/lit/ - Literature

>>1711561

Did I mention that it starts out with the author writing several letters pretending to be friends of the author (who claims he is merely an editor that found Pamela's letters/journal) telling him how awesome and important Pamela is, and how an amazing and perfect and wonderful woman she is and how so many lessons can be learned from this book that it is the best book EVER.

The entirety of Philip K Dick's work.

With the Earth's resources depleting and water levels continuously rising, humans have fled to the seven orbital habitats now circling the Earth. However, levels of importance were established as space was limited, and many people were left to live within the slums of the ruined cities.

Micah, a young man travelling from city to city via the cross-channel highways, is in search of a mysterious girl known as The Parasol Girl - a elusive Crosser (person who can attach themselves to electronic signals and teleport, usually short distances however) who can attach herself to satellite signals. Soon enough, he finds himself thrown into the acts of the terrorist group - Liberateurs du Ciel - a group of Crossers who claim to be guardians of The Parasol Girl.

Sup /lit/

There's not a good PDF of Neuromacer on /rs/, so after some hunting I found a copy. Figured I'd share it with you guys.

William Gibson - Neuromancer - PDF
http://www.mediafire.com/?dvnu3vudkiu4yon

WIlliam Gibson - Neuromancer - EPUB
http://www.mediafire.com/?7btt7blpjylmli5

>In psychology or English you can say any old bullshit and all you need to do is preface it with "but this is just my opinion".

This statement shows about a 5th grade level understanding of the idea of "reading comprehension." Baseless opinions are just as retarded in liberal arts as baseless hypotheses are in the sciences.

Could be fun.

>Currently reading Locke's Second Treatise of Government

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About halfway through there is a total shift in voice and it becomes almost unreadable at points.

>I only want to read it for my own enjoyment, so I won't need to analyze it or study it in depth. I'm basically just interested in the story.

Then there's not much point. It's not.. a riveting tale. Nor is it complete. They've only been able to recover bits and pieces.

When we covered it at my college, we just went with the Penguin edition. But seriously, Gilgamesh is really about how to treat your bros and a little bit of origin story for the world, why it rains, that kind of thing. I'm not going to tell you to read it, but I'm telling you not to expect an epic tale. Or a complete tale.

>>1301384
No.

>A warm tongue slid over the pale nipple. Power Girl could feel the warm breath of Terra against her tender skin as her fingers caressed the raven black hair,

Fucking seriously? You use warm twice in a row, there is nothing but telling, and you use possibly the most canned phrases possible.

0/10, please see me after class.

>3. "You had an arse full of farts that night, and I fucked them all out of you"

WELLP, THREAD'S OVER. THAT'S A WRAP.

A friend of mine did this instead of lug around a copy of Bleak House for a month. It was great when she would read out a passage, the professor would ask her what page it was on, and she would sheepishly answer something in the 6,000 range.

iPhones are tiny.

That's Penguin Classics, by the way.

Polite sage

Penguin vs. Oxford World Classics.
HEAVEN OR HELL.
LET'S ROCK.

I like Penguin. While Oxford tends to be higher printing quality, their footnotes kind of suck.

Pic related; it's a fucking penguin.

o_o

y rated it 1 of 5 stars
ugh. what a boring read: another "beautiful" but lost japanese girl + confused sister + dude on a motorcycle... all going nowhere a little slowly, which is the point, i suppose. i don't even care that my copy is signed by mr. murakami... the signature didn't make the book any more interesting.

i read somewhere murakami has just come out with a book of short stories about marathon running (he's a marathoner??) and what he thinks of whilst running. my guesses? jazz, recor ...more ugh. what a boring read: another "beautiful" but lost japanese girl + confused sister + dude on a motorcycle... all going nowhere a little slowly, which is the point, i suppose. i don't even care that my copy is signed by mr. murakami... the signature didn't make the book any more interesting.

i read somewhere murakami has just come out with a book of short stories about marathon running (he's a marathoner??) and what he thinks of whilst running. my guesses? jazz, records, smoking, cats, mysterious women and probably noodles and/or dunkin donuts.


WOW THIS GUY. HUGE NIGGER.

/lit/, I wanna write some kids books.

Except kids don't read nowadays do they?

Pic not really related.

>What was it like when you got your big idea?
I got it in the shower. I immediately rushed out of the shower and wrote it down before I forgot it.

>Did you finish? What happened to it?
Well, the aforementioned shower took place about half a year or so ago, and I'm still trying to work out all the details perfectly.

How the hell does one write fantasy without it being cliched as fuck?

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Location: Ontario, Canada
Favourite book: Moby Dick, Kafka on the Shore, Neuromancer, anything by Philip K. Dick
Currently reading: After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Last read: Wake by Robert J Sawyer
People you're interested in: Short women who aren't fucking retards. If I can hold a conversation with you, I'd take that over you being super hot anyday.

A Wild Sheep Chase & After Dark. Both by Murakami.

Also fuck year Catherine. This is gunna be a good game.

Probably irrelevant, but what kind of magazine?