ITT: We cast writer biopics. Writers who have already had biopics are allowed. Come on, /lit/! Hollywood needs new material!
I'll start.
>Mads Mikkelsen = Karl Ove Knausgård
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>>7657160
An obvious pick, but it'll never happen.
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am I the only one who can only name like 6 actors?
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/lit/
I finished the first part of pic related sometime ago. I've been meaning to finish the second part, but I couldn't get into the first part very much. Convince me to keep reading it.
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if you need someone to convince you to read it maybe you need a new hobby, since literature doesn't seem to be for you
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>>7657136
>implying that every time I reach the middle of any book I immediately throw up my hands in despair because I don't understand it.
Lol fuck off m8
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The second part wasn't written by Cervantes. Don't bother.
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Convince me that literary taste is objective without using your own personal taste. I'll wait.
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Intertextuality.
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Why would I want to do that, Mr. Halen?
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my dick is hard, they call me the bard
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>Wardine be cry.
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>>7656963
Looks like you're on a pace to finish the book in late-April. Be sure to read the endnotes, which should be manageable.
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>Wardine be cry.
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Wardine be cry.
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Has anyone read The Rage Against God?
I went into it as an atheist and a utilitarian. I've come away thinking that - although he doesn't state it explicitly - societies in which the majority believe in a Christian morality produce better utilitarian outcomes.
The idea that you will be judged by a higher power combined with a demand to love thy neighbour is more powerful than any secular ethical system - when widely believed.
But I still don't actually believe in God or judgement, which puts me in a weird place.
Anyway, what did you think?
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Based Hitchens.
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>utilitarianism
>good
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>>7656900
Rather disapointing if entertaining.
Guy just combined his experiance with Stendhal syndrome and the conservatism that he picked up with age.
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So apparently Pynchon's name is pronounced "Pinch-on" and not "Pin-chin"
what the fuck? how do you lads say it?
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It's Pinchin.
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o is pronounced like o instead of i?
Outrageous!
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>>7656766
go to 1:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPB6GXG7Wa8
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Who wins? Which should you read first?
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>>7656746
0/10
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Life is too short to bother with both of these shitty books.
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Read Infinite Jest first.
Ulyssess should only be read at the end of your life when you have dedicated your life to understanding and enjoying the western canon and reading 2-3 books a week.
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patrick bateman / donald trump 2016-02-03 18:28:23 Post No.7656728
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patrick bateman / donald trump
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What relation do you think there is between the two? How come that with the elections coming, no one asks why it seems so plausible that dear Donald is a role model for (supposed) serial killer Patrick Bateman?
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>>7656728
because that movie was a while ago
>inb4 i'm talking about the book
noone has read the fucking book
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>>7656734
Stop projecting, you fucko. I've read American Psycho eight times, in three different languages - portuguese, 3 times, english, 4 times, and motherfucking french, 1 time. The nuances in Bret E. Ellis prose are superb and his well-thought, meaninfull phrases can destroy any of the silly plot constructions David F. Wallace could ever come up with during his embarassing so-cal lifetime. Call it a self-masturbatory tour-de-force into the wits of a handsome, yet murderous, successful yuppie or, even, a unjustified gory book: I couldn't care less. Call it whatever you feel like, but, in the end of the day, I'd take some rat-in-vagina action over wheelchair'd stoner assassins.
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>>7656788
i meant that noone (okay: very few people) have read the novel; and most anyone who knows the story / character knows it from the movie.
i maybe a third of the US public have seen the movie and very view people remember it with much detail. most people prolly think of bateman primarily as a killer, who just so happens to also be a businessman. i don't think most people think far enough to see the character in context and what that may imply.
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What's a good audio book to listen to while you slip into unconsciousness?
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>using mind-altering substances
>being this much of a pleb
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>>7656650
Bet you're not even published
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>>7656631
The Gravity's Rainbow audiobook is surprisingly comfy.
If you had a spiritual guide like Virgil to Dante, who would you choose?
I'd pick Ludwig
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>>7655567
Chingiz Khan.
Fuck you all, I'm getting bitches and material goods.
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WB Yeats. I have a recurring dream where he is my father.
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Kierkegaard.
I doubt I would fully understand him though
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>mimesis
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>bathos
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>parallax
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>stochastic
>stochiometric
>belletristic
>anamnesis
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ITT: we write the saddest stories possible in the smallest amount of words
i'll start
>"Minions", please. One ticket.
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>>7654731
"OP"
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I tried to express disapproval at the music
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For shale, baby doods, neber warn.
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Hey /lit/,
I just discovered and started reading Clarice Lispector and I am in-love. Found my one true 1940's ignored Brazilian waifu.
Has /lit/ read her? If not, start with The Hour of the Star.
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that bitch looks like she'd dominate the fuck out of me
i bet in real life she was slavishly married to an alpha who privately peed on her
women are constant disappointments, sorry for your bad thread OP
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>>7658936
how dare you
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>>7658936
I also feel like you're one of the goodreads /lit/ group members who'd have an anime or mlp icon.
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>he still reads Ayn Rand
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>>7658843
>here's your reply
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>>7658856
Do you unironically read Ayn Rand?
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>>7658862
Do you unironically shitpost on /lit/, virgin?
I don't go on /lit much so I don't know if he's a popular topic of discussion. I recently finished reading all of Houellebecq's works in chronological order and he seems like a writer that 4chan would love (if you've read him, you know what I mean). What does everyone think of this man and his works?
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Greatest living author
Looks like a wicked witch
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>JUST
>>7658826
he seems cool, thinking of reading soumission
is there any more appropriate place to start?
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>>7658865
I was gonna write JUSTE but I fuck even the simplest of memes up