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Are there any readers on /lit/ who work in IT? Cyberpunk seems to be a perfect fit for me. More specifically necromancer and the sprawl trilogy. Seems to be a nice mix of tech jargon coupled with fantasy. Anyone care to elaborate?
I just bought Necromancer. Starting it tomorrow after the last 25 pages of Gravity's Rainbow.
>>7810729
>necromancer
Yeah I meant neuromancer. Silly phone autocorrected it.
>>7810737
Same...I didn't even realize.
Any books like Colm Toibin's Brooklyn? I saw the movie and would very much like to read the book but practically all the copies in the UC system are checked out and due next year
this movie was so inoffensive I actually liked it
>>7810693
The Go-between by L.P. Hartley
It's got very similar themes and it was also turned into a great film in 1971.
Plus, Colm Toibin wrote the Introduction to the NYRB edition.
>>7811006
pic rel looks like he is plying Who am I
"So...read any good books lately?"
>man being held hostage by books i've read lately.jpg
>>7810405
jej
What's your point, OP?
Serious question, why does /lit/ have such pleb taste? Reading /lit/ is like ease dropping on a high school sophomore book club. The most discussed authors and books here are all mainstream entry-level trash.
Every other board prides themselves on having obscure, esoteric, often bordering on contrarian taste. Ask /tv/ for a list of their favourite films and you'll get a list akin to:
Goodbye Dragon Inn
Hard to be a God
Moe no Suzaku
Tussenstand
Je, tu, il, Elle
Il deserto rosso
The Spirit of the Beehive
A Woman Under the Influence
Vivre sa Vie
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
LA_VIE_A_L_ENVERS
Scener ur ett äktenskap
麦秋
Shadow of a doubt
Viridiana
Mouchette
Höstsonaten
Aguirre Wrath Of God
大红灯笼高高挂
Лeтят жypaвли
Ask /mu/, /a/ or literally any other board for some recs and you're bound to get a similarly esoteric, non entry-level list.
Ask your average red/lit/tor for their favourite books and you'll get an unironic list of books by entry-level meme authors that wouldn't be out of place on a community college undergrads bookshelf. Most likely something like:
DFW
Bolano
Bukowski
Pynchon
Danielewski
Zizek
Joyce
Nabakov
Dostoevsky
Kafka
Gaddis
So /lit/, I ask you, why is your taste so pleb? Is it because this entire board a meme, in which no one actually reads? Are you all just pseuds and poseurs that treat 'reading' as an accessory to your appearance? Or maybe reading has become too large of a barrier to entry these days and I'm just expecting to much out of /lit/s obviously young ADD-riddled demographic
a lot of them are pseuds with fomo
>>7810383
Shoo retard, shoo
>>7810390
Answer my question first.
Is John Green the greatest writer of our time?
>>7810311
That's not John Green, that's John Grey.
He really is #dftba
What are some good stories about broken women?
Ideally dark and set in the last 100 years up till today.
you dont only read about male characters do you /lit?
>>7810301
Sylvia Plath, the Bell Jar.
Now get out.
>>7810301
>i wish that slut would take her selfie and move the fuck out of the way so I can grab that monograph on beethoven and maybe the one on chuck berry
Post fashion of writers!
I`ll start with Hemingway!
>>7810277
Nigga had calves /fit/ would be jealous of.
>>7810277
Why do you hate this man again?
>>7810480
He reminds me of this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXZWB_dNsw
Are any of your friends into reading? what do they like?
>>7810225
>friends
What friends?
>tfw no qt bookcase-assemby gf who studied Analytics and lives with you in your cozy San Francisco apartment
>>7810281
>gf who studied Analytics and lives with you in your cozy San Francisco apartment
i would probably off myself if i had to suffer that existence
Am I the only one who hates Infinite Jest but loves most of his short stories and essays?
>>7810171
I enjoyed Broom of the System a lot more than IJ or Oblivion (the only two other things of his I've read in their entirety).
I wouldn't say that I "hate" IJ but his short stories and essays are better.
>>7810171
i don't hate infinite jest, but i do like his non-fiction better.
i tend to like non-fiction in general more than novels.
Why is this considered such an important novel of the surrealist movement?
It is neither particularly good nor particularly surreal. It was actually pretty confusing to read such a conventional book coming from the very guy who wrote the surrealist manifesto that so vehemently rejected realism.
Thoughts?
>>7810164
I've never really been impressed with anything Breton did. Sure, he headed the surrealist movement, but he was far from being the best member. In fact, the guy was a bit of an asshole.
>>7810164
Surrealism was all about pseuds pretending to be deep. It was the original muumuuhouse.
>>7810188
>mfw this is true
Yeah, and Breton always was the least interesting of them. A fringe politician.
Is Stephen Pearl's 2006 translation of Oblomov worthwhile or should I go for an early translation?
>>7810190
Thank You
>>7810157
>translation
>>7810474
I don't speak Russian
Where does /lit think of Heaney?
What*
>>7810105
Yet another example of Ireland's dominance in the world of literature
damn this thread should be exploding, didn't realise how pleb /lit is
Greatest Latin American author thread?
Jorge Borges (must be mentioned). I also really enjoy Jose Donoso, much more than Bolano or Marquez. I dislike Neruda.
>>7810067
Forgot to mention Cortazar. He's good, too.
>>7810067
Neruda is hit or miss. I personally dislike him. Cortazar and Asturias are up there.
What is Donoso's best book?
>mfw I haven't read any of the novels I tell people are my favorites
>mfw they sit collecting dust on my expensive bookshelf while I shitpost daily on the chan
>>7810056
welcome to the club
>>7810056
You'll come around. Shitposting gets boring after you start reading more. Eventually you become a sincere poster, contributing to discussions instead of shitposting
we all do. I spend so much time here that I probably know about the books than the people who have actually read them
What was his problem?
>>7810043
French-Algerian former communist feels disconnect from mainstream European values?
Life must be Absurd.
>>7810051
Oh fuck.
Was this book a thinly veneered critique of multiculturalism in (then) modern Europe?
>>7810249
no, meursault is just autistic
