ITT: We talk genre fiction and make elitist nerds mad What genre related works have you been enjoying as of late?

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Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:46:04 2015 No.6237269 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: We talk genre fiction and make elitist nerds mad

What genre related works have you been enjoying as of late?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:49:30 2015 No.6237282 >>6237269 None, you caveman.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:50:03 2015 No.6237285

ITT: let's talk about poop and how we like to smear ourselves with poop. let's show the grownups we don't care!!!

haha poop, I said again. poop. I'm infantile, you see, I want to be Katie's little poopy-boy protruding and withdrawing as she struggles on the potty

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:53:02 2015 No.6237297 ITT: We talk dumpster dining and make connoisseur nerds mad What garbage have you been enjoying eating as of late?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:54:08 2015 No.6237301 >>6237269 The John Le Carre books. They're quite good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:54:51 2015 No.6237307 >genre fiction thread >all the replies are from people who don't like genre fiction >not simply ignoring the thread

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:57:11 2015 No.6237320

>>6237307
If i was an asshole i would ignore.
but since I am a good person I don't want tolerate this kind of anti-intellectual behaviors and am attempting to point out how stupid is it hoping that the OP will correct it later and become a better man for it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 13:57:45 2015 No.6237325 >>6237307 We do have a reputation to defend, we are the only truly patrician board here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:02:36 2015 No.6237349 Pocket Fulla Xans.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:06:37 2015 No.6237361 File: 11 KB, 300x100, 60.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6237285 look guys it's already working

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:08:39 2015 No.6237370 >>6237361 >just pretending to be retarded

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:08:59 2015 No.6237372 >>6237320 You're right. Crassly insulting something that someone likes has been proven to be an effective method of changing their mind. Keep it up

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:09:41 2015 No.6237373

>>6237269
Robin Hobb's Rainwild Chronicles tetralogy, but so far it's really sucked. The characters are boring and unappealing, while usually character building and development is her forte.
I'm dropping the last book and moving on to new Fitz stuff, let's hope it's as good as her old works for a change.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:09:58 2015 No.6237376 >>6237372 lmao what a salty post

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:11:16 2015 No.6237381 >nerds nerds are the ones who read genre fiction. learn the difference between intellectuals and nerds, manchild.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:13:46 2015 No.6237391 >>6237376 He's right, you know?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:15:19 2015 No.6237397 OP, if you hadn't made your opening statement then I'm sure this thread would have gone under the radar. Now it's just a display of /lit/'s finest craftsmen and their works of art.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:16:22 2015 No.6237402 >>6237391 who cares, call momma dweeb

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:16:48 2015 No.6237404 >>6237397 shut up cunt

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:17:43 2015 No.6237412 >>6237269 I've been a shameless elitist, so none.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:17:55 2015 No.6237415 >>6237381 >giving a shit about what non-interesting people call you

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:19:45 2015 No.6237421 >>6237415 any healthy individual would care about their surroundings, yes. anything else is dishonest

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:23:50 2015 No.6237436 File: 20 KB, 460x353, josh_brolin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ROASTING EIN EBIC BREAD

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:33:50 2015 No.6237465

>>6237320
>but since I am a good person I don't want tolerate this kind of anti-intellectual behaviors and am attempting to point out how stupid is it hoping that the OP will correct it later and become a better man for it.

I have like 50 fedora reaction images but none of them can even begin to convey the euphoria of this post.

I am glad that I got to see the first post of the postfedorism

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:44:14 2015 No.6237496 >>6237397 Nobody would have replied though This way it might eventually entice some discussion

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 14:59:05 2015 No.6237542 >>6237269 Honest question, why are you posting genre fiction on /lit/ of all places? Do you want to post fanfiction too?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 15:26:56 2015 No.6237658 >>6237542 It's not against the rules you cock

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 16:38:15 2015 No.6237888 >>6237658 It's the unwritten rules that really shape society.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 16:41:20 2015 No.6237899 File: 48 KB, 620x387, jimbo_jones.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6237888 It's my dick that really shapes your moms vagina.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 17:26:26 2015 No.6238079 File: 235 KB, 500x502, 1337385796360.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw pseudos believe a work of fiction can escape genre

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 17:48:05 2015 No.6238156 >>6237899 you should read less hentai.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 17:54:17 2015 No.6238176 A few questions Is Malazan worth it despite the length? The world building seems pretty interesting but I don't want to waste my time with something this long And is Brandon Sanderson good or shit?

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Sat Mar 7 17:54:41 2015 No.6238180 File: 89 KB, 614x432, 1412809843195.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/03/geek-culture-has-gone-mainstream-%E2%80%93-and-that%E2%80%99s-bringing-its-own-problems

ΟΥΤΙΣ Sat Mar 7 17:55:58 2015 No.6238183

>>6238180
>If you ever find yourself at a party full of “mainstream” literary types and you confess to having not encountered a book that everyone else considers vital, you may well be met by shocked stares. “Call yourself a reader when you haven’t read Ulysses, or Lolita?”

>It is my sincere belief that the most exciting literature being created right now is in the science-fiction and fantasy genres.

ΟΥΤΙΣ Sat Mar 7 17:57:26 2015 No.6238188

>>6238183
>Geek culture is not by its nature more liberal or tolerant than mainstream culture. There have always been reactionaries in the ranks and modern escapist creations such as Game of Thrones are as riddled with gang rapes and gratuitous racism as any other mainstream fiction. The difference in geek culture is its limitless capacity for self-analysis – and eventually, after the pub has closed and tempers have calmed down on Twitter, for self-improvement

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:02:07 2015 No.6238205

>>6238176
Sanderson is quite good. His books are generally enjoyable romps with interesting plots. His prose is workmanlike, and at its best it is invisible and lets you just get into the crazy worldbuilding and storyline he's created, which is honestly why people read him. If you rely on strong characterisation or prose to enjoy a book, avoid Sanderson.

The Way of Kings is amazing if you can deal with a 10 part series that will likely finish in 20 years. Otherwise Mistborn and Emperor's Soul are his best books.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:05:10 2015 No.6238217

>>6238183
>If you ever find yourself at a party full of “mainstream” literary types and you confess to having not encountered a book that everyone else considers vital, you may well be met by shocked stares. “Call yourself a reader when you haven’t read Ulysses, or Lolita?”

Yeah imagine expected a privately educated Oxford grad who works as a professional writer to have read some of the most famous novels in the english language.

This is why I don't get how reactionaries can claim these people should rule, most of them are ignoramuses and proud of it, we need to start chopping heads imo

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Sat Mar 7 18:07:18 2015 No.6238228 >>6238217 Call yourself a reader when you haven't read Homer or Shakespeare?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:12:09 2015 No.6238255 Why do you all hate fiction books so much??

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:25:28 2015 No.6238301

Library of America continue to publish a lot of crime fiction. Here's what's coming up this year, from http://blog.loa.org/2015/03/forthcoming-from-library-of-america.html :

>Elmore Leonard
>Four Novels of the 1980s
>City Primeval • LaBrava • Glitz • Freaky Deaky
>September 2015

>Women Crime Writers
>Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (two volumes)
>September 2015
>Volume One: The 1940s
>Laura, by Vera Caspary • The Horizontal Man, by Helen Eustis • In a Lonely Place, by Dorothy B. Hughes • The Blank Wall, by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
>Volume Two: The 1950s
>Mischief, by Charlotte Armstrong • The Blunderer, by Patricia Highsmith • Beast in View, by Margaret Millar • Fools’ Gold, by Dolores Hitchens

Leonard's novels are fun, though I do find his inclusion in the LOA series weird. His books are hardly on the level of Chandler or Hammett.

Out of the women crime writers books I've read Caspary, Hughes and Highsmith, and they're good. Hughes' In a Lonely Place is especially excellent.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:34:11 2015 No.6238326 >>6238255 These people hate Genre fiction because they feel they have something to prove. They think shitting on things makes them mature, when in reality it makes them seem like close minded children. It's possible to enjoy Genre and Literary

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:37:41 2015 No.6238339

>>6238326
This is some projection. I don't enjoy genre fiction anymore because i have read so much of it in the past. It's just recycled cliches and writing that fits a rigid structure.

All genre fiction offers is the plot, which isn't engaging when you have read the same plot many times before.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:38:30 2015 No.6238342

>>6238326
>It's possible to enjoy Genre and Literary

I switch back and forth between them for my reading. Reading too many genre books or too many 'literary' books one after the other can get tiresome, but mix them up and they're a great palate cleanser for each other. Every now and then you get a book that manages to combine the storytelling of genre fiction with the writing quality of lit-fic too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 18:39:30 2015 No.6238347 >>6238326 what you're doing here is assuming genuine maturity yourself and seeing other people's claims to it as mere pretension which attitude doesn't take you very far in life

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 19:15:08 2015 No.6238538 The Night Lords Omnibus, Pratchett's Night Watch&Thud! and The Infernal by Mark Doten (this one is a little more experimental/literary, admittedly). Fucking Blast.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 19:34:51 2015 No.6238628

Man, people who shit on genre fiction are the worst kind of people.
Not all writing has to be deep and literary.
Sometimes people just like to read something for entertainment or escapism. That's what genre fiction is for.
All these edgy shitposters here just have their heads so far up their asses they can't remember what fun looks like.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 19:37:03 2015 No.6238636 File: 1.46 MB, 581x328, smallpenishumiliation.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6237269

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 19:49:27 2015 No.6238686 >>6237269 The last one I read was Nocturna, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan but I got a shitty translation edition from the internet and I was so fucking pissed that I don't want to read for a while now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 19:50:28 2015 No.6238689 >>6238686 My bad, 'The Strain'.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 20:00:25 2015 No.6238740

>>6238176

I love the storm light archive, he's only written two so far, but the world is fascinating and absorbing without having to study a second tome in order to understand it all. It's a but tropey, but I have thoroughly enjoyed. Haven't read of his others though.

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 20:04:19 2015 No.6238753
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>>6238301
And that's in addition to the Ross Macdonald collection that's being released in May. Given its name, I assume they're planning a further volume for the 60s/70s too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 20:08:19 2015 No.6238765 >>6238342 This is pretty much my reading habits, to much of a similar style gets boring, and ruins what was probably going to be a good book

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 20:56:29 2015 No.6238925 >>6237307 This is one of the most autistic boards on the internet, of course they're going to reply,

Anonymous Sat Mar 7 21:32:05 2015 No.6239025
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>There is no class of vulgar publications about which there is, to my mind, more utterly ridiculous exaggeration and misconception than the current YA of the lowest stratum. This class of composition has presumably always existed, and must exist. It has no more claim to be good literature than the daily conversation of its readers to be fine oratory, or the lodging-houses and tenements they inhabit to be sublime architecture. But people must have conversation, they must have houses, and they must have stories. The simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious persons play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important. Every one of us in childhood has constructed such an invisible dramatis personae, but it never occurred to our nurses to correct the composition by careful comparison with Balzac. In the East the professional story-teller goes from village to village with a small carpet; and I wish sincerely that anyone had the moral courage to spread that carpet and sit on it in Ludgate Circus. But it is not probable that all the tales of the carpet-bearer are little gems of original artistic workmanship. Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; genre fiction is a necessity.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 7 23:01:07 2015 No.6239091 Black company is a good series

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 00:04:01 2015 No.6239298 File: 78 KB, 309x475, 1881716.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Dark World by Henry Kuttner. I'm a little over halfway through and it's alright...It starts a little cold but it is warming up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 00:06:19 2015 No.6239306 >>6239163 >ITT: We talk genre fiction and make elitist nerds mad Is that what genre fiction readers try to tell themselves to feel better?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 00:08:15 2015 No.6239312 >>6239306 meant to reply to >>6237269

Anonymous Sun Mar 8 04:38:11 2015 No.6239736

>>6237269
I'm reading the first Nagash novel of the relatively new Warhammer: End Times series.

The prose is actually surprisingly decent. It's not literature by any means, but I've actually yet to cringe at anything.

Sometimes I just like to read about liches and grimdark armies waging war, you know?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 04:42:32 2015 No.6239744 >>6239306 YOU MAD BRO? YOU MAD? GET TROLLED TROLLED HARD

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 05:29:08 2015 No.6239810 File: 121 KB, 510x336, rivers-of-london-.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rivers of London. I know /lit/ will shit on me for it but I'm a child at heart with childish tastes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 08:36:32 2015 No.6240185 >>6237269 Thank fuck for this thread, at least now we can herd all the same genrefags into a single thread like cattle

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 08:52:24 2015 No.6240225 >>6238228 fuck off and stop shitting on people. melville read shakespeare in his thirties.

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