/lit/ - Literature

shameless self bump from the abyss

Would it be possible to make a faithful film adaptation of Gravity's Rainbow? I'd watch that in a second, but the dominatrix/shit eating scene with Pudding, Pointsman and Katje would be a bit hard to watch.

I liked it, it was fun.

Most fucking balls to the wall ass kicking fun as FUCK adventure I have ever read.

I finally finished Infinite Jest last night. It was really good.

That makes sense, thanks a bunch. Really enjoying it, but I can't wait to move right on into something a little (much) lighter after I'm done.

I'm 700+ pages into Infinite Jest, and I don't know if I missed it or just misunderstood what I read, but why did Himself, uh, kill himself again?

Pic unrelated, just something I wish I could afford.

Harman Smith is the OG Wheelchair Assassin. Also 600+ pages in, it's pretty good

Would it be possible to make film adaptations of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow that would do the novels justice?

>mon visage quand someone actually pulls it off

>>2353314
First two I haven't read, Ulysses was great, but nowhere near what I'd call a surrealist comedy, and I'm actually reading IJ right now, it's also really good, but doesn't have the lulz factor I'm looking for.
>>2353316
Ah yes, good old CM3. Ocean of Lard was funny, but there was something kind of missing, not sure what.

Shameless self bump because I KNOW there's at least one other person here who would like to hear (read:laugh their fucking balls off at) a passage in the second person about a guy walking down a hallway where all the doors are pissing and shitting themselves from their hinges and keyholes while one door attempts to play the electric didgeridoo.

Are there any novels out there that would be described as surrealist comedy? Like something about a guy riding a tricycle with no wheels backwards up the Leaning Tower of Pisa and then suddenly getting attacked by the wallpaper or some such silly shit. So far, I think Naked Lunch was the closest thing to what I'm looking for.

pic unrelated...I think

ITT: Words that do not belong together under ANY circumstances.

Postmodern math.

Your turn.

About 11 years ago when I was 10, I started writing a comic script for a fanfic that I would eventually like to make with a webcomic. Over they years I kept writing and rewriting it until I had roughly 3 megabytes worth of installments. Should I continue with it? Would anyone care to offer their opinions on it if you want to read some of it?

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>>2192498
Yeah, also reading that now, it's pretty cool.

I'm a big fan of epic poetry, having thoroughly enjoyed the classic Greek and Roman staples, but are there any modern epic poems worth a gander?

Pfft, if you thought the toilet diving thing was funny, wait'll you get around page 230-ish.

>>2049176
I'd go for a semi-healthy midpoint,perhaps leaning a bit more toward glib. Are cliches that realize they're cliche, cliche?

>>2049178

A comic would make for a good sense of disorientation, I could reach out to DA. No, I've never read any light novels.

Story/short story I guess. I'm shit at drawing. Oh well.

>>2046243
I'll never forget when I read that line

The movie is almost nothing like the book. The movie is kinda sorta in a way about how the author wrote the book. Also, no ejaculating typewriters in the book, but plenty of ejaculating nonetheless.

>>2026836
>Gravity's Rainbow directed by Jodorowsky
>mfw

Would it be possible to make a movie adaptation of Gravity's Rainbow that would do the novel justice?

>>2026119
I picked this up, expecting it to be some kind of postmodern mystery trilogy like the NY Trilogy, but, well, I simply couldn't finish the unnamable.

Ulysses was fun actually, the Circe chapter was (seriously) funny.