/lit/ - Literature

The Stranger by Albert Camus

I seriously felt like smoking clove cigarettes and composing ironic couplets about the decline of Modern Society.

>>1254280
fuck you, I loved that book

>>1254287

>STOP DISLIKING WHAT I LIKE

No. But I'm suitably satisfied that you didn't dissolve into a childish temper tantrum about how it was TOO DEEP FOR ME.

>>1254280
>pretentious
>stranger

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH
are you 12 years old?
Are you too afraid of "grown-up" literature and prefer to keep to redwall?

>>1254289
you are the CLT of /lit/

>>1254296

Touchy, aren't we?

Anything by Proust.

Stranger is entry level pretension.

I guess Infinite Jest, though the only people who really call it pretentious are lazy hipsters who haven't actually read the book.

>>1254287

>>1254316

Infinite Jest is pretentious, yes. I had the fortune to download it when it was making the rounds on /lit/. DFW just can't be as pretentious as the French, though. Calling the French pretentious is like calling a morbidly obese person a trifle plump.

>>1254296

To be honest, I genuinely struggle to see what's so especially revelatory and profound about The Stranger. He shoots a man during a mental distemper - he gets arrested for his crime - his inarticulateness at trial means he can't avoid execution.

People tell me it's part of the existentialist canon, but what insight does it give? It says nothing about society, it says little about the protagonist, etiher, and I don't see his own ham-handedness as much of an 'act of revolt' central to existentialist principle.

It's a brief and pointless book that offers no real insight despite its insistent claims to the commentary. It is, genuinely, pretentious.

>>1254327

Sorry, commentary = contrary.

>>1254280

This from the guy who tried to write a Modern Warfare fanfic.

>>1254344

Glad you liked it. The next episode is underway.

And then there's that Harry Potter fanfiction that /lit/ commissioned from me in which Luna turns into a succubus. I seriously don't have time for NaNoWriMo these year.

>>1254351

Stick to your fantasy and sci-fi manchild.

>>1254357

>ad hominem

That sound you hear is that of the thread hitting rock bottom. I expect 2DEEP4U any moment now.

A song of ice and fire.

Maybe not so much the books, but the fans

>>1254357
Watch out, tough guy on the loose.

>>1254326
There's downloading it, and there's reading it in its entirety. Did you accomplish both?

>>1254370

I did, and if you want a lengthy question-and-answer session about it, we may begin.

Provided you don't mind the Internet Alpha Tough Guys swaggering around.

Tonight i am to write an analysis of Johnathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal". I read and understood the text but i don't know how to analyze an essay...

What are some tips you could give an English 1A student to help complete this assignment

>>1254373
Take it over to the new homework board /hw/, im sure theyll be happy to help.

>>1254372
No, we don't need to have a Q&A. I'm fine with people thinking whatever it is that they are thinking. I just don't like when people think whatever it is they're thinking without actually knowing what the fuck they're talking about.

I've heard quite a few people call Infinite Jest pretentious, because it has footnotes or uses big words or something, without having read the book.

Shit makes me a mad bro.

>>1254379

okay thanks, and i didn't mean to intrude on this thread

>>1254383

I definitely would not call it the height of pretentiousness, but there is a smidgen of it. Barely noticeable, really. I only caught it because my senses were finely honed with some 151.

To be honest, I didn't even consider mentioning it in this thread until you brought it to mind. And even then, like I said, whatever pretensions it may have had utterly pale in comparison to the shit that French authors have belched forth.

>>1254385
Its ok, youre forgiven.

>>1254379
>implying there is such a thing as a......oh.

>>1254428
;)

twilight

Honestly? A Clockwork Orange. I still enjoyed it but I felt like it was the literal, dictionary definition of pretentious.