Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3804. page

>>8052011
there's the inner self, and then there's everybody else outside if you

>>8052027
There's everyone and there's no one.

>>8052011

people who have read this post, and people who haven't.

>>8051900
is it a gay whore on the cover

what? who doesn't like Carson McCullers?

>>8052377
mainly my snooty lit professor who noticed i was reading this and said "i hate that author"

>>8051899
What, you think there's some book police that will find you and catch you if you dont follow some chart? Read what you want, dude.

>>8051899
No, it's not ok.

>>8051899
Sure, but if you start with Bleeding Edge or Inherent Vice and then come back asking what the fuss was all about with Pynchon, I'll tell on you.

>>8051827
>It's like poetry, it all rhymes.

is that you george lucas? can you stop them from making more star wars films?

>>8051827
>proud polish nobleman

where is his plunger

yeah but what brought him to eat all that fruit?

Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

>>8051808
The White People by Arthur Machen.

Thread theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wwy0ZhSvMg

>>8051771

>if it's in spanish it's mexican

retard, go back to /v/

i hate catholics especially spanish but ill bump this just because it's an actully thread and not a meme ad

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>>8051732
bump
yes, i have seen the other thread but it was raided with poltards and not actual discussion

>>8051732
fuck this board

>>8051859
Fuck you

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It is almost like its fiction and they're making shit up.

Tolkien is the only one who did fake languages right.

I drop any other books that try to do it.

>>8051911
wow, nice snek gif. if only the resolution was higher.

>>8051921
I tend to agree with what this guy is saying though, he and OP have a point. Any of that fake language stuff is a real turn off and nuisance, more often than not. Personally, I think a lot of sci fi is real trash. Other than the classics, any other scifi book I have read sounds autistic as fuck, with really awkward writing and pacing, and stupid names galore. For example, I started reading Dune, which won a Hugo Award or something, which is apparently a big deal in the sci fi community. I could barely read the first 100 pages before I had to quit. The names sounded dumb as fuck. The pacing was terrible. The writer sounded as if he had aspergers growing on his aspergers, and the story was probably the most unengaging thing I had read in years. And that's saying something, given that I could push myself through George R. R. Martin's bland and dry telling of his A Song of Ice and Fire series. I don't know, I have no hope for the scifi genre. It caters to neckbeards with no taste.

>>8051499
it's an absolute utter classic matey

>>8051499
It was written by a vagina human so it's poo poo.

>>8051544
Is shitposting allowed in this board?

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>>8051467
>the health of society

>>8051467
>man is evil at heart

That's just like, your opinion man

>>8051479
>not wanting the best for your fellow man

Anon, you're a bad person.

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>>8051397
Mexican kids growing up in the 80's. Sort of like John Hughes movie when they were fresh. there is a magical realism element but it's used as a vehicle for the characters' story.

You can compare this to Diaz's Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, but it's actually good. there are plenty of references to pop culture of the time, but it's used well unlike the former.

>>8051456
It's always nice when writers can use pop culture while not being completely and utterly cringe worthy

I like John Green, fight me

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>>8051393

>>8051393
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Heart of Darkness
Huckle Berry Fin
Oedipus Rex

>>8051398
that is one craft looking merchant

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>>8051350
Me on the middle

Answering your question, yes, I do carry a notebook and a trustworthy pen with me at all times.

If you can't remember something it probably wasn't that good

>>8051379
Say that to Coleridge

Larva. Generally post modernism is trash. Don't bother with it.

>>8051280
fuck you, mom

I have a weird fondness for Vineland. The Beetle Leg is also very good. Gravity's Rainbow is a little bit falsely hailed as a sort of be-all and end-all masterpiece of PoMo lit. It's incredible, but still so.

Brits don't seem to take to it for some reason. They prefer much more well-crafted work than we do at the behest of any kind of more experimental aesthetic quality. I understand that Borges is a postmodernist, but I only ever read original lit in English so I wouldn't know. Others probably will.

George

The one you posted (Andrew George). Many others are retellings more than translations.

>translation