>bookmark thread
Only way i can read books is by snorting coke while reading. So every time I finish a page, I tear it out and roll it into a straw and do a line. Afterwards, I eat the page. What do you do?
i drink until the page is swimming
also coke is a terrible drug. that feeling it gives you is just a shitty version of mania
>>8866798
...terrible only if you don't have someone to talk to, fag.
Plato made me quit smoking
1984 unironically made me realize I had never even read a good book until then in my life
>>8866702
Epictetus fixed my social/agora phobia
Plath convinced me to pick a fig. It's a pretty bad fig, but at least I have a fig.
Is her worth purchasing? If so, what is Jack Kerouac's best book?
>>8866695
He*
>>8866695
He's dead, you can pirate his works.
I would read On The Road to see what the hype/meme is about and be a bit disappointed perhaps depending on how old you are, then read The Dharma Bums to see him try to sincerely seek some virtue and meaning and then read Big Sur which is his best and touching and serious work about when he is an established famous author but conflicted and addicted.
I'm not sure how well Big Sur would work if you didn't read the former two though.
For a flash of his gimmick spastic jazz writing I would perhaps try The Subterraneans or maybe Lonesome Traveler if you want short stories.
His spoken word stuff with Steve Allen on piano is also worth a listen, gives you a good sense of what he's trying to do with his prose.
>>8866695
I think On the Road, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums, and Big Sur are all you need to read to get Kerouac. if you dig these, feel free to go on from there.
What are some of his best books? What are his worst? And where would be a good place to start for someone who hasn't read anything by him?
For mainstream horror, he's not bad. He makes King seem almost family friendly. The Books of Blood are a pretty decent horror anthology. Imajica and Weaveworld are interesting in a weird magical way. The Hellbound Heart and Cabal have both been dramatized as Hell Raiser and Nightbreed respectively. The Thief of Always is decent too. He seems to be falling to the use of gimmicks in his old age though, check his earlier stuff.
>>8866693
I read The Great and Secret Show and it was the hackiest and most prentious crap Ive ever read. I dont think hes a good writer
>>8866950
he's not a great writer, by any means or yardstick, but his quest to grotesque when he was younger sure did hit a nerve in my middle and high school years. rereading his work as an adult and you notice there isn't much depth there. however, some of those Books of Blood shorts really do give me a chill. i also can't be bothered with his children's stuff. they're okay but not for me. i also heard rumor his last novel was partly ghost-written due to his ill health. hope he recovers soon.
"You look at that horse, Fyodor, and you think you know what he's thinking, while I really know what the horse is thinking: that's the difference between us."
I wish I could grown a beard. I have nothing to stroke while I ruminate. So I just scratch my pubes.
>>8866676
Why would God be so cruel as to give one man too much eyebrow and another not enough?
Write me the single most vomit inducing, plot, poem, speech, or whatever.
Show me your skills in marking your place in history as the most loathsome pasta ever to grace the eyes of arrogant men who thought they've can't be disturbed any more
I am the ghost of SpokkerJones! There's a FRONT page? Emily "Integral" Toxx Clause My dick shoots blood like lazer beams
I finally found love, a sexy girlfriend.
But then i woke up and it was all a dream!
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.
Fantasy
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/qkz73sR.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
>Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
>General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
>NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
Previous Thread: >>8859410
First for chartfags
Anyone else read any of his stories? I hear it's similar to Ted Chiang, about language and time.
>>8866678
Plenty.
There is Codex Alera - Elemental Spirits
Coldfire Trilogy - Whatever you can imagine
Abhorsen - Walking dead, ghouls, etc
The things about these worlds is that yes those things are common, it doesn't mean people don't run when they show up.
Does anyone know where I can read the first couple chapters of the Rogue One novelization? I've seen the film a couple times and I want to be sure if the novelization is worth time/money.
>>8866647
This isn't reddit
>>8866647
>also, NOT Catalyst. I read that earlier, I'm referring to the direct novelization.
What
wtf is this?
>>8866629
that's a turbuliwhirl
Voldemort
You know that alien in Serial Experiments Lain?
It's him.
What are some truly great female authors?
>>8866624
Woolf
Eliot
Szabo
McCullers
O'Connor
Morrison
Plath
Jansson
Didion
Austen
Smith
Although by no means high-lit the Bell Jar is a comfy read.
Would also recommend A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor.
>>8866624
Woolf, Eliot, Stein, Flan Flan, Carson, Austen, Bronte sisters, Sappho
Post the best and the worst books you had to read in high school.
>Best
Hamlet
1984
Heart of Darkness
>Worst
A Raisin in the Sun
The Fifth Child
Mrs Dalloway
>Best
Invisible Man
The Stranger
>Worst
Things Fall Apart
A Handmaid's Tale
>>8866610
>high school
Who the fuck cares what you read in public school, you fucking underaged redditor. This is how you know that the majority of the board is underaged. Fuck off.
>Best
The Odyssey
The Great Gatsby
Animal FarmCommon Sense, though most kids didn't even read it
>Worst
Persepolis
It was a fucking graphic novel. Ethan Frome and The Scarlet Letter were alright but never stood out to me
I could be spending time reading instead of talking to retards on /lit/
Really makes me think, time to leave 4chan
and yet you posted this...
really makes you think
>>8866516
Take the redpill. We have to talk about women and nonwhites
>>8866516
Easier said than done, friend.
Why do Russians have the best prose?
Starvation.
Their keen familiarity with human suffering. A bloody history marked by political instability. The stark contrast between a largely uneducated, rural population and the educated elite who had conformed to an imported, European culture. Living in a giant, frozen wasteland. A deeply ingrained religious tradition. Etc.
No one will ever explain how that little country in the nineteenth century produced FIVE writers we read today. It's astonishing.
Stop posting and read the Greeks.
Stop posting thumbnails so I can read your recommendations.
I just finished reading Antigone
>>8866529
Which translation?
Don't bother reading this. Its only redeeming quality gets old fast.
V and GR are MUCH better. Trust me.
>dont read this because of my opinion on it.
Yeah okay
Pynchon didn't write it. In 1980, following seven years of excruciating writer's block, Thomas Pynchon, the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow, thought he would never write again. He committed suicide on the streets of NY by slipping on a banana peel he'd placed in his own path.
>>8866525
I wrote it.