/lit/ - Literature

>>3815973
1st time reading it and i love it
not sure what a neo baroque style awning would look like but sounds cool, and thats what matters
i assume this is the future
really? Emmanuelle? that is something my father watched in the 80's. is this supposed to be the 80'sor the future i get them confused so much cause of "back to the future"
also whats a hashstick

>>3815907
The bottle was finished but i was not. I suckled on the glass as if it were my mothers nipple. Empty but for the promise of scattered fumes and condensation. The elixir was gone. That which promised to twist my mind into a more mailable state. A Form more pleasing to me , more suggestible to others, more masculine to women, more jovial to men, and less weighed down by morals and consequences. Now lost in reality with no hope of escape i splayed my limbs over the cold linoleum and tried to focus my mind on more fruitful pursuits. My mind virtually accounted my balances, my excesses, and arrived at the conclusion that if my karmic value was right then my jacket pocket should have enough change to see me right once more.

>>3815923
I like this
>Venus lay pale on bed; her body bare and beautiful

I don't like this
>A statue suspended in motion
No NO NO i cant let this go change it
>Her bare breasts, two pale mountains, frame a rose red gunshot petal.
I like the image but I suggest "Her bare breast cast shadows like two pale mountains framing the blooming red rose gunshot wound ."
>In my mind, a single wet rose petal dropped on a vertically endless stone field, while two torrents of blood gushed along each side.
ts just unnecessary and confusing
>Awful, yet... awful.
that's awful. Try "Awful yet i am full of awe"

>>3815787
Any "arbitrary" scales or scores would be invalid since they were man made.

>>3813858
If i could hijack the conversation for a moment what sites do u use to get audio books i use Piratebay and theaudiobookbay
Also i really liked "A long way gone" by Ishmael Beah because he reads it himself

>>3813858
I have listened to alot of audiobooks over the years since my commute to work is 3 hours and it is ant night or early morning and i cant see well

For u i suggest Elantris preformed by Graphic audio

>>3815646
thanks from me 2. i wanted to read Lovecraft, but since none of his books are in a series or timeline i couldn't decide where to start. u made it easy

>>3813626
Saga of seven suns by Kevin j Anderson is what i am reading now but i am not sure if i would recommend it. I like the different branches of humanity (space Gypsys are my fav)but i feel the alien races havent shined yet but i only just started the 1st book

>>3813689
i wanna know too

>>3815234
I want to read a story from James bond villain's perspective. The hero is an annoying pest the protagonist cant get rid of and all his minions are far too incompetent to catch. I see a simple comedy but i would like to see a serious inner struggle of a man who wants to change the world for what he thinks is the better but the world just wont stop messing with his plans.
>Kafka+beatles= not/sure. i will read metamorphosis and get back to you on that
>>3815313
i would read that but when he finally does what Kafka asks Kafka must still harass him since any efforts he makes are pointless and inconsequential next to the great publishing giants and internet.

>>3771943
i think dwarf and human since dwarfs pass off easily in the human world and "mud" is like a bastard child of dirt

>>3775079
its one of my favorite books i ever read and why i like scifi

>>3774993
>Murakami was too cool for my school
ya u and me are going to be fast friends
i will keep an eye out for those other suggestions
>>3775027
i see what u mean

"dat prose"
i cant stop chuckling

>>3774945
Artemis fowl
is the best series i can remember that made me wanna read more books i definitely suggest this all the time i was making other suggestions i was trying to remember Artemis Fowl

also i just read murder mysteries my mom read so if u read something he might find it more interesting

>>3774945
Brian Jacques
i remember when i was 13 i loved everything he wrote

>>3774945
maximum ride
sherlock holmes
edgar allan poe

>>3774945
harry potter
twilight
hunger games

>>3774945
wheel of time
game of thrones
dune
ringworld

>>3774948
what books do u think are cool?

>>3774921
hemming way
and every Irish writer agree with u

>>3774882
ya i was a bit harsh
but i do think 50 shades sux but i only read the 1st chap so i cant judge my mom sis and friends who are girls all loved it (except my cousin she thought it sucked)

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your all cool peoplez

>>3774831
for clarification i am 26yrold white male from NYC who graduated university with a (guess what kind of) degree. should be easy not philosophy or English lit.
also nothing childish about believing government is the biggest extortion racket out there

>>3774742
thank you for your response i found it very easy to understand and i will read more of his work.
>darkly complex, senseless, and I suppose ironic.
when i hear it used its more darkly senseless and absurdly complex
as in "The Dmv has a Kafkaesque fascination with torture by means of patience"
I suppose his other works could present more complexity and absurdity so i will refrain from use Amerika as an example of that.

I have to admit I am an anarchist and i didn't find anything he wrote or that others described "profoundly disturbing" but i do agree the depictions are accurate.