/lit/ - Literature

12 angry men, but it's just one man defending himself and he's not angry

Should you read the Greek gods as characters or personifcation?

I’m 38 yo male (surgery is on Tuesday) and I never knew much about Faulkner. I’ve been hearing about Hemingway propaganda since a kid and obviously did required reading on him in school.
I got into fiction recently and read Faulkner’s short stories on a whim. Caused me to read up on him because I was blown away. This is when I ran into the history of Faulkner and Hemingway and how they were both leading literary figures during their time but wrote radically different. There was some tension between them.
Made sense.
I just finished Hemingway short stories. Wasn’t really interested in comparing the two but I couldn’t get over how much Hemingway sucked.
I’ve known about his iceberg method of writing and how the alt right bros like Shane Gillis love him for being short and stoic but it just sounds pretentious and empty.
As soon as I read the barn fire story, I was gripped and full of questions. Those questions still linger. I’m not even a writer but it made rethink how to tell a story.
Hemingway doesn’t make me question anything. It’s not intriguing. I don’t want to explore his iceberg and what lays below. He thinks he’s some brave mysterious hero but it comes off as some dork in a fedora and a graphic tee drinking beer at a bar alone. Of course he was a manly man that went to war and boxed and all that but he seems really shallow.

Thoughts on the greatest modern writer? What's your favourite work by him?

Give me one good reason why he isn't the greatest writer to have ever lived

Finishing this book in one week was very wrong idea, It really is very destructive even though i know his whole premise

It's just the arguments in it are extremely true

Does reading philosophy make it easier to interpret literature?

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Long story short, my life is worthless. Earlier this year, my wife secretly ended the tenancy on our house, moved my son into a different school, then announced she was leaving, giving me one days notice. I have lost everything. I have no job, home or purpose anymore.

I'm looking for some books that deal with real people or characters that are dealing with the same issues, depression and misery. Books that ponder whether or not to give up and die. But not ones that ultimately lead to redemption. I don't want to wallow, but I am in no place for optimism right now.

Hegel and Schopenhauer summed up

>what if a wife were a real bitch
kino books with simple premises?

>read Greek mythology
>every other myth is about gods dabbing on mortals, sometimes even those who didn't cross them
I don't get it

this ended up being a massive flop, and now this will forever be his last book
pynch should've quit while he was a head

>protagonist gets lost
>tries to find his way home
why can't he ever come up with a different plot?

What's the required readings for interpretation of literature?

>men are retarded slave cattle
>women are slavers and master manipulators
>but women are even more retarded than men, who are actually geniuses, yet retarded
This book is retarded

How the fuck does one begin to understand Derrida?

Philosophers are just failed novelists.

>Nothing is more common than to hear it said of reputed works of art, that they are very good but very difficult to understand. We are quite used to such assertions, and yet to say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it. The majority of men may not like rotten cheese or putrefying grouse—dishes esteemed by people with perverted tastes; but bread and fruit are only good when they please the majority of men. And it is the same with art. Perverted art may not please the majority of men, but good art always pleases everyone.

Who was in the right here?

Explain to me why Lovecraft is considered a horror author when literally nothing scary happens.

>Death is what gives life meaning.
>Create your own meaning.
>It matters because you experience it.
>Embrace the struggle, it's what makes you grow.
>The journey is the destination
>We're all in this together, connection is the point.
>Rebel against the absurd, defiance is freedom.

What if, instead of NaNoWriMo, it were NaNiWriMo?

do we like this guy?

Be real with me /lit/, isn't Camp of the Saints ultimately an existential horror novel?

All of dis niggas children's books went hard as fuck but nobody read them and instead they read repetitive Redwall.

No justice.

Is there anywhere to go after him? I feel like literature has concluded after reading his complete works

Is Stephen King a good author?

What am I in for?

books ive enjoyed
>Carl Jung - The Red Book + Memories, Dreams, Reflections
>Mein Kampf
>The Autobiography of Malcolm X
>Operators and things
>Perdurabo
>Wormwood Star

I like autobiographies of controversial figures or people who lived an interesting life path.
I enjoy some fiction but only stuff grounded in reality or still deep/esoteric.
I'm open to any type of book really but alot of stuff seems gay/goy
RECCOMEND AWAY PLS

Which Dostoevsky book do lesbians like the most?

Why are Plato's dialogues so readable?

What books should I read if I want to develop Dark Triad traits? I've already read 48 Laws of Power and How to Win Friends and Influence People

I post here because to hell with R9K or /b/. I really always wonder about myself, mostly because I don't know myself at all. I suppose I am an amateur 'writer', but I just sort of stumbled into that. In the same way I just adhere to referring to the weird mass that is 'I' with personal pronouns. I was born well off and became educated and because I could never stay friends with anyone for more than a year my accompaniment was mostly media growing up. Even then, when I've spent my life on that, there's not an iota of assurance that I'm anything other than nominally taking on the label of an idea. I have no idea if I can express something unique or profound or even just derivative of decent. I feel all I'd ever be doing is slinging words from an list together in a way which stimulates the eyes but not anything else. That leads me to my point, I know 2 things of myself: Many moments I despise myself, and in others I love life. I don't know why I despise myself, like where it actually came from. It's there though. I know in the moments where I'm loving anything I'm not thinking about who I am, or what anything is. I'm ignorant and then I believe I can be like that forever. I thought so when I aged from a boy to a teenager, and subsequently in the following years when I tried to be meditative and at peace. Then and there I thought I'd actually conquered something. Only to go right around a bend again and hit myself. It seems like I'm changing, but all it is is oscillation. Something like that. What I was is dead, I come back and see myself again and then I climb and fall. If I'm aware of it and trying to stop myself- it happens, if I'm intentionally blank of myself it happens anyway. I don't say any of that to have a conclusion, because I myself don't. Neither do I intend to sound profound or pretentious, though I think I definitely exude the latter of those two. I have the sensation that I'm not unique at all, and I know this. In some way or the other someone has had these exact words with themself and had the exact same result. Essentially yelling into a vacuum. Now, in all reality I don't know why I wrote this. It's like that vague 'want' where I wanted to be a writer, and to write all my ideas till conclusion. So, I don't know, say what you want in reply or don't say anything at all. I don't have much more to say today myself.

>writes a juvenile book with simple black and white morality for children
>filled with plotholes
>bad guys are all cartoonishly evil and have no redeeming features
>80 years later manchildren still think he's a genius

Is he the biggest hack to ever hack? Being an adult fan of Tolkien is the easiest way to tell someone is low IQ.

This book is autistic

An R. S. Bakker thread. Discuss any of the works of Bakker, including but not limited to The Prince of Nothing and Aspect Emperor series.
Truth shines.

I like old books. They're just neat. I want to buy some more old books, but I don't have billions of dollars to buy first editions of everything. On the other hand, I don't want to buy random books from dogshit authors that I'll never read.

What are some old printings (early 1900's or before) that can be had for a reasonable price? Preferably only works that are written natively in English or French. Old translations can be dodgy.

Why didn't it take off like Harry Potter and Twilight?

This was a big letdown and a waste of time.
I'll never take advice from you guys ever again.

What do you think?

This book is enjoyable up until the wood-sanitorium part because I hate the older woman character that are being forced into narrative for whatever reason and I havent read the book ever since then.
What do you chuds think about this book?

Why are there no hater youtubers in the /lit/osphere there aren’t enough harsh critics there’s so much slop content out there to proffesionally hate.
If you want your get rich quick scheme with writing why not write out negative reviews.

>take three day break from /lit/
>immediately begin reading, researching, learning
>write a moving poem out of the blue
>radiate with novel ideas and a stronger, more vital voice

when did you realize that you were poison, /lit/?

to any of you struggling, crumbling, going dark,
flee from this place. do it now.

What am I in for?