/lit/ - Literature

>>11470688
I'll probably check the first four you mentioned, I loved the light style of White Noise.

I only read White Noise, where should I go next in his oeuvre?

>>11458067
Shit dude watch pic related asap. It's fucking awesome.

>>11455306
I'm now 22% would rather be reading an absurdist novel about a man who wakes up one morning with a mysterious plastic knob on the back of his head

>>11438544
Eisenberg ruins it IMO, Segel does a great job of impersonating DFW.

>>11447965
Gately grows the most during the book (I started hating his passages, ended the book loving them) but I'd say my fav character was Lenz.

>>11448629
It took me two years total with long periods of reading it a lot and periods of reading two pages a week. Don't give up though, it's totally worth.

>>11448888
Read a short pinecone or go for DeLillo, he has some books that fly by you (White Noise specially flew like a Concorde for me after IJ)

>>10923560
Are Jô books any good? I supposed those were just pop literature shit.

>>10922936
Comédias da Vida Privada is comedy gold. Him and Fernando Sabino got me into reading with their everyday situation chronicles.

>>10923282
Do we even have anyone of notice in modern br lit? The most recent I can think is João Ubaldo Ribeiro and even him wrote his great stuff in the 80s/90s I think.

Halfway through White Noise right now, not sure what to read after that in 2018. Maybe finally get around The Man Who Fell to Earth.

>>10404038
>Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar
They mistook the 'bar' for 'chocolate bar' but because of context later it's obvious it's 'soap bar'. And the way they translated 'trial-size' was using something that back in english would be something like 'little-mouth sized'.

>>10403089
The Wealth of Nations? The Capital? The Prince? Those are at least top 10.

>>10400717
>It's going to be publish in portuguese
Same translator? IJ first edition had a lot of errors (some of them funny like the Year of Dove translation) and I finished it recently, might get into TPL since I'm already on a DFW mindset.

>>10167761
iirc he has said before that was their crossing into adulthood but damn it's so edgy and shocking just for the sake of it.

>>10169412
The Gods Themselves is basically three different short novellas where the first and third happen to share some characters but apart from that it's all over the place.

>>10013874
>So much for the tolerant left
It was a rightwing group that bitched endlessly about the exhibition

I have only free time for music and occasionally movies. Even /lit/ is something I do most of the times on the way to/from work.

Really wish I had more friends who played chess, man it's been years since I played a game.

>>9741852
>Mathematics
>Logic Puzzles
You sound like a pretentious cunt but I can dig Math as a hobby. I'm looking into Number Theory and maybe start studying it by myself.

>>9691686
>omit the retarded wheelchair assassin cult entirely
>when it had great scenes like the Antitoi raid
Oh c'mon

>>9691491
I'm pretty sure we had this exchange at least twice before. Also I never stopped posting on /mu/, I just post more frequently on /daily/ now.

>>9691180
But it looks so fake, did they do a shoop in post-production?

>>9690953
Obviously a shoop c'mon now

>>9689463
>It gets better once you get to the Quebecois Separatists
Depends, I struggled with bits of Steeply and Marathe's dialog. It gets too political and dense and it's scattered among Academy and Gately parts that are way easier on the eyes.

>>9656864
>>9657154
>people assuming when I say TVU I mean Reed
I'm talking about John Cale you cockmunchers, Reed only assumed total control over the band after Loaded.

And yeah they put out a song with a twang in 65 but when did they started using it deliberately throughout a full album? White Album, '68.

>>9656578
>The Beatles invented the deliberate use of feedback in a rock record. The Beatles invented the TVU.
>White Album came out in '68
>TVU&Nico came out in '67
Sure thing bud. Their first mianstream experimental album that created TVU came after TVU started, yeah sure thing.

>>9655255
>The Beatles were way way more influential and had a greater impact than those two bands you mentioned
C'mon TVU&Nico spawned more genres alone than the whole of Beatles discog.

Also Tarantino is talented yeah but he is kind of a hack. He borrows too much from his inspirations. Fuck, Lady Snowblood anyone?

>>9654041
>or is it like /mu/'s hatred of The Beatles, in that they're incredibly talented and influential people but the board is full of edgy contrarians?
>Beatles
>good
Okay fine
>influential
There was a lot of Beatles contemporary bands that had greater impact. /mu/ screechs because bands like TVU or Beach Boys don't get the praise they should because they were a lot more influential.

>>9637924
The Man In the High Castle and A Scanner darkly, definitely.