/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11300869]

Now that the dust has settled, can we all agree that this is fucking shit?

[Anonymous No.11300875]

yeah
shit confirmed

[Anonymous No.11300876]

Brainlet

[Anonymous No.11301046]

>>11300869
I finished it today and I'm excited to start reading it again.

[Anonymous No.11301052]

>>11300869
It is the greatest work of art in human history.

[Anonymous No.11301077]

Reading it now and listening along to Frank Delaney's podcast spoonfeeding me. He only made it to chapter 10 so where do I go after that?

[Anonymous No.11301086]

>>11301052
t. dubliner cuck

[Anonymous No.11301134]

>>11300869
Unreadable. Meaningless. The ultimate pretentious signalling prop

[Anonymous No.11301139]

>>11301052
>unironically thinking Ulysses is a greater work of art than Michaelangelo's David
do you honestly believe that?

[Anonymous No.11301150]

I started reading classics to impress this girl at work I have a thing for. She came to visit my desk for something and saw that I was reading Ulysses. she about wet her pants. It’s a great book

[Anonymous No.11301152]

>>11301139
entry level pseud, try harder

[Anonymous No.11301159]

>>11301152
I am so much smarter and better read than you that it would just be unfair to even debate you, but please explain to me how Ulysses compares to the David

[Anonymous No.11301177]

>>11301139
4chan babies love to believe retarded things, it's their pose

[Anonymous No.11301181]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.11301187]

>>11300869
Haha yeah it's shit lol haha fucking mental

[Anonymous No.11301188]

>>11301181
>BUT DUDE LANGUAGE LMAO

[Anonymous No.11301192]

>>11301134
>he unironically uses the word “pretentious”

[Anonymous No.11301209]

>>11301139
>unironically thinking that ladders are better than fish
do you honestly believe that?

[Anonymous No.11301213]

>>11301209
a fish is obviously superior to a ladder, come on

[Anonymous No.11301214]

>>11300869
No, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.11301224]

>>11301139
not even his best statue you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.11301238]

>>11301224
Yeah, like Joyce's grocery list is better than his novels, same concept

[Anonymous No.11301246]

>>11301224
yes it is you complete faggot, it is his masterpiece
hurr durr le contrarian opinion
just fucking kill yourself

[Anonymous No.11301253]

>>11301139
A more apt comparison would be the Sistine Chapel

[Anonymous No.11301260]

>>11301246
no pietà is miles better you fucking retard everybody knows this
>>11301238
go back to r*ddit you fucking subhuman

[Anonymous No.11301262]

>>11301253
Comparing the Sistine Chapel to Joyce is like spitting on its paintings

[Anonymous No.11301266]

>>11301260
Wow, rude.

[Anonymous No.11301275]

>>11300869
And what dust exactly, in this ham-fisted attempt at figurative language, was unsettled in the first place? Ulysses stands up after this much time.

[Anonymous No.11301279]

>>11301260
The pieta is not miles better you fucking pleb, it isn't even close to his David, there are no comparable sculptures from the entire Renaissance, it is probably the most exceptional sculpture ever made

[Anonymous No.11301296]

>>11301279
t. brainlet

[Anonymous No.11301301]

>>11301275
Nobody with half a brain ever liked Ulysses, except pretentious douchebags (4chan for example loves it: no coincidence). Go read famous writers opinions on it.

[Anonymous No.11301334]

>>11301301
>One of the most beloved classics
>Universally considered a masterpiece
>No one with half a brain actually liked it
midwit cope

[Anonymous No.11301344]

>>11301213
I would argue that ladders are actually better. Like, what if we suddenly don't have fish? We lose some good cuisine, that's pretty disappointing. We also lose a lot of ocean life and maybe some grizzly bears as a result. But there will still be crustaceans and the ocean mammals that feed off them, plus Coral reefs will potentially survive. An ocean ecosystem that adapts toa world without fish could end up being really interesting and beautiful in a few thousand years. Ladders though, I mean wow. Without ladders so much stuff would instantly be out of reach. Also think about how sometimes in the background of a painting some sneaky fucker is climbing up a ladder to do some spook. We can't lose that. Ladders, I rest my case.

[Anonymous No.11301345]

I think it's among the greatest prose works of the 20th century, but then again I never read it.

[Anonymous No.11301357]

>>11301344
t. joyce reader

[Anonymous No.11301364]

>>11301344
that is a very biased evaluation though, a fish is a wonder of reality, unimaginably complex, evolved over billions of years of culling inferior organisms

a ladder is several sticks nailed together

[Anonymous No.11301379]

>>11301344
Wrong, everything wrong. A ladder can be replaced with an elevator, fish is unquestionably unique.

[Anonymous No.11301395]

The only useful parts are the first and the last chapter. The rest is garbage.

[Anonymous No.11301400]

>>11301345
based

[Anonymous No.11301425]

>>11301188
>funny meme

[Anonymous No.11301431]

I unrionically love it. And it makes me sad when people think I only like it because it makes me look smart.

Yeah it gets pompous and overblown at times, but it's such a breath air compared to all the other mediocre trash out there. There is more brilliance in the 12 page Proteus chapter than other writers can even dream of accomplishing if they lived to be 200.

[Anonymous No.11301506]

>>11301431
How can you love a book that never goes straight to the essential? Every page is brimming with redudant, unnecessary stuff.

[Anonymous No.11301585]

>>11301506
There is more of substance on 1 page of Ulysses than everything your favorite meme writer ever wrote. Entire essays have been written debating single sentences. He was a genius that brainlets like you will never understand and he's one that comes around maybe once every 300 years.

[Anonymous No.11301592]

>>11301139
>babbies first greentext

[Anonymous No.11301616]

>>11300869
Unironically the greatest book ever written

[Anonymous No.11302496]

>>11301616
Novel, maybe.