Comments | mynameisnotevan: My 5 Favorite Sections in All of Literature (subject to change)

mynameisnotevan

My 5 Favorite Sections in All of Literature (subject to change)

Apr 10, 2006 23:01

1. The Mexican sequence at the end of On the Road. Amazing, amazing language. It makes you go into a trance. Some of Kerouac's stuff, and a lot of Beat stuff in general, is just typing (to paraphrase Truman Capote) but every once in a while, the writer's sheer power of psyche succeeds in hitting just the right combination of synapses with their ( Read more... )

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theresplendence April 10 2006, 22:02:06 UTC

matt brinkman "teratoid heights"

chris ware's "the acme novelty library," though rusty brown is good and jimmy corrigan is a classic.

er...yeah, comix are good.

I uhh... can't read. unchuckable April 10 2006, 22:06:32 UTC

The president's solution to the predicament in Fail-Safe.

piratedragon April 11 2006, 10:11:09 UTC

thomas wolfe's rant on america in "of time and the river."

meghhhh April 11 2006, 13:11:37 UTC

Chapter 8 of East of Eden by Steinbeck, because i dig crazy people and i have never seen one described so perfectly.

The end of the Franny section of Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger. Talk about wanting to die.

All of Ball Four. That book is freaking hilarious.

jenkins_mcgodd April 11 2006, 13:30:46 UTC

The end of Cat's Cradle, and the "my soles, my soles!" poem.
When Kilgore Trout meets Kurt Vonnegut, his creator, in Breakfast of Champions, and the dog attacks the latter.
I like Vonnegut in general.

Also:
The glacier crossing in "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K Le Guin.
When they all die in "On the Beach" by Nevil Chute
All of On the Road.

plus more

twirling_lapis April 11 2006, 19:48:10 UTC

Oh, I definitely agree about the Breakfast of Champions one. Also, there are others, but just agreeing requires less typing.

Also, you make it sound as if all people who dislike Hemingway are illiterate fuckups and I'd like to say that's not true. I did like "Hills like white elephants" or whatever by him, so you also can't dismiss me as just hating all of his works because I dislike his personality. And that's all Femi-Nazi Emily has to say about that.

jenkins_mcgodd April 11 2006, 20:18:50 UTC

I didn't even mention Hemmingway. Oh wait you're talking to Evan. I'm so awkward.

twirling_lapis April 12 2006, 05:24:52 UTC

GIGGLE

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