What did you think of this film on DFW?he would've hated it
I liked it
Kind of shit. The way they portrayed DFW as an aww shucks softly spoken guy who is too smart for his own mortal body was extremely inaccurate.
>>9682559
It's enjoyable as a movie but as an accurate portrayal into DFW and his life it's not so accurate. Nonetheless, it's a well put together film.
Wasn't she the pioneer of attention whoring?
nope
attention whoring precedes the dawn of humanity
>>9682470
Never got that vibe aside from the fit she threw with the random dude over in Europe. Besides she goes on in the epilogue to point out how we've gone too far with Prozac, and people need to get over it to a degree.
>>9682492
I don't know about that. We'll never reach the sheer level of the 50s.
Hey /lit/, just received one of my assignments which asks me to compare one pre-2000 text and one post-2000 text. I dunno shit about anything post-2000 so I was wondering what you'd recommend.
"Text" as in any literary work written after Y2K?
Andy Weir's The Martian is a good post-2000 novel that comes to mind, drawing a blank otherwise (at the shitter at work rn)
>>9682365
Well they have to be of the same type I guess. So if it's a poetry collection from pre-2000 I would also have to choose a poetry text from post-2000
>>9682389
stuff you can compare, gotcha
what pre-2k text did you have in mind?
Is iambic pentameter a good English-language substitute for epic meter? Was Milton right to use it in Paradise Lost?
Yes.
>>9682305
Why?
>>9683679
It's very natural for the language
Post your favorite passage from a literary work
>that passage in notes from underground where the narrator spends 2 pages blowing the prostitute the fuck out
for what? who are you?
why the fuck would i waste my time doing it for a bunch of tranny fucks who masturbate to hentai
>>9682261
literally came here to say this
i'm not much of a reader but i'm thinking it might be a better hobby than watching tv all the time. these are some titles i've been meaning to read for a while, any that especially stand out? any really not worthwhile?
KJV
cheever's stories
chekhov's stories
carver's stories
dfw - IJ
gaddis - recognitions
pynchon - *bibliography
tolstoy - AK
calvino - winter's night a traveler
bely - petersburg
proust
knausgaard - my struggle
williams - stoner
murakami - *bibliography
just pick up a book and read nigger geez
>>9682092
i need someone to play god and give me an authoritative answer so i don't have to think for myself
Cut out Murakami. Read the rest in chronological order
So, to those who have read it...
>Is it worth it?
>Does it live up to the hype?
>Is it the greatest book ever?
>If it is, why?
yes
almost
no
>>9682088
am I a fucking moron because I can't for the life of me understand the prose Joyce writes in?
>>9682088
>>Is it worth it?
absolutely
>>Does it live up to the hype?
yes
>>Is it the greatest book ever?
no
>>If it is, why?
Do encrypt it or hide it under your bed?
I leave it on the floor
>>9682032
b-b-b-b-but...
>>9682028
I've got a nice durable, leather cover that can fit a composition notebook. Normally, it locks with a little hole+strap that becomes closed when you stick a pen through it, but I use a little lock+key to keep it locked.Seems like there's little market for custom locked journals unfortunately.
What are your favorite titles?
>>9681972
the poop that took a pee
>>9681972
caca mama lama in a drama
Collected Poems
Best nouvelles
La Invención de Morel - Adolfo Bioy Casares
Chronicle of a death foretold - Gabriel García Márquez
Could you guys recommend some books about short horror stories involving Demons, Hell, Angel or God?
>>9681917
I remember reading a book in high school called something like "23 Minutes in Hell." It was about a guy who died and went to hell (obviously). Pretty freaky.
Ted Chiang's Hell is the Absence of God.
Most horrific story about what would happen if theology could be empirically verified
>>9681917
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Henry Newman's poem The Dream of Gerontius is about a man who dies and undergoes the judgment. I gave this to my sister to read. You found the description of the soul being separated from the body very disturbing, and upsetting even, and is still angry that I asked her to read it, lo these several years.
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/verses/gerontius.html
I have no rhythm whatsoever
When I read, I can't pick up on the stresses
Can /lit/ suggest any videos or writings that will help me?
>>9681881
Do you have asspergers?
>>9681881
I thought that stress was just a poetry thing? Does rhythm actually matter in prose too?
Use alliteration, internal rhyme, and assonance/consonance instead
Also, play an instrumental beat & try to match a random paragraph of words to the beat.
Hi /lit/,
I just finished my residency in pediatric surgery. I'm pretty well versed on the science behind death and have experienced quite a bit of it now. What books would you suggest for somebody wanting to learn more about the less clinical and sterile side of death? It's been a peculiar journey and I'm not sure I can mentally cope with this being my career without finding new perspectives or ideas on death.
I don't come here often so I apologize if this is an out of place thread or a common topic.
Brothers Karamazov would be great IMO. Otherwise, maybe Atul Gawande has some stuff,however ; I'm not sure how he is viewed by physicians.
>>9681877
There have been some very interesting non-fiction books written by doctors about their medical practice - including life and death issues - that I've seen reviewed in the past five years or so. I haven't read these books, but they're out there. Actually, the sense I guess is that there may be something of a mini-renaissance of this genre, or sub-genre of books.
You could do worse than read Chekov, who was a practicing physician. E.g., this:
>Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales, edited by Jack Coulehan.
You can't really go wrong with Chekov. A truly great writer with the soul of a poet, and a doctor's non-sentimental clarity of vision.
Sherwin Nuland's How We Die, The Wisdom of the Body, and others.
John Donne's prose, Jeremy Taylor's as well.
>ran out of page swipes on my Kindle
>too poor to spend $5 on the page swipes I need to finish the book
>have to walk to the nearest Kindle Center to fill up on page swipes
E-readers are the worst meme
wtf are you talking about
>kindle double xp weekend
>buy war & peace
>swipe through the entire thing five times while watching netflix
>farm shitloads of xp to spend on new skins for my homepage
>>9681645
Did you see that kindle two-for-one deal coming up soon? Trying to decide if I should use my discounted swipes on a postmodern doorstopper or on a few light novels.
What book(s) could I read that make compelling arguments for the existence of a god, particularly the Christian god. I've heard thomas aquinas makes a compelling case.
>inb4 bible
>>9681589
>needing a compelling argument
ever hear of faith, pleb?
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
>>9681643
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Kierkegaard