/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3077416]

i liked post office and didn't like the sun also rises. is my brain damaged beyond repair? i also like the catcher in the rye

i like bob dylan and leonard cohen a lot

[Anonymous No.3077444]

Outlook not good.

[Anonymous No.3077472]

>>3077444
what do i do? how do i repair myself? is there salvation?

also i like one hundred years of solitude a lot. am i the music-listener equivalent of the people who think radiohead and modest mouse are the best bands ever?

[Anonymous No.3077477]

>>3077472
>what do i do? how do i repair myself? is there salvation?
Don't count on it.

>am i the music-listener equivalent of the people who think radiohead and modest mouse are the best bands ever?
Signs point to yes.

[Anonymous No.3077481]

This is a set up for me. I'm not going to fall for it.

[Anonymous No.3077491]

>>3077481
i'm not trying to set anyone up. i'm almost asking for recommendations on how not to become a pleb, or more of a pleb.

i haven't read many books, though. could it be that?

[Anonymous No.3077494]

>>3077493
pls don't. pls ;_;

[Anonymous No.3077493]

>>3077491
Go back to /mu/.

[Anonymous No.3077507]

>>3077491
We have a sticky. Feel free to use it. Stay away from Bukowski.

[Anonymous No.3077513]

>>3077507
Why the Bukowski hate?

[Anonymous No.3077520]

>>3077513
/lit/ is pretentious and hates anything that isn't high brow or a classic.

[Anonymous No.3077546]

>>3077513
This is a trick and I don't time to really argue with anyone right now (and I'm sure someone can tell you my views) but in short: He is lazy bad writing and the people that support him will call him blunt, raw, straightforward, etc and then in the same breath will tell you he is "misunderstood" and call his style not lazy but "just straight-forward" and some other guy around here calls it "minimal". Then they will tell you its the best way to tell a story (this lazy writing), and they'll say how I'm sad sack because I have a higher standard of reading. They will then say "oh you need feels and explantions!!! What a lozer lul" and make themselves look like idiots and then repeat my quote about how Bukowski's humor is dry and like an old florida jew and they will give the age I usually give wrong. Then sometimes a bunch of guys come in and say "Bukowski isn't the best, BUT HE IS STILL GOOD DAMN IT." And then the Bukowski people, once out of room to run, turn into trolls. That's about how it goes every time. So in short, Bukowski is a lazy writer with old jew humor and no amount of apologetics for him will fix it. I just saved us all about an hour or more.

[Anonymous No.3077549]

have you read either of cohen's novels? i've only read Beautiful Losers but i thought it gave an awesome insight to his lyrics/personality ...

[Anonymous No.3077576]

>>3077546
>Myself:
>alot
Opinion discarded.

[Anonymous No.3077582]

>>3077576
There's one of them now. Quick, deploy apologetics buk sucker!

[Anonymous No.3077587]

>>3077582
roach detected

[Anonymous No.3077599]

>>3077549
no i haven't. i plan to, though.

[Anonymous No.3077600]

>>3077599
Get to it, son.

[Anonymous No.3077604]

>>3077520
I don't like Bukowski and it's not because of that. I have read him and liked him very much, but it comes to a point when it is always the same things said, over and over again. It becomes a bit boring, despite it is well written or plotted. He was a good writer to me, but what he had to say was said it all in Factotum and in A COUPLE of short stories or poems, the rest is just a repetion of the same.

[Anonymous No.3077612]

>>3077587
And he turns into a troll instantly.

[Anonymous No.3077614]

>>3077600
i might do that next. i was thinking of reading don quijote, but i might do that next.

also, is there a hivemind opinion of one hundred years of solitude?

[Anonymous No.3077617]

>>3077614
https://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=years+of+solitude

[Anonymous No.3077626]

>>3077617
thanks. i didn't know there was a /lit/ archive