/lit/ - Literature

(One) on the subway and (two) twice a day on weekdays, (three) when I get a chance also daughter has to read for 30 minutes a day and I join her in the quiet time, (four) is The Illustrated Man, (five) is A Pleasure To Burn (F.451 bonus stories!), and (six) I don't know how many but Watership Down is tied with Farenheit451.

Wow, you posted the cover of the only Star Wars book I ever read, and that was when it was first published. Always stuck in my head. I enjoyed it but was more of a "Close Encounters" kid....

Yes, 2010 is very enjoyable. I heard a radio piece about how it was written and got very interested. Kubrick and Clarke worked together and wrote the movie and the book simultaneously. Sometimes the text would be written from what Kubrick had filmed and sometimes vice versa. It seemed like such a crazy way to write, and the two of them (both with reps for being difficult) must have worked very well together. I found that I understood parts of the movie much more after reading the book.
Next I read 2012, also good, and forced myself through the strange 2061. Couldn't bring myself to ruin it any more so i didn't read 3001, which I heard was awful. But I highly recommend reading the book and seeing the movie either just before during or after.

The Dechronization of Sam Magruder

>>1969501
Thanks, I'll send a formal request on Craigslist.

>>1969456
Cautionary tale, maybe?

>>1969478
Well, you have an interesting way of thinking about people's book collections.

So you know, I don't own this book, so please keep away from me. Not that there's anything wrong with that...ahem...

Also, wasn't there a biography of Dick Cheney out recently?

I always liked switching pronunciations of "leopard" and "leotard".

My hair does not look like that anymore.

I use "My Writing Nook" (or maybe it's My Writing SPOT), and it's excellent. Links up with an online site you log in through your google account for when you're at your desk.

I ride public transit a lot, and if I'm not reading then I'm writing. I just couldn't find time to write at home or any other time, so I actually get some rough stuff done and then clean it up later. Damn, at least it's something. Even if I'm struggling out a few paragraphs with my thumb on a tiny keyboard, at least it's something. Then when I get to work I sync it to the online version and copy/paste another copy into my local drive.

inb4 you tell me to get a notebook and pen

>>1940421
Dad a chum da da chopsters, you forgot the lobsters!

I think the next literary movement will be iconic literism. Yup.

Or movie scripts written by the god Captcha.

How do you know this is a very rare book? What research have you done on it?

I'm sorry to tell you I don't believe it has much monetary value, less than 50 bucks probably. What year was it printed? What edition? How is it bound? Author?

If you read them backwards at just the right speed you can see the words "Harry Is Dead".

True fact, check it out.

>>1936993
I chuckled, nice pic Learned about Kiki and Bouba a few years ago. Great visual/textual fun, especially when you take into account the shapes of the letters used to make the word associated with the shape.

just put a damn monkey there again

Young Billy Burroughs, in his prime.

Madman's Drum by Lynne Ward

http://books.google.com/books/about/Mad_Man_s_Drum.html?id=azGuQwAACAAJ

I specifically remember a big discussion about whether Shakespeare was better read or seen. And another about...yawn...if he really wrote his plays or someone else did blah blah...

captcha: the smesso

Hopefully some Yellow Pages books will survive. I think that will be best and very valuable to future scholars. Think of what you can learn about our times from a phone book, especially a business directory, which also usually contains local maps, some town ordinances and other interesting bits.

To me, it's all about the rose.

>>1892642
Wasn't at all written by one omniscient author, doesn't even claim to be. You should be more careful before you call people dipshit.
Er...."Book Of Matthew", "Book of John"....