/lit/ - Literature

>>2359745
I wouldn't know, I'm too busy to have a relation with such a mediocre artist.

>>2359736
I should note I am using the term 'new' to be used as 'another' as opposed to an actual new book.

>>2359735
>Not buying them used and helping your local indie-bookstore.

>>2359729
First time?

I picked up a new copy of Revolutionary Road because my other copy got left in a friends car then 'disapeared'.

>>2359707
The sex is in the documentary.
The sex between paula and sam happens after.

Sam also dislikes condoms.

>>2359659
>Graphic novels
They're comics faggot.

>>2359604
Wrong bro, it's just beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqvXqkscQ2w

>>2359276
>People playing Skyrim
I started, got bored and went and played Fallout New Vegas and Dark Souls again.

Ben Lerner writes Serious Sam.
I can't see it. Sam would just become a meloncholic stoner who decides instead of kicking ass and making Duke look like a bitch, he'd rather stay home and cry while looking at his deviant art poetry page.

>>2358090
You're clearly not a new york jew hipster.
That's okay, can't all be master race.

>>2358102
I'm so quirky, I'm a writer, I got an MFA. I don't go anywhere in life but backwards, or forwards if I press the wrong button on the controller. You should know I'm 90% lizzard. 10% hummas. 0% human. Can we make out now. This usally works at the art clubs.

>>2355958
We all die eventually, you need to eat as much jellyfish and hotdogs from a NYC hotdog stand as you can before the world becomes us and we are the coconuts of Scott Baio's inner thoughts when he makes out with his cat.

>>2358055
[I know it's cliche to love this poem, but yeah.]
***
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
***
I would post more, but I'm not so great with names and I don't have my copy of his collected works at hand.

>>2358009
>Russel Crowe and Hugh Jackman, fuck yeah.
You for real bro?

That's fucking terrible. NOT FUCK YEAH!

>>2357980
Mah nigga.

I liked it better than Les Mis, but then Les Mis was 80% filler.

>go to a library
>rent a book
>find a 40oz in a book
>get so high like biggie's cds would in the charts.

I remember reading e.e cummings in high school and falling in love with poetry.

I remember reading Burns in high school and falling out of love with poetry.

I enjoyed The Great Gatsby and Trainspotting in High School. I re-read Gatsby a few months ago and still enjoy it. I haven't read Trainspotting since 2005.

Revolutionary Road was the book I did my final year exam on.

>>2357942
I will end up trying again, inevitably. I will make it my goal to at least reach and finish Oxen of the Sun.

>>2357908
I have not, but I am aware of it's importance.

>>2357857
>implying I care about my nationality/let it effect how I like books.
>>2357869
Worse: Catholic.

...I haven't finished ulysses. I always get mid way through the second part and feel no urge to keep going. I just hate on it because i'm so hipster and po-mo.

>>2356018
1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Infinite Jest
3. Every other book written by a person.
joint 4th. Ulysses and Atlas Shrugged.

>>2357825
>Know a girl doing film at a prestigious university.
>she still enjoys Twilight.

Let people have their fun. You don't have to read it.

>>2357746
I know you mentioned 'for dummies' but I seriously can't see how you'd compare GOT to The Wire. I mean really? The Wire was a masterpiece.

>>2357748
I'm an ugly person on the inside. I'm sorry. It's why my thought process is bad and believe that to be a valid reason.

>>2357727
Ugly people read it.