/lit/ - Literature

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Face the Strange. Or as the author writes it, FaCe tHe StRaNgE

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>>761694

Do it.

That and A Scanner Darkly.

>>761616
They're okay. Galactic Pot Healer is really strange, but provoking toward the end, kind of like how Androids peters out toward the end and turns more into a book on philosophical thought. Martian Time Slip is one of his earlier one and is a bit eh... "lighter" but has some experimental bits with the concept of time and is an entertaining read.

>>761594
My Dad read Ubik when it came out and said it was just too weird for him. This is coming from a guy who absolutely loved Tom Robbins.

Is it really that weird? I know Dick can be weird, but if it's good I can past some weirdness.

Also, I forgot to mention that I have Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, which apparently is one of his few non-Sci Fi novels. Has anyone heard of it?

Let's get a Philip K. Dick thread up in this bitch.

Man, I love Dick. I can't get enough. I've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Galactic Pot Healer, Martian Time Slip, and A Scanner Darkly. I'm currently tearing through The Man in the High Castle and I have Flow My Tears the Policeman Said in queue.

What does /lit/ think about him? Do you guys like Dick?

Willie!

I love listening to Philip K. Dick audiobooks. Reading his characters and their overly-introspective rants can be a little tedious, but when they're read allowed, they sound much more natural and less tangential.

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What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Oh shit. This is why I should always make a quick run-through of my posts.
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.>>605741
You are a God. I really wasn't expecting someone to help me with that.

>>605747
In no way did I want to get homework help here, I really just wanted a topic about crazy essay ideas people have had.

Like, one of my friends right now is writing a ten or so page paper on the cultural aspects of hummus in You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

So, /lit/

I was in want of a thesis for this research paper for which I have to submit an annotated bibliography in about...19 hours.

So I decided that I will write about fitting The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn into the tradition of the "bromance."

Unfortunately there's not really any scholastic writing on the bromance. I mean, I could just write about the homo erotic undertones, but what I really want to do is place it alongside The Epic of Gilgamesh and talk about the similarities.

Every had an awesome idea for a research paper but you couldn't find any scholastic writing to back it up?

>>596274
The point is that nothing is supposed to happen, because nothing happens in Chancery Court.

So QUITE FUCKING LITERALLY nothing happens for 500 goddamned pages.

Then a dude spontaneously combusts.

Does anyone else think that the social aspect of Bleak House kind of rides back seat to the 6 or 7 plots running around? I'm writing a research paper on an aspect of death in Bleak House right and I'm kind of fed up with Dickens.

So, /lit/ what's your opinion on Dickens? Awesome crusader for the poor, or over blown sensationalist?

inb4 paid by the word. He wasn't. You asshole.

Prose can make things a lot more personal. You can see what the characters are thinking and in the hands of a pro, can immerse you into the psyche of characters way more than a movie can.

Also, Brave New World is the scariest thing I have ever encountered. And that's a book.

>>537595
Don't be an idiot, Dickens was paid by the installment, and he always wrote twenty installments.

>>538590
Something sits wrong with me when a novel literally has a giant fucking symbol emblazoned in the sky.

That being said, it was probably a lot of people's first real High School reading because the symbolism is so apparent. That's how it was for me. Before that I was reading shit like The Outsiders and Romeo and Juliet in English. The Scarlet Letter's a pretty big step up.


As for "classics" which I don't like:

The Awakening
Bleak House
Motherfucking North and South

Also, fuck the haters saying Dracula. With you and bringing modern expectations of "vampire story" to the table and ignoring an awesome book about paranoia surrounding reverse-colonization.

Okay, Watchmen has no place next to Nietzsche and Rand. It's not philosophy book, it's a study of comic books.

I just picked up the Picture of Dorian Gray. Should I stick with this or find something new?

So, /lit/.

I'm looking for an audio book to listen to on my nine hour car trip tomorrow (the best way to spend my 20th birthday). I can't use torrents because I'm on the campus wireless, so I've been hunting on LibriVox for a good thing to listen to, but I can't think of anything that would be good, easy listening. I just finished a month and a half long lecture series on Bleak House, so I in no way want to listen to something complex on my way home. Anyone want to help? Since its LibriVox, the book has to have been published before 1922.

My favorite Author is Philip K. Dick if that helps.