/lit/ - Literature

>>12077732
I ain't reading no book by OSAMU. Sounds too close to Barack Hussain OBAMA and OSAMA Bin Laden.
you really wanna know what i think, kid????
I think you're a fuckin moslem, and you get the fuck off my website and come back when you aren't reading terrorist brain washing bullshit and reading real americans like john grisham who bleed red white and blue.

Melancholy, vain, brooding, weary.
Also they've definitely watched K-on at least once.

>>12077866
Once is enough. K-On sucks.

i just started reading this tonight, about a third of the way through and i really enjoy it so far. i am a depressed, angsty, suicidal pussy

>>12077732
A narcissist who would post an inane topic about themself on a lit board

>>12077921
I despise the book. I am trying to get inside the head of a person who enjoyed it. Please do not project your scandalous thoughts onto my person and leave my thread forthwith you scoundrel. You are unwanted swine.

weeb

>>12077973
If it was a weeb it would be Welcome To The NHK

>>12077961
it's a bretty good book what else is there

I really liked it, but it's not my favorite.

Chances are someone who says it is their favorite is trying too hard to be an edge-lord. I don't think I'm an edge-lord, but I enjoyed it because I was extremely depressed at the time.

The narrator wrote about self-loathing in a ways that I hadn't thought of, but felt to be true. So it was insightful, because I identified with having the depression and hatred the narrator felt for himself.

I probably wouldn't get as much enjoyment out of it now that I'm slightly less sad, but it made sense for where I was when I read it.

Me but better looking

>>12077732
this wojak

>>12077732
Oba is a fucking normie

>>12078194
If he’s a normie who isn’t?

Was it super easy to get laid in 1920s/30s Japan?

>>12077732
Someone who posts on /r9k/.

>>12077983
>Welcome To The NHK
>implying you don't love it too

>>12077732
Failed normalfag

>>12077920
I'm not even sure why, but NLH is the only anything ever to give me suicidal thoughts

I wouldn't believe them because no one who identifies that much with dazai would ever talk to another person on purpose

>>12078653
People who haven't been in multiple sexual relationships (as he has); people who are not adored by the people around them (as he was)

>>12078019
>The narrator wrote about self-loathing in a ways that I hadn't thought of, but felt to be true. So it was insightful, because I identified with having the depression and hatred the narrator felt for himself.

I have been avoiding reading this book because I've heard it's about a chad but this have convinced me I ought to get around to it. Hating myself is what I spend most of my time on.

>>12078699
It's breddy gud desu, wish it was read more outside of weeb circles
>>12078755
It's probably because of the semi-autobiographical nature of the book. It gives you a very real and intimate look inside Dazai's head, something that can't be matched by an entirely fictional character.
>>12078763
Oba talked to people all the time though. Even went out of his way and joined some political organization before getting bored of it. It was always about the internal struggle running counter to the outer imo. I'd probably never talk about the book with anyone I didn't know really well irl tho.
>>12078848
There's more to being normie than sex imo. He was at least a cyborg.

>>12078913
Where are you from anyway?

>>12078019
Why do you think they'd be an edge lord? They could have liked it for the same reasons as you. I personally don't think the book is really that edgy at all despite the subject matter; it deals with very dark material in a very soft and delicate way and is much more about Oba's personal alienation from society than a condemnation of society as a whole.

>>12078916
Ethiopia

Ignore the subject matter and think about its formal qualities. It's just well written and that's what I love about it. I-Novels have something about them that aren't found in other books. The framing of the editor was amazing.

>>12078194
>>12078848
The vast majority of people on here whining about normies would have gotten married without too much trouble if they had been born 100 years ago. Likewise with having a social circle. Even megaspergs like H.P. Lovecraft managed to get married and have friends back then. I think you're putting too much emphasis on something that has changed with the times. If anything, what the book should tell you is that having those things in your life isn't going to magically make you happy or fix your problems. Ironically, someone who would be happy just from those things is in the same camp as normies, since they have no deeper disconnect from the world.

>>12077983
Wrong.

>>12077732
I'm actually friends with this cute Japanese girl who told me that No Longer Human is her favorite book. Melancholy people come in all shapes, sizes and physical attractiveness.

>>12077732
>weeb
>overweight
>jobless
>virgin
>blames everyone else for his problems
>self diagnoses

>>12080345
shut the fuck up

I'm not depressed; will this book make me want to kill myself?

>>12077732
Me.

it's a good book, and the themes about alienation really resonated with me. I didn't really pick up on all the angst like everyone seems to. sure it was there but to me it was more like just not being able to relate to anything and the problems that go with that I guess. not my favorite but one of them, in a top 50 or 100 list.

>>12077732
I dunno I read books like this and The Stranger to see if I can identify with them and they're just getting gfs like it's no problem, fuck these guys

>>12080476
I found the beginning of the book about his childhood to be pretty tragic. When he grows up and is still a bitch it isn't as depressing

Needs republished with a less terrible jacket design

>My favorite book is "A Thousand Plateaus" by the infamous French post-structuralist Giles Deleuze and his loyal partner-in-writing, the anti-therapist Felix Guttari
What kind of person do you imagine?

>>12080793
ugly grad student

>>12080720
see >>12080087

>>12080811
Joke's on you, I'm actually an ugly high school dropout

>>12080777
It’s fucking perfect brah

>>12080284
SZS is an anti-suicide manga

>>12078848
He fucked ugly asians and was adored for making the memes of that era. You could probably do that as well.

>>12078920
It's a good question, but I think >>12078763 is half-correct.

Without trying to open a can of worms, it's sort of like people who really like and sympathize with Holden Caulfield. I liked Holden when I read about him for the same reason, but I don't say Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book either.

People who really, truly identify with Holden (or Oba, in this case) may not walk around saying that they do, because that would be tantamount to saying "I was abused/neglected/sexually assaulted as a child" or, in No Longer Human's case, "I frequently entertain suicidal ideation and am generally unpleasant."

This doesn't include people who do these as an affected habit. These people are usually the types who think being an alcoholic or having a mental illness is trendy or hip.

tfw no qt bf to commit lover's suicide with
It's the most romantic thing possible.
>>12083099
Salinger is good, but his short stories are better than CitR.

>>12078755
i'm the guy you responded to. i think it's because he's incredibly raw in how inadequate he feels in every aspect of his life and to me it's done nothing but exacerbate my own thoughts because of how i feel like i relate to it

>read doomer core
>every protagonist gets chicks with ease
How am I supposed to relate bros? Even Cioran talks about love and women as if they're the most natural things in the world.

>>12083275
see >>12080087

>>12077732
If they’re Non-Japanese, especially American then I imagine someone who hasn’t read Stoner.

>>12080476
No, it will just make you angry

>>12084091
NPCs do tend to get angry when they hear the thoughts of PCs.

>>12080345
yea my qt chinese gf also likes it; i can't really imagine any white girls i know reading it tho