This is a thread for the serious discussion of literature particularly

fuck your shitty b8, but roll for this gutenberg shiet

I very much enjoy the works of Thomas Pynchon.

don delillo

>>8014787
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

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>>8014787
Jane Eyre

>>8014787
david copperfield

paps

>>8014839
Delicious

>>8014839

>"Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories"

The Just So Stories, along with everything else Rudyard Kipling wrote, are really problematic colonialist texts.

It's not surprising that a privilege blind white male like Bloom isn't up to date on more inclusive discourse surrounding young persyn's literature(s)

>>8014839
i like the way he still has to buy books

murika

>>8014787
this thread is a fucking mess, OP you should be ashamed of yourself.

>>8014839
fuck you, go suck bloom's dripping old lying dick ya fuckin cocksmoker

>>8014787
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3577223/Reading-Harry-Potter-books-makes-children-MENTALLY-ILL-says-headmaster-warns-letting-addicted-fantasy-novels-bad-feeding-heaps-sugar.html

>>8014889
>>8014900
bloom literally didn't read harry potter and just made that shit up and you all swallowed it whole

>>8014920
he probably read the whole book in 5 minutes

>>8014920
you whore. the man's reading list is what they have at the library.

>>8014787
>I
rolllllllllll

>>8014787
Rolling

>>8014787

rollan

>>8014787
>Who is your favorite author?
J.K. Rolling

jk, rolling

>>8016303
NICE

Sure.

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rollin' rollin' rollin'

Give me something long and boring

>>8014787
Fuck Rowling I'm Rolling

role

>>8014787
rolling

Roal

>>8014839
I like reading Stephen King (guilty pleasure, I was raised watching his movies)
I like reading Kipling when I was younger
I love Borges, Juan Carlos Onetti, Marquez, Whitman, Hemingway.
I tried once to read Harry Potter but could only read 3 lines before trowing away the book. It hurts the eye.

I think S.K. was wrong when he wrote that. His books are not as much stupid as the Potter ones.

>>8014839
Bloom is a smart man, and there is some right in his critique, but he's a;so very old and has to realize these are different times. not all kids will relate to older works unfortunately.

>>8014787
roll

>>8016543
alice in wonderland/through the looking glass and kipling's fairy tales are grades better than rolling's crap

>>8016303
>that Guy Rivers font
fancy
>>8016356
>Brannon's Picture of the Isle of Wight, by George Brannon
seems suitable

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>>8017299

> Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow

I guess that's the porn of the autistics...

Give me something good jesus

>>8017347
Swinburne! Lucky bastard.

>>8017363
What are these ancient runes

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>>8016303
underrated poster right here

>>8014787
Wonder what I'll get!

reeling

>>8014839
+1 internet

Shot posting with hats on

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>>8014848
>Jane Eyre

>>8014787
ROLLLLL

>>8014839
why would he just make up that story?

Save me from this fucking hell.

please help me

rallalalalala

rill

What the hell is wrong with you?

>>8014787
röll

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Daily reminder J.K Rowling donated 1 million pounds to the Better Together campaign.

Daily reminder JK Rowling is a perfidious whore who dabbled in geographical politics purely out of her natural anglo tendency to divide and conquer.

help

>>8014787
rolluh

I just took a fat ogre shart

>>8014839
>He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

S A V A G E
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>>8014787
rollin'

>>8017852
He was wrong, though. Kids who read Harry Potter never graduated to Stephen King (which is at least aimed at adults), they just continued reading YA well into their 20s.

>>8014787
rolling for a good one

>>8019572
Harry Potter used to be my favorite book as a kid and I've never read any King. The last two books I finished are Hyperion by Hölderlin and A Balcony in the forest by Gracq.
Harry Potter is not to blame, the parents are, inculture is a socio-economic problem.

Rollink

rall

Rollipolli

Niggerdicks

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>>8020622
alright, could be worse