Is there a single author as vapourwave as Murakami? I just finished The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World after reading Dance Dance Dance, and I want to try reading another author before continuing with Murakami, but that vapourwave-y style is very addictive.
Pls help
>>8085056
pynchon douglass adam
>>8085056
Roberto Pinchas is the most vaporware and vaporware author. He even had Macintosh plus lyrics in one of his books.
>>8085056
Read Blind Willow Sleeping Woman.
It's a collection of short stories. It's what helped me get over my Murakami phase
I'm looking for some inspiration /lit/. Are there any stories that: a world where supernatural/metaphysical/"magical" things are common place, but still have the realistic kind of "grounded" of every day happenings. Kinda like urban fiction, but less "W0wza Kazookz magik!?@!" and more, well, Seussian. Nobody bats an eye at The Grinch or a Cat in a Hat or a Lorax, they're characteristics and figures fit in to the larger world even if humans existed in it because of an unspoken acceptance. But saying it's an unspoken acceptance isn't enough, there's an atmosphere of fantasy that pervades it and welcomes the audience to imagine and accept anything. I can't find many books that have that.
Have you never fucking heard of magical realism? What are you even doing here?
Might I suggest Borges ?
It's not exactly high brow, but The Witcher might be something to look into. Dude does a good job of blending fantastical beasts and fairy tales together.
What is /lit/'s thoughts on objectivism and ayn Rand. I've personally read her book Atlas shrugged. It basically teaches that through the power of yourself you can do anything. I have basically began to live objectivistical now thanks to her and I can say it's quite a nice change for me
I never read this because back in the days of /b/ being subjectively good it was ragged on nonstop, and I really hate books written to elaborate on a single idea that could be described much easier in the form of one well written sentence
>>8084979
I wonder why /b/ hates Rand so much. Probably cuz they're Bernie supporters
I just finished We the Living by her. I have previously read Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged.
As a tl;dr of her expanse of fiction (which isn't inclusive of everything she's wrote fiction; just the popular stuff) Fountainhead > Atlas Shrugged > We the Living > Anthem.
The philosophy behind it all, I already leaned that way before I even started reading anything by her. I did not however like her portrayal of it, in particular through AS and FH.
I thought her characters were unrealistic most of the time, though she did manage to pull off some realistic ones, such as Peter Keating in FH. I mostly read her stories for
the detail that she was able to describe in them, whether it be the railroad or AS, or architecture in FH. I've also noticed through my reading that she has a knack for achieving
underwhelming endings to her stories, especially AS.
As a reader, I'm glad I read her stories, mostly because of her ability to describe the setting and the workings of it. As another fan of character however, I understand completely when
people critique her as a bad writer in terms of inability to portray characters, though I would disagree that she's a bad writer, because her descriptive writing is some of the best I've read.
OP: read Fountainhead if you haven't, it's a much better story.
>be Boffer Bings
>born of honest parents in one of the humbler walks of life
>father manufactures dog oil
>mother disposes of unwelcome babies
>have assisted my father and mother in their jobs
>always have to watch out for cops opposed to my mother's business
>father's business of making dog oil less unpopular
>dog oil is actually a valuable medicine under the name Ol. can.
>mfw most plebs are so unwilling to make personal sacrifices for the afflicted that they keep their fat dogs from coming near me
>tfw I led to my parents' deaths
>it's evening
>carrying a babby's body from my mother's studio
>passing by my father's oilery factory
>see a cop
>quickly hide inside my father's oilery
>find that my father had retired for the night
>don't want to get out because cop might still be there
>see my father's vat of dogs
>throw the baby in the vat
>no one will notice
>next day my father is excited because he has a batch of the finest quality oil ever
>all the doctors had pronounced its quality
>feel guilty
>tell them the truth
>they both get pissed and prevent me from working with them
>later they decide I was right and combine their businesses
>mother moves her studio into my father's factory
>soon the public has a meeting to decide that my poor parents can't do this anymore without being met with hostility
>tfw no more unwelcome babies to make oil from
>at about midnight I peer through a window into the furnace room where my father now sleeps
>notice he's not in bed
>mfw he had made a noose
>he seems to have gone to mother's bedroom
>ohshit.jpg
>a fight breaks out and they try to kill each other
>mother ends up stabbing father
>in his last dying bit of energy, he swings them both into the boiling cauldron
>tfw I have to skip town
>go to Otumwee
>start writing this memoir
>>8084899
>>father manufactures dog oil
what the fuck is 'dog oil'
>>8084900
Oil of dog is the oil (fatty tissue) from dogs or canines, similar to fish oil.
Ol. can. can cure many maladies including motion sickness, tarcadyia, jenkem dependency, and Alzheimer's
original: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oil_of_Dog
Will studying Literary Theory make my own writing any better?
When I say "studying" here I mean buying some LitTheory books off Amazon and reading them in my spare time.
Short answer: probably not.
The best writers are good readers so just read prolifically and in a diverse fashion and you'll get there.
No. Reading and writing will always be most effective. Practicing closer reading of the books you like might help, however.
>>8084897
If by "my own writing" you mean "Essays about literary theory" then yes.
WITHOUT GOOGLING IT
What author did Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins quote in his hit song "Zero"?
I want to die of AIDS
who fucking cares
>>8084882
oh shit he died?
This book doesn't make any sense
Oh no! Better go do some algebra lad before you start to go insane from your lack of negative capability.
>>8084723
You've never played chess have you.
>>8084723
What about it doesn't make sense?
So this is the best version.
>>8084670
>gabler
yep
that's the best cover too
Itt: books with autistic protagonists
I'll start with an obvious choice
my diary desu
>>8084661
Top kek
my diary desu
/Lit/erati
How are you celebrating the patrician #NationalWineDay ?
>>8084614
I'll probably have a tender wank right onto ya mum's christmas hams, ya filthy fuckin degenerate
>>8084614
with beer and hard liquor
>>8084614
drinking cheap liquor from the bottle
Short story thread, post your short stories and get some advice from others
I'd rather not have you steal my story
>>8084583
"For sale: baby condom, never worn. "
Alright, give it to me guys. Don't hold back.
>>8084599
btw everything which you post on 4chan is lost, if you want to publish it as a part of a larger story or as a short story itself and they check its authenticity it will be found out that it was already posted on 4chan i.e. at best it already was self-published, at worst that it's not even yours
>book starts with a sentence fragment and ends with one related to the first one causing an infinite loop
>>8084564
is this a common theme among books that I have somehow missed or are you just being a shitlord
>book features an uneducated pleb narrator that is still more intelligent than the reader
>>8084569
>he hasn't read finnegans wake three times in a year
I've been going through the Booker Prize winners and shortlists for interesting reads. Just finished pic related and have Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Patrick White's The Vivisector, and Keri Hulme's The Bone People in front of me. Any others of note I should grab, not necessarily from the Booker list, but of comparable prestige?
Inb4 prizes don't dictate quality. I don't need the reminder.
>>8084547
The God of Small Things by Arundutti Roy (I think that's her name).The English Patient by Michael Ondaatji also won the award I think. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee was pretty influential in him winning the Nobel Prize, but I think he also won the Booker for it.
What do you think about the Booker Prize being open to non-commonwealth entries? I hear a South Korean took the prize this year after her novel was translated.
>>8084547
>Inb4 prizes don't dictate quality. I don't need the reminder.
Are you sure you don't? It sounds like you do.
>>8084582
I'm pretty sure that's Han Kang's book. I'm fine with it being outside the Commonwealth. It injects some much needed outside influence into the game. I've read both God of Small Things and English Patient, preferred Ondaatje really. Probably just because he reminded me a bit of Pynchon or Gibson. I've only read Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee, I'll have to check out his other work.
>be on car trip with family 2 years ago
>be on highway
>pass by busy exit
>at the time my nose was buried in I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
>get to the climax
>suddenly, my sister gasps
>apparently she had seen some motorcyclist's head broken open from an accident that had occurred just moments before
>mfw I was within a few hundred yards of a guy's sudden death whilst reading IHNMBIMS.
>>8084531
so what you're say is that you were reading "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" and your sister saw a man who had no mouth and wanted to scream, while you yourself felt you had no mouth but you wanted to scream?
Harlan, we know it's you posting these threads. Give it up. Nobody gives a shit.
And when are you going to get off your fat yiddish pudooshka and release "The Final Dangerous Visions", you fucking dog-in-the-manger? you've been sitting on other people's work for, what, over forty YEARS now?
>>8084531
I wish I could read in a moving car without getting motion sickness. Why is it that I don't have any trouble reading in a moving airplane? And the few times I've ridden in a train, I didn't read but I feel that if I did I wouldn't have had any problems, what's with that?
Grammar Q
I have seen this used in first rate writing, is it acceptable and how does it effect how the writer ends the sentence.
The dog was dead: its eyes were closed; its paws still; its nose dry:indicating it had stopped secreting the mucus which living dogs secrete constantly.
^ just off the top of my head so a bit nonsensical but grammatically OK?
>>8084474
Incorrectly copied from a grammar forum; the title of the post was colon within a colon, hopefully that explains things.
>>8084474
Yes and no. It depends on what you consider the proper usage of the colon.
>>8084474
absolutely not. even if you get off on a technicality it looks and reads like garbage. why is grammar so hard for people to understand