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>genre fiction
>An obscure aside unrelated to the author's most well known work
No discernible talent or market.

>>8701186
nah nig, they always put those old pulp paperbacks that seem cool looking in those fancy little plastic slips and try to charge out the ass for them at HPB

here's a tip: you take it out of the sleeve with that overpriced sticker and they charge you half off the ancient cover price and you get it for like 20 cents

Nigger just look on Amazon or EBay!!!

To advance your career prospects to a level greater than burger flipping.

>>8701189
I'm in IT making $22/hr already.

>>8701201
Exactly. You couldn't have achieved that without using the methods in your pic, be it with a book or internet text.

It was pretty raw. Especially when he started describing the picture books soldiers had, of mutilated body parts and necklaces made of ears. Not as good as "My Ware Gone By" though. War journalists are some of the gutsiest people I can think of. They wade into the filth of war and just tell it like it is.

Non fiction isn't literature

>>8700793
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc.

>Tim Horton's Employee
>Journalist
>No

>>8700699
>current occupation
student
>end-game occupation
porn star by day, novelist by night
>yes/no are you happy with where you are now?
so-so

>>8700699
>Student, 4th-year/Senior (English and Political Science)
>Class-action attorney
>nervous, about the future, but yes

What the fuck do I do with myself /lit/? I'm graduating soon and don't know what I should do for a year before law school. From Canada

Start with CoL49, and then read Pynchon in order of when the books were published because he usually throws in nods to his previous novels. That one chart that says to read GR after everything else is dumb.

After this, if you ever want to read Pynchon again, then you can do the chronological grand conspiracy read-through, thus:
>Mason & Dixon
>Against the Day
>Gravity's Rainbow
>V.
>Crying of Lot 49
>Inherent Vice
>Vineland
>Bleeding Edge
>The Japanese Insurance Adjuster

>>8700667

Is there really an overarching plot through them all?

holy shit just shut up and read GR
its just a fucking book

>>8700578
really made me think

>>8700578
The holy ghost is a meme.

more like a glib facsimile

No.

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>>8700330

>>8700325
Bukowski when I was an edgy pseud.
Camus after I grew tired of being edgy.
Woolf/Dostoyevsky now that I'm alone and realizing I should have invested more time in learning how to love.

postmodernism is to modernity what being an uncultured drunkard and jerking off in public was to the enlightenment.

>>8700212
so the Diogenes of literature?

>>8700215
>Diogenes
Yes, but less refined.

Candor

An honest man sits
Alone beneath a tree,
And the whole world dares to listen.
A man whose words
Are bittersweet,
But the world does not dismiss him.
In fact, he feels,
With every sin
The world begins to miss him.

An honest man, here, once sat,
And told the world so much.
When on this tree he hung his hat,
The grass forgot his touch.

Crittleton

Quiet little families in short houses,
With large backyards and white picket fences
Stood side-by-side other short houses with equal amenities.
Sitting on streets, that crisscross, like Sunday crosswords;
Neighborhoods protect tight-knit communities
From undesirables

But those don’t exist in our town,
No not ours.
Men who drink their coffee and
Read their paper and
Kiss their wife and
Leave their home to go to their work.

women who raise the kids and
cook the food and
clean the home; and
love the Husband.

Tiny blue-eyed children who go to that school and
Play at that park and
Laugh at that joke and
Study that math and
Love that family.

Every little person,
In little old Crittleton,
Played Their Part, as they should,
and
Every Boy and every girl
Married each other, and
Life was good.

But that was not in our town;
No not ours.

Loud, broken-down families in shabby shacks
With shattered glass windows and tattered tarred rooftops:
Timidly hidden from all men and Women fearful from anger and nothing at all.
Littered with refuse the sidewalks they crack,
The drunkards are sheltered by nightfall.

men who crouch on knees and
snicker on wrinkled aluminum and
crawl on fractured bones and
sleep on beds of bullets.
Women who work all weekends and
Feed all mouths and
Fight all ghouls and
Toss and Turn all night,
Loathe their beds of bullets.

AND WHEN ALL THE SANGUINARY TRACTS ROT

children are children no longer than cattle,
children are animals that growl and that battle,
children are scholars forsaken by knowledge,
children are boogeymen, shrouded under beds of bullets.
And this was in our town:
You pray not yours

. . . . . . . . . . . .

day-up, and day-drop,
you ponder our death.
agog for the answer how
the middle of your city, the middle of mine,
is equally evil, and also, benign.

So travel to Crittleton for all of it’s green.
And stay out of Crittleton for all of it’s mean.

Though alleys shake and light posts tumble and fracture,
We don’t all see the darkness.

Nature Calls

Nights whimpered in silent fear of what might become of them.
War slithered in, with sinister intent, speaking in eager whispers
In the ears of looming shadows that wept dry tears for sunlight.

Murmurs of discontent sprinted throughout: your home; your clique; your self.
Inching further for anger, blindness swept beneath your skull and latched into you;
Your sins are not your own.
Luring you further with malicious speak shrouded by a veiled innocence:
Hysteria lit the path with shadowed light from an envious lantern.

Cheered on by coats of tainted wool, and assailed by coats of tainted challis
You become conflicted.
What now?

Leering from platted comfortability, shadows hiss at you to further on;
Indeed, you do. In fact, with many hesitations, and many trepidations,
But indeed, you do.

March

Splintered bones sizzle under a foreign star,
Trickles of sweat blister, embroider, and furrow your brow.
Misguiding you moreso than pockets with a pretense avowed.
Schoolgirls hand-in-hand, capped-‘n-gowned.
Outspoken words nested in fear choke on bravado…

Bravo, Bravo!
The term is done!

Wormwood parties in your pit,
Your feather withers at the sun,
Enthralled in fear and shadow’s shit,
Your blindness turns to deaf’d the young.

We had independent reading in AP Lit and I finished the book a couple weeks early, and by the time it was due and he assigned an essay, I could barely remember the plot (but to be fair it wasn't really a plot based book)

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>>8699990
Never really had this issue.
>>8699999
Nice, very nice.

>>8699999
Holy shit

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>>8699833

The joy of non-fiction.

The pleasure of reading about actual things that actually work and are actually used.

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>>8699833
James Gleick's The Information.
Really good introduction to information theory

>>8699833
Reddit, where the rest of you dim witted fetishists are

>>8699738
I've been working my way up to it, Deleuze is like end game philosophy

Really, OP? I don't what's it about, how did it help?

If you're mentally ill, it's ultimately matter over mind.

>>8699697
Schopenhauer is pretty much the GOAT stylist and Hegel is a disaster.

But there are also cool disasters like Nick Land.

>>8699704
This has to be the most pseud post I've seen all year

The ones you mentioned, pretty much, and Nietzsche (although WWR isn't always simple). If you insist on calling it a philosophical work, Aurelius' Meditations is probably the most accessible.

Least: Hegel + 60s-80s randos.

In case you're wondering what kind of book it is, it's basicallly psych.
I'm mostly confused as to where to talk about good "business" books, self-help books.
Any help?

>>8699646
NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming). Read Norbert Wiener and Alfred Korzybski. Study the Social Construction of Reality by Berger and Luckmann (as well as Vygotsky and Lacan), and then read Robert Anton Wilson.

>>8699646
maybe /adv/ or /biz/? I really don't know. I liked that book, but I felt like it had quite a bit of fluff.

>>8699728
NLP has some interesting techniques, but it also feels like most books just dump a bunch of tools in your lap and you have to sort them out. Which is fine I guess. But I'm not convinced that NLP is a coherent system (which Binder and what'shisname would probably say is the point or something)

OP, this is not really an answer to your question about a forum for discussing this kind of thing, but if you haven't, I would recommend checking out Michael J. Emery's products. Especially his reimprinting audio-- it employs a lot of Maltz's ideas. And NLP stuff too (and also I guess EFT stuff which I honestly think is shit, but I don't think it's harmful so whatever).

Also, come to think of it, you'd probably find good discussion of this on reddit (seriously)

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