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Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:03:08 2015 No.6205503 [DELETED]

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>first day of new English course I enrolled in
>classmate next to me is asked who is favourite author is
"Stephen King"
>goddammit.jpg

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:06:52 2015 No.6205515 >>6205503 you're not going to find many people who read books in an english department

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:13:19 2015 No.6205542 What level course is it? Might just be someone knocking out a gen-ed. Regardless, if I could write like Stephen King I'd be pretty happy about myself. You should probably chill out instead of calling everyone a pleb under your breath.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:14:20 2015 No.6205543 File: 69 KB, 900x900, 1371264275196.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6205503 >patrician /lit/izen >still say Stephen King is my favorite author in my grad school lit courses Sorry I enjoy fun, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:20:59 2015 No.6205564 That's what you get for taking an English class.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:25:06 2015 No.6205579 GRRM would be my favorite English author if he didn't take more than half a decade to release a book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:26:33 2015 No.6205585 >>6205543 You're a pleb who doesn't appreciate real art.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:28:01 2015 No.6205593 File: 71 KB, 360x403, 1389285810996.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6205585 Art satisfies my soul, Stephen King entertains me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:31:19 2015 No.6205610 >>6205543 By "Sorry I enjoy fun" in art you promote the shittiest of ideals

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:39:43 2015 No.6205640 >>6205610 He's not saying it's perfect, just fun.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:42:53 2015 No.6205650 >>6205543 >patrician so much delusion

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 10:52:26 2015 No.6205679 >being favourite >being considered good you fucks will never learn

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 11:01:12 2015 No.6205705 File: 6 KB, 300x177, 1422282311402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6205593 one's art is another one's fart

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 11:24:08 2015 No.6205754 >>6205705 that's exactly the kind of shit a pleb would spout off

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 11:43:32 2015 No.6205803 File: 14 KB, 262x350, 1645584858_american_flag_xlarge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6205754 why is that? can't understand someone else's principles? can't handle subjectivity? upset over what defines art?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 12:47:01 2015 No.6206016 >>6205705 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofn8-3SWd8M

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 12:52:16 2015 No.6206040 >>6205579 >Sacrifice quality for quantity!

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 12:55:35 2015 No.6206059 I think anyone who can't read Stephen King for a little fun time downtime is just insecure about their reading habits. Elitism at its core is just fear of being thought of as less than.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 13:00:36 2015 No.6206084 >>6206059 Good post that. Apposite and whatnot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 13:04:04 2015 No.6206105 >>6205503 Who gives a shit? At least he was honest. Try not to be a snobby, insufferable prick.

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 13:08:19 2015 No.6206124

Thing is, King isn't 'shit', exactly. He has vivacious ideas that captivate people, writes from the gut and knows his audience. But he desperately needs an editor - DESPERATELY - and writes dialogue that passes muster at best and is flat-out cringeworthy at worst.
I'm not ashamed to have read two or three of his books (when I once considered reading an SK book an unspeakable sin) but there were many moments where I cringed, hard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 13:44:45 2015 No.6206293 >>6205543 you're an idiot to call yourself a patrician >>6205585 >>6205610 you're idiots for getting upset over what other people like I'm an idiot for taking the time to post about this on a cambodian kids show chat room

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 15:56:28 2015 No.6206803 >Not liking Misery >Not liking Different Seasons >Being too much of a patrician cock to enjoy a fun read every once in a while

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:19:20 2015 No.6206879 File: 282 KB, 540x391, 1424907405300.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6205803 > all opinions are of equal merit

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:24:24 2015 No.6206894 Steven king is who got me started reading. Does that make me a bad person?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:26:24 2015 No.6206902 File: 760 KB, 678x643, 1425004357891.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6206894 no, it makes you not a person at all. go back to harlem ; )

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:27:18 2015 No.6206906

>>6205803
That's pretty much the problem of the entire pseudo-intellectual set here on /int/.

They place more value on being percieved as "intellectual elites" than enjoyment.

Which is an ultimately unsatisfying way to live.

That's why they shitpost so venomous and incessantly; because they are deeply unhappy and despise those who can take joy from such simple fare as a nice pulp horror novel, out of a combination of envy and self-aggrandizing scorn.

This is not a place for the properly wise, or the learned, because the truly wise by and large don't mind what others do as long as it doesn't hurt them.

It is however, a hive of insufferable autistic busybodies with a tragicomic sense of their own "grandeur", and a desire to be recognised for it even in such an ultimately banal and irrelevant context as an anonymous imageboard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:29:11 2015 No.6206914 >>6206906 It's honestly pathetic you're this butthurt over autistic cookie-cutter fantasy and you should be ashamed. I mean this in a purely non-memetic manner, I think you should probably go to reddit. It will be better for your blood pressure.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:30:50 2015 No.6206919 File: 161 KB, 500x628, Unrustlement.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6206914 This is my first post in this thread friend. Has someone injured your pride?

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:39:03 2015 No.6206949

>>6206919
And it was a diatribe about how upset you are that you were told you enjoy shitty stuff. It's exactly like if a teenage girl threw a similar fit in defense of whatever the current reining pop artist is. Your stale memes don't mask the fact that you're obviously a mad retard, forcing yourself to come to a place you don't even enjoy because you are an idiot. Again, /v/, in this case it sounds like r/books is actually, not-as-a-joke where you want to be.

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:44:51 2015 No.6206973

>>6206949
I'm not upset mate.

I'm bewildered tbh.

How does some fuckhead sitting comfily on his beanbag chair with a Stephen King novel make you so very mad?

The mind boggles.

Anyway, I'm not gonna get into a whole "u mad" "no u mad" thing with you, because chances are we'e both atually pretty grounded human beings who don't get teary over the opinions of anonyymous talking heads.

But damn man, have some class.

Real patricians don't need to yammer on about how patrician they are and how pleb everybody else is; because they know it's self evident.

Seeking affirmation from others is the mark of the neophyte.

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:52:25 2015 No.6207001

>>6206973
Here's the kicker: I'm not one of those people, I'm just telling you to shut up. You try to forgoe some dumb meme back and forth you initiated and then start vomiting bullshit about "real patricians". Stop being an idiot. Stop taking the bait. Stop not being able to handle the banter. Go to reddit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:53:56 2015 No.6207009 >>6207001 Dude, calm down.

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 16:56:54 2015 No.6207021

>>6207009
>I literally cannot help myself from posting the shittiest meme but I'm still obviously assmad over shitty books

Top kek. Enjoy being a toxic pointless retard I guess, I'm gonna go read DFW. I look forward to your next essay on how upset the board has made you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:03:27 2015 No.6207053 >>6207021 Okay, I hope you enjoy it, cause, y'know, cause people should read the books they like and not be autistic about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:04:51 2015 No.6207059 >>6207053 No you'd just prefer to cry about how hard you got trolled because you're a dumb faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:05:41 2015 No.6207064 >>6207059 Mate, you've got a book to read. You should go do that. It'l make you happy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:09:56 2015 No.6207081 >>6207064 He won't because he's secretly butthurt and probably doesn't even enjoy reading.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:11:19 2015 No.6207089 >>6205585 Art is stupid because people try to make it instead of a book whenever they write.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:22:07 2015 No.6207122 File: 374 KB, 1300x1950, stephen king.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6207081 His loss, I know my buddy here always has my back.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:25:34 2015 No.6207136 The question isn't who the best author is, it's who their favorite author is. People can have a favorite author or book for all sorts of personal reasons, the author doesn't have to be objectively great.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:27:55 2015 No.6207140 >>6206906 This post is 100% true and everyone secretly knows it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:28:46 2015 No.6207144 I think the problem people have with him is that they read his stuff under a magnifying glass. He's by no means perfect, but he is a good writer for casual readers who want a fun read that they can follow.

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 17:30:35 2015 No.6207152

>>6207136
Exactly. Lovecraft is still my favorite author because he made a huge impact in my life, even though it's been quite a while since I've read anything by him. I've read many better authors and enjoyed them, but none of them feels as close as HPL.
It's kinda like family, they might be assholes and you might meet a lot of better people in your life, but you still feel attached to them and probably won't love anyone else as much as them.

Anonymous Sat Feb 28 18:05:54 2015 No.6207285
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Seems the place to ask. I've read a few king books before and didn't think much of imsomnia or geralds game (in terms of plot and prose) and thought that the stand was fairly good but not great. However I've seen numerous films based on his books that I have enjoyed so I feel like I should give him another shot. What book should I try first /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 18:17:08 2015 No.6207330 >>6205579 He's American.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 18:22:19 2015 No.6207339 File: 955 KB, 360x360, 1423286242310.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6205503 >first day of new English course I enrolled in >classmate next to me is asked who is favourite author is "God" >goddammit.gif

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 18:37:06 2015 No.6207396 >all this pleb >on /lit/ of all places I WANT NEOLIT TO LEAVE GO TO REDDIT I WANT NEOLIT TO LEAVE GO TO REDDIT ELITISM ENCOURAGES EXCELLENCE I WANT NEOLIT TO LEAVE

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 21:02:33 2015 No.6207951 >>6207339 lol >>6207396 Normally I'd agree with you about elitism encouraging excellence, but you're on 4chan for fuck's sake.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 21:28:29 2015 No.6208054 >>6205585 >I'm an autist that shit-posts on 4chan while pretending to be intellectual

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 21:30:07 2015 No.6208061 File: 23 KB, 1214x280, 10854312_10204520716571238_4564554153077500967_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6206906 >Here on /int/

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 28 21:33:42 2015 No.6208071 >>6205503 Maybe you should have worked harder in High School and not gone to a shit-tier pleb school?

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