/lit/ - Literature

Not even the bible has impacted my life as much as this book has.
Women will never understand it and i don't know if that is a good thing or not.

>>9987179
21 years, but whatever

How does a novel promote fascism? What specifically makes this book a promotion of fascist ideals?

Just finished it.
Great book, but:

a) why is the ending so pretentious?
b) why does the prose read like something written by a 16-year-old?

>>7957724
Not even joking.

Fight Club Thread

Sup /lit/?
Let's have a favorite book/rate thread. Pic related; judge me harshly

Let's start a favorite book thread

Mine is pic related

Fans aside, Fight Club bring up issues, issues I don't feel it addressed adequately. What are some good books or philosophers and cultural critics that offer solutions to the issues brought up in Fight Club, like consumerist culture?

why did i read this piece of trash and recipes?

guys can we discuss Fight Club. Specifically any overlooked aspects?

Hey guys - could we discuss Fight Club? Specifically the masculinity part - and how if Palahniuk structured the plot-twist the way he did for a reason?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/28-favorite-books-that-are-huge-red-flags
1. The Great Gatsby
Unless you can show me your dissertation about Tom Buchanan’s biceps or something, this means you stopped reading in 10th grade. Shoo.
2. The Catcher in the Rye
Oh, no one understands you, just like Holden Caulfield? Why the fuck would I be the first person to start? Get away from me.
3. Fight Club
Oh, it’s so haaaaard to be a white-collar man nowadays, what with laws and feminism and Ikea restraining our healthiest instincts. Oh, wait, no it’s not. We’re coddled and chubby pink piglets who don’t have to fight in wars or protect anyone. Enjoy your Frappuccino like a man and quit complaining, you teenager.
4. The Da Vinci Code
Beyond being a terrible book, The Da Vinci Code is also a conspiracy book, which is mostly appealing to those so intellectually afraid or stunted that they cannot tolerate or conceive of a world that is complex and hard to explain. So, that.
5. Twilight
The thing about someone whose favorite book is Twilight is that I would never really be able to tell. Like, they could keep answering Twilight to that question long after years of marriage and I’d still not be sure if it was all an ironic joke. “Thanks a lot,” Generation X.
6. The Stranger
People who like The Stranger are the human equivalent of asking the question “so what” to everything you say as a way of proving a point. It’s obnoxious and we have an unwritten social code not to do it.

What does it all mean?