/lit/ - Literature

>>2759720
I'm not sure if you are the same person who called Siddhartha an "emotional little bitch", but that person made the following claims:
> That book is not nearly as good as most of the "oh my god I'm an esotericist" hipsters say it is

Sensing that these claims might be entirely baseless, I was compelled to ask him what qualities of the book were too emotional, what hipsters he was referring to, and in what way the book was at all esoteric.

All of these questions have value. If you make sweeping generalizations and blanket statements about "hipsters" you have to be prepared to be called out on it.

>>2670341
>reading too much into something that isn't there

Cormac himself has stated that he does not like works which don't relate to themes of death and struggle. The implications for the human spirit and condition which Blood Meridian contains aren't difficult to extract. If your reading of the text is so shallow that you can only engage in surface level plot you really should vacate this board for something more suited to your philistine tastes, like, say, /v/.

Fucking pleb.

>>2488301


Camus can do, but Sartre is Smartre.

Camus can do, but Sartre is Smartre.

>250 words

Just look at the Wikipedia entry and cut it down from there. You should be able to do 250 words with your hands tied behind your back.