the brown mackintosh was. Oh, yes, let people compare me to Joyce by all...
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But Joyce himself structured it to rhyme with The Odyssey...
>>7868134
>>7868183
Recall that Nabokov was overall one of the most intelligent authors that ever lived.
His books weren't necessarily the most intelligently written books, and as he himself acknowledges here, he's not the best author ever by any stretch, but he was without a doubt the most objectively intelligent person to become a significant figure in literature.
>>7868134
>wew Vlad
volodya*
Post elder-god tier kids books itt.
Edge Chronicles. Specifically pic related. Cool thread OP, shame I had to end it
ITT: Post a good/interesting/cool picture
If you see a picture that inspires you, write about it: poetry, prose, dialogue, anything,
Dumping a few to start.
>>7866913
>>7866916
>>7866921
what the fuck is everyone talking about. I know what's going on. don't really know who the fuck everyone is or what the fuck they are talking about is. will I figure it out eventually? I'm barely 60 page in. this is my first pynchon novel. I don't give a fuck about reading his other shit in any sort of order. I start with what ever I feel like it. because I'm in control. I like the dog. he's really British.
You sound pretty stupid.
>>7866912
I am
>>7866919
Me too.
thoughts on slam poetry?
http://youtu.be/O5vmHjJ7LYE
monkeys have tails. i think that guy means apes
>>7865885
what a fat and ugly worthless white male. Pathetic
So, I wanna start with the Greeks, but where do I start?
Besides like Homer, what is THE essential Ancient Greek literature?
Prometehus Bound
It's an ancient play, one of the oldest we have, about a simple man who was horrifically punished by the powers that be for the terrible crime of trying to bring light to the common people.
In the words of Aeschylus, "No good deed goes unpunished".
>>7865849
there you start
