/lit/ - Literature

>>4024002
Strange

Really? Where exactly in Williamsburg? I remember passing by along there and I saw big posters of Albert Camus, Herman Hesse, and Aldous Huxley.

>>4024012
Lorimer stop on the L. Next to the bagelsmith.

Yeah I remember those add too for a shitty band if I recall correctly.

>>4024002
>thumbs down
I lol'd.

The Stranger is completely overrated. The prose is boring, the plot is predictable and uninteresting, and the meaning that can be derived from the work isn't anything mind-blowing.

>>4024002
Companies are gonna sell any way they can. It doesn't really bug me at all.

is that a leica?

>>4024046
The stranger is overrated and underrated because lot's of people get to study it in high school.

It's not ad essential as some think but at the time it was much more radical than we perceive now after a century of mass-nietzscheanism.

>>4024059
This is fair. I agree with this.

The blend of both new and old technology is obscenely chic.

The Typewriter
The 35mm Camera
L'etranger

The iPad. The iPad is what brings this all together.

It's like we're moving forward but we don't need to forget about the past. The past is very important.

>>4024002
What am I supposed to be seeing?
Is it because using an iPad as an e-reader is super retarded?

>>4024100
baby-barthes.jpg

What? That Camus is a common fixture of "hip" circles?

They have them all over the city. There's one on at a subway entrance somewhere in soho.
What is supposed to be making me feel anything? The fact that you can read books on the ipad?

>>4024002
>for a limited time only, every iPad[tm] purchase will come bundled with the iTypewriter[tm] app, a picture of a camera, and copy of Samuel Beckett's quintessential work, "Le Nausee"

>>4024123
>Asking me what he is supposed to be feeling when asked what he is feeling.
>Being this alienated.

apple fanboys have always been the worse

they've got this weird religious/emanicipatory vibe that is totally bullshit

iPad? more like iBad.

>>4024100
>apple
>obscenely chic

gb2 suburbs

>>4024133
lel

good one m8

> Implying apple hipsters enjoy good books and not ones about peace and vegan cooking

>>4024002
>2013
>Living in Williamsburg
>Thinking you'll write anything of literary merit by living in burb of NYC

This assumes that you're a writer, of course.

>Living in Williamsburg
>Thinking your any better than the other hipsters there
fake "brooklynites" pls go
marine park crew checking in

>>4024002
I don't really see why it would make anyone feel anything.

I might feel something if it were something like Delillo's White Noise. That would actually be ironic

>>4024002
I feel like you should come to the Bronx.

>>4024623
And have an hour and a half train ride any time I'm going to drink in soho?
Never.

>>4024572
It's still ironic. It's a book on alienation used to be selling the company that bases its success only on the desire of people to fit in.

>>4025191
>drinking in SoHo

I saw like ten of these posters in a row in a tunnel in Brooklyn.

Something about the repetition combined with the message of the ad which is basically "be unique via iPad" struck me as so obviously... busted... that it wasn't even... fuck.

>>4024012
This anon actually took a film picture of it. But it wasn't exactly in Williamsburg. More around, uh, 1st Ave and 2nd St.

>>4024100
>It's like we're moving forward but we don't need to forget about the past. The past is very important.
Good point, but I prefer to be reactionary for real. :P