/lit/ - Literature

>>18347936
>If i should view it as confessional poetry (which i probably shouldn't since the whole chinasky persona exists
Stopped reading right there because you're a pseud and don't know what constitutes confessional poetry as a genre. Learn more, post less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessional_poetry

>>18204244
See >>18204042

Are you 18? If not, what's your excuse for not being able to tell the difference between being tough and being a bully? Were you picked on a lot? Did you fail to process that in a positive way, so now you LARP being a no-nonsense tough guy in front of strangers on the internet?

Do you even realize you're as much a part of the problem as those that call for safe spaces and mandatory sensitivity training? People like you are their target, the trouble is sensible people get caught in the crossfire and, when they try to have a discussion, you hurl your edgy truth bombs and REEEEEEEEEEE.

>>18140371
Well-known was half the point hipster (shit people on here have probably read). Hence me, and half of everyone else, including The Hobbit as at the top.

>>18110029
God, the fact it sets aside like 8% of a 1000+ page novel for an ubermensch to go off, rant about how people who are better than others should have more power, is a huge strike against anyone who wants to defend it as being entertaining.

I'm embarrassed by how deeply I bought into her shit as a kid. But, as I said above in a prior comment, it gave me a line into what it feels like to be an ideologue and a better window of criticism once I'd reformed myself.

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>>18060904
Butterfly, you're a complete and utter disappointment. Rolling for pages before bed.

>>18002861

It's not close at all in terms of how the theme is dealt with. The ending of the movie makes the protagonist into a heroic figure who kills his Jungian shadow via his regained agency; he also targets, successfully, faceless corporate enterprises keeping people down...he even starts making out with Marla to the Pixies. In the book, his connection to Marla renders his delusional self impotent; the target is a museum and the bomb fails to go off; he ends up in a nuthouse.

The movie is a basic screed against conformity.
The book is about the outcome of buying into nihilism. Totally different messages. (That said, I still enjoyed the film).