/lit/ - Literature

>>10775978
>But there is a lack of things like horror, sci-fi (maybe this less than the other two), and fantasy.
Because they're trash 99 times out of 100.
>I'm assuming it's because we usually have less to learn from these books. And "intellectual" make for better discussions.
You are correct.
>But I feel like more diversity would be nice, as opposed to having them being a majority of literary fiction philosophical-type text
pic related. Diversity for the sake of it and to make brainlets feel included is what's destroying our culture right now. Trash genre fiction should not be included just because normies like it.
>I think genre fiction is cool and would like it to not be represented by like 5%.
You can think it's "cool" but it has no actual value. It's cool in the way that McDonalds is good food because it tastes good.
>Also I think The Book Thief is considered YA and I think of it as a good book, very entertaining.
The fact that you think being entertaining means it's good shows you still have a lot to learn. Transformers is entertaining. The Book Thief should not be touching a literature list with a ten foot pole.

Reading a book for any reason other than its inherent value within the canon is plebian

>>10678723
>greatest civilization in the world until 1820
>didn't know earth was round until the 1700's

>>10405166
>a story

DUDE NIGGAS ARE DYING IN THESE STREETS

>>10305918
>effort posting just to be a contrarian

>>9818981
>Gookshit

Dropped
And you were doing so well, pity

>>9489974
>read campbell and jung

Why would anyone voluntarily do this to themselves

>>9471110
>>9471084
Fine in short order. 1. Him being a parasitic opportunist on what may be a legitimate issue doesn't make him any less of a vulture.
2. Freudians are in the best position to deconstruct the pseudo-mystic nonsense that is Jungianism as they're well acquinted with the structures and language of the thinker.
3. His critiques are superficial regardless of context from his laughable book to his "academic" lectures to when he decides to cry on a webcam
4. He's associated with /pol/ because of his following on /pol/, a following he has actively courted through including making a vlog about fucking pepe

>>9463494
>Stefan Molyneux DESTROYS SJW rape survivors who think governmentally mandated female illiteracy is bad COMP. NO. 673
this is the new anti-theism, and is every bit as morally contemptible. Essentially entertainment for psychosexual fifteen-year-olds.

>>9301819
I feel physically sick just looking at that thumbnail. Like the combination of cartoonishness and morbidity seems essentially inhuman. Honestly I'm beginning to hope that as Trump becomes more authoritarian and deluded he'll introduce some kinds of meausures to severely restrict the kind of anonymity that allows for stuff like this. Think about it: if everyone was connected to their actual identity there wouldn't be any of this absurd Tumblr fetish shit on the left, and no fascists/royalists/PUAs on the right. I'm aware this would be a restriction on free speech and essentially destroy the internet as we know it, but if shit like this is the price we pay so we can call each other niggers and cyberbully bookstubers, then maybe it's worth the price.

>>9281085
>this is your brain on /pol/

>>9261873
It should be noted too that these are actually timed tested thinkers who have withstood relevancy and scrutiny over an entire generation of discourse and are thought in practically every University across the world rather than someone who became a meme in the last couple months in niche internet communities not for perscient intellectual contributions but because he was favourable to their already existing political dispositions.

>>9231427
>includes Heidegger but not Husserl

>>9179414
>Ever putting the words Great and Ginsberg near each other

>>8863933
>not being able to read French

>>8844104
>Great Gatsby

>>8791408
Sincerely kill yourself and stop shitting up this board

>>8768318
>write some of the greatest works of modern literature ever

lmao Says who? Bloom didn't even mention him in the Canon

>>8747698
>i've never read him but from the sound of it, the challenge isn't worth the reward

>>8725171
Read Harold Bloom.

>>8677761
Ah so /pol/tards are the reason for the influx of these pathetic /r9k/ self pity threads. Interesting

>>8571528
>his reading progress is temporally dependent

>>8504164
>it seems like overblown genre fiction

Who'd a thunk it

>>8206008
Because art is constituted in its reception not its creation you knuckle dragging retard