/lit/ - Literature

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Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:37:38 2010 No.1174376 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/ Short Story Roulette is back!

Make a post in this thread to roll. The penultimate digit of your post number is the column and the final digit is the row. Look it up in the chart and enjoy some fine (and some pretty bad) literature. Download the file below to get access to all the stories.

http://www.mediafire.com/?j5jmi0p6o3pao2s

Leave a review to let us know how it went.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:37:38 2010 No.1174379 Bam

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:38:38 2010 No.1174380 File: 23 KB, 356x356, em.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rolling

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:40:38 2010 No.1174383 dicks

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:40:38 2010 No.1174384 Hopes for Guts

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:40:38 2010 No.1174386 >>1174379 Reroll, I've read this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:41:38 2010 No.1174388 rollling! :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:41:38 2010 No.1174389 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:41:38 2010 No.1174390 File: 51 KB, 335x400, aleister_crowley.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Come on Crowley!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:41:38 2010 No.1174392 rollin rollin rollin

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:51:38 2010 No.1174400 This list is seriously lacking Nathaniel Hawthorne.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:52:38 2010 No.1174403 >>1174400 Cause he's forever sentenced to be known as Melville's lesser butt-buddy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:54:38 2010 No.1174406 Rawl

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 22:57:38 2010 No.1174412 rolling.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:01:38 2010 No.1174421 Rolling again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:03:38 2010 No.1174426 rollN

>>	Dr. Pepper !!x6IgG9OX6RX Fri Oct 1 23:11:38 2010 No.1174443 They see me rollin'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:14:33 2010 No.1174454 I'm gonna go look up Thomas Pynchon, because for some reason his face interests me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:15:38 2010 No.1174457 They hatin'

Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:22:38 2010 No.1174466

>>1174457
"A long time ago people decided to live in america" by Richard Brautigan.

Very short, not particularly well-written (but well-executed), but good for what was essentially flash fiction. The end was a little sentimental for my liking.

Rollin again

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:25:38 2010 No.1174471 boom

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:32:38 2010 No.1174477 Rollan!

Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:34:38 2010 No.1174480
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Benjamin Rosenbaum - The Ant King

I'm not familiar with Rosenbaum.

The story was lolrandom surrealism in a way that reminded me of Gaiman.

I have no idea what he wanted with it.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:34:38 2010 No.1174483 Rollan and Dealan.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:36:38 2010 No.1174486 rollin

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:39:38 2010 No.1174489 roll

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:40:38 2010 No.1174492 asscunts

>>	Ziggy Stardust !LrtpfUHOC. Fri Oct 1 23:43:38 2010 No.1174495 No Chileans authors there :( how sad, they're pretty good. rollin.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:43:38 2010 No.1174496 For Roger Zelazny For Breath I Tarry > The Man Who Loved the Faioli By far

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:49:38 2010 No.1174508 rollinq

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:50:38 2010 No.1174509 rollinkk

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:50:38 2010 No.1174510 The first time I saw this thread I downloaded and read every single short story. (And I guess I'm not the only one.) I'm mildly disappointed that there aren't any new ones, so I think others will agree when I say: MOAR!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:55:38 2010 No.1174515 rollin

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 1 23:59:38 2010 No.1174520 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:02:38 2010 No.1174522 Rollin'

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:08:38 2010 No.1174528 KEEP ROLLAN ROLLAN ROLLAN ROLLAN COME ON

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:10:38 2010 No.1174531 rallayn

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:13:38 2010 No.1174534 I quite enjoyed my last roll.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:29:38 2010 No.1174553 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:33:38 2010 No.1174562 R-o-l-l. Roll.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:34:38 2010 No.1174569 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:36:38 2010 No.1174573 >>1174528 Harlan Ellison- The Whimper of Whipped Dogs Enjoyed it very much. Was well written and had a cool concept. Would read again.

>>	Implying !!OwMMiDsuHLo Sat Oct 2 00:37:38 2010 No.1174575 Rollium.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:39:38 2010 No.1174581 Rolling again!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:39:38 2010 No.1174584 File: 23 KB, 400x284, fayesmokin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rollin

>>	Talk Show Host !!8XHbInrIRoU Sat Oct 2 00:45:38 2010 No.1174594 File: 88 KB, 800x600, breadog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sat Oct 2 00:52:38 2010 No.1174604
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Just rolled got 8/4 - the Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants".
Motherfucking Ernest takes 3 pages of ambiguous dialogue and makes you know the couple's entire life together. Sitting at a cafe on the train line near the ebro river in the middle of Spain, drinking Anis and beers and debating whether to have an abortion or not. For fucks sake I hate assholes who think this guy couldn't write worth a damn. Sorry for the profuse cussing seems apropos somehow and I've got bad personal memories intermixing with this story in my head right now I suppose. Thanks for the downer OP ;0

Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:21:38 2010 No.1174629
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James Tiptree, Jr. - Love is the Plan the Plan is Death

What. The. Fuck. Am. I. Reading.

At first I thought it was a poem, then I thought someone was trolling me with an excerpt from Finnegans Wake. There are a lot of made-up almost-words and beautiful phrases. It read a bit like Anna Livia Plurabelle's farewell - lovely all the way through but very confusing.

A choice quote:
>For with my special hands I was pressing, pressing the hot juices from my throat-sacs and tenderly, tenderly parting your sweet Mother-fur and placing my gift within your secret places. And as I did this our eyes entwined and our limbs made a wreath.

Would read again, but...jesus, what the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:32:38 2010 No.1174648 >>1174604 >I hate assholes who think this guy couldn't write worth a damn but he couldn't have you actually read any hemingway

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:39:38 2010 No.1174662 sure

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:40:38 2010 No.1174666 >>1174662 eh. read this one already. own the book

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:42:38 2010 No.1174670 rollin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:44:38 2010 No.1174673 rollin'.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:45:38 2010 No.1174676 >>1174648 Yes I've read almost the entirety of his works and I can safely say you have no idea what your talking about.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 01:52:38 2010 No.1174681 >>1174676 Don't read his poetry. It's realllly bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 02:07:38 2010 No.1174704 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 02:11:38 2010 No.1174705 >>1174681 No worries there I can't stand poetry for the most part. Unless it's coming from Dylan or Jeff Tweedy or Jeff Magnum, etc. and has kick ass guitars wailing over it. Only kind of poetry I can get down with.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 02:21:38 2010 No.1174721 murakami please.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 02:27:38 2010 No.1174731 rolling a fatty

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 02:32:38 2010 No.1174734 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 02:35:38 2010 No.1174736 Rolling. I'm missing some Asimov (Okay I've read most, but still: classic), Heinlein (His short stories seem better than his novels, --All You Zombies-- for example). I'm hoping for Roald Dahl since I'm reading a short story collection of his anyhow.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 02:38:38 2010 No.1174738 Rolling.

Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:00:38 2010 No.1174760

Stephen King - Morality

Meh. The style is unimpressive - he's not getting any awards for beautiful sentences. The story was engaging, sort of - but very unrealistic and with huge characters changes with no explanation.

This was my first every King story - it's about what I thought it would be: low-brow thriller with bad writing and a sensational story.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:33:38 2010 No.1174800 Rollin. lawl reading is fun! :D

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:38:38 2010 No.1174807 >>1174800 wat reroll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:41:38 2010 No.1174811 NO WHAMMY, NO WHAMMY, NO WHAMMY!!!

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:41:38 2010 No.1174812 File: 57 KB, 625x585, roll.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:46:38 2010 No.1174817 Holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:48:38 2010 No.1174820 File: 121 KB, 720x480, sound-pic5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hmmmmmm

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 03:52:38 2010 No.1174823 I got Brent Powers' Last Minute Fish. It was surreal, philosophical, and nearly thought provoking. I'd read more of his stuff if it were in another roulette but won't go searching for it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 04:43:38 2010 No.1174911 rololololololo

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 04:44:38 2010 No.1174915 herp

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 04:49:38 2010 No.1174918 sdknafdn

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 06:01:38 2010 No.1175010 sonja er en pølse

>>	Wonderlust King !!MH89dAw4W7B Sat Oct 2 06:43:38 2010 No.1175055 rollan

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 06:49:38 2010 No.1175060 gay shit

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 06:53:38 2010 No.1175062 postin'

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 07:25:38 2010 No.1175092 File: 17 KB, 451x316, 1258175248734.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Adolf_Hipster Sat Oct 2 07:30:38 2010 No.1175097 IT'S A TRAP

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 07:47:38 2010 No.1175110 File: 102 KB, 636x650, captainbike.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rollin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 07:54:38 2010 No.1175115 that feel when you roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 08:00:38 2010 No.1175119 Rollskis

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 08:00:38 2010 No.1175120 sure why not

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 08:55:38 2010 No.1175162 BETTER BE GOOD

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 09:02:38 2010 No.1175164 rolleth

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 09:09:38 2010 No.1175166 posting niggers

>>	Kim Jong Kill !!1qaXVTUcDJR Sat Oct 2 09:24:38 2010 No.1175178 rllan

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 09:26:38 2010 No.1175180 rolling.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 09:33:38 2010 No.1175184 rooooooooollin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 10:00:38 2010 No.1175202 rollick

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 10:13:38 2010 No.1175223 droll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 10:53:38 2010 No.1175267 beerne judgments

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:01:38 2010 No.1175286 Nothing to do but read books all day ur in the army now

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:06:38 2010 No.1175300 rollin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:10:38 2010 No.1175306 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:13:38 2010 No.1175312 rollan fo sho

>>	Crimson !CoijTZkBUc Sat Oct 2 11:15:38 2010 No.1175314 i'll probably end up reading all of them, thank's for sharing OP

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:16:38 2010 No.1175318 >>1174376 sure

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:34:38 2010 No.1175349 >>1175312 Kurt Vonnegut - Look at the Birdie, creepy rerollan

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:48:38 2010 No.1175393 rolling, bitches

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 11:52:38 2010 No.1175400 >>1175393 rerolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 12:39:38 2010 No.1175488 Of missing persons: Nice. The general idea is, um, healthy, and banal. But the novel itself is very predictable. Left me to imagine gogol-bordellesque troupe of humans on an alien world.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 12:41:38 2010 No.1175490 Roll.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 12:51:38 2010 No.1175504 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 12:54:38 2010 No.1175506 roooooooooooolllllllllll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 13:02:38 2010 No.1175517 rolololo

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 13:03:38 2010 No.1175518 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 13:08:38 2010 No.1175527 Rollan

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 13:09:38 2010 No.1175530 rollinng

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 13:13:38 2010 No.1175543 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:43:38 2010 No.1175693 rollan

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:49:38 2010 No.1175705 ROLL

>>	SOLA Sat Oct 2 14:51:38 2010 No.1175708 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:03:38 2010 No.1175726 lol i roll you

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:06:38 2010 No.1175731 Let's go

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:09:38 2010 No.1175743 fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:12:38 2010 No.1175749 rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:14:38 2010 No.1175751 Add Poe's The Black Cat. The best short story evarrr.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:25:38 2010 No.1175775 File: 22 KB, 495x550, garcia_lorca_gestures_lit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OP here. I'm taking suggestions for next week's roulette. If there's something you think everyone should read, post the title and the author here.

Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:29:38 2010 No.1175785

keep rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin rollin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:30:38 2010 No.1175787 File: 51 KB, 480x640, haters gonna hate.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rowl rowl

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:33:38 2010 No.1175790 barrel rolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:33:38 2010 No.1175793 >>1175775 Guts, Palahniuk.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:37:38 2010 No.1175803 Rolling or something.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:40:38 2010 No.1175805 >>1175793 I read that once. I wish i hadn't.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:54:38 2010 No.1175828 >>1175787 ray bradbury - all summer in a day a nice parable on the human condition, would read again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:59:38 2010 No.1175840 Lets see here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 16:01:38 2010 No.1175844 For next week's roulette, get some Chekhov in there, and maybe one of Borges's stories from "The Aleph".

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 16:01:38 2010 No.1175845 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 16:09:38 2010 No.1175867 Rolling for great short stories

>>	Brownbear !5EJ71eKlNQ!!6SnjW+BUlLP Sat Oct 2 16:11:38 2010 No.1175869 rolling.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 16:14:38 2010 No.1175874 >>1174376 away we go

>>	Mr. Noc !RXm61rnmYY Sat Oct 2 16:14:38 2010 No.1175875 rauling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 16:17:38 2010 No.1175879 DICKS EVERYWHERE

>>	Brownbear !5EJ71eKlNQ!!6SnjW+BUlLP Sat Oct 2 16:43:38 2010 No.1175916 >>1175775 >>1175775 i recommend: Rhoald Dhal - Beware of the dog

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 19:01:38 2010 No.1176255 roll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 22:20:38 2010 No.1176619 Reroll to get some good reading before I go out for the night

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 22:25:38 2010 No.1176629 mammoth tank assembled

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 22:25:38 2010 No.1176633 henry rollins

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 22:52:38 2010 No.1176707 rolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 22:53:38 2010 No.1176710 reroll

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 22:56:38 2010 No.1176720 Yeah go on then

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 22:57:38 2010 No.1176723 rolled dahl

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 23:24:38 2010 No.1176808 im rolling

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 23:25:38 2010 No.1176811 File: 32 KB, 1025x438, 1281563562540.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rollin down the street smokin endo

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 23:26:38 2010 No.1176812 Rollin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 23:28:38 2010 No.1176818 File: 93 KB, 500x333, 3834396037_fb800e9fc9.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rollin'

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 23:39:38 2010 No.1176846 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 00:14:38 2010 No.1176901 Oh please no Cory Doctorow!

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 00:18:38 2010 No.1176907 i can't sleep

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 00:20:38 2010 No.1176912 roll, no shit please.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 00:22:38 2010 No.1176916 reroll

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 00:51:38 2010 No.1176983 Man need only fear himself.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 00:57:38 2010 No.1176990 File: 53 KB, 450x594, 60530_1542383875603_1115138736_31578095_2520520_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rollan

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 01:49:38 2010 No.1177086 File: 16 KB, 324x360, 1277999353119.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just read Greenleaf, that was fucking depressing. Rerollan now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 01:59:38 2010 No.1177101 Rolling.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:01:38 2010 No.1177102 rollin rollin

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:08:38 2010 No.1177112 rolling for something awesome

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:18:38 2010 No.1177126 Rolling for some fine literature

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:20:38 2010 No.1177130 Glad to see this updated! Too bad I'll have to redownload some books again though...

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:25:38 2010 No.1177134 >>1177130 Pretty sure this is the same /lit/ roulette as the last one, from wayyyy long ago. Hopefully this becomes a regular thing, with updates.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:35:38 2010 No.1177153 >>1177112 Got Pixel Face; it pretty much sucked dick. Rerolling

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:44:38 2010 No.1177171 >>1177153 Got The Continuity of Parks. Not much to say about it, seeing as it was only two pages. Nice writing style, though, whoever translated it did a good job. Last roll.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:44:38 2010 No.1177172 >>1177153 Dude you are doing it wrong! Second to last digit is your column number, last digit is the row. You should have read Vonnegut's "Look at the Birdie." Muchhhhh better than Pixel Face. Hope this helps :)

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 02:48:38 2010 No.1177180 rollin dat shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 03:15:38 2010 No.1177224 >>1177172 Huh. Turns out I was doing it wrong too. New Rose Hotel was pretty good, rolling for something amazing this time though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 03:30:38 2010 No.1177249 Roll.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 03:43:38 2010 No.1177271 File: 158 KB, 383x409, what the shit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So, anyone want to explain to me why Georg's dad became magic at the end of "The Judgement"?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 03:46:38 2010 No.1177279 rollinnn

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 03:51:38 2010 No.1177293 rolling

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 03:56:38 2010 No.1177305 File: 143 KB, 421x409, 1282404874546.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] re-roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 04:02:38 2010 No.1177322 LET'S DO THIS FAGGOTS.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 04:03:38 2010 No.1177325 >>1177249 Well then, re-roll for another.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 18:09:38 2010 No.1178857 Rolling for the last time. If I get something shitty I'm just going to pick my own damn number.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 18:54:38 2010 No.1178962 Rollan

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 18:58:38 2010 No.1178971 Come on Meyer!

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 19:01:38 2010 No.1178977 rollinnnnnn

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 19:01:38 2010 No.1178978 Lovecraft's face.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 19:03:38 2010 No.1178980 >>1178978 Fuck that shit. I've read it recently. Don't really like Bradbury, either. Rerollin'

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 19:14:38 2010 No.1179012 read mine "trust is a club in the hands of someone who might love you." very meh. thanks a lot fate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 19:30:38 2010 No.1179054 pinultimate digit

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 19:34:38 2010 No.1179060 >Ethan Coen "The Russian" >Ethan Coen >The filmmaker Seriously OP, what the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 21:03:38 2010 No.1179320 >>1179060 Did you not like it or something? OP promised "some fine (and some pretty bad)" literature, nothing more.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 21:52:38 2010 No.1179466 This was fun last night, re-rollan!

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 21:54:38 2010 No.1179468 they see me rollan

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 21:56:38 2010 No.1179472 rollan

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 21:57:38 2010 No.1179475 opellaxe 201

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 22:05:38 2010 No.1179501 >Get 72 - Virginia Woolf - The Lady in the Looking Glass >Notepad file where each sentence stretches for a mile >On a 1024x600 netbook screen Meh, I'll read it later. Rerollan.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 22:09:38 2010 No.1179512 roll

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 22:10:38 2010 No.1179513 >>1179501 Word wrap you moronic fucking imbecile. How can you be so fucking stupid and still remember to breathe?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 22:10:38 2010 No.1179518 great Carver stories here, THE DEAD may be the greatest piece of literature that i have seen conclude a body of work

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 22:10:38 2010 No.1179519 >>1179501 Open it in Wordpad or Microsoft Word and turn on word wrapping.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 22:18:38 2010 No.1179544 >>1179468 Gibson - New Rose Hotel It was alright, worth a read if only because of my mental image of Sandii. (Although her role pissed me off)

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 22:21:38 2010 No.1179550 rooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllll

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 23:06:38 2010 No.1179639 File: 32 KB, 600x319, 1285304858417.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] rollin

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 23:09:38 2010 No.1179644 i love this thread :)

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 23:17:38 2010 No.1179658 >>1179544 I got that before. I pretty much just ignored Sandii through the whole thing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 3 23:18:38 2010 No.1179663 >>1179475 "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" was amazing,have not read any Hemingway for a long time but he always amazes me.Thanks /lit/. Now its time to read Gogols Diary of a Madman(I think it should be on the list)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 00:01:38 2010 No.1179766 ROLLIN

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 00:03:38 2010 No.1179773 Gaiman has way better stories than a study in emerald. Just sayan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 00:32:38 2010 No.1179857 Rolling at the speed of light~!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 00:36:38 2010 No.1179874 Card is one fucked up mormon. Re-rollan

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 00:40:38 2010 No.1179884 rolling for great justice

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 01:30:38 2010 No.1180000 To a large extent, its role

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 01:55:38 2010 No.1180045 rollin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 02:01:38 2010 No.1180058 trollolololo

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 02:19:38 2010 No.1180085 I can't believe I've only just discovered /lit/. I'm also quite disappointed that this will be my first post here.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 02:29:38 2010 No.1180108 File: 10 KB, 306x340, 1272401820766.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1180085 Welcome, friend. Hopefully you rolled a good story!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 02:34:38 2010 No.1180119 That story was incredible. Roll again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 02:36:38 2010 No.1180122 Oh, boy! Wonder what I'll get...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 04:11:38 2010 No.1180254 So now I need to read everything by Gene Wolfe, that was crazy.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 04:34:38 2010 No.1180289

This is actually the original, very rough version of the 100-story /lit/ short-story roulette. Since the OP said he was taking suggestions: I suggest that he grab the most recent version and use it as the basis for any future roll threads.

When I made this I was having a hard time coming up with stories to fill the last few slots, so I grabbed several from the same online literary zine ("Story Garden 6," if you're curious). They were fairly weak inclusions on this list, since they weren't at all /lit/-centric (although I did read them and like them before including them).

The /lit/ short story roulette was originally conceived to center on the authors that /lit/ actually talks about, not on writers that no one has ever heard of. That's why those "Story Garden" stories were replaced in future versions.

The most recent version can be downloaded here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9l64d7px8w663m7

If you want to replace those stories yourself, in whatever way you like, they happen to be the stories by Nadine Darling, Brent Powers, and T.L. Lance.

Cheers!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 04:38:38 2010 No.1180295 rollin and shit

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 04:39:38 2010 No.1180296

This is actually the original, very rough version of the 100-story /lit/ short-story roulette. Since the OP said he was taking suggestions: I suggest that he grab the most recent version and use it as the basis for any future roll threads.

When I made this I was having a hard time coming up with stories to fill the last few slots, so I grabbed several from the same online literary zine ("Story Garden 6," if you're curious). They were fairly weak inclusions on this list, since they weren't at all /lit/-centric (although I did read them and like them before including them).

The /lit/ short story roulette was originally conceived to center on the authors that /lit/ actually talks about, not on writers that no one has ever heard of. That's why those "Story Garden" stories were replaced in future versions.

The most recent version can be downloaded here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9l64d7px8w663m7

If you want to replace those stories yourself, in whatever way you like, they happen to be 79, 60, and 94. Additionally, I think you should replace 71 with something better; that was included with similar desperation, grabbed from another online zine called "Popcorn Fiction." In retrospect, it would probably be the first story I'd replace.

Cheers!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 04:40:38 2010 No.1180297 >>1180289 >>1180296 Oh, damn it. I double-posted. I didn't think that first one went through. Fuck. Oh well, forgive me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 04:43:38 2010 No.1180298 fuckin free books, yo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 05:00:38 2010 No.1180307 >>1180297 Have you got a fancy roulette picture for the new version?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 05:30:38 2010 No.1180338 Rollin'

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 05:33:38 2010 No.1180341
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>>1180296
>>1180289
OP here. Thank you for showing up! Please take back and bring back /lit/ Short Story Roulette!

I am completely unqualified. Just imagining the time and effort needed to update the stories and image made my mind boggle. I was overwhelmed and not very sure that I would post again next week.

You are the expert. Please do it for /lit/. Putting this together obviously took tons of time. You have brought joy and literature to hundreds of /lit/erati. We would love if you took over this project!

I didn't mean to take credit away from you. Someone in another thread asked if anyone had the roulette images and stories, so I started a thread. You are the true master of Roulette. You make /lit/ a better place when you're around.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 05:36:38 2010 No.1180342 Rollin'

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 05:36:38 2010 No.1180343 >>1180307 It's inside the zip file mentioned in >>1180289 Check the Roulette/images/ folder. The file is 00-roulette3-scaled.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 05:47:38 2010 No.1180353 Rolling on the updated template

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 06:13:38 2010 No.1180365 This is awesome, I'd never even heard of Vachss before.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 06:15:38 2010 No.1180369 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 06:17:38 2010 No.1180370 Rolling!!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 06:31:38 2010 No.1180381 Way

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 06:33:38 2010 No.1180382 I figure I should read more, this should get me started, thanks /lit/. Rolling...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 06:37:38 2010 No.1180386 rollin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 06:42:38 2010 No.1180394 J.D Salingers - Just before the war with the eskimos It was ok, kind of boring, nothing happened. It was simple language and there was nothing special, but it certanly kept my attention.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 07:00:38 2010 No.1180408

>>1180341
I honestly don't mind if other people do their own versions and carry it forward. That's what I hoped would happen. When /lit/ started, I did a roulette thread every weekend for 5 or 6 weeks. The first one was only 21 stories. I think the next was 75. It was a lot of work to put together the 100 stories, but I'm not interested in credit or anything; if I wanted credit I would have assumed a tripcode. I'm all about Anonymous. Anybody can do whatever they like with this. I'm probably not going to do any future versions. I'd love it if other people did. Seeing this thread here was very fucking gratifying.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 07:48:38 2010 No.1180436 Rolling again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 07:57:38 2010 No.1180443 Edgar Allen-Poe - Tell-tale Heart An absolute classic, it's a beautiful peice of literature and it was a plasure to read it again. Re-Roll

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 08:03:38 2010 No.1180446

Wallace, David Foster - Incarnations of Burned Children

Amazing, utterly amazing.

The name made me think it was satanic shit, but it was nothing like that. This tore me up inside, I think that if I were a father i would be crying now. Very powerful scenario, very powerfully written.

Rerolling, this is fun!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 08:08:38 2010 No.1180449 I hope I roll Poe or Lovecraft, or that Sepia-picture guy with the russian name, that'd be cool

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 08:20:38 2010 No.1180456 Rawlin'

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 08:35:38 2010 No.1180462

I read the New York Mining Disaster
>>My friend owns a nice car, the collected works of Balzac (I lol'd here, since it means balls or bollocks in dutch)
I didn't quite get it, it was nothing too special, just some half-baken ideas fitted in a conversation, a collage of undeveloped pictures with no true meaning or intention.

>>	milan !1nTKUODe1A Mon Oct 4 09:02:38 2010 No.1180481 rolling

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 09:03:38 2010 No.1180485 ROLLING.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 09:46:38 2010 No.1180512 roll!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 10:06:38 2010 No.1180527 File: 90 KB, 500x642, stop it.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 10:11:38 2010 No.1180531

I don't browse /lit/ to the extent of being a regular or anything, so not sure what was in the previous roulettes, but "William and Mary" by Roald Dahl is one of my favorite short stories. If it hasn't made it into one already, it'd be worth adding to the selection.

I enjoy this roulette, thanks OP.

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 10:23:38 2010 No.1180536

>>1180462
I love that story. I've never read anyone else's analysis of it but I always took it to be about death, and the fear of dying, and the terrible knowledge that any of us can die, at any time. That's the thing -- that fear -- that holds the story. I thought the pieces hung together beautifully. I didn't find it to be random at all.

I haven't read any other Murakami, but structurally it reminded me very much of Salinger's short stories. You have to read between the lines a little bit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 11:04:38 2010 No.1180563 rollin'

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 11:27:38 2010 No.1180592 in the right thread this time

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 11:30:38 2010 No.1180597 Rollin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 12:09:38 2010 No.1180697 rolling

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 16:06:38 2010 No.1181094

>>1180408
I have the older Roulettes saved somewhere. You've been my /lit/ hero since you started. The story collection I posted was the newest one I had - I abandoned /lit/ for a few months.

Again, thanks so much for getting all this started and putting in the hard work. If I continue this and update the collection, I hope to be able to live up to your (anonymous) name.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 16:26:38 2010 No.1181126 i be rollin'

Anonymous Mon Oct 4 16:35:38 2010 No.1181155

>>1181094
If you really want to honor me, just make the next one better.

*(At least take out those four stories I mentioned before and replace them with other things.)

*(If you can find a copy, a great short story that I probably would have included in the next version is Price Caldwell's "Tarzan Meets the Department Head." Check it out and give it some consideration.)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 16:52:38 2010 No.1181199 Rolling

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 16:57:38 2010 No.1181210 they see me rolling

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:03:38 2010 No.1181215 cmon get me some pynchon

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:04:38 2010 No.1181216 Oh well...better than fapping again, I guess...

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:05:38 2010 No.1181220 rolling like the lonely depressed fuck with nothing better to do that I am.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 17:12:38 2010 No.1181239 Will roll.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:08:38 2010 No.1181360 rolling in

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:10:38 2010 No.1181364 rolling again. Want two stories for tonight

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:22:38 2010 No.1181387 yeh been awhile since i /lit/ed

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 18:26:38 2010 No.1181398 Alrite, let's give it a try.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:25:38 2010 No.1181513 Derpin' for literature

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:40:38 2010 No.1181538 lit roll go

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:41:38 2010 No.1181540 fuck rolling. i'm downloading your file and reading everything i don't have already thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:42:38 2010 No.1181545 File: 35 KB, 367x550, 0003tsh5..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dey see me rollin. dey hatin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 19:46:38 2010 No.1181553 rollin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:19:38 2010 No.1182021 rolling became alot more hassle since the appearance of captchas. rolling anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:23:38 2010 No.1182033 rawled!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:30:38 2010 No.1182049 rawlinnao

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:32:38 2010 No.1182056 I better get something good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:36:38 2010 No.1182069 rollin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:43:38 2010 No.1182094 rawlingen cuz nadine darling was eh

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:46:38 2010 No.1182100 M. Rickert you have never been here. never heard of her hmm

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 4 23:54:38 2010 No.1182125 >>1182056 All right well I didn't quite get the whole message of the story or whatever but it was a pretty engaging read. Very humorous, too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 00:07:38 2010 No.1182159 File: 32 KB, 476x570, 1281266549031.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 00:14:38 2010 No.1182169 Let's do this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 00:15:38 2010 No.1182171 rollin

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 01:56:38 2010 No.1182292 Reroll

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 01:59:38 2010 No.1182296 PK ROLL

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 02:00:38 2010 No.1182297 Too few latin american authors...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 02:30:38 2010 No.1182326 Finished "The Gift of the Magi", wonderful. Rolling again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 02:36:38 2010 No.1182337 File: 66 KB, 350x350, limpbizkit.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rollin

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:42:38 2010 No.1182632 they hatin

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:43:38 2010 No.1182634 Finished a few more. 'Cellists' was very good, I found myself close to tears at the end despite how uneventful seemed. Rolling once again

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:45:38 2010 No.1182636 Fuck, stephen king, re-rolling

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 07:58:38 2010 No.1182644 >>1174376 I HOPE I FUCKING GET

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:00:38 2010 No.1182648 Well...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:02:38 2010 No.1182652 'Guts' was...disgustingly funny; similar to those stories on /b/. Rerolling

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:19:38 2010 No.1182687 I've still got a copy of these from last time. I got Gibson's 'New Rose Hotel' and it got me on a (post- and regular) cyberpunk binge. Fuck yeah. Also, I bought Boges' Complete Fictions after rolling 'The Library of Babel' the time before that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 08:23:38 2010 No.1182693 rolling myself something nice hopefully

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 18:24:38 2010 No.1183707 re-rollan again...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 18:30:38 2010 No.1183724 rollin for something new~

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 21:01:38 2010 No.1184077 rolling

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 5 21:08:38 2010 No.1184097 File: 56 KB, 536x720, smith.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't have anything else to do, so I might as well

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 00:34:38 2010 No.1184652 (t)rolling

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 00:36:38 2010 No.1184659 already know the cloak, so re(t)rolling (thought it was extremely well written and enjoyed it alot but was disappointed by the "ghost ending")

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 07:28:38 2010 No.1185106 rollin

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 07:30:38 2010 No.1185108 re rollin

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 07:30:38 2010 No.1185111 roll

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 07:31:38 2010 No.1185112 rollan on the ri-iver

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 07:41:38 2010 No.1185120 ROLLIN

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 08:24:38 2010 No.1185155 rollin'

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 08:28:38 2010 No.1185160

"1/3, 1/3, 1/3" describes an encounter between a would-be novelist, his self-appointed editor and a young man who is offered one-third of any proceeds to type up a manuscript. Written in prose that staggers from the flatly uninteresting to strained, faux-poetical turns of phrase, the story's moment of psychological truth is that only one of these three characters has the self-knowledge required to make a career in literature. Can you guess who that might be? Richard Brautigan never fails to disappoint.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 08:37:38 2010 No.1185168 inb4 404

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 09:35:38 2010 No.1185241 rollan'

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 11:26:38 2010 No.1185378 rollin

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 21:49:38 2010 No.1186839 roll roll!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 21:52:38 2010 No.1186851 re-roll

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