that matches the pure intelligence of Franz Fanon..i bet you can't... black excellence
>>8391853
my ASS desu
well? is there any >>8391860
I'd quit with the race baiting if I were you...
What's the worst piece of shit you ever read?
>>8391832
gravity's rainbow
>>8391832
Bloodmeme by Corncob "tortillas" YeCarthy.
Blake Butler's books make me physically ill. It would be like if there was a two hour movie based on the videotape sequence in the Ring.
Anyone into experimental literature like this and house of leaves?
Can anyone recommend anythjng to me from various authors and time periods that was land marking and definitive for a genre, demographic, time period or whatever else?
I'm looking for lists aside from reviewers online who read lots of experimental novels. I like when the cover compliments the contents of the novel as well, as it portrays the concept and idea behind it. Like s album record.
Can you lovely beautiful anons give me your most beautiful and gorgeous recommendations on here? I want something that's completely totally different and unique that's never really been done before, yet. Something that realllllly sticks out. <3
I couldn't get through the entirety of House of Leaves, but I'm pretty sure that was the point of the book.
Beckett's Molloy.
Innovation in a traditional fiction genre at its best. Maybe it has aged a little but it's absolutely fantastic. Especially if you like your experimentation mixed with black comedy.
I'm also looking for more of this kind...
>>8391831
McBride has said her primary influence is Joyce
Hey hey hey! Recomend me a dark comedy book, I'm talking gruesome shit combined with totally out of the place laugh out loud humor.
Also general discussion of dark comedy.
>>8391798
Catch 22 is what you're looking for friend
>>8391798
Based Slavs.
Confederacy of dunces.
Where can I find the Baccano! books? I've been looking everywhere and I can't find them.
>inb4 >>>/a/
They should be selling them now in English.
>>8391803
where?
>daddy, when will the dilettantes that make up the American literary establishment recognize that Charles Portis was our nation's finest 20th century novelist? Please don't tell me they're going to wait until he dies and then pretend like they were always huge fans.
>Calling me daddy when she's a teenager.
I would tackle this problem before answering her question.
Holy fuck I know this girl
>>8391784
Never, he used the word "nigger" in "dog of the south", and he will die alone and unloved, his bones strewn in various middens. I'm sorry, honey.
>>8391730
isn't it pretty much the consensus by the majority of literary scholars?
>>8391728
I agree that this was a great revenge story, but it was kind of backwards. I mean, Danglars was clearly the most at fault, yet he was only bankrupted, while Fernand was dishonored, abandoned by his family, and driven to suicide. And didn't Monte Cristo marry the girl he raised as a daughter?
Post books you'd like to see adapted to film and how you'd like them to be made
>>8391691
This is a pleb thing but I'd love that movie
>>8391691
There is already a movie adaptation of it. Never seen it though
>>8391691
Post the template son.
Someone type the first 5 lines of the bible if instead of lucifer getting banned from heaven, it was both God and Lucifer that got kicked out.
God and Lucifer were cast out of heaven together for being gay. When they got down to the mortal world, the sex they were having wasn't nearly as heavenly *smirks*. Beings in heaven can see and fuck in the 4th spatial dimension, so God rimming Satan's sweet, sweet cumhole wasn't nearly as satisfying. However, getting pegged by Lucifer's thorny cock was as devilish as ever. In the end, the swallowed one another's loads and gaped each other's assholes until they were so sweaty and tired they just couldn't fuck anymore.
>>8391711
What the reader needs to understand here, is that God and lucifer did not miss heaven. They were happy to be fucking. And that's a lesson we all can learn from.
>>8391718
When God and Lucifer awoke in the morning, their cocks smelled of cum and sweet smelling oils, used as lubricant. They climbed into the river with one another and began to have underwater ass sex. God bent Satan over the riverbank and pulled his arms back behind him. Helpless, the demon yelped in pain as God stretched his asshole with his holy member. With three final, heaving thrusts, God emptied his load into Satan's hole, leaving his anus gaping, and with semen leaking out and running away with the stream.
Was Homer a woman? That clothes washing scene seemed really detailed in the Odyssey.
>>8391535
no but hebrews was written by a woman. that's true facts.
>>8391544
Sauce?
>>8391544
And we know this how? I'm genuinely interested.
has anyone else here ever tried to create their own languages
>>8391519
yes, but not my own alphabet. my language used the english alphabet.
>>8391529
what is it like
>>8391519
Yes, with a autistic friend like me, we invented a Polish/Russian/French with accents on every goddamn letter. It was fun, we still say hello in that language.
Hi /lit/
Is shitposting considered a legitimate writing style now?
just cover up your shitposting in something that sounds intellectual
Ask Tao Lin.
>>8391503
It's too new of a medium. Give it 50 more years.
>be me
>want to read book
>ask /lit/ for some book ideas
>get a good idea
>go to a book website to buy book
>get excited cause it's a cool cover and something i really wanted to read.
>great price too!
>wait...wait..wait...wait 2 weeks...
>it's here, bueno.jpg
>have this funny feeling inside, something is wrong...
>get home, go into room, close door *lock*
>"oh boy oh boy"
>rip packaging off, slowly take book out
>FUCKING WRONG COVER
>email customer service
>"uhh hey, yeah i know it's just a cover but here is a screen shot of what i thought i was going to get, and it was one of the reasons i bought the book, can i get a refund or at least the one i wanted?"
>wait a day
>"hey anon, unfortunately our company doesn't communicate well with our factory where we sort the books, the photos you see online are just random stock photos, *in bold* we do not guarantee that the book you see online is the one you will get, if you wish to return we charge a $2 dollar re-stocking fee."
wtf /lit/ it's like going to a thrift book store, it's not for sure they are going to have the book you want, and online you can't get the book you want....i just want to read with a cool cover...
I cover my eyes whenI see this thread
>>8391485
I wish you had warned me ahead of time
what site?
Critique your poetry, critique my poetry
Does mine even make sense?
>>8391475
I like the 4th, 5th, and final stanzas, others need some work in imagery and rhymes. But I'm shit so what do I know?
>there is a tautology in blue down the occidental improbable
>and a carrefour by the cypress way
>i have seen the limits and grievances of Paradise
>unshuddering
>yet cringed before Ossian
>in light of those dire moors
>quan le monde
>and now the bitter dusk of reason
>i alone know the savage design
>of the wilted dream
>mild nocturne
>spare yer fearful ontologies
>spare yer tragic byzantine!
>wish not for a lover
>but by might of posture and pose
>you and i are the contemporary
>the kind arms by which melancholy guide
>in vitriol and of absinth spite
>we shall speak the beautiful language of our century
Wrote this when I was 17, cringey but I'm getting back into writing and I'm wondering if there's ANY merit to it at all
Real eyes realize real lies.
before i fall asleep
i think
what will i dream
will it be a meme
or a mystery
What is the best major for a person who wants to write lit in the future? English, Comparative Lit, Classics, Philosophy, Creative Writing..? Which one is most rigorous and will be most beneficial?
The important thing is to write, and read alot.
Authors have come from all walks of life. A major doesn't mean shit.
>>8391474
Well I know that's the most important thing. But if you had to narrow it down, which path in uni would be most beneficial? I don't want to be wasting time that could be spent improving my writing skills.
>>8391471
Not to be rude, but /adv/ is where advice threads are most appropriate, not here.