/lit/ - Literature

>>3491144
Have you seen the video where he is interviewed while making dinner? I'm very weary of picking anything up that was written by him. He's either majorly autistic, or the biggest try hard I have ever seen in my life. Either way, not the best descriptors to have as an author.

>>2863083
I recommend Snow Countyby Kawabata. The prose is beautiful!

>>2751117
I've learned to adopt the motto: You can't write without experience. Depending on what you choose to write, you need to gain that experience/inspiration.

>>2751093
50 shades of Rape - OP

>>2751073
Consider the following:
>Man and Woman decide to have casual sex.
Can this relationship withstand, absent of emotional attachment? I would say it cannot. It's innate to experience emotions towards your sexual partner, protection, desire, etc. Whether any of these emotions attribute to the formation of love, I can't say.
Is this relationship unhealthy? i.e- substituting this relationship for the lack of another, possibly more intimate one.
just trying to keep the discussion going

On an unrelated note, I never realized you couldn't post gifs on lit. How bout that

Hey /lit/, figured I'd strike up a conversation with you guys. Just finished The Great Gatsby, and I really enjoyed the tragic relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. However, I also recently read Norwegian Wood. So, I'll ask this. In your opinion, which relationship was the most tragic? Gatsby and Daisy's or Naoko and Toru's?
I'm going to go with Toru's simply because it effected the most amount of people mentally, and on a more permanent basis (because of the love triangles and what not). Unlike Gatsby's who lead to only 2 deaths (Gatsby's being the only one that draws sympathy) and Daisy may feel guilty for what she has done, but she deserved it.

Lots of people reading Gatsby! Guess I'll add to it. 9/10. I'm a sucker for romance... and tragedy

>>2709313
That is to say that the two had sex, and no reason was needed beyond 'it would make them feel good, and Naoko would want that.'

>>2709308
That's a common criticism about Norwegian Wood. It seemed so out of the blue! The best I could make of it was that murikami was trying to demonstrate the sexual freedom that had blossomed during the 60's (since he is so driven by this era)

>>2709275
Really? I'm surprised to hear that! Most people have told me that it was a horror, but couldn't figure out why it was considered a love story as well. Guess I'll find out soon enough. Thanks OP

>>2709254
A video game where you interact with virtual girls, and the goal is to have sex (but it follows a story line).

>>2709226
>rape
>rape everywhere!

>>2709133
I'm about to start House of Leaves. How was it?

...why would I care if they wrote eroge on the side?

>>2705770
No rest for the refugees of 4chan

>>2705762
So it was YOU!

These are our dying days gentlemen. We've lost our heart! Yes, we may still linger here in this present dimension of time, but the road ahead is not a pleasant one. /lit/ is dying my friends. It has fallen. Fallen to the illiterate, shit-for-brains, that are wandering from board to board in search of amusement. Well, they got it. They post indignant and pathetic posts, requesting for homework help, or discussions on crappy novels. Yes, this is our swan song. /lit/ will soon fall to these imbeciles, and their putrid posts that reek of mustard gas and roses. So it goes.

The novel revolves around the evils of Big Brother. At the end, where he loves Big Brother, the reader doesn't agree with the protagonist, they are disgusted by it. It demonstrates the systems ability to effectively destroy an individuals free will, and worse, independence. The entire book is a warning about this form of authority. Why would Big Brother be the author of it? If this was Orwell's goal, he would have been wiser to choose an ironic style of writing, rather than a third person, omniscient, narrative.

*pretentious

>>2624101
Fuck you and everything you stand for you pretensions cunt

Agreed, until proven otherwise. next

Dat poetry!

>>2605837
It's alright man. As long as we got the heart, we can read just as much as ANY of these bigshots!