/lit/ - Literature

Animal Farm fans are even more unbearable.

>i'm going to bitterly hate one of the most influential books post-WW2, because bunch of people I don't like read it

Grow a spine

>drump president? 1984 is a reality!!

Especially sad because the book is really not that bad.

>>13990527
>1984 was an instruction manual!

>oh you haven't read infinite jest yet?
>i suppose not everyone can be as well read as me

Frankly, it had some decent writing.
I guess.

>>13990958
Yeah I used to think it was that good until a fellow anon made me rethink the whole doublethink stuff he pulled. Pretty complex thematically actually, though lacking in some other areas. A good book

>>13991185
Was not that good*

>shitposting such low hanging fruit
XD now that's epic

It’s one of the few books with a good ending. Don’t bash it.

It’s a fine book that has been beaten to death by r*ddit

>>13990527
What are some other books that are didactic and philosophical but with a fiction wrapper?

>>13991968
Didactic might not be the right word, but André Gide's "The Immoralist" is a highly sensual novella that is basically just a résumé of Nietzschean philosophy.

>>13990527
Very cool dude. Have you checked out WE by Zamyatin?

>>13991380
Not just by reddit. It inspired a whole generation or three of midwits to buy into the whole “surveillance bad” meme

>>13992381
but surveillance bad is true

1984 is one of my most hated books. The primary reason for this is the fact that in America almost everybody with a high school education uses the book as a rhetorical battering ram against whoever they disagree with. Republicans bitch about college campuses being 1984 when e-celebs aren't allowed to speak. Democrats bitch that it's 1984 it someone criticizes a journalist.

The book itself is fine. However, I utterly resent the fact that it exists.

>>13992386
t. terrorist

>>13990527
1984 is 8th grade reading level, everything is simple and on the nose, predictable even, there's just a lot of concepts to keep track of. Also, only faggots think it describes anything other than rabid socialism

>>13992445
ill terrorize dat ass

>>13991991
Based. Both are good I like WE more

>>13992381
It's not a meme, it's true

>>13990531
True

>>13992381
fuck you.

>>13992869
Maybe when you’re constantly being monitored by people, with human desires and the ability to be corrupted. People are comparing 1984 nowadays to AI facial recognition and crime prevention softwares, and it’s the kind of ignorance and false equivalence that’s going to keep us in the damn boomer age.
>>13993000
Go read invisible cities, faggot

>Why yes, A Confederacy of Dunces is my favorite book.

>>13990844
based.
Slaughterhouse V, 1984, Brave New World, they all attract the generic, non-readers, but it takes absolutely no effort to ignore them, or, if you're a decent at all person, to humor them and talk about the books.

>>13990527
This but unironically. What book should I read? Also unironically.

I really don't like this onions wojak meme

>>13993837
/lit/core

>>13990904
>>13990878
>>13990527
samefags

>>13992381
surveillance is bad.

>>13990527
It's funny because it's exactly about what that sort of person stands in support of, the manipulation of language.

Sometimes I feel like everybody that says "ITS JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED IN 1984" never actually read 1984.

The best scene in 1984 is when Winston goes to the bar and has the conversation with the prole about what life was like under the old capitalist system. Peter Hitchens did a reading of it as part of a larger reading event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4bpx8czGp4

>>13990527
Wrong. A onions couldn't love 1984 because it basically shits on their ideal form of governance.

>>13993711
so it goes

Brave New World is better

>>13990527
hes mad basedboys can into privacy

>>13995805
This

>>13992381
>t. bootlicker

>>13992381
I hate you

>>13993439
That only accounts for the privacy issue. People are also rightly concerned that an AI system capable of tracking your exact location at all times could be misused by a future radical government to oppress and persecute political dissidents.

>why yes, I do think The Holy Bible is the greatest piece of literature ever written.

>>13996102
>t. meth dealer

>>13990527
anyone who bashes 1984 are just baseless contrarians

>>13997053
cringe