/lit/ - Literature

>>1417128
This could be true. But from my experience girls treat books as another indie fashion accessory.

>>1417093
This kind of fags is what give academic philosophy a bad image.

>>1417077
I'm a mysogine and talk to women about books all the time at college.

>>1417070
Oh, i dont care. :(

>>1417039
i'm a hairy mexican man.

>>1416990
This is the most retarded thing i've read on this board.

>>1416984
orly? you think so?

Ok...

All to my left:

Necrópolis - Santiago Gamboa (my current)
A "mexican short stories" anthology by Mario Muñoz. (my professor)
La jornada de la mona y el paciente - Mario Bellatín
No one writes to the colonel - Gabriel García Márquez
Ícaro - Sergio Pitol (a compilation that includes his essays, short stories an letters)
Beyond the boom - VA (a study about the latinamerican literature after the boom)
La lengua vasca y el Vascuense - Miguel de Unamuno (some essays about cataluña and its lenguage)
La radio en el pecho - Eduardo de Gortari (Radiohead based poetry, Gortari says his poems are covers of the ok computer songs)
Castillos de Cartón - Almuneda Grandes
Glamourama - Bret Easton Ellis
100 years of solitude - García Márquez
The Trial - Franz Kafka

Ok...

All to my left:

Necrópolis - Santiago Gamboa (my current)
A "mexican short stories" anthology by Mario Muñoz. (my professor)
La jornada de la mona y el paciente - Mario Bellatín
No one writes to the colonel - Gabriel García Márquez
Ícaro - Sergio Pitol (a compilation that includes his essays, short stories an letters)
Beyond the boom - VA (a study about the latinamerican literature after the boom)
La lengua vasca y el Vascuense - Miguel de Unamuno (some essays about cataluña and its lenguage)
La radio en el pecho - Eduardo de Gortari (Radiohead based poetry, Gortari says his poems are covers of the ok computer songs)
Castillos de Cartón - Almuneda Grandes
Glamourama - Bret Easton Ellis
100 years of solitude - García Márquez
The Trial - Franz Kafka

This has potential.

>>1410754
Read Rant by Chuck Palahniuk and let your mind blow.

>>1411902
But true. There are a shitload of respected academic intellectuals, all good at writing theory, essays and studies but couldn't write a novel. Being a great fiction writer is like being a rockstar, both are futures everyone seek but only a few accomplish.

Unless you're some kind of gifted child or a total genius you need to read a whole lot, everyday, for hours.

The Trial by Franz Kafka.

>>1411645
Cervantes can take his place on the chart any day.

>>1411640
Only to communicate with you americans.

>Shakespeare

Better be trolling.

Please, take this critter as gift exchange.

Do opium.

I can't remember a book that really scared me. Maybe It as a child or Charles Dexter Ward as a teenager.

>>1408450
I use a pipe to smoke weed. :)

>>1407550
are you ninety years old? have you read at least one contemporary poet?

>>1407399
Most of it are scams. I don't discard the possibility some self-help book which is not a scam could exist.

>>1407358
Ah, yeah. Same "you can do it" bullshit every author of his league does. Kind of an auto help book. The characters are weakly developed and the plot is predictable, boring and unoriginal, like that shit about the gold and the old woman who was a witch and the main character was supposed to pay for her treasure finding services until he find the gold. And yeah, he finds it, like he was supposed after a shitload of pages repeating the same tamtra over and over again about some cheap shit like "when you want something the universe conspire to grant it to you".

That kind of bullshit is what is inside that "book".

>>1407295
I'm spanish native and read it on "english". I can say i enjoyed the prose and the geeky references i could get.