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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDwaJ0WCVE#t=88

literary rage thread?

>> No.4586716
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4586716

>>4586678
>1677+337
>Still being captive to affections that diminish your physical or spiritual potentia agendi

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions; and to this end I have looked upon passions, such as love, hatred, anger, envy, ambition, pity, and the other perturbations of the mind, not in the light of vices of human nature, but as properties, just as pertinent to it, as are heat, cold, storm, thunder, and the like to the nature of the atmosphere, which phenomena, though inconvenient, are yet necessary, and have fixed causes, by means of which we endeavour to understand their nature, and the mind has just as much pleasure in viewing them aright, as in knowing such things as flatter the senses.

>> No.4586722

5 thousand, that is all it takes to be on the list.

>> No.4586744

How can one adult man read so much horseshit?

>feminist reworking of Kafka's Metamorphosis

>> No.4586753

>>4586744
have you read it

>> No.4586761

>>4586753
Fly on the Wall

At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is “different” and everyone is “special,” Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She’s the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so she won’t have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but won’t do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy. One day, Gretchen wishes that she could be a fly on the wall in the boys’ locker room—just to learn more about guys. What are they really like? What do they really talk about? Are they really cretins most of the time?

>kafkaesque yo

>> No.4586766

>>4586761
no but have you

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>>4586766
>One day, Gretchen wishes that she could be a fly on the wall in the boys’ locker room—just to learn more about guys. What are they really like? What do they really talk about? Are they really cretins most of the time?

>> No.4586775

>>4586771
it's a simple question

>> No.4586778

>the image
>the other
>the individual
>the collective
>best 20th century writer

Ugh, baka

>> No.4586782

>>4586775
The answer is no. He's a posturing faggot. I mean, I know you know, but he's not going to bother admitting it.

>> No.4586784

>>4586775
It's a loaded question because you're looking for me to dismiss the book on spurious grounds or say something bad about feminism or something, so you can pounce on me in lowercase meta attack mode and show it IS possible to be both fyad fyad lol and a progressive feminist ally on the internet.

I just thought it sounded funny, bro. I didn't even look up the description until your shitlord radar went off.

>> No.4586793

Well he is one of the top YA writers. And most of the stuff he posted is chick lit and YA.

>> No.4586822

man this guy is into some real chick shit

>> No.4586829

Reminder. http://orangepenguino.tumblr.com/post/49710404941/john-green-hating-on-aristotle-x-we-justified

>> No.4586841

>>4586784
>this book is horseshit
>have you read it
>LOADED QUESTION

k

i've never read the book either and have no opinions about it, I just don't like the idea of vehemently dismissing something from a one sentence recommendation or short blurb

>> No.4586878

>>4586841
>i've never read the book either and have no opinions about it
why are you in this thread?

>> No.4586889

>>4586878
i'm about as well informed about it as everyone else who's commented on the book, including the OP who timestamped a one sentence recommendation that apparently inspired rage.

don't worry about me, even accounting for my ignorance i've been able to keep up with the conversation :)

>> No.4586907

>>4586716
Does that mean that before Spinoza, people didn't think of the human psyche as an object you could study?

>> No.4586920

>>4586753
>>4586841

Not who you're arguing with, but taking something famous like The Metamorphosis and giving it a feminist twist is just as bad as taking Moby Dick and giving it a steampunk twist or taking Long Day's Journey Into Night and making every character a furry. Its very premise invites ridicule, mostly because the author is just taking someone else's work and slapping a big fat gimmick onto it. #nerdfighters

>> No.4586930

>>4586920
You can't say that in general. There is a difference between giving it a philosophical or just a narrative twist.

>> No.4586931

>>4586920
well i still think the response from a reasonable person should be "well that's a really questionable premise i guess i'll either ignore it based on that alone or check it out so i can make an informed opinion" not "horseshit"

i am 100% sure that anon's life isn't so busy that he couldn't make the time to read one bad book. who knows he might learn something.