/lit/
If you were 25 and your parents encouraged you to quit the full-time job you've worked for three years which is burning you out, would you do so and spend a couple of months living with them to focus on your writing?
>>8688426
No. Living with parents after you're 18 is bad.
>>8688426
better have something to show for it or a justification if you ever plan on returning to the previous lifestyle.
a few months to find yourself wouldnt go over to well in most interviews if questioned about the gap in your work history
>>8688426
Depends on what your parents are like.
In all my time here I've never seen a Saunders thread. What's /lit/'s opinion of him?
I've been reading a lot of his stuff lately. It all feels thematically similar, but I haven't gotten sick of that theme yet. The prose is simple but fucking precise, in terms of capturing voice and a lower-class angst. He seems like a less long-winded, less pretentious DFW.DFW and Tommy P also left him quotes, which is cool I guess
Offloading for Mrs Schwartz or whatever it's called is great. I liked his essay Christmas 1984. I think his writing is a little retarded at times ("Oh what youth! Sweaty youth! Turntable youth!") but he's good.
>>8688385
>Offloading for Mrs Schwartz
I get more goosebumps from that ending than just about any other short storyother than Good Old Neon's ending...
Such a good payoff.
>>8688394
Doesn't he offload all his own memories or something? Can't remember why he does it.
Which is the better edition? I kind of like left cover, but it also costs more
Edition on the left is known to have pretty egregious printing errors, with whole clauses being occasionally omitted.
>>8688261
fuck, not OP, but I have the left one.
>>8688266
This is like considered the litmus test. Check if your edition has this issue.
What is the Twin Peaks of books?
Probably the literal Twin Peaks book Mark Frost wrote
>>8688189
nigga read The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Shit's actually good.
>>8688270
Doubt it.
Who is the king/queen of the short story form?
Pic related- I think Carver does clipped-down masculine prose better than Hemingway. His stories are relentlessly mundane in subject matter. Despite this, they're almost mythical in power. Do yourself a favour if you haven't read him- Cathedral is a good place to start.
What do you guys think?
>>8688156
>Cathedral
shock off
>>8688156
Lorrie Moore
>>8688168
Don't like this one? Most of his collections are superb- Short Cuts, Will You Please be Quiet, Please? Read 'em!
Hey /lit/, what would be the best stack of books to bring to the register at a bookstore to convince the cashier that I am a fucked up psychopath?
>>8688126
/thread
All ten Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books by Louise Rennison:
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas
Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants
Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
...Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
Startled by His Furry Shorts
Love is a Many Trousered Thing
Stop in the Name of Pants!
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?
Start by saying you have no children, but find the series profound. Then make sure you cheerfully explain the British slang involved in the meaning of each title, in a serious, professorial voice. When you define "snogging," "nunga-nungas," "nuddy-pants," "furry shorts" and "basoomas," make sure you stare meaningfully at her. Good luck.
>>8688120
If you've actually read this book you would need serious mental help
Fellow suicidal folk, I'm looking for books that help me come to terms with suicide and preferably encourage me to commit suicide.
Even under influence of alcohol, and after a good month of continuous meditation I still have this tiny bit in myself pushing me to take on the full catastrophe of life and not kill myself, I would like to kill this tiny bit.
Pls help.
DMT by Rick Strassman
my diary
>>8688053
Anything by Emil Cioran
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.”
What does /lit/ think about rezendeevil and his minecraft saga?
I can't belive all the book related trash Minecraft spawned.
I can understand strategy guides and such but story focused books seem like the last thing you would expect from a game with no characters.
And this trash gets translated even to obscure little languages.
And it's not like these books are cheap either.
Sometimes they cost more than a cheaper edition of a classic book.
>>8688079
It's because only autists read.
>>8688114
You know that is just not true.
I read.
The girl who sits next to me reads.
The old lady on the bus reads.
Just because you are an autist it doesn't mean everyone who likes reading is.
I need books about nothing, about nothingness, about the idea of zero.
Try Infinite Jest, most of it is precisely what you are asking for.
zero is not nothing, it's the potential of becoming something, nothing is inexpressible.
BEE- less than zero
Which do you choose? Hardcover or paperback? Mass market paperback and E-book readers aren't invited to this thread.
I prefer epub.
Paperback is cheaper and molds to the hand well. So, paperback.
>>8687749
Epub=I want to read the book
Library book HC or SC=I want to read the book but cant find it to pirate
Buy SC=I want to read the book but it is not carried in my Library Network
Buy HC= I go to Church or Library book sale and buy classics I have not read in stately folio editions for my home library.
New Joyce?
>"Born in 1991, Oisín has been writing since he was 9. At 19 he dropped out of college for a year, to be a writer. “I wrote full time, and worked nights. Then I went back to complete my course.” These days he writes when he can; but it’s tough when he’s working both as a language teacher and a barman. “Every winter I write full time, from nine to five, for two or three months.” First published in The Stinging Fly at 18; another story was published there recently. He has also had a podcast in the Museum of Modern Art, and a story was included in New Planet Cabaret. Oisín has enough material for three books of short stories. “Writing is everything I am,” he says."
So he's 25 and has had 2 short stories published. Setting the bar low for a new Joyce...
>>8687724
No he's 25 and has had one prize-winning novella published and has just had his debut collection of short stories, written when he was 20, published to much acclaim.
>>8687742
go to bed Oisin
how do i transform from a dilettante with a surface level interest in literature to a true neckbeard
do i invest in a kindle
thanks
Read the books from the top 100 chart.
Kindles are pretty good since they have built in dictionaries and I use mine every day.
>>8687380
True neckbeards don't read much. They either subscribe to edgy ideologies or read mainstream works and cling to their own edgy interpretations that justify their awful lifestyle and mentality.
They get into redpill or incel, form pol-like opinions and use literature as a way to explain their hatred and socially incompatible views.
If I'd have to put litnerds in a box, I'd label it as unironical-hipster-normies. Bonus points if you pick up smoking and drink a lot of alcohol and coffee.
>>8687427
Should I wear glasses and smoke and drink black coffee to live the literary lifestyle?
I usually read in the comfort of my own apartment, but I've been thinking of reading in some obscure cafe. Thoughts?
>lol i killed an arab
>the sun was too hot
What the fuck was Merseult's problem?
Are we gonna have this thread every day?
He didn't give a fuck about anything, why wouldn't he shoot a smelly sandnigger stalker?
>>8687388
Because black lives matter.
>>8687395
>Arabs
>Black
Reeeetc. fuck off, Negro revisionist.
Been meaning to read Paradise Lost for a while now, is there an edition generally preferred?
Longman Annotated tbhwy famalam
Shortwoman Unannotated tbhwy famalam.
I have the penguin version, which is fine and has a pretty cool cover (which is the most important thing lets face it)
How many pages did you read today, /lit/?
>>8687076
I read and corrected a 75 page bibliography
I don't think that counts
>>8687076
a little over a hundred, which is unusually high but I'm trying to make a habit of it