/lit/ - Literature

>>6800420
yeah, not like Gatsby high society but more like sampling the 'great works' cultured high society
i dunno i worded it horribly

>>6800323
the idea is he is essentially a major heroin user and he wants to absorb culture so he doesn't need drugs anymore
it's probably a dumb idea but I like writing from that perspective

an epic poem (w/ prose interludes between stanzas) about a drug addict and his attempts to be high-society to avoid drug use
the final scene is in play form of his confrontation of a painter whose paintings he doesn't get (which he ends up killing, marking his rejection of high culture in favor of drugs)

The Fault in Our Stars

>why
to prevent John Green shitposting

Once my prof called my work Williams-like
does that mean it's totally depressing or what

>>6790504
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>>6790550
>the word 'undergrad' in every post
be more creative will ya

>>6790510
At least it's better than bad-horror-movie cover

>>6788121
i was actually planning on doing one for Gravity's Rainbow
considering GR has a shit ton of references and stuff that go over everyone's heads a group discussion may help everyone understand the refs better

>>6786951
>>age
27
>>current book you're reading
Siddhartha
>>how do you like it
descriptions of the Self and finding the Self are pretty interesting

>>6769798
wasn't this the one where the developer's introduction said something about how much Dante would have loved playing Dante's Inferno on PS3?

Is this supposed to be cautionary or just realistic?

>>6764373
I think it was actually JOI that wrote on the windsheild, I think it said something like that somewhere in the book. But it wasn't even him, it was actually Orin. And Orin wrote (I think) "Joelle" on it and Avril saw that and thought it was JOI, so she fucked CT. Also Mario is probably CT's illegitimate kid considering his mom was really fucked up

>>6750859
I think it says that Hal put his toothbrush in front of a vent or something and when he brushed his teeth he almost immediately experienced symptoms, so it's not too much of a crazy theory to say that JOI's ghost was in the vents after taking Pemulis' DMZ from the ceiling, I mean there's probably vents in the ceiling which led to the bathroom so he probably got there and put it on his toothbrush. I dunno, that's just what I thought

>Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

take a wild fuckin guess what book this is

>Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
>The Book of Delusions
>Malone Muert

>>6716546
Just use those little sticky tabs
that's what I do w/ interesting/confusing parts in a book when I wanna go back to em later

>mfw finished the book yesterday and it all starts coming together
>mfw missed that reference to Don Gately, John Wayne and Hal digging up JOI's head THAT early in the book
and wait, was Rodney Tine Sr. a double agent?

make way for the most patrician fuckin kids book ever

>>6679289
>that part where he copies the guy who saw everything twice
actually laughed out loud

>>6680138
the way I did it was I also bought Pale Fire and a couple other novels I was gonna get anyway so the cashier knows I was just buying some stuff I enjoy

2/3 of the way down page 741, so (not including the footnotes) i'm about 75-76% through the book
given the time I actually have I should be finished by the 19th or 20th

>>6660002
the ones I actually have are GR and Mason & Dixon and the local library has M&D too so whichever
and I could probably pick up maybe V. or Lot 49 at the bookstore if they still have copies

>>6659990
to the extent of books that I can actually get my hands on yeah