/lit/ - Literature

I ceived this book as a gift and have been meaning to read it, you'd suggest otherwise?

>>2265244

>oh no a best seller, watch out for all the negatives aspects guys, `cos taking anything positive out of a best seller means people might actually understand me

>>2265323
>implying coelho is anything but a hack

I wouldn't call it terrible but I didn't really get anything out of it. The themes and what not seemed pretty cliche and obvious, but it was a quick and easy read with a decent story.

>>2265332
Then what WOULD you call terrible?

>>2265327

who cares? I didn`t like it either because it`s not to my taste but that doesn`t mean I can`t appreciate him for he inspiring confidence and hope in `laymen`

>>2265373
>appreciating a talentless hack just because other's do

lol, do you like ron hubbard too? hitler for inspiring confidence in the germans? stalin? mao? crichton? rand?

the plebbiest of plebs.

>>2265327
Out of curiosity, what constitutes a 'hack' in writing?

Pic related.

>>2265379

ron hubbard and paulo coelho aren`t dangerous to society as a whole, paul coelho focuses on the individual journey. you KNOW I didn`t mean volatile, power-hungry confidence. making generalizations and name-dropping /=/ a point proven.

>>2265385

so, basically, andy warhol?

>>2265391
If you think that's Warhol you should go kill yourself right now. You'd be doing the world a service.

>>2265394

are you that fucking stupid? I was more alluding to what warhol does with his `art`

>>2265389
they all inspired people, none of them can write, whether they killed people or not is really irrelevant to the point. appreciating a talentless hacks just because others do is pointless, and makes you look like an idiot.

who the fuck did I name drop? each and every one of those people are famous as shit.

>>2265397

>>2265398
I some how doubt your literary credentials. You just sound more like a snob to me. Out of curiosity have you ever written anything?

>>2265403
who said I had literary credentials? why did you separate 'some' and 'how'? again, who did I "namedrop"? was there someone on that list that you had to google or something?

>>2265397
>'art'

>>2265405
I loled.

Getting defensive on 4chan and pointing out grammar mistakes. LOL!

No credentials, just talking out own ass LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

>>2265408
>implying that was a grammar mistake

Idiot detected. Also, so much lols, did you just discover that today?

>>2265400

you know, the transmutation of garbage into apparent `beauty`?

`everything that is dead quivers. not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even the white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street.. everything that speaks has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks` - wassily kandinsky

>>2265411

warhol shat all over the innocence of that concept, basically.

>>2265409
Then what would you call the mistaken separation of a compound word? A spelling error? Seeing as both are separate words that can stand alone, it seem kinda dumb to call it anything else.

>>2265413
So you have art credentials now?

Aren't you just a regular aristocrat. Do you make art too?

>>2265409

>implying that WASN`T a grammar mistake

I`m pretty sure `some how` was a grammatical error, you know, considering ` ` isn`t part of the alphabet, I`m pretty sure spelling errors usually consist of letters but I may have to google that like certain names I am not acquainted with and would like to be further informed about in order to teach others and myself, not just to prove I am `knowledgeable`.

>>2265420

fyi I`m not the only person you are at a row with, there seems to be someone else here who thinks you`re an asshole.

>>2265417
>>2265417


hahaha. I read `compoud word` as `compound wound` which seems to coincide with the error you made.

>>2265425
I'm an asshole for pointing out your lack of any real artistic understanding?

I'm flattered!

>>2265425
This has nothing to do with anything but is there any way you can use actual apostrophes instead of graves? It's bugging the shit out of me.

>>2265429

wow. not. even. going. to. bother.

understanding and comprehension should never have been forced into art, that`s why everything fucking sucks today.

>>2265431
Teenager detected.

And if not Teenager, adult that needs to grow the fuck up.

Only pubescent fuck-tards talk about things being better in the past.

>>2265430

:( I can`t find the apostrophe on this keyboard, I don`t think there even is one. I`m overseas from home so the keyboard is tricky. It agitates me too having to `alt gr` every time I grave but I prefer its intervention to `Im, Its, Id, etc`

This thread sucks. Someone tell me about this Coelho fellow; I see everywhere his books but have never really cared to look at them.

I get a certain mock-mystical vibe from them, and their names evoke Borges (Aleph, The Zahir, The Alchemist...). Tell me about them.

>>2265433

every generation thinks their time is the worst, blahblahblah, relativity, subjectivity, age of reason, technology replacing art therefore cancelling out any deterioration. I dunno, bro

Magic Flute vs. Disco Stick

I don`t think they`re quite up to the same standard. Almost everything was worse in the past, at the expense of art imo

>>2265437

if you like borges you will won`t like coelho. he`s like borges for toddlers

>>2265434
Do not contract.

>>2265445
People that don't use contractions end up sounding like Data from StarTrek.

Which makes them a big fucking nerd.

>>2265445

Contracting is a matter of habit I think is appropriate for conversation >< but ah, I guess this place is pretty anal about pedantry

>>2265439

But what does he write about? Why are they so popular?