So...Who's the youngest author you like?
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william gass
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>>9323004
dave eggers
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>>9323004
Paul B. Preciado (1970-), but he is not actually a novelist more like a cultural theorist.
For novels I will go for Jonathan Franzen (1959-) (I know, I know, I am trying to read more contemporaneous things now). I haven't read DFW yet.
Which is the writer in the pic of OP?
Also, >>9323102, do you have any personal recommendation by David Eggers? Can you explain why do you like it?
this threads interest me
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Alright what the fuck was the point of this. Watched the goddamn kino and thought "hmmm wtf was the point of this". SO I READ THE BOOK and now I'm thinking wtf was the point of this?! What the fuck did shasta want doc to help her with? Why didn't he help her? What was good with Nicky Wolfman? Alright he helped the snitch out. That's all that really happened. The only other pinecone I read was mason and dixon and that was amazing, the ending made me cry. But this? What the fuck was those garbage?
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I don't think you understand the concepts of inherent vice or entropy in relation to postmodernism
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>>9322804
Neat big words. Wanna give me a quick breakdown.
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>>9322811
None of those are big words or outside of what they teach at a basic high school level
Sounds like you're a massive brainlet, and for that I would be wasting my time explaining such.
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ITT your favourite books 2017-04-01 12:19:15 Post No.9322719
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Rate, discuss, share, recommend
I have read both Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion about five times, and they never get old. I like the first one a bit better, but don't belive the "Hyperion is the only good one" Meme.
The books combine good action and Sci-Fi with philosophy and poetry.
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Is /lit/ pure once again?
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started this today based on your recommendation. hope it's good.
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Most humanistic sci-fi I've ever readmaybe except "Solaris".
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Let's be clear: Tao Lin is not a good writer
But I think his writing and his moderate success are important in that they show a generational malaise.
Character is substituted with drugs.
Experience with social media.
Philosophy with meaningless chatter between ageing hipsters
The most profound thing about his work is that its characters express a consistent lack of profundity in their own lives and exchanges.
So, how can we fix things?
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You're a retard.
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long time no see tao
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"hey guys, totally not tao lin here, he sucks by the way, so anyways, doesnt tao lin totally capture the zeitgeist of the millennial generation and will be remembered forever, thoughts, comments, suggestions"
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Is this actually good? What is it about? What is it most similar to?
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>>9322660
You need to read it 3 times to understand it. It about a tennis school half way house and something else I can't remember.
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There needs to be a sticky for both this and Dune
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What's the style like?
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Send your work guys.
Round the drunkards go,
Buzzards not far behind;
Leaders lead, workers woe,
Blind leading the blind.
Insipid procession of mankind,
Thoughtless drones, burning coals;
Heartless hogwash, keep in mind-
The parasitic trolls.
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poetry is dead
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I was in my room
When a fly appeared
and I caught it
With my bare hands
It fell on down,
And buzz-ed around
As if it was
In a trance.
It buzzed round, and around
The wooden floor-ed sea
Its incessant buzzing,
Had got me to cussing,
I put it out of its misery.
'Twas sad as sad could be.
I thought of the albatross,
and the snake;
And the evil choices,
That men hath make.
It lay there dead,
And motionless on the floor,
There was nothing to be done
Anymore
Did I give him another chance?
Did I do a favor for him?
But who gave us that power,
are we their gods?
Just because of our frame?
(to be continued haven't thought further)
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Bumpus Maximus
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"People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to some mischief."
- Sir Peter Medawar
Infinite Jest BTFO. The entirety of fashionable modern literature BTFO. And the entirety of the trends that the progressive elites admire, e.g. Freudianism, BTFO.
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But a piece of writing that's perfectly ordinary to someone who's good at reading looks obscure do someone who's dumb or hasn't read much.
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>written obscurely
Did you actually read it, baka?
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>"muh value judgments on other people"
>dead british owl man
he even says "up to some mischief" unironically. How did this faggot live in the 20th century?
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What are some of the best books on the topic of unattainable love?
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DIARY
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>tfw hasn't read Joyce DFW Melville neither Pynchon in english
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>tfw hasn't read Dostoevsky, Kafka neither Hegel in their respective languages
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>tfw hasn't red bataille in braille
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>>9322345
Yes, because Dostoyevsky is famous for his beautiful prose
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Are there any books with monologues that portray the mind of an alpha male whose indifference attracts women?
It's been 6 weeks since I broke up with my ex of 2 years and everything seems to remind me of her. However, I recall the smooth prose of Camus and how that managed to make women seem trivial in my mind, and i'm just hoping someone could recommend me something similar
All I can think about is her and finding other women, I really need something to push my mind in the right direction /lit/ :c
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mdd~
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The wild boys by Burroughs
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>>9322271
Here's the truth
You're never going to forget her. You'll think of her EVERY SINGLE DAY as long as you live. Get used to it. You have to make room for her in your brain, so to speak. Let her live there and you might survive. If you try to throw her out forcefully, she WILL kill you.
It's going to take more time than you think, man. Good Luck. You can do nothing but wait it out. Shift the furniture in your brain a bit and put her in a corner and let her gather dust.
You're alone in this. B'bye. No book can help.
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Technology was the Biggest Mistake to ever Happen
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have you read any Ellul? I rec
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I'll check him out, thanks.
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yeah fuck making people's lives easier and safer
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>"Don't you want some cocoa or soup, Harry? Come away from the light of Heaven's easy life. We need such a valiant, beautiful warrior such as yourself here to live and to hack the serpents of evil in two. Hell, into twos; into threes and fours! Your life will be the very envy of Heaven and its slobbery inhabitants. No, Harry, you are meant to stride with us, the living, to course with us and our blood. You are meant to end when your share of that blood turns brown upon the rocks of glory!"
>"You and I shall drink tonight, Harry. We shall drink to life's confines; to life's pearly end, which is the nothingness of death! NOT the perpetual pansyness of Heaven!"
>Dumbledore is shaking with passion. He is beckoning Harry to enter into the sphere of manhood. Harry is all but wrapped in a buffalo skin, dancing and shaking a bow and arrow around a ceremonial fire. His rite of passage is here now. He is like a young Native American, preparing to answer the question of life. Dumbledore is all aquiver, awaiting Harry's answer.
>And Harry answers...
>"Yes."
What did he mean by this?
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I was under the impression that he put a hat on his head and it told him what to do.
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That prose isn't too bad, is it actually Rowlings?
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>>9322125
"Yo, Arry. Let's get hagrid and molest hermyonery with your invisible cloak"
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>Maiar bow to Bombdanoff
>In contact with Ainur
>Possesses Eru-like abilities
>Taxes Gondor with an iron but fair fist
>Commands tribes and armies throughout Middle-Earth
>Direct forebear of the ancient Elendil blood line
>Will bankroll the first human cities on Valinor (Bomber's Landing will be be the first city)
>Owns 99% of Uruk-hai breeding research facilities in Middle-Earth
>First human-Valar babies will in all likelihood be Bombdanoff babies
>said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence in Middle-Earth has only existed deep in Numenorian schools & Mordor
>Ancient Dwarven drinking songs tell of an eagle who will descend on Middle-Earth and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with them
>He owns Palantir observatories throughout Middle-Earth
>You likely have Bombdarings on you right now
>Bombdanoff is in regular communication with the creator Eru Illuvatar, forwarding the Ainulindale to his closest disciples. Who do you think set up the meeting between Isildur's heir & Gandalf (First meeting between the two) and arranged the wizard's first trip to the Shire in history only a few years earlier to the Baggins hole in Hobbiton?
>He learned fluent moonrunes in under a week
>Kingdoms and empires entrust their gold reserves with the Bomb. There's no gold in Minas Tirith, only the depths of the Old Forest
>He is about three ages old, from the space-time reference point of the base human currently accepted by our society
>In reality, he is a timeless being existing in all points of time and space from Ea to the end of Arda. We don't know his ultimate plan yet. We hope he's a benevolent being.
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Please let me worship at your altar
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Yeah, obviously bombadil lived with the valar on their first settlement on Almaren, and was left behind after Melkor destroyed Ormal and Illuin
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Uchiha Madara would beat him.
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>DFW A book will never again capture the unique essence of living in the late 20th century without becoming disingenuous
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>tfw will never go to a book signing for david foster wallace
>tfw all the authors left living today who do book signings are contemporary trash
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>implying DFW was not just more linguistically polished contemporary trash
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>>9322123
DFW is the last great living author
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In this thread write the sequel to different books.
Donald the muggle discovers the existence of wizards then leads a revolt against the managerial wizard class.
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Could Harry Potter defeat a bunch of guys armed with flamethrowers?
Are there wizard spells to ward off bullet and artillery? What happens if you nuke Hogwarts?
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Hogwarts probably has enough protective magic on it to ward off a nuke.
Didn't they mention in a book that a shotgun blast could kill a wizard as well as anything? Or was that Animorphs?
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Bernie the squib tried telling people the truth but the wizards stopped him