/lit/ - Literature

>>9947706
Is Ha Jin any good?
I read War Trash more for the historical context back in highschool, is his use of language good?

Nabakov is a god.
Conrad is meh, HoD is overrated.

>>9948672
He is talking about "Harrius Potterus" and "Hobbitus" Latin meme translations for pretentious pseuds to socially jerk off with after they take an entry level latin course.
and no there isn't any debate these joke books shouldn't exist.

>>9719197
The problem with this kind of post is that it always assumes women are these forces of nature incapable of being manipulated by memes or circumstance. It simultaneously rages against a thing while stating that thing is an uncontestable fact--it perpetuates the very system it decries, when it's pretty clear from history that, even if things weren't perfect, they were certainly better. It blames women but doesn't responsibilize them, accepting the game ought to be as it is in the end. It proposes no alternatives because the posters considered themselves powerless from the very beginning. It pretends it has anything to with what men want when it only talks about what women want. And the best part about it is that it bitches about women being roasties when men are oogaboogaing 24/7 on this very site, treating women just as much as disposable objects as the do men, which just loops back into women being shallow and infantilized.

>>9644469
>Being a Moralistic therapeutic deist
wew

>>7413172
How does that make literature "change", substantially? Because what you're talking about is nothing that's really different from what we already have, so your post is a non-statement.

>Just because you're in denial doesn't mean you're incapable of abstract thought.
What am I in denial about, exactly? I never said the "changes" you talk about will not happen. I just don't buy that they'll be anything near a game changer.

>No where did I say people will be reading tweets as novels or fake tweet novels.
Nowhere did you say they wouldn't. You just said literature was "changing" then jumped directly into reading tweets. Learn to format your posts better.

>Fucking Grandpa.
Funny thing is, it's likely I'm younger than you. How do I figure? I'm not ready to defend change for changes sake like you are.

It's also interesting to note you're calling me a "grandpa" despite me not saying anything about your statements on other media.

>>7272080
>He thinks this applies only to language and not to all possible experience.
Don't fight it fam.

>get perfect school grades
>go to lower ranked uni than I could've went to (had grades for Oxbridge / imperial etc)
>thoughtlessly went to uni while living at home
>finished uni
>applying for graduate jobs
>failed tonnes of internship / grad interviews with companies, including about 7 with investment bank for front office positions because of my ugliness and bad social skills (though my social skills are getting much better - my first 5-7 interviews were autism personified but now I'm confident)
>got rejected from big 4 management consulting because they ran out of places
>have to pick new division - pick audit

Wow, so that's what it feels like to be a Joe average yoonay bantz person. I can't believe that, while researching the big 4 on Google, you get people talking about the big 4 as something prestigious. How horrifying.

An interviewer I once had was an investment banking associate after first starting out as a graduate in big 4 audit - and he was an Oxford STEM grad! Jesus, he must've felt like a failure straight after uni. Go full Gordon gekko or go full entrepreneur / poet - anything in between is resigning yourself to a normie life of team building / Christmas party bs, BGT, X factor, great British bake off.

I hated my electrical / mechanical (one of those) degree but I'd sooner be one of those at an engineering company than be in audit / back office at some London bank. I would just imagine my ugly self surrounded by dumb poshos who were earning ten times my wages. I would want to stick a pen through my brain.

Though I do have an interview with one of Microsoft / apple for a grad role and I would be very happy if I got it, despite it probably being low paid brain dead nonsense. Big name on my CV for a cushion if I want to take actual risks later on.

>>6403252

>strawmanning

Not the poster you're replying to but this triggers me.

>>5683270
Even worse

>read shoplifting from american apparel
>it's unironically rubbish

If you read a page long excerpt then you could multiply it by 95 and that's literally the book. I honestly think that reading his twitter feed would be a more worthwhile thing to do.

I feel conned.

>>5021795
>lying awake at night thinking about your own mortality
Fuck doesn't that just get you sometimes

>Not striving every day to become the greatest man to have ever walked the earth
>Not building your strength even further with every single action taken
>Not taking your place among gods and legends with sheer passion and will
>2014
>Settling for less

Is the 'family' slowly disintegrating?

Surely /lit/ can relate. How many of you relate to your parents not in a strongly emotional way, but viewed them more or less as people who happened to occupy the same living space as you? Growing up, did they shape your growth? I know I myself can't relate to them on a deep level, unfortunately, having spent much of my youth detached and plugged in to electronics. My education and growth was first and foremost affected by the internet and television, I spent little time in the so-called father-son or family activities that comprised much of my father's youth. I suppose this means that while I might avoid any possible negative influences their attitudes could have and better foster an interest in learning, I feel like I've missed out on something, and I harbour no interest in starting a family of my own. This all spurious mental ejaculate, but I'd like to know if anyone else shares in this alienation.