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>> No.4059987 [View]

Replace DFW with Murakami and I'll agree with you.

Haruki Murakami is a plagiarist and an untalented, unimaginative author.

He stole the name for his book "1Q84" from George Orwell's most famous work entitled "1984".

Ha! How clever, I'll replace the "9" with "Q" and no one will notice anything! Even though Q and 9 are homophones in Japanese language and pronouncing the names of these two novels in Japanese would sound the same.

But this wasn't the first time something like this happened. Seven years earlier, he used Franz Kafka's last name to name the main protagonist of his novel "Kafka on the Shore" and basically the book itself.

He also took the name of that the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood" for that title of his one book.

Why is this guy so uncreative? Why does he have to steal things from other authors?

And why are his books so awful and nonsensical? If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit, right?

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/lit/, is life worth living?

>> No.3088602 [View]

>>3088591
Goddamn, that scene with a cat was fucking horrible. Bela Tarr is a horrible director anyways, what's the point of his films?

Of course, there will always be people who will like this. But I wonder why would anyone make a film like that?

Like every Tarr's film, it has no story and relies strongly on atmosphere, which doesn't do much for me. Why would I want to watch characters doing nothing or performing their mundane, everyday activities like eating or taking a piss? Why would someone make that thing when there's real life already? What's the point of such a movie then? And long shots are really pointless and stupid. At least with Tarkovsky they have a sense of narrative purpose, and look beautiful, but what's Tarr's excuse?

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>>2958499
>>2958501
>>2958507
So I am "trolling" because you've never read those books?

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If you haven't read:

Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

You clearly don't know what good literature is at all and are in no position to dole out criticism of any novel's story because you're not well read enough to know what good writing and bad writing is.

Deal with it.

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Hey /lit/.

What's the difference between Machiavellianism, utilitarianism and pragmatism?

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Why did they call him "The Father of Lies"?

>> No.2675746 [View]

Every time I visit /lit/ I see at least one DFW/Infinite Jest thread on the front page, heh.


Also yes, It's the greatest book of all time.

>> No.2663618 [View]

>>2663549
Uhh, but I liked Meursault a lot.

>>2663608
He just is.

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What are some books with unlikeable protagonists?

Picture only slightly related, I guess.

>> No.2656174 [View]

/a/ pls go

>> No.2656165 [View]

>>2656142
EVA tries to shortcut being deep (and falls flat on its face in the attempt) without having any actual depth. Just shit loads of red herrings to make you think it does. Meaningless religious iconography and simple, outdated Freudian psychology is not deep.

People are fucking morons. Despite Anno admitting that all the symbolism was bullshit, people like you still cling to belief that there is more meaning to it.

Anno used things in his anime just because it would make him seem smart. He's admitted to this as well. One example is how he titles an episode based on Kierkegaard (The Sickness Unto Death, And…), but the episode has NOTHING to do with his concepts.

>> No.2656122 [View]

Probably a troll, but all anime is shit except LoGH, which was only decent, but that's it..

Japan produces a lot of shit. I hate how emotionally flat the characters are, and ugh I feel stupid for saying this but they are so 2 dimensional. Basically autistic fucks like it, everyone in every anime acts like a 15 year old boy.

And anime fans in general seem to have little or no experience with other mediums which makes them easily impressed with anything that isn't written for someone in high school.

There is no anime on the level of for example Bergman or Kieslowski.

Also, you can tell what kind of people are attracted to anime if you go to /a/. We don't have doubles, endless copypasta threads, people acting like 10 year olds and other shit like that on /lit/.

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>>2646180
>>2646203
Too bad I wrote it, so it technically isn't copypasta.

>> No.2646158 [View]

Haruki Murakami is a plagiarist and an untalented, unimaginative author.

He stole the name for his book "1Q84" from George Orwell's most famous work entitled "1984".

Ha! How clever, I'll replace the "9" with "Q" and no one will notice anything! Even though Q and 9 are homophones in Japanese language and pronouncing the names of these two novels in Japanese would sound the same.

But this wasn't the first time something like this happened. Seven years earlier, he used Franz Kafka's last name to name the main protagonist of his novel "Kafka on the Shore" and basically the book itself.

He also took that Beatles song "Norwegian Wood" for that title of his one book.

Why is this guy so uncreative? Why does he have to steal things from other authors?

And why are his books so awful and nonsensical? If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit, right?

>> No.2604143 [View]

>>2604122
LoGH > Serial experiments Lain > Ergo Proxy > Boku no pico > NGE = Ghost in a shell

But even LoGH isn't that good. I remember I had big expectations for LoGH because everyone on /a/ loves it so much, but in the end I was disappointed. It's better than every other anime out there, but it's still childish, immature and illogical. I guess that anime fans like LoGH because they have little experience with other mediums, which makes them easily impressed with anything that isn't written for someone in high school. There will never be anime on the level of for example Bergman, Kubrick or Kieslowski.

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>>2604102
>intellectual anime
It's true, there's no such thing. All anime is stupid and immature.

>> No.2592691 [View]

Cool /lit/ thread, guys.

>> No.2588662 [View]

Go away /sp/.

>> No.2577744 [View]

>>2577675
Shut the fuck up you fucking retard. What about all those people who consume marijuana as a medicine? None of them ever get any cancer. Even if it possible to get lung cancer from smoking marijuana (this has never been proven!), marijuana is still extremely healthy for people. It helps in prevention of Alzheimer's, tumors, it helps people with asthma as a bronchial inhibitor, it takes care of pain, nausea, etc, etc.

Are you retarded? Are you autistic? You are a fucking idiot.

"Weed's so benign lol", "Weed can cause cancer!", they make it look like some kind of crazy super opiate that makes you trip balls. You don't trip balls, shrooms make you trip balls. Weed makes you happy, hungry, and sleepy. Do some study you moron.

Also, it doesn't kill brain cells. In fact a somewhat recent study showed that weed helped stimulate cell growth in the brain. Alcohol, nicotine and cocaine suppress growth of nerve cells in the hippocampus, not marijuana.

Anyway, shrooms and weed is probably the safest combo of drugs you can do. If you went your whole life doing just those, even in heavy amounts, you'd still be healthy as fuck. Basically I could go off on a huge list of the drugs that are generally bullshitted about the effect of but yeah.

>> No.2577651 [View]

>>2577647
So do you like weed or not?

>> No.2577645 [View]

Wow, so many uneducated people here.

Marijuana and psychedelics, I can guarantee, are safer than any legal substance. (Drinking usually never leads to the reflection you get from weed and certainly not like psys and marijuana is NOWHERE near being harmful as drinking).

Basically the only risks of weed are mild effects on the lungs, short-term memory fuzziness while using, and it can cause lazy people to become more complacent with their laziness (It heightens things, it doesn't really make people lazy, if you're lazy, you'll be more deeply lazy, if you're motivated you'll feel euphoric and want to do things. Personally I feel motivated effects.) Mild effects, as in there has never been a recorded case of marijuana only smokers having emphysema or even brown lung. Marijuana has 0 cases of causing cancer and its used by cancer patients as a medicine.

People are usually uneducated past DARE. Like do you think that weed gives you "lolbadbraincells" or lowers your semen count? Because, "Bad brain cells" is from one study done in the 80's, under Reagan.

What they did:
They said that 20 joints a day were given to monkeys, then they analyzed the brain saying there was brain cell destruction. Then upon request of an official report the study was actually done this way:

-5 minutes straight of Columbian joint smoke being pumped through a gas-mask placed on monkeys

5 minuets with no oxygen intake = asphyxiation
Which durrhurr kills brain cells.

Typical hamfisted attempt at prohibition propaganda.

“I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.” -Ronald Reagan

By the way, marijuana is an antiemetic. That's a core reason why a large percent of AIDS patients self-identify as medical marijuana users.

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it's 4/20 today!!!!!!!!

we're blazing 420/7 mother fucker

420 420 _\|/_ SMOKE POT BITCH LISTEN TO BOB MARELY I DON'T GIVE A FCK CARL SAGAN IS GOD _\|/_ 420 420

>> No.2533061 [View]

Oops, I thought that you said Spice and Wolf VN.
I wonder if such a thing even exists.

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