/lit/ - Literature

depends OP, when are you finishing the manuscript?

>>3918871
best idea for a thread

Celestine Prophecy

>>3918873
#rekt

We wouldn't know since it wouldn't be published

Probably Excalibur by L. Ron Hubbard.

The Eye of Argon

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

Confederacy of dunces.

Ulysses.

It's the most troll concept ever. Some scottish faggot was like "oh wow let me write the most unreadable piece of shit ever. Everyone will think I'm retarded but 200 years from now a bunch of kids on an internet forum are going to choose this as their holy bible simply because it is so fucking esoteric and useless."

The books of Paulo Coelho, like Eleven Minutes. Jesus Christ, I felt physical pain while listening to it in audio book.
And I could read only one chapter from 50 Shades of grey.

>>3918910
>Unreadable
>Not Finnegan's Wake

Finnegans Wake.

By quite some distance.

The Bible.

>>3918920
The God Delusion

>>3918922
“bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!”
I fail to see your problem

>>3918910
>a bunch of kids
It was drafted into the Western academic canon a long time ago.

>>3918941

Indeed. Back then, though, the "Western Academic Canon" was the name of a cereal.

>>3918923
Edgy! He got told

To Catch a Mockingbird.

>>3918923
#rekt

>>3918925
Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu
Ualu Ualu!
Quaouauh!

>>3918963
>implying you wouldn't eat Western Academic Canon O's
How else could I discourage myself daily from the questioning of certain titles' artistic validity?

>>3918871
'Ulysses'.

And unlike the other guy in the thread, I'm totally serious about it.

'Ulysses' is a low point in art history, a point where literature stopped being a mystery cult and became a subculture for boring people with pointless lives.

>>3918989
>boring
>pointless

The Twilight "saga". And "Gray" series.

>>3918989

I second this.

Before Jamba Juice's epic turd, literature had an aura of grandeur, where stories dug into the depths of the human experience and characters, no matter how lay, would appear larger than life. Literature, before the imbecile, was a craft for great men.

After... well, after the buffoon, it was just a scribbling of pamphlets at the fingertips of the lame and ordinary.

That is why the untalented and the adolescents worship him.

>>3918992
Looks like you proved my point, monsieur.

>>3919018
I have no inclination towards wasting however many hours it would take to exhaustively refute your claims. So sue me.

>>3919012
>implying larger-than-life characterization is preferable to life-sized characterization
The brunt of pre-Ulysses European literature is painfully out-of-touch with everyday experience. Everyday experience, for most people, is a less grandiose struggle; to capture only the experiences of those individuals who choose, or are compelled, to embark on epic quests is insufficient.

>>3919044

>Alas! there cometh the time when man will no longer launch the arrow of his longing beyond man--and the string of his bow will have unlearned to whizz!

>>3919050
I keep meaning to read that.

>>3918873
alert the burn center

The Pirates Dilemma

>>3918998
I wouldn't consider those to belong in the category of "books", as the mere association would debase literature in the general sense. But "good" choice, otherwise.

One of those shows at the zoo where they give a chimp a pencil and he scribbles on a piece of paper.

>>3919152

We've already brought up Ulysses twice.

>>3919168
Ha!

>>3918910
>>>>>scottish

Your favorite book

>>3919044
>>out-of-touch

Of course, that is how it looks like for those who saw the gates of literature suddenly opened by Ulysses. That is, precisely, the whole point.

Thanks.

>>3918873
Absolutely fucking destroyed.

>>3919036
>being capable of spending hours exhaustively refuting claims that one is boring

>>3919044
>The brunt of pre-Ulysses European literature is painfully out-of-touch with everyday experience.
Are you seriously implying that this is somehow a _bad_ thing??

>Everyday experience, for most people, is a less grandiose struggle;
And who gives a flying everloving fuck about 'most people'?

>to capture only the experiences of those individuals who choose, or are compelled, to embark on epic quests is insufficient.
Eh, insufficient for what, exactly?

>>3919397

You will never convince them. If it was not for Jamba Juice and its poisonous effect on literature, the pleb would have never felt empowered to actually take a pen and write.

This, what you see in /lit/ everyday, and the Tao Lins and 50 shades and J .J. Rollings (or whatever the name of the magician boy books is), is the result of that bastardization.

The barbarians have taken over Rome. Literature is dead.

anything by Bookshitski

Snow Crash

Spook Country by William Gibson. I put it down, never to return to it, after 17 pages. I've never, ever done that with a book before.

>>3919513
struggling to the end of that now. there are worse but it's definitely disappointing.