/lit/ - Literature

>>1311298

Ok, well first his writing style is very boring and lazy, never trying to grab the reader's attention at all, basically saying "yeah im writing a book, meh"
Second, his books are very pretentious, always having to appeal to the hipsters and wankers, who can barely read let alone find him a great author.
In comparison to Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk, Tao Lin just does not deliver on many levels...

Ive read both "Shoplifting from American Apparel" and "Richard Yates" and they were both the biggest pieces of post-modernist turds I have ever read. Seriously I think my fucking dog could write a better novel than this douche of a chink could.

And the fact that he keeps trolling /lit/ trying to peddle his books on us is just sad and pathetic

book was a piece of shit, when your main themes are Individualism and Architecture and THATS ALL then you know youve written a shitty book

IMO Rand was a troll in the lit world, trying to see how bad she could make her books and the countless hordes of "intellectuals" who would eat it up.

>>1309463

now that I really look at it they are legs, though the picture still has the same symbolism

>>1309259

it is an adult man's and little girl's arm locked in an embrace, showing their dramatic differences and how they can overcome them in the name of love (hence the reason why one is so hairy and the other is hairless)

though it is pretty disturbing nonetheless...

its pronounced "Man-Ah" you slobbering jackwagon

ive read worse, I found American Psycho to be a quite accurate depiction of someone slowly going insane, just set in a posh setting with the man being a serial killer...

sup /lit/? Just got my hands on The Complete Works of Heinrik Ibsen and was wondering which I should read first, I have already read An Enemy of the People ad was wondering if there were any other works of his worth reading...

Scotch, sometimes a glass of chilled rum and coke

OK /lit/! I have to write a Post Grad Research Paper analyzing the literary elements of John Steinbeck's work's, focusing mainly on The Pearl. I hate Steinbeck and find his books pedantic and boring, so I was wondering if any Steinbeck fans on /lit/ would mind helping me find and analyze the literary elements in this book. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

big fan of Dvorak and Prokofiev, I used to like Chopin until i realized how pretentious he was...

> American Psycho

> 1984

> Snuff

gf is on holiday with her parents in Oslo
friends are either with their girls or playing Black Ops
im working on my post-grad project (or holding it off really)

>>1280469

so, basically your saying that i support him because im a tripfag and so is he?

No, I support him because he seems like a cool guy, i dont know why OP is making troll threads whining about individual members of this board, if you dont like the person, just dont bother with them, no need to start a whole thread wasting everyone's time with your whining

how exactly is he being a faggot? helped me get some free ebooks

>>1280414

holy shit it worked!

lol, i know i sound like a noob but i usually just download my ebooks as torrents

>>1280410

lol, i am serious, if you look at the John Steinbeck section, you see that there's only 2 pdfs of his books the rest are jepgs of his book's covers

>>1280234

just checked out that site, looked good until i realized that nearly all of the files are just jpegs of the book's cover and arent ebooks at all...

are you fucking kidding me?

doesnt exactly sound like my cup of tea, my friend read it for shits n giggles and told me its basically a how to on raping children, not exactly a modern day "lolita"

read Catch 22 and Invisible Man, not necessarily the shortest books but they are great reads

also, why is A Tale of Two Cities listed twice?

Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: High
Borderline: Moderate
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: Very High
Dependent: High
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

>>1265492

damn, thats a lot of literature in the palm of your hands

2012 is just an excuse for shitty authors to publish shitty books about shitty theories which can be disproven by an 8 year old