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Do you guys have an author that every time you read his work you're like "fuck yeah, this guy just gets it".

Mark Twain is like that for me.

>> No.799353

I just felt that way reading Kafka's A Hunger Artist.

>> No.799360

No. I can't stop wondering what intensions the writer might have had and therefor I neglect the impressions I'm getting. I'm such a paranoid.

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799367

yea.

>> No.799373

Turgenev does it for me, sadly.

>> No.799375

>>799360
I feel you bro, I felt the same a few years ago.
Once you know how to let go, litterature is ten time more awesome - if possible.

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>> No.799382

>>799381
No, he does not "get it".

>> No.799385

"just gets" what?

I want to answer, but I'm honnestly unsure about what you mean.

>> No.799391

>>799385
he gets 'it'

>> No.799394
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799394

For me it's a tie between Brian Azzarello(even though he's a comic author) and Neil Gaiman, I often find myself thinking on the points they bring up about people in both society and as singular indivuals

>> No.799397

>>799353
What is the 'it' in A Hunger Artist?

>> No.799426

I don't think I've read any book that made me feel like the words were written on my soul.

>> No.799436
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799436

Hesse bro.

>> No.799437

Don DeLillo

>> No.799444

vonnegut gets it.

>> No.799447
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799447

this guy

>> No.799454

Joyce, Camus, Vonnegut... in that order.

>> No.799458

>>799436

Hesse just gets it man.

>> No.799460

>>799437
This a thousand times over.

>> No.799466

I think Hunter S. Thompson gets it

>> No.799468

Karl Marx for me.

>> No.799473

Orwell.
Especially when he bitches about the betrayal of the left-wing by the left-wing.

>> No.799499
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799499

This guy!

>> No.799504

Jonathan Swift

>> No.799528

William S. Burroughs gets it.

>> No.799527

>>799466
fuckin' a how could i have forgotten.

>> No.799549
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799549

This guy. Or Brian K. Vaughan.

>> No.799564

>>799499
>>799499

i know u trollan, but damn that book is horrible

>> No.799570

Steinbeck, man.

>> No.799577

P.G Wodehouse.

>> No.799578

>>799570
damn you and your Steinbeck

>> No.799585
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799585

>"fuck yeah, this chick just gets it."

FTFY

>> No.799630
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799630

This guy.

>> No.799632

Ayn Rand.

>> No.799644

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

>> No.799649

Lenin for me, more so than Marx.

>> No.799654

>>799644
no homo

>> No.799663

>>799644

>>Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

QFT.

>> No.799665

Oscar Wilde.

>> No.799668

Lenin, Dosty, Huxley, Rushkin and Orwell.

>> No.799698

>>799585

So getting it is staying in a loveless marriage until you put your head in an oven with your kids in the next room?

>> No.799706

Gogol, Dostoevsky, Dave Barry

>> No.799710

>>799698
No, getting it is being able to perfectly describe a feeling and she does it many times over in The Bell Jar and Ariel.

>> No.799719

>>799347

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>> No.799722

Orwell and Huxley. Although, their ideas and observations about things resonate with me I still believe we need a type of society that mixes their ideas of a dystopia. Freedom and intellectual pursuits must be for the elite few, not the masses. It's a sad prospect, but that's the only way we can stop society from constantly rising up and falling constantly. We need a stable base of people working for the benefit of the elite and they must be content with that.

>> No.799721

>>799436

Hesse x2

>> No.799738

>>799722

You, sir, are a monster.

>> No.799741

>>799722
Care to share any more of your 7th grade interpretations?

>> No.799742

>>799738

No, I'm realistic. Their views of the world are true, although they fail to see that their dystopian visions are the only solution. The masses cannot and probably never will be ready to live in harmony and under freedom. They're not intellectually ready or mature enough. Sure, the idea of being all free and happy is a great idea, but it's not realistic.

>> No.799745

>>799741

I'm not in 7th grade nor in high school at all anymore. It's true. Society needs a rigidly organized mass of proles and a free living upper class.

>> No.799746

>>799745
Fuck you. Either we're all free, or we're all slaves. No one should be privilaged.

Sage because this thread is going to go to shit

>> No.799747

>>799745 I'm not in 7th grade nor in high school at all anymore.

No, you just write like you are.

>> No.799752

>>799742
there is truth in your view. however, i believe those books were putting those ideas forth so we could, hopefully and with veracity, overcome them. Unfortunately, thanks to big corporations, a massive and manipulative media, and corrupt oligarchian (spelling?) officials in government, we are reaching a horrible conservative socialism as opposed to a possible positive socialism, speaking of the US of course. Anthropological speaking, though it may hundreds of years from, there will come a time when socialism is done right and those who can do will do what they love, and those who can't will probably do everything else, and they will be content with that due to their lack of ability and wanting to just live.

tldr; i don't fuckin' know here's a hypothesis....

>> No.799753

>>799746

All of us being free or all of us being slaves is not realistic. You'll destroy yourselves trying to achieve these unrealistic goals. The worthless and weak need to be trained to do all the work and the upper elites do whatever they want. However, the elite as we know them today would change drastically under this system. Wealth, race, nationality and gender would be horrible traits to choose the elite from.

>>799747

Sorry to rain on your little parade, child, but society has never been entirely free. If you want to at least make it stable, then an idea like this is the only solution.

>> No.799754

>>799722
>>799742

9.9/10

almost got me

>> No.799760

>>799752

There will always be corruption and bad things. The best we can do is make the masses content to live their lives in their toil and free up the free minds to do as they please. This would easily go for any prole child that shows promise. Not all those born within the prole class would be condemned to that life nor all those born in the elite class be allowed to live there for their lives if they do not show promise.

>> No.799765

Joyce.

>> No.799764

>>799746

>Either we're all free, or we're all slaves. No one should be privilaged.

Now who's spouting "7th grade interpretations?"

You are.

>> No.799770

>>799760
i understand and agree to a point. let us ALL remember that in Brave New World, they tried making everyone Alphas, on an island, and they all killed each other. We are not all created equal, whether born naturally or engineered in the way of BNW or Gattaca. BUT also remember Gattaca, sometimes the human condition and mind can go beyond its potential, can be great and go beyond what is originally considered its apex or potential. it is a difficult argument and i have not the answer my brothers, only discussion, as Socrates would have said.

>> No.799771

>>799745

>Society needs a rigidly organized mass of proles and a free living upper class.

Pretty much this. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." Doesn't mean we give up the struggle; it's necessary to keep the balance.

>> No.799780

ITT: faggot leftist authoritarians try to sway /lit/ into becoming brainwashed zombies.

>> No.799781

>>799764
>4chan consists of one person who disagrees with me

>> No.799791

>>799781

Are you mad because you actually thought society could be entirely egalitarian? We're not all equal. So rather than sitting around fighting about it, it's time we made an upper elite and put everyone else on the bottom. When new people are born (in both proles and elites) they are trained and judged. Should they not be elite material they are sent to the prole areas, should a prole be deemed worthy, they are sent to the elites. They wouldn't be stuck to their class simply by family lineage or wealth.

>> No.799793

>>799780
some of us are open to discussion. maybe you are a fucking close minded brainwashed teabagger... you know what else is called teabagging, putting balls in the mouth. fuckin' teabagger....

>> No.799797

>>799791
he is describing Plato's idea of an oligarchy people. Get that in your head before putting forth a stupid "you a faggot" response. not saying i agree... i am for egalitarian actually, but i don't see it reasonably possible. There must be some in between i think

>> No.799801

>>799797

Did you quote the wrong person? I am for an upper elite class. Although based on very different criteria than today's elite. Also, I am interested to hear your ideas on what the "in between" idea would be.

>> No.799816

>>799791
>Implying that everibody doesn't have potential.

Not counting Dawn Syndrome etc.

>> No.799826

>>799447

>> No.799823

>>799816

The majority of people do not have potential. The few that do would make it known and either become an elite or stay as a prole. The majority of people are nothing more than primal beasts in human bodies, very few are actually thinking and understanding beings.

>> No.799837

>>799801
i meant oligarchy in the sense that Plato thought the government should be ruled by philosophers and the most intelligent i.e. ELITISTS capitalized that to show, you know, that it was relevant. I don't know how to create the in between, or middle road between elitism and egalitarianism, at least not without thinking and meditating on it for quite some time, then after coming upon an answer, breaking it down to make sure it is not faulty. it would take time and i am not arrogant enough to just throw an idea out there and "this is how it is/ should be". i must think on it.

>> No.799852

Fyodor Dostoevsky

>> No.800439

Me too, Mark Twain the one and only

>> No.800463

I know it's going to sound silly, but Connie Willis. Everything she writes is just like, wow, that was done perfectly

>> No.800477

Stephen king

>> No.800482

Asimov.

Elitists gonna hate

>> No.800485

Stephe n kin g

>> No.800493

George orwell, 1984 was amazing for me

>> No.800500

>>799722
What? This is exactly what Orwell and Huxley went against!
You, sir are what's wrong with this world.

>> No.800529

Holy shit /lit/ is filled with pricks, sorry guys but I hopped in here to see what it was like, as I enjoy literature way to much, but really all I see is a bunch of oxford british literature majors sipping tea and discussing the trivialities of the common folk. You guys need to stop being so...so...douchie

BTW my favorite author has to be either joyce or orwell (or asimov but he's more science fiction so I didn't want to include him)

>> No.800545

Marquis De Sade

>> No.800547

>>800529
I forgot burgess, a clockwork orange stuck with me like a tolchock on the gulliver.

>> No.800549

As bad as it sounds, Bukowski is my "guy who just gets it".

>> No.800551

the oet Fanny Howe, like, gets it

>> No.800564

Vonnegut was really cool on many levels.

For nonfiction? I would go with Andrew Bacevitch

>> No.800585

dostoevsky gets me every time

>> No.800591

have to agree with vonnegut and dostoevsky, definitely.

>> No.800594

>>800564
>Vonnegut
Seems to be a favorite of people without a clue.

>> No.800598

Heinlein.

>> No.800600

John Updike is my middle white American go-to guy.

>> No.801283

I've yet to be disappointed with a Nick Cave novel.

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>>801283

Bunny Munro was pretty amusing (and he did a good job with the audiobook), but it kind of hobbled out at the end into dramatic cliches. Ass/Angel might have had similar problems but I can't recall.