/lit/ - Literature

>>14311314
>they're just making it cooler and cooler to be racist the more they try to force nigger dick down the kids throats

this

>>10878649
>Terence McKenna, Carl Jung, or Alan Watts
this reads like a "that guy with gauges who is totally enlightened but just sits in intro religions classes and listens to podcasts" starter pack

>>10835194

Depends on her face while she was reading it. If it wasn't anything like pic related, she's a pleb.

>>10830283
>You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you

>>10818671

Just a random snipe, but I opened one of his books to get some of that hot literary analysis... it was 100% reference spotting. Just some nerd hoping to impress you with all the books he's read. If that's all higher literature is, I'm not impressed.

And what's the logic behind reverence of the classics, anyway? Shouldn't our literature become more sophisticated, i.e more worthy of study, the more intelligent our society becomes?

>>10613402

It's shit, m8 desu senpai. It's a Buddhist koan with line breaks.

>>10545468

You know an author is trash when they have to compare them to other, better authors.

>>10409397

Over-written/"cinematic" writing

I don't need to know the guy went across the room to open the window, or what the sky looked like. Yes, some good authors have done this, but sparingly- and even then it was utterly forgettable, and easily spliced out. They're called the greats because they're great, not because every line is perfect. And Rand was a complete slut for this style of writing. Character blocking and vocal intonation and physical description and irrelevant detail after irrelevant detail. It's amateurish.

>>9879741

This OP is so fucking annoyingly self-conscious to read that I'm not even gonna read the rest. Literally nobody cares about your life story. Sage.

>>9862804

>it contains a 'meditation' on something

>>9861937

>"I can't convince anyone I'm smart by reading this book, so it's not good."

>>9855015

Heh... let me guess... you've only ever read this book ONCE?

You call yourself a reader you son-of-a-bitch?

>>9743726

>smoking causes baldness

I stopped reading there. You shouldn't give away the troll so early. Rookie mistake. I can only give you a 1/10. Be glad it's not a 0.

>>9688119

>>9688119

>fiction needs to be read "correctly"
>fiction is something that is "understood"

Jesus Christ.

Here's a critical thinking exercise for you: Would literature departments (where you got these ideas from) be necessary if storytelling was a mostly settled artform which anyone with basic reading skills can innately recognize the value of?

I would guess that you read for a sense of self-esteem to say such things.

Me, I read purely for the joy of walking around inside the mind of an artist. The imagination can dream up some wonderful things.

>>9446868

Good message for the newbies. But don't discount the vast, invisible majority of us who already do this.

>>9418693

/mu/ has absolutely god-awful taste in music, though.

>3.35 star average rating on goodreads

That's absolutely dreadful by goodreads standards. Honestly, a great sign. Lets learn more...

>From a brilliant new literary talent

Uh oh.

>comes a sweeping comic portrait of

This next word needs to be perfect for me to not close the tab.

>privilege,

see pic

>>9161594

Normally I welcome recommendations, but with the guy who wrote Infinite Jest in there, I think I'll pass.

>>9152126
>that cover
Who thought that was a good idea?

>>9141985

>defends contemporary fiction
>doesn't name any titles

Are you the guy who recommended Laurus?

What a joyless essay that so-called novel was.

Is anyone ready to move to a new board to discuss literature?

Someone name a chan. Or are we okay with named accounts?

>>8902594

It's because of retards like you making worthless threads such as this one.

If you don't have anything /lit/ related to contribute, DON'T FUCKING CONTRIBUTE.

Its shit.

Sometimes you get something good when they talk about their personal lives, but you can only hear so many "I grew up in the ghetto"/ black ancestry stories before it starts to get really old. The socially conscious stuff is really self-centered, naive, and often flat out wrong.

>it's another /pol9k/ posting their shit on /lit/ thread

/lit/ really needs to step up with the content creation so we can wash this shit off page one.