Now that all posters who haven't read the original meme trilogy are being permanently banned from /lit/ and redirected to /his/ (thanks Hiro), I think it's time to discuss which books should be in the second meme trilogy, so we can whittle down our userbase further. Thoughts?
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Not bad choices. 2666 should be a lock.
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>>7314233
Women and Men by Joseph McElroy definitely needs to be on there. It fits the criteria perfectly.
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The Stranger is missing
1: Your country
2: Rank the top 5 most important and respected writers in your country's canon (n.b. this doesn't mean 'rank your favourite authors')
>Britain
>1: Shakespeare
>2: Chaucer
>3: Milton
>4: Dickens
>5: toss up between Austen, Wordsworth and T. S. Eliot
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>>7314159
>important and respected writers
according to whom?
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>>7314190
people
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Im canadian but read exclusively American (and was born in USA)
1. Melville (obv)
2. Whitman (obv)
3. dickinson (obv)
4. Faulkner (obv)
5. Ashbery, DeLillo (ashbery IS pomo poetry, but DeLillo is probably the biggest influence on writers past the 90's)
Honorable Mentions: Pynch, OConnor, Pound, Eliot, Fitzgerald,
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Describe /lit/ in 5 words or less
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Bunch of fucking faggot teenagers
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The growing pains really hurt.
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Ullyses, gravity's rainbow, infinite jest.
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Who was the better existentialist, Mersault or Rieux?
Mersault always seemed like a whiny bitch to me, especially when he yells at the chaplain at the end. He's like a little kid.
Whereas Dr. Rieux embodied the Sissphyian ideal of struggling against a meaningless situation.
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>esitentialism
>>>/his/
thanks
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>>7313981
Fuck off. You're as bad as the Stirner shitposters. In fact, you're worse because at least it could be funny if you're sleep-deprived or inebriated.
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>>7313981
Are you saying we can't talk about novels now?
The Plague >>> The Stranger btw
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David Foster Wallace substitutes?
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every time i watch a dfw video on youtube i feel fucking dumb knowing that there are people at least an order of magnitude smarter than i am
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>>7313826
That's how DFW felt when he watched Two and a half men.
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>>7313826
Meaning all those other people who aren't watching that video?
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Name some books as good as or better than this one.
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war & war
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>>7313784
Why do you think The Brothers Karamazov is good OP?
If you care to explain i will care to recommend you something.
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>>7313784
The Bible
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How does Hegel's "Lectures on History of Philosophy" differ from Russell's "Hisory of Western Philosophy" in terms of biases and understandings? I just started reading the first in the three set volume published by Bison Books.
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>>7313764
/his/ is thataway friendo
this is not the philosophy board anymore
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>>7313864
I'm asking what the differences are between two books. /his/ is shit.
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>>>/his/ is for philosophy discussion
/lit/ is for literature
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Who else is participating in No Write November?
(We purposefully avoid writing any kind of poem, story, literature, book.)
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also we need some stupid NoWriNo logo
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>>7313707
This is even more dumb than nanowrimo.
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I'm taking a break after Ought to Write October
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Hey /lit/, I want to get into poetry but don't know where to start. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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>>7313652
start with the greeks
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i don't understand the question
why do you think people get into poetry?
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>>7313652
http://pastebin.com/cBZknniE
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Are any of these essays worth reading?
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the one about lobster is funny
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I wrote a paper about Consider the Lobster in college
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>>7313641
Thanks for sharing that interesting story with us.
How many times must one read a text in order to appreciate it like a painting or a song?
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Infinity
Think about it
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Twelve
Think about it
Let's have another one of these.
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Sure, I'll give it another go.
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>>7313594
I don't understand this
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>>7314319
Spielmans father survived literally by being the biggest swindling jew ever
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My recommendation for Nanowrimo?
Don't write a fucking novel. That's stupid. Do however use the deadline to force yourself to write 50,000 words. Then you will be 50,000 words closer to writing a decent novel.
So how do you do this?
50,000 /30 days = 1667 a day (I understand we're at day 2 now but fuck it).
For at least 10 days write 10 stories/scenes/summaries/dialogues of 1667 words and do not try to link them at all. Focus on the technical aspect of the writing only.
Now you have 33,000 left and 20 days. Use these to write either 3 short stories about 10,000 words each or 2 short stories of around 16,000 each.
This way you will drastically improve your writing and make use of Nanowrimo month without writing some rushed shitty novel and you will be much closer to being a decent writer. You'll also have a lot of material to critique/analyse after the month of writing is over.
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>>7313555
>My recommendation for Nanowrimo?
No one asked.
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>>7313573
Source: I'm George R R Martin
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I'm already doing this, It's actually a lot of fun just writing everything that comes into your head.
And maybe these notes will be a novel someday, even if not right now.
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How were Paul and Leto capable of seeing the future. When I read Dune a few years ago I thought their reasoning was extremely fast and accurate, and the Spice exponentially made it even more powerful, but after reading Dune Messiah and Children of Dune I not very sure.
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they were literally bred to have perfect prescience. paul and leto were the result of a millennia-long breeding program
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And Paul and Leto's organisms were saturated by Spice
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Why do people think herapedPhoebe?
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Because this is the Internet, little fishy.
Go read the fucking passage. Besides giving her a hug and bullshittinf about their parents, nothing really happens. He sees her youth and naïveté contrasted in his dying innocence but sees her really beginning to question her own environment and self.
Salinger: Surprisingly straightforward.
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Because he raped his sister, phoebe.
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>>7313382
Because it's in the text, you goober.