Personally I think The Dunwich Horror was superior.

exactly like Infinite Jest

>>22364

I think it would be written as a shitty screenplay and made into a movie by the guys who did 2012 and Cthulhu would be in CGI and voiced by the guy who played Snape.

There would be at least a dozen sequels, one every Halloween.

>>22376

The dunwich horror and rats in the walls are his only good stories.

the rest are cut and paste: I saw a giant unthinkably horrific monster i will tell you what it was then kill myself.

>>22392

>There would be at least a dozen sequels, one every Halloween.

Jesus fuck you're right.

moby dick.

better get the one with pictures

wtf with the picture OP

Moby Dick definitely

Dostoevsky is just a Kierkegaard wannabe

I've read them all

And I'd say

The Brothers K

but David Copperfield is great too

>>22468

I'm getting a strong Kierkegaard vibe from my first reading of C&P (280 pages in.) Raskolnikov's essay reminds me of K's Teleological Suspension of Ethics.

Of the three, I've only read Moby Dick, so this opinion is useless to you. But I'd still thoroughly recommend reading that bad boy.

>>22476

Not hard if you're good and have the money to hire an agent. The key thing there is being good.

It comes down to ability and experience. If you're short on either, a college degree could help - but a publisher won't care what letters come after your name, s/he'll care that your writing is awesome / shit.

I fully sympathise on the hating school front; I'm at university and can't stand it. Personally, my advice would just be to read and write and read and write and maybe visit another country and knock up a local. Keep things spicy.

>>22415
name me one good bukowski poem!

>>22427
Bluebird, for starters.

>>22367
Ginsberg is trash.

>>22459

you're trash.

>>22459
he'd be quite fond of that.

>>22463
*Bau

>>22463

romantic as in this: (don't you say romantic in english?)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantisme_français

>>22466
well Romanticism here I think is usually considered like the early 19th century English poets like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Blake,Byron with some American novelists like Hawthorne and Melville being put in there as well

Baudelaire is more classed as almost proto-modernist and surrealist/symbolist with him having influenced and been influenced by Lautremount , Verlaine, and Rimbaud. Incidentally all of these guys loved Poe.

>>22461

His complete works haven't been translated and (despite never him writing anything over 14 pages long) would amount to many thousands of pages. Just grab Ficciones or Labyrinths.

>>22466
Well yeah that's what I meant too. Read the article, you'll see that Baudelaire comes after the "end" of romanticism in France. He does share a few traits with romantics, but his work is notably different.

>>22467
Baudelaire died before Rimbaud, Verlaine and Lautréamont published anything, so I can hardly see how he was influenced by them. I don't know much about Verlaine, but if Rimbaud was indeed influenced a bit by Baudelaire or the parnassiens at the beginning, he quickly moved on to something more personal. Not sure the connection with Lautréamont is evident either, that guy was pretty much an alien in his days...

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Borges is always the best choice for choose-your-own. You get to name-drop all sorts of critical theory fuckers to make your professor love you (Deleuze & Guattari, Foucault, Lacan, etc). Though I would choose "The Garden of Forking Paths", just personal preference.

Brave new world

Twilight

MAN UP AND DO THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

it'll be worth it, i promise.

Crime and Punishment is great for dissertations

I would fellate a farm animal for those.

I'd say 60% of my books come from closets and caves of my relatives, tons of free Russian and French classic literature

I've been looking for the original stories myself, all I can find are the .cbr's so I thought i'd give it a break for a while. So I will second this /lit/ request

wikiquote has them all. i loved them when i was a child, especially how vividly he had described the battles. you can't turn that into a comic, that would be blasphemy.

OP here, I went to wikiquote but I couldn't find anything... a little more help please

self bump

Michael W. Ford is a faggot ass punk. He's like Crowley except twice as much of a butt pirate. He can't spell worth a shit, he regurgitates the same old bullshit that everyone who's been around the block knows about and his girlfriend (who's probably a fat hot topic whore) does shitty illustrations. I know his main kick is that he explores "the dark side of spirituality" - but seriously what is this? I guess that's cool if you're in high school.

>>22426
Never read the Great Gatsby, but the other two books you listed go on my "top 10" list. Great stuff.

>>22410

straight up, brother

Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby and Catch 22 top my list
HoD just for crazy
GG for emotion
C22 for wit

>>22434

Gatsby gets a bad rap from all the people who had to read it in high school bitching about it. Mind you, I wouldn't consider it one of my favorites, but it definitely resonated with me. That might have been in part to the context of when I read it and how I felt I related to it in that context, but I'm sure it'll affect you in some way too.

>>22454

I read both the stranger and the catcher in the rye in high school taught by just about the dumbest professor (teacher for amerifags) as well as some other of my favorite books, the plague, for whom the bell tolls, cat's cradle, etc) and I still loved em.

I don't think learning something in school even if you had a bad experience learning it should change the profound effect a book can have on you. even if the teacher spouts bullshit all the time (mersault was really hot on the beach and killed the guy only because of the sun. the heat made him angry so thats why he did it) and totally ignored important parts of the book, you can get over that shit.