what do we all have for our planned summer/winter reading?

[Anonymous No.2316805]

the judgement of paris - gore vidal
micro - michael crichton
primary colors - anonymous

[Anonymous No.2316810]

les justes concurrently with flappers and philosophers.

[quentyn martell !!gi5N1vuC6Uf No.2316808]

gore vidal isn't really an important person

[Anonymous No.2316818]

>>2316808

[splenda No.2316821]

well snooky isnt either, yet her image is as recognizable as jesus', not for long hopefully

[quentyn martell !!gi5N1vuC6Uf No.2316827]

>>2316821
yes but there's much reason for someone to know who snooky is and not know who gore vidal is

snooky is a celebrity reality tv star
gore vidal is a dead writer (i think?)

[Anonymous No.2316831]

op; well i never meant to imply vidal was important, its just that were on the lit page, both those pictured have published books. one is a great original writer and even better historian, the other is a fucking airheaded bimbo

[Anonymous No.2316832]

I don't know who either of them are, but that woman looks like this bird I used to go out with years ago. She's got like 5 kids now and she's well fat.

[Anonymous No.2316834]

>primary colors - anonymous

Y'know, I never got a penny of the royalties for writing that.

[Anonymous No.2316845]

>>2316840

WOW R U JOE KLEIN?

[Anonymous No.2316840]

>>2316834
good because I wrote it!

[Anonymous No.2316849]

Guilty. I actually do know who Gore Vidal is, but admittedly I didn't know what he looked like and wouldn't have been able to tell you that was him if not for that other anon. I don't think it's particularly horrible if you don't know who Gore Vidal is, is it?

It's impossible, on the other hand, to not know who Snooki is or what she looks like. Intelligent, well-adjusted people who don't watch Jersey Shore aren't exactly immune to over-saturated cable dissemination and low-brow reportage.

Seriously, ditch that cross you pseudo-intellectual flake.

[Anonymous No.2316854]

They both exist on the same plane of the spectacle and as a result it's best not to know or care who either of them are.

[Anonymous No.2316861]

>implying I should be able to recognise the image of an author
>implying the author matters

you try-hard, and you fail-hard

[Anonymous No.2316867]

>>2316854

>Confirmed for try-too-hard college freshman who just read some Guy Debord

[Anonymous No.2316875]

>>2316849
>Guilty. I actually do know who Gore Vidal is, but admittedly I didn't know what he looked like and wouldn't have been able to tell you that was him if not for that other anon. I don't think it's particularly horrible if you don't know who Gore Vidal is, is it?
It wasn't that hard. He has even played parts in movies, such as Gattaca.

Now put a recent image of Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.2316876]

>>2316867

[Anonymous No.2316880]

op here; wow i never thought in a million years that i could start a thread on lit where people got pissed off because i implied gore vidal was a memorable human being/writer and is easily identifiable by anyone interested in novellists.

not a pseudo-intellectual, just a smart person who knows what authors look like. almost made the picture cormac mccarthy. would that have helped you dumb cunts?

[Anonymous No.2316881]

>>2316808
Sweet merciful Jesus, that's Gore Vidal!? My God, he's aged...

[Anonymous No.2316883]

Rose Madder, Stephen King
Wild Swans, Jung Chang

[Anonymous No.2316898]

>>2316880
I read a couple novels a week. Why the fuck would I know what Vidal looked like 30+ years ago?

Christ you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.2316905]

>>2316880

Well you are wrong. Gore Vidal isn't a very important author and he has no iconic image. His literary status is do mostly to being gay and writing about it in the 1940s-50s.

[Anonymous No.2316906]

He looks like David Frost in that picture.

[Anonymous No.2316921]

>>2316898
>>2316905

[Anonymous No.2316927]

>>2316905

If he does have an iconic image, it's of him as a much older man than in OP. Like when he was in Bob Roberts and older.

[Anonymous No.2316928]

>knowing some random white guy
>somehow helps the world
White logic

[Anonymous No.2316932]

>>2316898
i can only think of maybe half a dozen authors whose books ive read and dont know what they look like... why is it such a scandal to expect people to know a famous author. and if you keep claiming vidal isnt an important author then i can do nothing for you.

[Anonymous No.2316939]

i just found out the other day that jean rhys is fucking female. i don't give a shit what the author looks like. i just want to read their books.

deathoftheauthor.jpg

[Anonymous No.2316950]

>>2316932
because it's fucking stupid. we read their books. we read their words and what they say. what they look like don't matter. it can be interesting to watch interviews or whatever, but fundamentally, it's wrong to judge someone's level of culture by whether they can recognize an author's face. someone can do that and never have read one of their books; someone can fail to do that and have read every one of their books; and the second person is more cultured.

[Anonymous No.2316961]

[Anonymous No.2316969]

European Literature In The Latin Middle Ages, Curtius
East West Mimesis, Kader Konuk
The Tragic Sense Of Life, Miguel de Unamuno
Love And St Augustine, Hannah Arendt

[Anonymous No.2316972]

you all identified this person immediately and have probably never met him in person or seen him do an interview. GTFO and go die in a fire.

[Anonymous No.2316986]

>>2316972
being alive and a social person in a mass culture almost inevitably gives one a certain knowledge of popular and significant figures within that culture, even if one is not particularly interested in it. this is basically true unless one makes an active effort to be a hermit. the situation is much different with reading literature - you do not pick up much by osmosis, but nearly everything by what you have sought out. and where it is common to see the picture of a figure from pop culture simply through being alive, it is not common to seek out a picture of an author.

also, i mostly recognize that that's stephen king because his picture gets posted on here a lot, so i mean your point is self-defeating except inasmuch as everyone on /lit/ should suicide.

[Anonymous No.2317002]

>>2316986
"gives one a certain knowledge of popular and significant figures within that culture"

exactly. if one knows snooki and not vidal then theyve been reading the wrong magazines, going to the wrong websites, and watching the wrong television shows. wrong being dumbfuckcelebritygossiprealitytelevisioncabletvbuuuuuuullshit

are you getting it now faggot?

[Anonymous No.2317003]

Same as this:

[Anonymous No.2317005]

[Anonymous No.2317006]

>>2317002
or it means that they have friends and family who they talk to because they care about them, and those friends and family are unreformed peasant inferior plebeian scum who like these things or follow them as a guilty pleasure. or it means they saw an ad on the bus, or a billboard, or many billboards. or an ad during an intellectual elite television show. or an ad in front of an elite intellectual movie. or, shit, caught five minutes of a show on the television in the doctor's waiting room.

it's really hard to completely avoid that stuff, unless you completely turn yourself away from culture and become a hermit. you're just kind of an asshole about this, i think.

[kris No.2317015]

Vanity Fair by Thackeray
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Reading Nausea right now
Started reading Narcissus and Goldmund but stopped halfway through so I'll reread that
Crime and Punishment (yes I really haven't read it yet)
A bunch of Burroughs books I bought
The Secret Agent by Conrad (might reread HoD, also)
Bel Ami by Maupassant
Madame Bovary by Flaubert
A Ginsberg poetry book that a friend bought me
Might get around to reading Kafka's novels finally
A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist (yes I seriously haven't read these either)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
and some Tolstoy
and some more Philip K. Dick

Entry level all up in this.

[Anonymous No.2317023]

>Knowing or caring about what authors/musicians/directors look like

[satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 No.2317030]

i don't know who that child molester is but I know snooki and I am the least sahamed of my recognition of that slag's pulpy tanned visage brimming paradoxically with childlike innocence and feverish lust begging to be forcefed several feet of cock until she swallows her tonsils.

[Anonymous No.2317058]

>>2317023
Yep. Post a quote from a great piece of literature and a quote from Jersey Shore and see if your point still stands.

[Anonymous No.2317075]

gore vidal was a trashy reality tv star too. he just got into catfights with bill buckley instead of angelina

[Anonymous No.2317081]

>>2317075
yeah because having a televised debate on a political commentator show about the us involvement in the vietnam war is the same as reality tv. what a dumb fuck you must be.

[Anonymous No.2317089]

>>2317075
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
just like an episode of jersey shore.... fucking dumbshit

[Anonymous No.2317094]

>>2317081
yes, all of norman mailer's television appearances were really committed to a norm of serious discourse and high-level intellectual conversation

wait i think i got something wrong there

[Anonymous No.2317164]

>>2316880
I would recognize a contemporary picture of Vidal, but I wouldn't recognize Cormac McCarthy.

Who's this motherfucker?

[Anonymous No.2317177]

Whoops. This motherfucker.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.2317193]

>>2317177
Emma Watson and Dudley Moore

[Anonymous No.2317198]

>>2317177
martin amis?

[Anonymous No.2317508]

the litigators: john grisham
papillon: henri charriere

[Anonymous No.2317518]

>>2317058

Authors write books. Actors stand on stage. It doesn't matter what an author looks like.

[Anonymous No.2317525]

>>2316805
>read over 100 books a year
>don't know what 90% of authors look like

Seriously, why would I need to?

[Anonymous No.2317530]

>>2317525
So you can draw their head onto a balloon and pretend to have them to dinner, where the conversation flows, and oh how insightful and witty you are, and one thing leads to another, and you wake up in the morning, covered in coke, rubber burns between your thighs and a burst balloon somewhere under the covers.

[Anonymous No.2317553]

alejandro jodorowskys autobiography
black elk speaks
a riot of goldfish
and a book about charles schulz and the peanuts

[Anonymous No.2317674]

>>2317553
>alejandro jodorowskys autobiography
Is that translated into English. I read Psychomagic last summer and that was maybe the most interesting thing I have ever read that was not fiction

[D/Gen !ONuNxgYHI2 No.2317676]

They're both degenerates.

[Anonymous No.2317678]

>I don't know who either of them is using just a picture

[Anonymous No.2317680]

>>2316880
fuck you, and you're shitty taste in literature.
read some joyce and tolstoy you big dumb stupid head

[Anonymous No.2317687]

ungghhh don't know dead white man's face

means retafdddd

thanks m00t for a /lit/ board