/lit/ - Literature

>>5246226
Not yet. It's still in you.

Taipei

Glenn Beck?

>>5246249
Not Sarah Palin's book?

>>5246244
Is such a book even worth reading? It's the Underground Man congregating on the internet with other 'Underground Men' to scorn society as an outlet for self hatred.

>>5246245
yup. obviously

>>5246294
underrated post

>>5246226
didnt happen yet.
wait 1 1/2 years. then i can send you one of the first copies

give it time, we're still in the middle of that shit

That being said, Super Sad True Love Story kind of touches on it. Taipei, too.

>>5246543

Super Sad True Love Story is a steaming pile of shit, though.

>>5246486

Not if I beat you to it!

>>5246547
Hear, hear.

>>5246226
Brett Easton Ellis say that you view his twitter as his latest novel.

There are a couple of books by an author whose name I forget, but they're like written in textspeak chatroom message (I guess like an episcopal story)

that what you mean?

>>5246249
>>5246261
Dreams of my Father.

Zadie Smith is another author whose novels incorporate emails, etc. I don't think simply writing about the medium of social media encompasses the ideology of the 21st century though. It can be a way of talking about a mindset but it doesn't automatically explain things as they are or are going to be. I suspect we'll have a rebirth of different aesthetic viewpoints. For example, American academia's currently interested in mining a bunch of PoMo novels and finding more complicated things in them than capital-N Nihilism.

Anyway, speculation's kinda dumb, but I think we'll see some really withdrawn sad books that try so very hard to show how human their characters are. The unfortunate thing being that most people today almost don't have identities. There're also a bunch of folks kicking up conceptual writing as the up and coming thing but like everything else, it's from the past.

I think one of Booker Prize nominees this year is all about social media

>>5246547
I liked it well enough. It's kind of weird and revolting at first but there's some interesting stuff there

>>5246428
Is this like a 4chan up vote

Have to admit it is less grating than fucking +1

>>5246848
QFT

>>5246226
the 21st century is the anti novel though

>>5246226

>A Tale of Two Cities captured the French Revolution
>The French Revolution

>>5246573
You get what you pay for with that.

Idoru was written in the nineties and it's about a YouTube celebrity.

>>5246858
Your idiocy astounds me. I can't tell if you are
a) confusing A Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables
b) asserting that Les Miserables better captures the French Revolution than does A Tale of Two Cities
c) asserting that A Tale of Two Cities does not concern the French Revolution
No matter which it is, you are wrong, but I can't tell what you're trying to say.

>>5246899
I like sticking books up my ass

>>5246245
I can't think of a better answer. Really, I can't even think of another contender.

>>5246858
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IM LEAVING /LIT/ FOREVER

IM DONE

PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY AS RETARDED AS ANY OTHER BOARD, POSSIBLY EVEN MORE SO

OH GOD IM ACTUALLY LAUGHING SO HARD AT THIS IDIOCY

GO READ A FUCKING BOOK YOU DUMB CUNT

GOODBYE FOREVER

>>5246858
You're retarded. I need to make sure that sinks in.

>>5246936

Well, at least something good came out of that post.

The real distinguishing characteristics of this age for literature to deal with aren't "social media" shit but the transition to post-labor economics and the resulting alienation of the working and increasingly the middle classes.

As edgy as it sounds I'd like a book that touches on school shootings. I think there are many, many people who view those attacks and others like them as some sort of primal outburst of mortal horror, and could never comprehend how a person would do such a thing. Perhaps there's no way of completely understanding those events or the perpetrators behind them, but it could be interesting.

>>5246992
We Need to Talk About Kevin

>>5246969
>Post-labor economics

I never knew what to call this stuff, that puts it perfectly.

Do you happen to know any good reading on the subject?

>>5247013
Not fiction, but Average is Over by Tyler Cowen covers it well. He is a libertarian economist and I don't agree with his proposed "solutions" or ethical outlooks on the matter but the analysis is good. Also Season 2 of the Wire of course deals with it very prominently and well.

>>5246858
>Les Misérables
>Having anything to fucking do with the French Revolution

>2014
>Being this retarded

>>5246858
Ahh another shitstain on lit, no surprise here.

>>5246858
les miserables doesn't have anything to do with the french revolution, buckaroo
yer probably kiddin around or something though
i hope so

>>5247033
>libertarian economist
what an oxymoron.
then again, economists are mostly paid shills at this point.

>>5246547
It wasn't that terrible. I don't get why it focused so much on sex and on the whole asian-american thing.

>>5246992
lr2richardbachman

are there any good novels that are about agoraphobia? i think that would be an interesting thing to novel about, especially in 21st century setting

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>>5246684
>episcopal

new tab by Guillaume Morriset or however the fuck you spell it.

>>5246858
Are these the people with whom I discuss every day? Fuck man....

People keep trying to deny the Alt Lit movement but it's the only thing writers are remotely doing new.

What you're asking for, I guess is a novel that sums up and encapsulates the spirit of the 21st century. The problem is that that can't be done yet, because the 21st century is not over yet, so we don't know what to sum up, or encapsulate.

>>5246245
Came here to post this

>>5246858
>French Revolution
>>5246899
>>5246936
>>5246947
>>5247036
>>5247040
>>5247059
>>5250294

>>5246547
Why? It's an updated 1984 that captures how completely vapid and stupid yuppy/wannabe yuppy Americans are. It harangues the preference for ignoring politics in favor of superficial status markers and false beacons of happiness.

I read it and found myself cringing at how many people I know are described in that book, sometimes down to (seriously) the same turns of phrase.

Something by Douglas Coupland perhaps?

>>5247992
Because much of modern society is focused on sex without even wondering if there are other ways to self-validation.

As for the Asian-American thing, I think it's important to show the old-world parents who are out of touch with the world their children inhabit, whether that is good or bad. Asian-American FOBs and near generations are a "clash of eras" trope. It's an echoing of the main character's dilemma with his friends and the "old world" of Europe we seem him starting in (he's also Jewish, so another "clash of eras" trope).

>>5248708
u no wot i mean

>>5250313
>alt lit
is what exactly?

>>5250313
google "beat generation"