/lit/ - Literature

What book is that?

>>1292364
Neuromancer by William Gibson.

>>1292365

You sure is not All Tomorrow's Parties?

did anyone else think that the baby was grabbing a dick.

please say yes.

>>1292370

yup, that seems to be the point.

>>1292367
Positive.
ATP's first line is too long.
>>THROUGH this evening's tide of faces unregistered, unrecognized, amid hurrying black shoes, furled umbrellas, the crowd descending like a single organism into the station's airless heart, comes Shinya Yamazaki, his notebook clasped beneath his arm like the egg case of some modest but moderately successful marine species.


See? Too long. Neuromancer's first line is beautiful in its simplicity.

>>1292365

This a good book?
After all the Uplink I've been playing I could use a good hacker story.

>>1292383
It's probably more responsible than any other book for getting the entire cyberpunk genre going.
It's a classic.

>>1292374
>>1292370

we are all bad people and i, for one, am ashamed

>>1292388

Damn.
Good to know. Thanks, anon.

>>1292389
Welcome to 4chan :D

Stay here long enough and you'll hope it's a penis.

“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”

>Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

>>1292401
Temba, his arms wide.

I like, where's it from?

"The sky was the perfect color of cat puke"

Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.

>>1292399
>you'll hope it's a penis.
Not if a baby can wrap it's enitre fucking hand around it

>>1292401
Infamous opening line from Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess (aka Clockwork Orange guy)

>>1292415
That depends entirely on the fetish.

>>1292418
gracias, I'll check it out.

>>1292415
honestly, while i in no way support child molestation, I think in general it would be better if the penis were small, less possibility of doing physical damage. Again, not supporting baby rape, just saying lesser of two evils.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

It doesn't just make you curious what's to come, it implicitly challenges you to question who holds that station in your life.

>>1292424

I kinda lol'd

>>1292424
what book is that from?

It was during the time I wandered about and starved in Christiania: Christiania, this singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away the traces of his sojourn there.

>>1292437

I think that's a bit overly dramatic in a way that often shows up in books.

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are priviliged to live in space.

The past is like a foreign country; they do things differently there.

He stole my coat so I shot his girl

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.

>>1292447
I like.

Each happy family is alike. Each unhappy family is miserable in its own way.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

call me ishmael

Lolita. Light of my fire. Life of my loins. My sin. My soul.

>>1292572
Quoted incorrectly, sir.

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.