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I often can't tell

>> No.16939332

>>16939286
1. When I'm enjoying the literature.
2. When the literature isn't written by a namefag on 4chan.

>> No.16939423

>>16939332
how do you know the author isnt a namefag on 4chan?

>> No.16939463

>>16939286
When I stop every once in awhile to think, "fuuuck."

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>>16939286
I usually ask my frens on /lit/ to make sure I don't accidently enjoy bad literature.

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>>16939471

>> No.16939562

>>16939471
Read whatever you enjoy reading, anon. Plenty of "great" authors often had expansive tastes. Joyce read as much trashy pornographic pulp as he did the Classics. Pynchon read as much Dashiell Hammett as he did Proust. It's a waste of time worrying about whether what you're reading is "good" or "bad," since ultimately that's for you to decide. You might even ask yourself is what I'm reading useful or not. Can I do something with this text? Will this help me in some way? How can I take my experience reading it and transform it into something meaningful? What can I take from this text and carry with me for the next year or for the rest of my life?

You have to develop your own taste and assemble your own canon of authors. Only then can you discern between the good and the bad.

The only question I ask myself

>> No.16939576

>>16939286
Read a lot.

It's the same with "how do I tell if what I'm writing is good", you'll get there eventually. Reading some philosophy on art should also be helpful, starting with the Greeks at Plato and Aristotle, and maybe a more simple modern like Scruton to help.

>> No.16939581

>>16939562
Hitler liked his Cowboy Western flicks of fiction, Karl May.

>> No.16939583

>>16939286
I apply the principles of philosophical materialism as a criticism of literature.

>> No.16939586

>>16939576
this

>>16939583
can you elaborate?

>> No.16939589

>>16939286
>lean back
>look at the ceiling
>'damn this is a good book'

thats how i know

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>>16939586
>can you elaborate?
It is elaborated here

>> No.16939596

>>16939593
are these yours?

>> No.16939598

>>16939286
it makes you go 'wew lad'

>> No.16939605

>>16939286
When it makes you think critically and feel passionately.

>> No.16939631

>>16939593
>Maestro is a philosophical materialist
Lmao, he might have some interesting ideas, but he's definitely not gonna be too important for history.