/lit/ - Literature

I hate Seth Godin for having the same last name as me. Everytime I Google myself for fun, this bald headed fuck pops up.

I think it stems from when I read a lot at my nanna's house as a kid, but she didn't have cable or internets, so I always just read at her house. And no matter what time of day it was, she always had jazz music on. So I usually just put some jazz music on when I read. I can read without it, I just find it easier to read with jazz music playing.

There once was a thread on /lit/
To which nobody gave a shit
It was saged and was trolled
And soon marked as 'old'
An OP threw a raging fit

You had a score of 90% correct on this test. Based on the results we have so far, the average person who takes this test scores 90% correct.

Your percentile score on this test was 50, meaning you scored higher than 50% of people who took this test

It took you an average of 0.44 seconds to respond to each item. The average person who takes this test takes an average of 1 seconds to respond to each item. This means you respond to each item a little faster than the average person who takes this test.


...so I'm a TINY bit different than the average person? Well isn't that a confidence booster.

>>1045023
What's wrong with Barrie?

Sorry for the shitty photo quality. Just quickly took a pic with my phone.

Sticky notes. Sticky notes everywhere. That and little post-it flags.

>write what you know
And if you don't know more than internets, and working full time at fast food, then what?

>>862809
I think he means that if you're complaining about lack of punctuation in Blood Meridian, then you're going to have a time with The Sound and the Fury.

>>861300
I got the King for a dollar at a Library sale. I haven't read it yet, but I am hoping desperately for it to be some terrible an awkward high-fantasy tale.

>>861269
Yeah, my shelf isn't the greatest in the world, but I love most of the books on it.

I have a soft spot for 60s and 70s sci-fi. Is that what you meant by the pulp comment?

>>861263
Or just an English Major.

>>861257
Russian Textbook
L. Ron Hubbard, The Poet/Lyricist
Eye Eye of Argon - Jim Theis
The HOly Qur'an
Literary Terms and Literary Theory
Phineas Finn - Trollope
Bleak House - Dickens
Romola - George Elliot
Innovative Fiction - Stories for the Seventies
Logan's Run - William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
Make Room, Make Room! - Harry Harrison
The Phillip K. Dick Reader (Short story collection)
Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said - PKD
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - PKD
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland - PKD
Annotated Shakespeare (Complete collection of plays)

Not pictured
Complete plays and poems of T.S. Eliot
Seven Gothic Tales - Isak Dinsen
A Scanner Darkley - PKD
Man in the High Castle - PKD
Your standard High School lit books (Brave New World, 1984, Old Man and the Sea, Great Gatsby, etc.)

Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlow
2001 Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clark
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy - OSC
If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell
Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way - Bruce Campbell
Civilization and its Discontents - Freud
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Crooked Little Vein - Warren Ellis
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins'
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Paradise Lost - Milton
The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay)
Phaedo - Plato
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Welles
The Gold Bug and other Tales - Poe
Lolita -Nabokov
The Dhama Bums - Kerouac
A bunch of Comics
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Conner
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Hemmingway
The Scribner Anthology of Short Fiction
More comics
A Russian Bible
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Shelley
The YEllow Wall Paper and other Stories - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hunting With Spears - Eugene Morris
Who Can Save Us Now? (Short story collection)
Island - Huxley
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (NRSV)
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
Post Colonial Studies
Self Reliance and Other Essays - Emerson
Brown Girl in the Ring - Nalo Hopkinson
Symposium -Plato
Two Programming Book, a Russian Culture book, and a book on Writing Fiction.
The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover - Kinky Friedman
Colonization: Down to Earth - Harry Turtledoe
Lost In Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure

>>823147
Notice how this includes going to graduate school.

This is very important.

>Romanticist

>>791228
>Romanticist

What aspect of Crooked Little Vein are you looking for? The quirky detective-ish story, or the absolute absurdity of all the fetishes?

I'm sure you've already read it, but Ellis's Transmetropolitan is a good one for those who like Crooked Little Vein.

I'm bored, you can email it to me if you so desire. Check the email field.

What's the genre of what you've written?

Frost is a popular poet to teach in High School.

I think OP is frustraighted, because he sees so many people liking Frost as a sign that people are exposing themselves to different poets, and are only saying Frost is their favorite because he was the best of what they were exposed to in High School.

Wallace Stevens all up in this bitch.

>>787262
Idiot.

Cormac McCarthy wrote "On the Road." Jeez.

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You all are good people.

My vote goes to A Scanner Darkly.

You have access to Project Muse where you are, OP? They have some good essays.

Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.