/lit/ - Literature

[World's Biggest Cowboys Fan !!l6yz7yWn91a No.2532576]

is it any surprise the best American Novel of all time takes place primarily in Texas?

[Anonymous No.2532582]

East of Eden wasn't set in Texas.

[Anonymous No.2532583]

>>2532576
Moby Dick wasn't set in Texas

[Anonymous No.2532585]

>>2532583
+1,000
No one cares about Texas. I wish we could give you back to Mexico.

[World's Biggest Cowboys Fan !!l6yz7yWn91a No.2532590]

>>2532583
Moby Dick is worse than:

Gravity's Rainbow
Mason & Dixon
Underworld
As I Lay Dying
Beloved
Huckleberry Finn


To name just a few. It's not even close to being better than Blood Meridian.

>>2532582
>East of Eden

(pic related)

[Anonymous No.2532593]

I was trying to think of a famous American novel that could actually be considered good literature, and do the whole "Blank wasn't set in Texas. Oh, wait. . ." But I couldn't think of anything. Texas really does suck, but frankly I having trouble coming up with a really good American novel in general.

[Anonymous No.2532597]

>>2532590
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVC8Y4aJdc

[Anonymous No.2532602]

>>2532593
That's because you're a bigot and therefore your opinion is irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.2532603]

>>2532590
How is Gravity's Rainbow an American novel? It's set in Britain and continental Europe as far as I understand it.

[Anonymous No.2532609]

>>2532602
I disagree with your opinion and I'm a bigot? Okay. Since we're talking in ridiculous assumptions, I think you're a butternut squash. Stop talking to me, butternut squash!

[Anonymous No.2532610]

Let's just kick off the list of better books from America:

A Confederacy of Dunces
The works of Fitzgerald
The works of Twain
The works of Hunter S. Thompson
The works of Hammett
The works of P.G. Wodehouse while he lived in America (an English author, I know, but he still published many books in America).
The works of Poe
and as much as I am loathe to say it - A Song of Ice and Fire series by Martin (which is probably one of the only examples of American epic fantasy that is addictive).

[Anonymous No.2532612]

>>2532610
P.G. Wodehouse doesn't count, unless you consider Henry James an English author.

[Anonymous No.2532614]

>>2532609
We allied with the wrong people in WW2.

[Anonymous No.2532616]

>Is it any surprise the best american novel of all time takes place primarily in Mexico?

ftfy

[Anonymous No.2532617]

>>2532614
Wait. Who are you saying "we" should have allied with? I assume "we" is Americans, but I can't say for certain.

[The Declaration !dVoTJTvCtA No.2532622]

Oh JESUS CHRIST! Not this Cormac McCarthy douche again!

Here, sit down and watch a review by my favorite reviewer. He's a philosophy major, so he knows his shit and obscurantism is bad thing btw.

http://confusedmatthew.com/No-Country-For-Old-Men.php

Cormac McCarthy is a shitty writer who writes in a genre specifically catered to shitty writers. Modernism. Anyone can create shitty modernist literature. Just write strings of cryptic sentences and people will think you are deep and meaningful.

Seriously fuck obscurantism.

>>2532590
Moby Dick is automatically better than any Cormac McCarthy novel because it is about something, altough Old Man and the Sea is infinitely better. After all, you can't get somethin' from nuttin'!

[Anonymous No.2532623]

>>2532622
I don't think you've read Blood Meridian, have you?

[World's Biggest Cowboys Fan !!l6yz7yWn91a No.2532625]

>>2532622
>He's a philosophy major, so he knows his shit

I lol'd

Sorry but I'll take the opinion of Harold Bloom and that of academia in general over that of your friend any day of the week

[The Declaration !dVoTJTvCtA No.2532631]

>>2532623
If you think not being clear and putting up questions rather then answers or viewpoints is good thing, I implore you to watch this whole hour long movie without fast forwarding.


Then, once that's done, proceed to kiss my hero, Confused Matthew's shiny ass and give him an Oscar.

Writing in Modernism and succeeding with it is as easy as writing the single word question "God?" on a signboard and placing it next to a water cooler.

[The Declaration !dVoTJTvCtA No.2532635]

>>2532625
oops forgot link, here is the movie I want you to see.

http://confusedmatthew.com/Purple-Monkey-Dishwasher.php

Once again, after watching, if you still hold onto your opinions on Modernism, please give Matthew an Oscar and a shit load of monies.

[The Declaration !dVoTJTvCtA No.2532663]

>>2532625
Philosophy IS an academic course you moron. It helps you with your logic and cognitive thinking. That is why Matthew can spot plot holes and shitty writing a mile away. We live in a crazy world where people don't care about philosophy anymore, and even worse, take the incoherent ramblings of crappy post modern "philosophers" as sound and practical philosophers.

This is why Jap cartoons and Japanese culture is so popular, and why Michael Bay keeps making movies. You don't have to be a thoughtful and caring person to be writer anymore. Either add explosions or mysteriousness and you're a genius apparently.

But of course, seeing by your logic, that's good and not a sign of a degenerate society. Quite obvious considering you're a Texan. I.e Zero Culture

Go take your southern fired Texan ass fucking secede from the union. We don't need you.

By the way, to everyone else, don't read Jean BaudrilLARD, he's a crappy philosopher who makes no sense. Read Aristotlean philosopher Mortimer J. Adler.

[Anonymous No.2532668]

>>2532663
>By the way, to everyone else, don't read Jean BaudrilLARD, he's a crappy philosopher who makes no sense. Read Aristotlean philosopher Mortimer J. Adler.
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[Anonymous No.2532680]

>>2532622
1. The Old Man and the Sea is a modernist novel.
2. It has a completely different message than Blood Meridian.
3. Blood Meridian is effectively a revised version of Moby Dick, updating it's insights in relation to modern history's impact on the 'Moby Dick' type story. They are similar, but come to different philosophical conclusion.
4. Post anonymously. /lit/ doesn't need more tripfags.

[Anonymous No.2532696]

>>2532631
>Ask direct question
>References an unrelated book, and a genre I have no real opinion about
>Tells me to watch a movie rather than making an argument about the thing I didn't care or ask about.

[Anonymous No.2532709]

Dear tripfags ITT

This is not Reddit, and no, we do not care for your opinion. Yes, everyone thinks less of you now. Kindly fuck off and die.

Anon

[World's Biggest Cowboys Fan !!l6yz7yWn91a No.2532766]

>>2532709
>mad when tripfags are smarter and better read than him

I thought /lit/ was above such childish sages

[Anonymous No.2532767]

>>2532766
Why do you think it makes you superior to have to identify yourself on an obscure image board?

[Anonymous No.2533033]

>>2532622
>Cormac McCarthy
>modernist

[Anonymous No.2533075]

>>2532616
This