The Hate U Give

[Anonymous No.12122551]

>I shouldn’t have come to this party.
>I’m not even sure I belong at this party. That’s not on some bougie shit, either. There are just some places where it’s not enough to be me. Neither version of me. Big D’s spring break party is one of those places.
>I squeeze through sweaty bodies and follow Kenya, her curls bouncing past her shoulders. A haze lingers over the room, smelling like weed, and music rattles the floor. Some rapper calls out for everybody to Nae-Nae, followed by a bunch of “Heys” as people launch into their own versions. Kenya holds up her cup and dances her way through the crowd. Between the headache from the loud-ass music and the nausea from the weed odor, I’ll be amazed if I cross the room without spilling my drink.
>We break out the crowd. Big D’s house is packed wall-to-wall. I’ve always heard that everybody and their momma comes to his spring break parties—well, everybody except me—but damn, I didn’t know it would be this many people. Girls wear their hair colored, curled, laid, and slayed. Got me feeling basic as hell with my ponytail. Guys in their freshest kicks and sagging pants grind so close to girls they just about need condoms. My nana likes to say that spring brings love. Spring in Garden Heights doesn’t always bring love, but it promises babies in the winter. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them are conceived the night of Big D’s party. He always has it on the Friday of spring break because you need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.

What type of books did YOU read in high school?

[Anonymous No.12122567]

I read Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.12122590]

Nigger garbage like this (that's what it is; I'm not racist, it's a description of the work like Southern garbage or the like) is partially responsible for the degradation of the culture of the Western world. People are now so stupid that they believe "literature" like this has any value past being the idealistic ramblings of a double digit IQ sheboon whose idea of wrong and right comes from the mass media (if we're lucky)

[Anonymous No.12122640]

>>12122590
>I’m not racist

Damn son

[Anonymous No.12122723]

>>12122567

[Anonymous No.12122732]

YAAAAAAS QUEEN SLAYYY

[Anonymous No.12122744]

>>12122551
Honestly this prose isn't that bad. I doubt the plot is anything special, though. Can I have a rundown?

[Anonymous No.12122771]

she looks exactly like my fucking mentally insane aunt, except she's black

[Anonymous No.12122787]

>>12122771
HAAHAHAHHAHAHA LOOK AT THAT FUCKING PUMPKIN HEAD
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.12122826]

>>12122551
>My nana likes to say that spring brings love. Spring in Garden Heights doesn’t always bring love, but it promises babies in the winter. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them are conceived the night of Big D’s party. He always has it on the Friday of spring break because you need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.
ok this passage is actually pretty good

[Anonymous No.12122846]

>>12122771
tell your aunt i said hey

[Anonymous No.12122858]

>>12122551
as far as nigger literature goes, i really like this.
i'd buy, read and try to woo arthoes with it.

[Anonymous No.12123362]

>>12122771
she looks a lot like pepe

[Anonymous No.12123560]

>>12122551
I went to a Catholic School in Canada and I don't remember reading something for class written after the 60s.

[Anonymous No.12124091]

Yukio Mishima, Ernst Jünger, Gabriele D' Annunzio

[Anonymous No.12124098]

>>12122590
>nigger
>sheboon
>im not racist

[Anonymous No.12124102]

>>12124098
>Racism: Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
Yeah, I'm not racist

[Anonymous No.12124112]

They’ve literally started peddling 14 year olds diaries as literature.

I’m so so sorry to black people out there, I know you can do better than this but the shitlobs don’t i guess.

[Anonymous No.12124115]

>>12124102
>antagonism
Shit nigga you dumb as fuck

[Anonymous No.12124144]

>>12124115
So when people talk about white privilege or say whitey is that racist? Because it antagonizes me

[Anonymous No.12124303]

>>12122551
im pretty sure i write better than that

[sagemaru No.12124308]

>>12122551
stop replying to shill posts. sage goes in all fields

[Anonymous No.12124313]

>>12124308
Your sage didn't work you idiot

[Anonymous No.12124314]

>>12122551
>William Shaxbeard
>Nick Hornby
>Harlan Ellison
>James Joyce
>Ken Kesey
>JD Salinger
>William Faulkner
>John Gardner
>Jack Kerouac
>Vladimir Nabiscokov
>Philly K Dick
You fuckin' boring gibronis.

[Anonymous No.12124327]

The fact that the most of what is expected, by liberals, for black people, is that their intellectual and cultural output amounts of their being black, and how they feel about, and that they get applauded for it, works really well for racists

[Anonymous No.12124472]

>>12122744
a man dindu nuffin and gets shot so our bourgeois protagonist has to deal with being sad

[Anonymous No.12124474]

>>12124112
shut up anon Anne Frank had great prose and deserves every bit of praise she gets

[Anonymous No.12124510]

I was a fan of Shakespeare, Poe, Hawthorne, most of the Romantic poets, Frost, Hemingway, Crane. Back then my favorite Shakespeare play was Romeo and Juliet. I hated anything contemporary.

[Anonymous No.12124571]

>That’s not on some bougie shit, either.
Knowing that this is a sentence is a real book enrages me

[Anonymous No.12124576]

>>12124571
In an aktchuall book???? O.M.G. !

[Anonymous No.12124590]

>>12122826
No anon, its basic as not having your hair coloured. I am sure you read science fiction

[Anonymous No.12124651]

>>12122551
Robert Heinlein
1984/Animal Farm
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
LoTR

R8 me bros.

[Anonymous No.12124656]

>>12122551
based ebony KWEEN documenting the phenomenology astral american urbanite mating rituals. excellent ethnographic and sociological insights. Most will not understand this

[Anonymous No.12124661]

>>12124590
Whose your favorite author?

[Anonymous No.12124695]

>>12124661
Cortazar

[Anonymous No.12124796]

>>12124695
Why do you like him?

[Anonymous No.12124860]

>>12122551

I only want to know two things about the movie to know whether I want to watch it or not:

Did the dad make the "Harry Potter is really about hardcore gangstas" analogy he does in the book?

Did they include the scene of Star getting fingered by the white kid?

[Anonymous No.12124908]

>>12122551
Moby Dick
Bolano
Henry Miller
Artaud

[Anonymous No.12125080]

>>12122551
Les Miserables (picked up because a friend dared me to try and read it but I kept to it because I liked Valjean, the themes, and had a weird kind of love for Eponine), a lot of Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain including their short stories, The Idiot because of this board, a lot of Steinbeck, War and Peace, Le Morte De Arthur, Don Quixote, Republic, a lot of Charles Dickens, and the curriculum from English class

[Anonymous No.12125086]

>>12124651
7/10, pretty much average but Hitchiker's brought you a little further up

[Anonymous No.12125108]

>>12124102
>Racism: Inductive logic applied to race.

[Anonymous No.12125323]

He always has it on the Friday of spring break because you need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.

This line is pretty funny desu, a little simple to be fair but pretty good.

[Anonymous No.12125335]

Thankfully kids never actually read the novels in highschool, they can get by simply reading a summery.

[Anonymous No.12125339]

>>12124144
yes its extremely racist, blacks and jews are supremely racist groups and deny this so they can continue being racist covertly. You are racist though, and so am I.
>>12124327
No, while its true liberals are implicitly racist paternalists, blacks are just dumb and incapable of abstract thought or beautiful expression. The limits of their powers are singing, dancing and athletics.

[Anonymous No.12125357]

I actually read mostly sci-fi/fantasy warhammer escapist bullshit.

It wasn't until i was 20 that i picked up Kim by rudyard kipling and Middlemarch by george Eliot.

Then my life was changed, literally. It's sort of a shame these days for kids who are into books, they don't have educated parents anymore who will get them onto byron or some cool worthwhile shit that will really help them grow artistically/intellectually/spiritually etc.

[Anonymous No.12125380]

>>12122590
based

>>12122551
High school is twenty years behind me. During lunch breaks and after school I would read philosophy, The Hobbit & LOTR, all of Frank Herbert's Dune books, the first few Wheel of Time books before dropping them, Vonnegut, and some Larry Niven and other random scifi, a few Dickens books (he sucks), Whitman and Frost, Carlos Castaneda, and a bunch of other pseudo-metaphysical books.

The wave of books that concerns themselves with involving the reader in their politics, activism, and social media presence are doomed to irrelevance. Doomed. Stop reading them.

[Anonymous No.12125596]

>>12124144
Of course it is. get radicalcentristpilled already motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.12125605]

>>12122551
is this modern kerouac or something

[Anonymous No.12125616]

It is literally just Catcher in the Rye made relatable to Gen Z, with a little bit more whining and a lot darker. In high school I read Joyce, some poetry, and whatever we read in English class.

[Anonymous No.12125622]

>>12122551
mostly warhammer and crap like calvino or celine
buncha roided dudes with 4 hearts and 20 lungs and 5 dicks running around killing shit beat the fuck out of some dumb french doctor being dark and edgy for no reason
honestly i don't know why people like celine and some other authors. i like people who write about real shit and don't add a layer of muh feels to it. there's no need to imagine shit to over complicate life, there's a need to simplify it.

[Anonymous No.12125910]

>>12122551
That's actually not bad prose for recent YA fiction, it has a casual rhythm to it and implements youthful African American phrases and mannerisms in a way that sounds like the way kids speak nowadays. I can see why /lit/ in general doesn't like it but I can also see why a lot of young people like this too.

[Anonymous No.12125918]

>>12122826
If the book is written like that then I think I'll be more willing to give it a shot sometime, that's actually not bad for sassy YA fiction.

[Anonymous No.12126023]

Do black authors like Baldwin, Reed or Ellison make it onto any syllabuses in American schools?

[Anonymous No.12126033]

>>12122590
>that's what it is; I'm not racist
You should be after enduring American public schooling.

[Anonymous No.12126048]

>>12125616
>It is literally just Catcher in the Rye made relatable to Gen Z
I'm sincerely not racist and I think there are plenty great black writers, but good god anon, please never compare this trash to Salinger ever again

[Anonymous No.12126100]

>>12125339
Maybe, but they don't even attempt to transcend these expectations to create culture that isn't completely self-reflective. Latin America in the until the 20th century had mulatto/black writers of at least middling quality, who actually engaged with real literature. Meanwhile american blacks are incapable of thinking about anything outside their own blackness, and it works in keeping them perpetually subdeveloped. If people are incapable of coming up with a high culture of their own, aping that of others is the best possible option.