What the fuck happened in this book, /lit/?
>>8430138
pigs n shit
>>8430138
A man and his dog fights pigmen, cosmic evil, and experiences the death of earth by waiting for thousands of years in a super fast timelapse and encounters the afterlife and what it means to see the end of the universe.
>>8430138
manbearpig?
we didn't listen
Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland - which is more lit?
>>8430128
norn iron is ginger serbia tier
which is more literature? uhh
>>8430146
you new here?
Just finished Ulysses 10/10!!!! Wow, what a book.
But I have one question.
Was Molly's affair with Blazes Boylan the first time she actually cheated on Leopold? I know he lists off all her suitors he has assumed she's slept with in the second to last chapter, but was that just him being paranoid?
do you think marilyn actually read ulysses or did someone just put it in her hands for a picture
>>8430112
I like to think an amateur photographer just happened upon her as she was finishing that masterpiece in a park. Yes I said yes I do yes.
>>8430112
It was obviously set up by a photographer, but considering she's (presumably)holding a place with her pinky while checking the endnotes in the back she's probably reading it.
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!
Spicy fucking meme tbqhf
>>8430388
book of disquiet should be required reading for 4chan users
>>8430565
Find me a PDF.
Amazon is your friend, anon
>>8430086
I should have specified a new copy at a reasonable price.
>>8430075
It depends on what you consider a "reasonable" price. I've seen new copies at the union square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan, though that's probably one of the biggest ones and has loads of shit most of them wouldn't.
Secondhand copies are almost always going to be cheaper.
Peter Handke
Knausgaard and Tomas Espedal have had some pretty sweet words to say about him.
Anyone read something of his work? The only thing I know, is that he went to Slobodan Milosevics funeral.
Ask Ranicki
>>8430077
>Ranicki
Müss man deutsch können?
Nicht gut.
I have read few books by him and I want to read more. I have a friend who has read almost everything Handke have written and supposedly it's all that good. A lot of his stories are sort of road trip, but most importantly the road trips of the mind. He's fuckin impressive stylist and his prose is delight to read, and sometimes it's somehow dense: a lot of allusions to classical literature (for example Short Letter, Long Farewell made me fall in love with Gottfried Keller); other things, like Children story is almost Proustian in a sense... Ah, I really love his books.
And it's, imo, important to divide him as a writer and as a person with some political views. I'm not offended by what he said and done but a lot of people is. And honestly I don't understand that. He won't get the Nobel prize because of that etc.
Funny fact, he translated all of works of Emmanuele Bove from French. And, of course, necessary things are his collaborations with Wenders.
Anyway, books that I've read and are superb:
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Short Letter, Long Farewell
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (this one is really crushing, about suicide of his mother)
A Moment of True Feeling
Children's Story
Der Chinese des Schmerzes / Across
On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House
Don Juan - His Own Version
Der große Fall
I want to read, and I hopefully will do so
Die morawische Nacht
Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
Once Again for Thucydides
Repetition
The Left-Handed Woman
and would like to try his poetry, havent ready any of that...
Where do you guys go to get your work critiqued?
I just started writing, so I imagine I'm making some very amateurish mistakes. Are there any forums, sites, or safe places where amateurs critique each other's work in a fair manner?
I'd post here, but then you'd get ten posts calling you a faggot who will never amount to anything and is doomed to have a wife who cheats on you because she has to pay half the rent anyway, and one actual helpful post.
How's your work coming along?
Take a class in English and make friends with the professor. Make sure the professor isn't fat or a woman.
Those among friends and family known for avid reading and impartiality.
Handing it over to even a highly qualified stranger will usually result in it getting buried under something they feel is actually important or worthwhile.
Basically, give it to someone who has a reason to give a fuck (this might be hard; who cares about shit that isn't money any more?) and respects you enough not to lie to spare your feelings.
I send my stuff to a high school lit teacher and a friend of mine who reads even more than I do. They usually have goodles feedback and I think my stories are better for it.
Is there any point in majoring in English?
as long as your not paying for it go for it. if you have to take out loans or spend you're own money, dont do it
>>8429966
Just take a minor in it while majoring in somethig that will get you money. It's the true patrician way
>>8430083
true patricians have trust funds and don't need to worry about making money
Please write at least ~500 characters so we can avoid spam
I'll start
Pole-Germanic desert, 2030. Temperatures rose with the climbing sun, baking the glistening sand. Near the oasis, particles of dust swirled in the air, announcing a coming storm. The small village of adobe style shacks began to hunker down for the day, night's work completed. Flags were lowered, windows and doors barred shut. Summer winds were always harsh this far north, especially with the recession of the Baltic sea plains more every year. Storms brought in salt and sand mixtures that would bury parts of town to the north.
bump :^)
>>8431009
not 500 characters
Jewëli'a fastened the tunic around her androgynous waist and readied in her hand the starpiercer that she held.* She looked very extreme with her dashing hair and boots. The goblin army would stand no match for her in pitched battle. And a battle it would be when the hoards approached from the moor.
The sky was clear and there were no clouds as Jewëli'a emerged from a hatch on the roof of her abode dwelling. Nothing was on the horizon, yet. She closed the door behind her and smacked her lips in satisfaction as she thought, "the day is still young, and I am a warrior unmatched by any".
*A starpiercer is a weapon used by the neo-Atlantian confederation that consists of a long double-edged steel blade attached to a handle and resembles a sword. See endnote 1 for further detail.
who /prose/ here?
He was old and he sat on a bench seat
As the cocky walkers slouched by
Grandad they called him and sniggered
As he murmured and looked to the sky
But they had not been where he had been
They had not seen what he had seen
He knew the whine of a doomed 109
As it spiralled down to the sea
He knew the fear as the fire got near
And the canopy wouldn’t come free
But it did and he lived
Though the scars told their tale of the pain and the fear for death was so near for all who went up in a plane
He was younger then than the yobs who had mocked
He was younger than most who never came back
Now he sits in a park the last of the Few Waiting to join the others that flew
Grandad they called him and sniggered
As he murmured and looked to the sky
Do widzenia were the words that nobody heard It’s the Polish for a final goodbye
Beat that faggots, post your shit.
Cmon and post your prose you lovely bastards
No writers on /lit/? What a surprise.
Not prose
is it worth the ~900 pages?
>>8429919
Yes
>>8429919
read this instead
same length
>>8429919
Read my Diary instead
Same length
Who are the best short story writers?
>inb4 baby shoes
>>8429887
Gogol and O'Connor
Borges
hello fellow literature enthusiasts!
I am an aspiring writer and have begun on my first book. Its a Fantasy novel.
As of now I have the first 5 chapters published. But because it's a work in progress and my first work ever I would love to get some feedback on it by the real fans of literature.
So I knew I had to come to /lit/
Any criticism or pointers are much appreciated, I just want to know if I'm any good.
I have the book published on Booksie, here's the link;
booksie.com/473009-to-whom-it-may-concern
Thanks in advance!
Have you ever posted on /lit/ before?
I'm skeptical of enthusiastic and over-familiar newfags demanding attention.
>>8429886
I dont demand attention. My post is for those interested in helping and only if they feel like it. If you dont want to help then that is completely fine by me.
do I get something?
>fall for the o'connor memes
>read her short stories
>every single one does the "title of the book in the text" meme
>"A good man is hard to find," Red Sammy said.
>Occasionally he saw a sign that warned: "Drive carefully. The life you save may be your own."
>She had said, "A long illness," but she had added, whispering, with a very I-already-know-but-I-won't-tell look, "it will bring you a stroke of good fortune!"
>Then the front door opened and out stepped the man, the Displaced Person.
Flan Flan you fucking HACK. like holy shit are you even trying with that last one?
shithole
He's not joking
who gives a cat's whiskers
can you recommend me books that are set in an atmosphere of heat wave
>>8429831
Ballard- The Burning World
Dune
Crime and Punishment
Maybe Martin Amis' Money- it definitely feels hot and noisy and oppressive
Possibly City on Fire, but that's a random guess based on the title and the vague recollection that there was a famous New York heat wave in the 70s
Grapes of Wrath
>>8429831
sun made me do it - meursault