/lit/ - Literature

Yes, the food is from Southern Hungary

>>17451833
containment board

I fucking hated this book. Despicable and uninteresting main character.

Norwegian literature is a joke, let's be honest.

>>17451833
femanon here
I used to simp for this suicidal norwegian boy i met on omegle. he was into philosophy, and loved this stupid book
eventually i met him irl and he was such an elitist miserable piece of shit. and gay and very handsome.
we walked around for a couple of hours and hardly talked cause he insisted we speak norwegian and danish. he had this god awful dialect though, i didnt understand shit and nooo we couldnt just speak english even though thats the language we'd used to chat in all those years
fucking idiot
enjoy your literature about people who enjoy misery as much as you do

>>17451920
tits or GTFO

Misery porn.

Had to read Harry Potter to cleanse my palate afterwords.

I thought it was a funny book. Wasn't it? I seriously laughed out loud a few times, but I read it so long ago I don't remember why. There's some part where he runs up to someone randomly on the street like a crazed hobo, right?

>>17451923

>>17451944
Nice try. Timestamp it.

>>17451920
there's something wrong with mainland europeans. they're highly elitist while also being incredibly stunted and unpersonable.

>>17451944
that wasn't fucking me. I was busy ignoring ya. Though I must admit anons strategy to post a boy chest isnt bad either

>>17451920
that means he used google translate to woo you LMAO

>>17451980
Scandinavia is mainland Europe?

>>17451993
Yes?

>>17452019
Are UK and Iceland the only countries that aren't mainland europe?

>>17451936
these losers are just bad at keeping their buttons on

>>17452029
no. malta, ireland and cyprus are islands. also

>>17452029
Yes

>>17451833
Filtered, hard. It's not even his best book, time to go back to reading DFW essays.

>>17451920
>femanon here
stopped reading there

>>17451833
This book was hilarious at times, I really loved it. The people going on about misery in the book don't have a great sense of humor.

>>17451833
did you read the book anon?

>>17451920
>he had this god awful dialect
ironic, coming from a dane

>>17451833
It isn’t.

>>17451833
This book was good but gave me severe anxiety because it made me terrified of being poor and homeless and my anxiety got worse because it made me think about the degree I’m studying (tourism) and how maybe I chose the wrong career now that Corona made people not want to travel fuck bros I just don’t want to be poor and homeless

>>17451833
Nothing wrong with being poor and homeless.

>>17452993
That’s not true, no one wants to be poor and homeless, people only become poor and homeless because they had bad luck or hard circumstances, the guy in Hunger does NOT have a good time, he even sleeps in the wet forest floor for like 2 nights, has to sell everything to get something to eat, people look at you and treat you like garbage don’t believe the rich when they say poor people are content with being poor, if they didn’t want to be poor they would harder since they don’t work harder that must mean they are content with being homeless that’s fucking BULLSHIT and they know it, what kind of society do we live in where your choices are to doom yourself to a dead end job because you only have a HS diploma or rack up massive amounts of student debt to get a college diploma and even then you have to take thousands of interviews just to get accepted in some wagie job you hate like nigga how do you expect a kid to already have his entire life planned out as soon as they finish HS

>>17453112
Being poor and homeless is liberating. You no longer have to play by societal rules.

>>17453112
You should probably get to know some homeless people, good amount of them are perfectly content with their life.

It's hilarious

>>17452096
What about Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Isles?

I read this and expected to enjoy more than I did. Reading these things in translation is always a gamble I guess. While I'm intensely similar to the Narrator merely "relating" to a character isn't enough for me to find him compelling... I'm not some fucking narcissist. The book is just really repetitive and ultimately kind of dull. I didn't feel like the author communicated anything new in the second half of the novel that he hasn't already in the first half.

>>17453228
They’re just lying to make themselves feel better.

>>17453583
No True Scotsman

>miss, you're losing your book
was it autism?

>>17453854
lol are you actually this thick?

>>17452428
Why the hell do you think I made the thread?

>>17453198
Then your teeth fall out and you have to drink your own piss for sustenance.

>>17453462
It's a short book though? Do you think it should only have been 50 pages?

>>17451833
Horrible book

Read it on a whim, it's pure trash. A bad version of Dotsto's notes from the underground

>>17453583
I know one homeless guy who became homeless because he realized if he had no bills to pay he could retire. He is an interesting fella, pretty much does nothing but read and wander about town.

>>17452897
rip anon

>>17451833
Currently reading it and I like it a lot

>>17451920
Er du dansk? Må jeg sutte på dine bryster?

>>17455226
?

>>17451920

>he was handsome
So you're just another dumb cunt who got duped by a pretty boy with a nice jawline and blinded you to the dumb shit that was coming out of his mouth.
Holy fuck, women are literal children.

>>17455226
Du kan säkert få suga hennes kuk om du frågar snällt.

>>17455226
Hvad så brormand

>>17455443
Seething chinlet detected

>>17455464
Kvindepik er det bedste

>>17451923
see
>>17451920
>gay and very handsome

I recently read this, i really enjoyed this, its some odd 200 pages, you can read it in a setting. I found it surprisingly easy to read, i was expecting some norwegian autistic shit. I enjoyed the main character, that part when a dude runs over his feet with his car and he just considers it an honest mistake and runs away. When he has money and throws it away, says how he feels better when he has none at all etc. Its not as good as dosto but a great fun lil read nonetheless.

>>17451833
>Remind me what's so good about this book again?
it shits on muh starving artist no one gets me faggots so it's based in my book

>>17451920
YWNBAW

>>17455443
someones mad the lady didnt respond to his m'lady's and serenades because hes morbidly obese and tries to compensate by reading books
>>17455534
kek

>>17455443
Kek, my thoughts exactly

It read like a way shittier version of Notes From Underground, I couldn't help but compare the two while reading the book, so I barely enjoyed it.

>>17451920
Dilate

>>17455464
tak

Its a book about a man driven to hunger by pride, and that even when poor, dirty and hungry he stills clings to behaviour reserved for rich men. Giving alms to the poor, throwing away money, trying to succeed as a writer. All the while better employment options are available to him (sailing etc. ).

>>17456781
he talks in the book he tried to get many jobs but was always unlucky in trying to land one, but we dont know if he is telling the truth or not, regardless he becomes one at the end

>>17451980
Sorry Sweden, Finland and Norway are not mainland Europe.

>>17456790
Sorry, it was a long time I read it, did it mention what jobs, and did he just go for high status jobs?

>>17456820
i dont remember as well but he was in his room and saying the usual "i tried to find a job, everyone always refused me etc" at a certain part in the book

also iirc he applied for some job at the start of the book or something but some other woman got it whom he meets later on in the book and congratulates her whom counters its boring