/lit/ - Literature

How many times does that one image of Pynchon get posted every day?

How many times and how many different ways does one insecure faggot have to make this thread?

Only thing I like more about GR than other pynchons are the characters and songs

You really can't beat Byron the Light Bulb or Roger Mexico or Slothrop.

Gass is an average author at best

>>7926242
because it's Pynchon posting himself
>>7926247
That's not nice

>>7926249
DELETE THIS

>>7926248
>Roger Mexico

I hate Pynchon for creating Jessica.

I fucking hate that bitch. I'm so sorry, Roger.

>>7926248
Really? Mason & Dixon beat Slothrop & Mexico any day of the week, and Fang/The learned english dog is at least as good as Byron

>>7926237

Graphic novels are capable of being legitimately great literature.

Harry Potter is not great literature, but is still an enjoyable read.

Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Salinger, Dickens, Vonnegut, and Orwell are all great authors.

Prose is superior to poetry.

The worst part about poetry in today’s society is that if you cannot sing it, no one wants to listen

>>7928472
>Graphic novels are capable of being legitimately great literature.

not to be le ebin contrarian but that's an obvious thing to anyone who understands that storytelling isnt restricted to the written word

>>7928482
>tell a guy I write poetry
>gets excited and says he does too
>starts reading his aloud, decent enough personal pieces about his family, society and religion
>didnt really know what to say aside from talking about publishing, its just foreign to me to read work out like that, but i appreciate his confidence

>>7928472
I agree, poetry is a another, allbeit, fancier attempt at explaining how everyday experiences and feelings are. But regardless of the medium in which we are recieving information, when anything is written with passion and skill, it can make you experience things that you could not of felt otherwise.

>>7928505
Let me sidetrack and correct myself a bit. I did not mean that you could never feel or live those expereinces, only that they could make you fell like you were already

>>7928472
>Prose is superior to poetry.
Nah, they're two different things.

I prefer the synthesis that is prose poetry, but poetry alone by far is the best at conveying pure feeling. Far too often do prose authors get caught up in trivialities and lose the core of what they''re doing.

>>7926237
Reading and writing is useless, unhealthy and for gays.

i think pynchon is absolute shit
probably the worst author i've read

>>7926237
all of pynchon's books are shit
vonnegut is overrated

Someone help, I don't understand what's so great about Lot 49.

>>7928472
>prose is superior to poetry
you're wrong, but that's because you don't read poetry

>>7926237
Wallace is pretty bad desu

>but I think Crying of Lot 49 and V. are both consistently better than Gravity's Rainbow

But this is correct

V. is an incredibly sloppy novel.

Dostoevsky is soap-opera tier.

Robert Ashley is the greatest narrative poet of the English language in the 20th century.

Nabokov is the worst kind of purple shit, I have no idea why people unironically think he's an amazing prose stylist.

>>7928724
he's second best after joyce m8

>>7928519
>I prefer the synthesis that is prose poetry

Can you list some examples? Both historical and contemporary? Thanks.

>>7928732
Agreed, and if Joyce hadn't written Ulysses I'd put Nabokov ahead of him. Plus, Nabokov's style is the opposite of purple. Plebs tend to confuse mandarin prose with purple prose.

im a contrarian little shit
fite me