/lit/ - Literature

This.

in b4 Twilight

By generation, do you mean the 20-30's, the middle agers, or the teenagers at the moment?

Fight Club

>>727790

Failure.

>>727813

Sweet Christ, I hope not.

>>727815

Go away.

>>727806
basically the 16-25 age range.

>>727785
Ive heard that answer before, been meaning to read it. Anyone have a pdf or a text file? I refuse to pay for that piece of shit.

>>727786
Thats depressing in how accurate it is. A generation easily controlled by media manipulation to believe subpar storytelling is genuis(see: avatar), all to feed the great marketing machine of t-shirt sales and other merchandise made by Chinese children.

If you're asking for fiction that defines this generation, it hasn't been written yet.

A book that shows the young people of today as monsters, idiots, without imagination, that just watch tv or stare into their mobile screen or sit on their computer.
Ha such a book been written? If so that's the one.

>>727929
Are you agreeing or disagreeing with the book you posted? Could you give a general synopsis of its main points?

>>727934
>monsters
explain

>>727926

Implying it's impossible to be aware of "media manipulation" and exploitation of 3rd world countries while also enjoying Avatar. It's not.

>>727987
>implying its possible to enjoy avatar if you have an IQ over 90

whatever glenn beck's book is

That book that's adaptation Michael Cera played in

I can't remember the name.

>>727991
>implying you need an IQ of 90 to harp about media control and 3rd world countries being a shitfest

>>728005
>Implying that an IQ over 90 high.

>>727987
>Implying it's impossible to be aware of "media manipulation" and exploitation of 3rd world countries while also enjoying Avatar. It's not.
Are you implying there's something inherently intellectual in realizing either of those things?

Simulation and Simulacra

>>728053
>they don't realize the media controlling the world is an idea created by the media
>they think they're deviating from mainstream ideas

>>728059
>doesn't realize that the media creating media-control ideas is an idea created by the media

>>728062
>probably realizes that all ideas are media controlled and created

>>728053

Not at all. I think it's a perfectly intelligible statement to most people.

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>>727991
Guise, the avatar guy was a troll and I fell for it. You win troll now lets all move on.

>>728064
>doesn't realize that he is the media

>>728071
headasplode.jpg

THE MEDIA

>>727934
Feed by MT Anderson. In a near future though.

My thread, my beautifull thread, its fallen apart.

>>728074
This

This generation's defining piece of literature is an ebook called the internet.

>>727782

pastebin.ca

>Implying you're not just wearing your nostalgia googles and don't want to accept that the tastes of this generation are not the result of a degenerative process but from an evolution

Really, this is exactly what the generation that came before us said about our tastes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

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Bloody hell, this!
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>>729535
Yo dawg

I heard you like wikipedia, so I put some wikipedia in your wikipedia so you can wiki while you wiki.

>>729547
the internet is our only real hope of extraordinariness or having really accomplished anything

but really we are the product of a soon to be entirely defunct system of U.S. hegemony

the world of our parents was built on a ponzi scheme of dust and debt with the whole simulacrum dissolving away in the hazy light of morning

The current generation doesn't read.....

>>728187
I've just start it. I'd say that it began real horrorshow. The way this book resembles The Clockwork Orange is a peculiar thing: it is like that despite there being to violence.

I'd say the musician is Conor Oberst

I don't know about a book though, a lot of people are ape shit about on the road, some fountainhead... but neither are of our generation at all, just the snazzy hipsters who inhabit it

American Psycho

>>729572
With the advent of internet and the printed word asailing you from every corner due to advertisment and other misk information, I'd argue that the current generation reads more than any generation before it.

I haven't read infinite jest (tl;dr) but I heard it shed pretty accurate light on American contemporary culture.

If it's really a book on our generation and has some sort of cultural criticism I'd probably read it.

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oh yeah also, for the younger half of that time 16-25 time frame, there's a dedicated Vonnegut and Palahniuk following, damned if I know why

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>>729678
nobody listens to conor oberst anymore lol
its 2010, we're still riding the dying remnants of chillwave

>>729777

lol I agree, but I tend to side with Elliott Smith and his musical descendants as opposed to chillwave, which I hadn't heard before today honestly...

I think this is too synthetic, more acoustic, more haunting, more somber!

>>729731
what were the main points of that book?

>>731021
Reeeeally oversimplified version: forms of entertainment like TV are on the same addictive continuum as drugs and alcohol, and can be just as destructive.

It's one of the best books I've ever read.

>>731033
couldnt books be called an addiction as well?

You know it.

It is an index, and if books can be digital then a digital reference can be considered a book.

Hundreds of terrabytes of information, that for an index is an amazing feat, something unseen in the history of mankind.

>>731098
Yep. That's in there too.

>>731099
>digital index

No Country For Old Men

>>731099

lol wut

>>731131

It's based in the 80s. Was that the joke you were making?

fight club

The Road