/lit/ - Literature

It is worth reading Gravity's Rainbow with Zak Smith's Gravity's Rainbow. Essentially, Zak illustrated every page of Gravity's Rainbow based on what is going on. It leans more to the abstract and may not help but it is worth seeing a graphic representation of each page.

oops. Pic

>>2373756

To be sure, I was skeptical about Atwood because I have read other books by her and have been less than enthused about them. However, being able to talk about books and get others opinions about what a book is doing trumps reading things that I would not normally read on my own volition. However, this isn't to say Ill read any trash that comes my way, but that I am curious about why people like Atwood and will be glad to give her another chance. I won't read, however, Bonnet Romance.

Pic related: Amish Romance

>>2371712
Great comment. I think the same thing about Sade - boring as hell. But, like Michael Heinke and other moralists, he does a good job of showing a particular radical ethics.

I tried to start an erotica thread a week ago but I think it is hard to find good erotic novels. I noticed someone posted the Anais Nin short story collection, which is pretty great. I also started reading Memoirs of a Women of Pleasure ie Fanny Hill. That is also excellent. Does anyone else have good erotic lit recommendations? That Anne Rice trilogy is pretty good especially if you like spanking. I await your recs /lit/!

I think Primus did a little bit of a better job, OP. It is a good alteration of the song, though.

Link related: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/primus/jerry+was+a+race+car+driver_20110949.html

Cluster
Smock
fotografia

What are these? Can you throw links? I am interested. I really love LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD and SILENCE OF THE SEA. But some of the others I have not heard of.

>>2372786
Hey OP
I think your poem is a bit contradictory in a confusing way. For instance, in your first stanza....how does fluid filling lungs, and world stop beating relate? The world moving, continuing when it should stop isn't as surprising as someone dying....hence, the image is inconsistent. Can you explain what you are trying to show in this first stanza?

Again, in the second stanza, what is the image you are trying to tie together with RYE ON TONGUE and COLOR DRIPPING? Are you saying both are bland? If so, if rye settles on a tongue, then you are saying that the rye, for all its blandness, has been accepted to the mouth while the color dripping again, assumes movement - both images are incomplete because you can read color dripping and rye settling as something good, instead of tired

The third stanza makes more sense. I can see hate being a shroud that protects you from sleep as you seethe with that feeling. In turn, it flows nicely into the fourth stanza with feelings changing in a tide. The third and fourth stanza are probably your strongest stanzas image wise. They are the most consistent.

The last stanza seems trite considering the title. I would like you to play more with the concept of tiredness instead of shock/lack of feeling. Tiredness is not a lack of feeling, it is a lack of energy. So the shock line is incongruent with the concept of a lethargic sun. And even a lethargic sun seems to be a confused image because you end with sun (full of energy) even if it is tired or lazy.

Hope that helps.

>>2372865
Excellent ideas, one and all! I think what I will do tomorrow is make "suggested amount of pages" thread. Then start posing questions, and start sharing my notes as I read. Shouldn't be that hard, right?

>>2372929
EEEK - I just realized the conversation I was having in that thread with that dude about changing it. I didn't want to change it because I feel Origin of Species would be great in this reading group. Sigh. Ill have to change it. Name of the Rose, right?

I feel like an idiot because I didn't see/understand the forum thread I was commenting on until just now. ha!

>>2372913
Excellent taste, anon!
Thanks for that. Don't know how I missed that!

>>2371087
Unfortunately, I can't post up anything in the description because of the character limit for description. We will be meeting on Feb 26th to discuss Oryx and Crake. Here is the rest of the reading list:

4chan reading group on the /lit/ board is as follows:

Feb: Oryx and Crake
March: The Third Policeman
April: On the Origin of Species
May: St. Petersburg
June: Alexandria Quartet
July: New York Trilogy and To the Lighthouse
August: Suttree and Ficciones
September: The Blow-Up and Other Stories
October: Pale Fire
November: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
December: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

We would love to have you!

>>2370987
Book club guy here. If you want to join in and get our discussions going, please send an email to 4chanreads@gmail. For Feb we are reading Oryx and Crake by Atwood. In March we are reading the Third Policeman.

With that being said, I would love to read philosophy. Can we read Levi Bryant's DEMOCRACY OF OBJECTS? I can send a PDF link if that is cool. Let me know!

What are you interested in, blog wise? Maps? Philosophy? Book blogs?

For book blogs check out
JOURNEY ROUND MY SKULL
50 WATTS
BOOKSLUT

For Philosophy:
Object Oriented Philosophy
Laval Subjects
Fractured Politics

Science:
3quarks daily

>>2372790
Bruce Andrews....like the Language Poet from Fordham university? Interesting yo!

>>2372771
And consider Thomas on my list now! Excellent idea

I have been unsuccessful in getting a sticky for the reading group. Surprisingly, I am really enjoying this Atwood book. It is nice to read things you wouldn't normally read on your own. Ill be doing an interlibrary loan shortly and making a PDF of Devil to Pay in the Backlands.

Did you check the sticky at the top of this board?
You may want to start there...

....and your pastebin don't work

OP if you are around, I have some things to say but want to make sure you are still THREADIN

If you check the library.nu threads, you can find people with access that can share and get stuff for you. I don't know any other way but that might point you in the right direction.

Two cents thrown in (in no particular order):

Louis Zukofsky
Charles Olsen
Ezra Pound
Ron Silliman
Emily Dickinson
Susan Howe
Christian Bok
Russel Edsen
Frances Ponge
Kenneth Goldsmith

The problem with my list is two fold: I don't have a grasp of poetry outside of the American Tree. Second, I tend to skew in favor of contemporary poets.

Anyone want to share some of their favorite contemporary poets?

The Maddox book says it all: OP, you have an alphabet of manliness

>>2372527
LOL. That was a good analogy. But to be honest, I think, really, that I was raised and developed a particular taste for a particular type of translation for Russian lit. It isn't that I don't like contemporary translations for some things but there is a certain formality that I feel corresponds with the way that I read Dostoevsky. That is probably admitting that I am missing the joke somewhere along the line but oh well. But just to make one more passing comment about this - I really enjoy contemporary translations of Madame Bovary and other Flaubert works.

Holy Shit he sounds like a bad-ass and I would love to read his stuff. I have never heard of him before. What were you thinking of starting with? I usually start with a most famous work and go from there.