/lit/ - Literature

Nah. Measuring how fast you read books is stupid.

The Nobel seems to think Bob Dylan

Tommy Pinecone

I think that if I ever wrote something I considered to be worthy of media attention, I would delete my social media accounts (even though I only keep Facebook for occasional communication anyway). Twitter is cancer for writers.

Conversely, I would adopt a pseudonym, although I really doubt I would ever do this.

I would like to be celebrated

>>7033914
If by people you mean Huxley, sure

>>7032927
Mhm. I read it as well and this was my biggest take away. I make a serious effort to read all of an article instead of skimming it for relevant information (Carr suggests we read in an 'f' pattern when reading articles online).

I found the parts addressing the rewiring of synapses to be pertinent as well but I never really checked his sources and it could be exaggerated. The book isn't as hopeless as the title/others suggest and Carr dedicated multiple portions of the book to showing exactly what happens when we do decide to stop and how we can 'rewire' our brains. All is not lost.

A bit pop science I think, but I'd be lying if I said that this is a book that's forgotten after reading. I remember and revisit it with alarming frequency

>>7031140

It's also really good

Chuck sucks

But if you want something similar yet better, try Ryu Murakami.

In The Miso Soup is a fine starting point

>>7029267
Mason & Dixon...?

>>7029592
Reminder that modern philosophy starts with Descartes.

That being said, I think you're drawing a correlation between women and objects yet ignoring the circumstance.

For instance, those that use things such as tinder are, in general, desperate for attention. Any given user (male or female) will list very surface level qualities about themselves (what they like, what brand they buy) in order to grab somebody's attention. I personally would thinks that the likes/dislikes category would not differ all that greatly between men and women. Both demographics put buzzwords/attention grabbers in their profile to attract others

>>7029557
It's my favorite film. I hope you enjoy the stories. And if you haven't read any Barthelme yet, I recommend that too

Read a lot. It helps immensely.

Study short stories. Why are they engaging? Why do you care about the characters? How does the writers set up dialogue/character interactions? These things should be at the back of a budding writer's mind when reading

Hawkes is phenomenal.

I recommend, if you enjoyed that, his short stories (Lunar Landscapes is a good collection). They read a bit like Barthelme meets Salinger.

"A Little Bit of the Old Slap and Tickle" is a top five short story for me

>try to read outside in the spring
>sneeze violently and rip pages out of book
Nah

Wouldn't popular vote have to include the SJW vote since that's part of the populos..?

I really wanted it to be good

>>7019495
>I will enjoy watching you burn in hell from heaven
Well goddamn

>>7019348
Er... This funny picture was supposed to be attached. Ha ha

>>7019297

>>7018901
Where did you hear this?

The story I've read and Reread is that GSaW was a story she submitted to a publisher who denied it but told her that she liked Scout's flashbacks. So Lee essentially rewrote the book while incorporating parts of GSaW that the publisher liked. I've never heard anything about a trilogy. Maybe this was as an idea she entertained for a bit and cast aside but I've never head anything to this effect

I...don't know what you mean. They're seperate mediums. You can enjoy them outside of the other

Unless you're talking about film theory, which it doesn't sound like you are.

>>7017776
>>7017789
Perfect, thanks fellas. Nice insight and I'll check it out as soon as I can and report back. It's about time I read some more South American authors. I'll start with The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, I appreciate it

>>7017751
Id love to see the details of that 'investigation'

Somehow I don't think it's as thorough as you'd like to believe. Lee's been going senile for years according to numerous personal accounts. While I suppose she could've spontaneously reattained full awareness, it seems more likely to me that shady dealings were the real factor behind this.

>>7017724
I'll give it a watch, all of my recent media consumption seems to have centered or involved suburbian housewives around (Safe, A Woman Under the Influence, American Beauty, Something Happened) so I may as well continue the trend

I really wanted the protagonist's wife to cheat on him. Would've been so satisfying

>>7017677
Never heard of it. Worth a read? How's it similar?

>>7017680
Okay good to know, I'd hate to have ruined it for you. Make a thread about it when you're done and we can discuss it again.

>>7017686
Sure thing, but it'll be vague:
>His daughter pleading to see his room
>His conversation with his son on the importance of 'not giving away nickels'
>His very brief and rate flashbacks to his childhood (reminded me of a Malick film in the sense that he provides rapid yet vivid images).
>The subtle humor he displays in conversation with his family that you only pick up on 200+ pages in once you've fully realized his personality
Here's a quote I have on hand:

"...of this festive, family birthday celebration in honor of my little girl at which my old mother and my infant daughter are joyful together for perhaps the very last time. And there I am between them, sturdy, youthful, prospering, virile, saddled already with the grinding responsibility of making them, and others, happy, when it has been all I can do from my beginning to hold my own head up straight enough to look existence squarely in the eye without making guileful wisecracks about it or sobbing out loud for help. Who put me here? How will I ever get out? Will I ever be somebody lucky? What decided to sort me precisely into this slot? (What the fuck makes anyone think I am in control, that I can be any different from what I am? I can't even control my reveries. Virginia's tit is as meaningful to me now as my mother's whole life and death. Both of them are dead. The rest of us are on our way. I can almost hear my wife, or my second wife, if I ever have one, or somebody else, saying: 'Won't you wheel Mr. Slocum out of the shade and into the sunlight now? I think he looks a little cold"').