/lit/ - Literature

> mfw I rock this thread

> post something outrageous on 4chans
> it must be true because they're typing a lot of text

> mfw this thread is not nearly as good as the choose your adventure RPG Zombie Harold Bloom in London thread

> implying I'd fuck a 6/10

This woman is a nut. I did not have relations with her. That is not my baby!

I hate to have to say it but Infinite Jest is just awful. David Foster Wallace can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.

I agree.

>>2228690
Five Stars

>>2038716
Bolano is a period piece.

>>1901323
I wholeheartedly approve.

We're a dying breed, D&E.

Tolstoy hated Shakespeare because he saw too much of himself in him.

What we have in Tolstoy is essentially a writer struggling between his own moralism and Shakespeare's universal nihilism.

Also, gnosticism. Just because.

I don’t know what I would choose if I had to select a single work of sublime fiction from the last century, it probably would not be something by Roth or McCarthy; it would probably be Mason & Dixon, if it were a full-scale book, or if it were a short novel it would probably be The Crying Of Lot 49.

Dear OP,

I suspect Bolano is another period piece. His excess attracts but flows away.

Harold Bloom

>>1801091
I don't assume anything, bro. Talk to me.

I'm Dr. Frasier Crane, and I'm listening.

>>1532569
You hated him as a stupid high-schooler, then you moved on from that stage. You keep confirming my views in your attempts to dismiss them.

>>1532516
>>1532531
>3. You were forced to read one of his shit plays and don't know about Hamlet, King Lear, or Othello.
> stupid high schoolers are the one's who didn't read the play to begin with and just hate him because he's old and school made you read.

So I'm right?

>>1532516
That's called being a stupid high-schooler.

Not appreciating Shakespeare amounts to either two possibilities. One, you suffer from extreme influence anxiety. Two, you're a stupid high-schooler who doesn't know shit.

Or you can just not give a fuck and stick to your convictions.

Haters gonna hate.

> mfw this thread
Y'all can try and deny it, but you're just making your anxiety that more apparent.

>>1486116
I'm the last of a dying breed and this will likely be my last and greatest work. I'll teach you to have some fucking respect, grandson.

I've got two books dropping in the spring. Hit me up on my motherfucking myspace or add me on a facebook for updates.

I'll likely post a thread about it when it releases, Tao Lin ain't got shit on me.

>>1482676
THE CANON IS UNDER ATTACK! I REPEAT THE CANON IS UNDER ATTACK!

… I feel a discomfort with the Harry Potter mania, and I hope that my discontent is not merely a highbrow snobbery, or a nostalgia for a more literate fantasy to beguile (shall we say) intelligent children of all ages. Can more than 35 million book buyers, and their offspring, be wrong? Yes, they have been, and will continue to be for as long as they persevere with Potter.