/lit/ - Literature and Writing

My guess is he knew how gay jeets were.

Tom Buchanan from The Great Gatsby is based and redpilled, a chad. Fitzgerald was also based and if he were alive today he would be a big racist and anti-Semite.
Seeing so many faggots nowadays crying over this character and even drawing parallels between him and "MAGA" only reinforces this.

>>6113
Is Tom Buchanan the ones who goes on about reading the Lothrop Stoddard stand-in? I never read the book. If so, he sounds pretty cool to me.

>>6118
Tom is what speaks about the brown masses and the future of the white race if they do nothing.
It's funny that Fitzgerald makes the protagonist of Tender Is the Night become a racist throughout the novel, I wonder if Fitzgerald was one of those self-hating guys, he seemed to hate rich people but deeply desired to be one and accepted by them too.

What these guys are planning, I wish them the best.

>>6198
If only I could see all this happening for real before the end of my life.

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Eddy, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Denflick the Evil Ant had a very medieval philosophy: that if the Denflick was a good ant, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple. Eddy can say that Denflick imprisoned Jeffbrad and returned the world's food, and he was wise and good. But Eddy doesn't ask the question: What was Denflick's tax policy?

>>6153
kek

This thread just reinforces my hatred for Brits, especially those with the dark hair and dark eyes phenotype.

>>6120
Big Bengali Cock, SAAAAR.

Dumbing down American readers

By Harold Bloom, 9/24/2003

THE DECISION to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis. The publishing industry has stooped terribly low to bestow on King a lifetime award that has previously gone to the novelists Saul Bellow and Philip Roth and to playwright Arthur Miller. By awarding it to King they recognize nothing but the commercial value of his books, which sell in the millions but do little more for humanity than keep the publishing world afloat. If this is going to be the criterion in the future, then perhaps next year the committee should give its award for distinguished contribution to Danielle Steel, and surely the Nobel Prize for literature should go to J.K. Rowling.

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 wrPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Stop shilling your channel, child. You must be 18 years or older to be here.

someone needs to start shagging those housewives.

>>5409
Similar case with movies or series
>Best rated shit, it's usually men having faggot orgies or female protagonist sucking off handsome and rich boys
<No need for complexity or substance, after all these used up dykes have the cognitive of a horny 13 year old

>>5409
> ran by bored housewives
Something here is contradictory. Are you sure you did not misspell "post-marital spinster cat ladies"? These tend to have excess of free time.
> What are we going to do about this?
Depends on who are those "we".

Anon, just say it: they're millennials. When's the last time you saw a non-millennial housewife read the schlock they put out today? Also:
>the only genres that haven't been completely taken over by bored housewives are thrillers
Thrillers were LONG taken over. A buddy of mine works at a thrift store - they get 'em donated in box after box after box and they're ALL written by basic bitch white women with the most bored housewife pandering plots imaginable.
Picrel applies yet again.

>>5482
It's true. Women these days want to eternally be a spoiled 16 year old girl. They don't want to be the housewife who tends house and takes care of her husband and kids, but neither does she want to take the man's role and be a provider. Instead she wants to be a childless "stay at home girlfriend" and if you press them for what they think this looks like it amounts to their boyfriend" being the only one with a job who pays all the bills, does all the cooking and cleaning, and buys them stuff while they sit around on their phones talking to their friends on their group chat, looking at Tumblr/Twitter/Reddit/TikToks all day, being rude and sassy, and sometimes texting other boys to flirt with boys when they're bored. They literally want their boyfriend to be their Mom and Dad while they act like a spoiled teenager for the rest of their lives and no one has called them out on it yet.

Milton BTFO

>>2739
La Vita Nuova is such a pile of shit. I started bleeding out of my spirit vagina when I read it.
>>6028
Milton sucks cocks in hell

>>6056
You are a tranny.

>>5675
Based Faulkner.

>>5843
Prince Of Nothing is the first trilogy and it's a mostly grounded crusades-like Dark Fantasy setting. Although it constantly hints that shit will start going down soon.
It gets philosophical in certain parts, but it doesn't dwell on those themes too long. It prefers to keep a cinematic pace.
I'm not reading it so much out of love for Fantasy, as much as Bakker's prose being really good.

I finally read The martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I let it mature on my shelf for years.

I expected more from the book, it's not horrible, but I found it frustrating and several stories had a comedic tone and only a few worked for me in that sense. An entire story in the collection is about niggers building rockets to go to Mars and leave the whites behind. It's a pointless exercise since at the end of the book all the humans return to Earth, It is useless both within the narrative and in the work as a whole, which could have used this space to take one last good look at the Martians.

7/10 at best. Better than many modern science fiction books, but much weaker than other books written during the 50s, 60s and 70s. In fact I've read underrated pulp stories from the 20s that were better.

Trump won, little bro.

>>3686
Anything by Vernor Vinge, like the A fire in the sky series, Rainbow's end. Maybe the only guy that's created settings with superintelligent AI characters that are both interesting and plausible.

Has anyone here read The Long Earth Series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter before?

>>5982
>nerds obsessed with buttsex
they were obviously underfucked

I'm not gay like him, but I fantasy about coon dicks and zoomers having sex all the time.

>>5739
>Remains of the Day
you having a ggigle m8 ?
>suppress your feelings, only serving the master matters
>servitude is dignity
>personal life? nonesense!! i must SERVE >:(
>let the others have women, i am so far above all this *smug soyjak face*

>>6063
Some idiots really think and live this way, thinking they are superior, when it is nothing more than pure coping.

>>3576
I read this schizo blog
https://weretin.wordpress.com/

Nigga I can't read n shitt

>>3576
I read Unz Review, 4thPT/Paideuma/Arktos Journal for pseudugin shit, and the Orthodox Arts Journal, since it's about the only brand of art theory that isn't aesthetically offensive- all of these by RSS feed in a patrician terminal interface, and only when an article is interesting and free. Wish there was more free things to read, but let's be honest writers are always fucking shilling their paywalls.

>>6046
Oh, and I read Paul Kingsnorth's blog. Usually it's some strange tale of some obscure person from the first millennium AD in Ireland, and sometimes it's paywalled patreon content, but sometimes it's long and free and really good shit about books/writing/art/history/nature/technology. RSS is king again, as you don't have to deal with patreon's shitty interface and know right away whether it's a full piece or for paypiggies only. If Christianity doesn't immediately trigger you into a spastic redditor frenzy, I recommend.

>>3576
does podcast count?

I'm over halfway through the Shards by the queer who wrote American Psycho. The author reads the book himself, which only adds to the awkwardness inherent in the personal nature of autofiction. If you're the type to admire exquisite attention to detail in gay sex scenes, it's not bad, but nothing groundbreaking.

>>6012
The irony is not lost on me. I just really enjoy this audiobook, it's like a comfort blanket, and I like to keep all the principles fresh in my mind when I am reading. So if I can't read, and if I'm not doing something degenerate or wasting my life, I tend to listen to this.

Of course none of it is necessary if you're reading shit-tier garbage like Shards by the queer who wrote American Psycho, but if you're reading things to challenge yourself, it's very useful.

>>6014
>shit-tier garbage
Nah, it's not bad, medicore at worst

>>6015
Fair enough, I've never read it. It sounds horrible, but I guess you're used to it. I don't read a lot of recently written books, so when I hear about things like metafiction and autofiction I make a face like I've just shit my pants and mutter something elitist. When I say "shit-tier garbage," I mean compared to the Divine Comedy. All I do is read Classics, and when I feel nostalgic I read pop fiction books I enjoyed as a kid, like Crichton. But that's about all I have any desire to read. I hate everyone living.

>>6018
>capital C
Snob
Recently written books are just future old classics.