/lit/ - Literature

I'm a little annoyed that there's a few repeat offenders on the chart, but generally glad that the person who wound up putting this together was judicious enough for this to be as diverse as it is. Well played anon.

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>>449498
It was a struggle to put together a version with 100 stories. Eventually I would like for there to be no repeating authors. That's why I'm asking for suggestions. I've asked for suggestions in the past and incorporated the stories into the chart, when I could find them online.

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>>449501
>01 Tolstoy's God Sees the Truth, But Waits
oh so Russian, almost could have been written by Dostoevsky. Is this "feel guilty for other people's sin" thing an Orthodox particularity? I haven't heard anything similar from Christian authors of different confession.

Also, the text is choke full with those cute rhymes everywhere, I like. Anyone knows if the original is like that? I'd guess so myself. Short and sweet and very parable-like, I enjoyed it a lot.

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I like how Salinger's on there three times.

>>449618
They're great stories.

>>449595
>95 Donald Barthelme - The School
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>>449690
re-roll because sentences make no sense.

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>>449717
They make sense! I get it though. To read that story you have to accept the flow early on. And it's a strange flow. I can't hold it against you for bailing on it, but I'll tell you, by the time I got to the end of that story when I read it for the first time I was weeping like a damn baby. It might be the most insightful story I've ever read, and it's about fucking aliens. That's the genius of it.

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fuck rollin, i am reading all of these op

>>449780
It's twice as hard as English is not my first language.

Lowell, Jeff - Trust is a Club in the Hand of Someone Who Might Love You

Honestly, the beginning stroke me as a lame attempt to copy Richard Bachman's style. Then it succumbed into a domestic experience. Even though it showed the irony of life, it was too dry.
More than anything, the dialogue was as plain as ever. It didn't managed to stir my mind a bit.
Not much can be said about it. It's a below average piece of work.

Also, rollan again. But it's late at night so I may not post back.

>>449922
Fair enough. I haven't actually read that one, I only included it here because I wanted something from Popcorn Fiction (in making this chart I was trying to find stories to represent a variety of literary perspectives) and, upon scanning them, most of the stories were clearly and obviously bad. I settled on this one because at least Lowell seemed to understand grammar. (Screenwriters may just suck at prose, I don't know.)

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Rolling, hoping for Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been... always loved that story.

>>449942
It's understandable. It's hard to find something good, captivating and for a roll chart. Try more Gogol.

The Ant King is great, btw, I'm just too tired right now.

>>449668
I never said they're not. I like Salinger. I just found it a bit amusing.

:c I was hoping that this would be a compilation of all the most well known and talked about books on /lit/.
Dissapoint.

>>450041
And read them in 25 minutes?

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>>449489

Joyce Caral Oates is going to be at a Writer's Festival tomorrow hosted by my school. :D

>>449686
>86 Jack Finney - Of Missing Persons
didn't like this one, I hate this kind of pedestrian pseudo sci-fi stories. Reminds me of the shit short stories they'd have us read in high school.

anyway, another try

>>450369
Huh. Wow, I really, really disagree with you. That's a lot more than a "pseudo science fiction story" -- it's almost a pro-anarchy tract and an elegy for a lifestyle that, sadly, is no longer available to most of us. I suppose it depends upon your philosophical leanings, but I got a lot out of it. But it's cool. We can disagree.

>>450307
Got me sum Salinger, "Just Before the War with the Eskimos"

A really good read, with tasty, colorful language. Really liked Franklin, seems like a pretty cool guy, eh cuts his finger and doesn't afraid of anything.
I infer that Eric and Franklin are gay, but I'm not sure.

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I'm okay with this. Hoping for DFW.

>>450435
Some people think they were gay -- I don't think so. But I'm not an authority. I don't know that there is necessarily a "correct" interpretation.

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>>450443
I try not to bother myself with thinking about that all that much. But you gotta admit that Eric is a bitch.
Rollan.

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Let's see what we can get.

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>>450397
yeah well, this strive for what's clearly an utopia doesn't do it for me. I find it almost insulting in fact, there's nothing to get or learn from what's little more than a cheap, entirely unrealizable fantasy. Well, that's my opinion about such matters at least, but anyway.

>69 H.P. Lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter
I like Lovecraft yet I don't think that I had ever read this one before. Fits squarely within his comfort zone; everything that defines his style is there to some degree: unnamed horrors, remote ancient setting and a narrator scared shitless, all of that described in this awesomely archaic idiom of his.
>The removal of the slab revealed a black aperture, from which rushed an effluence of miasmal gases so nauseous that we started back in horror.
oh Howard, you obdurate eldritch horror from the eons past, kiss me.

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OH MY GOD, just read "Guts" by Palahniuk.
One of the funniest things in a while, I laughed so hard I cried a little. Made my day.
Read it, if you haven't read it, it's awesome. The only warning is that it's quite graphic at times, but we're all on 4chan here.

>>450558
You're new here, aren't you.

>>450565
No, not really.
I really did enjoy that short story, and it was really funny. Can't see what logic lead you to that conclusion, but anyway.

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>>450565
Hey -- be cool. This thread isn't for flaunting your superiority or being insulting toward your fellow /lit/ folks. This is a thread of rainbows and positivity.

>>450571
It's been mentioned ad nauseam on 4chan, just surprised you haven't read it before if you've been here a while.

>>450579
No hostility meant - 'tis late here so mannerisms might seem a tad brusque.

>>450584
I know it has been, and I've been told to read it many times by my friends.
But I never got around it until today. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

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>>450541

Well that was definitely... interesting.

>>450507

Just read Salinger's Eskimos. I thought it was interesting, a little strange of an ending and I dunno about the speech, it all seems just a little forced. The way he plays with language though was pretty fun, definitely got across that snobby better than you sort of feeling. I'm going again damnit.

Oh hey, which side is tens and which is ones?

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>>450628
who cares? read away!

I do it cartesian style myself

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Edgar Allen Poe's 'The house of Usher' was my roll. Fantastic story that terrified the hell out of me. I liked the intense -- but atropheric in the sense of the characters -- liveliness of the piece. It was also my first introduction to Poe, because I was obviously, in hindsight, stupid enough not to read any of his stuff before.

>>451678
I think I'll read that one when I wake up. I probably won't roll for it -- I'll just read it. I haven't read Poe since the sixth grade (for school)... I'll comment on it after I read it, if this thread is still around.

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Got Lovecraft, was good, liked the twist.


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A great story to include next time would be Denis Johnson's Emergency.

>>453162
Is it available online somewhere?

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>>449489
Rolling. It's disturbing how authors often look exactly how you expect them to, sometime. Don't think I saw what Vonnegut looked like before, but I always did imagine him as a baggy-cheeked Samuel Clements.

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>>453236

Amy Hempel's 'The Harvest'

I like the minimalism, probably my favorite style of writing. A little too straightforward near the beginning but an enjoyable read.

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Hell is the Absence of God

Fairly depressing. The point of his story to me was rather vague right up until the end. It was an enjoyable read and made me interested in checking out some more of Ted Chiang's writings.

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>>453437
re rolling cause lol mormons

Aghhh I was about to go out, but fuck that shit, it's time for reading.

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>>453437
Nice. Read the Tower of Babylon if you can find it. Mindblowing stuff.

>>453430
Girl With Curious Hair. Oh, you lucky son of a bitch. I wish I could read that for the first time again.

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Can we make suggestions about what stories we'd like to see added to the next incantation of this list?

I would really like to see how people react to one of Lori Moore's short stories from her collection "Self Help." I'd also really like to see some Pynchon and Calvino. That said, I really love the list that's up right now, too.

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>>453585
OP here. There is a Pynchon story in the chart. I can certainly add the others you suggested -- are they available online? It's kind of a deal-breaker.

>>453585
Two things. First, I thought that How To Be An Other Woman was the most interesting out of Self-Help. Maybe not the best, but the most interesting.

Second, Octavia Butler? Fuck yeah!

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>>453609
Hmm, I'm searching, but this might take a while? Do you have a way I can contact you after this thread potentially 404s?

>>453644
No. It's this thread or nothing. Have you searched Gigapedia? If you can find a .pdf of a larger book, like an anthology, I can save the specific story from the .pdf.... That's how I got a bunch of these stories.

is the link win or not?

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>>453586
That was interesting, loved the way it was written to say the least.

>>453681
Alright, cool. I didn't know about checking Gigapedia, but after you suggested it I gave it a shot. No luck. You can find "Self Help" by Lorrie Moore on Amazon, but there's no way to copy the text other than by hand (it's a long story too).

Apparently finding stories online is a lot harder than I thought, which makes me appreciate this thread even more. The only thing I would recommend is "I Can Speak." You can take it or leave it, but I had to suggest something after all that fruitless searching.

"I Can Speak" by George Saunders- http://minimalaerie.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-can-speak-by-george-saunders-from.html

>>453769
It is hard to find stories online. That's what makes this thread so awesome.

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>>454716
do i count 1st column 6th row, or 1st row 6th column?

I hope I get Tim O'Brien. The Things They Carried was the best book I read in High School.

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>>454746
Just finished reading The Library Of Babel.

Very good read, interesting viewpoint to see the world as a whole.

I suggest adding Asimov's "The Last Question." It's a short and easy read.

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