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Can We have a thread about how awful John Green is?
I hate the way he glorifies his worthlessness and melodramatic childishness, I literally cringe and feel sick when I see him.
Bathos Cringe Thread General.
>>7969146
John Green, much like Coehlo, is what you get when you allow romanticist melodrama be expressed without any adherence to form or language. It's what you get when the rabble can read, but are not forced to read well.
I really can't be the only one who dies a little when I read the wet musings of this closet pedophile.
>>7969146
If green had a sense of humor and wasnt a money whore he could parody modern society perfectly.
>Search Catalog
>No poetry thread
Let's get one going /lit/
>>7969115
Today has been cancelled
Please return home
It's raining out
Out by the old, red-brick corner,
there's a gutter with old beer and cigarette butts
and some old, abandoned dream
left-over, still unfinished
Today is cancelled you know.
The sky grows dimmer
The day grows older
I'm heading for the corner
into an old dream I'd forgotten about
Tomorrow has been cancelled
please stay home
It's still raining out.
>>7969115
Today has been fucked
Please return your shithole
It's pooping out
Out by the gold, brown-brick corner,
there's a glutter with old pee and cigarette ass
and some old, abandoned Rick
leftistscum-over, still finished
Today is fucked you know.
The Mexicans grows Zimmer
The night grows older
I'm shitiing for the corner
into an old wet dream I'd forgotten about
Tomorrowland has been cancelled :( #imsad
please stay home in Facebook
It's still shitng out
>Camus, Albert.
Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor.
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.
>Faulkner, William.
Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
>Freud, Sigmund.
A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense.
>Hemingway, Ernest.
A writer of books for boys. Certainly better than Conrad. Has at least a voice of his own. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Loathe his works about bells, balls, and bulls.The Killers. Delightful, highly artistic. Admirable.
>Finnegans Wake.
A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.
>Kazantzakis, Nikos.
Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up.
>Lawrence, D. H.
Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes. Execrable.
>Mann, Thomas.
Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up.Death in Venice. Asinine. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Poshlost. Mediocre, but anyway plausible.
>Pound, Ezra.
Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud.
>Sartre, Jean-Paul.
Even more awful than Camus.Nausea. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.
>Wilde, Oscar.
Rank moralist and didacticist. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Romantic in the large sense.
>>7979770
These are very strong opinions
>>7979770
Good job OP
Wow, OP. Those sure are some
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> The Chinese women were about the size of fire hydrants and moved like they had more than the normal amount of legs, conversing in their anxious and high-pitched monkey-language.
Why was DFW so racist, and mean? I mean, it is the voice of his narrator, not some character's first person dialogue.
Sheltered white bougie no-talent. Hardly surprising.
>>7979612
This is how normal people with even a semblance of self-worth and racial awareness feel when they interact with non-whites to any extent.
>>7979624
Recant.
Tell us you're joking.
You will never be rich enough to comfortably go to St. Johns.
Why even live?
>>7979218
>mfw I was accepted, but couldn't afford to go.
Being middle-class sucks.
Seems like an exorbitant amount of time wasted on math/science, especially considering many of those texts will teach you outdated, needlessly difficult ways of solving problems.
>>7979218
>going to a school with an 85% aceptance rate
Poor show lad
>the smallest guy is the most intelligent
what are some other bad literary memes
>the biggest guy is the least intelligentrip lemmy
>the biggest guy is for you
Really?
>the middle height guy is of average intelligence
TOP FUCKING CAKE
Jack London's White Fang
Made me see nature, and animals differently.
Anne Frank's diary.
The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, Paradise Lost, The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Fathers and Sons.
Cringe facts on reading
>the best selling genre are romance fiction
>The author of 50 shades of Grey is worth $55 million because she wrote an erotic Twlight fanfiction, which she later re-edited as a stand alone book
>50 percent of people will never read a book after they finish school
>50 percent of people will never read a book after they finish school
really? jesus. i'm lucky
Why do you care about these facts, OP?
>>7970774
Daniel Steel is worth 550+ million, she writes cringe romance novels. She has around 100 novels published.
She isn't cringe herself but her buyers are.
Her book is very simple, as if an 8th grader wrote it. She is the Twlight of the romance world.
![Critique-of-pure-reason-by-immanuel-kant-188x300[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/uzXwGJg.jpg "Critique-of-pure-reason-by-immanuel-kant-188x300[1]")
I wonder how many people on /lit/ have actually read this,
>>7969603
I have it on my shelf along with the complete works of a few other philosophers that a bunch of brits thought were a good choice to include in their massive 40+ volume collection of books that shaped the western world.
Kant seems like a fucking baller though I'm excited to get to that
>>7969603
I haven't. I've heard (from someone who has read it) it's difficult to follow, and very long. I'd like to read it eventually.
Started
I'm a lazy cunt
Stopped
ITT: Books about fucking.
Trying to figure to out whether sex is worth caring about, as it generally leaves me confused and dissatisfied after the fact. Wanna read people (mostly men) who exalt sex as well as people who were disgusted or disinterested by it, preferably secular.
>>7967913
Sex for the sex itself, i.e. sex as an act sucks and is alienating no matter how you slice it.
Those who partake in it as activity are using it to dull themselves much like with alcoholism or drug addiction.
>>7967917
Sex as an act doesn't suck, neither do drugs as an act. Their implications might but the act is pretty great.
>>7967913
You're probably screwing someone who doesn't actually mean anything to you.
That, or you have a testosterone deficiency.
Is some version of Rory the best you can possibly get when trying to raise a literate child? Is it even possible in the digital age?
That bitch is 34 now, dude. 34. Her pussy has been mummified for a decade. Let her rest.
>>7965146
Obviously referring to season 1, which is on Netflix(TM)
i love gilmore girls but rory's character sometimes confused me. like she had read literally every book ever but then also did all this other stuff in the town all the time and she was only like 15 or something. it made no sense
tinychat com / 4chanlit
get in here lads
is this qt on?
definitely going to check
>>7980219
is this the new dfw?
>>7980219
poor arther
Could you give me any examples of novels that are at the same level of "difficulty" as Ulysses?
does the Recognitions get much harder than the beginning chapter? I read Ulysses before and am now currently reading the Recognitions, but it seems significantly easier despite its reputation for difficulty.
>>7975112
I thought all of The Recognitions was much more difficult than Ulysses. Like the castration scene, I had no idea that happened until I read a chapter by chapter summary afterwards to make sure that I got it all.. The only tough parts I came across in Ulysses were the 2nd chapter and the one with the girl flashing Bloom but those were also the most enjoyable.
What's an adjective that describes its own sound
>>7973386
Best I can do is "thump"
>>7973405
Never mind, not an adjective...
>>7973407
Maybe flitteringly
Where were you when Cherryh fags got BTFO?
Old thread >>7968907
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg (embed)
>Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg (embed)
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg (embed)
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg (embed)
>What are you reading right now?
>Have you read Poul Anderson's Boat of a Million Years?
>Any other books about immortality?
>>7973352
I wanna be the next Rothfuss
What Mary Sue angle hasn't been explored yet?
>>7973428
A bottom bitch homosexual feminist arena fighter
Who writes the best rape, gay and incest?
I vote for Bakker
