Take a seat anon.
In 2 words or more tell me how you get meme'd by /lit/
they told me Wallace was good, Mccarthy was bad, and the whale bits could be excised with no detriment to the text at large
i'm insecure about subvocalising, being monolingual and reading for plot
>>7978411
>/lit/ related memes
>not /lit/ related
the irony of calling a frogposter retarded
>>7978416
Make threads about books or fuck off
>>7978420
>implying /lit/ 'book' threads aren't just constitutued of recycled memes
>be with friends
>discussion turns to game of thrones
>I go "pah, it is mere prolefeed"
>friends ask me to develop my thoughts
>realise all my ideas on GoT came from /lit/ memes
>awkwardly backpedal in front of all my friends, and since known as a pretentious fuck
>because of this all possibilities of talking about literature with them is gone
I would like to thank /lit/
>>7978455
>/lit/ is responsible for me being an impressionable and obnoxious twat
kys
>>7978463
fuck you mane, at least I learned not to get memed again
>>7978464
>being so oblivious and socially awkward that you use 'memes' in real life in the first place
kys
>friends talking about red pill
>>7978455
That's why you should actually look up examples before you voice "your" opinion.
>>7978455
>game of thrones
>literature
you guys read comics together too?
>>7978351
read zizek
I don't
Tbh I've read like two comics that were recommended to me here and not a single book (although some discussions here have catalyzed a couple of reads).
>>7978351
But friend, I'm already sitting down! Hahaha!
>board name says '/lit/ - Literature'
>>7978455
Really? My shittalk of GoT is pretty much the sole reason my friends respect my opinion on anything. There are so many real, non-meme problems with it that you'd have to be a moron to screw up explaining why it's for plebs.
Was it the book or the show though? Show is much, much easier.
>>7978573
Would you mind sharing these real, non-meme problems? Both show and books.
Infinite jest
>>7978415
Being monolingual is actually bad
Reading for plot is a forgivable sin
Subvocalizing is bullshit
>>7978584
What's bad about being monolingual?
>>7978584
>Being monolingual is actually bad
pls no bully
>>7978351
The Greeks
>>7978455
>"pah, it is mere prolefeed"
*teleports away*
I still love DFW after knowing how much of a faggot piece of shit he is.
>>7978455
kek. I fear the day i run into something like this
>>7978351
I thought Hess was good. I wasted 3 days of my life that I never get back.
Infinite Jest.
>>7978683
Siddhartha is great you double nigger
De Lillo
>>7978690
Glass Bead Game >>>> anything else Hesse wrote
>>7978680
Explain? How is he a faggot piece of shit? I just know stuff that makes him seem a little controversial but that's it.
>>7978351
I was never meme'd by /lit/ because unlike you, I can form my own opinions.
>>7978581
Show (kek)
>D&D started cutting stuff for brevity and nobody complained about a noticeable drop in quality, so then they got it into their heads that they were good enough to modify GRRM's story willy nilly, and now we have the Bad Poosies casually murdering their family members for not taking revenge against people who are dead.
>Their changes to characterization, I actually liked the minor ones in the first season like making Ned a bit more warm, or Robert and Cersei almost amicable at times, but then they seemed to get shortsighted and overly ambitious leading to contradictory messages and stupid nonsense. Why did Jaime kill his innocent cousin? Are we supposed to believe he's a bastard at heart? It comes right as he's supposed to be on the trail to going straight so it castes a shadow over everything that follows.
Books
>Story is mostly plot-driven, soap opera style, with a massive cast all just bouncing off of each other and occasionally dying to raise stakes. After 5 books you can Still count the interesting people on your hands. Jaime, and that's about it.
>Even though it's how he's marketed to retards GRRM isn't a master of stories and worldbuilding on the level of Tolkien. The story was originally intended to be shorter and it really shows. The pacing completely dies in several sections and often seems to devolve into a directionless mess of characters sitting around while they wait for important events to happen to characters on another continent so that their plot can have its turn to move. Dance With Dragons took however long to write and is just 50% Dany sitting on her ass eating dates or Jon Snow getting increasingly anxious about the situation at the wall. I don't even remember the other bits in that fucking book. Tyrion might have made two boat trips over the course of 300 pages devoted to him, I don't remember.
This post is too long now, if the new book comes out I might read it eventually but I'm not excited.
>>7978538
>two words or more
wew lad
>>7978710
Fraudulence(GON), mary karr, pseud (history of everything) and just truly pretentious (everything), liar (pynchon shit), killed himself. I love him though
Did not.
>>7978455
>prolefeed
>not prole-kibble
Apply yourself.
>meme infinite jest
>it's fucking shit
>>7978745
who are you quoting anon?
>>7978702
Seconded
Lit helped me become an avid reader and I can't stop
>>7978927
Why stop?
>>7978351
I am a meme now.
>>7978706
I hope this is the case, I'm saving that one for last. Looking to read narcissus and goldmund-> Steppenwolf ->gbg
>>7978970
Your turn
I read Infinite JestI really liked it
>>7978351
Mcarthy
mcarthy is a horrible storyteller,but lit still loves him for some odd reason...
>>7978927
what did he mean by this
>>7980231
Uhh, anon, you know I'm right fucking here, right? If you wanna know what I meant by this you could just y'know, ask me? xDDD :P :P :P
I read Stirner before the Greeks. Now I can't take anything seriously.
I found myself in a rut, reading the same sort of stuff all the time (mainly sci-fi)
So I came here and found people recommending books all over the place. Sweet.
> Gravitys Rainbow
> Infinite Jest
> Moby Dick
Cool - I'll check them out!!
What a shit load of fuck
>>7978394
I had the exact opposite experience.
>>7979038
He just tells stories differently. I've enjoyed everything I've read by him.
>>7978351
That this book was bad. I finally read it. I was so good that my White male ego started to cry. This is a masterpiece that we're too stupid to appreciate in this lifetime. He will be viewed as the next Plato centuries from now.
>>7982327
>Americans wake up and immediately start to shitpost in every thread
Here's your (You), please go back to bed
>>7982252
Read Catch 22, Flowers for Algernon, or Confederacy of Dunces. These are what novels should be.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who think the novel is a vehicle to show the world how smart you are. These people really need to fuck off (although they never will)
>>7982353
Also, Le Carre's Karla trilogy is great. Interesting look at the western intelligence community during the cold war. The BBC miniseries is also great.
>>7982330
he didn't go to bed
a nigger trolling this ineptly hasn't even gone to sleep
bought proust, it was awful
>>7978411
Fuck off
>>7978351
reading books
Infinite Jest was a bad book.
