/lit/ - Literature

Second thread from /mu/, new year's resolutions started? huh.

>>3305473
Nah, I use to lurk here, but I never post 'cause I've got a pleb taste in literature. But I forgot my ebook in another house and I will use this night for download some books.

>>3305484
God listen to Giles Corey. That was he killed himself.

Have you read all books from that authors?

>>3305499
No, but I've read the most of their bibliography.
I wanna know new authors, so please don't say "read the stuff you haven't read yey"

>>3305506
I was actually aiming to tell you to go for "The Fall" by Albert Camus cause people tend to overlook that novel.

>>3305511
I've read it yet

Go for Kafka.

>>3305527
I forgot him. I love him.

>>3305469

Which Palahniuk did you like/read? That guy's all over the place with his books. If you liked Pygmy, then there's one recommendation, if you were all over Tell All, then there's another.

But as a general follow-up from Palahniuk, I'd go for Don DeLillo - one of Americas best novelists of the 20th century, and also not totally up his own arsehole and wanky, GSOH, own room downtown, steady job etc.

>>3305543

And I missed the Lorca reference in the OP - if you like Palahniuk and Lorca then read Carlos Fuentes. If you can read Spic as well, the Sin noticias de Gurb por Eduardo Mendoza - I thought that was funny and clever. Dunno if it's ever been translated though.

>>3305543
I've read Fight Club, Choke and another one (I can't remember the title).
I'll check him, thanks!

>>3305549
I've read that Mendoza book (I'm from Spain), but thanks a lot!

>penis, penis, penis, penis
Don't be afraid of the vagina. Read some Virginia Woolf.

>>3305581

I almost recommended some Isabel Allende, just to be spiteful. Actually, since you read Spanish OP, Allende's Zorro is pretty good. You've probably read Montalban's Pepe Carvalho books already, but if not - start with Asesinato en el Comité Central and work upwards. They're really superior detective books.

>>3305581
Which Virginia's book should I read?

>>3305603
I can't stand Allende, but I love Carvalho

Also, ten hours without a post and this is still alive? I always though /lit/ was more active, it's pretty sad.

>>3305469
The Marbled Swarm by Dennis Cooper
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hurbert Selby Jr.

It would help if you listed your interest.

>>3307035
I don't know anyone, I'll read it, thanks.

>>3307057
I meant things that you are interested in reading like surreal novels or transgressive novels. Stuff like that. The authors you listed are very diverse it would be nice if you explained why you liked their work.

>>3307067
Oh, sorry, I didn't understand.
Well, let's see.

I love Palahniuk due his characters. They're pretty simple and archetypical, but they are complex as the interaction with their environment (I dunno if environment is the correct word, my english is shit)

I like Camus and Lorca due to the same reason. They "economize" words, but that doesn't create a "blank" space in the novel/play.

I love Miller, Faulkner and Kafka because I found their books pretty "real".

>>3307079
Read Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf the books I listed in my post>>3307035

I think they fit what you are looking for.

Read Pynchon's "V."
"The Cannibal" bu John Hawkes
"The Public Burning" by Coover
Pale Fire / Lolita by Nabokov
"Invisible Cities" by Calvino
"The Recognitions" by William Gaddis.
"White Noise" by Delillo

This will get you started on good postwar literature

>>3307141
Whoa some else read The Cannibal other than me?

>>3307144
Yup. But I've seen it mentioned here occasionally. Read it recently and thinking of ordering The Lime Twig. Have you red anything else by Hawkes?

>>3307150
I started a bit on the Beetle Leg but I didn't get too far. The way Hawkes keeps a distance from his characters is a bit hard to get into. I have quite a bit of his novels but I just never had the chance to just jump into them.

What did you think of the Cannibal?
When I read it I didn't know what to think of it because it was so different from anything I have ever read. I really want to read it again because I feel like missed something.

Ohh and I am probably the one that mentioned it, I post it all the time hoping that it will catch on like DFW or Tao Lin. Luckily Capsguy read it but I guess he didn't like it too much.

>>3305469
>Lorca

>giles corey

my nigga

check out swedish author Hjalmar Soderberg. depending on the translation you might find it a good read

>>3307153
I really liked it. I liked the hallucinatory and lyrical feel to the writing, the disturbing, though barely defined characters and the grim and surreal atmosphere of Germany in the aftermath of ww2.
He's definitely very talented, but this books being written in his early twenties does show. I'm definitely excited to read his other novels

>>3307173
If you have the chance to, read some of the criticism on The Cannibal. There is a lot of eye opening stuff.

Nice talking to you and have a great new year

>>3307181
Thanks, I will.
A Happy new year to you too.

>Palahniuk
Yeah, I think you need to fucking stay in /mu/

>>3307186
git rekt m8

>>3307030
Read Orlando, but then seriously put some consideration into killing yourself, because you have really fucking shitty taste in literature.

>>3307187
lel

>>3307190
lyl

>>3307189
I know. I'm too busy on my studies, and I need to read more.

>>3307263
There's no excuse for liking Chuck Palahniuk.

>>3307270
Chuck Palahniuk writes pretty clever and accessible quick prose with interesting subjects and factoids. There's nothing wrong with it except for that having read some of him, his other works seem more of the same.

Just because something isn't deep and complex and hard to read doesn't mean that it's shit. A hamburger can be a good hamburger without having the fact that it isn't a lobster hold against it.

>>3307282
Yeah, but he's popular so you have to hate him!

>>3307282
>except for that having read some of him, his other works seem more of the same.
I agree with that completely. The characters are practically the same.

I've never seen you on /mu/ who the fuck are you newtrip

>>3307287
I started tripping a month or two ago, but I used to make some skramz sharethread.

>>3307291
You literally don't even have a month bro http://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/reports/new-users
also, skramz is shit and so are you

>>3307291
Please leave /lit/

>>3307284
That's how /mu/ works.

There is a sticky with /lit/'s recommended reading chart at the top of the board you stupid fuck.