Is anyone else pissed off by 99% of all literature?
>messages so simple a drunk baboon can understand them
>elementary school tier humor
>splosions
>tfw adults "enjoy" all this
How do you deal with it?
>>8130740
by not reading shit books
>>8130746
This, dont be a fucking retard. Do tell us, what book is getting you all riled up. No doubt it is off the /lit/ starter kit chart.
>>8130740
By not reading those books. Crazy innit
>>8130740
Keep in mind that literature is for girls and faggots.
>>8130740
>splosions
That's not even a literature meme.
>>8130740
>mfw all these famous philosophers (minus the retards) are just talking common sense to me
This sucks desu.
can you name some of the novels you are referring to?
I don't know why you would want things difficult on purpose. Why don't you just read some 19th century German philosophy?
>>8130740
when you read deeply enough you realize that there's nothing wrong with simple messages, simple humor, and explosions
>tfw adults "enjoy" all this
you seem very adult
>>8130740
NO! STOP ENJOYING THINGS: The Post
>>8130740
>According to Herodotus, Xerxes wept at the sight of his army, which was too extensive for him to scan, at the thought that a hundred years hence not one of all these would be alive. Who would not weep at the thought in looking over a big catalogue that of all these books not one will be in existence in ten years’ time?
>It is the same in literature as in life. Wherever one goes one immediately comes upon the incorrigible mob of humanity. It exists everywhere in legions; crowding, soiling everything, like flies in summer. Hence the numberless bad books, those rank weeds of literature which extract nourishment from the corn and choke it.
>They monopolise the time, money, and attention which really belong to good books and their noble aims; they are written merely with a view to making money or procuring places. They are not only useless, but they do positive harm. Nine-tenths of the whole of our present literature aims solely at taking a few shillings out of the public’s pocket, and to accomplish this, author, publisher, and reviewer have joined forces.
>There is a more cunning and worse trick, albeit a profitable one. Littérateurs, hack-writers, and productive authors have succeeded, contrary to good taste and the true culture of the age, in bringing the world elegante into leading-strings, so that they have been taught to read a tempo and all the same thing — namely, the newest books order that they may have material for conversation in their social circles. Bad novels and similar productions from the pen of writers who were once famous, such as Spindler, Bulwer, Eugène Sue, and so on, serve this purpose. But what can be more miserable than the fate of a reading public of this kind, that feels always impelled to read the latest writings of extremely commonplace authors who write for money only, and therefore exist in numbers? And for the sake of this they merely know by name the works of the rare and superior writers, of all ages and countries.
>Literary newspapers, since they print the daily smatterings of commonplace people, are especially a cunning means for robbing from the aesthetic public the time which should be devoted to the genuine productions of art for the furtherance of culture.
>Hence, in regard to our subject, the art of not reading is highly important. This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as political or religious pamphlets, novels, poetry, and the like, which make a noise and reach perhaps several editions in their first and last years of existence. Remember rather that the man who writes for fools always finds a large public: and only read for a limited and definite time exclusively the works of great minds, those who surpass other men of all times and countries, and whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct.
>>8130837
>One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
>>8130837
so based
>>8130740
>take pasta from /tv/ or some shit
>replace "movies" with "literature"
>it gets replies
Come on, /lit/, you're better than this.
>>8130850
There are hardly any serious posters in this thread. I'm pretty sure most people noticed m80 but you can go on feeling special.
>>8130909
Well obviously I'm not very special, because most of the posts seem serious to me.
