/lit/ - Literature

>>8177975
does it feel good to possess literally no originality?

Okay. Hit me with your best shot.

>>8177975
dank

>>8177990

Eh why not

>>8178003
does my bait taste good?

Too lazy to use paint.

Favorite book: Pale Fire
Favorite album: Our mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt

rate mates

wind-up bird chronicle
ys

>>8178014
>le I was just trolling you xD

>>8178014
tastes better than the dick of modern consumerist culture being constantly shoved down my throat at least

>>8178021
18yearsold / 10

>>8178006
Dune is a meme but at least not a terrible one. Infraredfoot has better albums.

6.5/10

>>8178027
doesn't change the fact that you were incapable of recognizing bait. you failed but that's OK. the more time you spend on 4chan the better you are at recognizing it. hang in there, kiddo

>>8178032
at least I can understand the dislike of WUBC but that album is godly

>>8178025
decent

>>8178033
What better albums? Amnesiac more or less = Kid A > A Moon Shaped Pool > Ok Computer = In Rainbows > The Bends > Hail to the Thief > The King of Limbs > icky poopy > Pablo Honey > for good measure On A Friday

Dune isn't a "meme".

>>8178021
great album, shit book
>>8178025
nice
>>8178006
7/10

Stoner and Jackson C. Frank

>>8178059
Dune is a total meme have you even read it? Kid A is better than Amnesiac. Don't even get me started on the Dune sequels.

>>8178066
Dune is not a total meme, Frank Herbert's Dune series is arguably the only valuable piece of golden age science fiction written. The rest is pulpy, if not inspired pulpy, nonsense. Its world and setting is rich.

>>8178060
shit album, great book

>>8178084
>shitting on civil civic

>>8178077
[opinion that contradicts this]
>this is literally all this conversation will ever amount to

>>8178077
Lol Dune is pretty pulpy senpai

>>8178091
Compared to its peers it's certainly not.

>>8178095
Compared to its peers, it's great. Compared to actual literature, it's a memey pile of trash.

>>8178036
>kiddo
>if you were as much of a 4chin expert as me
>hang in there

Nah, I'm ok with not wasting my life here

>>8178100
I love this memey pile of trash, it's wonderful

>>8178100
>memey
Is this pronounced differently than meme?

>>8178109
It's pronounced "meh-may"

>>8178103

>>8178109
Meme: MEH-MEH.
Memey: MEH-MEH-EE.
Not hard.

>>8178109
Meme is pronounced me-me

Memey is pronounced meem

>literally no one has posted a non /mu/core album or non /lit/core book

>>8178109
meme—mɝmɝ
memey—mɝmJ̈

(using IPA)

>>8178118
I did.

>>8178122
same desu

>>8178118
Most people's favorite albums are going to be the albums they most resound with are going to be albums other people know. The same goes for books. Favorite is usually not indicative of total "quality", it is usually indicative of what is known.

>>8178130
>posting shit that everyone else on this board figured out in third grade

thank you for your enlightening comments

>>8178136
Well, your post indicated you hadn't known shit everyone else on this board figured out in the third grade.

>>8178130
It's like you're 15. Stop posting.

>>8178118
show us your advanced taste then, faggot

>>8178118
eh, the /mu/core thing is a bit more forgiveable. a) /mu/ likes way more albums than /lit/ does books, and b) /mu/ usually has legitimately good taste

Probably Dune or Point counter point
The Ugly Organ by Cursive

I'm sad that my book/album pairing will go ignored because everyone is deciding that replying to tripfags is the best way to get rid of them

I'm sad that I'm actually sad my post won't get (You)s

>>8178139
wasn't me senpai and even if it was the guy was just making an observation

>>8178142
I will not stop being 15, I will amass enough power.

>>8178147
Same here. I want to know what people think. I guess I'm weak that way.

>>8178148
Then now you know why.

>>8178128
pretty radical album and 7.5/10 book I approve

>>8177999
gd-tier patrician

>>8178153
even butterfly was more tolerable than you

I'm not even religious.
I couldn't decide on one album.

King James Bible
Charles Mingus - Mingus Plays Piano
Nick Cave & TBS - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Nick Cave & TBS - The Boatman's Call
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Bohack - It Took Several Wives
Snatch - Witch 1 (Pandemonium)

>>8177991
Mark Twain = 6/10
weeb music = idk

>>8178064
damn your life must be depressing as fuck

>>8178164
Stoner isn't a depressing book

>>8178084
sounds like you have shit taste in music
>>8178087
you're a pretty rad guy

>>8178160
>not even religious
Then you just legitimately have taste that sucks this much?

>>8178160

>>8178104
GOAT

>>8178167
honestly I'll redact that, I broke my own rule and judged the album too quickly. I'm getting into it now.

>>8178159

>>8177975

I know 4 languages so this is what I like the most from each.

German: Faust, Parisfal
Ancient Greek: Odyssey, Orphic Hymns
Latin: Metamorphoses, Carmina Burana
English: King James Bible, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

>>8178169
>implying the bible isn't literally 10/10

>>8178170
wat?

album isn't my GOAT but it's my favorite at the moment

>>8178179
I'm fluent in 4 as well but I'm not as much of a fag I guess and try to flaunt it on an anonymous board... pick your favorite is it that hard?

>>8178181
idk it triggers my catholic school PTSD so I hate it but maybe if you don't have a viscerally negative reaction to it it's tolerable

>>8178173
That's the spirit. That album means a lot to me, as does the book.

>>8178192
sorry I ever doubted you anon-chan

>>8178163
I agree about Twain in general, but Mysterious Stranger has some of the most powerful passages in literature.

Pinocchio-P is very good for a weeb artist. Makes the other ones look like a bunch of rubes. I recommend.

>>8178164

yep

>>8178199
eventual untimely RIP

also nice two same numbers

>>8178201
this is good +1 4chan point

>>8178196

>>8178189
As I said, I'm not religious whatsoever but I must have spent hundreds of hours of my life thinking about the bible. There is some powerful shit in it.
I can totally see why people fall for it and devote their life to god. And naturally it's quotable as fuck:
>''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.''
>''He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.''
>''And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.''

>>8178128
shostakovich is amazing. his film scores are also worth checking out especially his score for A New Babylon. great pic as well. original is better though bronze horseman by benoire

/mu/ POSTERS GET YE GONE

/mu/ POSTERS GET YE GONE

/mu/ POSTERS GET YE GONE

/mu/ POSTERS GET YE GONE

>>8178179
>The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
I like you, bro.

>>8178177
nice dizzee

favs of past 6 months or so
Album: The Cure - Pornography
Book: PKD - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

>>8178177
>dizzee rascal
>boy in da corner
dropped mate
fucking trash t b h

>>8178300
title track on the album is the only good song on the album t b h

>>8178318
just use tbqh you nig.rar it's more patrician anyway

Too lazy to fuck with files

>To a god unknown, Steinbeck

>Demon days

Notice how people with shallow taste in pop music have even more offensive taste in literature? It's because they're pseuds. Pseudery can't be scrubbed away by simply switching to a new genre of popular media to consume; it follows you like a tattoo.

Everybody who has posted ITT--please return to your pseud containment board and do NOT post here until you are vaguely familiar with literature. Thank you.

>>8177991
>>8178006
>>8178021
>>8178025
>>8178064
>>8178104
>>8178145
>>8178177
>>8178183
>>8178201
>>8178257
>>8178374
>>8178300
I've highlighted these post because they are particularly egregious examples of pseudery. Please do not post on /lit/ again; thank you.

>>>/mu/
>>>/b/
>>>/trash/

>>8178404
>mfw i wasn't included in this post
I already knew my taste was patrician anyway though t b h

>>8178404
Fuck you

Book: Journey to the End of the Night
Album: Yeezus

>Portrait of the Artist - Joyce
>Fevers and Mirrors - Bright Eyes

With Runners High and Little Busters by The Pillows as a close second, and Molloy and Satantango as runners-up for novels.

>>8178438
Whew lad no need for such harsh words. You got called out on 4chan, who gives a shit?

>>8178445
Fuck you.....

>>8178442
absolutely fucking turbo-pleb tier
please leave this board

>>8178449
Yeezus was good

>>8178449
You're wrong (unless you're right about Céline but I find that hard to believe)

This is the first time I've ever posted on /lit/ >__>

>>8178467
Fuck off and die. No it wasn't. I think you're just disagreeing with me for the sake of it t b h?

>>8178468
Journey to the End of the Night isn't bad, it's just... what you'd expect 14 year old Jim Morrison fans to be reading. It's actually pretty good, haha.

>>8178478
Beach house are quintessentially Tumblr tier. I'm pretty sure the only reason they had any success at all is because of Tumblr. That being said... that album is still solid, I think.

WHY IS ANYONE STILL REPLYING TO THIS TRIPFAG

IF YOU DON'T WANT HIM TO POST STOP REPLYING

I KNOW THIS POST ALSO GIVES HIM ATTENTION BUT JESUS CHRIST FUCKING STOP TAKING THE BAIT YOU AUTISTIC LOSERS

>>8178478
easily one of my all time favorite albums

>>8178503
Wouldn't they be reading Bukowski?

Yeezus is great, it just isn't made great on purpose.
Beach House is properly underrated given their fans are tumblr yeah

>>8178503
Yeezus was really goo desu. Blood on the Leaves is a great track.

>>8178509
>him
>him

You called me him two times, you need to step up your game and call me him five times in order to meet the passive aggression quota.

>>8178503
Also stop posting Roman bastardizations of Greek sculpt in marble as an appeal.

>>8178404
attacking someone's taste rather than simply memeing on the particular things they like is the hallmark of an meta-pseud. Congrats, now go do your pre-calculus homework.

Don't have a computer rn but

>Albums
Autechre - Confield
Boredoms - Super AE
Faust - Faust
Obligatory Can album

>Books
Ulysses
The Illiad
1984
Lolita

I want a new asshole please

>>8178529
No. Bukowski isn't Jim Morrison tier really.
And again, no it's not. You wouldn't know a great album if it literally kicked you in the face. You think it's great because you've probably listened to a hundred albums in your life and have nothing truly great to compare it against, but whatever.

>>8178532
No it wasn't at all, see above, but whatever.

>>8178537
No. I like powerful imagery.

>>8178531
pretty nice

>>8178570
Greek was meant to be done in Bronze, not Marble. The Romans fucked it up and defaced Greek sculpt with Marble instead of Bronze.

Learn what you enjoy and stop celebrating the bastard child of Greek civilization.

I read the french version of Cyrano so I don't know if the translation is shit or not. I like classical music too, mostly Jean Sibelius and Vivaldi. Picked more then I needed to just in case someone wanted to check out some new stuff.

>>8178570
Bukowski's favourite book was Journey, the tier is much closer (not on themes).
My backlog of music is more than 160gb I've listened to stuff from Toumani Diabaté to Wire to Julius Eastman to Oval to Cap'n Jazz to Sicko Mobb to Gastr del Sol to Rashad yadayada

>>8178584
But that's not what I said. I enjoy powerful imagery. I wouldn't care if they completed it in dung. It is pleasing to the eye and powerful in the same way that a nice verse is.

Also, I'll give u a bastard child if u want bby

>>8178616
And you're still a pleb? Fucking shame.
Like whatever you want, desu. Just don't go around calling garbage work ''genius'' like most Kanye West fans do.
I've seen people on this board claim lyrics from mbdtf are as good/ better than the entirety of Paradise Lost.

>>8178404
I told all of you this would happen when I started this thread.

>dat semicolon usage
pick up a fucking style guide you autist

>Bonobo, Black Sands
>Zarathustra (I don't ever read novels)

I'm on my phone so I can't make an image.
Anyways;
Books- Umineko no Naku Koro ni, The Plague
Albums- Crybaby (inb4 tumblr), KIKUOWORLD3

>>8178404
What do you like?

>>8178170
>sally mann
downvote

>>8178404
>calling everyone a pseud and posting that kind of shit

holy fuck the irony it's too intense

>>8178404
>saying >>>/mu/ in a /lit/mu/ thread
u stupid or somethin

>>8178671
Each semicolon is used correctly in that post.

>>8178693
>>8178671
he wasn't wrong though. most of the posts were fucking turbopleb 101.

>>8178714
>correct use of a vestigal structure

>>8178716
>turbopleb
Please just fucking stop. This is the smartest board on 4chan afterall and we can do quite nicely without shit like that

>>8178722
>implying you didn't giggle like a bitch and then proceed to shake your head when you first heard that term
because i did

>>8178731
It seems your sense of humor is that of a turbopleb :^)

>>8178714
they're correct but they're fuckin gay

>>8178736
t. a 110-120 low iq turbopleb

>>8178404
>he doesn't post his pair

thats not the only pair u lack faggot

>>8178006
best radiohead album
I need to read Dune, I've been meaning to

>>8178025
>liking Naked Lunch this much
album is great though

>>8178754
tame impala are shit

>>8178778
the first two albums were great. That one was trash, though

Rate?
> inb4 English only
> inb4 I am a stupid hipster

>>8178778
LET IT HAPPUN

>>8178778
*is

Fuck your images.

>Favorite novel

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

>Favorite album

White Light/White Heat

>Book
Divine Comedy
>Album
The Sound of Il Giaguaro 3

Every single person in this thread is a pseud pleb except for me and I'm not posting anything because I'm not giving you pleb pseud fucks anything that's actually objectively good.

>>8178800
>favorite album is beatles
>"le hipsteur xDDD"
>implying you're not an insufferable normalfag

>>8178791
>Great.
No.

>>8178801
Lol

>>8178800
You can't be serious. Please, don't be.

>>8178803
Are. I'm English, so fuck you. This is how we talk.

>>8178808
Album is good. ''The Gift'' is great tier. The instrumental version, that is.
Also, probably one of the best album titles ever t b h.

>>8178808
solid patrician music taste although I prefer their eponymous album

>>8178815
>judging a person's music taste based off of how popular it is
Fucking die

>>8178824
>You can't be serious. Please, don't be.
About the album or the book?

>>8178838
Nice assumptions there shitstain. I never said I was judging him because the Beatles are popular.
He was the one that brought up the word hipster.

>>8178815
I was assuming the novel would draw the "hipster" hate, not the album
Also >>8178838

>this thread

>>8178824
>''The Gift'' is great tier.

Absolute pure fucking groove.

>>8178833
Honestly, I think After Hours is probably a better closing track than European Son. Their s/t has a couple weak tracks, but when it gets it right, it's amazing.

>>8178404
dude lmao nice bait

also

>fuck off

>>8178478
i thought teen dream was their first album, you just made my night

>>8178181
> >implying the bible isn't literally 10/10

HAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHA, pleb

Holy shit. I thought tthat the /mu/ infestation was just a meme. No wonder the quality of posts has depreciated so rapidly in sucha short amount of time.

>>8179005
You're the pleb for implying it isn't, you Toby.

>>8178889
nah senpai I was talking about TVU not TVU&N. Not the Andy Warhol one, the b&w photo one.

>>8179016
Yes, I know. I was commenting on how strong of a closer After Hours is, to the extent that I think it even outclasses something totally off the wall like European Son, despite being much calmer and more collected. I should have been clearer.

Plus the guitar effect they achieve on What Goes On is A+ (like a swarm of mosquitoes). Lou Reed always had a thing for making feedback behave exactly how he wanted it to.

>>8179050
>the guitar effect they achieve on What Goes On
>(like a swarm of mosquitoes)
>feedback
You're a fucking pleb/10
It's literally a fuzz pedal and slight delay.
Dropped everything else you said, you fucking pseud.
How can you believe you're in any way fit to criticise an album if you don't even know basic shit like that?
God damn, I forgot that sometimes people on this board are fucking stupid and shouldn't be given the benefit of doubt.

>>8179081
Oh settle down. Speaking as someone who actually plays guitar, it's not just a fucking fuzz pedal. You're correct when you say that's the effect he's using. But the line is clearly layered.

My assumption has always been that they either just slathered the take on top of itself, or routed one amp through another to get that distinctive, absurdly treble-heavy sound. Either way, it's making use of the distinct sound which emerges from the amplifier in a creative way, which, as I said, Lou Reed did with finesse for the better part of his career.

I'm going to assume you read something about their use of fuzz on that album and just assumed. But being a douche doesn't really get us anywhere, does it?

>>8178183
my nigger

>>8179188
>Speaking as someone who actually plays guitar
Oh wow! Tell me about how that makes you a god!? You're a fucking master. A genius. You must be the only one in the world apart from Lou Reed who plays a guitar?!
>But the line is clearly layered.
>Routed one amp through another to get that distinctive, absurdly treble-heavy sound
>Distinct sound which emerges from the amplifier in a creative way
Just admit it, you have literally no fucking idea what you're talking about, do you?
''Emerges from the amplifier in a creative way''? What? Literally what the fuck are you talking about, mate?
>Assume you read something about their use of fuzz on that album and just assumed
It's fucking obvious to anyone who isn't an absolute fucking moron. How long have you been playing guitar, bro? Because I know it's not very long.
Stop pretending you know about things you don't, on the fucking internet... to people who actually do know. Pseud cunt. Fuck off.

>>8179248
>Oh wow! Tell me about how that makes you a god!?

I can tell we're feeling a bit abrasive tonight, so I'll just let you get to that. I said I play guitar to illustrate the fact that I own fuzz pedals, and (this is where it gets pretty crazy) have used them. They simply don't do what you're describing.

When I said "feedback" earlier, I didn't really mean it in a "squeal and screech" sense. This was ambiguous language, and clearly a mistake on my part, because this is a pretty fucking bankrupt conversation for me to be having. My original point was that he was very, very good at producing interesting sounds through either his instrument, or his equipment. There's a part of Sister Ray on which guitar takes an absolutely brutal percussive tone for the span of like 15 seconds, and I have no clue how he pulled it off. That's the sort of thing I was referring to. I think "gain" is probably the word I was looking for. But you're still acting pretty asinine t b h

>the line is clearly layered

This is something called "overdubbing." You take one melodic line and you play it (or something else) over itself. Reed played three similar solos with distortion and what you hear is definitively not delay. Nor is it just fuzz.

>literally what the fuck are you talking about mate?

See above. I get that "emerges from the amplifier" bit, but the rest makes perfect sense and I don't know why you'd be deliberately playing ignorant. Other than to be difficult. Which is a dick thing to do.

>to people who actually do know

Now, this is just demonstrably false. We are having this conversation, after all.

>>8179306
You probably spent fifteen minutes typing that and it said nothing. You just said a bunch of shit that you made up and it means nothing.
I could show this to a recording engineer and they would literally laugh at your post and then they'd realise you were being serious and possibly get visibly angry. You should be a critic because you're full of shit and don't mind typing it up.
>This is something called "overdubbing."
Wow, great master, teach me your ways!
That doesn't work here, though.
>I have no clue how he pulled it off.
Because you're a fucking pseud who has no fucking clue about anything. You want to appear as if you know what you're talking about. You don't.
>what you hear is definitively not delay. Nor is it just fuzz.
I'm telling you, without a doubt, with the confidence as if I was in the fucking room when it was being recorded, that what you hear on that record is exactly that.

Also
>Overdubbing
>Lou Reed
''I don't like overdubs, never liked them.'' - Lou Reed

Now... Fuck off?

>>8179229
>rodeo
How much of a normie do you think you are?
Because however much you think you aren't a normie, you're a normie

>>8178197
Man, I don't know why, I've heard in a lot of places that Twain is pretty average tier literature, but holy christ do I get a kick out of his stuff.

Like actually hands on my knees laughing at some points.

Submitting for roast:
Huckleberry Finn
Volbeat - The Strength/The Sound/The Songs.

>>8177975
/mu/fags stay on your containment board.

>>8179437
>fifteen minutes

It was closer to six, and you need to get over yourself a bit. This is basically my one excuse to occasionally look away from Watt, which has been a pretty thoroughly unenjoyable novel so far. If I feel like dithering, I will. You're apparently mad enough about this that I'll at least have someone to talk to.

>said nothing

Sure I did. I clarified a few things that you seemed to be misunderstanding, though it really seems like you weren't appreciative.

>Wow, great master, teach me your ways!

This was me being condescending, because you're being rude. I know you know what overdubbing is. Relax.

>YOU FUCKING PSEUD YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT

Relax.

>I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

I believe this. But I also wouldn't be surprised if, on a record where they paid a lot closer attention to production than on previous ones, they tried it out anyway. It's just what overdubs sound like. I'd actually be very interested to see how they did it, if it wasn't overdubbing. Because I'd say that it's not simply fuzz and delay with every bit as much certainty as you're saying it is. Shit, even when they played it live they did it multi-layered.

If you can provide a good source saying it's ONLY fuzz and delay, I'd gladly recant everything I've said (aside from my praise for Reed as a guitarist, and the albums we've mentioned). Apologies in advance for the following hideous link:

https://books.google.com/books?id=99VPNgEz81QC&pg=PA213&dq=Doug+Yule+%22play+them+all+at+once%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF4vr9jLPNAhWC2R4KHdsCASAQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=Doug%20Yule%20%22play%20them%20all%20at%20once%22&f=false

Otherwise, we're just going by ear (and Doug Yule's testimony). And so we're going to have to agree to disagree.

>>8179486
this /mu/ is about as bad as /v/ or /b/

Piano concerto no. 21 (no particular recording)
Anna Karenina

Playing it safe

>>8179509
>not TMR and Finnegans Wake
U havin a giggle, blep?

>>8179516
juss playin it safe XD

>>8179248
>>8179306
>>8179437
When you at the times of the posts, you have to feel a little sorry for the angry man, projecting so hard.

>having a favorite book
>having a favorite album

>>8179554
>having no favorites

>>8178059
Kid a is far more coherent than its sister album

The Crying of Lot 49
Brilliant Corners

>>8177975
i dont lurk /mu/, can someone tell me what that album is

>>8179594
Just do a reverse image search you imbred mouthbreathing fuck

>>8178586
I hated Ender's Game even when I was in 7th fucking grade, sorry but I can't take you seriously.

>>8179594
It's I Love You Jesus Christ by Courgette Face.

>>8179594
nmh aeroplane

>>8179594
It's Perfect 10 by pH 7 Dairy Hostel

I'm really not a big music fan, I stick mainly to hip hop and only listen to music when I'm working out and drawing, so I won't or can't judge the albums.

But anyway, here's mine and...

>>8178021
7/10, Murakami is pleb, but he can absorb you in a narrative like few writers can, and this is his best work. If Murakami were as good a writer as he is a storyteller he'd be master class.

>>8178025
3/10. Come on dude, Naked Lunch is interesting, but it's really your *favorite* work of literature *ever*? My guess is you are 19 or 20 and just becoming literary minded. I won't fault you because you just need more time become more well read and mature in general, most likely. I remember when I was like 18 I was fixed on druggy edgelord core as well.

>>8178060
4/10. Dazai's slim, one-note gloom fest is really your favorite work ever? I mean I like Dazai, but man... Try reading Akutagawa if you haven't? He's similar but more varied and also more clever and creative in my opinion. If you like Dazai I think you potentially have good taste, but if Ningen Shikaku is really your favorite book ever I think you need to read more.

>>8178564
8/10. Also, 808s is underrated, but still low tier Kanye. It's better than Late Registration though.

>>8178706
6/10 interesting choice.

>>8178759
I haven't read since high school/10 (I like One Flew though).

>>8178962
8/10. Music is fedora/10.

>>8179509
8/10 because Joyce, but Ulysses is better. I also preferred Dubliners to Portrait.

>>8179709
>druggy edgelord core

It's almost as if you didn't read the book.

>>8179594
in the aeroplane over the sea

eugene onegin
music for egon schiele

cba to make a jpg

>>8179716
It concerns drug use and is a largely incohesive non-narrative that Burroughs said you can just pick up and read anywhere, so in that sense it's kind of "edgy". Drugy edgelord core is a pretty apt description of Naked Lunch.

>>8178100
>>8178109
fuck you guys i hate this board

>>8179747
>WAAAAAH WAAAAH NO JOKING, BANTER OR FUN ALLOWED!!!!!

>>8179709
You're right I did read it in high school, but I've done a lot of reading since then. But there's just something to the simplicity of books like Stoner, The Catcher in the Rye, and One Flew that make them stand out. They are strong from cover to cover.

Is m&d as good as everyone says it is? I've read GR and tcol and I'm learning more towards V or Inherent Vice next.

Suttree
&
Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes

>>8178586
Great Big Sea is comfy as fuck

>>8179756
This is a pretty patrician, cohesive combo.

>>8179755
inherent vice is great tbqh underrated

>>8177975
You browse this site too much

>>8179755
Of course if you ask me I think it's as good as everyone says because it's my favorite book ever. I think it's Pynchon's best work. Much more readable than GR and with characters you actually give a shit about, but no less ambitious or large in scope. It's staggeringly philosophical and inquisitive but also really quite accessible and has the magic and whimsy of a bedtime adventure story.

>>8178006
Please return to /mu/

the virgin suicides

exile on main street - The rolling Stones

>>8178318
One Hundred Years is heavier than most metal.

>>8179788
by knowing two well known works? and is that supposed to be a negative thing

I remember when IJ and Aeroplane weren't memes like 5 years ago. /lit/ used to love IJ back then.

>>8178564
you're probably cool

>>8179982
Nope. Please return inside my ass.

ITAOTS honestly, yes.

And maybe Lolita, or Steppenwolf, or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

>>8179709
oh fuck off you pseud.

>>8179314
Finished Butcher's Crossing just yesterday and highly enjoyed it, just like Stoner.

Do Augustus and his debut work hold up to them?

There are depressioncore albums, is there anything similar for books? Feeling like shit and want to go deeper.

>>8180632
i haven't read those yet. some other bredrin said augustus is good, though.

Book: Lolita
Album: Either Snowing - fuck your emotional bullshit or Girlfriends -s/t

>>8178404
Talk shit, post lit

>>8177999
this post is 100% correct

>>8177999
What the fuck is up with that goth guy on the right? he looks so out of place.

what's the death grips equivalent?

>>8180580
Say what you want about me, at least I'm not throwing buzzwords around.

>>8179746
Naw bby. The narrative is with intent. Refer to the Nova Trilogy... It's structured as something of a thin, threading thought. Also some of the most haunting prose poetry in American lit. It's defying deconstruction.

> 8178104

GADDIS/10

>>8178551
Sick, not listened to faust or boredoms before, thanks so much

>>8181232
ebin simbly ebin (you)

>>8181232
Please don't faint when I show you my business card

>>8181269
Something wrong, anon? You're sweating.

>>8179684

>>8180578
come on it'a good but saying ITAOTS is your favorite album is like saying the Beatles is your favorite band. get some less generic taste, jésus

>>8177975

>>8181343
meme-tier book. haven't heard the album

>>8181343
smashing pumpkins are meme tier
ur a pleb

>>8180845
he's the quirky special odd-one-out OMG don't make fun of him your like so mean

>>8180570
I like you

>>8178551

I l i a d

jesus shit you people are boring

>>8181493
your choice in music is memetastic

>>8179453
I pity your closed-mindedness

>>8178374
>To a God Unknown

Reading it at the moment, about halfway through it. I have to say, I have been pleasantly surprised with it so far. Thought it would be disappointing since it is a work of his you never hear about and it was only his second published novel. I don't think it'll rate as my favorite work ever, not even favorite Steinbeck, but it is pretty good.

>>8181493
memes and originality don't equate, anon

>>8177991
Holy shit I love that album

>>8179709
>Judges everyone and talks shit on book choices
>brushes over the fact he literally knows nothing about music

My book is Dune

there we go, my friends

>>8181513
?? that's literally pleb tier/10
back to /mu/ with your meme music you fucking retard

>>8181598
Nice album

>>8177975

No Paint
Favorite Albums:
On the Beach-Neil Young
John Wesley Harding-Bob Dylan
Illinois- Sufjan Stevens
Favorite Books
Grapes of Wrath
Caine Mutiny
L'Étranger

>>8180570
You sir have good taste

>>8181654
sorry, can you just format that a bit more poorly for me?

Decent taste though tbqh

>>8178478
We can be friends

>>8179637
I read it when I was in grade 3, so it's mostly nostalgia for me. I lived in a small community and part of our library was in our classroom. I found the book in a shelf next to my desk and spent a good while reading it. I loved it back then and although it's just meh to me now, reading it still makes me happy.

>Blood Meridian
>Panzerfaust

>>8181341
No I'd rather keep listen to things I actually enjoy, but thanks for the advice.

>>8179760
They were really comfy live too. Newfoundland bands seem to be pretty comfy in general for some reason. Several of them came to our schools and played in the gym for us just because they had been passing by. Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers, the Ennis Sisters (twice actually), and Kevin Collins all came to our school at some point. There were several others but I don't remember who they were unfortunately. They were all extremely nice and staid for as long as they could. The elementary had about 200 students K-6, and the high school had about 400-500 7-LIII so the schools were fairly small for even NL standards and they were out in the boonies.

>>8178757
oh shit

>>8181600
I haven't been to mu in 5 years, define what's non-meme music?

Is it still meme-music if I don't participate in the meme-discourse and listen to it solely out of enjoyment?

Can't wait for hate.

>>8181850
yes, it means you have a pleb ear.
come back when you own 25,000 records, know what you're talking about and aren't an unpractised mong.
now fuck off back to /mu/ where they'll tug you off for saying you like kanye west.

>>8178183
Both great choices. Just saw them live a couple months ago. Worth whatever you have to pay.

>>8178478
Turtle Island is the best song on that album, imo. Saw em back in March. Solid live show. Teen Dream/Depression Cherry are better I think.But you can't really go wrong with them if you're in that mood

>Books
Ulysses
the Sound and the Fury
Gilgamesh
the Odyssey

>Albums
Loveless
Pinkerton
Elliott Smith
Pink Moon
A love Supreme
Einstein on the Beach (technically not an album, but it's my favorite opera so I thought to include it)

>>8182191
>Einstein on the Beach (technically not an album, but it's my favorite opera so I thought to include it)

For my own education: what did you like about it?

I can appreciate it, and I really love some of the individual knee plays and all that. But I've seen a full performance of it, and it just wasn't all that engaging on a personal taste level for five hours. The level of of repetition, even though that's the point, makes it hard for me to get it being someone's favorite opera ever, considering the other masterpieces in the form.

>>8182212
The repetition is key to why I enjoy it. The repetitive melodies slowly morphing into slightly different but still very similar rhythms puts you into a trance and all of the music starts to blur. And then, almost out of no where, the melody and movement of the piece changes completely into something else, and that dramatic change after you've been hypnotized by all that repetition feels so powerful and intense that it sends shivers down your spine. It's minimalism at its finest.

>Fiction
Ulysses
Tristram Shandy
Don Quixote
Tutunamayanlar
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Moby Dick

>Music
Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G
Charles Ives - Symphony no. 4
Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
Alban Berg - Lulu
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach

>>8182212
If you can really follow it, it's amazing how much variation he fits into the repetition, how he makes these changes that would be monumental in another structure while leaving the underlying repetition intact. Train 1 and Spaceship (although I have to agree with everyone who accuses it of bathos) are probably the most musically captivating for this. It's a tremendously playful piece.

>>8179314
>>8180632

I read Butcher's Crossing a few weeks ago, and just felt like I didn't get it. What did you enjoy about it?

>>8182472
simultaneously pseudy and patrician
confused/10

>>8182191
Weezer has far better albums than Pinkerton. Consider suicide.

>>8177999
properly the only time where i wanted cancer to win

>>8178021
haven't gone back to the book for a few years, scared it wont be as good as i remember and decent album a little dulll

>>8182497
You probably spend too much time online.

>>8178404

>>8182523
who doesn't on this site

Novel - Infinite Jest
Album- Velvet Underground-S/T

>>8178706
I've actually interacted with Porter robinson on a music making forum back in 2007. before he was famous

>>8182567
Shit album, meme novel

>>8178033
I don't think you know what the word meme means friend, however it is a popular book that most people think of when they think 'literature,' so maybe the expression you're looking for is 'entry level.'

>>8179722
never listened to that album but you seem like you have good taste

>>8179709
>I also preferred Dubliners to Portrait

It's been historically acknowledged that Joyce wasn't much of a short story writer. Didn't have a good handle on thematic development/substance when confined to short stuff.

He's by no means bad, and I still love Dubliners, but your rating system falls apart when you reveal that you're basing it off of liking a work without actually analyzing it.

>>8179722
Could never get into Confederacy. Just seemed like it overexaggerated its point. Hurr durr here's a fat guy who's everything wrong with society, let's have every single sentence exacerbate how much he sucks. It was just overkill, but I can't really talk, I only made it a chapter in.

The guy who's responsible for helping it get published wrote The Moviegoer though, which I really enjoyed.

Gravitys Rainbow
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica

>>8181598
Why this Tao Lin novel above the others, out of curiosity?

>>8179754
Great album.

>>8182654
sorry I got my memetics wrong

>>8181892
How can one man be so angry over another one's taste in music
Well I wish you and your advanced taste all the best

Btw do you listen exclusively to metal and classical?

fuck off to /mu/

2pleb4u

>>8182472
Just gotta talk some more about Einstein because I really do love it. I love how the electric organ is scored to sound like amateur noodling but makes such perfect sense all the same. I love how everything slips uneasily but inevitably in and out of sync. It's so melodically repetitive but then the minute you think you've got a handle on it it's gone somewhere else. It's a monumental injustice to call it repetitive and leave it at that.
And then the character of Einstein—how it dances vaguely from the universal to the modern and then back to him—just enough to evoke him and his impact on the world that we live in but just vaguely enough to leave it open. It's such a disappointment when Spaceship turns it all into nuclear paranoia.

>>8181892
>own 25,000 records
this is like $400k go suck a dick you don't own that many vinyls

>>8178160
The Bible is Bach's Kunst der Fugue

>>8182803
>being a poorfag

>>8178531
do you live in berlin

>>8179709
>It's better than Late Registration though.
gtfo

>>8183245
unlike the other pathetic ingrate boards on 4chan, /lit/ is not a sub where this works as an insult. Being economically destitute is a prerequisite for the literary lifestyle

>>8182684
Good pairing
>>8182503
No they don't, mr. contrarian 4chins man. And don't link that stupid Fantano video where he argues that The Blue Album is objectively and artistically 'better' because more people like it and it has catchier hooks

>>8181513
this is just gross

>>8181783
You are from Newfoundland? I am from Newfoundland. We are now new found friends

>>8178160
Nice Cave picks

Labyrinths - Borges
Who will cut our hair when you're gone - the unicorns

At work, can't make a picture

the public burning by Robert coover

the meaning of 8 by cloud cult

>>8181513
This is the kind of trash that posts on /lit/ in 2016

>>8183565
>implying Godthony Deitytano could be wrong about music

seriously though I prefer SFTBH sue me

>>8183618
>new found
i c wat u did there

>it's a "pseuds from /mu/ fish for /lit/'s approval of their shit taste" thread
If you treat art like a fashion accessory (i.e. almost everybody in this thread), you should be exterminated via the most painful means possible

>>8178130
Why do you use a trip? Really, quit posting.

Finnegans Wake and pic related.

Captcha: something in Chinese

>>8183682
because he desperately wants attention from a bunch of pseudy, NEETy weebs

>>8183905
HE

>>8183682
To answer your question though, no.

>>8183908
you're basically just proving my point nobody actually knows or gives a shit who you are and thus doesn't know that you're female now fuck off

Too lazy to make an image
>The Plaque - Camus
>Blurryface - top

>>8183912
If a grill I'd date you

>>8184018
I'm disgusted

>>8184018
jesus fucking christ blurryface are you a fourteen-year-old white girl who thinks she's unique and intelligent?

>>8184077
>>8184092
I figured I'd get this response. I'm a dude though, just very gay and young. All my friends are white girls who think they're unique and intelligent at least so you're kinda right

|-/

>>8184230
being gay is no excuse for having terrible taste in music I know plenty of well-listened gay people

>>8184230
Come on now

There's no excuse for that

>>8184235
>>8184241
Meh, as an upper middle class pretentious and bored teen, its quite appealing.

>>8184270
go watch memethony memetano tear top a new asshole and then find some decent music from him

>>8184280
Sure, but who the fuck is that?

>>8184288
Cal Chuchesta's roommate

>>8184321
Well nice meme I guess.

I watched the guy's review, but honestly that doesn't really tear top a new asshole.

Its still not that bad, sure maybe it doesn't deliver in the ways that other albums might, but personally I like the kind of hectic and random mix of styles and sounds.

>>8184343
thanks bb I strive to provide top-notch memes

>>8183245
>being a consumerist swine

>>8183663
SFTBH is great but Pinkerton is more refined

>>8184487
In what way?

>>8182777
Thank god you exist.

>>8184280
>then find some decent music from him
I really hope this is bait

Books:
White Noise
Gravity's Rainbow
The Brothers Karamazov

Albums:
Rogue Taxidermy - Days N Daze
Fuck World Trade - Leftover Crack
Strange Homes - Mallory
Vacation - Bomb the Music Industry !

And a shitton more on albums. I probably can't even choose an unordered top 25 on albums

>>8184830
Shit taste in music

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths

Favorite book is Ulysses. Other favourites

Master and Margarita
Moby dick
The Tunnel
Gravity's rainbow

>>8182803
the other two anons who replied weren't me, obviously
>implying i don't own more than 600k worth of vinyl
>implying i didn't spend up to 5k numerous times for one vinyl
>implying you know anything
top lol

>Being economically destitute is a prerequisite for the literary lifestyle
Lol. I bet you think ''Chads'' or good looking people, have to be stupid?