/lit/ - Literature

Gene Wolfe fanboys are somehow even more annoying than DFW fanboys. And I like both of those authors.

>there have been too many meme-shit-threads
>starts a meme-shit-thread

>>6433563
>DFW fanboys
and the ironic shitposters constantly spams with pictures of Mr Bandana.

Gene Wolfe looks like most old men and we don't spam /lit/ with pics of him.

>>6433568
Severian is not a maymay. As a matter of fact /lit/ is a fewer swamp of no fun allowed that believes in the "genre" spook.

>>6433572
>Gene Wolfe looks like most old men and we don't spam /lit/ with pics of him.

You do ruin every thread about fantasy or contemporary literature in general, though.

>>6433580
>ruin
Is that a code for
>no fun allowed
>muh spook

>>6433572
Because he's not embarrassing to look at like DFW

>>6433580
>threads about fantasy
Implying that anything under that label excepting Wolfe, Tolkien, and maybe Peake, isn't utter trash, and an unworthy presence upon the literature board

>>>>http://www.reddit.com/r/fantasy

>>6434358
>muh literature
>muh n:th rereading of cucks on the beach

>>6433705
He looks like a stereotypical old creepy neckbeard like George RR Martin.

>>6434358
There certainly does exist better "literary fantasy" than Wolfe.

>>6434376
GRRM doesn't look like a neckbeard. He is everyones favourite uncle. Fuck, nigger! Don't you know that the legbutts at /lgbt/ constantly fawns over him? The fags. The dykes. The shemales.

>>6434376
> better "literary fantasy" than Wolfe

I'd love to read some, could you provide any examples?

>>6434371
You can read fantasy if you like, just don't smear it where it doesn't belong. There are better places than here for its discussion

>>6433559
>tfw only a few of us recognise severian the lame

>>6434406
>You can read fantasy if you like, just don't smear it where it doesn't belong. There are better places than here for its discussion
but anon i have to stay and fight the big bad pretentious liberal arts majors

FOR A BETTER /lit/

>>6434406
>smear
As Jamba Juice did with the wet farts of his gf?

>>6434413
This anon's just made my day by posting my OC
>>6434418
>>6434441
Pls go leddit, it's for the best

>>6434446
you can't possibly be this terrible at detecting sarcasm

>>6433575
>genre spook
people are even pushing a pulp zine, calm down.

>>6434452
I detect it, but I can't respond to it in a way I consider funny, so I end up with the weak responses you see here.
>>6434453
Genres are spooks but spooks are useful ways of summing up qualities sometimes

>>6434466
The term spook is too over arching and looses meaning. Genres are constructions that share a series of characteristics that let the audience know what they're gonna get. It's just reading something that follows rules, it's not good or bad.
Again, a lot of people in here like certain genres. Insisting that some boogyeman hates anything that has a tradition only makes that people more comfortable about being idiotic out loud.

god i fucking hate the gene wolfe threads here
it's a shame that a great author like him has such shitty fans

>>6434510
They are more or less the only good threads on lit. This one is just the more fun one. Check out the other thread on right now.

>>6434494
When I say fantasy, what I mean is the sort of books that are generally talked about on here under the fantasy heading, books by Rothfuss, Sanderson, Martin, Erickson. Obviously I don't hate all fantasy, having mentioned already some exceptions to the general rule; I think it's a premise with a lot of potential, but it's a potential that's almost always squandered with mediocrity, and I don't think such squandering should be encouraged here.

>>6434413
I would love to suck the dick of who ever drew that picture.

>>6434521
Isn't the thing you criticicise fantasy for the same thing you could criticise any movement of? I'm sure tons of realism is shit, it's just that it has been forgotten in time, as all shit has been.
But the thing that makes you mad is probably the fact that fantasy is atm the male equivalent of 50 shades.

>>6434534
Yes, I'm opposed to the discussion of anything that could come under a single-genre description on here really Literature is just fiction that's outlasted all of its peers, and thus has at least some value, to have survived hundreds of years of fresh readers and remained relevant to them. And it doesn't make me particularly annoyed, it just seems like such threads would be more at home in reddit threads.

>>6434466
>I detect it, but I can't respond to it in a way I consider funny, so I end up with the weak responses you see here
Weaker than a nice afternoon of fapping on the beach.

>>6434494
Thing is that genres is thing that other people like.

>>6434550
>Literature
Your opinion is disqualified by virtue of you not knowing how to capitalize basic words.