Infinite Jest was first published February 1st 1996. Its the 20th anniversary, what are you going to do to celebrate?
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I'm going to read it
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I started reading for the very first time yesterday
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Nothing, because the only reason it is considered good is a lack of proper competition.
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I'm looking for deep and thought provoking books about isolation and loneliness.
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The book of Disquiet
Oblomov
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Moar pls
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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What does Rene Descartes mean by 'intentional being'?
t. dumb shit
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Oh yeah, and this doesn't really deserve its own thread. So this can be a thread for questions that don't deserve a thread.
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Where do I start with Ballsack? Does /lit/ have author charts like /mu/ does?
I'm specially interested in his works that reflect his time the best.
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I've only read Lost Illusions but it's one of my very favorites by anyone, ever. People would tell you to start with Le Pere Goriot.
The Balzac rule of thumb seems to be that we should just pick any of his notable works, because they're all good.
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>Where do I start with Ballsack
Well the generally idea is that you start with the shaft
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>>7649862
you always have to work the balls, though. start with the shaft, but for god's sake work the balls.
"It just goes to show yuh that no matter how biggity a nigguh gits, the white folks can always cut him down."
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Good.
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>>7649804
It's a great book, stop getting triggered every time you hear someone saying something bad about muh white race, you inverse tumblrina.
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It's true.
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Where would I go to download newspapers, magazines, periodicals? I used to use stopthepress.es for that but they vanished a while ago. I'm assuming there must be other sources since most of the content over there was (presumably) lifted from elsewhere
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Unz.org
You can find old and new magazines there.
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Do you have many short story collections /lit/? 2016-02-01 20:08:38 Post No.7649735
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Do you have many short story collections /lit/?
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What's the common connection in each one?
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>>7649735
I only have a couple of DFW ones (Oblivion and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men) and Pinecone's.
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The common connection is that they're all short stories.
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>>7649735
I have ~180 short story collections/anthologies of short stories.
The only common connection I can think of is that they're written by humans and <2000 pages.
What do you guys think about sylvia plath? I never see her work discussed here
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She was a qt
The Bell Jar is ok but lots of people here will say it's shit because it's popular and women like it.
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not very good
her reputation is buoyed by subject matter (can't talk shit about depression!) and life (can't talk shit about suicide!)
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Daddy issues.
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Pretentious writing style? 2016-02-01 18:54:26 Post No.7649520
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Pretentious writing style?
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I'm only a few pages into IJ, so my initial reaction might be wrong, but I already can't stand DFW's writing style. It sounds so try hard and pretentious. He actually sounds exactly like one of my pseudo-intellectual friends who tries way too hard to say basic things in some really convoluted or "poetic" way.
I mean so far the characters are simply sitting in an office, which sounds like an incredibly easy scene to describe, but the way DFW describes everyone in the room forces you to re read a few times just to get what he's saying.
I'll continue to read this, because writing style isn't everything, I'm mostly just wondering if anyone else shares my opinion.
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>>7649520
That scene is from the perspective of Hal, a kid who brags about memorizing dictionaries. It's not all like that.
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Ah, so the pretentiousness is a character trait, and not DFW's style in general?
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maybe, get this, it's symptomatic of some certain lack on your part (now I'm not saying cognitively per se, it could very well be imaginatively) rather than of some ostensible bogeyman pretension on his--
Or not, welcome to pomodernism.
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DAVID ATTENBOROUGH CALLS ALL BOOKS "MEMES" 2016-02-01 17:40:06 Post No.7649303
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DAVID ATTENBOROUGH CALLS ALL BOOKS "MEMES"
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Sir David Attenborough, in an interview with the folio society, describes all books as memes
Skip to 2:43 in the video
Will we let this egregious offence go unpunished?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi01gyThiSc
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Are you actually retarded?
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holy shit
You're a special kind of stupid aren't you?
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Journals? Do you Journal entry daily? I've come to realize that Journals and daily entries are helpful to get to writing.
I'm using a standard word processor, but I'm wondering if there is a specific Journal program for the computer. I use GNU/Lunix and while the standard word proecesor is fine, I can only wonder what /lit uses.
I wish there was a console Journal app that would give me a black background and a green text so that I may write in the dark without straining my eyes. It would be nice if it created a search of the entries and automatically time stamped the entries.
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use focus writer
you can change the backroung and the text
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Use paper
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>>7648538
No, fuck that shit. If I'm going to waste my time anyway, I'd rather write a shitty poem than a journal entry.
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how important is setting? how do you guys handle it?
i find my short stories often have a pretty clear setting in my mind, but I go sparse on descriptive detail in my writing, it's not only that I find writing location descriptions as tough and a little awkward, but I often feel like it may be extraneous.
the other problem I have is writing a story in some vague imaginary new york, but I have trouble describing it because I've never really been to new york. I give some barebones literary description of the big mean city, but I feel I probably don't communicate it much.
so?
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Its only as important as its needed to understand the story. To fully grasp Tolkien's work you need to know about his setting, not so much with say a Borges story.
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My philosophy is that a story arises from its setting. A setting is crucial to characterization, especially in a cultural and regional context.
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Sup,/lit/ bros? Broke college student here. Do you know where u can download pdf files of books for free? Shitty to ask, but i can't pay 100 dollars for 1 book. Can you help?
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Get a job you lazy piece of shit.
sage
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google the name of the book you're looking for followed by pdf and occasionally either include the word blog or google docs
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I'm a non traditional student. I'm already paying rent, car, bills, internet.. But internships don't pay much.
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ITT: Meme books you are allowed to like
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You're allowed to like any book. Why would we care what you like?
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He rapes his sister
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>>7645304
Who is this "we" you are talking about?
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What was his best book, /lit/?
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it
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I liked Misery. Haven't read any of his other works.
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The Stand.
Even *he* thinks it's his best work.
Though if we're including the Bachman books, then the correct answer is The Long Walk.