So I am reading this book in about 2 weeks or so. I've only got the crappy Michael Glenny translation though. Is it good? Have you senpais read it?
is this any good of a read?
don't really pay much thought to the issues presented in the book, but the seperate stories of the descendants sounds interesting
>>9826007
Just watch the Levar Burton part of the TV series desu
Carlos Castenada is an amazingly powerful writer, these books are such a trip.
Can someone tell this asshole to stop fucking about and put out some books because he is literally going to be dead forever in less than 10 years?
>>9825919
>falling for the linear time meme
>>9825919
Ye said the boy and spat.
I definitely want to read more "sci fi" by him. I'd also like him to tackle the contemporary world a bit more so I know what he thinks of it. Other than that I could live with rereading his masterpieces till the end of my lifetime at least
>tfw started with the greeks
>tfw I legit cannot stop noticing how garbage almost all of today's 'stories' are
>tfw I realize how shitty my taste was in terms of what made a good story/good characters
>tfw I feel like I ate mcdonalds my whole life, thought it was amazing and then one day finally tried a 5 start restaurant
I can barely watch movies anymore because the stories are so unbelievably bad. Anyone else know this feel?
>>9825869
I don't want to experience this feel, should I toss the Illiad?
>>9825869
heh... welcome to the water..... youre a smart kid... see you 'round.....
>>9825869
This is why they're a good foundation, doggie.
Just finished The Great Gatsby and I loved it. What are some other essentials out of Fitzgerald's writings?
Also what should I read next?
Fahrenheit 451
The portrait of Dorian Gray
Slaughterhouse five
Brave new world
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Rum Diary
Steppenwolf
>>9825824
hai
>>9825824
i read tender is the night after finishing gatsby and i loved it. it explores a lot of the same themes with a much greater depth, and the prose is richer i think. his short stories are a blast too.
>>9826199
Will look Into it, cheers anon
Childhood is thinking Hamlet is the hero of the play
Adulthood is knowing Claudius was never in the wrong
childhood is having daddy do things to your bumhole every night
adulthood is putting sleeping pills in the wife's milk so she can't hear the screaming
What are some really good books on theatre criticism?
>>9825803
This book will blow your hair back imho
Japanese theatre fascinates me.
Write your longest sentence.
>>9825744
Cum inter deos fierent sacra coniugia, procreationes undique numerosae, liberique praeclues ac nepotum dulcium aetheria multitudo caelicolarum complexu ac foedere potirentur praesertimque potissimos conubialis bearet adiectio, idque deditum mundo loquax triviatim dissultaret humanitas poetaeque praecipue Oeagrium citharistam secuti caecutientisque Maeonii suaviloquam senectutem epica vulgo lyricaque pagina consonarent, nec aliquid dulcius Iovi inter aetherias voluptates una coniuge loquerentur, hisque accederet promptior fides, quae suadente haruspicio grandaevos pontifices in testimonium convocat, cum quid Iuppiter hominum votis trepida curarum ambage suspensis multa implacabilis hostia denegaret exorata eius matrona provenire, et quicquid ille ex prompta sententia Parcarum pugillo asservante dictaverit, delenitum suadae coniugis amplexibus iussuque removere - nec solum superum regem attestabantur uxorium, idque etiam Diti propositum idque Portuno certumque esse Gradivum Nerienis Nerinae coniugis amore torreri, Aesculapio quoque non dispar affectio, similique persuasione transduci Ope coniuga Cybeleque permulsa maestissimum seniorem deorum, Ianusque Argionam utraque miratur effigie, iam reginam tantum marito dependisse Memphiticam, ut obsita luctu perpetuo numquam eum contenta sit invenire.
>>9825744
'no'
I unironically think that my diary (desu) contains some very nice writing. However, my more structured pieces are typically awful. Any anons out there who have overcome this problem? I don't want to die without writing something cool for my friends and children to read.
>>9825383
to hell with them, burn your books, sit and rewrite your entire diary, boring monologue? burn it. send it to the fire. restrict from yourself any sense of pride. you think Joyce thought his trash masterpiece was any good? you think proust died satisfied? why else would that batty jew kafka, a visual broccoli frond demand his work be lost with his last breath, scattered back into the ,embrame of the lord? because it can always be better. the higher you climb the further you can see, and the further your grasp from the lowest clouds of heaven.
post some of it here and i'll tell you if you're deluding yourself or not
rearrange everything and claim it's postmodernism/cubism
Books where the only good thing about it is the title.
>Atlas Shrugged.
>The Fountainhead.
>>9825228
God she is so fucking ugly
>>9825235
well that's libertarianism for you
>>9825228
We, the Living is better than both of those books.
>philosophy
>literature
When will this meme end?
It's only not literature in the case of garbage ''''''''''''philosophers'''''''''''' like Hume, Freud and Nietzsche.
Are there any books that are like The Before Trilogy? I feel like there are no good literature about the evolution of people's understanding of each other, of the effects of age in a relationship, and so on.
that's because you're an illiterate brainlet. go back to movies you pathetic retard
the book of your mom's dick fag
In Search of Lost Time.
What is your favorite #1 Best Seller with an accompanying cinematic adaptation? Tell us, is the book *really* better than the film?
I'm torn on this one; I think its perfectly entertaining, and kind of clever, but a shallow mystery is all it really is. And Fincher is, well, kind of a top-knotch hack but that's just my opinon.
Most engrossing prose I have ever read.
leave the film version to me
>>9824991
gtfo jew
Who was the hero?