/lit/ - Literature

name a worse shitposter than >>15191668
you literally cannot.

Me

OP clearly hasn't read my Diary yet

>>15191668
>dabs on Donald Blumpf in your path

proof that all modern writers pale in comparison to anything before 300 A.D. Anything written after is a waste of time.

Post the cherios.

>>15191792

>>15191767
What about Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky?

>>15191812
who?

>>15191803
Absolute kek, how can one man be so delusional.

>>15191826
If I had to guess, a significant part of the population shares his belief.
Google "Slut shaming" and you will see plenty of people raging if anyone criticizes promiscuity.
"It is his/her/its body, he/she/it does whatever he/she/it wants with it any you can't cricize the lifestyle"

Didn't he fuck a lot of his underaged fans or am I thinking of someone else?

>>15191767
If you think that constitutes any kind of proof you surely have slacked on your reading of ancient epistemology, mathematics and logic.

>>15191668
let my people go

>>15191668
>can't teach history for shit
>can't write Anne Frank fanfiction for shit

>>15191896
Based if true

I unironically think that Green would be well suited to writing hardboiled detective fiction.

>>15191668
As far as Modernism goes, I really admire Wallace Stevens.

>>15191668
Rupi Kaur <3

Has anyone of you even read The Fault in our stars, or turtles all the way down?
Incels on this board will seethe but OP is unironically right. Hes a best selling author for a reason. You guys are reactionary and simply cannot accept the idea that a liberal can write and be a good thinker. If John Green lived 200 years ago you would consider him one of the best writers of all time.

>>15194963
Based and redpilled.

>>15194963
Holy based! Didnt think there were actual greenbros on /lit/!

>>15194963
This.

>>15191803
I thought about this a lot and come to the conclusion that this is the second dumbest thought anyone has ever had. The dumbest was thinking to record himself saying this and putting it on the internet.

>>15194963
>Has anyone of you even read The Fault in our stars, or turtles all the way down?

Yes, and it's some of the worst dogshit I've ever had the misfortune of eyeing. A waste of good ink and paper.

>"Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.
>"I must say," Otto Frank said on the video in his accented English, "I was very much surprised by the deep thoughts Anne had."
>And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he pulled me up by my waist onto my tiptoes. As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and the PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.
>"It was quite a different Anne I had known as my daughter. She never really showed this kind of inner feeling," Otto Frank continued.
>The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children."
>I realized that my eyes were closed and opened them. Augustus was staring at me, his blue eyes closer to me than they'd ever been, and behind him, a crowd of people three deep had sort of circled around us. They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.
>I pulled away from Augustus, and he snuck a peck onto my forehead as I stared down at my Chuck Taylors. And then they started clapping. All the people, all these adults, just started clapping, and one shouted "Bravo!" in a European accent. Augustus, smiling, bowed

>mfw a grown man wrote this garbage

>>15191668
>You literally can't.

But I can.

>>15195127
This can’t be real

>>15191668
Yiyun Li. Penlope Lively. Tracy K. Smith...wait these are all women...I fell for the meme bois.

>>15191803
Its almost like this freak had to make it understandable to children by using cheerios as the comparison....... what a sick bastard.

>>15191668
>Name a better modern writer

Name an another author so dedicated that he literally carried out a massacre to advertise his

>>15195548
Go on then.

>Name a better modern writer

Name an another author so dedicated that he literally carried out a massacre to advertise his work

>>15195690
>Today has been the Day of the Rope — a grim and bloody day, but an unavoidable one. Tonight, from tens of thousands of lampposts, power poles, and trees throughout this vast metropolitan area the grisly forms hang.
>In the lighted areas one sees them everywhere. Even the street signs at intersections have been pressed into service, and at practically every street corner I passed this evening on my way to HQ there was a dangling corpse, four at every intersection. Hanging from a single overpass only about a mile from here is a group of about 30, each with an identical placard around its neck bearing the printed legend, "I betrayed my race." Two or three of that group had been decked out in academic robes before they were strung up, and the whole batch are apparently faculty members from the nearby UCLA campus.
>There are many thousands of hanging female corpses like that in this city tonight, all wearing identical placards around their necks. They are the White women who were married to or living with Blacks, with Jews, or with other non-White males. There are also a number of men wearing the l-defiled-my-race placard, but the women easily outnumber them seven or eight to one. On the other hand, about ninety per cent of the corpses with the I-betrayed-my-race placards are men, and overall the sexes seem to be roughly balanced.
>Those wearing the latter placards are the politicians, the lawyers, the businessmen, the TV newscasters, the newspaper reporters and editors, the judges, the teachers, the school officials, the "civic leaders", the bureaucrats, the preachers, and all the others who, for reasons of career or status or votes or whatever, helped promote or implement the System's racial program. The System had already paid them their 30 pieces of silver. Today we paid them.

Name another book written in the last 100 years that is so brilliant, so poignant, that it literally inspires white patriots to go out and kill government officials, niggers, and faggots.

>>15195127
Do we know if John Green posts on /his/?

>>15195583
I just downloaded a PDF edition to double check and it actually fucking is.

>>15195753

God I hope so.

>>15195717

>>15195583
>>15195753
>>15195764

What bothers me is not so much that shit is beyond crass and outright offensive (we're on 4chan after all) and that no person in their right fucking mind would do this unless they were looking to be dragged out of the building by security, it's that it served no purpose. Green could have just set this scene in a regular museum or a church service and it would have played out basically the same. He chose the Anne Frank House as the setting in a piss poor attempt to be "edgy" and therefore relevant. So his fellow bleeding heart liberals would point at it and go "look at how stunning and brave he is for doing that."

Granted, the parts of the Confederate soldiers soldiers saving pregnant Anne Frank fanfiction I have actually written are themselves, crass, intentionally offensive, and even downright disgusting with sex and violence that would make Game of Thrones blink, but it actually serves a number of purposes in the narrative, which are

A. Challenge readers' preconceived notions about the Holocaust, Nazism, American foreign policy since WWII, and the South in particular.

B. Explore Anne's maturation from that of a child to an adult, a process that is accelerated (physically, emotionally, and sexually) by her own impending motherhood.

C. Explore the largest and most devastating largest military confrontation in the Western Hemisphere and the long shadow it cast and what the ramifications of a Confederate victory would have been (beyond slavery).

D. Explore the Confederacy as a nation that is essentially in a spiritual war with itself, struggling to come to terms with the consequences of a conflict that was not a glorious victory (as is often envisioned in alternate history), but a hollow one, as the Antebellum way of life, sacrificed to protect itself from re-subjegation by the Union.

E. Explore what a person (Anne Frank, Peter van Pels to an extent) who has no emotional or familial investment in the titanic struggle of North against South would make of points C and D.

>>15195801
Anon.

>>15195717
Pathetic. A fan-fiction for baby-brained, wittle-willied sadbois.

>>15191668
In all seriousness how good is Dean Koontz? Reading a book of his now, he reads like Steven King desu. Can we make this thread a discussion about mediocre authors?

>>15195830

What? You don't write stories about a heavily pregnant Anne Frank and Peter van Pels watching Confederate soldiers arguing non-stop about secession, slavery, segregation, religion, masturbation, and whether they hate Americans or Germans more?

>>15195884
>baby-brained
>requires extensive knowledge of American, Anglo-Saxon Jewish, Biblical, Dutch, and German history and American foreign policy 1945-present to fully understand

You probably think the Star Wars prequels are bad too, don't you?

>>15195794

What's the one on the right?

>>15191668
Is that Gavin Toobin of Ultimate Reloader?

>>15196043
>extensive
I think you mean selective, sadboi.

>star wars opinions as a barometer of intelligence
As expected. A man child.

>>15191668
This one anon.

>>15196349
lol

>>15195127
>And then everyone clapped
I thought it was just a meme

>>15196349

This mad lad should do it.

>>15194963
if he lived 200 years ago he probably wouldn't be as poisoned by woke ideology

>>15195127
>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/696751-i-realized-that-my-eyes-were-closed-and-opened-them
WTF IT APPEARS TO BE REAL

>>15196672
Well, you certainly wouldn't be posting about it on the internet.

>>15195127
This is the part that made me incredibly angry desu. The rest of the book is a nothing, this part is brute idiocy and Americana loutishness.

>>15196579
He could do Hank as well, I don't think anyone cares enough to tell them apart.

>>15196728
>This is the part that made me incredibly angry desu. The rest of the book is a nothing, this part is brute idiocy and Americana loutishness.

Same, which is I decided to repay the favor by writing a heavily pregnant Anne and Peter making love inside an abandoned church to drive the fear that subtly torments them both from their minds for the briefest moment while General George S. Patton and the Army of Northern Virginia only a few hundred miles away storm the Compiègne Forest to find the shattered remains of the memorial to the 1918 Armistice.

20 times as outrageous, but actually has a point to it.

>>15196349
lmfao

>>15195691
hitler and kaczynski

>>15197194
>hitler

The Holocaust occurred 20 years after Mein Kampf was published, and event then, most of the perpetrators didn't waste their time actually reading it because it's a terrible book.

>kaczynski

More like assassinations but fair enough

>>15196696

yep

>>15194232

How so?

>>15191668

What an arrogant prick

>>15194963
best post ITT

>>15195127
>I stared down at my Chuck Taylors. And then they started clapping. All the people, all these adults, just started clapping, and one shouted "Bravo!" in a European accent. Augustus, smiling, bowed
Jesus, that's the most Amurrican thing I've read recently. Bravo.

>>15198788
>Jesus, that's the most Amurrican thing I've read recently. Bravo.

Really dude?

>>15191812
you have good taste in literature anon.
>>15191823
You're an absolute ape if you have never read War and Peace.

>>15199192

>>15194963
I consider any and all of American literature, as in every book written in the English language within the boundaries of the US of A, to be an abhorrent abortion upon mankind. I literally think your country should be sanctioned for having such a poor literary tradition. Even your books from 200 years ago. I think American culture relies HEAVILY on the sort of cultural hegemony the US holds in other areas to sort of project itself, even though it is extremely weak. American music, American movies, all of those have a stronger backbone. American literature is absolute, complete and utter shit and I think anyone who denies this is either a brainwashed burgergobbler or a seriously delusional brainwashed piece of shit.

But nice try.

NOT SO FAST

>>15199067
John Hancock's signature is fucking mogging everyone else's.

>>15191803
It says a lot about this guy's psyche that his solution to this perceived double standard isn't to apply the standard to men as well, but to have no standard at all

>>15199067
I don't see anything about assault rifles and circumcision, but ok.

>>15194963
Nice bait

>>15191896
Not as far as anyone is aware of. Some tumblr account made some claims that because he writes books for teenage girls, he's clearly grooming them, with no real evidence to back it up, beyond a vague feeling. I doubt he actually is. His writing may be mediocre at best, but he seems like a decent enough guy

>>15201644
Well at least he doesn't have the most popular pedophile symbol as his personal brand logo and doesn't say stuff like
> I actually like defending pedophiles
> What, your existence is somehow superior to that of a pedophile?
unlike some other figures that get posted on this board.

>>15199317
That's Paulo Coelho tho

>>15191896
That's Mr. Neil Gayman