/lit/ - Literature

>>20427720
Ride the Tiger.

>>20427720
what does it mean to be filtered? take pity on a newfag

>>20427843
It means you, the reader, didn't understand something.

For example. Most everyone here gets filtered by math, which is the only reason they're into literature.

>>20427720
>eighty six named characters in four pages
>half of them have apostrophes
visceral disgust

I can't even this.

>>20427720
Naked Lunch.
(Either that, or it's just rubbish. and given how much I enjoyed Finnegans Wake, Last Exit To Brooklyn, etc. I'm veering toward the latter.)
also Phenomenology of Spirit, and Critique of Pure Reason.

>>20427843
>>20427849
Couldn't appreciate more like
Pic rel

>>20427720
I've never been filtered because I don't read

Couldnt penetrate the writing style. It's just a list of theses!

I don't want to admit it, but here I am

>>20427720
had to read this in school, i understood nothing, i didn't get the point he was trying to make or if there was even a point

>>20427720
virtually everything i read
>t. 107 iq and ADHD

Lord of the Rings. I loved the movies but was completely caught off guard by Tolkien's writing style. Endless genealogies, poems, songs that make no sense in the context of the narrative, and an extreme emphasis on minutiae. I didn't like the Hobbit either. It was extremely repetitive and the films were bad.

>>20427904

It’s typical Marxist rhetoric. Purposefully vague and pretentious. That book is trash.

Gender Trouble
I wouldn't even say that I was filtered, it's just insufferable to read, both in style and subject matter

>>20427860
It might be the most impenetrable philosophy work ever written, so I understand
Read Adventures of Ideas and Modes of Thought first

>>20427720
Poetry.

>>20427720
Chicka chicka boom boom

>>20427720
Probably the brothers Karmazov
Gave up before finishing the first third of the book
Yes, I am retarded.

>>20427720
Pale Fire

>>20427849
>>20427843
>It means you, the reader, didn't understand something.

More specifically, it means that you didn't understand such a large portion of the work that you gave up reading it, or powered through just to gain nothing in the end.

>>20427993
Because it’s supposed to emulate an epic or chronicle.

>>20428349
Your first Dostoevsky?

>>20428390
Well that's the worst thing about it, it's not. I loved C&P, The Idiot was enjoyable too, Demons blew me away and then some. Notes from the Underground was riveting too.

Then came The Adolescent which I found outright boring, and I suppose it has to do with being let down, that that feeling carried onto the next book, TBK. I decided I will take a break from anything Dostoiesvki for at least ten months or so.

Perhaps I am becoming vulgar...

>>20427720
Not picrel, but every book mentioned within.

>>20427993
>getting filtered by a Children’s novel

>>20428409
Scary! BK is the only Dosto I haven't read yet. Hopefully I don't get filtered as well.

Currently reading War & Peace and frankly I find Tolstoy's writing a breeze in comparison to Dostoevsky.

>>20428458
>I find Tolstoy's writing a breeze in comparison to Dostoevsky.

In what sense? I wanted to get into Tolstoy after I'm done with Gogol (some short stories were recommended to me). I'm curious now!

>>20428503
Mostly just length and structure of his sentences. Tolstoy never writes sentences that take up a quarter of the page with a dozen commas. His writing is a lot more 'normal' I suppose. His characters don't ramble all over the place. I don't dislike that aspect of Dostoevsky's writing but it does lead to more re-reading and head scratching (for me anyway.)

I started with Anna Karenina, then a bunch of short stories, now I'm onto W&P. Enjoyed it all.

>>20428534
Thank you fren. Now I know what to expect. I always liked the massive commas used by Dostoievski, but still would like to read another style from time to time.

I liked "A hero of our time" by Lermontov. Brilliant and, while in some aspects reminiscent of Dostoievsky, in others it is simpl fresh. It is a short story too. The author has got a sense of humour I hadn't seen before :)

Have a good night fren, I'm going to sleep. Pleasure talking to you :D

>>20427720
honestly picrel even though I'm still reading it

>>20427962
oh come on that was my entry text into Nietzsche. really? its aphorisms. doesn't necessarily have a theme.

>>20428416
>Filtered by the entire Western Canon

>>20428541
Good night bud. Lermontov is definitely on my radar for an upcoming read.

All are terrible books. Feel no shame, lads.

I have never been filtered

>>20428007
Butler and its ilk should be thoroughly patronized

>>20428420
I think this what they call trolling sir.

>>20428503
What do you think of Golgol? Which short stories did you read?

>>20427720
The way it’s worded is too much for my smoothbrain. I just watched two videos instead explaining what happened in Inferno + Purgatorio

>>20427904
The sequel is much more clear and honestly you can forego all the analysis of Marxist movements that make up the largest chapter of this book.

>>20427720
Man, Nick Land ended up being a parody of himself. I hate him so much, is unreal, bros

Boring characters, outdated, feels like an old B-movie, characters talk in a strange way. I gave up after 4 hours.

>>20428568
Kek

A Thousand Plateaus

>>20428363
>it's supposed to be bad

>>20427776
tl;dr
The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

>>20429687
One of the greatest poems in the history of mankind/kidkind/mankid

>>20427720

>>20427880
It's just a fragmented degenerate story that attempts to portray a heroin addicts fever dreams during cravings and withdrawal. There's nothing to "get", you just can't into abstract art.

>>20429094
wtf do u mean

>>20427859
I was quite young when I read this. I think you're exaggerating. It's only sixty five names you have to remember. The rest aren't that important.