/lit/ - Literature

>>3766441
this guy right here knows what he's talking about

>>2985667

Yeah I know. Just seemed like it would be avoiding a headache though. Anyways, I can post scans if you want. ?

>>2945333
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>>2922511
>>2922333

There's this part on Brave New World called Brave New World revisited. Worth a read or what? It almost has as many pages as the novel. I'm asking because i'm trying to read 4 books a week and I only read 80-120 pages a day because I get easily distracted.

>>2806500

Mah Boy!

>>2165278

>Nobles

You like Bret Easton Ellis?

His early work was a little too "Binky" for my tastes, but when "American Psycho" came out in 1991, I think he really came into his own, commercially and artistically. And I stress the word "artistically". The whole book has a really plodding, blugeoning variety of crass irony, and at the same time managed to perfect the surprise "it was all a dream" ending in a way that makes you understand why it's so darn popular in thrilling Hollywood movies. Now he's been compared to Chuck Palahniuk, but I think Bret has a far more bitter cynical sense of how to appeal to the reader's inherent consumerism while also invoking the reader's disgust with that consumerism. In '87, Bret released "Rules of Attraction", a genuinely informational navelgazing roman-a-clef about a bunch of tedious rich kids who go to Bennington. All that remained for him to discover was a truly Capote-esque sense of product placement-cum-snobbery, which would result in chart-toppers like "Glamorama" (1999).

I didn't really understand his early work----too nihilistic, too "angst-y". But I think "American Psycho" is Bret's undisputed masterpiece. Because Bret's shtick is not just about the pleasures of consumerism, it's about a basic underlying anhedonic worldview illuminated only by chemical intoxication. Even the sex in his books is utterly joyless! At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of his early novels, but brings with it a consummate professionalism that really gives the irony a ham fist.

Here, let me play another one for you....

>>2000000

Californication...

Cali-Fornication

Fornication! Like fucking!!

how could I have been so blind??

>>1881484

>mfw I'm a white guy dating a black girl and I see shit like this

American Psycho

>>1707713

I sincerely hope the recent escalation in your grandiose narcissism is the result of a psychotic episode which will culminate in you setting yourself on fire or something.

>>1670907

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Lets talk American Psycho;

do you think our funny man Pat Bateman killed? Or was it in his head?

>>1630462

I hope that's you in that pic, maybe one day you'll get inoperable lung cancer and die.

Also, OP, who is even selling that thing?

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people that get personally offended by slurs are like self-hating fags in their deception. just mad they aren't glorious anglos for some reason. not like being butthurt is going to change that.

>>1590139
A fancy way of saying "stop liking what I don't like"

>>1583588
Nice dubs

>mfw my total posts

>>1448211
I love that too.

>>1448233
FUCK YES! It's one of my favorite books just because it's written so well. The Count is just THE. SHIT. throughout the whole thing.

>They live off other people's money. They don't even know the meaning of the word 'work'. And they contribute nothing at all to society. Who am I talking about? Students, of course.

>As far as I'm concerned, today's students are lazy, unproductive individuals who do nothing but sit around all day listening to CDs and spending their parents' hard-earned money. Then, when that's all gone, they turn to the taxpayer to support them in their lives of luxury. I wouldn't mind, but they dare to complain that they are overworked and that they suffer from stress. All I can say is that they are going to have a shock when the finally enter the real world. Then they'll realise what work and stress really mean.

Foreignfag here, my homework is to write a letter of complaint to the author of a blatant troll article. While I'm going to write a simple 200 word letter by myself right after I post because that's all I need, I'd like to see what a short, objective, strongly worded reply from a denizen of the land of /lit/ would look like, with all the bells and whistles of things I don't care/know enough to point out like "ad hominem".

Alternatively, you can still go ahead and bombard my thread with "do yor own homework fgt", but I'd prefer if it simply 404s from the lack of interest.