/lit/ - Literature

>>18442959
I just finished this today too, what a fucking terrible book. The only good part was when he was fucking with the commies.

My eyes rolled all the way back at the line after his Dad dies and he can't even suffer anymore.

If you relate to this at all anon, you are a fucking moron that self sabotaged yourself from the start and ignored every opportunity given to you.

>>18443553
I don't know anon it's pretty widely acclaimed. 2nd highest grossing book in Japan and I found the prose to be well written.

>>18442959
fuck off phone poster

>>18443586
>I don't know anon it's pretty widely acclaimed. 2nd highest grossing book in Japan
Avatar is pretty widely acclaimed and the highest grossing film in the world, what's your point?

>>18443611
I'm posting from my laptop at a hotel fag

>>18443619
Got me there. I've heard people call this Japans Catcher in the Rye. That's a book I roll my eyes at. This I could actually relate to.

>>18443638
>ohh boo hoo im homeless
>in a hotel
maybe figure out your shit before /lit/posting faggot

>>18443657
You clearly haven't faced much adversity in your life. You have no inkling as to why OP is homeless.

>>18443657
Stimulus check came in. I'm living it up for a few days.

>>18443657
Did you have a bad day?

>>18443638
read this, it's similar, but good and the MC is actually relatable.

>>18443665
Thanks. Been waiting to get my hands on my first Murakami

>>18443663
literal leech lol kys

It was a shit book
I hate the
>ooga booga me no understand other humans and society ooga boggga
Type of literature
Fuck notes from the underground too

>>18443665
Oh shit, wait never mind I've read In The Miso soup.

>>18443679
Insightful criticism. Thank you for this post.

>>18443694
No problem mate

>>18443678
I lost two jobs back to back due to COVID. I used to work 70 hour weeks and was a top salesman in my region. I'm not a mooch.

>>18443706
Car salesman?

>>18443725
Rental Car Insurance and Computers

>>18443730
So are you destitute or just planning your next move? Surely you remembered to save- right, anon?

>>18443753
Trying to save but living out of hotels here and there as sleeping on the street takes its toll on on psychologically.

I'm apart of rapid rehousing programs who are going to help me get an apartment.

>>18443777
How did you become homeless?? If you had money saved, you could have used that to fend off losing your place ya? Hotels aren't cheap, mate.

>>18443807
I'm an addict like Oba. Prostitutes, Strip Clubs, Gambling. Poor financial planing. I was also incarcerated for the first time recently and that also didn't help.

>>18443813
I'm off to bed anon, but you're not Oba. Don't squander the opportunities presented to you and spiral downward, just try to improve little by little. You'll fuck up, a lot, but get there eventually.

>>18443942
Thanks, mate.

>>18442959
>NOOO I CAN'T MANAGE MUH FINANCES
>WTF LMAO TIME TO SPEND IT LOL
>DUDE PROSTITUTES
>DYDE STRIPPERS
>DUDE ALCOHOL
>HOLY FUCKIN SHIT GONNNA BUY ME A MANGA DESPITE BEING HOMELESS LOOOOOOL
CONSOOOOOOM

>>18442959
Protip: remove everything having to do with manga, anime, vidya, scifi, tabletop, fantasy, comics, etc from your life. Denerdify yourself. Then develop as a human being.

>>18443586
>pretty widely acclaimed. 2nd highest grossing book in Japan
Theres your problem. It is popular.

>>18442959
Since you're already homeless have you ever thought about going the forest anon route?

>>18444051
Someone gave me a tent, but I think sleeping in the woods would make me more prone to attackers. I just grab a blanket and sleep on populated streets, but those nights are few and far between.

>>18444040
You'll sooner move a mountain than take than desoifify a man.

>>18444060
Goodluck out there fren

>>18442959
wow hes just like me

The number of people that get filtered by this is astounding.

>>18442959
>American
>asks for sympathy from other Americans for his homelessnes

Good luck buddy.

>>18443660
I don't think anyone who has the time to post here is facing actual adversity and you're an idiot if you think that

No Longer Human is good but The Setting Sun is better. It was selling like hot cakes because it was sensationalized as hell in Japan due to Dazai's death.
Oba is basically an unreliable narrator and many readers it too literally, mainly because most of them never read Dazai's other books.

>>18444965
take it too literally*

>>18444681
>posting on a relatively obscure imageboard means you aren't "facing actual adversity"

>>18443813
Oh so you're just a degenerate

>>18445037
It's about all I can do in my free time.

>>18443665
Why is this book $400 wtf

>>18445577
The paperback's cheaper but yeah it's an expensive novel

>>18444965
I agree. The Setting Sun is a sincerely good book. No Longer Human is an interesting story but it’s too “real”. It meanders too much, it tries too hard to be detached, too autobiographical. Were it not for Dazai’s personal life story, the book would have been considered mediocre at best.