/lit/ - Literature

no but melchizedek and the mystery of fire is a good crash course in the foundations of new ageism

>>6154236
>He didn't wait 10 years to read part 2 of Don Quixote

>>6154031
There are no good instances of addiction, which you can learn by reading infinite jest.

>>6153837
If you don't have any experience with alcoholics or addiction or the workings of AA you might not get into it. I would say that's probably more important than tennis.

>>6152224
Noted. Maybe I'll read this before A Smuggler's Bible. I wanted another smaller McElroy book first so this should work.

>The Spirit Molecule
>Food of the Gods
>Inherent Vice
>Screw-Jack
>The Toy Collector
>Perfect Sunshine
Peripheral:
>The Holographic Universe
>David Icke schizophrenia

>LAST
The Trial

>CURRENT
Infinite Jest

>NEXT
idk Satanic Verses or Wind-Up Bird probably

You may want to read The Ego Tunnel OP

>>6147151
>So are the rocket at the beginning and end supposed to be the same one?
I don't know that there is a definite answer to that. I don't presume to understand the exact purposes of the S-Gerat or imipolex-G beyond the behaviorism instilled in slothrop and the collusion of shadowy coroporate-and-state interests for mysterious, powerful technology to the ignorance and probably ultimately harm of the civilian population. As far as the final scene goes I interpret Gottfried as the sacrifice of innocence to apparently insane military apparatus for the sake of ever expanding power. But what do I know, I'm a shitposter on a Azerbaijani car bomb afficianado blog.

This is what happens when you
>Read it for the plot
But the rocket is the inorganic world smashing through the fracturing narrative and destroying the novel as it and slothrop fall apart. It's arguable that it's represented as the screaming that comes across the sky in the first sentence because dude like whoa.

books of blood or the damnation game. His YA is pretty good, and weaveworld is awesome. I've heard imajica is his best but I haven't read it.

same as last week OP. Exactly the same.
>tfw didn't finish infinite jest in two weeks
>tfw forever plebe

Shakespeare
Jonathan Swift
James Joyce
Moby Dick
Blood Meridian
Mason & Dixon

>>6146163
He doesn't even have to do that he can just go to a 3 day jam festival there are plenty of stinky druggie bitches there and he doesn't have to live in a shack.

What you're already doing is good, and the more you read and expose yourself to different interpretations the more you'll begin to make out more connections than you currently are (probably).

You can also try making an actual thread with your thoughts and questions here, rather than "what did you guys think of book?". This obviously might not pan out for some books but it doesn't take long to type a paragraph or two and you might be surprised.

>>6146084
I thought it was interesting the scrolls mostly became a macguffin to drive the threads of plot begrudgingly forward. Like you said he really seemed to capture the sense of confusion and breakdown of values still pressed forward by a dishonest state. He also did a great job portraying immigrants and their struggles and contributions without being bleeding heart or doting unduly on it as some old white dude. Mostly though, I thought the fractured narrative and unwillingness to discuss the end of his diving career and so the retreat into this labyrinth of memories that Zach 's story unfolds through, revealing an even more traumatizing incident. It reminded me of the PTSD/tralfalmador explanation of Slaughterhouse 5 except not trite and silly.

Also why are postmodern authors obsessed with incest

>>6146050
I have A Smuggler's Bible but I have delayed on it because cannonball was such a slog. It was interesting but I was just like dude what in the fuck are you even doing for probably the first half or 2/3s. Have you read it or Lookout Cartridge? It seems like the latter is his most well-regarded piece but the only other thing I've read by him is a short story about a country that totally erases itself.

>>6145997
Well we could talk about it now. Here was my attempt at discussing it.

>>/lit/thread/S5479570

>>6145872
J R is 90% unattributed dialogue with suble scene changes.
>>6145919
>Cannonball by Joseph McElroy
Agreed, your thread was also shit as I predicted at the beginning of your doomed challenge.

http://adilegian.com/FranzenGaddis.htm

>My problem was that, with a few exceptions, notably Don DeLillo, I didn't particularly like the writers in my modern canon. I checked out their books (including "The Recognitions"), read a few pages, and returned them. I liked the idea of socially engaged fiction, I was at work on my own Systems novel of conspiracy and apocalypse, and I craved academic and hipster respect of the kind that Pynchon and Gaddis got and Saul Bellow and Ann Beattie didn't. But Bellow and Beattie, not to mention Dickens and Conrad and Bronte and Dostoyevsky and Christina Stead, were the writers I actually, unhiply enjoyed reading. If Coover's "The Public Burning" and Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" moved me, it was mainly because I loved Coover's character Richard Nixon and Pynchon's Oedipa Maas. But postmodern fiction wasn't supposed to be about sympathetic characters. Characters, properly speaking, weren't even supposed to exist. Characters were feeble, suspect constructs, like the author himself, like the human soul. Nevertheless, to my shame, I seemed to need them.

The Mayfields

I literally cannot find the cover or any reference to this book at all. It was assigned in my sophomore year, and it was the worst novel I have ever read. It was about a failing marriage that collapses, and the wife's period of appreciation of her freedom (nothing explicit, just psychological pontificating). Eventually the ex-husband contracts some fatal disease and comes crawling back to hisnex-wife's beach house. The story concludes with him dying and her being le strunk wymyny.

It was just so awkwardly bad. Nothing remarkable whatsoever. The themes were hamfisted to the point that the book was essentially all plot. It was horrible.

>Harry Potter and the Ego Tunnel
>Harry Potter and the Trial
>Harry Potter and the House of Leaves
>Harry Potter and the Terrible, Horrible No-Good, Very Bad Day
>Harry Potter and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
>Harry Potter and the Books of Blood
>Harry Potter and the Nightmare Factory
>Harry Potter and the Satanic Verses
>Harry Potter and the Misleadingly Titled Joke Book That Eventually Reaches a Conclusion

Who gives a fuck? Ask >>>/k/

>>6142204
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