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>"I hate Pynchon"

>> No.8158982 [DELETED] 

>>8158975
pynchon really is retarded though

either that or actually a team of CIA writers, and it seems to be working desu

>> No.8158983

"no"

>> No.8158984

>Marx was wrong (and a cunt)

>> No.8158986

pynchon really is retarded though

either that or he actually is a team of CIA writers, and their brainwashing methods seem to be working desu

>> No.8159034

I read for my own enjoyment and not to feel superior to people I don't know

>> No.8159044

this is a really good thread

>> No.8159049

This is pointless. /lit/ is ALWAYS pissed off.

>> No.8159061

>>8158984
You aren't even trying, try

>Lenin > Marx

>> No.8159074

a pleb book that entertains million has done more good than a patrish book that entertains hundred and is therefore better

>> No.8159075

I browse /v/

>> No.8159081

>>8159049
That's my secret, Captain

>> No.8159089

>>8158986
Pynchon got me to start smoking weed tbqh

>> No.8159092

GoT and The first Law are alright

>> No.8159100

>"I go on /mu/"
>>8158975
You too

>> No.8159118

http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

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>>8159118
>Auden, W. H. Not familiar with his poetry, but his translations contain deplorable blunders.
Every time

>> No.8159151

Ayn Rand actually makes a lot of sense in atlas shrugged.

>> No.8159300

Anti-intellectualism is a hack worldview only preached by charlatans!

>> No.8159321

Infinite Jest is an improvement on Ulysses.

>> No.8159322

>>8159300
wow yes, as a typical /lit/ user I am so pissed off by this statement.

you sir have a bright future in public relations

>> No.8159325

>>8158975

My favorite novels are Pride and Prejudice, Things Fall Apart, and The Fault in Our Stars.

>> No.8159330

>>8159322
It was the most fedora thing I could think of

>> No.8159342

I really feel like Name of the Wind is underappreciated, the descriptions are so vivid and beautiful, its almost more like poetry than prose.

>> No.8159349

someone post my video review of bloodmeme

>> No.8159467
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8159467

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6lk9QcW_Q

this is probably the best way to organize any shelf desu~

>> No.8159481

Literature is an irrelevant and dying medium, with video games soon to be the premiere medium for telling innovative stories.

>> No.8159523

Who else loved the new John Green novel? The man is brilliant, and so humble.

>> No.8159544
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>>8159481
The film and game industries will crash under the rapid expanse of illicit file sharing, but god save the public libraries.

>> No.8159653

>>8158975
hi guys, I like
>insert literally anything you've heard of

>> No.8159658

>>8159653
spot on

>> No.8159659

>>8159074
anything to do with utilitarianism pisses me off tbdesu

>> No.8159663

>>8159523
be more creative

>> No.8159670

>>8159342
>Read this as Name of the Rose and couldn't work out why it was supposed to trigger anyone

>Pause, reread

>Now I see.

>> No.8159676

>>8159467
Yep, lost. Who "sort by genre/alphabetize by author/arrange author's works in publication order" masterrace?

>> No.8159681

>>8159481
Factually incorrect; the cost of video game development makes it an even more difficult medium to produce ambitious and groundbreaking ideological work than in film. It takes millions of dollars and investors need guaranteed returns, so they stick with cliche bs. All literature takes is a single insane fucker with enough food and water to sustain and transcribe his hallucinations

>> No.8159689

>>8159061
Lenin's prose is better than Marx's; why would that piss /lit/ off?
>>8158975
>ITT: We try our best to piss off /lit/
I know exactly what good prose is, and, read for it. The chewy variety is the best.

>> No.8159723

TV, movies and videogames make books obsolete

>> No.8159732

>>8158975
Analytic is the best philosophy

>> No.8159745

>>8159732
oooh oooh. Bertrand Russell has the best history of philosophy.

>> No.8159760

"Oh, yes, Schopenhauer: so you've read Kant?"

>> No.8159840

>>8159676
>genre
??????

>> No.8159907

>>8159840
Realist, Speculative, Historical, Philosophical, all sorts (sometimes with subgroups). Otherwise it'd just be a straight fiction/nonfiction divide.

>> No.8160014

>>8159676

>genre
This is dumb unless you mean like SF, Mystery and such and even then you'll run across multiple pieces of lit that cross genre and then it is just a pointlessly arbitrary sorting of books.

>> No.8160020

>>8159074
>a pleb book that entertains million has done more good than a patrish book that entertains hundred and is therefore better
REEEEEEEEEe

>> No.8160021

DFW is a hack.

>> No.8160022

corncob

tortillas

yecarthy

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>>8159481
If anything it's the other way aronud: with either the ever increasing costs of AAA productions or the subsequent implosion of copyright and the ideology of branding marketability, the plain ideas literature specializes in are more likely to become what more complex art forms build up from. Once everyone is a thief, the richest man is he that has the least to be stolen from; and if you control the meme, you control the stream.

>> No.8160086

>>8158975
I eat jew food ironically

>> No.8160295

>>8159118
>Housman, A. E. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter.
>Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
>Pound, Ezra. Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud.


I like Nabokov's opinions—not all of them, but some of them, certainly.

>> No.8160298

>>8159151
>>8159732
both of you win

>> No.8160310

/lit/ is the smartest board on 4chan, or most professional at least. this place has the least shitposts, and the shitposts are usually hilarious or backed up with actual arguments.

>> No.8160319

>>8159467
this upset me way more than i expected it to.

>> No.8160320

>>8160310
/lit/ has the funniest humour threads, because our jokes are intelligent and cultured

>> No.8160329

>>8160021
this is just the truth.

>>8160310
and it's sad how untrue this is.

>> No.8160375

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z8PI13MT9s

>> No.8160449

>>8160329
>and it's sad how untrue this is.

it's not?

dont ruin my dream anon.

>> No.8160458

>>8159118
>Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles.

...is this where the meme comes from

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8160554

>Nietzsche just ripped off Stirner

Or even better

>le you are just an adherent to slave morality

>> No.8160555

>>8159089
DUDE

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you are spooked

>> No.8161526

>>8159670
What are you quoting?

>> No.8161548

>>8159467
GOD. For a second I thought I had seen an Assassin's Creed book. Anyway, this is pleasing to see, even though I'd be anxious for not having my books in a proper order.

>> No.8161765

>>8158975
I AM FROM /POL/ TELL ME ABOUT JULIUS EVOLA

>> No.8161826

>>8159732
But that's /lit/'s consensus.

>> No.8161840

Spongebob and The Simpsons are certainly Pynchonesque.

>> No.8161853

>>8160020
nice fullquote

>> No.8161856

>>8159481
>>8159544
>>8159681
>>8160051
You managed to trigger them even though they knew exactly what you were up to. This is clearly the winner.

>> No.8161858

>>8160310
>this place has the least shitposts
c'mon now

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>>8160375
What the hell. Is the sole purpose for one to display they have books? Why not just stack them...
that being said, shes a qt3.14

>> No.8161880

English is the best language.

>> No.8161952

>>8159081
laughed. went back to reading.

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reading "for fun" is for ugly compensating losers

>> No.8161960

>>8161826
I thought the consensus was Witty was the most qt philosopher not best.

>> No.8162041

>>8159118
Nabokov seems like such a cock

>> No.8162060

>>8162041
you haven't even heard his opinions on himself yet

>> No.8162065

>>8162060
What are they
Because he sounds like an edgy teenager and I haven't even read anything by him yet

>> No.8162083

>>8158975
plato is boring

non-troll

>> No.8162088

Everybody who wrote before WWI is boring and unrelatable. My favorite authors are Salinger, Murakami, Pynchon, and Nabokov.

>> No.8162089

I like to map out the plot in the margins while I read.

>> No.8162092

>>8162065
The problem is that he's not like an edgyteenager; he's an absolute edgemaster and has full justification for it. He's written a few introductions to his books, and the ones where he is reviewing his translation are pure gold. At the start of Glory, where he is explaining the discrepancy between the English and Russian title, he argues that he's written the best prose for both languages because he has to express his genius in different ways as a translator of Nabokov and a writer of Nabokov's original intentions. And it's beautiful, and convincing. He's one of the few authors where the air of arrogance is bolstered in almost equal measure with completely founded confidence; anyone else translating Nabokov would be ripped to shreds worse than he does his humble English translation of himself, where he blames the untranslatables of language more than himself.
>>8162089
Did you draw the beetle too?

>> No.8162097

>>8162092
I do like to doodle. It helps me to think.

>> No.8162107

>>8162092
>read first part of Lolita
>Vanessa van ness
>Humbert humbert
Was he also autistic

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>>8159074

>> No.8162127

>>8162107
kek, I figured that was because Humbert is writing something he's aware might be a pulp novel not the story for all time he hopes.

>> No.8162136

Harry Potter is a fun, imaginative story meant for young people, and an excellent way for children to develop a life-long love of reading.

>> No.8162137

>>8158986
i feel sorry for you

>> No.8162181

>>8162136
>imaginative
Eh, not really. Rather bankrupt in that regard. Pretty upsetting when you go back to look.

>> No.8162191

>>8159467
I organize my shelf by authors, but not in alphabetical order, but by how many books I own of each one.

>> No.8162210

>>8158975
How's your girlfriend, /lit/?

>> No.8162235

>>8162181
>bankrupt

Do you honestly believe that? I know she's not some transcendent world-building prodigy, as her fanboys/girls seem to think she is. But some of her stuff is pretty damn creative. I mean, take quidditch for instance. What prior fantasy writing has anything remotely like quidditch?

>> No.8162247

>>8162210
SHUT UP MOM WE'RE NOT FUCKING STRAIGHT

>> No.8162271

>>8159676
>not just flinging them all onto a big pile like the alpha you are

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>>8161856
I'm not triggered though, anthing but.

>> No.8162505

>>8160555
WEED (Also nice triple)

>> No.8162512

kafka is overrated.