Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3483. page

atlas shrugged tee bee heitch

how is fahrenheit 451 in any way a libertarian future

Try the oryx & crake books.

>>8229462
Yep. You'll love it.

>>8229462
read it yourself and find out.

>>8229462
no

>>8229440
what is the probability you will get nothing from box two?

i'd probably take the $1000 desu, treat myself to something nice

Don't really get it. If the computer predicts what you will do with perfect accuracy, it is impossible to trick the computer.

>>8229445
1/2?

>>8229454
The computer/gypsy has only predicted everyone correctly thus far.

>>8229432
bump

>>8229481
lit is a slow board fagget, don't bump your shit after 10 minutes, also no one is going to answer you like an educated person outside the SFF contai-.. General thread >>8228836

>>8229536
m8 I'm sorry
I'm new here, from /x/
a much faster board

What nobody likes are morons who dislike authors simply because they are mentioned often on a website, and clearly lack the ability to discern talent and sensibilities considering the authors listed are so drastically disparate in style and content that only a true sniveling idiot would think making a thread like this was a good idea

>>8229323
What anime character is she supposed to b cosplaying???

>>8229338
i think shes from dangan ronpa or whatever

>>8229334
>>>/reddit/

>>8229321

>everyone around me fails to see value in being conscious
>fails to appreciate being alive
>beyond their comprehension

You're an idiot and the reason they blow you off is because you sound dumb/pretentious and they literally feel embarrassed.

>>8229348
/thread

>>8229321
Yea bro

Brebare your mind-anus for a lifetime of this. Maybe as you grow older and you've satisfied some of the deeper questions/motivations propelling you towards abstract thought you'll be able to enjoy general pleb conversations more

Denis Johnson's book "Jesus' Son."

>>8229327
>>8229331
Thank you both. Long car ride this afternoon. One of these should keep me occupied.

Fucking gold m80

>are you stoned?

>tries to be Hemingway

My Kinsman Major Molineux

>>8229286
Wasn't paper still relatively expensive back then? Were they really okay with just tearing and scrunching it up like that, and throwing it on the floor?

Seems a bit bourgeois honestly; either they have a disregard for valuable things, or they have so much money it doesn't matter to them. Are those really the kinds of people you'd want making your constitution?

>>8229333
>the people who made the US constitution were bourgeoisie largely looking out for their own interests
No way! Next you're going to tell me there were people living here when we got here.

considering that hes unspooked himself enough that the only picture of him is a desperate doodle. id say yeah. the problem is you at the moment of writing this post, are a contributor to his bespookment.

Life is a spook

I thought about that. I also thought about the Ego itself being a spook. Essentially you put yourself ahead of you in the hierarchy which leads to the weird situation of you not getting the best because you try to get the best of yourself.

This book should gave been forgotten imo

>>8229295
why?

>>8229311
It feels like a mediocre mix of the stranger and notes from underground

>>8229245
cool, another thread to hide

>>8229245
>Proof to me that
>/r9k/, my home board, is not more intellectual than you
>Proof

yes I will get on that momentarily OP, as soon as I sage this thread

dumb frogposter

is that coupon on everything? how did you get it?

>>8229238
I'd get the Faerie Queene and A Smuggler's Bible or Anatomy of Melancholy.

Immeasurable equation. Collection if Sun Ra

>>8229225
You've got four authors? Does that really count as a collection? I like your Lem, but still.

>>8229225

Problem with sci-fi now is it isn't overly complicated like it should be or it's just a reskinned action movie or novel.

We all got together and agreed that it is pretty gay.

David Foster Wallace, Tao Lin, the list goes on and on.

>>8229221
anything but Tao Lin, IJ is kind of unavoidable

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Road by Cormac MacCarthy
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Fat Years by Koonchung Chang
Half A Yellow Sun by Adichie Ngozi
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Life of Pi by Yann Martell
Fury by Salman Rushdie
The Constant Gardner by John Le Carre
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

>>8229439
Some good stuff mixed with absolute shit that won't be reme oh wait you're a tripfag, nevermind.