Hey guys, I just wanted to share some more of my writing. It's a different one this time.
>>8365585
It's horrendous.
Get off the internet, you weirdo
>>8365590
It's a different one though, you should read it.
>>8365592
Why is it shit? You left out the interesting part of your criticism.
Can you think of an enjoyable/interesting novel about the drudgery of empty wage slavery/late-capitalist life?
>INB4 Fight Club
Already read it.
If anyone posts Don DeLillo I'll fucken murder you.
>>8365547
The Pale King by MemesterFW
You can't go wrong with Tao Lin.
>>8365547
"White Noise"
Now fucking find me, bro.
>subjective meaning
>implying this is a coherent idea
Saving this pepe
>>8365424
Do you have a folder with 'Pepe the /r9k/ frogman of virginity'?
>>8365423
How would the meaning of anything be 'objective'?
First he got roasted by The Guardian, now this!?
Will Franzen ever recover?
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/which-egomaniac-said-it-donald-trump-or-novelist-jonathan-franzen/
>>8365055
Daily reminder that Donald 'The Lord Emperor' Trump WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
He will even make anime real, and we'll have 2D women replace degenerate roastwhore 3D modern women.
Praise Lord KEK for the meme magic that will carry him to presidency.
Deus
fucking
Vult
Never even heard of that guy
>>8365068
Wow, now that you put it that way, I'm officially a #redpill now!
What are the best thrillers /lit/?
>>8365014
mio diarrhea im erlichkeit
>>8365014
my diary desu
I liked Red Dragon.
My money is on some re-enactment of Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands) during the Olympic Opening Ceremony, or maybe the fictional version The War at the End of the World by Vargas Llosa
Você também é do Brasil?
Meu livro favorito é O Favela de merda manchada de Ruas, por Hue de Huehue. Ele narra o conto de um atleta olímpico, que abre o seu chuveiro para encontrar um brasileiro, agachando-se nele. O brasileiro está cagando em todos os lugares, porque os brasileiros são macacos repugnantes. Os gritos do Olimpo: Não obtenha seu merda suja em mim, macaco brasileiro! O brasileiro simplesmente ri, e diz. Você já está no Brasil. Você está inalando a merda de partículas de um bilhão de meus primos macacos agora. Não há como escapar. Agora eu vou te estuprar e roubar o seu telefone!
Eu interpreto isso como uma parábola existencial; ela nos ensina, que o Brasil é subumano, cheio de macacos, e cheira a merda.
>>8364891
omg is that fucking nietzsche?!?!??
>>8364916
I'm sorry, I don't know Portuguese. I was just thinking right now is a good opportunity for Brazil to put its lit tradition on display, and something like da Cunha is a good fit for how it ties in with Brazilian history.
Aside from da Cunha, I've unfortunately only read Lispector. Whom would you suggest I read next? Obrigado
Will I get faster at doing so by simply reading more?
>>8364712
Yes.
>I will never be a Neanderthal
Crying.
>>8364712
By reading?
Give me a book that has characters who are heavily involved in Church. I'm not looking for anything particularly pro- or anti-religion or packed with fedora faggotry, I just find Church politics interesting.
Hunchback of Notre Dame
I like the book because of its story and historical overtones, but if you're a bonafide /lit/ faggot you'll get a kick out of applying psychoanalysis and master-slave dialectic to Frollo
>>8364611
GK Chesterton's Father Brown stories
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
Which Dune books are worth reading? I've read the 1965 one so far
>>8364602
None, such a horrible star wars ripoff.
>>8364613
>waste time reading genre fiction
so i gather it's not worth reading further
What does /lit/ think of Sci Fi magazines like Analog or Asimov's? I personally like them a lot. You find cool stuff in there.
>>8364590
>You will never be of age in the 1950s
>Cheaply printed sci fi everywhere
>On any given week, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, etc etc
Can modern sci fi anthologies even compare?
>>8364590
When I was a kid, the library in our town gave away a bunch of old books and magazines for free. My father got a bunch of old sci-fi magazines. Those were my favourite reads for a long time. Other than the well-known authors mentioned by >>8365021 , they often featured obscure but good writers.
I remember a quite unsettling short story by an italian writer which was about an adult man who imagined a world under his blanket. I wouldnt be suprised if I found out that it havent been published anywhere else, but it was one of the most effective horror stories I've ever read. (sorry, I cant remember neither the title nor the writers name, and I dont have the magazines with me now)
>>8365233
Given the state of the paper they were published on, 99% of pulps from the 30s-60s must be in very poor shape. Disintegrating into yellow dust. It is conceivable that some work will be lost to time unless there are fastidious digital archivers at work.
Speaking of which, it seems that comprehensive digital scans of things like Weird Tales are either closely guarded or not existing.
Why doesn't he just fuck Devi? She's clearly the best girl.
He's almost as dumb as she is.
>>8364524
>Devi
>dumb
We gonna fight.
Is book 3 ever coming out bros? Last I checked rothfuss was too busy with "charities" and other dumb shit. GET TO WORK YOU FAT MANCHILD
Why isn't School of Life's literature series /lit/s top youtube series?
Every time I see lit complain about superficial personalities Projecting their on opinions on classic literature (I'm looking at you, John) I can't help but think, "yeah but that a fitting guy seems nice"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SuHkY2wAQA
Dumbed-down garbage for the masses of dilettantes.
Because most of us don't give a shit about youtube period.
>>8364480
what's up with his non-lit videos though, they sound like the opinion of an edgy 14 year old
ITT: Authors who post on /lit/
>>8364418
Bloom definitely does not post on /lit/.
But I know one who does, he's a good friend of mine..
>>8364418
why was his book so shit
We should make a /lit/ image for Bloom's birthday and send it to him to let him know he is lovedmaybe do it before his birthday because he's on his last legs
How did such a tiny country, occupied by foreigners for most of its history, become the paragon of western literature?
>have 1 (one) skilled writer over a period of 700 years
>WE DA BES
Briton here, loving every laugh
>>8364405
You only think so because they write in English and you're a monoglot pleb.
>>8364407
>1 (one)
Beckett, O'Brien, the list may or may not go on.
Ayn Rand was a humanist.
>>8364391
Yes, but not a humansist
>>8364400
Not enough time has yet passed for the anonymous collective to deem your post "underrated," but I expect when such a period does elapse it will indeed be called "underrated"
>>8364400
overrated post