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what books are you reading at the moment my dudes?
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - HST
White Noise - Don Delillo
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
>Reading more than one book at a time.
>"Wow anon like so intellectual. Please make fuck of me."
>>7830287
How's campaign trail? Been thinking about getting it. Coincidentally, i'm about to read Hunter Thompson's In Las Veags, just finished Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
>>7830909
im about 250 pages in or so. of course its very contextually based but its a great accounting of a time in history and it has some great universal truths about politics in the form of hunter's usual rambling writings. I feel like it was probably more effective as it was coming out, now its more of a historical reference of the 72 campaign via the lens of hunter s. thompson, essentially making it one of the best works of the new journalism movement
Post notes from previous owners.
>>7825409
proudly bumping this creative thread idea
Lmao my le morte de Arthur has a hilarious note. Some dude gave it to his gf and called himself Arthur and her guenevere. He clearly never read the book
Gravity's Rainbow, page 4 or 5
It's describing everyone waking up to the scent of the banana breakfast
in the bottom margin, in all capitals, is the underlined word "MISOGYNY"
Thoughts?
>>7830472
Cease all contact with her.
Call her a pleb, a pseud, and a fraud
>frost
op... why didn't you capitalize his name
Bow before me
>>7830399
i bow before no one.
>>7830414
desire to correct others: spook.
What are some of the best novels about war? Preferrably the ones that portray it as absolute hell.
>>7832038
Vonnegut's Slaughter House Five is an amazing book on this subject, much of Hemingway is also good (except from Whom the Bell Tolls). I even consider The Odyssey a book about how war is hell (Odysseus cannot leave the war behind, and adapt/return to civilian life even when he physically returned to Ithaca)
Heart of Darknes. Oh wait
>>7832050
>(except from Whom the Bell Tolls).
Care to elaborate?
Ask for a book and I will get it for you if Bib has it. I won't grab anything that has ridiculous file sizes though.
The Sword and the Crucible
>A History of the Metallurgy of European Swords up to the 16th Century
>Alan Williams
>Meditations on Quixote
by José Ortega y Gasset
>The Queue
by Vladimir Sorokin
>Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
by William H. Gass
>Anything by Unica Zürn
Nueva historia general de mexico - many authors, dunno who's listed, publisher is colegio de mexico
What works are absolutely essential reading in terms of understanding other lit (allusions, context, etc.) besides-
>Greeks
>King James Bible
>Shakespeare's major plays (Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, etc.)
>>7825509
virgil & milton
the fucking sticky
>>7825509
Greeks should at the very least consist of Iliad, Odyssey and Plato's Dialogues
Bible doesn't need to be KJV- good luck getting through an complete KJV bible.
Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear at the very least for Shakespeare
You probably should also read Quixote
Also Dante's Inferno at the very least.
Goethe's Faust and Gogol's story "The Overcoat" are a bit of a stretch for 'essentials' but are pillars in their respective language that were crucial to the development of modern German and Russian literature respectively
That should give you a decent bare bones understanding of most modern literature
You laugh you lose, you cringe you lose.
This isn't /b/, you twat.
>>7832203
Shut up faggot. Fun things are fun. You will never achieve gnosis and everything you write will be trite garbage.
I'm searching for literature on how to control ones mood.
Is there anything that's not 80% about meditation?
I'm just posting here to let you know the thread subject made me kek
>>7828134
How do you want to control your mood? Do you get angry too easy? Or are you depressed all the time? Or are you too impulsive. Details help send pie.
>>7828153
I think my biggest fear is to waste time.
I have some goals, career and life, and I sometimes get thrown back if I get into some non-life treating trouble (like unexpectedly having to pay 400 bucks for this and that thing - it doesn't actually matter to me but such things take off too much of my mental energy).
I want to be stoic about certain things, say.
It's probably one of the main reason I read into philosophy.
About a fifth into this and it's pretty great so far, first novel in a long time I've been unable to put down (which is sort of peculiar because there's nothing particularly gripping about the prose or storytelling apart from the fact that it's gripping me). Reminds me a lot of Foster Wallace. Why don't you guys discuss this more often?
>>7817579
Because Franzen's a low-rent DFW without any of the things that made DFW interesting. He'll never escape his dead buddy's shadow.
>>7817579
Probably because people resent Franzen's insistence on returning to Victorian-style storytelling; his rejection and mockery of postmodernist aesthetics. I'm with you though, OP, I recently tore through it with great pleasure and rapidity. Franzen's sentences don't try to do too much and are enjoyable to read (this is not a bad thing: they are also very carefully written--this style is not accidental or easy to master). Franzen's dichotomy of "difficult fiction" vs fun fiction and his preference for the latter, as alluded to before, is the main reason I think why /lit/ doesn't like him. We here like to think that we like "difficult" books. But if you want to read an interesting response to Franzen's "Mr. Difficult" essay, Ben Marcus has good essay that makes the case for "difficult" books.
Anyways, I agree with you OP. I'm starting to think that Franzen was a much more mature writer than his show-offy and angsty pal dfw (who I also love btw).
>>7817595
Any chance of you being able to locate the Ben Marcus essay? Harper's won't let me read it without a subscription.
Why does /lit/ hate him so much?
overrated talentless virgin
>>7831856
like /lit/ in general
>>7831849
On the contrary, i've heard lots of people here praise him. And i do think he is one of the best current writers.
Hey /lit/, are there any good romance novels about a woman with an animal/beast lover?
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>>7829424
Its not good. Gave this to a friend as a joke. She said it was written like shit.
Bravo Wilde, well meme'd
I have a sincere question
(Though I am tickled pink you posted this - this is very funny)
On what grounds do you call this a meme?
>>7827491
sincerity is a meme and has become ironic again
once you're deep enough into the rabbit hole sincerity ceases to exist and there's only manually assigned values of pseudo-conviction left
we live in dark times my friend
this post is 55% ironic and 45% sincere
>'Despite all he had been through, he would never be anything more than simply the old man and the sea.'
Hemmingway you hack
How much does smoking improve your writing? Is it worth it for the ladies and the "thoughtful writer" image that you might get from it?
Please don't. Take it from an ex.idiot who went that rout of trying to make an image of that cool artsy guy.
You will get addicted to it faster than you know
You will spend thousands on cigarettes
It will be a pain in the ass to quit
Most aren't able to ever quit
You will destroy your body with that bullshit
Nothing external is worth risking your health for
Please take this from somebody who was a smoker for 2 years starting when i was 19 and naive.
Or just do it you will do whatever you want to anyways. Look at this pic doesn't he look cool?
I wish i had your clean lungs OP :(
Don't become one of us
You can if you want to. Smoking kills the same amount of people every year as being fat. I'll stop smoking when they put pictures of dead fat kids on KFC buckets.
It won't help your writing abilities though.
What the fuck is this unreadable bullshit? You tricked me into reading some dude babble incoherently, as if this was some really deep shit.
>>7831647
>were
>>7831647
no one claimed that it was "really deep shit".
Although it still is a really good piece of literature which normie high school scum like you will be unable to appreciate.
>>7831661
yeah well people like the book and the book comes off as pretentious. No one would sit down and write about what's going on inside their head unless they're trying to be deep. Yeah, the guy himself said that he's not trying to impress you, but what he's saying is fucking incoherent. I got to chapter 3 after reading 2 extremely frustrating paragraph, and one meme worthy sentence that had like 2 semicolons, and I'm just wondering what I'm even supposed to "get"? Yeah, it's a mind fuck, I couldn't sleep last night I spent so much time trying to make a single lick of sense out of chapter 2, it wired me and I only slept for 4 hours. So yeah I'm fucking mad.
