/lit/ - Literature

That sentence flows like a river of turds

>>3742937
stop being edgy, it's a great line

>>3742933
>>"And in that moment, I swear we are infinite."
corny quote

Because you have good friends.

Jewish cultural marxist subversion book that tries to get sympathy for homosexuals

>>3742933
Fuck you. This is the most fucking overrated piece of turd I have ever came across.
The movie was so abhorrently shitty, it's unreal. And that line.. fuck you for that line.

OP is a 15 year old girl.

>>3742940
what does it mean?

As good as Catcher on the Rye.

>>3742992
you think it's this generation's Catcher in the Rye? It very well could be.

Meh, the book is better than that quote would lead you to believe but obviously far from good. Still, you can tell that the writer has set out to write a book that will appeal to teenage girls and his book does exactly that.

>>3742992
nothing is as good as Franny and Zooey
or 9 stories

OP is right though
its a great book /lit

>Jesus, how come nobody told me this book is so magnificent?
Because it isn't.

>>3742951
Nigga, you mad as HELL.

I thought the movie was decent. I loved the main character, as our lives up to the age of 15 were pretty similar. It definitely isn't a masterpiece, and it isn't a total piece of shit like Twilight. I don't plan to read the book tho

>>3742992
If you really believe that, then I'm afraid Catcher was 2deep4u. And it's really not even a particularly deep book.

You are impressed by that sentence?

>>3743648
Shouldn't I be?

>>3743648
it was p nicely placed in the book

>Not posting "We only accept the love we think we deserve"

I thought it was a magnificent triumph of the human spirit and probably the best coming of age novel ever written.

>/lit/ is just mad because It isn't widely regarded by college professors to be a landmark literary work that will make slightly educated people think you're smart if they see it on your bookshelf. Also it wasn't written by a suicidal Russian pedophile or a sexually deviant Irishman.

>>3742940
not him and haven't read the book but thequote itself is as common and vain as it gets. I've heard it a thousand times and it's at the shallowest level of illumination. like /x/ level

>>3743748
>I haven't read the book
>I think it's dumb anyway without the context it was written in
>I also used to frequent /x/ until I decided I was going to be smart from now on.
>Now I come to /lit/ because it's smart.

Reminds me of something.

I read it when I was 15 and I didn't like it then. I take it that means it's terrible.

>>3743780
The sonic the hedgehog shirt is what really gets me about this photo.

>>3743780
Damn, that's actually a great quote. At least the 'euphoric' line.

>>3743794
Go to bed Aalewis

>>3743796
lol I missed that.

damn. I love sonic

>>3743770
>I comment about the lack of context when other anon explicitly said he was talking about an isolated phrase
>I ironically omit the context in which that part of the comment was said
>makes assumptions about the persistence of a custom of an unknown person
>makes assumptions about the reasons of a completely unknown person

1.Yeah... I did see the movie, so I do know the context of the phrase in general terms
2. I never called it dumb. I said it is shallow in terms of illumination/realization
3. I frequent /x/ still. I never visited to look for any realization, only to look for texts on symbolism and other related subjects

Next time you get offended by someone not liking what you lack take a little longer to think of your reply

>>3743794
I think the phrase is a Dawkins. People use it to mock fedora atheists or something like that

>>3743850
Here's the source.

>>3743925
"Just to be clear, I'm not a professional quote maker"

>>3743925
You think he was influenced by the Perks of Being a Wallflower quote?

Baby you + me 4ever <3

>>3743991
Maybe. He's an edgy teenager so he might have read it. Also the "In this moment" has some clear similarity. No way to say for sure, though.

>>3743925
I'm still perplexed by the image of someone sitting at that computer and becoming euphoric because they don't believe in a god.

>>3743746
>top lel

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel written by American novelist Stephen Chbosky.[1] It was published on February 1, 1999 by MTV. The story is narrated by an introspective teenager who goes by the alias of "Charlie." He describes various life experiences through a series of letters to an anonymous stranger.[2] In 2012, Chbosky, acting as director, adapted the novel into a film, which starred Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, and Emma Watson.

You do realize that this book is essentially a marketing scam from Mtv hailing it as a new coming of age book so they can cash-in?

>>3745854
I mean its about rebellious teens that read books. They're rebellious by being smart and reading books. Thats how MTV contacted all the schools in the country and told them, you're kids needs this. So they'll become this. It's a subversive cash scam from page one to the end quote.

There is not a single new thought in this book, there is nothing contoversial about the book, there is nothing greatly written in this book.

It's vanilla. That is why it's had so a huge commercial success amongst.... high school teenagers. The book writes the reader on the nose every single time. You should be like this. These are the good guys. Those are the bad guys. And there is not a single line of exciting prose because high-school teenagers doesn't understand or appreciate that. Try handing them a shakespeare book.

It's your money they want.

>>3742954
>homos
This is so dumb. Every new movie or shit to come out has to have a token gay character now.

>>3745865
He wasn't token, though. He was central and a hell of a lot more interesting than the apparent protagonist.

>>3745915
yeah, he totally wasn't a cliche stereotype of the misunderstood funny man gay genius

>>3745918
I'm not saying it was a particularly original character, I'm just saying he wasn't just tacked on. I really don't think his purpose in the narrative is tokenistic. He is quite important and quite fleshed out, relative to other characters.

>>3745863
You've had me until Shakespeare.
Still, nice criticism, I wholly agree.

>>3745927
high-schoolers don't like Shakespeare, and his prose is ground breaking,what do you mean?

I read the book and found the protagonist to be a version of Holden Caulfield without the positive traits.

It's essentially a manifesto for the narcissistic era

>>3746166
Plenty of highschoolers like Shakespeare and his prose is topped by a fair number of other writers.

>>3742933
>"And in that moment, I swear we are infinite."

Every time I heard that kid say this in the trailers for the film adaptation, I cringed so hard. How is that anything but maudlin, trite shit?

>>3742940
I really liked the book, but these lines were horrible. About as cringe worthy as it can get. They read like a parody of what they're supposed to be.