Is there a name for this type of story? does anyone know something similar?
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I'd classify it as (made-up) folklore. It sounds like something Native American.
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>>7809792
any recommendation on made up folklore? or folklore for that matter.
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>>7810016
Italo Calvino's Italian Folklore collection
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So my girlfriend who never reads asked me for a book today. I wasn't sure how to proceed. Do I take her serious and give her a classic? Do I make a kek and hand her infinite jest. Does she even have the attention span for something like Anna karina. Should I give her some pleb genre fiction and hope she asks me for another book? Do I give her something girly. Fuck man I don't.
Wtf would you do? And why?
I gave her the virgin suicides hoping she falls in love with that dreamboat trip Fontaine.... like I did. It's not to long and it has girls and what not. Did I fuck up?
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>>7809712
>Anna karina
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>>7809712
You should've given her the D
FW.
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>Anna karina
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hey /lit/
I don't often have a lot of time to set aside for reading or learning about new works and progressing through literature. Out of everything I've managed to finish these are the works I've found to have any kind of profoundness. Call it pleb if you want cause it probably is. I tried to go through others like crime and punishment, the brothers karamazov, anna karenina, etc but those were too long for me and I didn't really 'get' them.
Can anyone give recommendations based on this taste?
I want to discover new literature to love but I want something that's accessible to me
Any suggestions would be appreciated
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Read the Tao Te Ching
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>>7809691
The Martian.
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Read some more Kafka, the metamorphosis is pretty neato and his shorter stories are good too (meditation)
Try out dracula too, if you liked frankenstein you might like it too, and Candide by Voltaire would be a good addition to the list
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What do /lit/izens think of Mr. Mercedes?
Stephen King?
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>>7809641
i thought misery and the one about the house were good movies back when I was like 15
id probably still like them today, even
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>>7809641
Kys jackoff
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I started The Shining and read something like 80 pages into it if I remember correctly, 100 tops. I liked what I read but obviously it didn't suck me in completely since I didn't finish it.
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what are the best stories in dubliners?
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read them all faggot
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The Dead and the one about the girl who's basically forced to get married to a guy that rents an apartment from her mom but I don't remember the name of it.
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>>7809455
i only read the first one about the dead priest so that one I guess
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Where does it lay the inception of Dante Alighieri's vision for Hell in his comedy?
His Hell contains characters coming from pagan mythology as well, but how does one distinguishes between the conception of hell in the middle ages betweeen pagan beliefs and the christian vision?
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I was taught the beauty was in the marriage of the two, and that when one tallies it all up there's a balance between the biblical and pagan allusions
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>>7809363
Well beside that I think is a bit hypocritical for this vision to borrow concepts from whom they called "heathens/infidels", I do like it, but I feel like I have no idea where my vision stands, time-wise, what did Giotto pick up the ideas to paint this, the last judgement?
That seems a sort of Demon but is blue.
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>>7809330
Pre-New Testament, Gods were regularly borrowed and shared throughout the mediterranean. Conquer Egypt? Enjoy your new Pantheon.
Remnants of the original thought likely remained until the times of Dante. Perhaps these Gods exist, but our God reigns supreme.
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how the fuck do you people carry books around
I can barely fit a slim paperback into my laptop bag
what do I do
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>>7809209
please help me
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Use an e-reader you stupid retard
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Bigger bag?
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Alright /lit/,
There's a new magazine locally available in your town.
>title of magazine
>topics of articles you'd read
>something you've never seen in other mags
1..2...3
Go!
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>>7809131
hello puppies!
who's a happy puppies? who's a happy puppies?
>title of magazine
Confluence
>topics of articles you'd read
Culture, Society, History, Religion, Science
>something you've never seen in other mags
my name on a byline
I just wanted to say hi to the puppies but now I want to read this
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>>7809131
>Title
EVROPA
>Topics
Alt-right volkisch lifestile magazine
>articles
degenerates and how to spot them, This day in white history, ZOG exposed
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>>7809131
The Catholic something
Arts, history, religion, economics and other stuff
Art classicism and distributism
Is this considered good poetry?
Fast and bulbous, that's right, the mascara snake
Fast and bulbous, also a tin teardrop
Bulbous, also tapered, that's right
Pena, her litle head clinking like a barrel of red velvet balls
Full past noise
Treats filled her eyes turning them yellow like enamel-coated tax
Soft like butter, hard not to pour
Out enjoying the sun while sitting on a turned-on waffle iron
Smoke billowing up from between her legs made me vomit beautifully
And crush a chandelier
Fall on my stomach and view her from a thousand happened facets
Liquid red salt ran over crystals
I later band-aided the area, sighed, oh well, it was worth it
Pena pleased but sore from sitting choose to stub her toe
And view the white pulps horribly large in their red pockets
"I'm tired of playing baby," she explained
And out of a blue felt box let escape one yellow butterfly the same size
Its droppings were tiny green phosphorous worms
That moved in tuck and rolls that clacked and whispered in their confinement
Three little burnt scotch taped windows several yards away
Mouths open to tongues that vibrated and lost saliva
Pena exclaimed, "that's the raspberries"
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>>7809089
if it were a part of the dada movement, then yes. tristan tzara would have loved it.
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>>7809089
You're in deeper waters here, /mu/. The answer is 'close the browser'.
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>>7809099
Scaruffi could kick your ass
I'm going to make a print version of the first four arcs for my bookshelf. Give me some quotes to put on the back
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>>7809074
"You can read this book on the train to Flavortown!"
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"Not fanfic"
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>>7809074
Why would you want quotes on the back if you're just making it for yourself? Those are a marketing tool and nothing else.
Though I guess if you read and enjoy web serial capeshit you wouldn't understand that.
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What (if any) musicians could be considered poets?
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>>7808947
Leonard Cohen was a poet before he picked up a guitar. Some decent stuff I suppose.
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fuck
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>"Woman has hitherto been treated by men like birds, which, losing their way, have come down among them from an elevation: as something delicate, fragile, wild, strange, sweet, and animating—but as something also which must be cooped up to prevent it flying away."
Am I completely misinterpreting what he wrote, or did Nietzsche actually say something nice about women?
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Nietzsche liked women.
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>>7808882
'the perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare'.
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>>7808900
The nonexistent is extremely rare tbqh
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ITT: Tropes you're tired of in fiction that need to die
>Old knowledge is always more powerful or superior to modern knowledge
Every fucking fiction series I've ever read has had this. Even sci-fi. Somehow, characters always have to go searching after some forgotten knowledge or item that was more powerful than anything they have in the present day. That's not how technology works in real life at all. Fiction seems to love the idea that technology is declining rather than increasing, even though that's never happened since the Black Plague.
>anyone who sneers or is unpleasant when they are first introduced turns out to be evil
That one's not as universal, but I've still found it in almost all fiction I've read. Anyone who's described with scornful or mean-spirited body language when they're first introduced almost inevitably turns out to betray the protagonists or be on the evil side in some way in most fiction. That's not how human nature works at all.
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>>7808872
I'm assuming you're talking about like popular fiction? "The Chosen One" has been a crutch for bad-writers who don't know how to explain why the fate of the universe is in the hands of some kids/teens for too long now.
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>>7808872
Sounds like genre fiction problems to be honest.
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you should read pride and prejudice and be amazed, op
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Who are the best five living authors around now in your opinions?
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McCarthy, Pinecone and Gass
They will all probably die pretty soon
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Salman Rushdie, Will Self, Kazuo Ishiguro
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>>7808864
WILL SELF HAHAHAHAHA
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I just started reading this, why is every character's dialogue so fucking stilted?
Nobody in this book talks like a human being, and they all talk the same way. Even the narration is stilted.
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>>7808762
Every writer has strengths and weaknesses. DeLillo's terrible at naturalistic or noticeably varied dialogue.
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>>7808766
It's fucking awful though, why do people like this?
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>>7808779
I can't speak for everyone, but I found the idea of it highly amusing. The dialogue was a flaw, but I didn't care enough to be bothered by it.
If this kind of stuff really irks you, DeLillo's not for you.