>impulse buy meme book >turns out it's fiction written

>>9296062
This book sucked ass.

nigga is high school tier, stop complaining

>>9296062
>>9296073
>>9296074
wtf are you cunts talking about

it's a great book

>>9296102
Novels can never be truly great books.

>>9296120
Why?

>>9296102
>first person fiction
>great book

>>9296120
Wrong. It's hardly a novella, anyway.

>>9296062
Try The Waves by Woolf. I think you'll like it.

>>9296170

What is wrong with first person fiction?

>>9296120
>>9296170
who makes those rules?

>>9296062
But now you can bore people at dinner parties with droll remarks regarding adaptations and Apoc now.

(Don't forget to shoehorn in the term 'spirit of the text')

>>9296573
People that understand the difference between genre fiction and literature.

Why are you even on this board, need help with a highschool essay?

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>>9296062
That's shit, throw it away

>>9296102
No it really definitely isn't, you cuck

>>9296120
Also true, also true.

>>9296150
Because novel is the literary form invented, developed and constantly chosen by mediocre people

>>9296170
First person > third person. ALWAYS.

>>9296699
>People that understand the difference between genre fiction and literature.

Holy shit, that might be the most fedora-tier thing I've ever heard.

And even if that was true, what's saying "genre fiction" couldn't contain material just as interesting and thought provoking as "literature".

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>>9296750
the arguably greatest book ever written could probably be labeled "genre fiction"

>>9296759
talk shit about your own diary m8

Its a dry read but worth it for how vividly it describes the setting. Its also better going in thinking about Brando's Kurtz because it makes the novels Kurtz even more disappointing.

Also it is written in third person, but one of the characters is speaking the whole time you idiot.

>>9296764
what does that mean?

>>9296170
I usually also hate the first person but there some good books in it, like Moby Dick, The Savage Detectives and Pedro Paramo.

Why do the people who say start with the Greeks hate fiction so much?
I'm not even a novel fag, it's just pretty autistic.

>>9296819
go die you pretentious fag

>>9296721
>First person > third person. ALWAYS.

Kek. Pooor loser. You must read genere fiction and contemporary trash.

>>9296824
And you must be one of those plot fags who ask /lit/ how to write a good female character or whatever

Double kek.

It's a decent book

You're all idiots

>>9296833
Wrong.

>>9296858
You were wrong as well.

What the fuck is it with all these Heart of Darkness threads lately?

>>9296929
Kong: Skull Island made Apocalypse Now cool again.

/lit/ is not a serious place to discuss literature: the thread

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I actually thought it was quite good.
Conrad treats a dark concept without getting edgy or whiny, and even discusses several layers of evil. Kurtz is not the worst guy in the novel, in Marlow's eyes. Not by far.
I just like how he treats the reader/listener like someone who implicitly understands, like how despite his wordiness, he doesn't have the spell out the big lines.
Also it had some humour in it that genuinely made me laugh, not much literary fiction manages that.
It has a slow start, I'll give it that, but not a bad book by any means, plenty of thoughtful, interesting stuff.

>>9296969
Such a mature and eye-opening critique on my thread, thank you.

>>9297007
I didn't mean offense to you. I meant more about the "xD novels" part

>>9296062
Watch me review, now watch me nae nae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIKObk6t83o

>>9296985
Why are you responding seriously to b8 opinions?

>>9296951
I see what you did there.

>>9296769
> how vividly it describes the setting
this has to be bait

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>>9298642
It's what he would have wanted.