/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11170571]

This guy just died. Ben Shapiro has been talking about what a great writer he was on his podcast. What book of his should I start with?

[Anonymous No.11170603]

>>11170571
HE’S NOT DEAD HE WAS NEVER DYING HES NOT GOING TO DIE ANYTIME SOON. STOP PERPETUATING LGBTQ/JEW/TRAP/PEDO/4CHAN/LIBERTARIAN/DECADENT ONLINE AGENDA.

[Anonymous No.11170607]

>>11170571
>ben memepiro

[Anonymous No.11170610]

>>11170571
>Ben Shapiro
Don't believe his lies.

[Anonymous No.11170612]

>>11170571
This board is for intellectuals, not frauds like Shaprio and by extension his fans

[Anonymous No.11170632]

>>11170612
>This board is for intellectuals

[Anonymous No.11170640]

Read his essay Radical Chic first. You can easily find a pdf online.

[Anonymous No.11170646]

>>11170612

Show us your credentials my man.

[Anonymous No.11170654]

The Right Stuff, but fuck Ben Shapiro he has no opinions of his own

[Anonymous No.11170656]

>>11170571
Is it bad that I have trouble taking someone who dresses like that seriously?

[Anonymous No.11170690]

>>11170640
Why the fuck are New Yorker essays as long as books? That shit is annoying

[Anonymous No.11170838]

Peter Parker died?!?!?!?

[Anonymous No.11170896]

>>11170838
It's ok, they'll replace him with the new African-American Spider-Man. It's canon.

[Anonymous No.11170910]

>>11170571
>there are people on /lit/ who listen to Ben Shapiro's podcast

That explains a lot.

[Anonymous No.11170930]

>>11170910
Maybe they're doing so ironically. I don't see how anyone can stand Virgin Ben's nasaly voice and inane "aggressiveness" for extended lengths of time without being masochistic.

[Anonymous No.11170933]

>>11170910
I'm embarrassed to be on this bored if true, he has said nothing profound in his entire life. A glorified second hand source.

[Anonymous No.11170946]

>>11170896
I realize you are very probably a delicate flower who is easily triggered into believing I am part of some opposition party, but please consider that when someone jokes that Tom Wolfe looks like Toby McGuire your response is another joke which is a commentary on a left wing agenda pushed. Really, really consider it, to be honest, because to the outside you, and those who make comments like yours, appear obsessed. That isn't to say whether such an agenda exists. Agendas do exist. You do not, however, need to make everything about the despised left wing agenda, and when you do, it is actually probably interfering with your day-to-day life and making you grossly unhappy -- qualifying it as a mental disorder.

[Anonymous No.11171410]

>>11170571

> download bonfire of the vanities
>
> don't read it

come on, i've just started "the horus heresy" series. could be a while.

[Anonymous No.11171437]

>>11170946
I couldn't care less about what you're writing;
>but I like your punctuation.

[Anonymous No.11171439]

>>11170612
>This board is for intellectuals
No this board is for socially inept 20 something year old try hards

[Anonymous No.11171474]

>>11171439
feels good that I'm not yet 20 and still have time to do something with my life.

[Anonymous No.11171488]

he's just a journalist/essayist - his prose can get pretty cringey in novel assembly but it's not all bad

i dont browse the papers much but i could see his antics being of more interest than whatever standard journalism reads like

[Anonymous No.11171508]

>>11170571
Ben Shapiro is a fraud, a total pseudo intellectual.
He has a high verbal IQ but look in his eyes. Deep in them. Do you see clarity? Intensity? No. You see nothing.
He has a nasally unlikable manner of speech with little gesticulations despite 60% of speech being nonverbal.
These are a people that believe education is all that matters. Booksmarts without true intelligence is worthless.

[Anonymous No.11171536]

>>11170946
Is this intentionally ironic?

[Anonymous No.11171543]

Well, Wolfe's writing has about the same depth as Shapiro's podcast, so if you're by all means give it a shot.

[Anonymous No.11172555]

>>11170946
Nu-uh brah, it's da joooos.

[Anonymous No.11172574]

Tom Wolfe is an entertaining writer. Bonfire of the Vanities is his best but his early nonfiction like The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is quite fun and interesting too. He's not particularly deep, nor does he epically BTFO the libcucks so if l, as a Shapiro listener, you're looking for something like that, keep looking.

[Anonymous No.11172618]

>>11171508
Found the leftist or the anti-semite

[Anonymous No.11172627]

>>11170571
>Ben Shapiro
OH NONONONO

[Anonymous No.11172636]

>/Lit/ is for the discussion of (motherfucking) literature
>OP makes fine thread asking for recommendations of a specific author
>Anons decide to discuss Ben Shapiro

[Anonymous No.11172641]

>>11172618
Conservative here. A lot of us don't care for Shapiro. For one, his blind faith in free market capitalism is antithetical to conservative values. There's no doubting the productive capacity of such a system but without rather strict regulations we allow CEOs to alter and ultimately destroy our culture.

[Anonymous No.11172644]

>>11170571
Jews and their lies

[Anonymous No.11172646]

>>11172641
>Conservative
>Strict regulations on industry

I've got news for you, anon

[Anonymous No.11172653]

>>11170690
It's a New York magazine article and you sound slow

[Anonymous No.11172656]

>>11172641
He can believe whatever he wants as long as he keeps poking holes in stupid shit for entertainment

Amerifags can keep looking to him for shitty politics or whatever
>win-win

[Anonymous No.11172666]

>>11171439
21 and can confirm. Loath myself with the strength of a million stars

[Anonymous No.11172675]

>>11172646
I'm an old-fashioned conservative, as in I want to conserve Western traditions, not an American conservative - they only seem to value the free market, fetuses, and guns. The free market in our technological age is unpredictable and corrodes tradition.

[Anonymous No.11172678]

>Ben Shapiro ANALLY EVISCERATES liberal snowflake

[Anonymous No.11172680]

>>11170571
>Ben Shapiro

[Anonymous No.11172733]

>>11172641
>conservative
Why would you committ yourself to an ideology that has never achieved anything?

[Anonymous No.11172759]

>>11172618
More like neither.
I've dealt with people like him who have had their entire lives handed to them on a silver platter and perpetually reinforced by their parents and peers regarding how "brilliant" they are. They become delusional. They proceed to go on "debate teams" where they unironically think the art of rhetoric is simply being rational. They are pretentious, arrogant and wrong concerning their own intelligence.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became FOOLS.
I am a man exposing that the emperor has no brains.

[Anonymous No.11172778]

>>11170656
He dressed that way as self-promotion/branding but apparently it also made people more likely to talk to him since he appeared slightly goofy and therefore non-threatening. I don't remember where he wrote about it

[Anonymous No.11172789]

>>11172733
Because my idea of a happiness is a simple, virtuous life. Grandiose visions always lead to unnecessary complications and then disaster.

[Anonymous No.11172794]

>>11172789
So why do you support an ideology that entirely benefits the people who live excessive, sinful lives?

[Anonymous No.11172801]

>>11170946
No, commenting on racial politics as a response to joke that Tom Wolfe looks like Toby McGuire was a stroke of pure genius. Always relevant, but unrelated; jarring, but dry and always unsolicited. This is the genius of pol so fuck off.

[Anonymous No.11172802]

>>11172794
You convinced me. I had forgotten that the top margin of earners spend all of their time on their yatchs, oppressing the poor.

[Anonymous No.11172804]

>>11172759
sad how obvious it is that you got cucked by one of the "debate team" types in high school

[Anonymous No.11172815]

>>11172794
I don't. I never said I was a Republican. I would never support one of them. They have no principles whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.11172820]

>>11172815
Sorry anon, I've revealed my americanism.

[Anonymous No.11172894]

>>11172789
Why call yourself a conservative then?

[Anonymous No.11173272]

>>11170946
>you will never be this triggered.

[Anonymous No.11174387]

>>11170571
SHIT Ben Shapiro DESTROYS this guy with FACTS like "I LIKE HIM" and "I'VE PUT HIS HOUSE ON FIRE" SJW liptard beta basedbois BTFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.11174466]

>>11170690
git gud

[Anonymous No.11174488]

>>11172646
yeah, what's that?

[Anonymous No.11174507]

>>11172641
>>11172646
>>11172733
>>11172789
>>11172794
>>11172894
wow it's as if different people interpret this vague term in different ways

[Anonymous No.11174826]

>>11171508
>with little gesticulations despite 60% of speech being nonverbal
lmao imagine being this pleb

[Anonymous No.11174840]

>>11172653
Excuse my retardation

[Anonymous No.11174868]

>>11170946
>being this asshurt