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What are some other comfy books. I can't explain why this book is so comfy, maybe it's becausethe characters interactions and being alone on a long stretch of road
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>It's a "No one participates in your thread" chapter.
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>>8006662
This is my favorite Stephen King book by far, haven't read it in years tho. I wouldn't call it comfy however, the whole concept freaks me out. What did you think of the ending OP? I found it pretty depressing.
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>>8007534
I haven't got to the ending. I'm at the partwhere they've made it through the first night, it is not dawn
I read like half the book in one sitting though. It is so engrossing.
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I don't know which other board to ask this, but since you guys are "/aesthetic/: the board", let me put it here.
Is graffiti a regressive and thus degenerate art form or not? Like a return to cave painting?
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>>8006648
Kind of.
"Graffiti" and "Street art" are two different things. People have made decent shit on the sides of buildings and whatnot with spray paint. While technically graffiti, I'd classify it differently (street art).
Continuing in that vein, "graffiti" is writing words on a wall, which can be viewed as narcissistic, regressive, and degenerate since typically you are not making any statement besides "I made this."
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Cave paintings were probably the Sistine Chapel for early humans.
Graffiti doesn't really regress to anything in my opinion because it seems to me that people have always done it. It's neither a step forward or step back I guess is what I'm trying to say.
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>>8006653
Right. I should have called it "street art" instead of graffiti, since graffiti is more atemporal than street art, with obvious examples already present in Pompeii and before.
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would you read a book about a guy who writes people's suicide notes for a living?
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>>8006523
yeah
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Depends on the angle.
If it's funny then yeah, but if it's "seriously depressing" then no.
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That sounds more like a short story. But idk thats pretty heavy handed and fundamentally manipulative
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Is it a common thing that other countries have their own "copies" of the famous writers? For example, some say that Pelevin is a Russian Pynchon (or poor man's Pynchon). His literary style and even his life-style shows some similarity.
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>>8006521
I think pelevin is decidedly more sci-fi than pynchon
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>>8006552
Just wondering, what location are you from?
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>>8006574
I live in Helsinki, but born in midwest USA. i can't read Russian if that's what you're getting at...
Maybe somebody could recommend a writer similar to this? I have really enjoyed reading the Molloy trilogy, probably one of the best books I've ever read.
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Tulse Luper
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>>8006492
I mean, if you want minimalism, there is Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, and Fredrick Barthelme, but no does Beckett even close to as good as Beckett.
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>>8006511
Thanks. I don't like Hemingway for some reason. Will have a look into the other writers.
I don't really know what minimalism is. I am a bit a brute of literature :). Gombrowicz was in some parts similar to Beckett to me.
It's hard to explain. I like books where nothing appears to make sense, but then everything makes perfect sense. Borges in some of his stories can be like that, but in my understanding Borges is very gentle and humane.
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This topic might not be especially suited for this board and if so I apologize but considering it's the de facto philosophy one, it seems suitable enough.
So this morning I was visited by a couple of Jehovah's witnesses and whilst being considerably high, I talked to them for a while. They asked me if I believe that god has a name and I said I wouldn't know since I'm agnostic and I'm not even sure of god's existence.
"If such a being exists, given the apparent indifference witnessed in nature I think it would be more akin to Lovecraft's Azathoth: the blind idiot god, the nuclear chaos, rather than our wishful benevolent conceptions of it" I did not say.
Instead I simply said that their booklet seems "interesting" and that they wouldn't bother me if they visited again tomorrow to ask me my thoughts on it.
So fuck it! Instead of telling them to fuck off I guess I'm gonna have at least some fun and debate/troll(?) them since my stupid high self initiated this. So, I come to you for suggestions on things to say. Not the classic ad nauseum arguments we all know and convince nobody (what does?) but something.. interesting? fun? Like that Azathoth thing. I trust 4chan's imagination.
>tl;dr Jehovah's witnesses visit due. Asking for suggestions on trolling, paradoxical or fun (for me) arguments.
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>>8006392
just talk to them like a normal human being and tell them to leave once you get bored
also, gtfo
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>>8006392
>Jehovah's Witness
>posts a picture of Mormons
You won't get anywhere with them nor have a meaningful conversation. Put your fedora back on and finish that glass of Mountain Dew.
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Ask them about holy war, why god killed milions of innocent peoples in Moses times just because of other religion they believed (and they had no idea about "only true god anyway)
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Dylan Moran Books_buy or not?
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Hi /lit/ lads, I got no idea where to get an appropriate opinion on English books and I have a lot of esteem for you all.
Has anyone read Moran's short books?
Did you like them? Did you like the guy before (standup, Black Book, etc)?
anything about it goes in
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>>8006380
Holy shit he wrote short stories?! Ive been saying he should for years. As someone influenced by Flann O'Brian, coupled with his own surreal humour, I'd be very interested.
Link me
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Get a brain Moran
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>Gene Wolfe said, "magic realism is fantasy written by people who speak Spanish"
>Terry Pratchett said magic realism "is like a polite way of saying you write fantasy."
Are they right?
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>>8006299
Marquez isn't fantasy, he's unreliable narrators!
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>>8006299
>Gene Wolfe said
>Terry Pratchett said
there's your answer.
I'm pretty sure they're both just jealous that Marquez got the "magical realism" label and they didn't because they're shit writers compared to him.
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>>8006299
Fantasy nerds hate magical realism though. They like wizards and kings and shit and when they try to read 100 Years they get bored and read GRRM.
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/lit/ things that make you sad:
I found out that my two favorite authors, Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem, hated each other. Lem considered Dick the only American author worth a damn, so he wrote him a fan letter. Dick thought Lem was a communist spy trying to get him, so he reported Lem to the FBI.
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>>8006215
lem didn't hate dick, as you wrote yourself. and as much as i like pkd, he was an asshole to a lot of people, e.g thomas disch, or some of his wives.
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what a dick
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Total dick
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This book surprised me, it was actually quite good. Any of you read it? What did you think? Would love to dicuss.
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Henry James is one of the greatest prose writers ever, a true patrician's choice. Read "Portrait of a Lady" next, it's a real joy.
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>>8006213
thats my current read. its really good.
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>>8006213
I wasn't that impressed with the prose to be honest: It felt like his attempt to frequently dim certain details went beyond his intention of demonstrating victorian values and just made following the dialogue annoying. What really caught my attention was the design of the ghosts as an "intruder" element by stripping down the concept. And the kids' relationship with the Governess.
Will be Portrait of a Lady, sounds promising.
>book is titled "the last of the mohicans"
>it's literally about the last couple members of the mohican tribe
>book is titled "the gardens of the moon"
>it's not about gardens on the moon, gardens under the moon, astronomy or gardening in any way, shape or form
Tell me, /pol, when did literature succumb to post-modern wankery and how do we fix it?
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>book is titled "a scanner darkly"
>isn't about office scanners
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>>8006318
nice new meme friendo, upboated
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>Infinite Jest
>ends
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What exactly is a "scanner" in A Scanner Darkly?
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>>8006149
It's a play on words. You're supposed to "just get it." Or not think about it. One of those. In any case, the author is smarter than you and you're not to question the author's artistic choices!
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1 CORINTHIANS 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known.
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>>8006198
This. It's a play off of "through a glass/mirror darkly" but instead the glass is a sci-fi imaging device.
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Solitude torments me; company oppresses me. The presence of anoher person distracts me from my thoughts; I dream their presence in a peculiarly abstracted way that none of my analytical powers can define.
Why are we object to such cruelty /lit/ and is there a way to beat it?
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We should meme Pessoa instead of muh infinite joke.
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>>8006137
Grow up, stop being a pretentious teenager. Helped me a lot.
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>>8006187
Fuck off "mature man".
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Man Who Read His Way Through a Beyonce Concert
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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/man-reads-book-beyoncs-performance-north-carolina/story?id=38926824
http://abc11.com/entertainment/meet-the-man-who-read-a-book-at-raleigh-beyonce-concert/1326171/
It's not that he didn't like the show, but...
"I find Beyonce a great show woman, very attractive. Her music? Eh, fine, but not my style, the Greece native said. "I listen to '50s, '60s, '70s, and a lot of Greek music.
We were dying to know just what book it was that was so interesting it took his attention away from Queen Bey.
Papageorgiou said it was Danube Pilot by Jules Verne, in Greek. His parents bought him the book 53 years ago in Cairo when he was just 13 years old.
He's read it seven or eight times - including during a Beyonce concert.
"I love it - probably not another book that's influenced my love for geography as much as this book," he explained. "It's about a trip from Georgia and the caucuses all the way to Beijing, China with a whole bunch of adventures in-between, so it's an exciting book."
Papageorgiou is amused by all the attention he's getting in social media.
"I get this message on my iPhone saying 'It's hilarious, you're in the news for reading a book at the Beyonce concert.' It didn't sink in till I started getting phone calls or my wife and stuff saying the news is calling they want to interview you and I'm like 'What about?'" said Papageorgiou.
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>Nobody says anything about everyone browsing on your phone or being obnoxious with them at social events
>OH NO SOMEONE HAS A BOOK
I find the hypocrisy unbelievable
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>>8006142
I've stopped going to most larger concerts because unless I'm in the front row I'll end up watching the whole thing from the fucking phones held up in front of me.
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Hey /lit/, i know these type of threads are posted from time to time, and I'm sorry.
My question is: What are some books that will teach me how to critically read, specially works of fiction?
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pic related is good
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>>8006065
Start with a classical book that has a reputation for having good footnotes, and good essays wrapping the work.
Something like Signet Classics Shakespeare The majority of good advice on how to read critically are in essays but not the kind of essays written by John Ruskin or other philosophers, but the kind written by editors of collections and anthologies.
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http://www.criticalreading.com/critical_reading.htm