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"Kafka on the Shore" is a plodding mess.

>> No.1197367

Faulkner is an over rated BORING hack.

>> No.1197371

Nathaniel Hawthorne is the Stephanie Meyer of his time period.

>> No.1197376

Im always buying books of older editions so people would think i read them long time ago

>> No.1197375

Most writers are fucking useless.

>> No.1197380

A degree in english is not a profitable degree, but i will get one anyway. I think I'll be able to prove everybody wrong, but I probably won't.

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The Road is fucking terrible and I can't believe that bastard got a Pulitzer for it.

>> No.1197382

>>1197380
We can all live in a cardboard box together then.

>> No.1197384

A lot of books are too deep for the people here and that is why they dislike them. (see every criticism there is and will be in this thread)

>> No.1197385

Being an English major and having to sit through the most insufferable dimwits give their "feelings" about a short story makes me rage.

English majors are the dumbest bulbs on the planet.

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The trial by kafka was poorly written shit that i had to quit half way although metamorphosis was decent

>> No.1197387

>>1197385
>dumbest bulbs
You aren't so bright yourself.

>> No.1197390

Vonnegut is obviously very intelligent but he can't write.

>>1197386
What's the name of the painting?

>> No.1197391

>>1197384
Sometimes people dig too much for meaning that isn't even there. That's what I hate.

>> No.1197393

Heart of Darkness bored me to death and was not memorable at all.

>> No.1197396

>>1197387
>Long night of news writing and editing
>Annoying faggot on grammar crusade
>not even mad

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>>1197390
the artist is lissitzky; im not sure of the actual painting name of this one

>> No.1197398

I samefag my own posts with well thought-out arguments so that there will be actual literature discussion on the front page.

>> No.1197401

>>1197394
Thanks a lot.

>> No.1197419

Infinite Jest is okay.

>> No.1197439

I don't come to this board very often.

>> No.1197441

Here we go:

Joyce is overrated.
Steinbeck has no subtlety and is overly simplistic.
Blindness lacked subtlety and relevance.
Cat's Cradle is garbage.
Dune is garbage.
Moby-Dick is the second greatest English language novel.
Tolstoy is vastly superior to Dostoevsky.
Faulkner was the greatest of his era.
Thomas Pynchon is overrated.

>> No.1197443

The battle of Yonkers in world war Z is one of the worst battle scenes I have ever read.

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>>1197443

>> No.1197451

The Forever War is terrible and Starship Troopers mediocre

>> No.1197454

Shakespeare flat out didn't know what the fuck he was talking about.

>> No.1197456

I kind of liked Twilight.

>> No.1197466

i intensely despise most people on /lit/

>> No.1197468

I have the hottest English teacher ever.

>> No.1197480

Yes. Me too. I find myself doing work solely with the intention of pleasing her.

>> No.1197483

I haven't been able to finish even half of Ulysses.

>> No.1197485

i masturbated too much to day and now my penis hurts too much to masturbate again and i'm here because i don't want to look at porn and force myself to resist the urge

>> No.1197488

cthulhu is kinda lame

>> No.1197490

>>1197468
>>1197480
I jelly.
I apologize for possible derailing of the thread, but this reminded me of one Psych teacher I had, she was just smoking hot, tall, with a slim body and great tits. Too bad I had to drop that class due to relocation ,__,

>> No.1197494

I haven't gotten around to reading a book in months, I pretty much spend all my free time on the internet

>> No.1197495

I'm trying not to read in English because I'm living in another country and want to pick up the language faster. But it's difficult as shit. So I've just been reading less.

>> No.1197507

I never finished reading the biography on Kafka, and I'm ridiculously picky when it comes to reading novels.

Why can't novelists make their books read like lecture? It would be true art.

>> No.1197510

>>1197507
Why not read documented lectures? Most well-known writers make lectures on their favourite topics, aka Borges, Sartre. Also, you could read books written in a polemic style aka Myth of Sisyphus, or most ancient Greek writers/philosophers.

>> No.1197540

I'm here so much and I don't even like 4chan or most of the people on this website.

I have a ton of games to play, stuff to watch and read, but I just end up here. reading a bunch of shit that just makes me dislike the people here even more and gathering more shit to play, stuff to watch and stuff to read.

>> No.1197551

1984 is one of the best books I've read, I don't care that it's highschool /lit/ for you english/americunts

>> No.1197557

I hate cormac mccarthy

>> No.1197558

Animal Farm was a piece of shit.
I don't like sex scenes in books, they make me feel awkward.

>>1197451
Fuck you, both are awesome.

>> No.1197559

Somethings i look back to my writing and think what the fuck i am thinking. My greatest fear is never get a PhD, therefore never be published.

>> No.1197561

>>1197559
i meant sometimes, tonight is one of those times so excuse me

>> No.1197568

>>1197559
I do that too!

Also, the English in Wuthering Heights is too difficult for me and I probably read /lit/ more than lit.

I'm a tremendous faggot, I know!

>> No.1197578

I don't read nearly as much as I want to or should, and my list is about twenty or thirty books long now.

Starship Troopers is Heinlein's best novel, and that's not saying much.

I'm afraid my rewrites won't be up to snuff for the agent I've been talking to, and that I'll have wasted these three months almost entirely.

>> No.1197583

Heart of Darkness is unreadable shit.

>> No.1197591

recommendation list are so fucking useless.

i can't believe some of the utter shit that gets put on those things

>> No.1197613

>>1197441
>Dune is garbage.

OH FUCK THIS JUST GOT SERIOUS

>> No.1197633

I can enjoy pretty much anything, and I hate no one more than those who compare Rowling to Dickens.

>> No.1197636

>>1197551
>1984 is one of the best books I've read, I don't care that it's highschool /lit/ for you english/americunts

Agreed.
Orwell fucking saved me.

>> No.1197643

Stream of consciousness is try-hard, unrealistic and not in any way enjoyable

>> No.1197654

>>1197643
>unrealistic
wat

>> No.1197664

Journey to the End of the Night is shit. It's not funny and it just reads like the memoirs of yet another jealous loser.

>> No.1197665

Finnegans Wake is shit. Ulysses is meh.

>> No.1197668

>>1197441
I can't believe I agree with you for the most part. Let's be friends.

>> No.1197675

Fuck T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

>> No.1197685

I read for fun, not for looking sophisticated and smart like majority of /lit/. I bet plenty of you didn't even enjoy half of so called "classics".

>> No.1197688

Snow Crash is like something Dan Brown would have written when he was 11.

>> No.1197690

i love you all even if we share different opinions about books and things :3

>> No.1197743

A clockwork orang has the worst moral I've ever read

>> No.1197760

Ordinary language philosophy is a crock of shit.

>> No.1197762

>>1197685
I'd say that I read classics because I'm picky as fuck so even though I only enjoy like 10% of them I am able to easily know what kind of books I like. I mean, I've read Sophocles, Aristophanes, Ovid, all those greek and latin guys but the only one I liked was Virgil, that I completely love, then I read all the classics that I know, hating almost every single one until I enjoy Voltaire, Camus and Kafka. Then I read every single book of those and look for similar people. Then I read Nietzsche, Sartre, and be happy.

>> No.1197772

I've reread Dune and it was empty.

>> No.1197773

I really, really like Ayn Rand.

>> No.1197782

Catch-22 was boring and I quit after 3 chapters to read fantasy.

>> No.1197784

>>1197559
Since when does one need a PhD to be published?

>> No.1197789

Fantasy has no "surplus value" whatsoever, but I still read it for the same reason I watch blockbusters: to be entertained.

>> No.1197790

I pretend to read certain books when in reality I'm just reading some YA.

>> No.1197804

I quit reading A Farewell to Arms after 10 pages because suicide seemed like a better option than reading more.

>> No.1197808

I hate all of you.

>> No.1197833

>>1197441

Agree with first and last. Respectfully disagree with everything in the middle.

>>1197443

Yes.

>> No.1197835

>>1197443
>>1197833
What? No, just no.

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>>1197443
There are other people that didn't like it?

I spent the whole chapter facepalming because, like the relevant chapter in the Survival Guide, Max Brooks demonstrates that he knows absolutely nothing about firearms or military tactics, but insists on writing about them anyway.


As for me, I'm reading Star Wars EU and enjoying it

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none book is good.
none book is bad.

All is subjetive damn it.

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I think all you /lit/ fags are pretentious bastards.

>> No.1197981

Tools lurk behind the skirt of intersubjectivity, waiting to write mean thoughts about you in their journals if you ever dare to peek around the skirt. Of intersubjectivity.

>> No.1197987

>>1197378
THISSSSSSSS so much shitty grammar and zomg-so-profound nonsense tacked onto every 3 or 4 paragraphs.

>> No.1198219

>>1197398
Thank you sir. You make my time on /lit/ more enjoyable.

>> No.1198224

Kerouac is a hack.
There, I said it.

>> No.1198228

>>1198224
Nice to know someone can agree with me.

America is going to be a land of Fantasy YA, forever.