Post a writer you've always wanted to try. Other Anons tell you what to expect. I'll start.

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Anonymous Sun Mar 12 18:53:39 2017 No.9229614 [Reply] [Original]

Post a writer you've always wanted to try. Other Anons tell you what to expect.

I'll start.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 18:56:02 2017 No.9229620 one of the best

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 19:06:46 2017 No.9229652 >>9229620 >one of the best yup. Start with either his recent short stories, or his novels chronologically from White Noise

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 19:10:16 2017 No.9229667 File: 16 KB, 220x291, William_Gaddis_1975.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll meme

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 19:11:08 2017 No.9229671 >>9229667 He's great. >Menander

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 20:32:51 2017 No.9230009 File: 95 KB, 1000x727, IMG_0583.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 20:34:07 2017 No.9230017 I really want to read William Gass - and i'll admit the memes helped

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 20:52:52 2017 No.9230076 >>9230009 Like DFW but safer, if that makes any sense. I think his narration is wonderful, but I've only read The Corrections

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 20:59:34 2017 No.9230092 File: 5 KB, 201x251, nabokov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] where 2 start

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 21:06:26 2017 No.9230109 >>9230092 By fondling the words. Fondle them good with your mind mouth

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 21:49:10 2017 No.9230279 >>9230092 Try Sebastian Knight or Speak Memory to dip your toe in, or jump right into The Gift, Pale Fire, or Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 21:51:32 2017 No.9230291 Mishima

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 22:21:15 2017 No.9230387 >>9230291 He's so good holy shit The Sound of Waves was so satisfying--start with that

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 12 22:22:36 2017 No.9230390 >>9229652 >suggesting white noise over ratners star or the players dun fugged up

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 01:40:22 2017 No.9231045 >>9230390 I'm suggesting where OP should start, since delillollipop is new to him. You wouldn't make GR as your first pynchon outing.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 07:15:50 2017 No.9231674 >meme writer >hory shiet he so good Does anyone read on this board at all?

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 07:23:27 2017 No.9231694

>>9230387
I thought sound of waves was normie core for Mishima. To really get Mishima you should read some of his more twisted and perverse stuff like Confessions of a Mask, Temple of the Golden Pavillion, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea or Runaway Horses.

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 08:40:58 2017 No.9231842

>>9229667
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. All of his works are kinda samey, but there is so much passion and rage about "the mechanization of the arts" (it's important that you kinda feel, at least sympatethic to this theme, because his work is a constant rant about it) and his characters are so great that, in the end, you won't mind to be reading the same things over and over again. Try "JR", it's his best book.

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 08:51:06 2017 No.9231865

>>9231694
That's why Mishima's so good. The Sound of Waves is a perfectly weighted, comfy romance, Confessions is mad, riveting and intense, Temple is a serious novel of ideas woven around a compelling plot; Patriotism is a violent literary shot of absinthe. His weird shit is great and so's his less weird shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 09:57:45 2017 No.9232023 >>9231045 Yes you would. Most people dont feel the need to treat books like levels in a video game

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 11:15:33 2017 No.9232317 File: 617 KB, 1714x2560, John_le_Carre.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Should I start with TTSS with this author?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 11:20:01 2017 No.9232324 >>9231667 Important, but not a total joy to read. >>9231674 Sad anon

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 11:25:03 2017 No.9232337

>>9232023
Don't be condescending. Some authors benefit from certain reading order, it allows the reader to unpack their ideas in a more satisfying way, and to better understand the process the author's mind went through.
For example, Sabato's main ouevre makes immeasurably more sense when read like this: El Túnel - Sobre héroes y Tumbas - Abaddón, el Exterminador.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 11:38:46 2017 No.9232370 Ivan Turgenev

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 14:04:53 2017 No.9232823 File: 41 KB, 300x414, IMG_4142.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Seems too meme

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 14:19:34 2017 No.9232895 >>9229667 The Recognitions. JR may be too difficult as you've got to get the "rhythm" of it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 14:22:05 2017 No.9232907 >>9232823 Pynchon's cool. He's like an actually insightful, intelligent version of the beat poets. He is pretty funny, too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 14:22:06 2017 No.9232908 File: 16 KB, 420x233, harry-martinson-06.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It is hard to find decent translations of his work.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 17:26:26 2017 No.9233721 >>9232823 start with the rainbow, baby stepping in is not going to give you the experience you want

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 17:40:33 2017 No.9233776 >>9233758 Are you asking regarding Vollmann? Europe Central is your best bet, or start the Seven Stories series, Ice Shirt or Fathers and Crows.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 17:42:32 2017 No.9233784 >>9230092 Def Pnin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 17:47:30 2017 No.9233809 >>9229614 he reminds me kind of a more clever more poignant less gruff raymond carver. Hes tres good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 17:48:56 2017 No.9233815 >>9229614 Flaubert >>9232823 Pynchon has some lovely prose, if you're into the time periods he writes about it's great reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 17:53:52 2017 No.9233836 Faulkner

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:02:54 2017 No.9233868

>>9232370
sportsman's sketches >>>>>> fathers and sons

the former is one of the best short story collections of all time, the latter is an OK social commentary - fine if you're really into old Russia, but its no artistic revelation. I probably wouldn't have even read anything else by him if I started with Fathers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:23:35 2017 No.9233944 File: 164 KB, 951x1471, image-20150903-24512-hf87ly.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is she really that good or is she hyped for the obvious reason?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:25:18 2017 No.9233956 File: 14 KB, 220x330, Mark_Z._Danielewski_with_hat_and_cat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mark Z. Danielwski.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:25:58 2017 No.9233959 >>9233944 Read the first book, and maybe some of her other work, but the rest of the series wasn't worth reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:26:28 2017 No.9233962 >>9233956 Danielewski*

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:27:42 2017 No.9233966 File: 559 KB, 1340x753, philip_roth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Philip Roth

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:31:32 2017 No.9233978 >>9233966 Read Sabbath's Theater. Read nothing else. If you will ignore my advice, fine, settle on Portnoy's Complaint. Then, really, don't go any further.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:34:06 2017 No.9233988 Jean Genet and WS Burroughs

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:36:23 2017 No.9233991 >>9233966 i loved portnoys complaint but its all one man's whining at an office. i can see why no woman would understand this book too, its pretty much just male confusion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:52:00 2017 No.9234048 >>9233815 Ridiculously beautiful and luxurious in language. Incredibly human (not necessarily the most pleasant sides) or in Salammbo and some of the short stories incredibly visual and exotic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:56:58 2017 No.9234067 >>9229614 >Post a writer you've always wanted to try I like the idea OP but I don't get it. If you really want to try an author then stop shit posting on this Anatolian snow ploughing forum and do it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 18:58:59 2017 No.9234075 >>9230092 Just start with Lolita. It's first rate Nabokov and also became a bestseller. Even giga plebs have read and enjoyed it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:00:11 2017 No.9234082 Pushkin

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:02:05 2017 No.9234087 >>9234082 Foot fetish.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:03:56 2017 No.9234096 >>9234067 OP here, I ordered The Angel Esmeralda thanks to >>9229652 I'll start it tomorrow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:36:44 2017 No.9234225 >>9233978 what is reason to stop on one book?. I read portnoys complaint and I also want to read his other books.

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 19:47:33 2017 No.9234259

>>9233988

Utter degenerate low life of the mid-20th century. Evocative for its time but drab by modern standards as the content is too lame in comparison to Internet shock videos but too objectionable and incoherent to otherwise warrant any merit of its own.

Just read Pynchon or something. Or read beatnik poetry. Or Bukowski.

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:03:28 2017 No.9234313

>>9234096
Have fun. Just know that some of the earlier ones are lame (imo). But stories like "Hammer and Sickle" and "Midnight in Dostoevsky" are excellent, and capture the sort of human consciousness framed through intensified systems that he gets at in his longer works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:08:02 2017 No.9234334 File: 25 KB, 250x375, dhalgren100405_250.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Philip K Dick thought Dhalgren was a bad book. Is there a better place to start?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:08:35 2017 No.9234337 >>9234096 Human moments in ww3 has the greatest last paragraph ive ever read. Hammer and sickle is also brilliant

Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:35:11 2017 No.9234446

>>9234096

Well, that's fair enough then. I've read that collection actually and it's pretty decent. I really like the story 'Baader-Meinhof' -- a very uneasy story.

Honestly, if you like it then check out White Noise or Libra next. Or fuck it, skip straight to Underworld. All's good in the hood.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:36:14 2017 No.9234454 >>9234446 Oh, and if anybody wants to read it: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/01/baader-meinhof

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:41:24 2017 No.9234476 >>9234096 Underworld is the greatest novel of the postmodernist american writers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:46:47 2017 No.9234506 >>9234334 I have only read Ubik, I recommend it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 20:47:20 2017 No.9234509 >>9232317 That or The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. He's all about spies as bueraucrats and makers of shady information exchanges, not the sort of pulp James Bond action stuff a lot of authors go in for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 13 23:26:17 2017 No.9235159 >>9230017 I've only read a collection of his short stories, in the heart of the heart of the country was good as fuck, icicles was ok, but everything else was pretty lukewarm, idk probably should have started w/ omensetter's luck

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 00:03:50 2017 No.9235270 >>9235159 what about pedersen kid? One of the great short stories of all time

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 00:30:17 2017 No.9235328 >>9235270 Ahh, that was the name, I was considering expending some effort to remember the name but I decided against doing so and omitted it. The ending to that story was feverish as fuck

Anonymous Tue Mar 14 00:31:54 2017 No.9235332

>Burroughs post-Junkie
>Hemingway
>Dostoevsky (other than C&P)
>HP Lovecraft

I don't really know where to start with either of these. I read Junkie and loved it, but I heard that his style in later novels is starkly different.

Also the only Dostoevsky novel I read was C&P but that was in high school so I'd be down to reread it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 01:04:24 2017 No.9235417 File: 3.29 MB, 2000x3000, 1475187774365.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9235332 here you go.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 01:41:06 2017 No.9235526 >>9234334 I've only read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" And I do recommend it. It's been a while since I've last read it though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 02:15:58 2017 No.9235626 >>9234259 I hope you're talking about Burroughs and not Genet. For Genet, start with Our Lady of the Flowers.

Anonymous Tue Mar 14 04:04:47 2017 No.9235952
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I want to start with this guy some place that will ease me into his work. Years ago I tried reading The Unnameable without knowing anything about the book or its author. I didn't make it further than a quarter of the way through. I didn't dislike it though, I just wasn't in the mood for anything like that and I had no idea I was diving right off the deep end. What's a better place to start?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 04:12:29 2017 No.9235973 >>9235952 1. Proust 2. Schopenhauer 3. Proust by Beckett 4. Plays 5. Novels

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 05:01:04 2017 No.9236088 File: 302 KB, 1161x1550, Giacomo_Leopardi_Morelli.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What about him?

Anonymous Tue Mar 14 05:12:23 2017 No.9236115

>>9234259
Burroughs play with language goes beyond shock value, worth reading if you're interested in the abject.

Most people who write works that are repulsive, those that are well-received/popularly known at least, usually have more going for them than that alone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 07:31:16 2017 No.9236395 >>9233956 Who is that?

Anonymous Tue Mar 14 07:51:51 2017 No.9236450

>>9235952
If you want plays, try Waiting for Godot, or Endgame. You can find a lot of them on Youtube. Not I is another great, short one.

If you want novels, start with Murphy, or Molloy (first in the trilogy). The Unnamable is probably the worst place to start desu.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 08:20:59 2017 No.9236525 >>9233966 The Human Stain is based

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 08:28:14 2017 No.9236542 >>9233966 American Pastoral is my favorite. The Human Stain is also very good and Portnoy's Complaint is quite amusing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 11:28:34 2017 No.9237108 Anything on Danielewski, mates?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 11:29:37 2017 No.9237110 >>9233978 >>9233991 >>9236525 >>9236542 Many thanks!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 11:30:47 2017 No.9237116 File: 16 KB, 370x241, Elena_Poniatowska_V-victoria.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Elenita Poniatowska

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 11:34:19 2017 No.9237127 >>9235952 more pricks than kicks if you've read dante is enjoyable

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 11:41:35 2017 No.9237153 >>9234087 nvm I will never read Pushkin

>>	DUDEWEEDLMAO Tue Mar 14 11:45:57 2017 No.9237160 >>9237116 momiatowska

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 11:57:00 2017 No.9237193 File: 27 KB, 568x346, 121130_FUT_Danielewski.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 15:04:12 2017 No.9238064 File: 81 KB, 1200x630, Clarice Lispector.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Clarice. also is the english translation okay?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 15:05:32 2017 No.9238070 >>9233956 >>9233962 >>9237108 >>9237193 I mean, I guess the only book he's known for? Since you want an answer so bad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 15:11:19 2017 No.9238106 >>9233836 The Sound and the Fury is a stunning work of genius.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 21:10:51 2017 No.9239845 >>9237193 expect unexpected

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 21:30:15 2017 No.9239926 File: 357 KB, 750x500, lootathatbelautifulface.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] all i kno is the this is water speech, it almost made me cry im scared /lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 14 21:39:36 2017 No.9239960 File: 174 KB, 1200x720, Salman-Rushdie-wins-the-1-001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9239926 You'll be OK. Just read IJ.

Anonymous Wed Mar 15 09:15:56 2017 No.9241839
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>>9229614
Non riesco bene a leggere epica, mi sento in colpa a leggere cose che potrebbero piacermi ma di cui ho bisogno un dizionario per capirne il contenuto. Non voglio rallentare una lettura e rischiare di rovinarla.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 09:58:51 2017 No.9241935 >>9234334 In this order >Man in the High Castle >Martian Time-Slip >Do Androids >Ubik >Divine Trilogy

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 15 14:16:06 2017 No.9242934 >>9238064 I've only read the passion according to G.H., i enjoyed it and i'm thinking of ordering Near to the wild heart.

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