/lit/ - Literature

>>7097263
>>7097263

People who salt their food ruin the intent of flavor

>>7097263
Another text which uses plot as a tool to tell a "exciting" and "dramatic" tail, rather than tackle the human condition.
But at-least it is written well. It is like a taco bell taco, it tastes pretty good at first but then you realize it is really made up of cow-hooves and minimum-wage employee sweat.

>>7097365
>muh human condition
Kill yourself

>>7097365
This is an embarrassing post

>>7097263
boring

Imagine you're jerking your cock. You're like wow, this feels great, I should do this more often. And so you're jerking it, going faster and slower, fantasizing about some hot little lad or lass whose butt you'd like to be pummeling, and all of the sudden you orgasm. Oh my God, this is awesome, you think to yourself.

That's what Purity is like.

Other books are like actual sex.

>>7097365
>tail

>>7097365
Are you in high school good sir

>>7097365
I wonder which is worst between
>muh human condition
>muh social commentary
You should consider suicide.

>>7097263

The prose is knock-off George Eliot. The difference between them is when he represents the motives behind moments of decision, he gives over-definite reasons, usually when it comes to existential or familial stuff. His biographies read like case histories. When she situations really are determinative, like some of Wolf's mindset living in Berlin, he's very good. Equal to the 19th century social novelists, even. I also felt Pip's responses to her debt were true.

The ideas part of the novel was kinda good where it didn't toutch on the personal too much. The internet creating divisions in the self, and being sort of totalitarian, that rung very true.

He's very close to being a good novelist, but I fear he's got way too much of a scientific mindset and training to break out of this a --- > b kinda shit. Old age might do it to him. He's obsessed with staying 'current' though.