So /lit/, tell me about your cringeiest Barnes & Nobles experiences.
I puked inside a B&N 5 years ago. It wasn't a lot of puke, just about 100 cc. Nobody noticed it though. I just walked out. I was very young then, so I was completely terrified that the authorities would try to catch me using the DNA from my vomit. I couldn't sleep that night.
>be me
>walk into Barnes and Noble
>ask bookseller where the philosophy section is
>bookseller points to a sign labeled 'philosophy' covered in cobwebs and dripping with blood
>only book available is Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
>ask the bookseller if he has any Intro philosophy in the back
>tell him that I like aphorisms with my coffee in the morning
>bookseller sneers and beckons me closer
>"only plebs don't have innate synthetic a priori knowledge of Kant's philosophy" he whispers
>shrug and walk away
>end up browsing the Nature section and getting a book on turtles
>>7644956
I kek'd
What was the most difficult book you've ever read?
Ulysses.
>>7642022
some shit on film by Deleuze
Gravity's Rainbow. It took me a few months after reading it before it finally "clicked."
Write something in the style of an author. Others guess who it is supposed to be.
god damn i'd marry that girl
but i know she is reading YA so i actually wouldnt
but god damn i would
And but so then from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by Tyrone Slothrop, who sez
—You buy Furniture. You tell Yourself, this is the last Sofa I will ever need in my Life. Buy the Sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter What-Goes-Wrong, at least you've got your Sofa "issue" "handled". Then the right set of Dishes. Then the Perfect Bed. The Drapes. The Rug. Then you're trapped in "your" lovely Nest, and the things you used to own (the fatta the lan'), now they own You.
>Cliches are cliches because cliches are cliched and that sound cliche and banal. Tennis.
>>7646997
Hell yes, I forgot about this book till now. Was a favorite in high school and I recommended it to all the kids who got loked out over 1984 but I don't they any of them ever read it..
>>7646997
It's a great book. One of the best science-ficiton novels of all time.
how can so little be accomplished in 2000 plus pages? did I really need several hundred pages of Brandon Sanderson's ginger witty waifu being an annoying cunt?
Sanderson is a hack.
My shitty excuse is that I'm taking a writing class and I have to write analyses every week while working part-time and studying jazz. I don't know why I do this to myself. I'm just trying to survive man.
I don't know how to write. I have no idea where the inspiration for a story is supposed to come from and I have no idea how you're even supposed to make sentences to form that story. Books, even bad books I hate, make it seem so easy, but when I try I have no idea how I'm supposed to write something or what I'm supposed to write about or why.
>>7646676
I am. Just not very often. I wrote a novel in a month and kinda burned out after that. I'm only about 19 pages (handwritten, probably at least twice that when typed out) into my next one, but it's going slowly.
it took me 2 ? 1 and 1/2? years to finish infinite jest i took a lot of breaks for many months, the second half i mostly listened to in audiobook. I knew if i quit i would never be able to read it again. I am probably a stupid person compared to people here, and i don't know what infinite jest is about but it makes me sad. I can't tell you just like hallie
It's my best friend's birthday next week and I would like to offer him a book (he's a book lover). He likes sci-fi and novels set in medieval times.
What do you recommend? (he's 16)
Don Quixote
>>7645482
I'm pretty sure he's read it for school.
>>7645726
I doubt it
It seems like /lit/ doesn't really talk about Bukowski
What do you guys think about the author who used to go to bed piss drunk every day?
talentless hack. books for non-readers.not literature.
He's fantastic. /lit/ has a hate boner for him. They are merely defensive and acting out of contrarian response to his popularity.
>>7645354
pleb detected
Memes and shitposting aside. What do you really think about this guy and his work? and explain why.
I hope you are capable of such a task, /lit/.
Been here 3.5 years and haven't read him.
Prolly never will.
Good writer, but because he's too focused on the "ills of modern society" and about providing moral fiction for the issues of our era or whatever shit, he's never going to be canonized in literary history. Same with his buddy Jonathan Franzen. Their stuff is the definition of what Harold Bloom calls period pieces.
Smart guy, went to some dark places, could sound like your friend and this really incredible intelligence at the same time. The memekids have kinda soured him on me to be honest though blood relation
Have you read it?
If you haven't read it, why are you still pretending to like literature? Get off this board, illiterate swine.
read it three times faggot
That's not Women and Men
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I just came back from a clinic for suicidal depression, it's my first day at home and I'm on meds for the first time in years. I still feel exactly the same. What books can you suggest to get over my shit? Have any of you successfully overcome something of this sort through literature? No, I don't think I'm special - I'm just genuinely looking for help. Thanks in advance.
>>7640205
read something fun, like Borges
>>7640205
I don't know that just literature will help you out of this slump. I really like reading short stories when I'm depressed, Just simple stuff, maybe sherlock or something. I feel like you'd be better off with some exercise, and talking to people. the more you stay stuck in your head, the worse it often gets. I've saved my mother a few times from suicide, and it's a tough thing to get through. Find someone who thinks you're important. Read lighthearted and funny literature, like Don Quixote, or even something simple and funny, like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, if you like that sort of thing. Who cares about being a patrician right now anyway? I sincerely hope you start feeling better. I'm hopeful and confident that if you're seeking help anywhere, that you'll find purpose and meaning in your life, that you'll find self worth, and not always have to rely on others, (though right now, i wouldnt recommend going alone!). Just be safe, and know that some people love you even if they don't know you.
>>7640205
on the vanity of existence schopenhauer
>The overall industry numbers point to staff makeup that is 79% white, 78% cis woman, 88% straight, and 92% not differently abled.
>One bright spot in the survey results is the publishing industry’s gender composition, which leans heavily away from men/cis men and toward women/cis women
>The conclusion to the survey nods to similar problems in other media, and certainly the film industry’s reluctance to commit to producing or honoring black and non-white artists and staff comes immediately to mind.
http://flavorwire.com/558171/book-publishing-is-as-almost-white-as-the-oscars
>straight white anons think they'll get published
>>7633934
There was just a thread on this two days ago:
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/26/white_women_of_publishing_new_survey_shows_a_lack_of_diversity_behind_the_scenes_in_book_world/
Marlon James claimed that writing in this time was basically pandering to white women, and on his facebook he claimed that even after his man booker he got news through the grapevine that he was almost blacklisted from publishing news outlets until some black female executives got sassy.
>Black gay author
>fighting female oriented industry because of said females skin color
>because he wants a larger share of the publishing pie towards male oriented fiction
The left has basically shattered at this point
>>7633946
Are you going to pretend it doesn't matter?
Amazon told me I can choose one of these books free
>Divergent by Veronica Roth
>The Last Kingdom (The Last Kingdom Series, Book 1) by Bernard Cornwell
>The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
>Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb (The Liveship Traders, Book 1)
>Payback by Kimberley Chambers
>Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan
Anyone recommend any of these?
They're all shit except perhaps this Cornwell I know nothing about, but it being a series means it's probably shit too. You can also probably pirate those anyway.
Corrections
Tell amazon to go fuck themselves
Have you been saved /lit/?
>>7646413
fuck off sage
jesus died
have u not read nietzsche lol
LOL
yeah but by a weird demiurge that reveals itself to me only after occult phenomenology and then often in sexual innuendo
kind of wish he'd fuck off
It's hard to say because I'm not dead.
>Last chapter's title is also the book's name
>the book has chapters
>book ends in a nice number like x00
>book doesn't describe all colors in HTML color codes