/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8647857]

/lit/ cringe thread?

[Anonymous No.8648093]

[Anonymous No.8648116]

>>8648093

>hiding deeper in your stupidity while simultaneously thinking you're above it

even his non fiction shit, is shit though, i wish the name wasn't blurred so we could see the art.

[Anonymous No.8648181]

http://thehealthywarrior.tumblr.com/post/12643733123/date-a-girl-who-reads-by-rosemarie-urquico-in

[Anonymous No.8648190]

>>8648181
This is me

[Anonymous No.8648197]

>>8648181
>who has had a library card since she was twelve
lmfao

[Anonymous No.8648231]

>>8648190
london... infinite london

[Anonymous No.8649904]

>>8648181
>tiny light grey font on white background
did not start reading

[Anonymous No.8649918]

>>8649904

For someone that reads she sure doesn't want her shit read.

[Anonymous No.8649957]

>>8648181
>give her pounding sexton cummings

[Anonymous No.8650016]

[Anonymous No.8650019]

>>8650016
Come on man that's obviously a joke.

[Anonymous No.8650035]

>>8650019
is it?

[Anonymous No.8650056]

>>8648181
>Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

I just love it when some guy interrupts me while I'm minding my own business. That's like my biggest turnon.

[Anonymous No.8650063]

>>8650035
It is.

[Anonymous No.8650064]

>>8648181
>Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent.
Fucking redpilled

[Anonymous No.8650066]

>>8650019
http://reason.com/blog/2015/05/12/trigger-warning-mythology

[Anonymous No.8650068]

>>8650063
and what makes you so certain

[Anonymous No.8650090]

>>8648190
>>8650056
Do you actually read literature, or just read teen romances?

[Anonymous No.8650098]

>>8650019
>>8650063
here's a few more of her reviews:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/679193635
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/833802604
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/680460245

[Anonymous No.8650101]

>>8650016
>twf when the translator's preface in my edition of Satyricon actually includes a trigger warning

[Anonymous No.8650106]

>>8650019
>>8650063
Does she look like she's joking?

[Anonymous No.8650113]

>>8650101
which translation?

[Anonymous No.8650115]

>>8650066
>>8650068
>>8650098
>>8650106

Okay lads, I take it all back, you convinced me. It's not a joke. Christ.

[Anonymous No.8650119]

>>8650016
How do these people cope with daily life? Nothing there to coddle them.

[Anonymous No.8650134]

>>8647857
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.8650138]

>>8650119
They don't.
They suck up their parents money like vampires and live in their echo-chambers.

They're the new neckbeards.

[Anonymous No.8650205]

>>8650113
A German one by Wilhelm Heinse. It was written in 1772, but apparently it's not as outdated as I thought.

[Anonymous No.8650226]

>>8650106
Would smash, and run.

[Anonymous No.8650233]

>>8650226
Anon she looks like a tranny, why the fuck would you go anywhere near her Arby's?

[Anonymous No.8650261]

>>8650233
Because I'm an equally goofy looking man and I need sex.

[Anonymous No.8650457]

[Anonymous No.8650730]

>>8650457
>Homer(not Simpson)

[Anonymous No.8650866]

>>8648181

>They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow

I just threw up in my mouth a little

[Anonymous No.8650877]

>>8650457
whats worse, praising dylan or shakespeare? its tough, but i still have to say dylan. i do fucking hate the shit out of shakespeare tho.

[Anonymous No.8650902]

>>8650098
Christ

[Anonymous No.8650904]

>>8650877
I know this is all heresy, and coming from a writer no less, but I don’t care. I’m trying to understand why Shakespeare is still being read hundreds of years after his death. What is so profound and incredible in his work? I cannot for the life of me see it.

It’s 16th century schlock, and I’m pretty sure that was the point. Shakespeare’s plays were the equivalent of a big-budget movie, designed to distract and offer some form of entertainment, and nothing more. This is not high-art, and whoever first claimed such is an idiot. And it doesn’t have to be high-art. If people still get some entertainment out of Hamlet, good for them.

[Anonymous No.8650918]

>>8650877
lol try harder

[Anonymous No.8650937]

>>8650904
If you want an honest answer, it's the psychological realism of some of his characters. Name a 16th century writer that was capable of writing with this much verisimilitude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q89MLuLSJgk

[Anonymous No.8651042]

>>8650904
It's his phrases, many of which are so well-done they've been quoted far too often and become cliches.

Many of the plots that he uses are recycled from elsewhere and strain credulity so much that if you came up with them these days you'd be laughed out of every publisher's office.

[Anonymous No.8651087]

>>8651042
Shakespeare's work wasn't about the plots, it was about the characters and language. And that's true of nearly every great writer.

[Anonymous No.8651091]

>>8650918
not even joking. i hate the jew and i hate the limey old fuck.
>muh post colonial influence rejection

[Anonymous No.8651112]

>>8650106

[Anonymous No.8651117]

>>8651091
Shakespeare is in the rare group of immortals where someone disliking him is more likely due to their ignorance of why his work is great rather than a legitimate aesthetic opinion

[Anonymous No.8651122]

>>8651112
>blackness

[Anonymous No.8651131]

>>8650457
>or Homer (not Simpson)

[Anonymous No.8651404]

>>8650937
I completely agree, my post was simply an exact copy of someone who gave Hamlet 1 star review on goodreads

[Anonymous No.8651618]

>>8650937
I'm always amazed at how horrible the globe/professionals act shakespeare. They don't understand the beats whatsoever. This guy just looks at the fucking camera the whole time (seems not to notice that he's addressing a crowd). wtf

[Anonymous No.8651789]

>>8651112
Honestly I had the same experience. I got to page 50 or so and I realized I was reading without absorbing a thing. It's a good book though.

[Anonymous No.8652069]

>>8650056
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRuwR2JSXI

[Anonymous No.8652073]

>>8650119
They don't. They build up small groups or people willing to support them for some reason. That is how you get projects like “Gay Men Drawing Vaginas”

[Anonymous No.8652076]

>>8650866
like you have not licked the fungus out of an old book

[Anonymous No.8652078]

>>8650904
Because his stories are ok and he made a lot of words in the dictionary, such people are national treasures

[Anonymous No.8652082]

>>8651122
is it niggerdom? every definition of blackness I have seen has been A) about racial superiority of blacks or B) rejection of all western values

[Anonymous No.8652124]

>>8648181
I feel like this can't be real. Something seems off about it.

[Anonymous No.8652182]

>>8650056
Please show me your feet

[Anonymous No.8652193]

>>8650056
Post your feet.

[Anonymous No.8652864]

>>8648181
>mfw I remember this being shared on Facebook by girls at my high school

[Anonymous No.8653114]

>>8650134
I don't either.

It might be the fact they managed to twist AF into 3 hours?

[Anonymous No.8653147]

>>8650115
I was with you 'till the very end.
>>8650205
Nigger there's one at the beginning of Decameron. Ironically, it's very, very sexist.

[Anonymous No.8653225]

>>8652124
I don't get it. It seems like a response to a straight reading of http://thoughtcatalog.com/charles-warnke/2011/01/dont-date-a-girl-who-reads/ (also /lit/cringe btw). But that'd be autistic, so maybe it is also ironic? But then it doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous No.8653646]

>>8650937
Not only that it's also written beautifully

[Anonymous No.8653651]

>>8651117
Completely this.

I have these two otherwise intelligent buddies I've known since I was 8 and they're spiritual desserts