/lit/ - Literature

>>8076361
The Dead is sublime.

>>8078577
Nightwood is a sort of mongrel of Joyce and Faulkner's style. It has a lot of streams-of-consciousness, but it also has perverse, quasi-Southern Gothic characters and some wordplay. It's a tough read, but it's no Finnegans Wake.

Atlas Shrugged?
War and Peace?


Those aren't even tough. They're long, monolithic, and massive novels, but they're not tough. It seems that the author of the blog hasn't heard of Gass, Gaddis, or Hawkes. (I've only really read Hawkes but I've read some selections from Gass and Gaddis.)

>>8073242
The Unvanquished is really good. Wild Palms is a little above average. Fable is shit. Pylon is shit. Snopes trilogy is great, especially after Hamlet.

>>8074290
Yeah, I agree with this post. Integrity, kindness, intelligence, then humility. Kindness and intelligence is sometimes interchangeable, because sometimes you need to be smart rather than kind.

I'm not very familiar with 19th century American literature. For the 20th century, however, I think you have to include Hemingway, Faulkner, Henry James, Cather, Wharton, Steinbeck, Lewis, Sinclair, Bellow, Roth, Pynchon, Gaddis, Heller, and Gass (I'm not very familiar with the second half of the 20th century).

>>8067167
Tbqh I just finished watching Oregairu and it seems like a cross between The Catcher and the Rye and Notes from Underground. I loved it.

>>8062940
It's not 2666, so no.

>>8062783
There are two great American novelists, and their names are Melville and Faulkner.

>>8061603
The Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird

>>8050577
I do watch anime and I think you've great taste in it. Tatami Galaxy is one of my enduring favorites.

>>8055366
Prison School is great. I concur, because I don't know whether to cry with laughter, to applaud the plot development or to have a hard-on.

It slowed the fuck down recently, however.

>>8050092
I really like Faulkner.

>>8057034
It's Herman Melville.

The only two people I'd really consider for Great American Novelist are him and Faulkner.

>>8058564
Let's be friends! lol

I love Naoki Urasawa. I especially loved Pluto, because it was both a subversion and an appropriation of a popular anime series. It was a more visceral, more mature, and more potent iteration of Astro Boy.

>>8054256
It meandered far too much, too. Catherine and Heathcliff should have just killed each other and let the others get on with their lives. My favorite author is Faulkner, and I love O'Connor. Both of them specialize in grotesque characters and Southern Gothic. I can dig offensive, baroque individuals.

WH was just unbearable because there was little even to commiserate with. I can deal with evil characters: Iago had Othello as his counterpart, and even Cassio was also noble. I have a hard time dealing with a whole novel full of shitty characters, though.

>>8051499
I absolutely hated it. The main characters were hateful, hopeless, and offensive. They deserved what they got.

>>8033990
Just made this. I hope it's good for you.

>>8052533
There's Faulkner, then O'Connor, then who?

I like Faulkner's stylistic creativity the best among his peers. I like pre-1950 fiction best, and to me, Faulkner is at its helm.

>>8050744
So that's not in vogue nowadays?

I laughed at your post, though, thank you.

>>8049422
I've read 51.

1) Cancer Ward
2) Light in August
3) The Gods Will Have Blood
4) Blood Meridian

This was buried under a pile of children's toys. It's the best haul of my entire life.