>tfw a book is so weird you literally can't tell if it was good
~claustrophobic drumbeat starts playing~
Ballard oh fuck yeah
>>8126534
>reading Crash
>get aroused at comparison of engine coolant and sperm
>semen leaking from Vaughan's anus
>have to rub one out
everytime
Another one of these threads.
Using text instead of an image is lacking talent.
>>8126483
Nice contribution, faggot.
>>8126500
Thanks, but I can't take credit for OP.
Help me /lit/ I'm fucked.
For the past 5-7 years the only belletristic I've read was BAkker's PoN and Martin's SoFaI. Every time I try to read something else I just drop it at the start because of how amateurish and simplistic it feels, like a teenager's fanfic.
And I literally can't find anything as good as these two. I had shitloads of suggestions, I used special "literature" (sic!) websites that can narrow the suggestions by criteria. I even ventured into the hell itself - lebbit. Same result.
I'm too spoiled? Is this the end? Martin probably will never finish this shit in a lifetime and Bakker keep delaying his'.
fuck gay earth I just want a comfy book to read
Gormenghast, 100 Years of Solitude, Midnight's Children. These are proper books with the fun of Fantasy.
>>8126350
>belletristic: written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content
>shitty fantasy
wew
>>8126371
hey, don't put blame on me, I'm not the one using terms improperlymasses do
Why does /lit/ hate Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged?
#whoisjohngalt
Near as I can tell, she has multiple things for people to hate, so it's like a paella of hatred. There's something in there for everybody. I hate her because I'm a Christian and her way of thinking is basically Satanic, but I know there are lots of atheists that hate her too.
No one hates the literature.
They hate the pseudo intellectual fedora tipping Bioshock upper middle class teens that worship it without even reading it.
>>8125974
Wasn't bioshock making fun of her stupid ideology?
Existence of God
The famous Christian theologian, St Thomas Aquinas ( 1225-1274 ), in his book Summa Theologica gives 5 'proofs' ( quinque viae ) for the existence of God, and the famous Indian philosopher, Udayanacharya ( 12 century ), in his book Nyaya Kusumanjali gives 9 'proofs'.
All these 'proofs' are based on inferences ( which is called 'anumana pramana' in Indian philosophy ), and not on direct perception ( called 'pratyaksha pramana' or revelation ).
The problem, however remains : what to do with the question posed by Ivan Karamazov to his younger brother Aloysha in Dostoevsky's famous novel ' Brothers Karamazov ' : if there is a God, why do million of children in the world suffer ? ( see my blog ' Dostoevsky and the cold weather '). Millions of children in the world who have done no harm to anyone, are yet hungry, shivering in the cold, often beaten cruelly by elders, deprived of good education and love and affection, and homeless ? If there is a God, why does he not give these children food, proper clothes, a home, proper education, love and affection, etc ?
So if there is a God, he is either all powerful, or good, but he cannot be both
Some people say that there must be a Creator of this world.
This statement presumes that everything must have a creator. In that case, the Creator of the world must also have a creator, i.e. a super Creator, and this super creator must also have a creator, i.e. a super super Creator, and so on.
This is known as the fallacy of the infinite regress.
The truth is that the only reality is matter ( or matter-energy, since energy has been proved by Einstein to be a form of matter ), which is in motion, according to some laws which can be discovered by scientific research.
If it is asked where did matter come from, the answer is that matter came from matter. If we start with the assumption that everything must have a creator, we fall into the fallacy of infinite regress, as explained above.
The truth is that there is no God, no angels, no soul, no spirits, no ghosts, no fairies, no witches, etc. In other words, there are no supernatural entities.
The truth is that all religions are superstitions, and the truth lies in science, which is not final as religion claims to be , but is constantly developing.
PROTIP; U CAN'T
>>8125911
>Sigma in place of Epsilon
FUCKING ALT RIGHT KEKS REEEEEEEEE
Did the memes get me me? Is this gonna be worse than taipei?
>>8125784
I've read all three of those, and they're great. He's nothing like Tao Lin.
>>8125784
Fuck you, Taipei is wonderful
>>8127463
lol
Dear /lit/,
I have acquired an old Kindle, and I wanna read a book.
There's alotta of books out there, and I'm not sure what to read. Suggest me some books, or an author or something. The first person name a book and get trips in this thread, I'll read that book.
>>8125733
Start with the Greeks.
>>8125733
The Lime Twig
I gotta thank you guys for meme-ing me into reading Pynchon. The dude's writing is incredible.
I don't need you to tell me how fucking good Pynchon is, okay? I'm the one who buys him. I know how good it is.
he single-handedly ruined the novel
did he have you howling at the moon at the image of a man going down a toilet?
Past or present text, which do you prefer and why?
I'd say I don't really have a preference.
>anything but all knowing third person past tense narrator
first person present tense is a crime against literature
>>8125203
Past tense master race checking in.
>>8125203
If you say anything but it depends on how it works with the book you're a mouth breathing neanderthal
Know anybody with a Pynchon name?
I just boarded a flight with a guy named Singh Singh. He's unfortunately not a prison warden.
>>8125031
I know a Pynchonesque couple: Kirill Kosyak and Irina Shmal(their names translate as weed and weed). I wonder if they started dating as a joke.
i met a guy in a karate uniform who looked exactly like pynchon who told me has 40 daughters and 40 sons
>>8125031
I know a guy named Braxton Hicks, which is a type of premature uterine contraction.
Discuss:
/thread
bretty gud
>>8125030
reddit general?
http://hermiene.net/short-stories/i_have_no_mouth.html
Enjoy senpai
i made it through 2 paragraphs
i'm tempted to tell harlan ellison about this. he'll scream and foam at the mouth and start legal action against whoever's hosting it.
That shitty story that was also made a shitty video game ! Great
Is possible to write something so "alien" and strange to the human experience? Something that is barely recognizable to proceed from an human mind? any book that have done that?
>>8124830
"Human" is a spook friend
I want to knead those thighs
>>8124837
I know, but im not sure how to phrase it better.
But yes, in other words im searching for something completely without spooks.
Reminder if you read IJ and not Ulysses you're part of the problem. /lit/ is going to shit and it's because of pseuds like you.
>people who actually read books are destroying /lit/
No, I think you'll find the opposite is true.
>>8124659
If you haven't read the entire meme trilogy you should stop posting until you have.
>>8124659
I agree with him.
However, I'd go as far as to say that Finnegans Wake should have pride of place over Ulysses.
>From Russia with love edition
Hey y'all,
Beautiful day to go hunting for used books. What did you guys pick up?
Both Dostoevsky books are translations by ignat avsey. Maudes for Tolstoy.
>>8124266
There's a book festival in my city going on these weeks. I might go have a look, although I already own many books I haven't even started yet.
>>8124266
You should't have posted your finds.
You fucking suck, pleb.
>>8124322
Well I think you suck.