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>>7861052

Writing on a PC makes my writing sound schizophrenic. When I write on paper it looks like an entirely different person writing. Never tried a typewriter

the maintenance isn't worth it

Just stop.

No. They can be art, and they may contain aspects of literature, or aspects of poetry (or whole poems), but they themselves are not literature.

For sure they are. That's why it was so cringey when /lit/ wrote a book. 4chan is already alternative literature, you idiot fucks.

My diary T B H

>>7860945
who is this semen demon?

the count of monte cristo

It's Pynchon's cyberpunk book. Check out Gibson and Stephenson if you want to get what he's playing with. Probably has to do with why I liked this one even more than his others.

I'd like to see Pynchon do a Le Carre-ish spy novel. He has that one short story (which was later turned into a chapter of V.) but I want him to go farther.

It reminds me a little of GTA meets Gibson's Blue Ant books.

I don't think "Pynchon doesn't do anything straight" is accurate though. V, L49, GR are all pretty much their own things.

>>7861375
V is primarily a satire of the beats imo

>>7860648
Not without doing alot of reading, which would be better spent just reading the whole series.

Are you asking for Hobb?

Start at Farseer if you're looking to read her for a longer period at time and like to follow one POV, or if you only want to read a single series of her and want multiple POV read Liveship Traders. Everything else comes afterwards.

>>7860680
it was prompted by Hobb, but I mean in general

I've just finished Ship of Magic, but I can't think of a single thing that concludes by the end of that book.

I finished Ancillary Justice before that, which did at least wrap up a little bit by the end (even though it's obviously lining up the 2nd book)

I'd just try to enjoy your books. Something most people on /lit/ never do.

>>7860640
>pleb
>patrician
>noob
>fedoracore
This really gets in the way of any kind of real discussion of whatever you might be getting at. It also suggests that there's not really anything worth getting at with this distinction. tldr: use your own thoughts and words OP

>>7860640
American Psycho is beloved by a certain section of the site for reasons I can't fathom. I think The Hellbound Heart is the best book you listed, edginess and movie tie-ins notwithstanding.

If you are really new to reading, you need to start with a canon, like the modern library non-voted lists, the Harvard classics or blooms canon. As you read more the difference between literary fiction and pulp becomes profound, and eventually you begin to explore literature based on your own taste and enjoyment as >>7860676 says.

Mythology

Christian rites

>>7860114
Bulfinch's Guide. It's pretty massive, but only the first section is Greek, then the last 2/3 covers Egyptian, Norse and other European stuff.

Every story is broken down and it's easy to go back and reference when you need to. He also ties in poetry for each myth so you can see how it gets used symbolically.

>>7859838
Paul mccartney really is getting old huh

>>7859860
what was the point of posting this?

bump I need help /lit/

>>7859822
the method is to look for what is socially constructed and attack the margins of the construction...the barriers, lines, boundaries, binaries that fall apart under closer examination.

An easy to understand example from the 90s: Ann Ducile "Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference" easy to find online.

>>7859829
Thanks.

>>7859829
>queer theory
NO.

There's no option C?

>>7859750
Option C is don't want the episodes or read the book

>>7859740
The book, obviously. Even something along the lines of Inherent Vice or Bleeding Edge would be acceptable.

nonfiction... literature?

The Secret

Look into Gass

>>7859572
Conversation.

Goodreads

Why would you care about new releases?
Unless you're a normalfag and want to talk to your work mates about the latest dystopian YA release, I can't really imagine any scenario where it'd actually matter.

you can read fiction that takes place before the modern age and just pretend its post apocalyptic

>>7859508
A Canticle for Leibowitz is post apocalypse and about how humanity deals with the end of civilized society and such. It's not super realistic in the minute details like tampons running out and tooth decay but it's a great book that's definitely worth a read.

>>7859508
The Road
Alas Babylon
Earth Abides
On the Beach

thats literally it

The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler

Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche

Oh shit, you said novels.

Hm.

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - Mishima

Call of the Wild - London

Lord Jim - Conrad

All of those will trigger people.

>>7859242
Better to Never Have Been
Do it you won't. Faggot.

Camp of the Saints

Celine

>>7859120
deckled pages are cool you fucking weirdo

>>7859126
They just make it a pain to precisely turn pages.

>>7859120
You passed up the deckled edge one just for the fucking autism of it? Unless the decked edges cut into the text itself, who gives a shit.
Fuck off.