/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1412560]

Alright /lit/. I'm from /v/. We just got a troll thread from you guys.
>>>/v/82793950
Now I'm not saying anything about that, obviously not all of you are like that.. Thing is, I come here wondering if you people actually read things from this century (I've read almost everything on that list) and I see more old literature, fanfics, and trolls.
So, /lit/. Do you actually read modern literature, or is this board about arguing over shit that's been argues fifteen thousand times before?

[Stagolee !0Pey/QLK3E No.1412565]

>modern literature
i don't think you understand what that term means now go back to your vidya games

[Anonymous No.1412573]

Any responses besides the original troll? If not I'll assume you're all stuck in 1950.

[Anonymous No.1412578]

Sorry about Stag, bro. /lit/ tripfags are tedious cunts, I generally head for another board, read, or play the vidya when they show up.

[Anonymous No.1412581]

>>1412578
no problem, I'll just add him to the blocked list. But as for the question?

[Koroviev !!bFY778Jwu68 No.1412582]

I keep meaning to make a image of contemporary fiction. Anyhow, yeah, some of us do, although I think it's rarer than the people trying to make sure they hit up all the famous shit to somehow enlighten themselves. A book I enjoyed a lot is Lowboy by John Wray. It's about a 16-year-old schizophrenic kid who escapes his supervisors and travels the subways of NYC on a personal mission to stop global warming. Interesting book with some very interesting ideas about young culture today, one of the quotes that I found incredibly endearing and very true in relation to that particularly was "That satisfied him. He was different from the others, exalted, distinguished, if only because he was sick."

[Anonymous No.1412592]

>>1412582
Time to go...

[Anonymous No.1412595]

>>1412560
You realize that the image is a troll list?

[Anonymous No.1412602]

>>1412582
Guess not all /lit/ trips are cunts. Thanks bro, just wanted confirmation. Now that I know that, maybe I'll even pop in here from time to time.
I've also read Lowboy - great read, and it reminded me a lot of a performance of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I saw recently. Great stuff.

[Anonymous No.1412604]

Yeah. Just like any board, there are the pretentious twats. But there are quite a few 20th/21st century books that are well-liked. Infinite Jest, House of Leaves, the Rabbit series, Pynchon's works, Vonnegut, Catch-22, etc.

[Koroviev !!bFY778Jwu68 No.1412603]

>>1412578
We're not all so bad, shut up.

Also David Mitchell's Ghostwritten I liked a lot, OP, it's pretty good and a collection of connected short stories.
Will Self's a personal favorite author of mine, The Book of Dave is great.
John Ridley's novels have a very cool urban grit to them as well, Stray Dogs, Love Is A Racket, and Everybody Smokes In Hell being my favorites of his and really the only ones I'd recommend reading.

[madamepsychosis! !kP3mYPCIec No.1412599]

>>1412573
get out

[Stagolee !0Pey/QLK3E No.1412607]

>>1412573
i'm not even trolling itt you're just uneducated if you think modern literature and contemporary literature are the same thing

[Anonymous No.1412611]

>>1412470

[Koroviev !!bFY778Jwu68 No.1412623]

>>1412607
Nobody likes a pedant, quit splitting hairs.

[Anonymous No.1412627]

>>1412607

Kindly remove yourself.

[Anonymous No.1412649]

most modern counter culture niggers stick to literature written between 1950 and 1970. Günther Gras for the krauts, Venedict Yerofeyev for the russkies, kurt vonnegut for yanqui running dogs of imperialism. It doesn't age as bad as do vidya games. there is a minority of fashionable folks into the latest culture-bending corny hentai pretentious drivel

[Anonymous No.1412653]

>>1412649
>implying I don't still play Elite
True classics never age, brah.