/lit/ - Literature

>>2958496
0/10

>>2958496
I've read all three, Infinite Jest doesn't belong with the other two. And they are by no means the apex of literature.
5/10, will get replies

>>2958505
Oh wait it's Ryan. Troll on.

Congratulations OP, yours is the stupidest post I've seen on 4chan all week.

Never read ANYTHING by Joyce, Pynchon OR Wallace, still dish out my opinion.

i'm not into literature, just good books

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>>2958507
So I am "trolling" because you've never read those books?

Still being a useless faggot on YouTube?

GR & Ulysses are great

IJ is fucking shit & doesn't deserve to be with those two.

This thread seems like it needs more tripfaggotry. Hi everyone!

>>2958531
What happened to the moonhawk thread yesterday? Did some fascist mod delete it?

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>>2958534
I'd assume so.

>>2958521
No you're trolling because I have and you clearly haven't.

>>2958531
/lit/ has mods?

#whoa #rare #shocking #scandalous

>mfw I have a plan to get rid of these threads and all tripfags that plague /lit/ once and for all.

>>2958555
>implying the tripfag master race can ever be destroyed

>>2958555
You cant stop the [insert collective noun for hawks; flock?] from nesting here.

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>>2958558
Why are you talking to yourself?

>>2958569
It's not samefaggotry. It's tripfaggotry. Combining the two, even ironically, would be unconscionable. Also, you obviously didn't see yesterday's hawk thread. Pleb.

Does anyone else find it odd that a board where people post anonymously and threads fall off the site after 10 or 15 pages is inhabited by some of the most vain, image-obsessed readers on the planet? Like, to lord your reading habits/skills over people as if it's some barometer of 'true' intelligence is one thing, but to do it anonymously to strangers? Why? What's the point? If you have no desire to discuss literature earnestly, if your only purpose in reading is to be able to rack up imaginary Superior Opinion points online then why bother?

I like /lit/ sometimes but my god if I didn't sometimes wish there were less 4chan idiots who use reading as ornamentation to their empty character.

>>2958575
People come here to act like they wouldn't act in real life.
Do you thing any of these socially inept fags has it in them to lord over and patronize normalfags by virtue of their superior taste?

Claiming Infinite Jest is part of the canon like the other two is absurd. Are you saying that no one before Infinite Jest came out --
Wait, no.
No, you're an idiot.
Fuck you.

I suck penis

>>2958589
Good for you.

>>2958589
Me too! lets be friends

>>29585892
You're mean :3

>>2958575

why u so mad, bro?

hi guys can i join in

>>2958600
Not without a trip.
Also, new trip guys.

>>2958599
>u mad
>2012
le shiggy diggy

>>2958585

yeah but you'd think with all this reading these people do they'd somehow outgrow the behavior of 14 year old teens who think they're hot shit because they listen to Nirvana.

like, what parts of IJ, GR, or Ulysses advocate being a petty pedant?

>>2958613
It's coz people who don't read books think that people who read books are intelligent and well educated.

>>2958602

You know what, I'm going to do this honestly.

ooh i feel tingly

>>2958613
>Doesn't appreciate Nirvana
I bet you're sadistic enough to hate on the Pixies too.

>>2958619
im just going to try inserting my penis into my anus.

Think i can /lit/?

If you haven't read:

Twilight
The Da Vinci Code
Atlas Shrugged

You clearly don't know what bad literature is at all and are in no position to dole out criticism of any novel's story because you're not well read enough to know what good writing and bad writing is.

Deal with it.

^This is what you sound like, OP. A VERY limited selection of personal, subjective choices that you're touting as objectively good and that without having read them you cannot know what good literature is. This is exactly as simple-minded as claiming that without having read books that you personally view as bad it is impossible to judge that a book is bad.

>>2958616
You are obviously very uneducated. You must be 12?

>>2958619
> Pleiades

Bitch, please.

>>2958613
Most such people are in the 18-20 age group where edginess is replaced by a certain vanity and exposed to complex ideas and literature, they sometime come under the impression that they now belong to an inner circle of intellectuals.

>>2958621


>Q. What do both Kurt's brain and his record sales have in common?
A. They both went through the roof.

>Q. Why were there only 2 pallbearers at Kurt's funeral?
A. Because there's only 2 handles on a garbage can.

>Q. What was the best thing Kurt ever released?
A. The safety catch on his shotgun.

You're a faggot for comparing them with Pixies.

>>2958621

I like Nirvana but when I was 14 I didn't think I was a special snowflake for doing so

>>2958629
follow me hawks! to our own glorious thread! if you want, anyway.

>>2958627
Learn some modesty, man.

What's this with all the hawks? What happened to cause this to happen?

>>2958646
People are jealous of you, Sunhawk. You're pretty famous 'round these parts.

to add some balance to the "I've read all three and IJ doesn't belong"/"no discernible talent" crowd, I'd just like to put it out there that I've also read all three and I found each one brilliant in its own special way. Although Mason & Dixon is superior to GR.

>>2958646
sunhawk! you missed our thread yesterday. just go to the thread in my previous post. we're ushering in a glorious new era of /lit/

>>2958646
they want to jock your style
they want to compromise your integrity
they want to usurp your fame
they want to spoil your treasure

i am feeling pretty sexy right now, if you'd like me to continue please quote

>>2958646
you were the cause of this you flaming homo

>>2958626
>very uneducated
Seriously? Do we have mongoloids on this board now?

>>2958663
pls continue

>>2958661
I'm 35 pages into M&D and I'm already laughing. Good stuff. Is this as sprawling as GR or is it more focused?

>>2958661

this is like the third time I've heard this opinion...gonna have to give it a try

>>2958671
I still think that V. is better than M&D and GR :|

>>2958665
while idly browsing /lit/ on an unusually sultry september afternoon, a pang of jealously sounded deeply within an anonymous browser's belly, after seeing an original discussion topic piloted by the tripcode using regular "sunhawk"

the pang, however, dropped from the anonymous user's stomach into his crotch. anon had never felt this before. a simultaneous occurence of magnetic attraction, yet also a revulsion. not pity, but envy. confused, anon thrust his mind into a half-cooked plan to drown out "sunhawk"s identity with mimicry.

anon indulged savagely in both emotions. on the one hand, posting furiously under pseudonyms like "moonhawk" or "earthawk," while with his other hand stroking gently his growing member. it is necessary to note here that anon, after seeing many cis privilege threads, had decided to try abdicating his privilege by wearing trans clothes.

anon traced his left index finger up his hairy calf, lifting slowly his black wool skirt in the process. pausing mid-thigh with his senses hightened, he pounded out in the "comment" box, "David Foster Wallace is a pretentious hack. He doesn't know anything about chemistry even though in the book he pretends he's an expert."

anon's lips quivered and he inhaled deeply through his nose as the word "hipster" raced across his mind. dragging his finger along now towards his fully engorged manhood, anon clicked "submit" and firmly gripped his throbbing cock

>>2958671
it's a bit more focused in terms of its characters, setting and plot, but it's still packed to the brim with all sorts of mind-blowing miscellanea and allusions. The main reason I place it above GR, though, is that it just feels like it has more soul. Which is concededly a pretty nebulous quality in a work of art, but you'll see what I mean.

>>2958703

as someone who found V. (and lot 49 to a lesser extent) to be a little inaccessible precisely because of its coldness/lack of heart, do you think I'll have a better time with MD? I'm the sort of pleb whose favorite novels are ones with hard hitting feels

>>2958496
If you've read Ulysses you clearly don't know what good literature is and are just a sheep.

Gravity's Rainbow is good though, and Infinite Jest is a good read, but not a masterpiece.

>hurr I read thick books, I smart.

>>2958715
it certainly contains many feels. The only thing is, it's written in this exaggeratedly ornate Georgian style, arbitrarily capitalised nouns and all, and that may prove to be a stumbling block for a lot of people. You get used to it after a few chapters, though, and you'll find it really opens up a world of possibilities for neat and hilarious turns of phrase. But yeah, it's definitely Pynchon's most evocative work.