/lit/ - Literature

>>4751851
>Schadenfreunde

>>2840220
Critical false dichotomy overload! Abandon ship!

>>2828739
Of course, he wasn't trying to say anything; he was simply portraying consumerist america, look at the motels, etc. It was a nice portrayal, that's all I said; I wasn't suggesting any sort of didactic purpose (which is what you're getting at).

>>2828790
>>2828782
I think I know too much theory and have read too widely for the dilettante charge to stick too long. As for not saying much, look at the stuff that's been shitposted and look at what I've had to respond to. I have to respond on their level and it's almost been a task of educating the dumbfucks how to read properly. If I get good responses, I've got more ambit to take things in interesting directions.

There was a time in my simple life when nothing seemed to excite me. I moved through each day like they were the pages of a boring book I had already read. Everything was routine and pre-determined, commonplace down to the minutest of details. The only thing that seemed to brighten my life, to bring some sort of meaning to the otherwise banal exercise of living, was eating a delicious hot dog. There was something about the taste that captivated me and made me long to live in a better world – a world where hot dogs were as common as sunshine and oxygen. I spent a lot of time thinking about this world, but it was always distant and unreachable. Hot dogs simply did not translate into upward mobility, and in my comfortable rut, they seemed merely a pleasant momentary distraction.

That all changed when I saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a grand festivity sure to be remembered forever in the annals of history. The county fair was holding a hot dog eating contest, the winner earning a trophy and the title of Hot Dog King. To think, a mere commoner like me could participate and perhaps win, almost instantaneously being elevated to the status of royalty. The opportunity to be the patriarch of a hot dog kingdom was one rarely afforded to anyone, and a genuine chance to do some good in the world. The noble deeds I could do, the lives I could change, the hot dogs I could eat, it all sounded so extravagant. I knew right away that this was a contest suited for a man like me. Though I was never one to engage in the timeless art of competition, I suddenly had something to prove. This was a primal drive that, like the strongest of competitive spirits, was catalyzed by love. I loved hot dogs and this contest would be my golden chance to prove the depth and boundlessness of my love and, in the process, prove my worthiness of the hot dog throne.

>>2807710
>those false dichotomies

>Favourite book:
Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

>Favourite writer:
Vladimir Nabokov.

>Favourite poet:
Percy Bysshe Shelley.

>Favourite short story:
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway.

>Favourite philosopher:
None.

>Favourite film:
Top Gun.

>Favourite vidya:
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

>Favourite musician/band:
Airbase (mid-2000s uplifting trance producer).

>>2792038
>about to read this
Okay.

>some said they didn't like it
It's objectively an important and well-written work. Like does not factor into it.

>is it worth the read?
Yes.

>will i get anything from it?
Probably, if you're into literature.

>18 year old male here
Oh, I see. Maybe try The Dresden Files, I dunno.

>thinks that there should be a curriculum of authors to train up new ones
>thinks Tolstoyan realism is the endpoint for the novel's development
>thinks Ulysses has any direct dealing with so-called Absurdism
>thinks affirmation of Ulysses (achieved by no other author in last 100 years or more) is an achievement we can be indifferent to
>caps things off with a quote by DH Lawrence, an obvious-tier charlatan and second-rate novelist (but reasonable poet)

Sure is summer here

>no Shakespeare

Otherwise, I agree in a broad sense, although you should specify which part of Faust and why

>>2103406
>goes to memegenerator.com

>Reading Kindle on the bus
>Chav says through his music "IS THAT ONE OF THEM THINGS WHAT YOU READ OFF OF"