/lit/ - Literature

>>2881653
I just realized this all made me sound quite aligned against porn -it's just the opposite really. In fact, don't tell anyone, but I toyed with possibly doing porn myself, but in the end I don't think I could jeopardize a future career e,e, that teacher that got fired from Oxnard for doing porn (which is illegal) years before.

>>2879948
Yeah, I'm not sure why some even go into porn thinking it's a gateway to mainstream stardom.

>>2880058
Some of the sting has been taken out of "porn star" when used by the mainstream but it's still relatively maligned.

>>2880098
>Traci Lords
Wut? She's the paragon of delusion. The few low-budget things she did earlier and a bit part in Zack & Miri isn't a career.

>>2880275
The sexuality studies I've encountered in university thus far has mostly been comprised of musty old feminists living vicariously through strippers and porn stars, assigning some kind of "transcendence" from society's gender cues, disregarding the fact that both professions are -about 98% of the time- taken up because, hey, money.

Fortuna has spun me an ill wheel, this trog gets a job at Penguin Books and I'm stuck hocking hot dogs.

Aww, you guys storytime'd Fifty Shades of Grey and I missed it?

I read a little of Looking for Alaska but it was pretty bad, too obviously a first novel.

An Abundance of Katherines was alright, though its use of footnotes was more shtick than structurally-necessary.

I read Paper Towns not too long ago and actually really liked it. Ending was a little overwrought but then that seems to be Green's thing. The passage when Q thinks he may have stumbled upon Margo's corpse is chilling.

>>2851393
He wasn't available, seeing as how he's dead.


They really should have mentioned him or something though, considering what they did to him.

>Great books
Celine Dion
Loveless - MBV
Doolittle - Pixies
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Dusty in Memphis - Dusty Springfield
20 Jazz Funks Greats - Throbbing Gristle
Endtroducing - DJ Shadow

>Shit books
Meat Is Murder - Smiths
OK Computer - Radiohead
The Who Sell Out - The Who

Johnathan Lethem wrote the one on Fear of Music by Talking Heads but I've read that it's not terribly insighful. The guy from the Decemberists wrote the one on Let It Be by The Replacements, but it's ostensibly a memoir about how he listened to The Replacements once when he was a kid, and not about the band in the slightest.

Charles Kinbote isn't actually the King of Zembla, he's just crazy. His rather intimate stories are fabrications, and the latent/blatent homosexuality contains therein are projections.

They're too busy posing for the portrait, silly.

After Dark by Haruku Murakami features a prostitute...and I believe there's a Kant-spouting prostitute in Kafka On The Shore as well.

>>2844274
>costanza
>2012

Murakami gets flak for his fiction, /lit/ pretty much agrees that Underground is severely underrated.

>>2843744
Consider it funded.

Seeing a dead body, particularly someone who's just expired, works wonders.

>ctrl+f "Lieke Marsman"
>0 of 0 results

C'mon /lit/, I would've thought you'd have adopted her as your "waifu" or whatever by now.

>—Greatest pick-up book of all time is Just Kids by Patti Smith, because every girl has read it and they ALL want to talk about it.

This is probably true. I met some chick my first day of uni because of this book.

Shitty literature accompanies a shitty show.

>>2837635
So, Europeans within walking distance of the Nobel Committee? Cool.

>not buying old Bantam/Signet Classics from used book stores for 25 cents
>not stealing Dover Thrift Editions

The great thing about Dover Thrift Editions is they're easy to read and burn easily.

I'm dyslexic, so you the on joke's.

If the stars align, Thomas Pynchon. If the committee suddenly stopped being Euro-centric and political, Phillip Roth.

>>2834774
Not really, considering that's beyond even longer-than-normal lifespans and there's a bevy of media and artifacts from that age i.e. it's not like this old-timer is our only link to a dark age.

Plus, 1896 is barely experiencing the 19th century. Still, I will feel a twinge of loss when that person dies. I went through a period of being really interested in supercentenarians and surviving WWI veterans.

They're pretty middling pieces, but they honestly should have humoured him.