/lit/ - Literature

Reading his stories is like a coin-flip. Either you get a good story or you get a philosophical musings in the disguise (not even form) of a story. And seeing how it keeps landing tails for me 99% percent of the time, I am losing my patience.

It works now and then (The Lake, The Poems), but my goodness, a man has his limits. He’s like a salesman. Telling me that I am in or a good story and then, he wanders and meanders until he gets up and leaves. Where’s my story?!

His conflicts are all internal, never coming out in any meaningful way. It’s getting on my nerves. How did he become one of the most celebrated writers in America? It’s not that he is a bad writer. His command of prose is fantastic, he effortlessly paints the scene and the mood he wants. The problem is--that’s all there is to it: mood and scenes.

>>17139042
>So you read this shitty book as an act of rebellion, good job. I bet your other favourites include catcher in the rye and the trial.
This unironically.

>>13110075
>The “speculative realist movement” exists only in the imaginations of a group of bloggers promoting an agenda for which I have no sympathy whatsoever: actor-network theory spiced with pan-psychist metaphysics and morsels of process philosophy. I don’t believe the internet is an appropriate medium for serious philosophical debate; nor do I believe it is acceptable to try to concoct a philosophical movement online by using blogs to exploit the misguided enthusiasm of impressionable graduate students. I agree with Deleuze’s remark that ultimately the most basic task of philosophy is to impede stupidity, so I see little philosophical merit in a ‘movement’ whose most signal achievement thus far is to have generated an online orgy of stupidity.

What was good about his writing?

Has Ray Bradbury ever written something bad?

What do people think about Ray Bradbury?
I know he wrote Fahrenheit 451 but what about his other works? Are they any good, should they be read? I've heard good things about 'The October Country.'

What is the best story written by Ray Bradbury in your opinion?

Why is this mediocrity so revered, again?

goodnight sweet prince

Does anyone have a comfy short story that I can read online? Also, comfy short stories in general.