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is this guy worth reading? what's his best work?
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>>8296802
'Jesus' Son (short story collection)' looks interesting af. Thanks OP
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Where do I start with Barthelme?
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>>8296637
This, and if you REALLY liked it then read 40 stories, after that you don't need to bother with the rest.
Opinions? I think he's good at introducing kids to reading. I read like most goosebumps books when I was a kid
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>>8296466
I grew up with these instead of Harry Potter.
I regret nothing.
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they are formulaic in a way that probably isn't very good for children.
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I read so many of his books, but i can barely remember anything from them at all
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>tfw reading a book on the toilet at moes
>Tfw gay
>tfw it was moes Monday today where you can get a homewrecker for 5.99
>decide to go there because burritos always squirt out the best poo poo
>after slurping n burping on my orange fanta I decide to pretend im taking a poopy woopy
>See a mexican come in and they always have the best farts
>*BRRRTTT BRRRT the mexicans ass wailed after eating his homewrecker
>im just in the bathroom whiffin n sniffin his straight man poo
>he sits in the stall next to me and I can see his straight man diahreea running down his leg
>He ran out of toilet paper so he asks me for some
>My hands are already covered in my jizz from jerking in the stall next to him listening and sniffin his straight man poot n toot
>i hand him the toilet paper
Everyone check out the new Sum 41 record coming this October.
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go to bed james joyce
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How do I write a letter of adieu from a maid who loved her lord and who ran away one night?
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close your eyes and look up victorian/romantic authors
pick any 1 at random and read a book for once.
I found Bernard profoundly relatable in this novel. I'm not so much interested in the discussion of his character or his place or even his existence as a figurative or literal entity, but of his specific need to mould life into a series of narratives.
This almost feels a topic for /r9k/, but the novel showed me something about myself I had never realized before, and that is the fact of my own obsession with narrative and its importance in my life. Is this part of everyone? Is it only something in romantics?
I am always trying to contextualize my actions, emotions, events, etc. into a larger narrative, sometimes narratives, into dramatic structure. I think this is unhealthy, but I found it profoundly interesting that Woolf brought this to light.
Is it the curse of a lifelong reader? To get lost in the dramatic and narratological even in the realm of reality?
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>>8296366
He made me realise we're all made of people whom we love and share our lives with. You can't talk about yourself without talking about them. They are an integral part of your memory and thought.
>you will NEVER hang out with Virginia
Kill me, please.
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>>8296449
You could have saved her.
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What is the fitzcarraldo of literature? Or, the Klaus Kinski of liteature?
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I'm gonna guess and say some play but people don't often read plays and I'm just getting into them myself.
I say that as they take a lot of resources to put on and more then once a famous/succesful playwright failed magnificently and ended up putting on a bunch of touches to the play or it was more successful at a later date.
The only costs in traditional lit are publishing fees and publishers cover that unless an author is rich or uses the rest of his funds.
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>>8296161
It's obviously Captain Ahab.
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>>8296161
Jack London
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>According to Michael Jeck's DVD commentary, Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal, a device used in later films such as The Guns of Navarone, Sholay, the western remake The Magnificent Seven, and Pixar's animated film A Bug's Life.[12]
It seems to me the first literary appearance of this trope was in the Argonautica, but were the Gospels the first iteration of it that actually show the recruitment process of going from person to person and them dropping what they're doing like to see in movies like the String and pic related?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA
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>>8295994
the only interesting aspects of cinema for a real patrician are its formal elements
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Whoops, wrong board, meant for /his/
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Daily reminder that pic related will never be topped.
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>unironic spicposting
hilarious
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"ego"
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stop it anime
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>>8295937
Don't use best Touhou to shitpost. The only /lit/-related thing about her is that her story's probably the best written out of any of them.
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>>8295937
Right? Doesn't sufficiently translate "Der Einzige" IMO.
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Why didn't they juststay in the fallout shelter longer?
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>>8295910
Because it wasn't easily defendable, the entrance was conspicuous as fuck, and eventually some bandits would show up and murder them and eat them.
Has /lit/ read anything good lately? :>
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the Mains section of the dinner menu at Burt's Barnstormers is fantastic
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I finished Blood Meridian. It was good
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I finished The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq.
It was sad desu
I felt it was a little shallow overall, but it still managed to deliver on its themes.
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I don't get it.
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>>8295845
DUDE
DESPAIR
LMAO
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>>8295845
>Don't kill urself cause things definitely matter also u can't no god but he's there.
I haven't read it I'm just guessing.
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Seriously, can someone please explain what the point of this was?
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>all those years wasted without writing or reading
i have regrets
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>>8295820
>i have regrets
that's a very special and unique trait anon, i cannot relate
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>Gary Stu Potter for grownups
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no thats Blood Meridian
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And yet there's a thread about it every week or so
>>>/sffg/