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What does /lit/ think of Jonathan Lethem?
Also I need recommendations for more writers like him.
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I was asking for suggestions on authors similar to Murakami and someone recommended Lethem. I haven't read any books of his yet.
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who?
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i really like his short stories, motherless brooklyn, amnesia moon, the one with the wisecracking kangaroo, and the fortress of solitude
i did not enjoy you don't love me yet
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>Tfw you browse /lit/ with this playing in the background
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>>7750955
>not browsing /lit/ in between OHP reps
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>>7750955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ldNSMnEeKio#!
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>>7750969
>Not watching feminist slam poetry between sets
The anger increases my lifts by about 10 lbs.
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>trying to get back into reading for the umpteenth time
>always wanted to read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
>"When AM had altered Benny, during the machine's utterly irrational, hysterical phase, it was not merely Benny's face the computer had made like a giant ape's. He was big in the privates; she loved that! She serviced us, as a matter of course, but she loved it from him. Oh Ellen, pedestal Ellen, pristine-pure Ellen; oh Ellen the clean! Scum filth."
...All I want is well written fiction that doesn't completely break my immersion with flashes of autism like this for no fucking reason at all...
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>>7750905
>well written fiction
>no autism
Impossible.
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So I've read the first two books in "the three body problem" series, and just started the "fear saga"- and although I've enjoyed both book series so far, they have an almost uncanny amount of overlap
Anybody else read them? Which do you prefer?
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how much overlap is there? never even heard of stephen moss - looks like some self published shti on amazon? i guess it's possible he just ripped off liu cixin
anyway three body is excellent. top 5 sci fi series of all time easily, possibly even top 3.
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>>7753251
What are the other 4?
I'm in withdrawal here, waiting for the last book of the series.
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>>7750729
3 body problem is the better work for sure. I feel Chinese sci-fi is better for two reasons
1. Atheist (not just secular) country
2. Chinese manufacturing is practical above all else.
Sometimes that practical reason is to make someone money.
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Hi lit, I was wondering if you guys could recommend some books that argue against safety as a lifestyle and thought principle?
Be it in favor of wild adventure and simply living life on the edge, political radicalization, critique of fear of uncertainty..
all replies greatly appreciated
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Maybe the dice man is what you're looking for?
Book is shit though
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>>7750574
Do you want nonfiction? If you're happy with novels then Henry Miller is your guy.
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Antal Szerb’s "Journey by Moonlight" maybe, but in the end most books, really. Hell, it’s even a major theme of Murakami’s.
itt: things that you didn't realize the first time you read them but which should have been obvious
Yorick is a fellow of "infinite jest" because he appears to be laughing long after he has died; his skull continues to mock human pretension and vanity as a reminder of death, grinning all the while
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It’s more of a grim joke; but yes, the skull grins for ever, hence ‘a fellow of infinite jest’.
Personally I didn’t realise that in TCitRhe rapes his sister, Phoebe.
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mmm maybe, he says
>i knew him, horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy
he's describing the way he was in life
he was merry and funny, he was the king's jester
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>>7750833
of course. but there's the added sense that he was a fellow of INFINITE jest, a jest that goes on and on. Did you ever consider why it is that they kept a jester's skull? The jester reminds the king that he is mortal; his skull remains long after as the same reminder. Even in death, he is still the jester, a fellow of infinite jest.
hey /lit/. What do you guys do to help motivate you guys to write creatively? i've been wanting to pick up on my writing, but find it difficult to do so.
my job/profession requires a lot of writing, so part of me is exhausted when I want to do it creatively.
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>>7750555
You made the mistake of wanting to write creatively and choosing it as a career instead of as vocation, senpai
You're basically fukt
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>>7750840
No hope for me, then?
To clarify, I don't write "creatively" for a job, but I do lots and lots of writing
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>tfw the world is my will
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>>7750540
You mean you're the will's world.
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>>7750562
I say that the world is my will because I can't say that the universe is my will.
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>>7750540
>tfw you completely misinterpret Schopenhauer
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>book arrives in mail
>start to read it
>realize that I'm way too awake to get through even one column
>read it later at night
>realize that I'm way too tired to comprehend any of it
Did I buy into the meme?
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>>7750508
no, you're just a dimwit
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>>7750508
>too awake to get through even one column
get an attention span
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>>7750508
>>realize that I'm way too awake to get through even one column
How are awake to read something? What does this even mean?
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Is El Mono Gramático by Octavio Paz a fine book to read while drunk? Does any hispanon in here know?
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I'd recommend El que tiene sed.
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>>7750531
No pun intended.
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not sure if this is the board to ask but I'll try. are there any good horror story podcasts? I've tried listening to that one reddit thing, but it's pretty hit or miss. if it's the wrong bored, sorry.
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>>>/leddit/
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>>7750441
I dunno, just use Libravox or Audible.
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>>7750441
>that one reddit thing
Oh that's fucking great dude I totally know what the fuck you're going on about
Fucking retard
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When you think of it, Religion is pretty much a really big LARP game.
It makes perfect sense then.
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Could be said about life in general, should play it more like gta. okbye
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>Authors and/or books that are never discussed on /lit/
Who here has read Germinal? What did you think of it? What other stuff would you recommend by Zola to something that has read only this one (actually I also began reading Thérèse Raquin but dropped it after a while, for now at least)? What books by other writers are similar?
Personally I really liked it, it was hard to get into at the beginning because its kind of slow-paced and all the character names and their families are confusing as shit, but by the middle it turned into a real page turner for me
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>>7750301
>to something
to someone
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How do I into Bukowski? I wanna know /lit/
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>>7750270
dont bother he's garbage
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start with his poetry.
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Read Post Office. It might be his best.
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>what's outside the window?
hopefully a paragraph break or two tbpfhwy
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"Outside" is ambiguous here: do you mean it in a 2D or 3D sense? If 2D, then the answer is {"FEBRUARY 15", "What's outside the window?", the dashed frame of the window} i.e. a 3-element set. If, however, you meant it in the 3D sense where you're supposed to 'look through' the window, as it were, then the answer is: O.
On a serious note though, a dashed rectangle is not a window: it is a dashed rectangle. Hence "what's outside the window?" is really a context-sensitive question: it may bear either of the truth-values ∈ {T, F} depending on whom you are asking (what's outside of my window isn't outside of your window, unless you're currently hiding in one of my closets).