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[sluttyforcats]

i need some good books to read. i need new authors, new material, new blood. perhaps it will break my current writers block.

so please, LJ friends, suggest a book/author for me!

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[ohblast]

& try to find a short story collection of hemingway's

[papercuttongue]

Well, to annotate ohblast and her suggestion of that rascal Ernest H. Only get a short story collection of his if it has the story "The Snows of Kilemejaro" (sp). It is his only decent story. Rip every other Hemmingway out of the book, pee on them, let them dry, then light them on fire. Your writers block will be cured.
Read "Seven Plays" by Sam Shepard.
Burroughs, Rilke, Thompson.
Brautigan, Edgars, Milton.
Go to your local library and down an aisle at random. Pick any book that is almost out of your reach (physically) and then Rip it Off!!!
Like the great Picasso cribbed: "It is neccessarry to copy others. To copy yourself is death."

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[sluttyforcats]

i enjoyed "the old man and the sea" from hemmingway, along with "the snows ..."; as for his other works, i am not familiar with them.

interesting, i used to carry this quote from goethe in my wallet that said something along the lines of "anything you have thought of, has already been thought before".

[grammarcore]

i have the feeling that every fiction novel i have read you have also read.
so might i suggest some non-fiction?
might not cure writer's block, but i find nf to be a hell of a lot more interesting than fiction. that's just moi, though.

bare:elisabeth eaves
neither man nor woman: the hijras of india:serena nanda
she's not there: a life in two genders:jennifer finney boylan
dsm:iv-r:american psychological association

oh, and here's a novel:
the dice man:luke rhinehart

[anonymous]

journal to the end of the night by celine

this will cure anyone's writers block.

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[anonymous]

journey* to the end of the night

i suck at typing.