Hey, /lit/, which non-fiction would you say is really well-written? I finished pic related recently, and it was a real pleasure to read in a way that academic writing very rarely is, in my experience.
I studied history, which should be a relatively good subject for nice writing, but from what I remember most of it was serviceable at best.
Pic also related: a nicely-written history book.
Anyone reading that ?
>>7592578
No, but might soon. How is it?
>>7592668
I don't know, I was asking because I'm planning to read it soon.
>>7592684
Yeah, cause it's not out yet.
This book is terrible. This book is Reddit incarnate. There is no doubt about that. However, I have a strong compulsion to buy it. Ishmael, I know you're out there. Please put it back up on Lulu or provide a download link-not just the viewable Google Doc. I'll give you your few shekels, you won't even have to donate it to charity.
Now, so this can stay on the board until Ishmael sees it, let's discuss this "book" and compare it to the /lit/ canon. How does it hold up to Tundra, the sequels, Kolsti, and Hypersphere? Did we automatically assume it was an abomination without taking the time to look into it? Should we have given it the benefit of the doubt?
Why would you want to own it if you just said it was shitty
How can i self publish anonymousely? Im thinking about writing some memebook and spamming on here for extra bucks from meme suckers
>>7590978
You have to have a book written by enough people to excuse it's shittiness.
What does lit think of László Krasznahorkai's Satantango?
So ... did the graphic designer who made that just draw a bunch of random white lines on it?
...god, graphic designers are idiots.
Too long
>>7587982
look closer dipshit
Hey /lit, I need your help. My literature professor challenged me earlier today.he recently hung a Chinese or Japanese style umbrella from his ceiling with what appear to be origami coy fish (or possibly trout) above the umbrella, as if raining down onto the umbrella. He bet me 5 to 1 odds that I couldn't guess the book it's in, or some relation or derivation of the imagery depicted. What book is this imagery from? My best guess is some kind of Asian literature, but I could be wrong. My professor is Asian by the way.
>>7587691
The Sound of Waves.
>>7587691
Emily Prager, A Visit from the Footbinder
>>7587691
Gravity's Rainbow
<IRONIC REMARK DEALING WITH GETTING IN TOUCH WITH LITERATURE WITH THIS WORK>
*literary figure making fun of people who did not*
<QUESTION REGARDING WHAT WORKS ARE SIMILAR>
good one
is this some Plebbit joke format
DAVID FOSTER WALLLLLLALAAAAAAAAAACCEEEE
I liked this book! It portrayed an adolescent, anxious, awkward, unsure Japan. What did /lit/ think?
One of favorites from Japanese lit, but I read it few years ago so I don't remember much. I should reread it sometime soon.
Loved it for the summery, melancholic tone and vivid characters. Also, it managed to cure a lot if my anxieties about going to uni I had at the time.
>Sanshiro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7sN7axblc
Seriously though, Soseki is GOAT. Any of you nerds read I Am A Cat?
>>7592208
It's so expensive:(
Has anyone read "Parade" by David Sedaris? I fail to understand the significance of the story or what the story is really even about.
Bump. I understand the narrator is a gay celebrity. That's all I can conclude.
Nothing Sedaris has ever written has had significance. He'll be forgotten 10 years after his death and nothing will have been lost.
>>7591842
>>>/reddit/
I'm teaching an experimental course on fedora literature this semester and here are the 9 books i chose. did I do good?
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
Fight Club
Atlas Shrugged
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
On The Road
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Sun Also Rises
Blood Meridian
>>7591233
kill you are selve
>>7591233
PATRICIAN WAR NOW GAS THE PLEBS
>>7591233
I don't understand fedora literature or meme literature or whatever other bullshit this board comes up with. Some of those works are legitimately good and I don't wear a fedora.
Am I the only gerfag reading this magazine?
General literature-papers thread!
>Am I the only gerfag reading this magazine?
well you're definitely a fag
>>7592373
Nice internetballs
Let's do some word association, just a few words.
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see the word:
Knowledge?
Play?
Future?
Reason
Childhood
Optimism
this game sucked
books
soccer
a flying car
Intelligence
Games
Present
Bout to read this.
What are some other books that take place in Ciudad Juarez?
The idea a city woven in violence is fascinating. And the fact it exists is horrifying.
>>7590936
the movie The Counselor that mccarthy wrote the screenplay for was solid to me, now with a directors cut i think
>>7590936
>What are some other books that take place in Ciudad Juarez?
for fiction there's nothing worth noting yet. there are many writers falling under the "border narrative" umbrella, but only a handful of them have written specifically about the city, hardly any of them has been translated and none of them are particularly good writers.
as for "non-fiction", "huesos en el desierto" is a alright though some might not agree with the direction the author's hypothesis and methodology head to.
>>7590968
>huesos en el desierto
does an english version exist? cant find one on amazon
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zw7cj6f
No cheating faggots
8/10 although they weren't very good questions desu
8/10 as well. Has anyone read it more than once? How is the second time through?
8/10 as well although the questions are more about history than the plot of the book?
>>7590663
I should probably read it again at some point, considering that I've read it when I was 13 and probably misunderstood half of the book
What i am for, lads?
you'll see
I read it on a hot midsummer day and it was really great. I feel like the title story blows all its steam in the first few pages with the death and isn't that exciting afterward. Patriotism was my favorite by far, it was one of the most intense feelings Ive ever got from a book
>go to indie book store in my neighbourhood
>never see any mishima there
>nerdy autistic jittery guy always at counter
>decide to ask for once
>ask him where the mishima is
>he lights up
>gets super excited
>he loves mishima
>i get excited because i made a friend
>talk for 30 seconds about mishima excitedly before i realize he's saying machinima
>he thinks i'm also saying machinima
>too awkward to pull out or admit the mistake now
>spend 15 minutes talking to this guy about machinima
>don't know much about it so i'm bad conversation
>just referring to some random shitty machinima i saw on youtube in 2008
>not even sure if that's actually what machinima is
>guy is disappointed and weirded out at this bad convo because of how enthusiastic and into it i seemed at first
>end up leaving feeling like a weirdo who creeped out the store autist
>can never go back there again
>still no mishima
Post patrician lit that legitimately scares the shit out of you. Interpret as you will, but in my case it's a horrifying, despicable set of ideas expressed by an extremely skilled and intelligent writer. (Pic related).
Milton's Satan desu senpai
Schmitt isn't all that bad. Surprisingly respected by some on the left. Also didn't puss out of Nazism when the going got tough. Good on you, Carl.
>>7591553
blood meridian desu senpai. Thinking about that book keeps me up at night.