/lit/ - Literature

On the whole, I liked the essays in Consider the Lobster better than A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, so I'd say just read the rest of Consider the Lobster if you enjoyed A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again at all.

If you want some particularly memorable essays, I'd say "Big Red Son" and "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed."

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/general-philosophy/id381701319

I'm studying mathematics and computer science. I really like that when all my literary endeavors are independent of my classes, so there's a part of my mind I can entertain that's completely free of formal academic obligations.

I never read it. I just watched the movie.

Favorite Keats poem(s)?

>>3130308
Any recommended guides for Wittgenstein?

What else have you read by Shelley?

>>3129194
You said it, homey.

>>3129174
Give enough information for it to feel real and make sense, and not enough as to get side-tracked and uninteresting.

Writing's hard, man.

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule is absolutely incredible. I don't think true crime could possibly be written any better.

There are plenty of lengthy interviews and documentaries available on Hulu regarding Ted Bundy, Ottis Toole, Henry Lee Lucas, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacey, Albert Fish, Richard Kuklinski, Joel Rifkin, David Berkowitz, and others.

>>3129163
Serious suggestion: The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot

>>3129159
Shelley said in one of his essays that Milton's devil is morally superior to God (which is something Shelley, of all people, would totally say).

I've generally contrasted Milton's devil with that of Dante and the ones depicted in the Faustian legends. Milton's is certainly the most sympathetic one, and I think he just plays more at, you know, the things that make us suffer and whatnot.

Forgive me for my incoherent ramblings. I'm quite tired.

>>3129138
It's his way of saying happy birthday to Bram Stoker.

That's how plots work.

Depends how well you write, and why you're doing the thing you do. Take David Lynch's Blue Velvet, for instance. If most directors tried to have a character get shot, just stand there, and then not address it at all, people probably would dislike the movie. But Lynch does it well, and it almost feels - for lack of a better word - natural or necessary.

Sorry, OP. That's the best I could do with what you've given me to work with.

Memorize Paradise Lost, and read that shit out loud. It'll be a lot of work of course, but trust me you will be proud as you look back on it. And besides, how will having memorized Paradise Lost not work in your favor at parties?

Does Good Omens count? If not, then the only fantasy I know other than Tolkien is Lovecraft (assuming he counts).

Paradise Lost is fucking amazing. If you're getting lost, perhaps watch the relevant lectures here. I haven't watched is Paradise Lost lectures, but I watched the first few in the course. He's pretty good. Also try rereading certain passages and reading parts out loud. You don't get to achieve the status of Paradise Lost without not only being rich in content but also being extremely lyrical.

http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-220

There's a good footnote in the first essay in Consider the Lobster (the one about the AVN awards) regarding abortion.

I agree with the top comment. "There are now two further features which I think are interesting."

Bumping because I like the idea and hoping there'll be some neat OC.

>>3128955
This.

If I remember correctly, this is the video in which Sam Harris explains it nicely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRIcbsRXQ0o

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham and The Transposed Heads by Thomas Mann are not the best of what you're looking for, but they're damn good and too often overlooked.

More Hess is also an obvious move.

>>3128382
lol

Here's what I found:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Dune by Frank Herbert
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
and six books from the Harry Potter series