/lit/ - Literature

I enjoy your story very much. However, don't kill yourself. Not only is it an incredibly selfish thing to do to your friends and family, who will spend every waking moment feeling like they should have known, but it will ruin this girl's life as well, and will lend her incapable of having a healthy relationship with another man, because every time she looks into his eyes or kisses him, she will think of you, and how if she only accepted your love, maybe she would be with you instead. Let me tell you something OP. I once had a girl I thought was perfect. God, she was beautiful. And I knew that if I told her how I felt, she wouldn't feel the same way. I thought that I would only be happy if I was with her. I thought there was nobody more perfect. But what I realized is that women are not one in a million. There are hundreds of thousands of women just like this girl who are just as sensitive, just as intelligent, just as attractive, who listen to the same music and watch the same movies, who laugh the same way and toss their hair identical to your dreamgirl. OP, get over your crushing feeling that there will never be another woman who will love you. If you are 21 or older, go into a club with some of your buddies and fuck 10 sluts who would probably do anything for a guy like you. After this step, reexamine your girl. See just how special she is now. Then, play the field again. Find new girls who are just as awesome as this one. I guarantee you that you will if you look hard enough.

Northbrook

The Road

>>803919
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to read, and the action in the book is really well done and meticulously detailed. It's surprising how well the author (his name escapes me ATM) predicted the future. There's a lot of great humor in it as well, kept me in stitches as often as it kept me on the edge of my seat.

Looking for some good summer reading recommendations. I'm down for anything, but here is a list of some of my favorites.

Snow Crash
Black Swan Green
The Possibility of an Island
The Black Dahlia
The Game
Blink
Ender's Game

>>798440
I love it.

>>798459
Neil Strauss is great. You know someone is an excellent writer when they can make a Taylor Lautner interview that basically consists of him vehemently denying that he's ever done drugs or had any fun and awkshucksing at Neil Strauss interesting.

Mussorgsky always puts me in the mood for kicking the crap out of somebody.
I put the record on the player, the player that used to be in our Sitting Room at our home in The Big Sur, and the room is instantly filled by the cacophony of crashing cymbals, booming timpani and brassy, majestic horns, doing battle with the imperfect acoustics of the square foot of space that these people call a dorm. Everything about the piece screams power. The way he has arranged the french horns at the beginning to perfectly accent the trumpets, an 18th century call-to-arms, or the way that the forty or so violins all rush to fill their parts, filing in and out of sync and then - Crash! - the drums kick in again, rolling towards you like a lumbering mastodon right out of a hollywood movie, everything about the piece makes me want to walk right up to some kid and punch him in the face. Which is exactly what I need today.

>>794445
Why does commodities trading suck, according to you? I'm interested, because I've always thought managing a portfolio and stuff would be really interesting.

>>747469
Or 100 Years of Solitude. Why not that? Pietro Crespi is 1000 times more interesting than Esperanza.

>>747458
Exactly. The one "good" male character in the entire book is Esteban and he does NOTHING. For all intents and purposes he could practically be a woman.

I honestly don't understand the appeal behind this "novel". Why, why, WHY do people think this is a good book?

>>747393
Agreed.
I remember how in Honors Sophomore English I had raised my hand and asked the teacher why the hell the main character (Taylor) didn't know how to use a sippy cup. And the teacher explained how she came from a small town and didn't know how to use one because they apparently didn't have sippy cups in middle america. I called bullshit and said that everytime she went to the grocery store she should have seen one. And everyone else in the class was like "derp derp if she's poor and trying to watch her money she couldn't afford a sippy cup that's why she doesn't know how to use one" and I kept trying to persuade them they were fucking retarded.
It turned into this whole big argument about why poor people are stupid. I picked up the book again this year, thinking I'd understand it better, and nope, same old shit. Also, the character of Lou Ann is one of the most annoying I've ever seen put on the written page. 3rdly, it amazed me how Taylor thought she could give a better life for her baby that was given to her on her 5 dollar an hour salary than a State home.

Discuss.

>>450483
In a way, yes. Macbeth was one of the first existentialist heroes.