/lit/ - Literature

>>11936709
i honestly never read "man in the high castle". i don't think it's the best representation of his shtuff (tho i havent read it).
>ik it's even more of .a meme than "high castle", but....
"do androids dream of electric sheep" is really a fantastic place to start. about 70% of his other stuff is sorta pulpy-junk because he just had a massive output for a writer. the interesting thing about him pumping out a lot of books and short stories is, as some lady said, "[PKD inhabits] the Wild West era of science fiction,plots could go anywhere or nowhere", stating that the plot is "ridiculous" and "offensive", and that "it has an effect you simply cannot produce with a book that is well written."

>mfw his jumble of science/religion/philosophy/psychiatry/futurism/literal autism/humour/anti-hero only works BECAUSE he isn't the best writer.

lemme know what ur thinkin of high castle, ill read it eventually

>>11689690
Great point!

>>11689421
you really can't achieve literary fame through literature alone anymore, unless you are a minority group/woman.

anyways, literature as an art form is slowing---and that's fine by me. i was walking through a bookstore today and was overwhelmed with the thought that sooo many modern writers should have never written a book, that so much shelf-space was taken up by new-age gurus, pop-scientists, silly fiction writers, etc.-----when really more space should be dedicated to the writer's of old. this is not fetishizing the past in as much as it is a claim that the proportion of good writers to the general population has remained constant, but for some reason, there are sooo many more people writing books now than in the past

>mfw nietzche was write about the printing press being one of the most horrible inventions
>mfw modern decadence and constant "you can do it!" attitudes has let a lot of people believe they should write books, when really they are saturating the market with a bunch of derivative drivel