/lit/ - Literature

>>17145000
Sometimes, the repeating digits indicate falsity.

>>17145000
the worst trips ever?

>boring
anything french, tbqh.

>>17145000
So you're not afraid that they will call you retard on this board? We need more anons like you.

I hate nationalist propaganda books that are presented at schools as a peak of a national literature. The ones that tell you it's honorable to die for your homeland charging on overwhelming enemy forces. I hope it's not country-specific.

>>17145698

Your feelings are wrong, although your rhetoric still begs the question of which examples you have in mind.

>>17145732
Most of my examples probably were not translated to English so it'd be pointless to write the titles.
However I can give you a more known example - The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland). It's about a knight that sacrifices his life for a king and before dying he even tries to break his sword so it won't be used by an enemy. Very romantic and fits its times which is 11th century.
Imagine if someone wrote a book about this type of chivalry but the books were written in late 19th century and his point was to make us proud of our history. Despite all the main characters being fictional and presented events never happened or were intentionally changed so that protagonists are never presented as morally grey. If they are doing something evil it is because they were mislead and and their only atonement is single-handedly saving the entire nation. The literary value of those work as you can guess is questionable yet those books are in a literary canon.

>>17145000
I loved Moby Dick. But I hated Blood Meridian. Now that was fucking boring shit, and it was written in a retarded way. Terrible prose.

>>17145000

you wouldn't get it..

>>17145000
Agreed. Single most hated books by far
>>17145695
>>:(

>>17145698
>>17146102
It's very obvious that you mean Sienkiewicz.

>>17146114
Only a scrawny ass boring motherfucker would like that cetology shit over metal shit like sodomizing, scalping and baby smashing.

>>17145000
moby dick is overrated trash like the great gatsby. UHOH another ten chapters describing a whale with some retarded ass pseudo-science bullshit. made me legit want to go back to the chapters where Ishmael was getting buttfucked by Queequeg

>>17147910
This made me laugh but you still got filtered

I hate slaughterhouse 5. I hate atlas shrugged. I have a friend who loathed the great gatsby so much they've basically got me convinced I shouldn't read it. Tried to before but couldn't get through it.

I read The Road and reached the same conclusion as you, McCarthy is shit.

I liked the "boring" parts of Moby Dick. I thought learning about whaling was cool.

>>17148584
This. It's what makes the book stand out. Melville will take some minute detail about whaling and turn it into poetry.

>>17145000
I tried to read Tropic of Cancer, but it was self-indulgent shock garbage. I gave up ten pages in. I will never again buy a book on its reputation without reading a few pages.

>>17145000

>>17148852
i don't get it

>>17145000
>During lockdown due to plague
>I cannot work
>I cannot see my friends, verily they are more afeared of the thing than I
>I feel lonely
>I open Moby Dick and am transported to the Seas on High Adventure
>Thank you Herman Melville

Two books that I still havent finished
>Lolita
Nabokov is overrated, this book is shit tier pedo erotica
>Tender is the night
I dont know why I dont like this, I loved Gatsby

>>17149719
sneed

>>17146679
You're right. Any thoughts?

>>17145000
I agree it, would be both better and shorter if the author left out all the unnecessary descriptions of whales.

>>17148852
Lol good one /sci/ anon

>>17146702
>killing things weaker than you with firearms
>more metal than heading into alien territory your body has in no way evolved to survive and hunting the greatest monsters ever seen by human eyes so you can sell them as perfume

>>17148852
pretty good.

>>17149719
If you can't into common science and math you're illiterate

>>17146102
Honestly sounds like a story described by The Republic.
>The gods are good
>The heroes are good
>Death over slavery
>The only time the heroes are bad is when they are mislead by evil.
>The heroes go to heroic ends to right the accidental wrong, or die trying.

>>17152663
On a ship nigga, and with harpoons. The whale wasn't even doing anything, it was all Ahab's autism. Meanwhile the red niggers were actively looking to rape and scalp you, and your best bet against them is this satanic figure who himself is looking for your anus. You tell me, which one takes more guts?

>>17145698
I spent my entire high school education being made to read books by Africans or colored people under the pretense that "you need to take a break from the typical authors and get a new perspective for once" without ever having had the original Western perspective. No Dickens, no Faulkner, no Twain, no Hemingway, no Steinbeck, no Fitzgerald, and the only Shakespeare we read was Merchant of Venice. Instead our assigned reading was stuff like Things Fall Apart.
We did read All Quiet on the Western Front and The Jungle, but even those specific books are progressive propaganda. My closing thoughts are that you're reading your national literature instead of being taught to ignore your national literature.

t. American zoomer from a public school

>Auspiciously, The Scarlet Letter had been published just that spring in 1850 when Hawthorne met Herman Melville, who would go on to pen the greatest American novel about what America once was and whose ghosts linger on to haunt her corpse’s orphaned children. Biblical and poetic, Moby-Dick chronicles the tragic end of America as a ship full of colored savages being led by insane messianic Quakers on doomed quests to take revenge and destroy the white specter “of our deepest blood-nature“. Melville sensed the tragic and humiliating character that lay beneath the surface of America, which it would inflict on everything it conquered, but especially its rebel brother in the South from whom America’s only aristocracy would be destroyed for the equality of the coerced confession. It was in that sensitivity to what they were that Melville saw and found his Calvinist brother in Hawthorne with the blackness and a touch of Puritanic gloom. Moby-Dick too, that Great American Novel, is a tale of humiliation stretched out divinely like twisted scripture as Ahab leads a microcosm of all the world in a forsaken crusade not for the inflicted wound–but because the whale bore witness to it.

>>17153444
you're lucky that you're reading your national literature instead of being taught to ignore it*