You're telling me Pynchon has been imitating his dead Cornell buddy for the past 50 years?
Is it any good?
why don't you read it and find out, retard
I've been waiting to see if a thread about this ever came up. I started it but had already read too much Pynchon Kerouac and Burroughs for it to seem fresh. I never finished it. Maybe if I was still in college it would've enticed me more.
I'm sure Farina was a swell guy however.
I fuckin love it, I'm also a fan of The Farinas music though, so I come to it with a bias
Not really Pynchonian except in the overlap of 60's counterculture and the sense of humor that goes with that. It's definetely a young person's book, but I don't think you'd have to be young to enjoy it. Young once, maybe.
I'm inclined to compare it to Emmett Grogan's Ringlevio: fictionalized counterculture autobiography where the main character is the coolest cat around and does drugs and courts girlies and speaks t-r-u-t-h ETC yet where Ringolevio was near insufferable for its selfseriousness and selfrighteousness Been Down So Long laughs behind the back of its own faux-cool Quixote and pokes holes in his lifestyle.
(of course the comparison is very silly as Farina was an entertainer and Grogan an activist and Been Down is a novel while Ringolevio makes claims of memoir...)
general rec thread.
also asking for something like Barthes' Mythologies
>>8805157
Plimpton, Paper Lion
Bouton, Ball Four
Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit
Lewis, Moneyball
>>8805157
if you don't hate Simmons, the Book of Basketball is pretty good
>that may be a big if
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html
Who would be his favourite philosopher, /lit/? What books was he reading?
>>8805135
bump xD
Plato
Can literature evoke as much emotions as music can?
I mean, I could live without literature but not without music. Does that make me a pleb?
>>8805110
indeed it does my man
>>8805110
Du bist ein pleb
>>8805110
>Can literature evoke as much emotions as music can?
Even more so
>I mean, I could live without literature but not without music. Does that make me a pleb?
I couldn't imagine a life without either of them.
Writer Thomas Pynchon born
May 8, 1937
might be the greatest living author.
McElroy, born 1930
Didion, born 1934
Delillo, born 1936
Pinecone, born 1937
What did they feed people in the 1930s to produce so manygreatwriters?
>>8805123
unadulterated kerosene and lead bullets.
>>8805123
during the depression, mostly onion soup.
Does speed-reading work? How fast do you read?
>>8805067
depends on the book, sir.
>>8805067
Speed reading is literally skimming. It's used just to find the most imporant info in a text. A lot of speed reading guides I've read tell you to outright skip entire passages if they look "unimportant" enough. This is surely useful if you're reading the news or a technical manual, but you're an idiot if you do this with literature and pretend you've fully understood the book.
who is this semon demon?
How do you name your characters? Do you look for a "meaningful" name or just put a name on them that sounds good enough? What's the favourite name that you came up with?
I mostly take my names from Football Manager games
Lawful Route: Mitya
Neutral Route: Vanya
Chaotic Route: Alyosha
I let my Japanese internet friend read Eastern-European names out loud on skype and then write them down as she pronounces them phonetically.
>If you only read mediocre stuff, you stop thinking very well. And if as a nation we stop thinking well, someday we will yet cease to be a democracy.
Are we already seeing stirrings of that? Do you agree with his claim?
People don't read as much good literature as they used to, even a few decades back.
>>8804926
Yes. People have a very limited vocabulary which reduces their empathy causing them to be more withdrawn and antisocial. Democracy requires strong social bonds to defend against insurgent threats.
Our negligence of the education of the youth has led to the current, and still forming, crisis in democracy. To combat this we must demilitarize our public school system which is daily becoming more of a factory for future workers in a high tech military industrial complex. The youth are taught not how to think but how to obey the needs of the state.
>>8804926
>America has gone CRAZY right? Fuck Drumpf lol
>theyre uneducated and dont read enough books, THATS why they disagree with me!
Stop pretending to be intellectual, Untermensch.
>>8804959
how did the Greeks manage to develop their own strain of Athenian democracy when a lot of them were peasants and mostly illiterate?
You guys have any favorite books by any British authors? I'm thinking about reading Emma by Jane Austen.
I really liked Frankenstein.
>>8804877
The Egoist by Meredith. Saki is fun too.
read the sticky
>TFW you are anarchist, nihilist and individualist.
>But you don't pass every single history, philosophy and literature exam because is all about spooks.
You still have too many spooks inside of you if you can't pass these exams
>>8804828
>you are anarchist, nihilist and individualist
>modern education system
pick one
>>8804852
>Pick one
I choose dead
>"Yo babe, this is the guy in your philosophy seminar who said that the climate movement was resembling a cult?! Dude, what's cultist about caring about humanity? You can make snide analogies about anything!"
>puddle forms directly below the woman
he's gay
>Leo runs for office when
>>8804781
He's literally on the nail. Why would anyone make that claimunless zizek said it at some point he gets a free pass
>>8804742
A fucking faggot
>ITT we name things
Did you know that if you cut the Mona Lisa right down the middle, and you switch the right half with the left half, you go to jail?
>>8804748
stfu and learn art
What do you think of Embers?
>>8804682
man beckett looked so fucking cool. look at that buzzard looking motherfucker. the wrinkles perfectly accentuate his skeletal architecture, his piercing eyes refusing to illuminate only blanch, and instead close in on a point that seems to hold some source of disdain for the mechanical mind strapped to them, what a cool looking bastard. And that fucking hair, man. that hair.
>>8804697
Ur fucking gay man
>>8804937
i guess so, i don't have any sexual fascination with the guy, he just seems so cool looking. like a hawk. replace that nose with a beak and you have a ripe old buzzard, regal and dripping with disease on his lips, waiting for some new young thing to die, so he can fill his lean belly.
ITT: Words that you love.
I'll start: Antediluvian
>>8804646
Σοφία
>>8804646
sesquipedalian
vega in the lyre very green
for people who will say this is Tao, yes this is me Tao so hello.
i just think people write him off too quickly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAOPhf9GkQ
he's one of the only interesting writers alive. you can't shun him
boring and bad
>>8804634
>psilocybin
Wassup freak bitches?
>>8804634
is that laci green?