/lit/ - Literature

Stephanie meyer

RL stephenson

sex

Neil Gaiman

>>1238955
He made The Sandman

that's all that matters.

Stephen King

>>1238958
The Sandman

I like it when this kinda stuff happens.

>>1238965
Op here oh shit.

i started the 30 rock thread and this thread ha

fiction.

I've waited about fifteen years to say this, but R. L. Stein was fucking overrated.

I feel better for getting it off my chest.

Milan Kundera

the fucker can't write about anything except sex

>>1238997
He does have a serious anal fetish. Remember that line where he talked about fondling "the orb of her anus?" That freaked me out.

Honestly, though, for a significant segment of the population sex is what's worth reading about. It's universal between people of every country. It's taboo in every country. Literature is the only place that it's really ok to be frank about sex.

He writes beautiful stories. I wouldn't call him overrated.

Steinbeck

War And Peace.

Tom fucking Wolfe

Everything you like.

F.R. Leavis

Catch-22

>>1239267
Fuck you!

>>1238960
I beg to differ, kind sir.

>>1239305
I've agreed with every serious post in this thread. Except for yours, fuckstick. IF YOU DON'T LIKE CATCH-22 YOU DON'T HAVE A SOUL.

The concept of 'overrated'.

>>1239318
u mad?

I haven't finished the book, but a book of which the first 60 pages are the most incomprehensible piece of pretentious garbage I ever read. There's only a really really really slight chance the book will turn out to be half as good as /lit/ says.

>>1238930
She's not overrated, for something or someone to be overrated, it has got to be rated pretty well. Everybody hates twilight, and it might not even be as bad as people say. It's not overrated. As a matter of fact, it's probably better than Catch-22.

Sartre&Beauvoir

Most everything discussed on /lit/ is overrated thanks to newfags who had mandatory reads in school or read something because they thought was controversial.

Top 3:
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye
(and 3rd place tie for) Gravity's Rainbow & Siddhartha

Faulkner. Shit is unreadable garbage. I've no idea why he is so loved.

ITT: People showing how much their butts hurt because people like books they don't like.

Dune

Academia.

bret easton ellis

his writing style is about as fun as the flu

>>1239445
A girl I know once gave me a Bret Easton Ellis novel as a gift.

We're not friends anymore.

sex
shakespeare
education

>>1239359

I hope you're being facetious. I don't care about Beauvoir, but you're a fool if you think Nausea is over-rated.

nothing's more overrated than twilight.

>>1239487

/thread i think

Fight Club

DOGS

FACEBOOK

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

STEPHEN HAWKING

>>1239380
2deep4u

Fiona Apple
Mazzy Star
Kindles

haruki murakami
david foster wallace
alexander pope
beat writers, et al

>>1239514
Good list. I thoroughly agree. Pseudointellectualism, although I do like Pope.

Let's throw in Lacan and Eagleton.

>>1239380

hey, Faulkner's not that bad

I hope the reason no one has said Vladmir Nabokov is because it's so glaringly obvious that it's implied.

>>1238922
>>1239952
No.

>>1239529
>hating on psychoanalysts and marxists
wow ur so fresh bro

>>1238922
fuck no lol... try reading something that isnt the metamorphis or the trial. description of a struggle or amerika for starters

>>1239339

God I hate people who label anything that takes itself serious and tries to have literary merit and symbolism and things like that as "pretentious".

It's like, shit, what do you expect, pop fiction?

C22 is a rollercoaster ride, if you're only sixty pages in and mad because you can't understand it, stop reading so slow and let it take you places, it actually makes far more sense that way, anyway.

Plus, it's fucking hilarious if you put yourself in the right mindset. A lot of people expect books to just magically bend around their personality when, in fact, reading is as much of an art as writing. If you don't try to read something right, you're not giving it a chance, and you'll never appreciate it.

If you don't like appreciating things and you prefer tearing them to pieces first chance and calling them overrated, then go ahead. Have fun not enjoying things.

inb4 thoughtless umad ujelly herpaderp posts that try to invalidate what I'm saying with overused internet garbage instead of a coherent response.

UMM... WHERE IS THAT PICTURE FROM??

love, faithfulness, stability, habit.
casual sex, open relationships, freedom, romance.

pretty much fucking everything.

WHOOPS!

>>1240102 THIS GOES TO >>1239980

Milan Kundera's Life is Elsewhere.

Halfway through the book, I realised that I really didn't give a fuck about any of the characters. I didn't even want to know what will happen to them.

I finished the book anyway, and it was such a friggin waste of time. Yeah, Kundera may have a way with words, but the story failed to interest me.

>>1240107
No idea, found it on a random Tumblr.
Try Tineye.

>>1240104
Wordsworth, Quentin Tarantino, Kinder Eggs, turning 16, turning 18, turning 21, Churchill, Bose, democracy, Facebook, birthdays.

the only things I can think of that aren't are strawberries and safety razors.

>>1240116
>>1239012
>>1238997

same about UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS...
i thought it was gonna be some deep stuff...

other than a few select pages
... didnt really impress me.

>>1239482

I wouldn't classify Catch-22 as "overrated" as I would classify it as "WHY THE FUCK DO YOU PEOPLE LIKE THIS IT'S FUCKING HORRIBLE OH MY GOD."

And I read four hundred pages of this fucking thing.

>Roger Federer
>Babolat racquets
>Charles Bukowski
>Sherman Alexie
>Lady Gaga
>McDonald's
>World of Warcraft
>Joanna Newsom
>Marriage

>this thread

>>1239030

Nice troll.

You, sir, are and idiot.

4chan

Here we go:

Dune
Vonnegut
Steinbeck
Dostoevsky
Flaubert
Balzac
Kundera
The Plague
Sartre
Proust
Joyce

>>1241083
The Unbearable Lightness of Being.. That book is unbearable to read. After 100 pages I had absolutely no desire to read any more.

Blindness.

House of leaves anyone?
I despised that book
it was pointless and gimmicky

>>1241189
I never knew it was 'highly rated' in the first place.

>>1241198
>House of leaves

I figured that was a given, like Twilight and Harry Potter.

JRR Tolkien

Uhhhh
I worship harry potter
:/
heh>>1241200

>>1241189
Being blind is popular?

Subjectivity

South Park
Facebook
Sigmund Freud
Wes Anderson
Jane Austen
oral sex
funky-flavored coffees (ie. Pumpkin Spice Lattes)
Immanuel Kant
being smug about atheism

>>1241222
>>Immanuel Kant
Oh no you didn't.

>>1241222
>oral sex

Nope. I fucking love getting my dick sucked.

>>1241230

when you've had it sucked as many times as i've had mine sucked....it's overrated.

Pynchon
Wittgenstein
David Foster Wallace
Nabokov
Proust
Richard Rorty
Friedrich Nietzche
Plato
Bertrand Russell

HATERZ GONNNNN HHHHAAAAATTTTEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1241237
Yeah, you are pretty much right. Definitely right about Plato, Pynchon, Wittgenstein, David Foster Wallace and Proust.

>>1241151

oral sex is p accurately rated

giving anal sex is highly overrated and receiving it is highly underrated

i've been watching the west wing lately and aaron sorkin is disgustingly overrated

Hey! Hey guys!

Camus!

Hehehe

>>1238982
Fuck you buddy! I had at least 70 of his goosebumps books!

Shakespeare.

I swear to god, every teacher English teacher I've had in the past creamed themselves over that shit. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's good to shove down every students throat.

>>1241285
How to identify yourself as plebeian in one easy step!

>>1241280

Yeah well I think you're a faggity faggot.

Dostoyevsky
Tim Burton
Threesomes
Barack Obama
PF Chang's

>>1241303
>Threesomes

You must have done the one with 2 guys... or 3 guys..

Reading.

>>1241308

I did one with 2 girls, with 1 guy and 1 girl, and with 2 guys. They were all overrated.

>>1241303
Sir, I will accept your blasphemy against threesomes and Dostoyevski, but I cannot abide any man who does not appreciate the divinity that is P.F. Chang's.

>>1241313
Faggot.

>>1241318
Virgin

>>1238955
The Sandman. I'm looking at all the Absolutes on my shelf right now. Even if his other works are shit [and I really don't think they are] Sandman more than makes up for it. Fuck, if Stephenie Meyer had done Sandman and then wrote Twilight, I would still be all up in her grill with my fanboyism.

Sandman is a graphic novel that sits nicely up there in the top echelons of literature and no one can handle it.

But Clive Barker. Gimmick ho!

>>1241321
So if I don't have sex with two other men I am a virgin? You had sex with two men at once, that makes you a double faggot. DOUBLE FAGGOT!

>>1241328

I also had sex with 2 women. Does that make me a lesbian? And if so, doesn't it cancel out the faggot part?

lrn2pansexual

BITCH BITCH BITCH
MOAN MOAN MOAN
HATE HATE HATE

ISN'T /LIT/ GRAND

>>1241332
>I also had sex with 2 women. Does that make me a lesbian?

You have to be a woman to be a lesbian you fucking idiot. That is literally the dumbest thing I have ever read.

>>1241285
>>1241285
Oh God, this. Shakespeare should be taken out of schools right this fucking second. It's not that its bad, its just boring as all fuck. You wouldn't go and read the screenplay for your favourite movie, so why should it be any different for Shakespeare? Schools make it boring, and ruin some very good plays for generations of kids.

>>1241334

owned and buttangery

gb2 screaming at kids cus u got owned
fucking loser ass nobody faggot
your're also a homo
lmao o4l(owned for life)
i bett your pooping from ur mouth cause your buttes broken from screamin 2 hard
like you're a butt is litirally mad
truth hruts doesn't it loser
go right about it in ur myspace fag while i fuk your're dad
"i listen to emo music cause im gay" - you

>mfw i read macbeth senior year of high school and learned macduff was a c-section baby

>>1241338
If nobody advocated Shakespeare or other classical literature to people in schools, who the fuck would ever ass themselves to look into it on their own?

I fucking loved reading Hamlet in school. It's an excellent work. That said, it's not something I would have gotten around to checking out for a very long time on my own, because I don't have all that much interest in theatre. Even then, my "I'll get around to it" attitude would only be there because I'm, a bibliophile, the standard student would never bother with Shakespeare at all if it were left up to their own volition.

I had a friend who started reading The Tempest and The Twelfth Night for fun after we covered Shakespeare. Most people don't go to plays very often, and movie adaptations tend towards terrible. I don't think reading them in screenplay form is a bad thing, the only boring part for me was reading the boring plays (ex. Much Ado About Nothing fucking happening at all).

>>1241359
Um, I'm >>1241334. I'm not the threesomes dude, I just hate these whiny anger sessions that clog up the front page.

Sorry to steal your thunder, but, uh, lol.

>>1241368
I can never get through Shakespeare's comedies. I think I just don't get most of the humor. I vastly prefer seeing the plays acted out though (and I've quite enjoyed the films) to reading them, however, and I can see exactly how his universal acclaim among high school teachers might be at least in part responsible for the lack of enthusiasm about going to the performances. I don't think Shakespeare is overrated at all, but I do think that the class time could be better spent dealing with something that was meant to be enjoyed as words on a page.

>>1241371

ya rite you've just been hurt feelings and but ranged
go drink ur moms bredt milk u fart commander
i bet u hav a fetish FOR MEN LMAO
ur just so made all the time its 2 easy 23 own u
"i lik to drinikj sperm from my sperm bottle while wring my sperm necklace" - u

>>1241376
oh wow

>>1239380
you break my heart

>>1241338
>>1241285
you also break my heart.

>>1241374

My highschool teachers brought me to see 5 plays each year, a good chunk of them Shakespeare.

>>1241383
>>1241386
/lit/ you monster! Look what you've done!
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO THEIR HEEEAAAAARRRTS!

Didn't Voltaire say Hamlet was "the work of a drunken savage"?

Much like some of the weirder posts in this thread...

>>1239507
Where is that picture from?

>>1241400
that coming from the man who wrote candide?

The Daily Show

OVERRATED AS HELL:
sociology
semiotics
philosophy
hermeneutics
literary criticism
political science
psychology
journalism

HANDY GUIDE:
soft science = soft dick
hard science = hard dick

/thread

1984
wow what an bullshit piece s of litera ture.

Animal Farm
The Dark Knight
Persepolis
Blankets
Plato
Having underage girlfriends
Friends in general
Weed
Amazon
Teddy Roosevelt
Pixar
Vonnegut
A Farewell to Arms
Murakami
Richard Dawkins
Marketing (The entire concept is the book 'The Art of War', if you don't know the stuff in it, you're an idiot)
The Art of War
Free Stuff
The Sopranos