>STEM fag turns into pseud: the novel I'm really enjoying

The ending destroyed me. I didn't know it was possible to get that blazed.

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>>8450379

Hijacking thread.

Recommend me some NYRBs brahs.

>>8450359
best cover

This dude was always a non-STEM at heart.

>>8450700
He was actually some kind of proto-r9ker.

>>8450484
Why would you ask for recommendations based on publishers? This is ridiculous. You don't like reading.

>>8451269
why would you assume he doesn't like reading? the logic just isn't there.

>>8451269
moron

the guy who runs NYRB has GOAT taste and publishes mostly whatever he likes

>>8450484
modiano nyrbs

>>8450484
Renoir, My Father
Simon Leys - hall of uselessness

>>8450484
sleepless nights
speedboat

my n*gga lomax

>I haven't been able to put it down
>He says while putting the book down and poating on /lit/

>>8451347
I'm more like Dave Masters. Intelligent,nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

>>8451347
Fuck Lomax tbqh, reminds me of an annoying drunk uncle.

>>8450359
recommend me something written in a similarly clear style

>>8451376
so you're more like dead ?

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>>8451387

>>8451390
sorry op, but you should have watched the spoiler

>>8451271
Because he's clearly reading to show off.

>pick a book by its author, theme or content
>if its written in a foreign language, choose translator
>check quality

NYRB are beautiful and feel amazing when holding and reading them, but you don't get to pick the publisher until the last step. If you do it in reverse, it's clear you're a poser pretending you like reading.

>ywn write something as intense as walker's examination by stoner, lomax and holland

>>8451399
you're not making an argument, just presenting a system of your creation as if it were self-evident

it isn't

>>8451412
Ok anon

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>"You are familiar with Lord Byron's more important poems, are you not?"
>"Of course," Walker said.
>"Then would you care to comment upon 'English Bards and Scottish Reviewers?'"
>Walker looked at him suspiciously for a moment. Then he smiled triumphantly. "Ah, sir," he said and nodded his head vigorously. "I see. Now I see. You're trying to trick me. Of course. 'English Bards and Scottish Reviewers' is not by Byron at all. It is John Keats's famous reply to the journalists who attempted to smirch his reputation as a poet, after the publication of his first poems. Very good, sir. Very--"

>>8451285
Modiano is overrated bro.

That was such a great book man.
I want to loved Stoner so strongly. Give him what his wife didnt.
Feel his sweet tender love inside me

>>8451447
you probably haven't read any of his work you pleb dolt.

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>>8451443
Man that scene made me rage. Literally pissed me off for several hours afterwards.

>>8451464
Just read the first novella in Suspended Sentences and didn't read on. Cool mysterious French vibe, fun atmosphere with lots of dreary shit. But that was all I got out of it. Decided it was all Nobel hype. I'd give him a second chance if he had something that had more...emotion? If the only emotion is "atmosphere" and it's not charged by human behavior, I lose interest.

>>8451477
if you want more than atmosphere, then perhaps give 'young once' or 'in the cafe of lost youth' a try

>>8451285

modiano is lowkey blowing up on /lit/

its like watching my little indie band become normie popular

but modiano only has two nyrb books and neither are his best. young once is a nice little read and the cafe of lost youth doesn't do modiano's capabilities the right service. desu if you read cafe of lost youth, you should read after the circus then after. together they feel full.

out of the dark or honeymoon are a better introduction into modiano as a writer imo. they're his sweet spot. his earlier work, the occupation trilogy, are completely different in tone and though good, not really how modiano writes anymore. they are a lot more surreal i guess. missing person, paris nocturne, and so you don't get lost in the neighborhood bend more toward the noir end of the spectrum.

>>8451490
i thought young once was overtly detached desu and still heavy in mood and atmosphere.

>>8451477
the nobel was more for modiano being one of the few writers to shine a light on french compliance with the holocaust during the occupation. his first three novels mostly take place in this era. this was before he decided to start writing noir based novels heavy in mood and atmosphere. check those out. my favorites the night watch. it's about a french jew who works with the gestapo and resistance at the same time but told in a much more wtf like way - it's not a straightforward narrative

How based was Walker when he shut down that pseud the borderline-virgin Stoner had a crush on?

>>8450484
The Invention of Morel

>>8451399
But 99% of what NYRB doesn't have an alternative.

>>8450359
>STEM fag turns into pseud
i really dont know why the people on /lit/ hate STEM so damn much. your college daze and shitty relationships arent going to back a genius novel that you might think its going to. get some real work and experience under your belt, thats way more interesting than hearing how you think your so much of a creative individual and that people should take you seriously.

>>8452017
Kys

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>>8452303
>getting this mad on 4chan

I just read a summary of this. Seems depressing as fuck.

>>8452287
And that's ok, but you get there because that's the publisher editing what you want to read. Not the other way around my man. It doesn't make sense. It shows that you're more worried about collecting pretty hipster decoration than actually reading the book.
NYRB are beautiful and feel so good in my hand. It's the publisher I'll choose most of the time if the work I'm interested in is edited by them.

>>8452374
>he doesn't read sadness porn and then cry himself to sleep

>>8450379
I like how you totally think it's not about weed till the very end whenLomax and Stonder and Edith and Walker all manage to get along by just getting so blazed that they go to White Castle and get in all kinds of scrapes

>>8452500
haha i am not joking WHAT did that Stonder guy even SMOKE this is INSANE hahaha

>>8452562
lol he ain't called Stoner for nothing dude!