What are some good books about intelligent people being rejected by a cruel society and eventually using there intelligence to get revenge on society?
>>8765460
little did you other posters know that this is a subtle and brilliant variation on the "to intelligent for ____" meme that the cool kids have been using these days
Go back to /r9k/
>>8765460
My grandmother used to give me a loonie every week and then get angry at me for the rest of the day so that I would be conditioned into hating money.
Is Bukowski any good? I'm in a mandatory 100 level year course for my major right now and all the 1st years keep talking about him
Meh...I dunno.
Post office is great, he was just an alcoholic loser in that. The rest of his books he tries to make himself into a folk hero, or gentlemen artist at heart. I get really annoyed when he gets these grandiose ideas about himself, when what everyone likes about him is he's a fat, sad drunk who can write.
>>8765447
I'm not just trying to appeal to /lit right now, but this is the one instance where /lit is completely right. He is absolute trash. A complete hack. If you appreciate him when you were an edgy teen, fine, it's understandable. If you still like him as a university student, it is immediately apparent that you have no understanding of good poetry.
>>8765447
Cringe tier writing
All of his shit is basically the same
Interesting to read as a case study for autistic old crusty men, but not worth more than an hour of your time at the most
Just finished this, what does /lit/ think of it?
>>8765428
Depends on who you ask.
Why don't you start off the discussion, you dense fuck?
>>8765431
He just did, you fool
>>8765431
You are a rather aggressive human
so like what exactly was his deal with mirrors and labyrinths?
>>8765427
He smoked too much weed
>>8765438
/thread
>>8765438
georgie was blind man, he could have never lit up a spliff
Subversiveness is creepy.
Are there any genuinely "subversive" writers, especially poets?
Only Baudelaire comes to mind, though he's sort of preening in his subversiveness.
The supposedly revolutionary poets of the 20th century play it very safe indeed. They all want to be liked, or at least sympathised with, with their incessant sob stories. Where are the poets with teeth?
>>8765413
all leftists
>>8765413
Houllebeque very consciously aims towards this tradition
>>8765413
pic related is pretty subversive
What do you think of deckle-edged paper and French flaps?
whatever burns the best
I do not like deckled edges. I prefer gold-gilt on all edges :).
I don't mind it on hardcovers, but it bothers me on softcovers. I don't know why.
How do we know when to pronounce the word read and 'reed' or 'red' in the sentence?
>>8765374
Habit and context
>>8765374
Anglo superpowers
>>8765374
>tfw my name is Reed
>"lmao do you like to read?"
>Ask /tg/ for space opera literature
>/tg/ suggests Honor Harrington
>Look it up, premise of space british empire fighting space north korea due to unavoidable economic difficulties is interesting
>Read first book, it's awful
>Decide to continue because maybe it gets better
>Give up after the main character, who's strong, beautiful, tall, a genius at everything, charismatic, loved by everyone who isn't evil and greedy or a literal rapist, respected by her enemies, ludicrously wealthy, whose grandmother tamed a species of psychic cats and who was chosen by a psychic cat herself, and whose only flaw is that she gets too angry when faced with injustice, defeats a master swordduelist with decades more experience than her in one strike while exhausted and in a dress after saving the planet of space mormons from space north korea and proving that girls are just as good as boys
>Read a synopsis of the later books
>Premise of british empire vs north korea is abandoned, they team up to fight another faction
Jesus Christ, I think I might actively hate this series. I'm not sure. Honor Harrington is just so irritatingly perfect at everything and all of the interesting things happen when she's not around.
>>8765318
>genre fiction
not even once
WHAT?
>>8765318
Please just go away to whatever shit board you came from
I made a vid , should I go kill myself because of the existential crisis I face or should I continue making videos ?
https://youtu.be/Emh71lNExbA
>>8765275
Nice job, fucking retard
>>8765275
Is it supposed to have no sound?
>>8765303
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7QmUgTgJs
fixed it
If you asked a girl (or dude, not judging) what their favorite book was, what would their answer have to be for you to immediately fall in love with them? On the other hand, what book would make them instantly unattractive to you?
people are fucking phoneys and make up shit to make themselves look better all the friggin time
>>8765196
>just had a 'why can't women be smart?'-thread deleted
>how can I get /lit/ to engage in my compulsion to make everything into discussions on ressentiment-fueled identity politics
But to answer your question: No book would make me fall in love with them, just like no book would make me fall out of love with them.
The books that would make their characters seem unappealing to me would be the same that I'd find objectionable in males as well.
>>8765196
I wouldn't fall in love with someone based on their taste in media. That's silly.
You have ten seconds to plead your case: Why does philosophy belong on a literature board?
>>8765171
Philosophy is literature
Philosophy wouldn't exist without literature. The themes found literary stories and principles of philosophy are inextricably tied.
>>8765178
It's not. Are you unfamiliar with the DDS? Savages are unwelcome on /lit/.
Describe yourself like you're describing someone you've just met, in 5 sentences or less
>Stands sheepishly at a woman's height, eyes of a deer past caring about headlights. Guys like him get laid after all hell grows cold, and blame the world for it. I wonder which dead englishman's classic fills his persona slot for today. And there he goes, turning to leave and rid us of his presense. My, what tight bottom!
Absolute fucking cringe
>>8765167
Is this deliberately retarded?
>>8765167
Every time he talks he sounds like he's lying.
after the bible?
>>8765099
Important to what?
>>8765102
the world
>>8765099
hypotheses non fingo and rotating buckets
Just finished my 1000 pages long novel that will never be published. I still have to edit it but damn, for a year, what a piece of work.
Now onto the next one.
>>8764942
Congrats, you deserve to feel good. Youve accomplished more than 80% of people here.
Why will it never be published? You've put too much effort into this, you can't just let it go now. Don't let your dreams be dreams!
>he actually worries about which translation to read
>>8764915
>being a frog faggot
>>8764915
I don't worry since I know which ones are best
>>8764915
I'm reading the Fitzgerald Odyssey, and it's doing absolutely nothing for me.