/lit/ - Literature

>>3227293
I know Finnish but I'm not going to read that. Just like I haven't read anything by Rimminen or Oksanen. And won't

>mfw Haruki Murakami writes boring 1st person narrative with reactive protagonists and is the most popular contemporary Japanese author and a favorite for Nobel prize

People who use the word "pretentious" out themselves as pretentious people in doing so.

Analysis of art often reflects the viewer more than the piece itself.

I'd say you're an introverted faggot who's jealous of those living life however the fuck they please.

I read maybe one-third of it and had to stop. I've never had any problem understanding English, but Nabokov seems to use so many adjectives unknown to me (not a native speaker), that reading was a drag. That, and the fact that there were no memorable moments and practically no characterization outside H.H. (Lolita's character was entirely two-dimensional) made me open Haruki Murakami's After Dark instead on my e-reader. Loving every page of it.

>>1872330
>>1872330

>It's middlebrow, crowd-pleasing, overwrought garbage

i would not say DFW wrote IJ to be a crowd pleaser

>The fact that half of it is about tennis

actually have you even read it? i'm reading it now and VERY little of it is actually about Tennis, one of the locations just happens to be a Tennis academy

>It's not a sport book
you just complained about too much of it being about Tennis...a sport.

>DFW was an over-rated hack who topped himself out of shame
this ios the first thing i've read of his but i'm liking it. Why would he kill himself out of shame? Shame of what? Surely it's better to be overrated than underpaid?

>Haven't you got your own fucking forum that Vinnie made for you to talk about this hackwork?
yeah they did make that so we could talk about IJ together but that doesn't mean we can't discuss it on here.


i seriously hope you're not judging a book you haven't read

>>1855265
>>1855265