I give you the Doorstop Trilogies /lit/
Whadya think? I'm open to suggestions.
there's no moby dicking in magic mountain. switch for dr faustus. or better: kafka's castle
Celebrity garbage. Try actually taking an interest in literature.
>>7324594
Looks pretty good.
modify book with spook
>the spook manifesto
>beyond spook and spook
>the sublime object of spook
Fuck off
Spook off
Quality thread, good job, proud of you.
Do I live inside a Raymond Carver short story yet?
>spend 5am-930am stocking shelves
>chat to coworkers in tiny lunchroom
>they talk about their dogs, their ill sisters, or another place going out of business and a friend loseing their job
>drive around in my grandpa's buick at night
>drink a can of strong beer by myself in a car in a parking lot
>go into library, guy singing to himself beside me, only discernable lyric is 'she's gone, she's gone'
>too poor to go anywhere
>don't really talk to anyone about anything much
>general feeling of unease
>>7324462
I live some of that. it's suffering. Are his stories like that? kinda interested. describe more Carver-like vignettes please.
>>7324468
idk
like a guy's wife tells him to move out, he lives in the top floor of a rented house. he finds the old land lady laying on the floor, in her room, but notices she is breathing so leaves her. he just drinks champagne for breakfast and always has the television, but not with any sound usually
or a guy gets laid off of his job, he gets dresssed everyday and lays on a couch all day watching television. his fridge breaks and his wife tries to cook everything
a recovering alcoholic lives alone in the house of another recovering alcoholic, he invites his estranged wife and she stays with him for the summer. he gets news he cant rent the houes anymore, the owner's daughter needs it. he has to move out and is seemingly terrified of that prospect
>>7324468
Voyeuristic fables from the American mid-west. Garbage. An iced-over puddle disguised as a lake. Carver is an obfuscator and an illusionist. Pure trash. Avoid.
>yfw Kant solved philosophy
>>7324388
Kant "solved" epistemology you mong (and even thats debatable).
>muh noumena
Here's a challenge: try watching this entire video.
Hard mode: Don't insult the asshat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2IwfWGs-Y
Fuck you and your meme author
>>7324370
Kill yourself
I was making this comparison between GR & SH5 while I was lying in bed this morning. GR is achingly beautiful throughout. My heart just came and came while I read it. SH5 has a great structure and some beautiful ideas but the book isn't a dense jungle of sweaty sexy lexical exuberance. I wish there was a combination of the two.Also: I like Slothrop/Mexico/Tchitcherine/etc. better than SH5's cast.
Be honest, how many of you are going to waste money on buying one of these monstrosities?
>>7324120
Why is the screen so narrow?
ew
>$349 or more
Jesus fuck, it has the functionality of a $20 plastic toy.
ITT the dumbest fucking names you've made up for characters in that novel you're working on
>Dr. Snathing Kohlslaus
>Anaïs Thumpkin
>Byrone Carmonagall
>Gertrude Bismarck
It still hurts to think about that one
>>7324094
Vendigo Honduras and Donovan Morgenstern
I think they're still good namesfor noir detectives going deep undercover as gay porn actors
>Jake Bidness
To be fair, it's an alias and it's established as being dumb in universe, but even then.
What's wrong with Fan Fiction?
I'm not asking what's wrong with most Fan Fiction out there (Like terrible prose, a poor grasp of grammar, etc.) but what's wrong with the concept of Fan Fiction?
Why do writers like G.R.R. Martin and Anne Rice basically demonize it?
GRR is afraid of being outdone. By a bigger autist, for instance, who'd both literally and figuratively weigh more, make up twice the genealogies and noble emblems (also known as world-building), and have every sunset find some character in a different sitting position, with bowel movements of various consistencies and flow rates, in exquisite detail described of course, not to mention footnotes on the viscosity, pH, microorganisms and trace elements found in whatever liquids are alimenting their corresponding outputs.
Anne Rice, well, case in point. Who remembers Anne Rice? Vampire romance! Get on with the times, old lady.
>>7324139
I disagree on Martin, he is enough of an austist to be like, this is MY world, I created it, and YOU cant have it. In my younger days of tabletop gaming, I knew some dungeon masters who would get extremely upset if you reused favorite characters from their campaign in your own, or even reused your own characters that lvled up in their campaign.
The real problem with fan fiction in the recent context is that we are not going to get short novellas in the world of say, Camus or Hubert Selby, or even something from classic film, like The Virgin Spring from the killers perspective. Considering hiro's liberality displayed, we are going to get /mlp/ and naruto fanfiction, and all that it entails
>>7324153
>be like
say, asshole. The word you're looking for is say
ITT= Overrated books
ITT: Books that you were forced to read in High School
>>7323998
>tfw no one forced me to read a book in high school
>>7323996
Books you are still not old enough to get
>tfw Gilgamesh achieved his eternal life through his epic
Are there any other good epics that take place before Christ?
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana
>>7323949
>Gilgamesh achieved his eternal life through his epic
Except he didn't. For him eternal life was being safe from the underworld, not some shitty recognition, shitty to say the least since he's nowhere near as well-known as Achilles.
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>>7323889
Incoming ban in 5
U-Uh thanks /b/ we have fond thoughts about you too.
>>7323889
Is this post modern? Or is it structuralist?
Would Adolf Hitler have browsed /lit/ if he were alive today?
>"Adolf wrote a great deal during this period. I had discovered that it was mainly plays, dramas actually. He took the plots from Germanic mythology or German history, but hardly any of these plays were really finished. [...] Adolf showed me some of his drafts, and I was struck by the fact that he attributed much importance to magnificent staging. [...] [I told him] the most profitable thing would be to write some unpretentious comedy. Unpretentious? This was all that was needed to make him furious. So this attempt, too, ended in failure."
p.176 / 177
>"In Linz, Adolf had started to read the classics. Of Goethe's 'Faust' he once remarked that it contained more than the human mind could grasp. [...] It is natural that, of Schiller's works, 'Wilhelm Tell' affected him most deeply. [...] He was profoundly impressed by Dante's 'Divine Comedy' [...] I know that he was interested in Herder, and we saw together Lessing's 'Minna von Barhelm'. He liked Stifter partly I suppose because he encountered in his writing the familiar picture of his native landscape, while Rosegger struck him, as he once put it, as 'too popular'"
p.181
>"Every now and then he would choose books which were then in vogue, but in order to form a judgement of those who read them, rather than of the books themselves. Ganghofer meant nothing to him, whilst he greatly praised Otto Ernst. [...] Adolf read Ibsen's plays in Vienna without being very much impressed by them."
p.181
>"As for philosophical works, he always had his Schopenhauer by him, later Nietzsche too"
p.181
>>7323824
What source is this? Because Hitler bragged a lot about reading all this shit, but his flatmate and former friend in Vienna (I think, paraphrasing from memory a book I've read two years ago) attested to the fact that there really wasn't any philosophy to be found, and he never publicly showed his knowledge of these either. On top of that, he wasn't exactly rich at any time to buy all of these things.
adolf this adolf that
all entry-level basic classics
probably, yeah
I'm willing to buy (pic related) edition of Gravity's Rainbow, is it good? What's the difference between this and the 1973 edition beside year, cover and size?
that edition has know printing errors and is missing entire sets of square brackets which occur quite often.
this edition has typos
it's a cover by Frank Miller
reasons enough to go first edition
>>7323826
>google frank miller
>the dude's wearing a fedora in every single picture of him
i'm dying
Is dead souls any good?
why don't you read it and find out?
>>7323749
Yeh but Petersburg tales is better
>>7323749
It's among my favourites of all time. It is funny, insightful and a scalding satire. The depiction of the many manifestations of poshlost are still relevant today. It is a great shame that it was left unfinished, but it is highly enjoyable in the form it was left in.
Overall though, I have to agree with >>7323767. Short stories are where Gogol really shines, and Petersburg Tales are his best work. I'm not sure whether the Squabble/Ivan Ivanovich is part of the Petersburg Tales. If it isn't, that one is definitely worth checking out too.
My advice would be check out some of his short stories first, to see if you dig his style and humour. The Overcoat, The Nose, Diary of a Madman and The Squabble are all excellent.
>Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of a businessman, or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, I laugh from the bottom of my heart."
My nigga KG's sense of humour is the most underrated aspect of his writings
>Kierkegaard has become my favorite philosopher
>but I'm not Christian.
How do I handle this feeling?
He has made me properly laugh several times. Not smug, ironic smirking, but laugh.
>>7323739
You gradually start to become Christian.
It's happening to me, it's like he reversed all those boring didactic sermons and flipped on a slight and growing appreciation that is beauty looking back at me now.