/lit/ - Literature

The Penguin classics anthologies (there are a few covering different periods of his activity) seem like what you're looking for, OP.

>>3033100
Before TSM I only read Queer and most of Naked Lunch (not in a linear fashion, you know), I really really like Burroughs though and I definitely plan on continuing the trilogy/his other works.

Last three:
The Aunt's Story - Patrick White
The Soft Machine - Burroughs
A Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

Current:
Siddhartha - Hesse
Ulysses - Rolls Royce

Next three:
Paradise Lost - Milton
Eugenie Grandet - Balzac
The Symposium - Plato

>>3033051
>good for you, kid
>random angst and hostility

I like how Burroughs plays with this technique, albeit sometimes loosely.

>>2875462
It's proving far easier now that I'm a bit more experienced. The most pressing issue is adjusting to the different narrative structure, i.e having just read a bildungsroman and having to remind myself that the book I'm reading now takes place over just a single day.

Ulysses. I started reading it ages ago when I was just beginning to read seriously, but stopped halfway. Now I have read Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist, and am revisiting it, this time with more success. This is also my first time reading regularly after a couple of months of slacking off.

>>2875424
Well it's kind of difficult to make a recommendation when we know so little about your friend. But in any case Murakami seems like something that people who don't really read could enjoy, and that would also inspire them to read more perhaps. Maybe something shorter like Norwegian Wood to begin with.

But really we need to know what kind of a person he is.

>>2187292
Dunno which noise musicians you've been listening to if that's honestly your belief. Even the harsh noise of like C.C.C.C. or whatever where there's little actual instrumentation makes you wonder at what lengths they went to to achieve such an intense and layered sound. Noise is such an intricate genre and it's a good thing it isn't listened to/understood by many. By the way, yes The Locust are excellent, but you mentioning them in a manner which suggests them being "noise" to you further illuminates your ignorance. They are a highly technical and chaotic band, perhaps with noise influences, but nigger please. Oh wait, we were talking about books?

I can definitely understand why it would have some effect on your writing, OP. Why not try it?

that pic is Beksinski, right OP? one of my favourite painters, I recognise his style from miles away.

no, never. sometimes, when I can't help it, I'll insert a real life person into my imagination, for example I picture Camus as like 90% of the male characters in his books and can never change this. I also imagined Nabokov being Humbert I guess, Kafka as Gregor and K... that's to be expected though, isn't it? as for anime and vidya characters, nope

Everybody Poops

>>2135182
fucking this.

other than that, Kafka's In the Penal Colony. just the description of that torturing device, and the story in general.

Bearowulf

>my face as I passed a guy reading Cat's Cradle the other day on a park bench and yelled, "Vonnegut!" whilst fist pumping the air

Chekhov's short stories are definitely worth looking into. Something like The House with the Mezzanine or Ionych.

Can this be a thread about people we know and their "writing"?

http://www.wattpad.com/1510476-poison-ivy

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, OP.

>>1826713
Hahaha, you took mine, OP.

>>1811224
Is that so? Odd. Must have pretty big pages or a tiny font. Nonetheless, it is widely regarded as one of the great American NOVELS.

>>1811201
The GG is a novel too, Anon, albeit a fairly short novel. Think around 100ish pages for novellas.

>>1811176
Lolita is more than 300 pages long...

Also, I'm not sure if /lit/ likes Heart of Darkness or not, but Heart or Darkness, you guys.

>Primary school
>Fantasy, fantasy errywhere
>Spend half a paragraph describing the character's armour

Ugh...

That sounds like what I'm doing reading wise:

Pride and Prejudice
The Plague
A Bunch of Chekhov short stories (half way through the book)
The Woman in White
The Secret Agent
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Four Quartets (Elliot)
Ulysses
Kafka's novels
Sons and Lovers
Shakespeare's complete works (obviously I'm not going to read them all at once, that'd be madness)
Of Mice and Men
The Death of Ivan Illyich and other stories
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Nausea
Crime and Punishment
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Moby Dick probably
Fear and Loathing
Pale Fire
1984
Bel-Ami
Madame Bovary
Anna Karenina

Currently reading The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx and War and Peace by Tolstoy

>>1801653
>resist the temptation to start with Androids.
I started with Androids. Why not start with Androids? Sure, it's the obvious choice, but that doesn't render it bad.