/lit/ - Literature

Utter trash and bollocks. Pseud in totality and a phony.

Huxley's doors of perception and heaven and hell. Imagine reading a book length version of your stoner friend's ramblings, except with slightly better prose.

>>13921421
you're going to need bigger bait

>>13921421
You'd best delet this, partn'r

>>13921415
The House of Mirth. I literally couldn't finish it. It was just extremely drug out soap opera level trash but in the 1920's. I only had picked it up because there was an original copy in my house and I decided to check it out.

>>13921426
>>13921434
More like "Myself and I'm Bored"

Pynchon is trash. Cervantes was unoriginal. Fitzgeral's Gatsby was plain and uninteresting (the only good part of it is when he gets shot and even then, the funeral’s fucking boring).
Ulysses is garbage. Nabokov is a poor man's Tolstoy- which was a dumb and unintelligent person himself. Wilde copied Goethe.
Shakespeare isn't even a writer, there are a few of them, all of which are plain..

The Illiad is dragging on for too long. Animal farm and 1984 are pop-tier.
Hmm, let me think. What else?
Céline can't write for shit.
The only non-white decent writer is Muramaki but even he's subpar.
The Greeks are simply overrated in general. So is English literature.

Lolita and Infinite Jest are decent. That's about it. For a poor man’s Tolstoy I guess he’s not that retarded after all.

>>13921479
I hope none of you fall for this shit.

>>13921504
He laid it on pretty thick.

>>13921479
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are only shock value and have no literary merit.
Crime and Punishment’s characters are unrelistic.
Ernest Hemingway writes like a child.
The Brothers Karamazov is is only trash because Dimitri should’ve been innocent. Feodor cannot write a good novel for the likes of him alone. Even if his life depended on it

I actually enjoyed reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand is actually a decent read if you get into her. Fountainhead was great as well. Other writers could learn a lot from her.
H.G. Wells doesn’t make any sense. Asimov is trash. Most of genre fiction is garbage anyway.

Honoré de Balzac’s only good piece of writing is Cromwell. That’s about it.
Kafka is fucking mental.
Joseph Conrad couldn’t even write in english.

I can't stand most of these, I'm sorry for having an opinion.

>>13921415
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

>>13921479
This is excellent bait

>>13921415
Recently - this. Deconstructionist outdated pomo bullshit. Feels like pandering Black Mirror-tier bullshit with its appeals to screens and such tediously familiar concepts as 'mediation' and metanarrative-critique. Protagonist pretentiously named 'You' ('U', whatever). Shameless attempt to rip off the affectlessness captured far better by the likes of DeLillo or Ballard. Alternate covers even look like the old noughties editions of Ballard novels, with the white background and rainbow theme-type deal. 200 pages long but felt three times that length. Gay overall.

Boring story about a boring and insecure /lit/-tier faggot that never stops complaining and overreacts to everything that happens to him.

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>>13921426
He's corrupting the youth you mongs

A true redpill in how bad it is and how gross sluts are.

A+ at being a 0

You don't need to read the classic to be a great author.
See:
>>13900449

>>13921508
Epic troll

>>13921421
Shit bait
>>13921423
Idiot

>>13921512
>ulysses garbage
How is this bait?

Fanged Noumena

>>13923622
Rich Evans Bastard Son

>>13921508
>>13921479
What do you recommend?

>>13921423
If you had a psychotic spectrum disorder you would realize that Huxley isn't wrong. In psychiatry, DMT is noted as a possible schizotoxin. Mescaline, LSD and shrooms are similar chemicals to DMT. Endogenous DMT is responsible for schizophrenia, religious experiences and all of the greatest art.

>>13921415
pride and prejudice.

>>13921415
ur favrite buk

Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly

The whole book feels like it was written by a teenager.

What if I made a greek myth, in modern times, about Herakles and Geryon the monster being two horny teen boys who fuck and blow each-other on an airplane

/sffg/ lied to me

>>13921415
Crime and Punishment.

Probably not the worst book ever written but I wasted so much time trying to slog through this garbage. I get far more enjoyment shitting on it now.

>>13924849
If it was a slog for you maybe you're just too stupid to read it. I could barely read it when I was 12 but effortlessly read it at 18 or so. Are you 12?

>>13924866
You're such a fucking idiot you got the context of my statement completely wrong. It wasn't difficult because of the text but because of how boring it was.

>>13921415
Had the misfortune with Coelho.

Metro 2033

Catcher in the rye, only interesting thing about it is the controversy around it

>>13924920
>it was a slog
That could mean either it was difficult to read or boring. If it was boring, why did you read it? Just to say that you've read the entire book, as if that makes your opinion on it any weightier?

>>13921970
I read some of Remainder and that shit was good. You ever read that?

IT

>>13924806
God, this was such pure unadulterated schlock, insufferable

>>13923970
The Catcher In The Rye.
Beyond Good & Evil
The Stranger
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Catch-22
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Madame Bovary
In Search of Lost Time
Meditations
Fahrenheit 451

>>13921415
Boring as fuck and is mostly just Hitler blaming everyone and complaining that people have control over their own lives.

ulysses

>>13925430
agree except for proust and aurelius

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>>13923629
how is he so fucking smug

>>13921421
Based and STEMpilled

>>13921415

>>13925556
I will come and virtuously break your legs if you dab on marcus aurelius again, this is the duty of a citizen

>>13925281
fucking female college teachers

>>13926764
>https://medium.com/@devonprice/a-brief-on-hideous-things-about-david-foster-wallace-72034b20de94
Here we go....Do you even /lit/ or do you just incel-bomb boards to your arrhythmic heart's content?

>>13925263
Nah I never read it. I did think some of McCarthy's other stuff looked interesting, but SI threw me off the idea, at least for a while. Maybe I'll try it sometime.

>>13924929
Shut your whore mouth faggot

>>13921415

great expectations

>>13926681
He said worst not best.

>>13921508
>I actually enjoyed reading Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand is actually a decent read if you get into her. Fountainhead was great as well. Other writers could learn a lot from her.
This part got me laffin, good posts anon

>>13924053
The hallucinations produced by amphetamines are much closer to schizophrenic hallucinations.

>>13921423
doors of perception is based

>>13924816
it's par the course for fantasy books. I don't know what you could have been expecting.

>>13921423
Huxley is the only anglo author actually worth reading you retard

>>13926681
megumeme best girl uwu

>>13924929
kek that's actually a great book and one of the few fictive novels i finished

>>13926728
I like ugly cracked bread it looks tastier than perfect McLoaves

I learned manlines from my father

I know how to gracefully correct my neighbors' diction while allowing them to save face.

Also, my legions pacified all of Germania. Come get some you lice-ridden barbarian.

The only Ayn Rand book I respect is <The Romantic Manifest>. I don't agree with 100% of what she says but her critical appreciation of Victor Hugo is excellent, and her points on despair and filth in naturalism are at least good literary criticism.

Rand wrote screenplays before producing her major works of fiction and philosophy. She understands how to dramatize ideas. Some readers assume she's right about all human history simply because she's able to create worlds which represent her views. But there is no compelling reason to believe that only capitalism and selfishness are the best moral options just because Ayn Rand erected a massive quasi-prophetic dystopian model of her opinions in action.

When you think about it dramatizing ideas in fiction boils down to a colossal multi-faceted entertaining Strawman Argument. Ayn Rand certainly did not understand the historical moment of the New Deal or the UK's postwar welfare-state. Neither did she understand the hopes and dreams of poor Russians who fought and died in WW1, then rose up again and died in the Russian Civil War and the Great Patriotic War / WW2. Communism was bad for her personally and it turned out to be bad for almost everybody else as well. But it wasn't an emigre's contempt and hatred that brought about the collapse o the USSR.

Frens, Im starting a driving job next week. Where can I download free audiobooks? Halp.

>>13921415
>What is the worst book you have ever read?
This flaming trash right here

>>13921415
i really thought the stranger was dumb as shit. not even bait, camus is a hack literally

>>13930150
Meursault is simply one of the many rational people on the planet who were unfortunate enough to be overwhelmed by fucking retards. The book really could have been about anybody and how trying to lead a life on his own terms really isn't possible among the stupid superstitious and traditionalist baboons that we apparently share a genome with

>>13930150
Agree. It's trash.

>>13930190
Retard.

>>13930203
No u

>>13928682
Have you tried DMT? I both have naturally occurring hallucinations as well have smoked DMT. I never tried amphetamines and I'm honestly not interested in them. I hear people mostly just hallucinate spiders or snakes while under stimulant psychosis. I do see a clear link between my natural hallucinations, my DMT use, and a lot of art I've seen.

>>13921423
Sauce on the pic?

>>13921415
Ethan Frome

>>13926681
The prose is really good though

>>13930190
A "rational person" wouldn't get himself killed for such a stupid thing

Shockingly bad

>>13921508
Why are all her female leads whores?

>>13924053
Wrong

>>13930190
>Meursault is simply one of the many rational people on the planet who were unfortunate enough to be overwhelmed by fucking retards.

JUST SHOOT THE ARAB BECAUSE OF THE SUN BRO WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO GO TO JAIL OR BE EXECUTED WHAT NOOOOOOOOOOO THIS ISNT FAIR

>>13930818
Who would win, one Meursault, or one Firing Squad?

>>13921415
This piece of utter fucking trash. I don't think I've ever read a more repetitive book in my entire life.

How many times do I need to read "sprayed his fuck all over the place". And the leaving of the nasty details to an index at the end of the book was fucking stupid.

>>13930760
She's projecting. Ayn had an affair with Nathaniel Branden.

>>13923622
deadass that cover looks like its from the same artist that did the shitty gamestop used games covers

If there were ever any true great sign that God has left humanity to perish and that we deserve it, it is that this book was published and became a multimillion selling sensation.
We truly deserve destruction. America should be pillaged and raped dry by the filthiest mongrels the world has to offer. All 300million of us should starve and be crucified for the sin of raising the man who wrote this book. Ernest Cline may honestly be the biblical Antichrist his writing is that bad.

My belief in a better society or better world was forever shattered by this book. Now I see humans not as humans but simply as sick little diseased monsters in need of mercy killing. We are all doomed for this.

Probably Hannibal Rising
I rarely finish books if I don't think they're good, but I was super into the TV series and wanted to get all the references and know wtf the Japanese lady was all about.

Holy shit it's terrible.

>>13930621
To be fair that is the paradox. It's fiction, so the rational person tries to be stout in his ideals of not being retarded.

>>13930294
Hinamatsuri, one of the best animes out there.

>>13923014
>>13924053
>>13928687
>>13928717
t. stoners who think their delusional ramblings are profound.

Disgrace

The most retardedly, apocalyptically, suicidally cucked book I have ever read. Not a single likable character and a dreadful plot. Well written but all the worse for it.

Like his other books it has a truly Christian idiocy about it

One Hundred Years of Solitude and Murakami. I really want my money and time back.

>>13931935
I like how you are unable to refute anything I've said of DMT or psychiatry so you resort to name-calling.

>>13931935
>Other theories propose that DMT may be important in psychiatric disorders. Data from early studies of DMT suggested that DMT may be a schizotoxin, and various authors hypothesized that DMT was a key factor in causing schizophrenia (Osmond and Smythies, 1952; Gillin et al., 1976, reviewed by Szara 2007). This hypothesis is no longer accepted, but it is still thought that DMT may play a role in psychotic symptoms (Daumann et al., 2010; Warren et al., 2012). Similarly, DMT was thought to be neurotoxic, but more recent research suggests that DMT may actually be neuroprotective (Frecska et al., 2013).
Yeah. All these MD psychiatrists doing scientific studies are all dumb stoners? You're so much more intelligent than these psychiatrists who have spent a lifetime studying physiology. I can't believe these psychiatrists aren't asking you, a useless, complacent, dogmatic loser, for advice.

>>13928990
A strawman concerns misrepresenting another person's viewpoint or argument. To create a novel in order to explain yoir own ideas could never be a strawman. It could, however, be an invalid and unsound manner to prove a theory on the mechanisms of reality, as only science can approach such an endeavor.

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>>13932003
If your brain wasn't fried from continuous abuse of psychoactive substances you might have realized that the ability to simulate schizophrenia with drugs has absolutely nothing to do with producing "the greatest art". The neurological effect of hallucinogens isn't what is controversial here.

>>13921415
This thing probably. At the time I was really into the pshycological sexual deviant thriller thingy and was reading a lot of Bret Easton Ellis and the like.

Ellis is really good at it and is humorous but this guy wanted to give me the seedy underbelly of Tokyo with non of the glamour or the allure that Ellis did. It was a poor mans Choke by Palahnuik, which is a pretty trashy book anyway but at least made me laugh.

I was expecting Blue Velvet, I got blue waffle.

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>>13928696
Why are they all so fucking trash anons? Outside of Tolkein is their any actually decent fantasy that isn't just scantily clad assassin babes doing backflips off of castles and actually surviving and Conan the Barbarian crushing an enemies skull between his toes? God it's so trash.

>>13932081
Gormenghast and Mythago Wood

>>13932081
Elric

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>>13932187
Cool thanks anons. Not even expecting an answer to be honest.

>>13921415
Perdido Street Station

>>13932210
Redpill me on Mieville. I'm not a 'no politics' brainlet but openly professing that every book you write is for some gay ideology seems like a faggot move.

>>13928793
Metro 2035 is even better. Despite the awful job the English editor did, if you're willing to look past the haphazard mess he left it the story is actually masterful. Artyom as a character is one of the most believable in contemporary fiction.

the heart of darkness

>>13932081
Talk shit about my boy Howard again and I'll crush your skull between my toes.

>>13921415
anthem by ayn rand. seemed so forced, like it was written by a high schooler

>>13932056
>If your brain wasn't fried from continuous abuse of psychoactive substances
I don't smoke weed. I haven't done psychedelics in over a year. The only argument you have is one that isn't true. You're truly a pathetic idiot and I feel bad for you.

German translation of 12 rules for life