This is the worst shit I have ever read.

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This is the worst shit I have ever read.

Much like Hemingway and Alan Moore, Whitman himself is great but everyone who came after him and tried to imitate him is fucking awful.

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This is the worst shit I have ever read

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This is the best shit I have ever read.

>>7415117
>>7415123
>>7415128
Bad taste.
>>7415131
Good taste.

Someone explain to me why Donkey Hote is so revered? So far it's just "adventures of crazy man". Some of the wit and ridicule made me smile, barely, but most of it fell flat.

It seems like it would be funnier in the time it was written. Humor has changed.

>>7415117
why

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This is the worst is the worst shit I have ever read

>>7415158
I hate Donkey Joke as well. Also Shakesbeer.

>>7415164
It honestly is trash. Gaddis is a hack.

>>7415158

The first part sucks, the humour at the start is low brow, and the digresive tales are boring. Everyone knows that. The genius in the book is seeing these characters interact with each other (and the author with the book itself) and grow over the course of the book. When you read the second part, you'll understand.

>>7415170
6/10 bait

>>7415174
Gaddisfags are seriously the most delusional, autistic people on this board.

>>7415170

Gass > Gadda > Gaddis

>>7415178
Keep trying--you almost caught me.

>>7415178
Is Gaddis written for autists? Does that mean I should read him?

>>7415179
>Gass
>better than Gaddis
I completely agree, friend.

>>7415188
No, autists only circlejerk him because he is relatively unknown outside of this board and a few academic circles, so they think they have great taste by enjoying someone as shite as him.

>>7415196
Gaddis is relatively obscure, sure, but he's not the most unknown. He is undoubtedly, however, one of the greatest authors of last century: no ifs, ands, or cute little butts about that.

>>7415164
>>7415170
Assuming you both are serious, I have to ask: Why? I read J R and fucking loved it. I can't imagine this man producing anything odious.

>>7415179
>>7415193

I would also like the two of you to explain yourselves because there's no point in making audacious claims without providing at least the abstract of an argument supporting them.

>>7415227
Holy fck you're retarded

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This is the best shit I have ever read

>>7415246
Nothing about my post was wrong, friend. Try reading Gaddis before posting opinions about him.

>>7415419
Why do you see Gass as better than Gaddis?

This is the best thread I've ever seen.

>>7415422
I was being sarcastic, friend. To be honest with you, my family, I don't pretend to believe that I'm intelligent enough to make any claim about them other than this: "niggas' smart."

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>>741536 nigga my nigga

>>7415117
Suprised 'Catcher in the Rye' hasnt shown up yet.

>>7415164
Why?>>7415170
>>7415178
>>7415196

>>7415117

It means that you're a poor reader, actually

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>>7415490
How do you mean?
I have serious problems with the lack of structure and direction in his poems.
They also come across as overly sentimental and more importantly incredibly dry and boring,
attributed mainly to the arbitrary listing off of random farming utensils and manufacturing equipment.

>>7415593
This.

All you basically have to do is read Emerson's essays and you can save yourself all the trouble of reading shitty prose trying to pass off as poetry.

>>7415593
>>7415701
Thanks for joining us tonight, 9gag!

>>7416030
I do not think literature is discussed on 9gag.
Can you address what we are referring to?
His poetry does not read well. Is it not a problem that his poetry does not read well?

>>7416164
Sorry lad, made a bit of an error an in this post. I meant to say that I do not read well, not that his poetry doesn't.
I always get nervous make mistakes like this when my wife goes to detroit for the weekend haha

>>7415593
sentimentality is the only thing that is a sort of valid criticism

the rest just sounds like you didn't get it.

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>>7415593
>>7415701
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.

How can anyone with an ounce of brain argue that this would have been better written as prose?

>>7415364
The Fall was better IMO

>>7416209
I admittedly know nothing about poetry and I think that's great.

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This is the worst shit I have ever read.

>>7416410
>foreword by oprah winfrey
you had it coming

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this is my favorite style of hammock

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This is the best shit I have ever read.

>>7415117
agreed

>>7416410
They forced me to read this in HS

That's when I became a racist

>>7416559
nice blog, you faggot

>>7417207
Pretty sure he's making a satirical point about how op merely stated his opinion on a book without providing any considered reasons to explain said opinion.

>>7416569
Shame that so few people have heard of him.

>>7417215
Pretty sure I'm making a satirical point by not addressing OPs most blog-like post but another one :^)

>>7417217
Everyone has heard of him fukk boy you not special

>>7417227
His added more value than your metasatirical chaff.

>>7417244
Why would you post false information on the internet.

>>7415123
top level pleb

>>7415117
The Catcher in the Rye is the worst shit I've ever read.

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>>7415117
I've read a lot of bad books, but this one is pretty high up there.

^this is the worst shit I've ever read

>>7417850
its also painful how it was obviously written by a pederast.

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>>7415124
Oh really, is that so?

>>7416410
Wow, you can't even discuss poc literature on here at all can you?
>Maya Angelou
>Bad

>>7420002
has shit to do with it being poc literature, shit's just flat out terrible, she should've stuck to poetry

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And I thought I was going to have fun reading a Star Wars book. Never again.

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>>7420084
Try Dune

>>7415196
kek autist-hipster lit aka the cringe genre

>>7415364
One of the most overrated books imo

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this thread is the worst shit I have ever read.

>>7420178
y-you too :3

>>7420180
y-you three

>>7420182
four y-you

>>7420002

Using a term like "poc" is pretty racist. Apparently all people that aren't white are equally unworthy of actual individual mention. Great Job PC Police.

>>7415593
The structure is actually the prototypical free verse (which I know has been fucked to shit lately), but it was fresh and free at the time (think: taking Milton's blank verse a bit further).

As for the lists, those are mainly to suggest the interconnectedness of all things in the list, and they show the passion Whitman has for the things he was writing about. No one complains about long lists when it's Homer or Vergil or Milton doing it.

>>7415123
kill youself