Name one good book
>>8875196
Why?
he ver y hungery caterpillar
Is world building a meme? Like does anyone genuinely enjoy having a story broken up by wikipedia articles of fictional people and places?
ASoIaF doesn't really do that though. The setting is gradually revealed through the experiences of the characters.
World building is nice when it's done in a subtle way that actually relates to the plot. If it's just pointless exposition, it really isn't necessary.
>>8875909
Necessary for what?
What is the name of that philosophy novel about a consciousness that was stuck inside of a man's head, forced to experience his life? It was recommended to me.
Johnny Got His Gun?
Anyway that picture is creeping me out OP. I had ECT for a bit and I imagine it lighting up all my nerves
>>8875193
Time's Arrow
Was it that one about the guy who had all the tertiary reactions and opinions he'd write on stick notes and map in his room like a beautiful mind keeping his computer set on /lit/ in hostage carefully making sure to circumvent every book laying on the floor so the redundancy of its information didn't seep into his aura and eventually shot himself because he realized the way everyone was behaving was always just the way he was months to avoid having learned being a hipster was an irrevocable disease to him
>tfw to intelligent to reject objectivism
wow this thread's been up for a while.
how are you op? are you doing alright? when did you come to /lit/?
>tfw grew out of objectivism
It's too not to, how the fuck do you retards keep messing that up?
What actually is "real" literature?
Why isn't YA considered "real" literature?Or anything you find bad?
You know it when you see it anon.
>>8875131
The fuck is YA??
>>8875142
Yaoi Anime
I got about 3 pages into this garbage before I deleted it. What absolute trash this "book" is. It's not even humorous in the slightest or remotely subtle with its "commentary".
https://mega.nz/#!Ygk1nDCb!fwmLO6Tf5VCddu2mELR-azTXojLvqxKAuZUroITL9Cc
Download at your own peril if you wish. I doubt you'd want to waste hard drive space on this dog shit, though.
>>8875118
>look how edgy I am
>please give me attention
Here's your >>(you)
>>8875118
Shut up libcuck faggot
>>8875118
thx for the link senpai
You're John Everyman (pic related), you're a family man! You've got two kids, a boy and a girl, and the wife of your dreams Samantha.
You're sitting alone at home watching tv. It's nighttime, a light rain but nothing too distracting--something in fact you find pleasantly distracting to the boring nothing on whatever channel you're on.
Samantha is out picking up the kids, John Jr from wrestling and Sam from her ballet recital.
Suddenly, a break from the newscaster's drolling, you hear a knock on the door.
Improv from here.
you open the door, it's channing tatum with a bandana on, before you can get a word in he tells you that his name is jeff. You know his name isn't jeff, why is he trying to pretend?
improv from here
>>8875057
He wips his enermous cock out along with a gun.
"Slobber in my knobber mr John Everyman or else I'll cook your cock on a big heavy pan"
With your thick, muscle bound John Everyman legs, you kick Jeff so hard in his dick that blood shoots in every direction, all over your door and carpet.
"Ain't no schlong, for this John," You crack a smile and say.
Are there truly people on /lit/ who aren't spending their Yuletide season snuggled into a leather chair, reading the literary equivalent of stocking'd feet toasting by a fireplace sipping whiskey (Scotch, Amerilards)?
Even when there's combat in this book, it feels thrilling in a way similar to when my anime-esque girlfriend enters the room to kiss me on the forehead.
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
I got to the point in this book where there was no point in putting it down as everything was starting to wrap up, but then things in my life got a little weird and I haven't returned to finish it yet.
Pretty great for the most part and I'd say arguably better than V-2(Gravity's Rainbow, kek); however some of the stuff in M&D's later chapters, particularly about the periphery crew, is a bit lost on me
>>8874998
I'd love an audiobook version of m&d for long car rides through slow-falling snow.
So my grandpa has been reading this to remind him of his youth or whatever the fuck and I read a few pages when he went to sleep.
HOLY SHIT THIS IS HOT GARBAGE LMAO
watch it, anon. that's The Boss you're talking about.
>>8874920
BORN IN THE USA BORN IN THE USE
USA OHHHHHH THUNDER ROAD
YEE HAW I LOVE AMERICA BUT I VOTE DUMBOCRAT
MORE
LIKE
THIS
Holy shit, Genet is GOAT. I've never seen him talked about on here though.
More like this please, and also general Jean Genet appreciation thread
>>8874873
bumping for interest
It's pretty impressing stuff compared to the 19th century and modernist novels you begin reading before jumping into something off the grid like Lady of the Flowers. I was impressed by Genet's writing, but it wasn't a lasting impression. You'll get over it.
Gide>Giono>Genet for french meme writers that begin with G
What does /lit/ think of Delmore Schwartz?
hew?
>>8874815
I liked In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and a few of his poems. The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me was breddy gud
Shockingly inconsistent, but I believe (and hope) that he will be remembered in coming centuries as the most inconsistent of the great poets of the English language. Just recently discovered him myself, and am quite impressed. "At a Solemn Musick" and "In the Green Morning, Now, Once More," as well as "In Dreams Begins Responsibility" are alone enough to make him important.
Do you read any contemporary literature magazines?
The New Criterion is pretty redpilled senpai.
>>8874765
The Paris Review.
>>8874791
I like TPR for its interviews, but I find most of the short stories lacking. Back issues are pretty cool, however. I will admit that they're definitely a cut above the rest.
>>8874765
New Criterion is pretty great.
Glimmer Train is also pretty good.
Write the saddest sentence you can in less than 10 words.
He tears dripped onto the bloody baby shoes
>>8874777
>his cum dripped onto the bloody baby shoes.
fixed.
>>8874763
for shoes, baby sale. never born.
Bohr, Heisenberg, Fermi, Oppenheimer, and their ilk were almost all well read and philosophically literate enough that they rarely said dumb shit about metaphysics ethics or epistemology, and in fact often said smart and insightful shit regarding those topics.
Einstein was a legitimately influential figure in the philosophy of science, had some original ideas, important philosophers thought talking to him was extremely productive (for example, Reichenbach and Putnam), and he even had a role in de-popularizing positivism.
Schrödinger wrote "What is life?", which included both biology and philosophy, two subjects he had no special training, and it was actually pretty damn good. When was the last time a physicist wrote something like this and it wasn't 100% garbage?
>>8874720
Steven Weinberg, perhaps one of the most highly regarded and influential physicists of the twentieth century, is a philosopher. A lot of philosophers still do science and are thus, in a sense, scientists. I had a phil prof who did work in black hole theory
>>8874742
That's true, James Ladyman could also be called a physicist and he's a pretty hot topic in phil os sci right now. But I'm thinking specifically of physicists that have little or no formal training in philosophy.
>>8874720
Noam Chomsky has successful science career as well as success in writing political and philosophical works.
/lit/ recomend me some books for people who don't read
Gravity's rainbow and Ulysses.
A photography book.
I don't want to