Post some goddamn books
>>11368 Sure.
This is the crap poetry thread. Post your amateur works so that everyone else can tear them to shreds. I'll go first. My poems in the PDF, it's called "Hi John."
>>11402 I'm going to say the 'I' is this: >>11230 The second and third after it are packed with cliche.
Simple Minds Searching for Candy struggles Too secure Inverted A Cross that has chosen a path Different Certain Souls Forget what they were here for Grown too old Those who love Simple feelings nothing more Far too young Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11418 OP of the haikus here, criticism, please?
this is my collection what think?
I want to see your shelves, /lit/.
>>11411 That sounds like a great idea deserving its own thread.
>>11412 here: >>11414
Take a picture of your bookshelves and share your collection with /lit/ here.
Anyone know about a staging of Hamlet called "H"? In it Hamlet, Ophelia and the rest are heroin junkies. It ran in 2008 according to this site: goodreads.com/review/show/20124270 Their review of the production is really vague though so I want to see if anyone here knows any of the details about it- where it ran, who was in it, where I might be able to get the modernized script they used. hope someone's heard of this thing or can find more on the net about it than I've been able to.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521618746?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521618746&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2 Read it yourself.
Planning on snagging this, because ulillillia is too funny when he's just being himself, and should be doubly so when trying to tell a story "based on the concept of RPGs." Anybody know of anything else on Lulu that would be worth buying for unintentional comedy?
This is that guy who wrote a book composed completely of declarative statements, isn't it? We had a thread on this once before. I think there was an e-book posted here at one time... does that still exist? When I last tried to read it, my nervous tick started acting up and I began to hear a weird buzzing sound that kept getting louder with each page I read. Only made it through about half a chapter. I would really like another go at that book.
>>11384 Just buy it. It's cheap, and Uli could use the money to buy more Totino's pizzas with.
>>11399 De-greased pizzas you mean.
Any comments on the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik? I like Hornblower/Rammage historical fiction stuff and I've been trying to branch out from my "I only like Scifi" mindset.
I just finished reading "Story of the Eye". by Georges Bataille, and let me just say, this man was SICK. I may never have sex again. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. Where to start? How many times can a reader be shocked by one book? The worst part may have been when the protagonists beat the priest into submission with his own chalice, the girl sucks him off, while the boy pisses into the chalice then forces him to drink it. They beat him further to death, the girl rapes his dead corpse, they pry his eyeball from its socket and proceed to shove it into every orifice imaginable This is one of maybe 20 such scenes. And I haven't even discussed the bull castration. What is wrong with this author? What is he trying to say with this? Is he ill? Should works such as this be censored? And if any of you are feeling particularly gruesome, you don't have to actually go buy the thing like I did, its all on the internet now: http://supervert.com/elibrary/georges_bataille
>>11376 If a market exists, people will capitalize upon it. This seems like one of those genres that small publishers and new authors actually have a chance to establish themselves in because old and established publishers wouldn't touch the material at the risk of sullying their names. Sort of like when gay romance was first established as a genre.
>>11379 >small publishers City Lights Publishers sure fits the bill. Small publisher specializing in controversial fiction and radical political non-fiction. That seems to be their bread and butter. Nobody else was willing to publish Story of the Eye, at least not in The United States.
i was deeply moved by george bataille. now i have a pissed bedpan weaving over my house and whenever i see a bull goring someone i stick some bollocks right up my vagina. also i thing raping catholic priests is, like, totally subversive. it's, like, poetic justice + blasphemy. it's, like, sacral barbarious sadism. that is totally deck.
Glen Cook. One of the greatest modern fantasists? Probably. To become a greater influence on the genre than Tolkien? I can dream.
Tolkien won his points for ingenuity, obsession, and world building. Cook just plays a variation on a theme, combining grim&dark with classic fantasy. Fun stuff, my favorite of all the writers in that sub-genre so far, but it's still nothing outstanding.
If you like Glen Cook, have you read either Steven Erikson or R. Scott Bakker? If not, then I'll recommend them, their books are excellent. I believe Cook was a big influence upon Erikson.
>>11403 In a bass acwards series of events it was actually Erikson that introduced me to this style of writing. I heard about Glen Cook from his acknowledgments. I'll definitely give R. Scott Bakker a look. I think Erikson's style is better than Glen Cook's in the long-term, but The Black Company had me at the first chapter. It took entire books to fall in love with Erikson's world.
www.howdavidbecamenothing.com
This was kind of interesting I guess.