/lit/ - Literature

>>997099
the wanting seed

>>997028
;-)

if they have any italo calvino get some of his stuff
or infinite jest
or the enormous room. that was pretty good.

i liked it in terms of it being the modern extension of satire. it's a time piece. compared to the frilliness and absurdism of Candide, and the emotionally middle-of-the-road of dickens, it's very stark and blunt. the humor is existential and black, while the proposed ideas for improving our situation are better defined than in earlier pop satire.

but it's just not for everyone.

it was very stuffy until the last few chapters, which saved it for me.

and very russian.

dostoyevsky has very good stories, but i feel like he doesn't have any outstanding stylistic flair that makes his works enjoyable beyond the fact that they are just good ideas.

>>996955
cannabis guy i thought we were literary friends, and then you go on and insult vonnegut.

>>996942
>implying it's bad science fiction

italo calvino

get back to /mu/ faggot

captcha:
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>of course, this thread is imploding

yes

salinger's nine stories blew my shit away
and of course james joyce
and hemingway.

but i don't read too many short stories

get the best degrees you can and apply for professor jobs? you can do anything you set your mind to!

All the King's Men
Animal Farm
Atonement
The Catcher in the Rye
A CLockwork Orange
The Great Gatsby
The Lord of the Rings
1989
On The Road
Slaughterhouse Five
The Sun Also Rises
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ubik

i've been meaning to read Gravity's Rainbow and Neuromancer, though.

>>993082
disconnect yr interwebs

the dubliners is a really great story made of stories- how they're put in order from youth to older age makes it really worthwhile to read the whole thing. that guy was a god.

and i've only read chekhov's novellas, and they're also great. so i imagine his short stories are just as good.

i use a mac, and use either Bean (a free ms word alt) or TextEdit- the mac version of Notepad.

the app shouldn't matter.

How to Build a Boat from Island Materials by R. H Sloan
The Captain's Guide to Navigation at Sea by Donoald Furgerson
The Sea and You: How to Survive at Sea by George Willard
The Starry Sky: Practical Navigation by Stars (28 Star Charts included!) by Jeff DeNiro
DIY at Sea: Solar Stills, Provisions and Other Nautical Necesities by F. S. Heidrich
The Boater's Guide by Thomas Erdrich
1001 Games and Puzzles
Life of Pi
To Have and Have Not
Your Guide to Discount Air Travel by Harry Putnam

yeah that's me.

scary.

junot díaz is from the dominican republic. his stuff is OK.

and my modern you mean contemporary, right?

you should start with Hard-Boiled Wonderland. nothing else compares

>>991141
>pomo
>opinions

>post-modernist
>doing anything passionately

he publicado dos libros en argentina. se puede comprarlos- no voy a compartirlos por nada.

the castle of crossed destinies by calvino blew my shit away

>>991002
cool i'll check it out