The name generator in /weed/ is an excellent place to pick up a great pen name.

>>20895

To my own list, I would like to add

Best (only) movie he wrote: Barfly

I have a collection of his short stories, "Notes of A Dirty Old Man." Not neat as great as his poetry but still quite good.

http://www.scribd.com/search?cx=007890693382555206581%3A7fgc6et2hmk&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&c=&ft=&q=charles+bukowski&sa=Search#1045

Odds and ends of his, ham on rye is there.

OP here - I went with Pleasures of the Damned and Last Night of the Earth. It seemed sensible for some reason to have the anthology for beginners sake, and his last book of poetry, thinking if he had any parting words of wisdom or otherwise important messages(if he would believe in such a thing) would be contained within.

I'll have to go with Women as the first novel...just because I like tits.

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Love is a dog from Hell are his best poems in my opinion.

1984 mentioned so many times in this thread that I think the mean age of the posters is 19.

Not to say it's a bad book. It's great. But it's also pretty heavy-handed.

>>21704
I must say I dislike the way the book has been misappropriated by liberals and libertarians (i.e. citing it whenever the government moves), which partly explains the upsurge in its popularity. Orwell was, of course, a democratic socialist.

House of Stairs by William Sleator fucked my view of social interactions for quite a while

>>21708
I suppose you mean liberals in the sense of Classical liberalism, which endorses the free market and often takes a kind of libertarian stance on government involvement? (As opposed to the pretty commonplace understanding of "liberal," which is essentially a person who endorses the more socialist side of a hybrid government between socialism and capitalism.)

Otherwise your comment confuses me. A lot of people did take 1984 as a warning to flee from socialism and retreat into the trusty brigade of the capitalists, who can "do no wrong" so long as they follow laws of competition...

House of leaves obviously

>>21695

interpretation sorry

It reminds me of something I read once, about how a flower isn't just a flower, but the sum of all things that have happened before it, since the beginning of time. I wish I could remember who said it.

Essentially, yeah, if you really want to make it from "scratch," you need a new universe. Because every particle that exists in something now has existed as billions and billions of other things. Just like the pieces of stars gone supernova are within us and are a necessary precondition for our life. Pretty cool to think that probably billions of supernovae exist within you.

/space/, a new trial board, and a great one at that, can probably help you more with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

don't know if you've seen this but...wow.

Any universe has to exist where an apple pie is possible for the apple pie to be able to be fashioned.

>>21676

If you have the new word, it's in the lower left hand corner. If you have word perfect, you have to go to one of the tabs at the top--I forget what-- and select word count.

I don't know about the older versions of word or of any of the mac apps.

>>21686
Also, if you're really anal about the whole thing, ignore words like "a", "an", "the" etc.

But yeah, like they say on their site, writing a novel is a one-day thing for most people, as in "One day I'm gonna write a novel." So the contest's main idea is to get you started. And even if you don't win (ie, even if you don't manage to get the 50000 words on time) you'd still have written more than you'd have given yourself credit for, so in the end you've still enriched yourself a bit :)

i just came here to see if anyone on 420chan was doing this. i've tried many times and then failed after losing steam. hoping to complete it this time!

Had a friend who did this. It was pretty much trash, but it was admirable trash, because he DID IT.

And I thought this thread was destined to die. It's nice to see there are several 420channers going for it.

I broke 10,000 today, so I'm just now on track, after starting 2 days late. The story has started to pick up steam, so I'm excited to keep working on it. It's been enormously helpful that I have a friend who is also doing it this year. We keep each other motivated.

I prefer Amadeus, but yes, Equus is pretty incredible.

Hahaha, read this a couple years back in English class. Good times.

This is also a song by Blonde Redhead. I covered the song before I'd ever heard of the play. But I will check out the play now. Thanks for this.

Fuck, I love having an e-reader. I just throw everything on there and read as I go.

...this play was around a long time before Blonde Redhead.

If you like that line between philosophy and literature and want to try to delve in a bit, I'd recommend trying out some of Nietzsche. Start with anything other than Thus Spake Zarathustra or The Antichrist... something like The Gay Science is a good beginning. (Essentially "The Happy Science," in reference to philosophy being full of joy and wonder.) That will likely blow your mind in several different directions.

If you have not read Dostoevsky, he's fucking incredible, psychologically. Try Notes from the Underground if you're not feeling too ambitious and want to try him out (it's short) or Crime and Punishment if you're ready for 6-700 pages of fucking awesome mentally-insightful and demanding literature.

Also, links.

Notes from Underground: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/600 (Audio book: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6536 -- see LibriVox.org for a better recording)
Crime & Punishment: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2554

Here is Nietzcshe's "Beyond Good and Evil": http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4363

thanks Em for the additions...

and a few more for today....

Foreword to I Ching by Carl Jung

(the complete) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

...anyone who grew up with these books probably remembers the amazing and FUCKED UP illustrations by Stephen Gammell...

Psychology and Religion; West and East - Carl Jung

>>21614

i fucking love you mate, i wanted to read those ever since i saw an illustration in /spooky/ that freaked me out, and believe me, it's hard to find those books in a third world country

>>21611
Great, you really made my day - again, thank you!

OMFG THAT COVARS SO WITTY LIKE THE WAY IT SPELLZ OUT RANDOM IF YOU FOLLOW THAT FUKKIN LINE I NEVAR WOULD OF SEEN THAT IF THAT LINE WASENT THEIR HOLY FUKKEN SHIT THAT GUY MUST B A JEANYUS OR SUMTHIN1!!!!!111R56U87Y0

>>21656
Don't judge a book by its cover.

OP again. Guess no useful thoughts so I started it. Too much math and probability stuff for my taste.

Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber

>>21557

I looked that up and the synopsis seemed a bit unninteresting and cliche "oh she's a witch that explains everything"

Scariest book I've ever read.

edgar allan poe

H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe to name the obvious. Personally Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will do you well, too.

>>21525
it's less about meaning and more about being emotional beings.

>>21525

Fight Club is not the definitive post-modern novel. It's pop lit written for alienated man who want to get in touch with their inner machismo.

If you want to talk about post-modern lit, read some Barth, Pynchon, Murakami, and get back to me.

The Cave by Jose Saramago for finding meaning in spite of the machinations of society and its relations.

Waves from Gent

i can recommend
>>21636

>>21642

>Palahniuk is pop lit
>read some Barth, Pynchon, Murakami
>implying the latter authors are underground or not "pop" in any way, shape, or form

Pop =/= Bad, it just means that your poser ass hears about it because it's right on the display shelf when you walk into Borders, you wannabee.