I have become interested in the books on Victor Pelevin. Have any of you read his books, especially in english translations
>>10010523
generation P is aight
Is this the best fanfiction ever written?
>>10010517
>fanfiction
What's the original Inferno?
>>10010520
Epistle of Forgiveness
*blocks your path*
was this man a gay
>>10010502
Yeah, he wanted to fuck his underage son
What are some /lit/-approved thrillers?
Anyone who says otherwise is a fucking pleb and should be executed immediately
>He hasn't done the Kenosha Kid
>>10010339
YOU never did it, man.
>>10010339
"You never did."
- The Kenosha Kid
In the fashion of lovers discovering that a misconception had strewn them apart, and returning triumphantly.
"You never did?"
"The?"
"Kenosha..."
"Kid!"
ITT we write a shitty William Gibson novel (they're all shitty).
>The pink, plastic geodesics burned like neon temperfoam alan in a zaibatsu simstim hotel, where beige ultralights looked like hard chrome cyberspace on the fringe of an ancient corrugated carpet.
>>10010243
ayyy I can't continue, you wasted all the of the vocabulary
>>10010243
The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.
The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.
By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.
Neo-China arrives from the future.
Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.
Retro-disease.
Nanospasm.
By John Hermann Randall Jr.
Does anyone have this book electronically? Can you share it with me?
Your pain runs deep!
>>10010213
Why do you say that?
i read this almost a decade ago when i was majoring in literary studies (don't worry, i've got a good job now) and picked a class on asian american literature. i liked it, it was bleak and somewhat rough around the edges, but it was genuine and at times, it had this visceral, gripping rawness to it that i can still vividly remember. okada must have been a bitter, bitter man at some point in his life. it's a shame he burned the manuscript for his second book before he died.
in any case, i recently went through my old university folders, stumbled over my notes, and remembered that i read this is actually a somewhat popular highschool pick in some regions of the US. is this true? what did you think about it?
What are your absolute favorite non-fiction books?
>>10009938
Is that genderbent Styx?
Necropolis by Hodasevich.
Is this good prose?
nah
I want to study philosophy as a foundation for understand Literary, Cultural and Critical Theory. I am an English student so I have no great need for studying philosophy itself in great detail, but I still wish to build a base on which I can base later thinkers like Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Badiou, Deleuze, Kristeva etc; that are the one a literature grad student most commonly encounters.
>inb4 start with the Greeks
I don't have that much time, I have just an year left in this degree program before I apply to grad school where I'll have to pass through an interview and I need something that will help me understand theory in sufficient depth and detail by then. Can't devote a lifetime to this stuff, sorry.(Atleast not right now)
I should add that I am not completely clueless; I know quite a bit of Structuralism for example, a decent amount of Marxism, some New Historicism and post-colonialism too. Speaking of thinkers, I know some Kant, some Marx and some Hegel. However, since I'm not in philosophy, my reading of these people has been limited to secondary texts and textbooks only.
I'm not really worried about things like feminism, queer studies or Post-co theory because they don't really require that much philosophy. It is fields like Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, Post-modernism, Hermeneutics, that really concern me. I feel that it is of no use picking up and anthology of literary theory unless have a solid understanding of western thought through the ages, the things that those guys based their ideas on.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>10009895
>I don't have that much time
There's your answer
Oh, sweet Virginia.
im looking for a book about the various,primarily western, depictions of the afterlife.
preferably it should focus more on heavens then on hells and can be academic or pop-scienc'y that doesn’t matter.
thanks
If you had to write a short memoir (~10 pages), what event that happened in your life would you write about?
Discovering poetry.
My suicide attempts
Hey /lit/, sc/out/ first time posting here. Quick question, I need to buy some books, preferably used and cheap, to read while /out/, what's the best place to do it so? Ebay? Thanks in advance and pardon my poor English, I'm not a native speaker.
Are there no used bookstores in your area?
>>10009642
Well there's major bookstores but I don't think they sell used books. Tbh I found the one I was looking for, Walden, for 5€ in new condition so ain't too bad.
I primarily use Amazon, Abebooks and Bookdepository
What's the most enlightened book from the 13th century a.k.a. the High Middle Age?