/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10625173]

Anyone else refuse to read American literature?

[Anonymous No.10625939]

>>10625173
Wow missing out on some of the worlds best authors

[Anonymous No.10625949]

>>10625939
>This is what Americans are taught to believe
Yeah, DFW and Pynchon are truly in the top 10 authors of all time...

[Anonymous No.10625971]

>>10625949
Ernest Hemingway, mark twain, and John Steinbeck are top tier authors

[Anonymous No.10626005]

>>10625971
Seconded. Jane was a hack

[Anonymous No.10626268]

>>10625173
A brainlet stance, if ever there was one.

You're missing out on roughly half the literature produced in the English language - the language spoken by the most powerful nations the world has had in the last two centuries, essentially, the language of the ruling class.

Could you call a man intelligent who, in the Greco-Roman ages, refused Greek and Roman literature? No, history couldn't either. That is why we predominantly study the ancient literature of major civilizations.

In any case, enjoy your status as a feature of modern ignorance and one among the many resentful envious.

[Anonymous No.10626274]

>>10625971
>hemingshit

[Anonymous No.10626283]

>>10626268
>Le 56%-er muttsplains the importance of the English language to a real Anglo

[Anonymous No.10626316]

>>10626283
>A real Anglo
Lol doubt it.

[Anonymous No.10626356]

>>10626283
>a real Anglo
ok Ahmed

[Anonymous No.10626375]

>>10626356
>>10626316
>56%

[Anonymous No.10626388]

>>10626283
yo why do people think we're more attractive and fun to be around than you and why is our weather better and our animals more exotic and our landmarks more remarkable? its just weird you know, we have all these beautiful mountains, forests, rivers, lakes, deserts, temperate rainforests, swamps, and you just have smelly bogs and plains and some marshes and that's it? wat gives?

[Anonymous No.10626408]

>>10626375
>Raped by Romans
>Raped by Saxons
>Raped by Dane's
>Raped by Franco-Dane rape babies
True anglos everyone

[Anonymous No.10626410]

>>10626388
>people think we're more attractive and fun to be around
Is that what your schools tell you? The absolute state of American (((education))).

[Anonymous No.10626418]

>>10626408
What exactly is your point? That's what an Anglo, a member of the greatest race on Earth, is.

Pic related is an Amerimutt. Look, how pure their lineage must be.

[Anonymous No.10626426]

>>10626388
>yo
stopped reading there you fucking troglodyte
you will speak the queen's english, god save her, or you will fuck off

[Anonymous No.10626448]

>>10626418
You're nothing but the beta rape babies of mightier races.

Even the royal family is awash in Portuguese blood. And now an American quadroon!

[Anonymous No.10626492]

>>10626283
There is no intrinsic achievement in squirting out of your father's nutsack.

[Anonymous No.10626501]

>>10626492
>There's no intrinsic achievement in being a member of a superior race
Just like there's no intrinsic achievement in having genes that make you attractive or smart?

[Anonymous No.10626513]

>reading English literature

[Anonymous No.10626520]

>>10626501
There isn't. There is an intrinsic ADVANTAGE. Since you clearly possess no intellect to speak of, I hope you're pretty.

[Anonymous No.10626525]

>>10626520
I have an IQ of 150 so you'll have to back the fuck up, Travis.

[Anonymous No.10626526]

>>10626448
la bestia enfurecida...

[Anonymous No.10626562]

>tfw British

[Anonymous No.10626586]

>>10626375
these faces always genuinely give me a chuckle because of how retarded they are
also, you are free to refuse to read any kind of literature you want. I have spent way too much time around Russians and have bad associations because of my family so the idea of reading Russian lit makes me uncomfortable, for instance

[Anonymous No.10626593]

>>10625949
>Gaddis
>Faulkner
>Melville
>Twain
>Nabokov kinda
>Steinbeck
>Gass
>Whitman
>Thoreau
>Pound
>O’Connor
>Hawthorne
>T.S. Eliot
>Arthur Miller
>Tennessee Williams

All great authors off the top of my head.

[Anonymous No.10626601]

>>10626526
That's Spanish.

[Anonymous No.10626605]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.10626613]

>>10626593
Don't forget Crane and Wallace

[Anonymous No.10626616]

>>10626593
>Straight
>Gay
>Gay
>Straight
>Bisexual AND Russian
>Straight
>Gay
>Gay
>Gay
>Straight
>Bisexual
>Straight
>Straight BUT abandoned America
>Bisexual
>Queer as a bottle of chips
What does this say about America?

[Anonymous No.10626623]

>>10626616
less about America and more about how well queermos can write

[Anonymous No.10626631]

>>10626616
america is the great satan of course

[Anonymous No.10626640]

>>10626616
one of the greatest writers of the British Isles liked sniffing the farts straight out of a woman's ass
writers and artists in general tend to be sexual deviants

[Anonymous No.10626645]

>>10626640
Who?

[Anonymous No.10626653]

>>10626640
>comparing a patrician tier fetish to disgusting sodomites

[Anonymous No.10626656]

>>10626653
:3c

[Anonymous No.10626662]

>>10626640
Joyce was Irish, as I'm sure you know, as Ireland is no longer part of the British Isles. No doubt because of sick fucks like him.

[Anonymous No.10626669]

>>10626662
*and Ireland

[Anonymous No.10626683]

>>10626375
>look mom, I posted it again!

[Anonymous No.10626685]

>ITT: American Anglos try to reconcile their pride in their heritage with their hatred of all things un-American
Come home, Anglo. I know (((they))) haven't destroyed all of your identity.

[Anonymous No.10626697]

>>10626426
>tfw G-d Save the Queen will soon be replaced by G-d Save the King

[Anonymous No.10626701]

>>10626525
Whenever anyone mentions IQ, I know that I can immediately discount their opinion. Also, sage because this thread is garbage, and not literature.

[Anonymous No.10626702]

>>10626701
>Anyone else refuse to read American literature?
>Not literature
Spotted the double-digit IQ.

[Anonymous No.10626718]

>>10626662
Northern Ireland

[Anonymous No.10626729]

>>10626718
>Born in Dublin
Durrrrrrrr

[Anonymous No.10627325]

>>10625173
>Polizei

Lel yeah that pic is actually accurate, but not for the reason you think it is

[Anonymous No.10627430]

Why not? Their work can provide the same perspective Brazilian, Mexican, etc. literature generally provides - the viewpoint of a new worlder who has no background, history, or culture trying to invent himself using nothing but his own talents. When a European or African or Asian is born, they inherit centuries of history, folklore, epic tales, heroes, musical styles... they have an identity given to them for nothing, and their work can explore what life is like with these ancient identities mixing with the current. Even the Congolese and Ukrainians and Macedonians can do this. But an American? He has nothing. He is a summation of all of his own achievements.

[Anonymous No.10627453]

>>10625173
I partially agree with op. I dont avoid all of American lit but i throw any book in the corner that is styled as the great american novel. I have no time for shit like that.

[Anonymous No.10627455]

>>10627430
American folk and country music was inherited from their anglo and celtic ancestors along with language and philosophy.
American literature builds on these ties too.
America has existed for centuries now too, there are centuries of folklore and musical styles inherited from Americans now.

tldr: ur an branlet

[Anonymous No.10627467]

>>10627455
It's not based in ancient history so it's not real. Everyone but Amerifats universally agree on this.

[Anonymous No.10627473]

>>10626388
Australia beats you on every single one of those points

[Anonymous No.10628195]

la creatura....

[Anonymous No.10628204]

>>10625173
Blacks and non males are the only people I refuse to read.

[Anonymous No.10628205]

>>10625173
You won't be missing out on anything anon

[Anonymous No.10628207]

>>10626005
>a corncobber is buttfrustrated becuase Austen's subtlety flies above his head

[Anonymous No.10628210]

>>10626613
>don't forget a puffed up footnote to modernist poetry and a literal meme
ew

[Anonymous No.10628248]

>>10626601
so are americans

[Anonymous No.10628250]

>>10625949
pynchon is

[Anonymous No.10628257]

This thread gives me hope. Seeing so many lib threads I thought /lit/ was lost but this thread gives me hjope that /lit/ will be on the winning side if the Race War.
Save Europe brothers

[Anonymous No.10628261]

>>10628257
no one gives a shit about europe you bootlicking racist

[Anonymous No.10628286]

>>10628261
fuck off kike

[Anonymous No.10628287]

>>10628261
Fuck off you Amerimutt nigger. Die in your brown shithole while the white people make the world

[Anonymous No.10628300]

>>10628287
>m-muh race!!!

puhthetic

[Anonymous No.10628332]

>>10628300
t. Amerimutt soyboy with no race to be proud of

[Anonymous No.10628343]

>>10626448
where does that leave you then you retard?

[Anonymous No.10628352]

>>10628332
not even american, faglord

[Anonymous No.10628362]

....la bruja de los mulatos....

[Anonymous No.10628380]

>>10628362
el partisano de la tierra de Sión!

[Anonymous No.10628387]

>>10628362
>>10628380

guys, stop

[Anonymous No.10628394]

I never understood this Amerimutt meme. Because white Americans are mixed with other European ethniticies they're mutts? But aren't a many Europeans also mixed with other European countries? Like British and Polish, Italian and French, etc.

[Anonymous No.10628397]

>>10625173
Refusing to read anything is willful ignorance. You're not required to read absolutely everything, but refusing to read anything especially the literature of an entire nation is willful ignorance. Even if American literature was brainless mush that isn't worth the paper it's written on, it can tell you some American viewpoints, it can tell you HOW ignorant America is, and so if you end up discussing the failure of American literature then you can actually talk about how and maybe even WHY it is trash.

Though just to be clear, I don't have such a view on American literature, but merely explaining why I think it's willful ignorance (thus wrong) to refuse to read anything.

[Anonymous No.10628406]

>>10628394
the joke is mixing the fact that america is overall 56% white with the fact that individual americans are 56% white too which doesn't follow

[Anonymous No.10628412]

>>10628394
it's a meme that US /pol/ meetups look very diverse

[Anonymous No.10628413]

>>10628412
No it isn't. It's this >>10628406

[Anonymous No.10628433]

>>10628394
Most 'white' Americans have some degree of Indian or Black ancestry

[Anonymous No.10628439]

>>10628412
>>10628413
That doesn't seem to be just an American thing though, many white supremacists throughout history haven't been fully white, there were even some Jewish nazis. Also isn't /pol/ a board filled with people of many political ideologies, so just because you go to a /pol/ meet up doesn't mean you're a neo nazi

[Anonymous No.10628444]

>>10628439
It was a meme made on /pol/ but was popularised on /int/ to make fun of the fact that white people make up 56% of the US population, to imply that the ethnic makeup of the average individual American is 56% white, hence the mutt

[Anonymous No.10628447]

>>10628439
People have used it to make fun of white American supremacists on /pol/ but you have to remember that the people making fun of them essentially have the same ideology

[Anonymous No.10628450]

>>10628433
Where are you getting this statistic from?

[Anonymous No.10628459]

>>10625173
>mocking America with a picture from Germany

[Anonymous No.10628474]

to boast about not reading any segment of literature has to be one of the highest levels of ignorance.

i would bet 100 quid OP is a heavy consumer of US produced video games.

[Anonymous No.10628475]

>>10628394
It's a meme made to mock ameritards who say dumb shit like "yuuuroop is gonna be Brazil by 2030" and who lecture others on what parts of the world are white.
Also to make fun of ameritards in general, which is always a good thing.

[Anonymous No.10628485]

>>10628332
I love how worthless mongrels like you take so much pride in the accomplishments of men that wouldn't even spit on your face. How does it feel to have literally no hopes of achieving anything? Of making anything? Do you really think that you're destined to some greatness, simply because you were born close to better men, or share the same religion or language? You're so pathetic that you can't even ride their coattails, and that makes you a useful tool in your masters' hands. Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.10628605]

>>10627430
This might possibly be the dumbest post I've read on here in some time.

[Anonymous No.10628620]

>>10628207
>It's so hard being a rich woman choosing between rich suitors
What a subtle and compelling story m8

[Anonymous No.10628653]

>>10628343
A proud Dane.

[Anonymous No.10628670]

>>10628605
Not really. Think about the sheer amount of pretentious, ostentatious showy bullshit you have to wade through in European literature. It’s like The Great Gatsby but no matter what book you read.

[Anonymous No.10628677]

>>10627455
Nobody likes country and folk music.

[Anonymous No.10628731]

>>10625971
lol

[Anonymous No.10629109]

Americans should be banned from /lit/, /sci/, and /his/. Their country has never made a great novel, a great scientist, and it has no history. Their mutt nature makes them incapable of appreciating some essential parts of being human, like having heritage and history. Americans would almost be pitiful if they weren't so fat, hideous, stupid, and obnoxious. If every American was round up and killed in 1776 the world would be objectively better.

[Anonymous No.10629175]

>>10626593
>no Emerson

The absolute state of American literary circles

[Anonymous No.10629232]

>>10629109

[Anonymous No.10629237]

>this thread
>>>/int/
>>>/bant/

[Anonymous No.10630000]

>>10629109
Absolute nonsense fueled by jealousy. Typical 4chan.

[Anonymous No.10630034]

>>10629109
>Americans would almost be pitiful if they weren't so fat, hideous, stupid, and obnoxious.

And yet we run the world

[Anonymous No.10630166]

Communism will win

[Anonymous No.10630667]

F
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[Anonymous No.10630763]

>>10625949
Poe's the only one that could be argued into top 10 writer status (at least currently).

[Anonymous No.10630774]

>>10629109
>he thinks novels matter
Holy shit, what a pleb. Let me guess you judge all music as albums too.

[Anonymous No.10630781]

>>10625173
Massachusetts - population of 7 million

Canonical writers born in the 150 year history of Massachusetts

- Poe
- Dickinson
- Emerson
- Thoreau
- Hawthorne
- Longfellow
- Lowell
- Updike
- Leary
- Eggers
- Du Bois
- Seuss

Britain - population of 65 million

Canonical writers born in the 30,000 year history of Britain

- Shakespeare
- Zadie Smith
- Neil Gaiman
- ????

[Anonymous No.10630800]

>>10628380
el esclavo de Israel

[Anonymous No.10630811]

>>10629109
Except the revolution was inherently created by learned people like us, who had an intense background in literature. These were people who wanted to bring the world to a better place.

The thing you fail to realize is that Americans have made profound discoveries and foundations that rival the greatest minds. Henry George's philosophy is hard to dispute. No great economist ever really disputed Henry George's philosophy, because it's just plain true. It was the best thing that came out of the LTV, and Yuropoors gave us the worst thing that came out of the LTV: Marxism. Thanks for killing everyone Yuropoors.

Who proved God existed using transcendental natural reasoning, like the Daoists or Muslims? Emerson. Thoreau. The transcendentalists.

You're just buttmad your shitty little Yugoslavian communist shithole doesn't have the amount of combined manpower and faith of our entire nation. We are a nation that believes in God, wins the Olympics, and are smarter than anyone else. We are officially the Chad of the entire fucking Globe, yuropoor. You lose, good day sir.

[Anonymous No.10630818]

>>10629232
>>10630000
>>10630034

[Anonymous No.10630836]

>>10630781
canonical in bumfuckistan, yeah. lol gtfo

[Anonymous No.10630853]

"Great American novel" just means "worthless garbage relevant only in one country"

>>10630781
If you go to literally any other country on the planet (including Canada, the UK, and Australia), they will have no idea who any of those hacks are except for Poe (who is adored by faggy goth teens everywhere).

[Anonymous No.10630857]

>>10626005
>He actually said this

Oh fucking lol.

[Anonymous No.10630860]

>>10630853
Okay come now. Everyone in the fucking world knows who the transcendentalists are.

[Anonymous No.10630877]

>>10630853

[Anonymous No.10630880]

>>10630860
No, we fucking don't. The only people in our countries who read are those who are too stupid to study STEM. Outside the united states literature is treated like a participation trophy. only Americans are dumb enough to actually read books and talk about them to each other like they contain insights and beauty

[Anonymous No.10630889]

>>10630781
>He mentioned Du Bois!

Mein sides! The Amerimutt is tamed so much by his masters that the need for racial diversity infects his brain even on 4chan.

Simply delightful!

[Anonymous No.10630891]

>>10630880

[Anonymous No.10630925]

>>10630889
He is just as "white" as every other subhuman mutt
If your DNA isn't 90% made up of one European background, you aren't white. You're a mutt who is worth less than nothing. Even a Congolese caveman is worth more than you. Even an Albanian goat rapist is worth more than you.

[Anonymous No.10630942]

>>10630880
>writing this unironically
>the entire european work force is engineers and programmers
maybe stay off the internet for a bit

[Anonymous No.10630967]

>>10628459
>Implying actual images from the US isn't worse
>pic related

[Anonymous No.10631092]

>>10630925
>DNA
Typical Yuropoor Darwinian shit-for-brains IQ peddling Jew cock sucking response.

[Anonymous No.10631110]

>>10626653
Literally this, fart fetish is truly something that all magnificent men have in common.

[Anonymous No.10631114]

>>10630781
I know Poe. I've heard the names Dick-in-son, Emerson and Hawthorne, but I have literally zero clue on who they are. The rest are definitely not canon (at least not in any first world countries), since noone knows about them.

You're deliberately ignoring so many canonical writers like Austen, Isherwood, Orwell, Burgess, Wilde, Forster, Defoe, Joyce and many more.

>>10630860
Lmfao no, I had to look it up on Wikipedia. It looks like it's just a shittier version of English and German Romanticism, so why the fuck would anyone care about that shite?

[Anonymous No.10631134]

>>10626702
Most of the people that dislike IQ have three digit IQs, ironically.

[Anonymous No.10631142]

>>10631114
>>10631114
Thoreau was very popular with European intellectuals iirc. And everyone knows who Dr Seuss is. The same exact criticism could be made with people like Defoe, Forster, and Isherwood

[Anonymous No.10631147]

>>10631114
You had to look up transcendentalism on wikipedia? That's like looking up existentialism.

C'mon. It's obvious you are trolling.

>>>/pol/

Back where you belong.

[Anonymous No.10631150]

>>10626448
This guy gets it, Winston Churchill as well as several other prominent British figures have American blood in them. Which means that brits are also mongrel/mutts, the only true pure bloods that existed were the Aryan Nazis and thanks to the disgusting Englishmen they were destroyed.

[Anonymous No.10631158]

>me no look at pages if me no like the place they made in

[Anonymous No.10631160]

>>10631150
>unironically being a nazi
>browsing an intellectual board like /lit/

[Anonymous No.10631172]

>>10631150
>Nazism
>an ideology founded on Darwin and Nietzsche

You probably like Karl Marx, too, you soulless bastard.

[Anonymous No.10631186]

>>10631172
>unironically thinking nietzsche was a nazi

[Anonymous No.10631199]

>>10631186
He didn't say that Nietzsche was a Nazi, you absolutely cretinous mongoloid.

[Anonymous No.10631205]

>>10631186
Listen you moron, just because I said Nazism was founded on Nietzschean philosophy doesn't mean I think Nietzsche was a Nazi. Learn how movements work. How could anyone claim Nietzsche was a nazi, if he was alive before Nazism? I mean, holy shit, are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.10631219]

>>10631150
>lists Britain

>the only other country on the planet anywhere near as good as America

>thinks Germany, AKA the scourge of the Earth, is any better

G*rmans are more slimy and insidious than J*ws tbqhfam. Just look at how WWII started.

[Anonymous No.10631259]

>>10631199
>cretinous

Fancy word lad. You learned that from word-of-the-day toiletpaper?

>>10631205
>"Racism wasn't described as an ideology until year X, so no racists could have existed before that year"

[Anonymous No.10631293]

>>10631259
So are you saying your original argument is that Nietzsche is a racist, because you seemed pretty deadset on saying he wasn't even a Nazi.

Yuropoors, everyone, they forget their original arguments and fall back on their hot air.

[Anonymous No.10631311]

>>10631293
>implying im a yuropoor and not just a shitposter

[Anonymous No.10631320]

>>10626268
>Could you call a man intelligent who, in the Greco-Roman ages, refused Greek and Roman literature?

Cough Plato Cough

[Anonymous No.10631340]

>>10630781
britain btfo

[Anonymous No.10631573]

>>10626274
>being a pussy

[Anonymous No.10631716]

[Anonymous No.10631727]

>>10625173
Yeah. DFW is the only exception because I'm mid-western

[Anonymous No.10632395]

>>10631320
Plato read the literature of his times, as did Socrates. In fact, Plato trained as a poet in his youth.

Study more.

[Anonymous No.10632638]

>>10627430
>Pavel typed, snickering to himself at his Apple™ laptop before slipping on a pair of Nikes™ and a striped Nike™ tracksuit to go see Star Wars™ with his friends, then go drink some Bacardi™ rum and Coke™s at the club and prisyadka to that dope new Kendrick Lamar™ song on the dance floor

[Anonymous No.10632651]

>>10628257

Europe is going to be 0% white by the end of the 21st century, maybe the Trumpreich will allow a few of you in as refugees before that happens if you pass a political quiz to make sure you don't vote for the same idiot policies that exterminated you once you get here.

[Anonymous No.10632669]

>>10628433
>http://newobserveronline.com/white-americans-remained-shockingly-european-despite-decades-pro-racial-mixing-propaganda-new-dna-study-reveals/
>One of the largest ever US population genetic study has revealed that European Americans have remained “shockingly European to an incredibly high degree”
>Furthermore, the study found that only some six million individuals who identify as white, actually have between 1 and 3.5 percent non-European ancestry
>As Khan wrote: “What genetics is showing is that in fact white Americans are shockingly European to an incredibly high degree for a population with roots on this continent for 400 years.”
>According to Khan, geneticists have long known that “the vast majority of white Americans who are not Hispanic do not have detectable non-European ancestry.”
>Furthermore, Khan continued, “we’d be amazed that the indigenous peoples had so little demographic impact, and, that the larger numbers of people of partial African ancestry did not move into the general ‘white’ population,” in contrast to Latin America where, he says, this process did occur.

[Anonymous No.10632701]

>>10630763
>he forgot Melville
HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.10632857]

>>10625173
For the most part you are right, except if you don't read Melville you are missing out.

There is no better novel... not from Tolstoy, Cervantes, Proust, Eliot, Joyce, Kafka, or any other.

[Anonymous No.10632869]

>>10632669
Goddamn Latinos fuck anyone tho according to the chart.

[Anonymous No.10633513]

>>10626005
Non-american and I completely agree, Persuasion is shit

[Anonymous No.10633530]

>>10629175
underrated, but in doing makes his point

[Anonymous No.10633535]

>>10632857
A few years ago, /lit/ was all don quixote. Then it was stoner. Now I'm starting to see more moby dick. What's next?

[Anonymous No.10633555]

I don't actually read many American authors but I think no one in the thread mentioned Henry James or Edith Wharton.

[Anonymous No.10633607]

>>10630818

[Anonymous No.10634761]

>>10625173
Is it even possible not to read american literature? It is everywhere on our daily lives.

[Anonymous No.10634765]

>>10626593
Look at the top of his head!

[Anonymous No.10634780]

>>10628257
It's so funny how little Americans care about race. I probably see almost every single race around me on a daily basis. The Europeans think because their country is fully white they are better. This is a silly, sorry mentality. You are what we in America call a 'spoiled white racist living in New England'. The country is not at all like that.

We kindly say 'fuck off' to you and go fuck yourselves with your Golden Dawns and shit.

[Anonymous No.10634787]

I only refuse to read female literature.

[Anonymous No.10635135]

>>10633535
Knut Hamsun has been getting a lot more popular

[Anonymous No.10635268]

>>10626605
this picture is very accurate

[Anonymous No.10635435]

>>10635135
Houellebecq too.

[Anonymous No.10635478]

>>10632857
Pynchon shits all over Melville.

[Anonymous No.10636452]

>>10631172

Holy shit what a retarded thing to say.

[Anonymous No.10636666]

>>10631172
>Darwin and Nietzsche
What is wrong with these?

[Anonymous No.10636835]

>>10635478
How so? I don’t agree

[Anonymous No.10636870]

>>10626593
>Eliot

>American

The delusion.

[Anonymous No.10636949]

>>10636870

He was born here and hang English citizenship. Came back at some point I think. I guess he was pretentious like a Brit.

[Anonymous No.10637564]

>>10632395
It's a reference to The Republic, where Plato (or Socrates?) tears apart Greek classical literature (Homer, Hesiod mainly) on the grounds that it doesn't guide people towards virtue, but instead encourages them towards baseness, and that it should therefore be altered and highly censored.

Moron.

[Anonymous No.10637666]

>>10628459
Do you even know the background of OP's image?

[Anonymous No.10639246]

>>10628397
>but merely explaining why I think it's willful ignorance (thus wrong) to refuse to read anything.
so I should read harry potter

[Anonymous No.10639349]

>>10639246
I'm saying you should not refuse to read it. You can read anything you like, you will never read everything, but I believe it's willful ignorance to refuse to read something and I think willful ignorance of any kind is wrong. Maybe even evil.

[Anonymous No.10639476]

>>10637666
Yes. Do you? Why do you ask?

[Anonymous No.10639631]

I just despise American culture due to the toxic media and politics that litter the internet. There's no escaping it and it has made me hate the US and its people.

So I refuse to read anything American.

[Anonymous No.10639671]

Reminder that /lit/ is an American board. And all foreigners can blow it out their ass

[Anonymous No.10639752]

>>10639671
Awesome pic, but sadly it's inevitable that the Duke will bring my mind to Duke Nukem Forever... where he gets shitfaced one just one fucking beer. Oh how the mighty have fallen...

[Anonymous No.10639774]

>>10634780

Nobody in Europe gives a fuck about the color of your skin, it's only americans who keep LARPing about being pro or against white supremacy. Our media don't even know how to translate the expression "white supremacy", that's how relevant the debate about race is in Europe.

[Anonymous No.10639805]

>>10626586
I also can't bring myself to read Russian literature because of the encounters I have had with Russians I don't know how to describe them but fake and souless opportunistic money worshippers comes to mind

[Anonymous No.10639819]

>>10636666
All three of those are philosophers who wholly incorporate atheism into their philosophy. On Friedrich Nietzsche has any sort of credit due to his philosophy being about will and man, two very real things that should be examined. This existentialist philosophy was done better by others, and Nietzsche is very aphoristic, but he is not a horrible philosopher, unfortunately.

>>10636452
You are a retard, Nazi.

[Anonymous No.10639826]

>>10637564
That was just Plato trying to say that non-fiction is better than fiction.

In all honesty, he's right. You could read the mathematical philosophies of Nicomachus, Aristotle, or Euclid and learn more about the world and how logic fundamentally works than if you read The Iliad or Odyssey twenty times over. Just like how you learn more if you read economics than if you were to read genre fiction.

Once again, Platonic philosophy is completely 1000% correct.

[Anonymous No.10639907]

>>10626593
>Nabokov kinda
Not kinda. He considered himself an American author and wrote books in American English that were about American concerns, American behaviors, and American society.

[Anonymous No.10639913]

>>10639774
>"Nobody in Europe gives a fuck about the color of your skin"
>genocides and enslaves anybody who isn't European, then denies it happened

[Anonymous No.10639924]

>>10625173
List of perfectly acceptable things to do:
>Not reading any American authors because non of their work interest you

List of self-harming incredibly ignorant things to do
>purposely avoid a massive body of literature apropos of one virtually meaningless common thing that they share

[Anonymous No.10639925]

>>10625971
>Hemingway
>Mutts unironically think he is good.

[Anonymous No.10639949]

>>10626616
gass was gay?

[Anonymous No.10639965]

>>10630781
Shakespeare alone is greater than all of them combined.

[Anonymous No.10640031]

>>10630667
this. we're just the flavor of the century super power. stop paying attention to us senpai

[Anonymous No.10640109]

>>10626593
>No Emerson

Filthy pleb

[Anonymous No.10641034]

>>10626408
>Raped by Romans
The Romans were fought and eventually repelled.

>Raped by the Saxons
Less than 33% of all Britons are Saxon

>Raped by Dane's
The Danes were fought, Christianised, repelled, and subdued.

>Raped by Franco-Dane rape babies
The Normans remained separate and above the average Britons. Not to mention,

[Anonymous No.10641083]

>>10625173
No.

[Anonymous No.10641326]

>>10625949
Pynchon is

[Anonymous No.10641464]

>>10628287
1488

[Anonymous No.10641481]

>>10625949
Pynchon.

Is.

[Anonymous No.10641514]

>>10625173
limiting you self pathetic

[Anonymous No.10641592]

>>10625173
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>>10625949
Edgar Allan Poe is better than your favorite author, you pleb.

[Anonymous No.10641623]

>>10625173
So is this a thinly veiled /pol/ thread or are you genuinely retarded? Many of the greatest authors of the last 300 years are American.

[Anonymous No.10641686]

>>10628677
wrong

[Anonymous No.10641691]

>>10627473
Australia is a shithole country.

[Anonymous No.10642701]

>>10630781
This list is garbage. Britain has way more canonical writers than that, and Zadie Smith would not be on that list, nor would half the American writers you put on your list.

[Anonymous No.10643219]

>>10641691
Sorry. I understand that you value the right to be shot in the street for no reason.