Good books that don't get often discussed on /lit/
My diary desu
Hi /lit/, i will go straight to the point. I am studying film making at UCLA and while having a discussing with one of my teachers, who is highly renowned within the faculty, he said to me that i should choose another career because of my lack of interested in literature. I tried to argue that cinema and literature are two different things, that he was being to arrogant and couldn't judge such matters, but his conviction made me really insecure and question my decision. So, /lit/, whats your opinion? Do you really need a deep appreciation of literature to do cinema?
>>7562243
>Do you really need a deep appreciation of literature to do cinema?
to do cinema proper, as in good movies? yes. if you just want to make shitty b-movies then its fine.
>I tried to argue that cinema and literature are two different things
eh, i guess if you're a DP, but being a good all-around filmmaker means you need to understand and have read a lot of theater as well as literature.
but do what you want i guess
>>7562243
They are pretty similar. Literature and films both have themes and need to be written well surrounding area whatever themes. An appreciation for Literature wouldn't hurt though. Most movies today are from books too so make of that what you will.
>>7562243
Sounds like you got BTFO and will never recover. Sorry.
What do you think about Bukowski? Where to start?
i "like" him but i havent read him since he was 16
post office or ham on rye
God damn it you cant look up bukowski on the archive? This thread happens weekly at this point
ITT: autistic books
>>7562086
ITT: autistic opinions
does that make this opinion autistic...?
Is the Everyman's Library edition of Ulysses good?
Yes. Good quality production. Good paper/type.
you can safely go with everyman on 99% of books, if not 100%. solid publisher.
>>7561951
good in terms of physical quality, layout, font, no errors, etc.
But a lot of people want notes with something like ulysses, i don't think everyman has notes
It's Friday and I'm drunk.
Drink. Write. Read. Review. Hate.,,
"Have you ever had a major traumatic experience in your life?" I was suddenly caught off guard by the question. In a split second a cascade of horrific thoughts flooded in. Pure brain venom of all things that had actually happened weighed in against ungodly stories I'd hear over the years from others. What qualifies as a major traumatic experience? The doctor looked up from my file to see me sitting there dumbfounded. I stared back blank as a goat. The yellow file in his hands had my name printed on a white sticker. It was stuck to the upper right-hand corner sporting an unimaginative sans serif font. "Mr. Smith," he said, "do you remember any kind of trauma growing up?" I looked up from the file to see the doctor. "All of it." I responded.
>>7561905
not personally a fan of
>brain venom
other than that its alright
Thanks! Half positive is good enough for me. Sloshed as apple souse up here in Washington.
Get it? Apples... Washington... Oh man.
>re isn't an abbreviation for regarding
fuck.
>naked lunch isnt a food themed pornogrpahy
>>7561889
what is it?
>>7562113
it's latin for 'about the matter of'
Well /lit/, the Italian DNA in my blood has suddenly started calling, and I need to respond. Besides the obvious choices of the Divine Comedy and the Prince, what is some good Italian literature to civilize myself? Material from the Middle Ages from Dante to Niccolo would be the best as I love the medieval era, but anything will do. I feel disconnected from my heritage due to my grandmother not passing down the language, so I'd like to restart it with this generation.
Collections of folklore would be appreciated too if you can recommend me anything- just nothing from the days of Rome.
orlando furioso
read the fucking sticky
Skip The Prince and read The Mandrake instead
Do you think J.R.R Tolkien, if he were alive today would he not let anyone have a license to his works like his son is doing? Or would he have been more easy going with it and want to see what others can make of his world.
I think he'd probably shoot himself if the thing he was working on like an obsessive autist for his entire life right up to the day of his death were turned into popcorn movie diarrhea that prevented a generation of children from reading the books and spoiled them for the few who do
I think he would be too busy being gay desu
If he was alive those movies would be 10x better or wouldn't exist at all
Rate this shelf guys.
>>7561678
you seem like a horribly uninteresting, pretentious, and autistic faggot
>he was expecting /lit/ to suck his "intellectual" dick
too disorganized 3/10
I just made it through Barth's collection, not having read any of his other novels. What are other anons' thoughts on it? Did the cohesion (or more often lack thereof) among the stories work for you? Why or why not? et cetera
I loved it and so did pic related
yes Barth's later stuff has started to spiral narrower and narrower in terms of thematic content or organization but he was a true innovator
love me some sot weed factor and giles goat boy yes surree
>>7561546
Curious, how closely did you follow Menelaiad?
>>7561540
If you liked LitF, you'll (hopefully) really enjoy Chimera. It's Barth's masterpiece, at least relative to his later period.
man this book flew way over my head
seriously, what the fuck
>>7561430
PKD used the I Ching to roll for plot while writing it, so it is literally randum xD
i'm not sure i would use the phrase "flew over my head", since that kind of implies that i didn't understand what was happening but i was taken by the ending. in fact, my interpretation was that"the allied powers actually won" revelation was actually a prediction of the future, in the book--it had been implied that the germans and japanese were secretly plotting to backstab one another and i saw it as a prediction that this would go awry and the allied nations would end up on top in the end.this is, of course, contrary to the more popular interpretation thatthe characters were simply made aware that they are living within a alternate history/story. which is very much like Dick but also kind of cliche, by modern standards.
>>7561450
well I'm gonna be honest, I didn't understand what was happening in the last third of the book
I mean, all this political shit happens, with absolutely no resolution whatsoever
Let's post the "muhs" of various writers and books regardless of the genre,
I'll start with Plato
>muh cave
>muh forms
>>7561295
>MUH ANAL AND VAGINAL
>>7561307
Diogenes
>muh honest man
>muh paranoia
pic highly related
Lolita is not depressing, not for us, voyagers of the internets, we on here, 44chan, ae able to withstand the ultimate of tests, anybook, anymovie, anything of naykind can be but fotter for uor ultimare undrstanding. think we mean infinite jest, think we mean big fish, think we mean jams joyce, think we mean grabity rainbow, think again, we mean it all, we are 4chan we do not forgive, toe do now forget, expect us
>>7561071
I spat out my beer all over my screen
Is this the only book you people read around here?
>ask gf to organize my literature collection by theme
>she arranges them by motif
>>7561043
>gf
ree
etc.
>>7561049
Ok, mom