/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23256685]

Post books that turned you gay

[Anonymous No.23256692]

>>23256685
If a book turned you gay you were never straight to begin with

[Anonymous No.23256702]

>>23256685
Sorry but God made you gay and Dorian Gray held up the mirror

[Anonymous No.23256727]

[Anonymous No.23257134]

>>23256685
I hate this stupid fucking faggot like you wouldn't believe. I chose to read it for my senior project in high school years ago and to this day it has stayed in my mind as a book with a very interesting concept completely annihilated by its style.

[Anonymous No.23257141]

>>23256692
Sexuality is a complex spectrum

[Anonymous No.23257250]

>>23256685
Hogg by Samuel Delaney. Never before had I cast a licentious eye upon my fellow man when I happened upon what I thought to be a wholesome yarn about the misadventures of a hardy trucker and his youthful companion. I swear, I wouldn't have opened the thing up if I'd known that their relationship would develop to be anything more than platonic, yet by the time Delaney's captivating narrative brought me there I was simply too emotionally invested to turn back.

[Anonymous No.23257261]

>>23257250
>Despite the book's infamous reputation, several respected authors have given it their endorsement. Norman Mailer, for instance, said "There is no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit." J. G. Ballard, prolific speculative fiction author and elder statesman of transgressive literature, also praised Delany's work, citing the medium of pornography as being the "most political form of fiction."

>Author Dennis Cooper said in his collection Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries that "Hogg is tiresome and indulgent" and that the "pace is molasses-slow". However, he also goes on to say that "the book is a highly charged object...[and] that's reason enough to recommend it." In the preface to a later edition of Smothered in Hugs, Cooper writes, "I now think Samuel Delany's Hogg is a great novel, and I don't know why I didn't realize that upon first reading."

>Jeffrey A. Tucker, associate professor of English at the University of Rochester, comments in his critical study A sense of wonder: Samuel R. Delany, race, identity and difference that Hogg "gave expression to the author's hostility toward a heterosexist society, an anger that had no socially constructive outlet prior to the modern Gay Rights movement."

[Anonymous No.23257337]

>>23257261
>the "pace is molasses-slow"
Someone busts a fresh load on every single fuckin page and this guy has the audacity to complain about the pace?!

>gave expression to the author's hostility
Delaney is a submissive bottom who gets off serving as free-use hole at homeless encampments. He doesn't have any anger, he's just writing his fantasy husbando. The violence against straights is just incedental.

[Anonymous No.23257349]

>>23257261

Gay.
Gay.
Gay
Gay.
Black and Gay.

Not shocked. The only thing missing is a pedo to praise it. Bets on one of those 5? Even money.

[Anonymous No.23257835]

>>23256685

[Anonymous No.23257837]

The emperor truly loved his twink

[Anonymous No.23257884]

Quran

[Anonymous No.23257907]

>>23257141
Ok faggot

[Anonymous No.23258788]

>>23256685
Retarded Faggot - the unauthorized biography of OP