/lit/ - Literature

bampuru

>>1741215
Well actually, it'd a sort of an inside joke about a girl whom I've never met, but i hear about all the time. Many of the things contained therein actually happened, and I thought it was funny as fuck.

>>1741199
It was originally a song and It sounds better put to music.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/15C4V6F08U6LJ

I hope my tastes gel with yours :3

>>1739082
also I just realized the taglines are in
>greentext

bump!

Daemon, by Daniel Suarez.

>>1739135
I thought that was pretty clever.

>>1739113
I think the point was to catch you off guard. At a few points in the first act, vauge references are made to Bateman's supposed crimes (First he reads about a murder at a yacht party, later on he thinks somone who was at that party was looking at him in fear and shit like that.) Really, it's just laying the foundation for the rest of the story, so you know who Bateman is and the world he lives in, and how he and his crimes go undetected for so long, mostly because of his social standing.

>>1739133
Very. It's a sort of "15 minutes into the future" type story, Sort of set in our world but with technology advanced maybe 4 or 5 years ahead.

No one has read this? :(

>>1739082
Forgot to add, what were /lit/'s thoughts on it?

>>1739081
Then so be it!

Finished this last night. I can't remember the last time a book grabbed me by the balls like this, I was up until the small hours several nights in a row reading it. I was seriously involved with the whole thing, it was almost like shouting at the screen during a movie. Cant wait to read Freedom™.

tips on writing in a post-apocalyptic setting?

ball-blueingly beautiful

>>1590110
you mean you COULDN'T care less.
Stupid fucking yank.

ba-hump

Well, yeah, it was pretty interesting. Like the the ending - I know i said it was "meh", but it was meh in the sense that it kinda came out of nowhere, put it was still kinda interesting (some of the unnecessary contextualization was interesting as well).
And it was riddled with Houellbecq egomasturbating, but this was done primarily through the characters.

>>1538681
I think the author was trying to show off.
Apparently, he based Michel on himself, so there probably is a high level of ego masturbation going on.

Finished reading this the other day, pretty interesting read. Thought the ending was a bit... meh, and I didn't agree with some of Houellbecq's ideas - he came across as a bit of a cunt.
A lot of showing off, too, what with all the meaning less quotes and somewhat unnecessary contextualization.
Being Irish, I noticed a few fuck ups with the description of the geography of Galway, but what more to expect from a Frenchman?

(Thinking a bit deeper on it, I realize that Bruno and Michel are the two different sides of /robotninethousand/- sex-mad social fuck up and asexual emotionally detached pillhead)

>>1532049
welp, that wasn't really what I was aiming for, but take from it what you will.

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>>1529579
no, it's because the poem is called Don't Panic.