/lit/ - Literature

>>3698886
he can argue that Mersault hasn't got any existential sensibilities or thoughts, though. The book gives you his thoughts in bare terms, I'm sure he could do it.

>>3695737
>>3695733
heh I just read this

it's pretty enjoyable/easy and super short

>>3698875
>that post

jesus christ that fucking post im so mad

>>3689229
I guess that's true

entry level does seem like a very derisive term

>>3689077
kill yourself

invisible man was on my 11th grade syllabus, and so was the odyssey and innumerable shakespear plays


the Stranger is a good novella

>>3687959
Pretentious =/= academic or intellectual

no music or film requires as much cerebral thought as reading academic nonfiction

but yeah, I guess pretentiousness has to do with it too.

>>3687951
nah, I think it's unique to /lit/

the other boards shit on stuff, but with literature you have people talking about recursion in linguistics and readings of bolano, and all sorts of intellectual as shit stuff, then you have people talking about books that have the intellectual worth of CoD or Naruto. No other medium of mindless entertainment rubs shoulders with such a stodgily academic member of the same class of thing.

>>3687941
it's because books are so hamstrung in the modern age by every other medium that what tiny iota of mainstream or semi-mainstream thought literature does get comes off as morbid and disgusting.

People, uncles, aunts, friends, co-workers, heaping praise on Cloud Atlas or GoT or XYZ book as if they're the pinnacle of reading today, despite a billion other books being as accessible and usually much better. It's not like the recordings or CG is better now. There's no reason for my aunt to be reading Cloud Atlas over anything else other than advertising telling her to buy that book. Granted, that happens in music and movies too, but with literature there's so much less room for anything else. It's either completely obscure or the fucking Today Show is talking to the author about it.

Of course it's a pitiful and pathetic thing when we bother worrying about what other people do or like, but it's hard to not feel superior to people who engage on a less deep level with something you actually spend a lot of time with,

>>3687940
only because music is 100% subjective

people there talk about taylor swift positively sometimes. Often it's the same poster who loves merzbow or the black dice

this is going to be the worst shit

i'm having trouble dealing with this it's so fucking bad

>>3642527
go to bed

i didn't do any studying and stayed up until 3 playing brood war the night before i got a perfect score on the math and reading but not the writing. I'm not smart but I read really fast and do mental math really fucking well. Do the research on the rubric for the writing is my advice.

doing a drug you know helps you concentrate or perform beforehand will help, too. caffeine if nothing else

>>3635669
all boards are

>>3591748
>explain what you're talking about
>lol look it up! its true but ur just 2 dumb stupid to know abot it XD

or you could just elaborate

anyway the positive integers objectively exist

>>3558559
>I do not know if Garcia Marquez deserves to be considered an author of that supreme level on the basis of his complete works, but if 100 Years be the criterion of judgment, he is, for me, among the greatest writers of all time.

you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded

>>3553364
is it still being pretentious if you're completely retarded?

i guess...

>>3553358
Infinite Jest

>>3553360
i actually do frequent /pol/ for fun a lot, but I don't think it's the best place for fringe views if you're looking for honest, non rhetorical dialogue. Maybe one shouldn't look for that?

And yeah, I think that's probably true of nomsky

>>3553330
/pol/ is another level of shit, though

i wasn't ready

I wanted a quiet night of /mu/ and /lit/ with maybe some /fa/

I wasn't prepared

>>3553314
well as someone who only listens to Onykokei and can only tolerate asemic poetry i think i know what i'm talking about when i say you're a plen

>>3553268
!?

are you saying that's a good thread? I can drop trip if it makes you feel better

nothing in that thread was a nuanced criticism of nomsky

>>3553280
the stranger is totally babby's first deep novel

1984 obviously has nothing below the surface, but the Stranger is literally all (nearly surface level) interpretation

>>3553276
well obviously that's subjective

I'm confident you like shitty bullshit of lower quality than either. Whether it's that you secretly still love Dookie or The White Stripes, or you like Neil Gaiman or Tolkein, I'm sure you like something with less worth as a work of art than either.

>>3553252
i'd rather just pay someone 20$ and give them a tvtorrents 100 credit hour invite though

the worst part about both works is the edgy hatred of them both. The people hating them hate them because they're popular in this subculture, not because they're bad. It's the sub-pop and some people will do/say anything to differentiate themselves from pop. They're both pretty great works and stand out as among the best of their years or perhaps even decades of release.