Tell us your rashest literary opinions.

>>8163406
Nabokov is a jealous, autistic hack who's sad he can't write a story as heart-wrenching as brothers karamazov

>>8163406
Language has failed, and the whole of humanity is doomed because of it.

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YA is fine
Genre Fiction is fine
Translations are fine
Women authors are fine
Jew authors are fine
Black authors are fine
Vonnegut is fine
Salinger is fine
Toni Morrison is fine
John Green is fine
Trump is fine
Buying physical copies is fine
Comic books are fine
Feminism is average
alcohol/drugs/coffee don't make you a better writer
Pynchon isn't that good
Personal experience doesn't matter
99% of Po-Mo is boring
If all you've read from Orwell is 1984/Animal Farm your opinions don't count
If all you've read from Huxley is BNW/Doors of Perception your opinions don't count
If all you've read from Fitzgerald is Gatsby your opinions don't count
If you've only read one Hemingway meme book your opinions don't count
Obsessing about the "references" in Joyce makes you look like an autist
I liked slam poetry when it was called spoken word
The ideal length for a novel is 250 pages
Thomism in 2016 is retarded
"Start with the Greeks" is good advice but a stupid way of putting it.
Reading the entire KJV is pointless
Pirating books is wrong

>>8163476
>The ideal length for a novel is 250 pages

It's 300.

Rhyming poetry is almost all garbage and only hacks write it.

Symbolism is more often than not unnecessary in prose fiction

>>8163476
>If all you've read from [author] is [most popular book] your opinions don't count
I'm pretty much a pleb /lit/-wise, would you care to explain this one? Do you mean these particular authors have written much better / more important work, or that those particular "meme books" just suck?

pynchon is genre fiction

>>8163509
It's just another way of doing what every novelist attempts to do--communicate.

Jane Austen is not a good writer.

Well, I'm not saying anything knew, but i tought it was taboo until reading DH Lawrence.

Sylvia Plath was a jealous and ugly goyim that was obsessed with jews and ended up the same way as them.

Dostoyevsky couldn't write (well, I guess this is common sense as well)

So, after all, I have nothing that could be considered controversy to say.

The more introspective and reflective a story is, the worse.

>>8163552
Examples.

If you don't actively read from all time periods and cultures possible, you're the equivalent of that painfully white kid listening to 2000s indie rock ad Kanye West thinking he's patrician

Poems over a page long are entirely superfluous and self-indulgent (excluding epic poetry)

The French post-1870 were all too concerned with shocking each other to make actual good literature

Lord of the Rings is Britain's modern national epic and should be required reading in school

>>8163476
this was really gay m8

>>8163580
Hey, i listen to vaporwave too pleb.

>>8163507
funnily it's exactly what i think of free verse

Nobody reads anymore, and if they do its trash, except me.

>>8163406
Game of Thrones, while obviously no work of high literature, has some of the best character development I've ever read in any book

Don Quixote is worthless.

Free verse isn't poetry.

The only book in the meme trilogy that isn't shit is Ulysses.

Women are terrible writers because they compulsively write books about women, not books about people.
The same applies for black people.

Shakespeare is good but is also the most overrated person in the history of literature.

LOTR deserves a spot in the western canon.

French existentialism/absurdism is cancer and has produced nothing but shit philosophy and shit novels based on it.

>>8163580
Deliberately making your library as multicultural as possible despite not having any real interest in foreign lit turns you INTO that white millennial listening to Kanye

>>8164310

>White male equates people with white male people.

Your presumption is astounding.

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>>8164322

Tolstoy's writing is completely lifeless, excepting a few rare moments.

Taste accounts for a lot more than people give it credit.

>>8164322
faggot

>>8164310
>Women are terrible writers because they compulsively write books about women, not books about people.
>The same applies for black people.
Go to the current black people book threads, there are some good recommendations on there.

Bloom's canon is shortsighted, and he's a prick in general

>>8164310
Shhhhhhit taste

>>8163476
nice

>>8163529
fuck off nigger

I'm a big fan of Hesse but don't like Siddartha.

>>8163442
wise anon has spoken. thank god we have language otherwise we would never know why we are fucked up.

>>8163487
it's actually 400

>>8163550
you have the mind of a child

>>8163529
what genre?

>>8163550
>Well, I'm not saying anything knew

>>8164310
>despite not having any real interest in foreign lit
assuming

>>8163550
>Dostoyevsky couldn't write
You fucking what

>>8164310
>The only book in the meme trilogy that isn't shit is Ulysses.
Okay, I can see that.
>Women are terrible writers because they compulsively write books about women, not books about people.
The same applies for black people.
If you don't think Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein were good writers, I don't think you know what a good writer is.
>Shakespeare is good but is also the most overrated person in the history of literature.
Nah
>LOTR deserves a spot in the western canon.
A lot of better books deserve a spot in the Western Canon.
>French existentialism/absurdism is cancer and has produced nothing but shit philosophy and shit novels based on it.
Okay

I feel like these threads really let people speak their mind and that's a good thing. It generates discussion unlike the 90% of boards that descend into memes and bitching

>>8163406
infinite jest is the most boring but smart book ever

bolano is a racist dipshit who got shock praise

>>8164296
Read more

>>8164845
You badtard