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Where do I go from here?
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>>7518514
To a good book, because this one certainly wasn't.
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Lost in the Funhouse or Pale Fire
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>>7518523
I enjoyed it, you just have to skip the parts where David Foster Wallace forgets you're there and starts masturbating. Otherwise he's very pleasant company.
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>book is written by a woman
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>book is written
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>book is
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>>7518495
>4chan threads descend into reddit-style comment chains
>ressentiment frogpeople post on /lit/
Anyone here has read pic related? Also, what are your favorite spanish speaking authors?
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>>7518412
Everyone here hasclaimed to haveread it.
On par with The Stranger in my view for its topic but without the exposure.
And
>based Borgie
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>>7518412
Scariest book I have ever read.
I see too much of myself in Juancho
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>>7518412
Yes, reminded me a lot of Notes from the Underground. The writing is very good aswell, the last passage about the tunnel is really something else.
Assuming you mean prose: Bolaño, Cortázar, Borges, Rulfo, Baroja,Espriu
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Hey /lit/. I realized I haven't read enough books during my 20 years of living, due to my slow reading and depression that keeps me from being able to concentrate. Also, most books I've read were YA novels in highschool (which I hated when reading) or other meh entery-level stuff like Lord of the Flies. However, recently I decided I should force myself to read more frequently and intensely.
Literary works that I can say I really love are everything by Tolkien, 1984, PKD's Do Androids and The Three Stigmata, Ender's Gamd and Story of the Eye.
What I already plan to read are Pynchon's stuff, DFW's, Le Guin's, Neuromancer, The Tunnel, Foucault's Pendulum, and that's it on my list, I think.
Don't direct me to the starter kit, already read much of it that I enjoyed like A Clockwork Orange or BNW, but I look for "deeper" shit.
So can you guys please suggest your 10/10 books please?
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Anyone?
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>>7518410
Read "man and his Symbols"
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Jesus fucking Christ, /lit/.
Pic related is the new fad in Italy. The "distilled".
Basically, they're novels cut down to 40% or 30% of their original size. Small enough that "you can finish them in the time it would take to watch a movie" (actual slogan).
Some 23 year old assistant editor just cuts hundreds of pages from novels, conserving only the plot and the main characters. The skeleton of the book. And they have the gall to say that "nothing of the original experience is lost".
I didn't even want to believe it, but they're a real thing. What the fuck.
Does shit like this happen in other countries as well?
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>>7518352
To what kind of books exactly they are doing this?
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>>7518352
"New fad in Italy" where.
I've never seen one of those things anywhere.
Do you only buy books at the newsstand?
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ugh, this is more depressing to me than those cheesy textspeak shakespeare things
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opinion on atwood?
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>>7518341
Woman, a non-person twiddling on about republicans.
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>>7518341
I only read The Blind Assassin and was hugely underwhelmed by it, but at some point I'm going to give her another try with The Handmaid's Tale. Always looks kind of intense and highly strung to me- her face is all angles.
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>>7518341
would bang
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What do you guys think about authors that lie about their ethnicity in order to get published? Remember the white guy that said he was Asian?
Sometimes "good" writers are good because they have had more opportunities for mentorship, school, and publishing than other writers. I think it is very important to make room in the canon for previously excluded types of writers. And it's sickening to lie about your ethnicity to take advantage of publishers.
The more we include writers who haven't had the same voice and platform as writers in majority, the better their writing will become, the more inspiration they will offer others, and the more freshness and innovation will be breathed into the canon. No one should be able to play a race, gender, or other "card" to get published, but we do need to make allowance and make room.
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>>7518332
Based
If the publishers can't tell the difference between a poem written by an Asian guy and a poem written by a white guy pretending to be Asian, then that would suggest that maybe it's not that important to have a quota of Asian male poets in your anthology.
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>>7518332
Self publishing should make this entire juvenile discussion obsolete. The market has never been more permeable. Publishing houses are on the way out.
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>>7518332
Race should have nothing to do with literature and it never has; it's a poor scapegoat to hide ineptitude.
But guess who moans when they're obviously less talented.
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Hey, /lit/. I haven't really read in a while, but I'm trying to get on the good side of a girl who likes to read. She recommended me "The Chocolate War," by Robert Cormier. Is she a pleb? Or is the book actually good?
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Bumping for answers
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>>7518181
she's a pleb
that's like a freshman year of high school summer reading book
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>>7518181
No homo: the book.
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So my 15 year old sister asked for and received three books on christmas. They're all from Literally Who authors I've never heard about.
>Aristotles and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
>Vortex
>Carry On
Did she make the right choice?
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>>7518105
The Tunnel isn't on there, so, no, she, unfortunately, made the wrong choice--the worst choice, as a matter of fact.
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>>7518105
>15 year old sister
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>>7518119
If you're gonna reference The Tunnel then you have to post an ePub of it. This is a new rule.
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How many Nobel laureates in Literature did you read?
Whom of them do you like\dislike and why?
Whom of them you have not read yet but eager to do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature
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>Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain is top tier
>Hermann Hesse
Good but sort of too wrapped up in his style to transcend
>Andre Gide
Didn't really click with me, still interested in giving another go
>William Faulkner
A favorite
>Ernest Hemingway
Better short story writer than a novelist. While For Whom The Bell Tolls may be overrated, he himself isn't.
>Albert Camus
Worth the hype, The Plague is top tier.
>John Steinbeck
Haven't read that much but a decent american writer.
>Yasunari Kawabata
Don't see the appeal, really. He's described as comfy but I find that translates as narcoleptic.
>Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An undeniable talent
>William Golding
Strange inclusion, his only lasting legacy is that one book you read as a HS freshman.
>Kenzaburo Oe
Didn't blow me away but still interested in reading more.
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Ive read and enjoyed: Hamsun, Yeats, Shaw, Lewis, O'Neill, Hesse, Gide, Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Camus, Steinbeck, Sarte, Sholokhov, Kawabata, Beckett, Solzhenitsyn, Böll, Bellow, Marquez, Mahfouz, Morrison, Ōe, Saramago, Grass, Llosa.
Seriously people shit on the Nobel but that list has same GOAT literature on it. All of those are worth reading.
I'm not particularly interested in reading the new laureate, but I might check out some of the older ones.
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>>7518077
I read 31 of them
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What is the Motörhead of literature?
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>>7517886
any book used as a beer coaster
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When you find it let me know.
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>>7517886
Hunter S. Thompson
>rock fan
>rock and roll lifestyle
>anti authority
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If a smart person pretends to be dumb during his entire life, just for the sake of it. Could he be considered smart or dumb?
For example, if he always knew that smoking would kill him, yet still smoked (and he doesnt want to die).
Sorry if my english is not great, i just want to know your opinions on this subject.
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Of course he can. What makes behavior likely to reduce your lifespan dumb?
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Dumb/autist
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>>7517855
Yeah no, sorry, this doesn't make much sense.
Could you try elaborating a bit?
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>you're out of town, reading gaddis
>he fucked your girl, cumstains on your mattress
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>shitpost
>shitpost
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>>7517831
NO FUN ALLOWED UNLESS ITS A PICTURE OF A CERTAIN BUCKTOOTHED AUTHOR AND GREEN MAYMAY ARROWS THAT SAY "SUBVOCALIZERS"
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>He's outta town
>reading his Pynchon
>I'm with his gf
>slipping my inch in
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Is there another word in the English language as versatile as 'fuck'?
I'm asking seriously. 'Fuck' can be a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb, and in the right circumstances even a pronoun. Are there any other words like that?
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>swearing in /r/books
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OP, you can do better. Don't pepper your writing with expletives.
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Cunt is both harsher & more versatile.
Just try & sat cunt at your workplace. People will look & get mad.
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whats the easy rider of /lit/?
looking for some 60s70s counterculture realist fiction
(please no on the road ive read it)
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>>7517772
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test maybe? Haven't read it.
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Hell's Angels maybe? Not really fiction but whatever.
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