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Let's write a book like Tundra or Hyper full of haikus
Just throwing it out there
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>>7733327
in the window I shitposted
my youth bitter pained and alienated
flush
What are some "literary" memoirs (i.e. non-celebrity) that you have enjoyed?
Contemporary recommendations are particularly welcome.
To provide some examples of ones I've recently enjoyed which I've never seen discussed on /lit/:
Tobias Wolff - A Good School
William Inge - My Son is a Splendid Driver
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Paul Auster has a few, and I quite like him/them. If you want a title, then The Invention of Solitude is the first one, and then there's also Winter Journal and Report from the Interior.
Then there's always the big Knausgaard project; /lit/'s always bitching about it though, so if that third line's a criterion, I don't know if it counts.
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>>7733076
Thank you for your suggestions. I've read Paul Auster's work and found it rather underwhelming. His style just doesn't appeal to me for whatever reason. He strikes me as a sort of American Murakami minus the erotic potential.
And yes I've read Knausgaard also, but thank you nonetheless.
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>>7733058
Is this pepe referencing something?
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Started this tonight. Any good tips or resources to help me along? Just beginning episode 3 specifically, which I've heard is a bit rough.
Thanks in advance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_schema_for_Ulysses
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congratulations. You fell for the meme.
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>>7732638
congrats on the worst edition of the best novel ever written
stupid fuck
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Do we read just to put ourselves into a fantasy?
When I was younger, life was filled with such wonder, such splendor, it was as if I was living a fantasy. A world that was pointlessly beautiful.
Now I feel nothing. Every moment I'm not consuming something, I'm waiting to get my next fix. Whether it's food, it's video games, or even literature.
What can I read to get me out of this slump?
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b-b-bump
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write, draw, learn an instrument, etc.
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1. that's a very juvenile reading (heh) of literature. it's more than just wishful escapism.
2. the world is in fact still pointlessly beautiful.
read the sot-weed factor.
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Two /lit/ discussions going on in /pol/.
why aren't you with us, fellow /lit/izens?
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huh, i thought that would work. ah well. anyway, i'm sure you can find the shit yourself.
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>>7732651
>>7732655
THEY FELL FOR IT
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Justifaction to live ethically
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Hey /lit/, I recently came across a question that i'm having a hard time coming up with an answer with, so I was wondering if any of you could possibly answer it.
Given that life is terminal(atheist view), and that their is no reward for ethical existence beyond this life, why should people live this life ethically.
Sorry if this is considered a childish question, but I'm really trying to see how an atheist point of view could justify a selfless life.
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Guilt transcends all ideology. In fact, it's the foundation of all society.
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>>7732626
Well, we have laws that pretty much fuck up your freedom if you don't live ethically.
But generally it's pretty self serving to not be a dick.
I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Makes life less of a drag.
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>>7732626
>a selfless life
Doesn't exist.
A selfless life is either brain dead or just dead.
This is a good one.
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Is there an epub for this? Not on libgen and NYRB ones usually are.
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So, /lit/, I haven't been here for about a year and a half now, after getting a job and doing other real-life stuff, and, more importantly, leaving due to the mind-numbing pretentiousness of the board at the time, and here I am again.
I just finished During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade. Pretty outstanding novellas. During the Rains particularly, but that's besides the point. I'm using it as the image so you guys don't immediately dismiss this thread on first glance as a pleb thread (even though that's totally what it is)
Anyways, when I was putting the book back on my bookshelf I couldn't help but pick up a book I hadn't read in 10 years. It's a YA fantasy fiction book called Posion by Chris Wooding. It's probably just rose-colored glasses, but holy shit. It's a blast to go through again. The prose isn't good but it isn't decidedly trash, and the plot is as interesting as I remember it. Almost like an Alice in Wonderland type vibe, but darker.
So, /lit/, what are your guilty pleasures? Is it due to nostalgia? Are you too patrician (read: insecure) for them?
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>>7732554
You want a medal?
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>>7732563
hows that apply to this thread at all you fuck
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>>7732569
Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like? You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that?
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Has /lit/ even read the starter kit?
Share your progress.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/97103.The_lit_starter_kit
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Of Mice And Men
Huckleberry Finn
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>>7732491
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Huckleberry Finn
SiddharthaI was forced to read most of these back in high school tho
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>>7732491
I've read all except these 6, many of them in school.
>Invisible Man
>American Psycho
>Of Mice and Men
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
>Siddhartha
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Does anyone remember this?
What ended up happening?
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Killed himself.
http://www.bgdailynews.com/police-man-found-dead-in-kansas-city-house/article_ad5d902c-dc26-567d-aced-88532511a7e3.html
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>>7732901
How do you know this is the guy?
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Wouldn't have even raised a eyebrow a couple of decades ago, let alone $current_year.
>The kid was up and had seized a rock but the bat sprang away and vanished in the dark. Sproule was clawing at his neck and he was gibbering hysterically and when he saw the kid standing there looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world. But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them.
>I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
What did he mean by this?
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At the shallowest level it means he gon die.
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>>7732411
But he didn't die. It was simply a little bite and he got spooked.
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>>7732422
His arm was gangrenous. He was slowly dying.
However I don't think that's what the kid meant.
What's literature cool people with sunglasses read
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burroughs, miller, celine
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>>7732337
LORD JULIUS EVOLA OF PIEDMONT-SARDINIA
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Definitely not Pynchon. I tried talking about him with some cool underground kids at my art school and I got a wedgie
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I've forgotten the name of the online libary that I used to get my textbooks from. Can any of you tell me what it was? (i think it was russian)
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nyet
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>>7732321
bookzz or some shit like that?
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>>7732323
Not it wasn't that. It was maybe libgen.org? Some shit like that
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I have two stories that I'm debating between finishing
prose in pic (story 1 is on the left, story 2 is on the right)
story 1: a magic realist martial arts/wuxia story where a boy avenges his father
story 2: a first-person semi-surrealist story where the narrator goes on a strange job interview
which sounds more interesting?
also, general work in progress thread
>what are you working on?
>how close are you to finishing?
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>>7732305
>magic realist
please stop NOW.
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>>7732308
can you explain what your kneejerk reaction to magic realism is?
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>>7732305
funny you should mention wuxia, i JUST learned about the genre the other day. Have you read The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox perchance?
What IS a "good book"?
How do you define literary quality (beyond mere enjoyable prose)?
Is the "difficulty" of a book intrinsically directly proportional to its quality; can a book suffer from excessive difficulty or be good in spite of (or due to) its "easiness"?
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>>7732259
A good book is hard to find.A bad one isn't.
You dig?
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>>7732373
So a book must be obscure in order to be good?
While I can believe that "the classics" aren't as well-read as pop lit and photobooks of cute dogs, I don't think that their obscurity its cause for their quality or vice versa.
And that raises another question, what IS a "classic"? Can classics ONLY be defined in retrospect?
I've been thinking about critical theory and the nature of quality and poptimism vs. traditional academia all day and it's just been fucking my whole shit up senpai
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The Brothers Karamazov