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So, from what I've read, American literature is trash
>oh, but Taiga, what have you read?
Vonnegut, Salinger, McCarthy, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Twain, Raymond Carver, Bukowski, Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Nathanial Hawthorne, Kerouk, Ayn Rand, and L. Frank Baum.
>oh well then you don't have any tastes herp derp
Anyways, American literature has been quite disappointing, same with classical music (hurr durr ragtime, hurr durr stars and stripes forever). Though, I can't claim to have read all American Literature, so I'm going to give the nation one last chance.

Recommend me some good ol' American literature and I'll give it a *chance*.

Anyways, going to take a nap now.

>> No.1462389

if you don't love trash you're not a true american

>> No.1462391

So, from what I've read, American literature is trash
>oh, but Taiga, what have you read?
>Vonnegut

Get the fuck out of here

>> No.1462400

Mark Twain:
As American as it gets

>> No.1462401

>>1462381
WHY DONT YOU T3LL US WH4T YOU L1K3 SO W3 C4N S3ND YOU 1N TH3 D1R3CT1ON OF S1M1L4R TH1NGS?

P3RSON4LLY 1 TH1NK YOU 4R3 ONLY DO1NG TH1S TO TROLL /L1T/

>> No.1462405

stop talking to the crazy person with the odd anime picture thing going on. Just keep walking and don't make eye contact.

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The way she talks about someone else
That she don't even know herself
She's the sickest thing in this world
Well, look at that stupid girl

Well, I'm sick and tired
And I really have my doubts
I've tried and tried
But it never really works out

Like a lady in waiting to a virgin queen
Look at that stupid girl
She bitches 'bout things that she's never seen
Look at that stupid girl

It doesn't matter if she dyes her hair
Or the color of the shoes she wears
She's the worst thing in this world
Well, look at that stupid girl

Shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up
Shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up, shut-up
Shut-up, shut-up, shut-up

>> No.1462412

Sorry there were no half-cat android girls from Japan with two vaginas in any of those books you read. American literature will just never live up to your expectations.

& usually I would say "that's just your opinion, man", but who doesn't like Vonnegut?? Christ.

>> No.1462413

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
O'Connor's The Violent Bear it Away
McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

but really any O'Connor you can get your hands on is well worth the time. Her short stories are great too.

>> No.1462415

Don't care.

>> No.1462418

moby-dick

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>> No.1462425

NABOKOV, PYNCHON, THE LIST COULD GO ON

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>>1462412
>>1462391
Okay, I have to say one thing before sleeping. Of all the fanboys, Vonnegut's little posse of sci-fi boys always manage to be the most unreasonable.
>grrrrr how could you not like him, he's so gritty and went through ww2, grrrrr *cough* *inhaler puff*

>> No.1462430

>>1462427
I think Vonnegut is hipster trash too.

>> No.1462440

>>1462427

There is just no pleasing you, huh? Ya big grumpus.

>> No.1462444

>>1462440
reminds one of tybrax........

>> No.1462446

>>1462381

Oh Taiga, you so tsun tsun

>> No.1462448

Wait, guys, isn't Taiga a troll? I always thought Taiga was a troll.

>> No.1462487

/a/ here, you guys can keep her

>> No.1462490

>Kerouk

mfw

>American classical music: hurr durr ragtime
>hurr durr stars and stripes forever

mfw Carter, Varèse, Babbitt, Feldman, Cage, Reich

>> No.1462492

//Vonnegut// trash? WAT?

>> No.1462498

HAHAHAHAHA

fuck you /lit/, that cunt is your problem now

>> No.1462503

You should recommend me something by an argentine author

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>>1462492

Wutevar, Vonnegut doesn't need nunna these bitches. He's got his own shit goin' on.

>> No.1462508

>>1462448
Annoying maybe, but she can be sweet sometimes.

>> No.1462513

haha, who posted this? we could care less

>>>/a/44829323

>> No.1462517

This troll is weak, get this faggot out of here.

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>> No.1462529

>>1462519

>Chinese

>> No.1462542

>>1462529
>implying he's even Japanese

>> No.1462545

>>1462448
yep.

>> No.1462549

Oh lord. I'm sorry, /lit/. I'm so sorry.

>> No.1462569
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I lost my sweet sweet Lenore, to the cold blowing winds on that icy shore.

But behind /lit/'s small hidden door, lies my new waifu, Taiga forevermore.

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> Taiga calling Vonnegut trash

>> No.1462583

>no Faulkner, no Melville, no Hemingway

Keep trolling...

>> No.1462585

>>1462583
Hemmingway

It's spelled with two m's

>> No.1462591

>>1462583
I was just thinking that. If Taiga is being legit, she's missing out on some of the greatest American authors. Along with your list I would also slip in Edgar Allen Poe.

>> No.1462597

>>1462585

Nope.

>> No.1462603

>>1462427
>>1462427

Have you even read The Sirens of Titan?

>>1462585
>>1462585

10/10. I hate you.

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/a/non here

>This thread

>> No.1462630

/a/ here.

For some reason I miss you taiga.

I mean.. I hated you so much back in the day.

But now I somehow miss you?

I don't understand it..

You don't have to come back. But.. I wouldn't totally mind if you did..

>> No.1462633

>>1462630
is this the emotion you weaboo call 'tsundere'

>> No.1462635

>>1462427
but I thought sh5 was shitty
cats cradle is the good one

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/a/ here

She's your problem now

>> No.1462647

>Trash
>Ayn Rand
what the fuck am I reading

>> No.1462648

This is what you faggots get for reading your stupid books.

Get with the times, anime captures the culture these days.

>> No.1462654

>>1462647
10/10

>> No.1462658

>>1462647
>Ayn Rand
>not trash
what the fuck am I reading

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1462659

COme back to /a/, /a/nonymous, you're interrupting the neutrality of /lit/.

>> No.1462660

Currently reading a visual novel.

Can I be high class too? I think a superiority complex would suit me well.

>> No.1462672

>>1462648
>stupid books
>anime captures the culture these days.

Thefuckanireading.jpg

>> No.1462674

>>1462672
It does, anime actually explores relevant issues along with being entertaining.

What is in books? Oh yeah, the boring Great Gatsby crap I read in the 8th grade.

>> No.1462675

>Fitzgerald

Wow look, Taiga on another board shitting it up.

>> No.1462679

/a/ here, hahaha, she's your problem now.
Just don't mention airports.

>> No.1462687

What does /lit/ think about G Senjou no Maou?

>> No.1462688

>>1462674
I love anime. I LOVE IT!!

But I think you're extremely wrong.

You're probably not intelligent enough for a book to keep your attention.

>> No.1462690

>>1462679
HAHAHAHAHAHA

I forgot about that shit

>> No.1462693

>>1462687
I got bored haveway through chapter 5 and haven't finished it yet

>> No.1462702

Honestly, if you didn't know that know the author's nationality beforehand you typically wouldn't even know the difference between American writers and say, British writers.
Unless you have an eye for minute cultural differences that is so perfect you might as well be a computer.

Real question, if you hate all the above, what DO you like?
Then again, I'm replying to a troll so I don't even know why I typed all this..
Whatever.

>> No.1462706

>>1462702
Yes, what does Taiga like? Has she mentioned anything in other threads?

>> No.1462707

>>1462674
>It does, anime actually explores relevant issues
Like which giant robot would win a fight.

>> No.1462709

>>1462448
I assumed it was a troll too.
>animu name
>animu character images all the time
>tripcode

>> No.1462719

>>1462690
Story?

>> No.1462721

>>1462706
I listed a collection of short stories I've read, and was looking for recommendations. I believe she recommended Kafka, the Jungle Book, and a collection of stories from the Grimm Brothers.

>> No.1462728

You know, I haven't watched any anime or read any manga in years. This thread is makin me kinda nostalgic, though. There's some legitimately good stuff there.

>> No.1462731

>>1462721
sounds pretty highschool to me

>> No.1462735

>>1462721
deeply amusing that 2/3 of those are children's books

>> No.1462740

>Murder:
Taiga
>Ban:
Taiga

>> No.1462742

>>1462674
about 10% of anime accomplishes that, which is true in just about every medium.

Literature has been around longer, so there is a greater number of reputable content that is recognized over time.
Anime, however, requires a bit of sifting-through in order to reach a smaller number of gems.

anime is more entertaining imo, though.

>> No.1462743

>>1462735
wait, it wasn't kafka, it was aesop's fables she recommended

so 3/3 childrens books?

>> No.1462748

The Good Ones by Jonathan Littell. He wrote it in French but he's American so still counts. I also think American lit is trash, Littell is the exception that confirms the rule.

>> No.1462757

The troll in this thread is super weak and all you guys are faggots for getting baited.

>> No.1462765

>>1462757
>sage in all field

trololololoolololo

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Annoying tripfag thread? Cool, can I join in?

Also, sup /a/?

>> No.1463482

Try some Edgar Allen Poe

>> No.1463707

bump for proof /a/ is illiterate children

>> No.1463719

this is now a anime thread.

let me begin. the only two animes last year that didn't suck are:
tatami galaxy
panty and stocking

thoughts?

>> No.1463726

>>1463719
I follow anime only in a very abstracted and distant way, but it does seem to me that anime fandom is basically concerned largely with the most fucking terrible things to the exclusion of anything good. And that seems kind of shameful & a bad thing.

>> No.1463734

>>1463726
To be honest I mostly try to ignore the fandom and just pay attention to the more talented and creative directors in the industry right now e.g. Masaaki Yuasa, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Mamoru Hosoda, though my favorite of all time is Isao Takahata (he is a master)

>> No.1463742

>>1463726
I'm someone who has been through an involved phase with anime. Really, from my admittedly limited experience, it's analogous to American television and movies; the large majority of anime is an entertainment product. However, you have your exceptions. There are David Lynchs and there are Micheal Bays. The ratio of entertainment merit to art merit is about the same.

>> No.1463744

>>1463742
Yeah, but I feel like... in American television, there's places I can go and talk about movies and television where people will like Michael Bay for being Michael Bay and enjoy his movies for being stupid shit. And people will like David Lynch for being David Lynch. And people will see that some stuff is just bad and ignore it. But it seems that in anime fandom there's only a bunch of people who like a bunch of Michael Bay stuff and a bunch of bad stuff and take it really seriously. Like, I really think that I would be more into anime if there were a more reasonable fandom culture that had higher standards.

>> No.1463747

>>1463744
I'd say that's a pretty accurate assessment, though, interestingly enough, Roger Ebert and a few other critics have given some attention to anime released here in the west. (Ebert on Ponyo.)

I think it has to do in some way with the fact that Anime is an imported phenomena. I'm not sure exactly how though.

>> No.1463753

>>1463747
>I think it has to do in some way with the fact that Anime is an imported phenomena. I'm not sure exactly how though.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that for a really long time it was hard to get anime here and so whatever one managed to get assumed a kind of importance, and that kind of attitude has carried over to here.

but realistically, I think it has more to do with the nature of the internet and anime fandom in japan - anime is an Internet Thing, and anime fandom has basically taken some bad stuff from Japanese anime fandom and then added its own brand of terrible. The Internet just reinforces bad things in anime fandom I think.

>> No.1463754

There is anime, then there is Cowboy Bebop which sky rocketed beyond the genre itself.

>> No.1463769

>Anyways, American literature has been quite disappointing, same with classical music
Steve Reich

>> No.1463770

>>1463744
Search Serial Experiments Lain on Google Scholar.

>> No.1463771

The old man and the sea

nuff said

>> No.1463772

>>1463771
Good taste, don't forget The Diary of Tortov Roddle

>> No.1463780

>>1463772
>>1463771
Kunio Kato is amazing

anyways, you should all add me to steam :3

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197993205533/home

>> No.1463781

>>1463780
Sorry I don't play video games

>> No.1463782

I don't see Yates on there, give him a shot.

>> No.1463783

>>1463782
Tao Lin is one of my favorites, definitely check out his novel Richard Yates

>> No.1463789

Any old /a/holes remember when cool and smart people liek GhostNia and Cirno used to post there instead of dullards like this Taiga person

>> No.1463807

>>1463789
nope

>> No.1463808

Call me Ishmael
/thread

>> No.1463809

>>1463808
'sup ishmael

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>Ayn Rand
you have no idea who you're messing with

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>>1463808
Call me, Ishmael

>> No.1463819

>>1463811

What kind of room are you in?

>> No.1463844

>>1463819
It's not anon, I have the same picture in my "randian shitheads" folder.

>> No.1463846

>>1463844
you onhly have it because I posted it here a few months ago so shut up, you don't know what you're talking about.

>> No.1463848

>>1463846
Then why don't you timestamp, neckbeard ?

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>>1463848
Because I'm actually this guy

>> No.1463859

I love Taiga.

>> No.1463867

>>1463859
no you don't

>> No.1463875

> obnoxious tripfag makes a thread with an even more obnoxious premise

> 101 posts and 14 image replies omitted.

well done. you guys deserve the state this board is in.

>> No.1463881

>>1463875
>>1463875

yeah the tripfags here are terrible

>> No.1463883

>>1463875
this board has always been a gaggle of braindead scumbags and that's not going to change any time soon