[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 19 KB, 300x457, Morrissey_Autobiography_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4373179 No.4373179[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Is there a /lit/ consensus on this? /mu/ seems to have stopped talking about it and even there I don't think anyone really read it to begin with. Is it true it doesn't have chapters? Do you just read it in one shot, then? Thinking of asking for it for Christmas.

>> No.4373184

>>4373179
It doesn't have chapters. It's a pretty funny read, and well written at times, but it falls apart by the end.

If I'm going to be honest, it just reinforced how I felt about Morrissey before I started reading it... how I loved the person he used to be, and his work with the Smiths... and how I hate the person he became, bitter and vain.

It's still a funny read, but the quality drops as the book goes on, which is fitting, as I doubt half it's audience, who were instagramming pictures of themselves with it, got more than fifty pages in.

>> No.4373216

Is not having chapters a common thing or is Morrissey just an asshole?

>> No.4373224

>>4373216
Both

>> No.4373809

/lit/ doesn't have a consensus and my opinion about the Morrissey book, altough I haven't read it, is that it's shit.

>> No.4374254

>>4373809
Nice sentence man, really flows

>> No.4374263

>>4373809
/lit/ doesn't have a consensus because most of us haven't read it either.
>>4374254

>> No.4374272

I don't even know who that person is or why is everyone so mad.

>> No.4374273

>>4374272
>>4374272
I think he's a rock musician or something

>> No.4374876
File: 52 KB, 340x530, penguin-onedirection.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4374876

>>4374272
He's the lead singer of some middle-brow pop band from the 80s

Everyone is so mad because he said "jump" and Penguin Classics said "how high?",
despite the Penguin Classics imprint supposedly being for books that have stood the test of time and become, y'know, classics, as opposed to autobiography of faded celebrity.
Basically some high-up at Penguin is a Smiths fan and destroyed all the credibility the brand has carved for itself over the past 65 years in one fell swoop.

>> No.4374883

>>4374876
Lol their editions suck nowadays anyway

>> No.4374921

>>4374876

I don't think there's anyone pop music that is anything more than low brow, unless you are strictly talking about lyrics and not music

also what is with people feigning interest? dude you responded to could have Googled, no need to egg these retards on

>> No.4374925

>>4374921

*feigning ignorance

>> No.4374948

>>4374921
Music brow list

Lowbrow: jungle music, hip-hop, rap, most modern pop and rock music, metal, animu soundtracks
Middlebrow: Morrissey, tryhard stuff like Nick Cave, Tom Waits, indie hipster stuff, classic folk rock/pop
Highbrow: Classical

>> No.4374953

>>4374948
Thanks Sunhawk

>> No.4374958

/lit/ related Morrissey tunes?

Reader Meets Author seems applicable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LcK7tImV7A

>> No.4374960

>>4374953
If I was Sunhawk I wouldn't be here
I'd be on a train or in a park somewhere reading Junot Diaz and wondering why no-one will talk to me

>> No.4374965

>>4373179
I like mozzo. I love the Smiths though, so I'll read it eventually... just haven't moved anything out of the way to make time for the big "autobiography".

>> No.4374970

>>4374960
Because you're a white NEET in England reading Junot Diaz.

>> No.4374971

>>4374948

the fact that you think metal would be lower than hipster stuff means you probably don't even know music theory.

the only middle brow things would be jazz fusion (or any jazz that isn't predominantly improvised) and some of the prog rock bands who don't try to act within a blatantly pop framework (so, not stuff like Genesis). I would even add some higher tier metal but idiots who judge things by timbre wouldn't understand.

>> No.4374978

>>4374958
No, "Girl Least Likely To" is /lit/'s anthem.

http://vimeo.com/28502617

"There's a publisher," she said, "...in the new year"
(It's never in this year)

>> No.4374998

>>4374978
>vimeo

Also, "Sister, I'm A Poet" is pretty relevant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxO1sNzkRnQ

>> No.4375010

>/lit/
>consensus

lurk more. you won't find your hugbox here

>> No.4375015

>>4374953
>>4374960
Why do you guys have such an issue with Sunhawk?

>> No.4375068

>>4375015
>>4375015
I don't have any issues with you, you're just a part of our community and it's fun to refer to you sometimes, and personally, I think you make for a cute /lit/ mascot, and am glad to have you around

>> No.4375076

>>4375015
He's a waste of space. A total waste of text and 'thought'.