/lit/ friendly jobs
What kind of job should i look for so I can read all day and still pay rent?
>>8183665
Some type of deskjob where you have to do very little. I remember some guy on here said he worked the hotel check-in at some small place. Most of the time he was just sitting there reading.
NEET
>>8183674
nah im EET im just lookin for a new job senpai need some ideas
Can't believe he died today, and so young
Good night, sweet prince
>>8183649
Me too, he must have been really old!
It's Pynchon that died btw. Nice joke, OP.
>Herman Wouk Is Still Alive
btw did anybody read him?
You guys obviously all read. How would you interpret this quote in laymen's terms?
we're all gonna turn into petite bourgeoise, middlebrow scum
>>8183533
It reads, "I'm a self-important pretentious fuck"
Can anyone recommend some good sci-fi horror/dark books to read?
>>8183491
stanislaw lem, solaris
This was the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
Hey /lit/, have you guys played To the Moon? Just played it a few days back.
If yes, then do you know any books that triggers this much emotion as To the Moon does?
I found it a little boring and overwrought. Hated both of the main characters. But I guess it's alright for a game.
>>8183295
>implying /v/ knows any books
So I tried reading Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow, but I didn't like them and couldn't even make it halfway through either.
Is there any hope for me?
>is there any hope
No, I'm afraid not. Does your name happen to start with "m" and end with "m"?
>>8183250
Did you start with the Greeks?
>>8183250
Non-meme answer:
Read accessible works
>expecting another ho-hum memoir, soldier bitching about trenches and officers being terrible
>CALL OF DUTY: THE WESTERN FRONT
Reading this soon, might read it after the Aenied tbqh
>>8182750
We're fresh out of tqbh, sorry man.
>>8182750
One Soldier's War by Arkaday Babcheko is more modern but is a good read.
Highlights to the best of my memory:
>Dedovshchina: the honored Russian conscript tradition of organized beatings, abuse and sexual assault
>Russian commanders as incompetent as the British in WWI
>Author gets tasked with making new bullet proof vests by cutting up used (ie, they had been shot through) ones and sewing them together
>Author would break into abandoned Chechen houses and just hang out pretending he was back at home
>"There aren't any pits in Khankala because there are plenty of journalists here, and they consider it an unacceptable form of torture to keep disobedient soldiers in pits."
Opinions on this book?
Samurai are among the most impressive people who have ever lift. This is a wonderful look into their unique and strong mindset.
I remember reading somewhere that samurais used to rub poop into their open wounds
>>8181974
that's retarded, I've read books where cavemen smear poop on their lances when they go to war so the other cavemen get infected and die.
>Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
What did he mean by this?
>>8181841
>What did he mean by this?
what do you mean by this?
>>8181872
I don't understand what you mean
>>8181841
after this therefore because of this
What is a good site to build a following for my /lit/erary thoughts? I'm talking short stories and serialised novels.
I tried tumblr but it's too image based
Medium?
>>8181657
What?
>>8181664
medium.com
>tfw started philosophy with postmodernists
>now can't distract myself from them
Is my thinking fucked up for eternity?
>>8181593
>postmodernist """""philosophy"""""
>>8181593
Yes, unfortunately. This is how continental philosophy works, it's like a horoscope with vague sweeping statements that can be applied equally to the correct revolutionary way to apply makeup or the hermeneutic implications of the Banach-Tarsky paradox on Modern Monetary Theory In Bernie Sanders' Writings
It's like one of those brain infecting memetic attacks from SCP only real.
>>8181642
I want to make Continential Philosophy a real SCP now. Keter class of course
How do you cope with the sadness that comes with approaching the end of a series you really loved reading?
Knowing I will never run out of other books to read.
>>8181487
/thread/
How do you cope with the sadness that comes with approaching the end of a series of experiences that you call your life?
Assuming I have already resolved to read some alt-lit, what works are least worst?
They're all on the same level of mediocrity. I'd suggest not wasting your time. To stratify the badness that is alt-lit is impossible since all altlit is collectively as awful as possible.
sam pink is hilarious, nothing amazing or anything like that but i'd say one of the better ones
>>8181231
I second this. Funny stuff. Every book is written in pretty much the same exact voice though.
Write eroticism like pynchon, go!
...
He always had a snake wrapped around his waist, and he walked with a limp. He saw the board girl in the corner of the room and knew she was the one he was supposed to meet...
>>8180597
then, suddenly, goofy came in, with a black woman stuck on his knot, and took a steamy hot dump into the gullet of his hot neckbeard tranny wife
Blately Envoy, protagonist, read with feverish devotion medical manuals describing the function and structure of the human gonads, constructing in the theater of his mind an ever more elaborate, ever more immediate image of a lone and levitating phallus the color of a classic sculpture erupting like an audience as its unchristian juices splattered the pine flooring.
I was going to continue but I can't be bothered sorry
>Surveying with one glance the current state of Western literature-and by literature, I mean novels, poems, and plays, but also the traditional nonfiction modalities like the literary essay and the great work of philosophy-compared to what it looked like in, say, the first half of the twentieth century, what strikes one is an appalling decline in overall quality. Reading a contemporary novel, like Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, which falls apart about halfway through; or Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before, which starts off promising, but reads more and more like an outline for a novel; or Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, which is so self-consciously affected that it reads like a caricature of Faulkner; or even a master like Thomas Pynchon, whose Mason & Dixon goes in and out of focus, one is inevitably perplexed by the awkwardness of the performance.
>While it is true that more books are being published than ever before, a close inspection of the average level of quality offered by most publishers reveals them to be the literary equivalent of fast food: trashy Barnes and Noble-type coffee table books with more pictures than words; computer and business books; cookbooks; graphic "novels"; pop fiction bestsellers. Worse, the books that pass for "real" literature, like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections or Toni Morrison's Paradise or Arthur Gulden's Memoirs of a Geisha, are really just frauds masquerading as literature, rip-offs from great novels of the past displaced to modern, or exotic, settings. The handful of real artists out there practicing real literature-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie-grows ever smaller, while the frauds, and the public's inability to discern the difference between them, proliferate.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Le5BNvv6pO4J:http://0-literature.proquest.com.fama.us.es/searchFulltext.do
How does it feel to be a bunch of frauds?
>Rushdie
>an artist
No. I basically agree with the excerpt you posted, but Rushdie has always been a hack with one gimmicky claim to fame and nothing beyond that.
>>8180414
>a master like Thomas Pynchon
sad times indeed
>>8180452
rushdie didn't give me the sense of being worthwhile either