/lit/ - Literature

>>9805296
herman hesse generally

>>9800913
rothfuss is a great writer in the sense that he understands that a lot of fantasy writing is about male weakness in some way

>>9798152
the internet is the most popular text rich medium which has changed the expectation of other text-rich mediums

so i mean yeah it's BAD but it's bad because the general public's pov on poetry is through shitty inspirational facebook memes

>>9793712
honestly the only "good" boards are the ones devoted to making stuff and there's still a disquieting amount of of crab-in-the-bucket bullshit going on there.

>>9794207
roughly in order:

a moveable feast, for whom the bell tolls, and some of his short stories are pretty okay i guess. hills like white elephants stands out

>>9765668
if you have to motivate yourself to do something then you don't like doing it so you shouldn't do it

reading isn't inherently any more intellectual than anything else and the idea that it's this this big dickwavey ooo look at me i'm a reader thing is stupid as shit

not to say YOU'RE stupid as shit i'm just saying that mentality is dumb

anyways if you're still interested tell me what books you liked and your fav tv shows and movies and hobbies and bands i'll hook you up whatever i've got fifteen minutes

>>9761650
sotw is a book that floats on the fact that there are a large number of readers that will buy anything you say so long as you throw in some empty romanticism and stroke their ego over how they like reading books

like i'm not even mad i think pretty much everyone who writes professionally has done something like that at some point but carlos fuckin cracked the CODE dude. like it's pitch perfect

>>9763601
i'm sure he's a perfectly nice dude but why does he dress like he shops at some kind of yuppie hot topic

>>9761632
fifty shades is badly written but that's not a really valid criticism imo you don't shit on a porn for bad directing or bad writing right

that being said it's soaked in rape culture so

>>9760739
i'd like to throw in bukowski. i can't believe i forgot bukowski.

>>9755492
i think people tend to dislike holden once they grow out of their angsty teen phase and see too much of their old selves in him. once they're older they tend to view him more as some poor, damaged kid.

like yeah, he's an angsty teenager. more than that he's mentally ill. like you don't make fun of a baby for shitting itself, y'know

>>9760828
no prob! sorry for the douchey elitism on my end

>>9760442
most of lovecraft's stuff deals with man's insignificance and our relationship with the unknowable. to be real with you the best thing about him is the stuff that was influenced by his work. compared to what you're probably used to lovecraft might be a little inaccessible or embarrassingly baroque.

but hey, check all of this stuff out. it's pretty good.

mostly he’s just mined for ideas.

shadow over innsmouth, at the mountains of madness, the color out of space, shadow out of time, the music of eric zann, pickman’s model, the dreams in the witch house, rats in the walls, the dream quest of the unknown kaddath, herbert west reanimator, the whisperer in the darkness,

you might also dig house of leaves but it's polarizing. if you're not much of a reader you'll probably like it tho

>>9758825
honestly he's not a bad teacher but it's kind of a shame he feels like he has to put on some weird minstrel show to get people to listen to him

>>9760384
you're looking for the white collegiate dudebro literary canon which is comprised of, but not limited to: vonnegut, hemingway, palahniuk, ellis, hemingway, and beat poets in general

>>9759436
honestly all of those problems sound like they're rooted in a lack of self-worth but more so a lack of self-responsibility because you desperately need people to validate you which you probably know already and you're trapped in this cycle where you think some insight is going to save you but you know deep down it won't

anyways

>>9758556
as a time capsule, yeah, as a form of entertainment.. so-so? it was extremely inventive for its time period and broke a lot of walls, but a good deal of the satire and by extension its humor is lost in translation. cut a lot of the bloat and just get the abridged version. otherwise you're staring down a lot of needless repetition.

>>9759225
it's not either/or. when i was younger i basically just lived out of my car so i could read, write garbage stories, and cram in as many life experiences as possible

>>9758355
i'm really not trying to be a dick but most of being a writer is writing. if you don't enjoy the nitty gritty details then you like the idea of being a writer more than anything else.

that's not to say it can't be stressful and frustrating, it can be, it's a job, but still if you hate everything but the rush of satisfaction from having IMAGINED you made something it's probably not for you

>>9757377
a lot of my old students really liked the hobbit, the phantom tollbooth, and to kill a mockingbird. so probably those, like, hypothetically.

>>9759783
so ididn't read any of this but doesn't pynchon look like he speaks in goofy's voice

ahyuck

>>9753671
hey nice collection! i've got the same edition of cosmicomics. the cover feels great in your hand right?

i bet some some flannery o'connor would fit in mighty nice

>>9759850
congrats op! i hope stuff keeps working out for you.

>>9758153
if you're really committed my advice would be to start off with books you like. when you first start doing something you're really making a case for whether or not you wanna continue doing it, y'know? pretty much everyone who's an avid reader got into it because it was fun.

curiosity blossomed from engagement, and from there we branched out into the heavier more literary stuff.

so what do you like, op? tv shows, movies, albums, etc? and why?