Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4244. page

>>7742630
No one for trialectics?

>>7742630
>Mystical marxist and spatial theorist

>Mystical marxist
ayy lmao?

>spatial theorist
Does he know shit about the geometry of Minkowski space-time?

>>7742870
Yeah he does. Check out the first 10 pages of the book I referenced above for a scope of what he's on about.

"Banana Kiwi Fruit Prostitute"

Is going to be the title of your first novel. I can see it now, 1.5mil publisher advance, 5mil screenplay rights and full autonomy, the book about the book deal in the 7 figures, 500 million copies sold worldwide in the first 48 hours. The genius our generation needs. Thank you 4chan, you saved humanity again.

it's not

You're reflecting on your mistakes.

I'd read The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides before Aristophanes (otherwise it would be like watching The Thick of It, without knowing anything about British politics)

1984
Brave New World
throw in something by some Russian or something

add the lottery to your list anyway

>>7742519
>write in libreoffice
>1folder
>3 sub folders: illustrations, published, PDFs
>6 files: 3 novels, 1 crap,2 collections of short stories, plus extra files for the occasional article
occasionally copy folder to USB stick and other pc as back up

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Cioran

The Daodejing

The Gospels

Delete this.

>>7742432
i fucking love this post. Hamlet as an insecure fatty. Hamling, more like.

no.

every good writer reads a shitton

>>7742391
Thats what i figured, but thought maybe there'd be a couple extreme outliers

Outsider literature is only endearing in its banality. The majority of it is garbage or schizophrenic manifestos. The whole concept of outsider art centers on patronization.

hello! let me explain to you, /lit/ is a part of 4chan. 4chan is inherently meme-versed and only meme-versed. mcelroy's talents, while good, are not meme-worthy. you seem to have confused discussion-worthy with meme-worthy. glad to have cleared it for you though.

>>7742378
>but why is he excluded where Pynchon and Gaddis aren't.

Probably because he's actively preventing the publication of his most famous book?

>>7743442
you raise a good point.


See I read stories like Night Soul or his book The Letter Left to Me and it feels like reading Delillo. Some kind ineffable thing not being expressed because communication is flawed, it feels like his stories are about what moves them more so than the plot itself. He just seems ahead of his time, but ultimately ignored.

No, but the game was pretty dope.

I liked the book with the underground zombie dinosaur lab better.

I've always heard about the pure concentrated awful of SD Perry but is it really that bad?

Why do people find this book difficult?
Is it just due to the characters?

>>7742369
it's that, the scientific terminology that (although not that complicated) can wear on people without a background in that field, and the vast amount of episodes that (seem to) have nothing to do with the previous one.

>>7742368
It's not exactly a masterpiece but it's still pretty good. It's not that difficult to read if you keep focused and don't just let it set in as you would a novel written in plain style. And check out the wiki for things that go over your head

>>7742368
>>7742369
First section is the hardest and then it gets easier to read even though everything gets crazier.

Or just read a plot summary.

also, sage

Try the homework board >>>/hm/

we

>>7742322
got trolled into going there and then unironically ended up browsing for a few minutes

not really
there's likely to be many undistinguished works published today that will bear some significance 100 years from now. Much of our culture is immersed in easy entertainment-- low tier film, comedy whatnot. Advances in technology may be the culprit. [We] now have twitter sized attention spans and scroll through the same facebook content aimlessly.

>>7742254
Its just taking some time to figure out its next phase. It's pretty encouraging that so many people on lit seem to want to bring it back to life.

>>7742254
maybe you can save it anon, are you the next james joyce :^)

>>7742238
She's wearing clothing just like a man's because she's a strong independent woman.

But there are no bright colours or realistic weapons because this is serious fantasy not historical boring stuff that's for school only :^).

Do we really need more of these types of novels? With the fucking terrible made up names, and the bastardized Tolkien mythology and the generic its just Europoor in the Xth medieval century setting which screams lazy uninspired unimaginative writing with no soul or desire to raise the bar for something that is already ankle high.

I swear to fucking god, you could literally make millions writing a parody of these High Fantasy trash tier novels, but the irony would be nobody gets that its a parody and you can't help buy be sincere in writing the billion sequels that follow.


Why doesn't someone write a High Fantasy novel series where elves have three dicks and just rape everyone, and dwarves are actually hermaphrodites and their beards actually hide a chest cloaca which they are self conscious about, and humans are actually not humans but have like 8 arms, 2 regular ones, then 3 sets of smaller ones around their nipples that fan out like petals on a flower, and sex is mostly just interlocking your nipple fingers. And instead of swords everyone just uses shields and spears, but the spears are actually really long snakes so its more like snake whips, and the shields are super brittle for an unexplained reason and also edible, like made of wafers or sea cucumbers or something, but they're delicious. And people have pet dolphins, but it's super inconvenient to carry your dolphin around so some guy invents a dolphin pack which straps to your back, and you just walk around as adventurers with your dolphins strapped to your back, having to stop every couple of miles to find water for them. And the dolphins help you live or something because the planet is polluted and they filter the bad air with the blow holes and then blow it back into your mouth with a tube attachment.


There. literally 30 seconds of rambling is more fantasy than you'll get on a fucking lifetime of reading this garbage.

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>>7742417
>and the generic its just Europoor in the Xth medieval century setting
Most of the book takes place in not!arabia

>>7742986
once more

speech writer
biographer
political think tank
reporter, journalist
walmart greeter

starbucks

>>7742295
>walmart greeter

>>7742301
>starbucks

Why is this so real?