/lit/ - Literature

The Art of The Deal

women don't read books. they read cosmopolitan and tv guide

>>21873053
Cosmopolitan is wild though. At least it was when I was a kid. Sexiest tricks to drive your man insane like sticking your pinky in his dickhole and giving him a hand job with a glove made of chupacabra fur and shit like that

>>21873047
i read this book as a 13-year-old girl and greatly related to holden, thereby disproving your assertion

>>21873126
ywnbaw

>>21873047
whats so hard to understand about it? its mostly just a whiney teenager who doesn't grow the fuck up

>>21873130
woman
>>21873126
>greatly related to holden
implying it is about relating to holden, missing the point completely

>>21873136
spoonfeed me the point then

>>21873146
you wouldn't understand as a woman, you either read it and get it. Or get to a farcical point like yours

>>21873146
why are you pretending to be me nigga

>>21873150
>you wouldnt get it
>doesn't have a point to provide
literal psued retard
im also not a woman

>>21873155
he responded to both of us

>>21873156
>>21873126
>i read this book as a 13-year-old girl
>spoonfeed "me" the point then
stop larping as that op

>pseud retard
thinks the point is "relating to holden"

>>21873047
Easy. Women will never understand the love a man has for them

>>21873176
>vgh

>>21873182
ywnbaw

>>21873193
I am literally Werther

>>21873047
>Stoner
>Blood Meridian
>Moby Dick
To name a few

>>21873176
This, especially poems written after women break up with them

>>21873047
This is one of my favorite books... :(

>>21873047

>>21873365
Post some pls

>>21873424
>Game over, white boy!
Kek

>>21873047
>Madly in love with your wife so much so that you write many letters expressing how much you love her
>Wife barely writes back
>Reads your letters to her friends
>Cheats on you while you're away conquering Europe
I hate women so much it's unreal

>>21873047
Anything by Kafka, The Metamorphosis especially. Go to Goodreads and every 1 star review is by a solipsistic women. Their brains aren't wired to comprehend true alienation.

>>21873047
Ayn Rand

>>21873047
>Books I'm going to pretend women don't read

FTFY

Can anyone read it as an adult and feel anything other than secondhand embarrassment when remembering themselves as a Dunning-Kruger teenager?

>>21873176
Men only ever love the idea of a woman. How else would they love so intensely?

>>21874111
Neither will /lit/ users understand this book or any philosophical book

>>21874090
i hate women so much its unreal

>>21874346
>secondhand embarrassment
isn't naivety the essence of youth? why the fuck would you feel embarrassment knowing you've gone through life's stages, almost like a shitty american male rite of passage

>>21873126
Phony detected, opinion rejected

>>21873763
He was Italian, she was French. Culture clash

It's been 12 years since I first read this book.
Does the pain ever stop bros

>>21873053
You are a retard, women create and consume far more books than men.

>>21874754
It hasn't yet.

>>21873047

>>21874777
Long-form blogposts about exes and stuck tampons aren’t real books, bipoc lgbt ya and werewolf ceo rape aren’t literature either.

>>21874808
"Game over, white boy!"

>>21874808
Women under 30 read Dostoevsky and Tolstoy more than men do in my experience, although among Millennials men read Dostoevsky more than women do. I think there is a generational shift that’s coinciding with men dominating academia less and less, or even women dominating the humanities.

>>21874090
I thought The Metamorphosis was popular among zoomers because of TikTok or some shit like that.

>>21874090

>>21873047
My mom read The Catcher in the Rye. She said that the protagonist was funny and she laughed through all the book. She really tought it was a comedy book.

Lord of the Flies. You beed to go through childhood/pre-teen being a boy to understand the desires of Jack's group.

>>21874867
Why are women so retarded? I still love them regardless.

I hate women so much it's unreal, especially those who reject my advances.

>>21874754
Read Nine Stories by Salinger and find some new pain.

>>21874867
She’ll love my upcoming novella. It takes places in Kazakhstan and goes really hard.

I love women but I also hate women

>>21874754
that's not a crew cut

>>21874889
I've read everything by Salinger already and the closest thing to Catcher was Zooey's story

>>21874916
Based, I've still got to read Raise High the Roofbeam and Carpenters.

>>21873763
>which men might do me, on the fate that destiny might have in store for me, I have gazed steadfastly on the most incredible misfortunes without a wrinkle on my brow or a vestige of surprise: but to-day the thought that my Josephine might be ill; and, above all, the cruel, the fatal thought that she might love me less, blights my soul, stops my blood, makes me wretched and dejected, without even leaving me the courage of fury and despair.
>I often used to say that men have no power over him who dies without regrets; but, to-day, to die without your love, to die in uncertainty of that, is the torment of hell, it is a lifelike and terrifying figure of absolute annihilation-I feel passion strangling me. My unique companion! you whom Fate has destined to walk with me the painful path of life! the day on which I no longer possess your heart will be that on which parched Nature will be for me without warmth and without vegetation. I stop, dear love! my soul is sad, my body tired, my spirit dazed, men worry me-I ought indeed to detest them; they keep me from my beloved.
Literally me

>>21874346
You should feel empathy

>>21874814
Tolstoy maybe, solely because that fat retarded bitch Oprah promoted Anna Karenina because muh strong empowered womyn (even though the actual meaning of the book was mocking that trope and Tolstoy was rabidly misogynistic)
Dostoevsky is FAR more read by young men. Literally every guy in their 20s thinks they are Raskolnikov.

>>21873047
Picrel.
Bar none.
Bar fucking none.

>>21875102
ew toxic incel ranting

>>21874895
Honestly, not weird at all. Pretty sure you're supposed to both hate them and love them. Like 95% sure.

>>21875108
Essentially, yes.
Which is why women will never get it.
>he's literally me
etc. etc.

>Here's your GF that reads bro

>>21875159
keke

Too subtle for the feminine mind

>>21873047
This.

>>21875159
I know there are at least a minority of women who still browse this board. Ladies, I dislike you soooo much.

>>21874090
I like how the opening line in German and presumably any direct translation never says he turned into a cockroach

>>21874867
it needs to be illegal for women to talk except in the home for like 100 years just so we can detox from this fucking nightmare

women DO NOT have the same natural shame men feel at spouting off with no qualifications, they think the entire world is one big party where people are wandering around babbling and smooching and eating candy corns

>>21873047

>>21873047
Zorba the greek. I can't imagine reading 20 pages of that as a woman.

>>21874352
deep

>>21875480
tfw some random 4chan moid dislikes me!!! NOOO!

>>21876793
YOU WILL NEVER BE A WOMAN

>>21876793
Just be aware, if you're not a tranny that is, you will never be respected as a person and every dude who acts like he respects you and your opinion, does that because he likes the feeling of his dick in you and he wouldn't want to jeopardize that by showing/telling you how retarded you are. There's nothing you can do about this really, since men despised women with very good reason since the dawn of time. All thinking men did.

>>21876794
AUUUGH!

>>21875159
at least they read the book. my fried zoomer brain can barely get past the first page.

>>21876805
>Expecting me to read that
>Expecting me to give a shit about moid opinions
nice try, scrote, I am too busy outperforming men in college and not commiting 97% of violent crimes

>>21876831
Thanks but we already know women don't read, that's what the thread is about.

>>21876831
>Expecting me to read that
No one expects you to read femoid

>>21876834
>once again expecting me to read that
when will they learn

>>21873047
the part where he’s at the pay phone and can’t think of anyone to call hits hard

>>21876831
Jarvis, pull up race statistics

>>21873047
Holden raped his sister, Phoebe.

>>21876805
>trying to get to women by saying they have no soul
What's the point? They don't care or know what that is. Hit them where it hurts: their youth.

>>21877215
>"b-but you will get older and I will not longer find you attractive!!"
Oh no... my entire self-identity/purpose was based on random men finding me attractive
I am already a mother, that ship has sailed long ago lmao

>>21876831
Go back to cafe

>>21875509
I think it's a problem of mostly Western society, specifically American

>>21877399
post tiddies or gtfo

>>21877399
I genuinely feel sorry for your kids

>>21877199
Explain this meme

>>21878953
Its self explanatory

>>21873126
show your tits

>>21873126
Nobody cares about your age dysphoria and your gender dysphoria.

>>21873047
>Reminder:
The only reason this book has survived being tossed in the trash and forgotten is because the author is part of the (((club))).
It is not profound, it is mediocre.

>>21876831
Based

>>21879761
It's already in the trash as far as normal people are concerned. Only incels like it. Only a matter of time it's removed from school if it hasn't already.

>>21875472
what did you take out of it?

>>21877399
>be a mother
>kid enters room
>"Mom, I'm hungry, and my brother shitted in the sink again"
>"Don't bother me, I'm arguing on 4chan"

>>21879761
Dude, its the child rape.

>>21881030
Filtered. Did you at least understand the core theme of the book?

>>21882988
>Did you at least understand the core theme of the book?
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
His dad rapes him 20 times on page 1.
He's in a psych hospital.
His older brother is a male prostitute.

>>21883009
I read the book and got absolutely none of that.

>>21883232
>I read the book
obviously not.

>>21883009
>i guess i thought it was neat that mr antolini went and picked him up even though he was covered in the cum and blood of seven unlubricated forced entries, one right after the other.

>>21878953
It's funny because of the comma.

>>21878953
There is a retarded reddit interpretation of the book that thinks that when Holden dances 4 songs with her sister it actually means that he fucked her 4 times

>>21883436
You'll want to check the archives, son.

>>21883009
sir this is a wendy's

>>21883439
I have already but I never found anything. The only thing I found on the internet was that retarded reddit interpretation

>>21883436
Ah. Redditors. They're so privileged they got nothing to do.

This is a book that everyone should read at least once, but not everyone should take too seriously. Salinger’s prose is crisp, colloquial, and conversational. It offers a sardonic, biting portrait of the American experience. But he also indulges in some cheap tricks, like the mysterious disappearance of Holden’s brother Allie, the ambiguous fate of Holden’s sister Phoebe, and the abrupt ending that leaves us hanging. He wants us to care about Holden, but he doesn’t give us enough reasons to do so.

>>21877215
I’d still hit it

>>21883492
>I can't use 4chan.
You can't write either.

>>21873047
robinson crusoe

>>21873047
According to Wikipedia this is Bridget Hennessy's favorite book

>>21879711
Brainrotted retard lol

>>21875509
Nigger do you have any friends? Or male older relatives even?