/lit/ - Literature

>>23188360
No one cares. You're not special or intelligent. You're just another shallow /pol/cel—devoid of originality, humanity, or wit.

>>23188353
OP, I have no idea what constitutes a popular literary opinion. I sit alone in my apartment and read, so all my opinions are unanimously shared with myself.

Let's see:

(1.) Ayn Rand was simultaneously one of the greatest and worst thinkers of the 20th century. She was one of its best novelists and completely mogs the average female writer.
(2.) Sartre was cooler than Camus. He just didn't look it.
(3.) John Ashbery's poetry is not meaningless or frivolous.
(4.) Jung was twice the thinker Freud was, but was still a retard at least half the time.
(5.) Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' is not a poem for children. It's typical here to expose kids to it at some point in middle school or early high school, but at that point they have not lived enough to actually understand it. They grasp it on a purely intellectual level, sure, but this is shallow. This is a poem which should not be read until someone is thirty years old or older. Even though it is the greater masterpiece, Eliot's 'Prufrock' is a poem suited to youths of a late high school or early college age—far more so than Frost's 'Road'.
(6.) I really liked Venus In Furs. A lot. Except for the very end, maybe.