/lit/ - Literature

How come this book is popular with these faggots?

>>13438237
Faux male power fantasy for onions estrogen filled beta faggots

>>13438259
4chan in a single sentence

>>13438237
It's the new ( maybe not so new, but the most recent ) hot stuff after Dosto among hipsters who want to appear /lit/.

Not obscure enough to not be recognized, but not so mainstream as to appear plebeian.

>>13438228
at least im not a suttree fag

>>13438228
Imagine having a beard yet still looking like a beta faggot lmao beutiful irony

>>13438237
Its been canonised as one of the great books of post ww2 american literature.
Its a really good book.
Everyone has heard of McCarthy

>>13438228
I am a real dominant alphamale silverback and a real intellectual, yes, l lift, im what you would call "swole" and my t levels are off the charts, I always tell my tinder dates to read SIEGE.

>>13438289
?

>>13438237
It's seen as a manly book. Ironically they are posing with it like a girl would in order to seem sophisticated.

this proves american literature is shit

>>13438330
>Ironically they are posing with it like a girl would in order to seem sophisticated.
Kek, why won't you people just admit you're ugly and terrified of photos?

>>13439736
t. one of the guys in OP'S picture trying to save face

>>13439758
Post face

>>13438228
I know almost nothing about this book, but honestly the few themes and ideas I've heard regarding it seem interesting.

Is it unironically bad? If so, what about it is bad? Stop me from wasting my time with this book.

>>13439784
Nah, the book itself is very well-written and developed. It's the crowd that attracts that is cringe and pathetic.

>>13438259
>male power fantasy

It’s only a male power fantasy if you’re a murderous psychopath.

>>13438228
shut the fuck up kike

>>13439806
Who's Kike? A Hispanic stripper whose real name is Enrique?

Why do readers like this critically acclaimed and hugely influential piece of writing? hmmm

>>13438268
>anonymous image board where posting any opinion will get you insulted
>power fantasy
You know, turnaround doesn't just work because you're butthurt.

>>13439814
>readers
They're soi bugmen, they aren't even human lmao

>>13439819
seething
He's close enough to the mark.

>>13439736
>>13439761
Only the top right would be above average, all the others are far below or old.

>>13438228
>that faggot showing off his e-book
Y I K E S

>>13439823
>he
>implying
Anyway, power fantasy and anonymity don't really work together. Maybe tripfags but there aren't any of those ITT.

>>13438228
is that Marlon Brando on the bottom?

>>13439837
not him, but why not? just because there isn't a name attatched to your specific post, doesn't mean that you don't attatch your own self to that post, even if other people don't know that it's "you". and in the act of attatching your self to the 'post' you are indeed performing a power fantasy, especially when you "manipulate" the board with low tier baits and trolles xd. this makes 4chin even more masturbatory than reddit.

>>13439847
Judge Holden, actually. He never sleeps or dies.

Remember three or four years ago when I did that video on blood meme heh wtf was I thinking. Good thing I deleted it weeew

>>13438303
sensible anon

>>13439875
We all saw it, Mattia.

>>13439784
Plot is interesting and the descriptions are amazing and the characters have their own personalities and I dislike how McCarthy uses "and" like periods and commas like I'm doing in this comment and the book is the best he wrote and I don't suggest you to read anything else he wrote and to avoid American literature in general except Twain and Melville and Augustus by John Williams.

>>13439932
oddly enough, your sentence flowed perfectly

>>13439951
Fuck off corncob McCarthy.

>>13440016
'and' is a lazy way to connect ideas logically and rhythmically but it does work. there's a reason KJV is still the most beautiful work of religion that humanity has ever produced

>>13440026
You have a problem when all your books are like this.

>>13440066
Not really. It's called having a consistent writing style.

>>13439886
Who the fuck is Mattia?

>>13440106
Mattia Ravasi, aka BookChemist. He reviews books on YouTube... I was memeing, Anon.

>>13438228
It's a good book enjoyed by many. What's the matter OP, did a dirty nigger spit in your eye or something?

>>13439725
We have Moby-Dick bitch

>>13438237
it's a total mystery

>>13438228
who made this image lol

>>13438228
I don't understand the culture of taking pictures of yourself, especially with some prop object held in your hand to make some sort of statement.

I haven't had a picture taken of me in half a decade.

>>13438228
damn, Danzig in the top left is looking real intense about a fucking book.

>>13438237
Hypocrites are everywhere; soi guys tend to outwardly claim that they want everything to be tolerated and heard out, but if you go to reddit or tumblr you’ll see the exact opposite. Recent example is how on reddit, most of the users who normally advocate “being above materialism, advocates for feminism, PoC’s, etc” were chastising an OP of a post for not looting money that spilled from an aftermath of a car crash. Why, when they claim to have morals and values that extend towards the community? Because they are hypocrites.

They follow crowds more than principals.

>>13442567
>muh hypocrites
>muh "principals"

>>13439822
If that was true, why do you feel the need to insult them to feel better about yourself? You'll never see a man insulting a bird to boost his ego.

>>13438228
The bottom middle is the most soi.

>>13438228
What's wrong with liking Blood Meridian? Or is it the smugness and basedness of the people in the picture posing with it?

Suttree is unironically my favorite contemporary novel. Am I soi?

>>13442596
Anon, most people in this thread haven't even touched this book. They see onions and respond like the followers they are. That being said I'm not a fan of this book due to it being more description and less story. I'm a plotfag through and through.

>>13442708
>I'm a plotfag through and through.
Same here.
The descriptions were brilliant, but like you, I prefer the story shining through more.

>>13442708
>>13442762

>>13442579
>muh upvotes
>muh looting is ok but being anti PC isn’t
Downvoted

>MUH sekrit culture no one else is allowed to like!

I bet you think Proust is obscure

>>13438280
^ This is the correct answer.

>>13439932
you couldve just said he uses lots of run-on sentences

>>13442599
If pic included is you then yes
Otherwise no, Suttree is without a doubt mccarthy’s best

>>13438228
What's funny is that I just started reading this, but I am currently living in Nacogdoches. Is this the proper way to read Blood Meridian?

>>13441567
Based

Blood Meridian is like baby's first violence fest book. I bet most of them didn't even get the message the book was sending.

>>13443800
What's that message?

ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.

>>13443808
There is nothing you can do to stop violence. It will be there even if you don't want to see it.

>>13443738
Almost. You're going to need to get a gang together to go murder hundreds of natives.

>>13443800
Whats the final boss of violence fest books, then?

>>13442708
>>13442762
>I'm a plotfag through and through.

>>13442567
It's not as if 4chan anons are any better, some of them laud 4chan for its relative freedom of speech, which is admirable, yet so many threads expressing opinions that aren't the same as theirs are shitposted and derailed. Or consider the fact that many /his/ users rightly criticize communists for murdering political dissenters, yet they sympathise with that assassin who murdered a communist politician in Japan whenever there's a thread on a out it on /his/. The internet is rife with hypocrisy.

>>13442567
I agree with you, althought let's not act as if all 4chan anons are any better, some of them laud 4chan for its relative freedom of speech, which is admirable, yet so many threads expressing opinions that aren't the same as theirs are shitposted and derailed. Or consider the fact that many /his/ users rightly criticize communists for murdering political dissenters, yet some of them sympathise with that assassin who murdered a communist politician in Japan whenever there's a thread on about it on /his/. So many 4chan anons and redditors only stick to their principles when it suits them, and abandon them when it doesn't. The internet is rife with hypocrisy.

>>13443808
this book is basically "memento mori": the book (mccarthy gave holden's rifle an inscription as a hint), it wants to remind you that violence and death is always there, it has no special affinity to specific place or period, which is one of the reason why this books is considered to be the final/ultimate western/anti-western.
this book subverts the notion of attractive violence being the forte of western theme.

>>13443808
this book is basically "memento mori": the book (mccarthy gave holden's rifle an inscription as a hint), it wants to remind you that violence and death is always there, it has no special affinity to specific place or period, which is one of the reason why this books is considered to be the final/ultimate western/anti-western.
this book subverts the notion of attractive violence being the forte of western theme.
critics love it because it cleverly presents itself as a book about killing which kills every subject it tied to, the readers, the theme, the characters

>>13441517
further proof

>>13441567
if a girl on the Internet asks for a photo you really gonna send them a six year old photo?

>>13439784
Jesus Christ you’re a faggot

>>13438228
They just look like regular dudes lmao

>>13438237
Unironically r*ddit
It's a legitimately incredible book but some people built up a bad culture of overhyping Cormac McCarthy

>>13438280
It's not so much Mccarthy as it is Blood Meridian specifically. Most of these fags don't know any of his other works that are MUCH better than BM. (Child of God, Border Trilogy).

>>13446550
How can someone overhype something that is incredible?

Blood Meridian is only shat on by semi-literate midwits so they can feel better about themselves

>>13438268
and yet here you are

>>13447295
curious

>>13441567
I don’t get it either. I guess what these 9 fags want to say is that they like the book and they like who they are because they like the book.

>>13438228
posing with books anyone can do that

All The Pretty Horses is his truly defining work.