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What's some other rare /lit/ material? Stuff you can only find online, not yet officially published, or obscure in some other way.
Is that supposed to be rare?
>>7717582
It isn't now, but it was unreadable and sought-after for decades, and when it became available it was a big deal.
>>7717582
>Stuff you can only find online, not yet officially published
Has a book ever destroyed you /lit/?
first time i read On The Road i really wanted a hug
>>7713974
Yes, OP. Your pic is and always will be related.
I've posted this before but when I finished the last volume from In Search of Lost Time, I searched for the next book for about thirty minutes. When I realized there was no more I had a quiet psychotic breakdown with much tears and I didn't leave the house for like a week
What are some good Zen poets like Basho?
>>7717798
>>7717804
Useless trolls like that bitch don't represent /lit/. Anyone with half a brain already realizes literature is a global culture.
I recommend Hakuin to complement Basho.
Masaoka Shiki, Santoka Taneda, Ikkyu, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, Hakuin, Ryokan, and be sure to read the Zen Koans and the Tao Te Ching.
>>7717790
Ikkyu is great, both his life and work.
What did /lit/ think of this? I'm thinking about reading it but I'd like a few opinions before committing to it.
Just read it, douche
>>7718777
I'm not completely sold on the ability of a female author to properly do male main characters (the same goes for males writing female characters), so I haven't bothered with it.
I've heard it called 'misery porn'. There's apparently one character who keeps running afoul of pedophiles wherever he goes.
It's a shoujo manga in novel form.
Help me /lit/
How the fuck do I git gud at reading?
Takes me like an hour to get through ten pages, and it feels like a slog the entire time.
>>7718361
Honestly just keep doing it, a lot. You will get the hang of it.
>>7718361
Start by quitting /lit/, should increase reading rate at least 3x
>>7718379
I will. How many hours a day do you think makes sense per day?
It's brazilian /lit/erature thread time, meu negos.
As usual, let's set some starting questions:
>Is Raduam Nassar (Um Copo de Cólera, Lavoura Arcaica) our greatest contemporary writer?
>What's Machadão's best work and why is it Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas?
>Rank you 5 favourite brazilian writers
Also, general brazilian /lit/ discussion.
aeHOOOOOOOOOO
>>7718073
Not Brazilian but interested.
Opinions on Rubem Fonseca?
>>7718073
> >Is Raduam Nassar (Um Copo de Cólera, Lavoura Arcaica) our greatest contemporary writer?
Despite great critical acclaim, Nassar stopped writing in 1984, claiming he had lost interest in literature and wanted to work with agriculture instead. As a landowner, Nassar dedicated himself to commercial farming until 2011, when he donated the entire farm to the Federal University of São Carlos, on the condition that it should become a new campus. He has also donated much of his real...
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What is the literary equivalent of these t-shirts?
Pynchon
Camus
>>7717879
Anything in particular?
(1/2)
This is how 5000 words got me into anti-psychotics and had my bedroom turned upside-down by dad:
>be me
>15
>autist in creative writing class
>everyone else is a normie writing about aliens and romance with unrealistic billionaires who never work
>be into this beautiful smart snarky redhead who wears red glasses
>spend half the class staring at her in love
>people notice this but don't say anything
>she is obviously uncomfortable
>i do it anyway
>one day teachers tell us to write 19th century realism-like chronicles
>autism and love intensify
>write an in-detail brutal chronicle about a prostitute in London being beaten, kidnapped, raped, murdered and sold to a local university
>describe the prostitute exactly like redhead qt in class
>even describe the mannerisms, the red glasses and the body marks
>one week after teacher comes with texts
>doesn't deliver mine. say she will talk to me after class
>"omg im a genius"
(2/2)
>goes to her office and principal is there with school psychologist
>they have a lengthy conversation about women's rights and security
>no idea what is going on
>my mother comes and starts crying
>she was also informed of the text
>she convinces them I'm depressed after her divorce so I won't get sent to "special" school
>dad...
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Why did you think that writing auch a test would get you laid? I mean, you could have written something less morbid, no?
>In high school
>Not a faggot school like OP's
>By far the edgiest nigga in school
>School is publishing some magazine with writing from a bunch of kids
>Write a short story about a guy detaching from all of his acquaintances and killing himself with helium
>Gets published because I was p gud at writing back then
>mfw teachers are obligated to tell...
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« 10 weeks Challenge »
>>7716051
That's mere nine pages per day, few enough that the number is spelled out.
>>7716051
>Not a man holding a bisected head together
0/10
Umberto Eco has shuffled off this mortal coil.
RIP in pieces
>>7718701
RIP in peace
Invisible Cities was awesome
;-;
>The book has so much more umph and detail
>But the movie doesn't star an emo protagonist
Which one, /lit/terers?
>umph
dumb frogposter
>>7718539
>SJW's turning my books into their own POC diversity loving movies
REEEEEEE
>>7718550
I hate frogposting, I just like that reaction image.
Go ahead, amigos.
Thoughts on Isabel Allende? I'm about to read The House of the Spirits.
Can't believe he's passed away already. R.I.P to one of the greatest writers of his generation.
>>7718371
Stop the memes, please
>>7718371
Jesus, he needs to get some Crest White Strips.
>>7718540
Teeth aren't supposed to be white.
Has anyone ever read this? The excerpts I've come across are really intriguing and I like what I've seen.
>>7718269
yes i am planning on reading it when i am not in school and have time. if you don't want to commit right away to such a long text, a lot of her other work is similar and well worth reading.
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Haven't read that book, anyone care to give me a synopsis? I've read some of her poems they're nic3
Is anybody here a fan of Mark Z. Danielewski? If so, what do you think of his very ambitious project The Familiar?
Apparently it's going to beup toa 27 volume series, but if interest wanes he might end it early. It's projected the final volume will be released 13-15 years from now. It's supposed to emulate the feel of binge-watching a television serial. Also, reports are that he's already finished writing ~the first half of the series and it just needs to be printed by the printer.Also: what does /lit/ think of House of Leaves (and his other books)?
liked house of leaves despite gimmickry.
this 27 volume shit upsets me vastly. how many trees is that going to take up? most of the pages are 3/4ths empty anyways. god damn him.
God had better strike him down soon
is there any more to the concept besides it just being incredibly long?
At 25$ a book there is no fucking way I'm buying all of them but house of leaves is goat
