/lit/ - Literature

I'm about halfway through Kingdom Come by Ballard. I picked it up on a whim, later learning it was his last book and not particularly one people mention very often as far as I can tell. It's a bit stupid. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be pulp-y but it's quite stupid. I like a lot of his descriptions of the bleak consumerist landscape but his ideas about consumerism miss the mark almost every time they happen. The characters who are supposed to be ominous or strange just seem silly. Houellebecq writes much more lucidly and harrowingly about the horrors of consumer society than Ballard, at least so far. I'm well aware this might just be a dud book of his. We will see.
Bought a book of Pound's poems, I've never really been into poetry before, perhaps he'll be the nutter that does it for me.
I've been watching lots of French women booktubers, despite understanding almost no French. I like how they're all sort of a little bit ugly and wear too much red lipstick. It encourages me to get back into learning the language.