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When did you realize that DFW was the crossbreed?
>>7836128
You aren't funny
>>7836132
I disagree.
I thought this would be interesting, it's a list of books Stephen King listed in his book "Danse Macabre" that he thought were the scariest books written from 1950 to 1980.
Richard Adams. The Plague Dogs; Watership Down*
Robert Aickman. Cold Hand in Mine; Painted Devils
Marcel Ayme. The Walker through Walls
Beryl Bainbridge. Harriet Said
J. G. Ballard. Concrete Island*; High Rise
Charles Beaumont. Hunger*; The Magic Man
Robert Bloch. Pleasant Dreams*; Psycho*
Ray Bradbury. Dandelion Wine; Something Wicked This Way Comes*; The October Country
Joseph Payne Brennan. The Shapes of Midnight*
Frederic Brown. Nightmares and Geezenstacks*
Edward Bryant. Among the Dead
Janet Caird. The Loch
Ramsey Campbell. Demons By Daylight; The Doll Who Ate His Mother*; The Parasite*
Suzy McKee Charnas. The Vampire Tapestry
Julio Cortazar. The End of the Game and Other Stories
Harry Crews. A Feast of Snakes
Roald Dahl. Kiss Kiss*; Someone Like You*
Les Daniels. The Black Castle
Stephen R. Donaldson. The Thomas Covenant Trilogy (3 vols.)*
Daphne Du Maurier. Don't Look Now
Harlan Ellison. Deathbird Stories*; Strange Wine*
John Farris. All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By
Charles G. Finney. The Ghosts of Manacle
Jack Finney. The Body Snatchers*; I Love Galesburg in the Springtime; The Third
Level*; Time and Again*
William Golding. Lord of the Flies*
Edward Gorey. Amphigorey; Amphigorey Too
Charles L. Grant. The Hour of the Oxrun Dead; The Sound of Midnight*
Davis Grubb. Twelve Tales of Horror*
William H. Hallahan. The Keeper of the Children; The Search for Joseph Tully
James Herbert. The Fog; The Spear*; The Survivor
William Hjortsberg. Falling Angel*
Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House*; The Lottery and Others*; The Sundial
Gerald Kersh. Men Without Bones*
Russell Kirk. The Princess of All Lands
Nigel Kneale. Tomato Caine
William Kotzwinkle. Dr. Rat*
Jerry Kozinski. The Painted Bird*
Fritz Leiber. Our Lady of Darkness*
1/2
>>7835801
2/2
Ira Levin. Rosemary's Baby*; The Stepford Wives
John D. MacDonald. The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything
Bernard Malamud. The Magic Barrel*; The Natural
Robert Marasco. Burnt Offerings*
Gabriel Maria Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Richard Matheson. Hell House; I Am Legend*; Shock II; The Shrinking Man*; A Stir of Echoes
Michael McDowell. The Amulet*; Cold Moon Over Babylon*
Ian McEwen. The Cement Garden
John Metcalf. The Feasting Dead
Iris Murdoch. The Unicorn
Joyce Carol Oates. Nightside*
Flannery O'Connor. A Good Man Is Hard to Find*
Mervyn Peake. The Gormenghast Trilogy (3 volumes)
Thomas Pynchon. V.*
Edogawa Rampo. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Jean Ray. Ghouls in My Grave
Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire
Philip Roth. The Breast
Ray Russell. Sardonicus*
Joan Samson. The Auctioneer*
William Sansom. The Collected Stories of William Sansom
Sarban. Ringstones; The Sound of His Horn*
Anne Rivers Siddons. The House Next Door*
Isaac Bashevis Singer. The Seance and Other Stories*
Martin Cruz Smith. Nightwing
Peter Straub. Ghost Story*; If You Could See Me Now; Julia; Shadowland*
Theodore Sturgeon. Caviar; The Dreaming jewels; Some of Your Blood*
Thomas Tessier. The Nightwalker
Paul Theroux. The Black House
Thomas Tryon. The Other*
Les Whitten. Progeny of the Adder*
Thomas Williams. Tsuga's Children*
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See
T. M. Wright. Strange Seed*
John Wyndham. The Chrysalids; The Day of the Triffids*
The books with an asterik (*) are the ones he considered the most important.
Also, in the book he gave his top ten out of the list which were:
>Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
>The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell
>Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
>The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
>The Fog by James Herbert
>The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
>Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
>The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
>The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
>Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Favorite cook books?
I see dead people-
Mangled sex;
fucking corpses.
Jumbled texts,
over the sky tops.
Drove my corolla down
the white suburbs to hoboland,
took my knife out and
shanked a bitch,
methed up, heroin heroi.
Ne.
.
.
.
I couldn’t tell when I started,
I always dropped people on a whim
drowned myself in the creek,
that sort of thing.
Deep-down the needle stick
I think I know
I think I do.
‘Fuck the world’
And my sloppy dick
Is in another orifice,
and like the rapids down the river,
my cum shall gush.
The Fed said they’ll let me
out for good behaviour.
Somewhere I heard the world say
That she couldn’t get a lay.
It’s too late once you think.
I am a dead man
I am the air you breathe,
I am the water you swallow.
My dick is in your mouth
Always.
This is pretty terrible, sounds like a 16 year old autist's version of slam poetry.
Good try tho I can tell u thought about it.
Don't ever write to me or my son again.
New cover art released for JK Rowling's new novel "History of Magic in North America".
http://www.tmz.com/entertainment/new-jk-rowling-coverart-16-189824.html
omg!!!!
cant wait!
>>7834584
why is the cover a low-res ms-paint drawing of Bart Simpson smoking what appears to be a marihuana cigarette? Strange choice
>>7834584
/lit/ - literature
Can anyone recomend some good Colombian literature? I've read Marquez and Vazquez.
>>7834510
Álvaro Mutis is one of my favourite and most treasured writers. His Maqroll series is impeccable and his poetry reminds me of Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens.
>>7834521
Just looked up the Maqroll stuff. Sounds like just what I've been looking for. thanks anon.
i read and loved Brothers Karamazov, notes from underGround, Crime and Punishment and Demons - but what the fuck is this??? i've tried to read it twice and I get so bored. it's not even about a gambler it's about a beta cuck who gambles for a woman. you could replace the gambling with literally anything else and it would be the same. fyodoro dostoyevsky's The dishwasher
why is this praised?
>Not always betting on red.
Thanks for the new pasta, that last line fucking killed me.
"This radiation can be observed only when the beam of emission is pointing toward Earth (much the way a lighthouse can be seen only when the light is pointed in the direction of an observer), and is responsible for the pulsed appearance of emission"
If i took out the comma from the sentence would it change the meaning? I mean would the pulsed appearance of emission refer to the radiation instead of the beam of emission?
>>7833562
Well it'd be incorrect syntactically, but it wouldn't change the meaning.
I'll probably be shit on for asking this, but for those of you that follow a particular faith, do you ever write things that would be seen as against it?
For example, if you believed in some deity, would you feel strange to write about a setting where that deity doesn't exist, or is killed by some other deity or even man?
I think it would be far more interesting to explore corollary aspects of that deity in fiction... For example, some people believe in religious gifts (I.e. 'Fruits of the Spirit", etc.) and it would be compelling to examine the peripheral elements of religious experience throughout history.
Lovecraft appears to have constructed an interesting method of doing this. His atheistic notion of 'cosmic indifference' is always maintained, to some hindrance, I'd argue.
Yes. Just to piss off my parents and colleagues.
It doesn't necessarily feel strange for me, partly because I was formerly an agnostic, but, there are some parts where you feel like, "Oh, does this count as heresy?"
i didn't get this book. not because i couldn't follow what was going on, but because i rarely knew what I was supposed to feel post-part one. i enjoyed it best for the various scenes unrelated to arturo and lima
thoughts?
>>7833158
I don't really understand what you're trying to say.
>>7833158
You're supposed to see two lives led man, simple as that, Lime and Belano, where they diverged any evolved from their youthful naivete. You feel whatever it is you feel based on their lives and what you, the reader evaluate it as. DESU it fells like you're used to a more structured narrative.
Best French Canadian translation of The Infinite Jest by David F Wallace?
2/10
If there is a nuck translation I hope they replace the random phrases in french from the original version with random phrases left in english
My parents discovered my copy of The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra while over at my place and discovered that I had worked on it.
I haven't let them read it but they're eager to do so. How long until they realise what I've done?
Have any other co-authors had their family discover this shame?
>>7831626
Just say that you wrote the 'best' part of it.
how did they discover that?
Are there any good books that provide a broad overview of different epistemological systems? Perhaps something that also addresses philosophy of science?
I'm wondering because I am uncomfortable with purely positivist approaches to knowledge that assume we have unmediated access to truth.
On the other hand, constructivist and postmodern epistemologies seem completely unsuited to rational inquiry and argumentation in the real world. For instance, I really don't feel like adopting a construvtivist view of knowledge if I'm debating with an anti-vaxxer, or someone who doesn't believe in evolution. I really want to be able to point to (capital T) Truth, in those instances.
>>7831384
Start with the Greeks.
>>7831384
An Introduction to Epistemology by Jack Crumley is what we used in the undergrad course I took. It's a good book, but it only covers analytic epistemology.
Did Aeneas teleologically suspend the ethical?
What does it mean to "teleologically suspend the ethical?" I want to know so that I can make quirky, intellectual jokes to impress my friends using cool words like teleologically. Haha I like being part of a cool intellectual group it makes me feel really smart haha. Lol, Donald trump just teleologically suspended the ethical am I right guys? xD Lol it's funny because if you juxtaposed (that's a good, smart person word right?) the cool phrase like "teleologically suspend the ethical" with something like cats/Donald trump/comics it's like what!! that doesn't belong because one thing is like, dumb and the other is smart so haha that doesn't belong!! xD. So yeah what does it mean??? P.S. Pic related is my face when someone says "teleologically suspend the ethical" lmao! (also my favorite author he's a pretty smart guy and he probably knew what it meant to "teleologically..." *loses breath* haha what a long phrase xD)
>>7831466
well memed indeed
Lucifer was the hero of the bible.
>>7831024
""""""""killurself""""""""
I thought pseudo-theologians belong in >>>/his/
