/lit/ - Literature

my drink of choice is tequila but I almost never read after I've started drinking, I usually go on yt and record myself ranting

>>15372880
do not bully anons with info processing disorders

>>15372638
that post is from /tv/

>>15228555
>how do you know that Dan Brown is a bad writer if you haven't read every single word he ever wrote

>>15227405
Hello, wage slave

>>15227393
Based

>>15227450
Do us a favor and don't publish it

>>15227468
Cope more

>>15227491
>>15227876
And yes, I realize the irony of saying that while advocating an escapist story but I would do the same with Wolfe - most of his works can be read purely for enjoyment, but only the careful, intelligent reader will appreciate them to the fullest

>>15227491
>this is what people who don't read beyond entertainment believe

>>15227642
First != best, journey to the west is clearly better

>>15227733
School of /pol/ Illiterates are insta-filtered

>>15227516
>4chan = American site
>English = American
>Defend myself from an ad hominem = I am mad
Kill me, please

>>15227234
>a xianxia fan
Dear dyslexic fag, I have never enjoyed, nor finished any of those shitty Chinese webnovels that get shilled here. And if you can't appreciate Worth the Candle - your loss.

>>15227170
No, but the Dream of the Red Chamber is not wuxia/xianxia.

>>15227257
Ah yes, I can't go online, because one of you, retards, will surely find an opportunity to shill a book which has absolutely no literary merit beyond reflecting your rotten culture. Not even the french are this obnoxious, despite their patriotism.
Everytime you get called out, you respond with "you do not understand postmodernism". I studied philosophy formally, I know much more about contemporary continental philosophy than 99% of you faggots. And I do not even ask of you to be intelligent, or original, I do not expect a rational discourse on your hysterical realism; I merely ask you to be Americans - to occupy a different communication space from me.
I am not actually angry, I am sad. I can't bear to witness this poverty of though, these mental gymnastics you go through to convince yourself that despite your complete lack of familiarity with history of philosophy and literature your voice deserves to be heard. That literary postmodernism is a legitimate discipline, deservant of rigorous analysis.

>>15227237
Read Baudrillard, delusional americuck.

>>15227115
They can have their disgusting commercialism, that vomit-inducing anti-intellectualism, and their brainless consumerism. So long as they do not peddle it as "great literature". God damn it, fuck you all for baiting me into reading Pynchon.

>>15226987
Shit taste and small brains, anon, ngl.

>>15226623
tfw you realize there will never be a better Wuxia/Xianxia than Journey to the West

>>15225613
>No Decameron
>No Story of the Stone
>No Pushkin
>Pynchon
>Wallace
What a complete abomination, you should all burn like the degenerates you are.

>>15218455
>Pynchon, Salinger, Morrison, Wharton, McCarthy
All terrible writers

Fuck, I hope Glück doesn't win the Nobel this year, that would be insufferable. She has 17 books checked out on the Nobel library, I would fucking seethe for days. No form, no rhythm of though, shallow hysteria everywhere; fucking disgusting.

>American modernist poets are undeniably better than the British
>implying anyone cares about modernist poetry

>Compared with who?
France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Spain, Norway and Italy all have substantially more good writers - even if we don't count it per capita...
Stop memeing Pynchon faggots. His so called "acclaim" is only prevalent in America, and even then, he's very controversial in academia. Namedropping Gravity's Rainbow or Mason and Dixon, and expecting everyone to nod their heads in respect is stupid. There are much more influential contemporary writers alive - Coetzee, Fosse, Le Clezio, etc. Pynchon doesn't even come close to the best US has to offer, not to mention the best world literature...

>>15218608
>>15218515
Absolutely based, cringe on the Twain hate though.

>>15218621
America has gotten a lot more commercialized since Melville, idiot. And a few exceptions do not constitute a trend. A good vegetable may grow in a bad soil.

>>15220992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokklubben_World_Library and the four great Chinese novels.

>>15221854
>>15224959
Unbelievably based

>>15224909
What the fuck, that comparison doesn't even make sense

NO ONE IS INTERESTED IN REFLECTIONS OF YOUR PIECE OF SHIT CULTURE, BURGERS.
PYNCHON IS SHIT, MCCARTHY IS SHIT, VOLLMANN IS SHIT, DELILLO IS SHIT.
THE ONLY GOOD AMERICAN WRITERS DID NOT MAKE AN ATTEMPT OF REPRESENTING AMERICAN CULTURE BEYOND SATIRE.

>>15219898
Fuck you, farmer faggot

>>15211027
The Sorcerer's House is /sffg/core

During my exploration of early-20th century fantasy, I came upon this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballantine_Adult_Fantasy_series#Precursors,_August_1965_to_April_1969
From the books I have read already, it looks very promising. Anyone has something to recommend?

>>15208620
Absolutely based; almost as based as Scaruffi's pedophilia rant. Any recommendations?

>>15208682
>hey guys, I like exactly the same shit reddit likes, what do I read?
Check the /r/fantasy top chart or some shit, pretty sure they had one

>>15206499
>that's at the level of Rothfuss and far beyond Sanderson
Anon... Both of them are terrible writers. Rothfuss may be substantially less cringe but you are still, either:
1) Haven't been introduced to great Fantasy in which case you should probably start with something light, perhaps Jack Vance or Poul Anderson, or, if you are already used to reading good non-genre literature - Lord Dunsany and Mervyn Peake.
2) Are completely beyond saving

>>15202567
The King of Elfland's daughter is pretty dreamy desu.

>>15201178
>I'm really enjoying Mason & Dixon
Fucking burger shill

OUT OF MY WAY FAGGOTS, PATRICIAN COMING THROUGH.