/lit/ - Literature and Writing

>>5102
Ivan Gontcharóv is /r9k/, the russian. Is hard to tell if he is good because his stuff really depends on you.

Mark Twain go from overrated to underrated imo.

Their opinions about books are superior to any Anon around here.

>>5102
>>5103
I tried to buy Oblómov (Ivan Gontcharóv), but Amazon canceled it for some reason.

>>5102
From what I have seen Murakami is indeed a decent writer, but it seems he is only pushed by Western circles because of his contrarian (in a Japanese context) political views, which happen to coincide with Western leftist thought despite his claims that he isn't actually one himself. Even the sourced bits about his worldview included in his Wikipedia article will give you an immediate confirmation that he would basically be considered a wokenoid in America. He wrote Men Without Women, a collection of short stories with a title that might give you an initial impression that it is an MGTOW tome, but is actually just a gaggle of various stories of how former simps cope with their losses. It still provides a decent insight into his writing style, though.

Milan Kundera died. Are his books worth?

I stopped reading Stephen King fifteen years ago. People tries to shill his new stuff, but nope, not reading that.

>Faulkner
I met a guy that had a collection of every Faulkner novel. He was high on mushrooms and living out of his van whole he worked at an Amazon factory. He was an angry guy and I think if I had gotten to know him, he would have beat me up within the week. Ergo, I do not associate Faulkner with good people and his style is possibly not my favorite but I'd have to read more.

>King
I've only read a short story collection and it was ok, mostly inspiring and I liked "The Road Virus Heads North" I've never read a full blown novel and I usually judge people that do.
>Twain
Nigger Jim has been a in my vernacular of mine for years. Fun stuff but I need to read more.
>Ken Follett
My grandma who is minor-ly well read said it was her favorite author, she gave me a book of his, but I couldn't bring myself to read it because I thought it was probably a better Dan Brown.

Haven't an opinion on anything else.

My questions: WHY IS GUNTER GRASS NEVER DISCUSSED AND WHEN HE IS, ITS ALWAYS THE TIN DRUM INSTEAD OF THE FLOUNDER
PHILLIP ROTH GOOD? AT LEAST MORE THAN 5 BOOKS?
DOES ANYONE READ ANY PATREON CHAPTERS OF PEOPLE THAT DO THAT TYPE OF THING? WHATS THE APPEAL?

>>5115
My reply to you got deleted, later on I'll try to reply you again. I'm probably nuzach.

>>5139
>Faulkner
I recently brought two books from him, I didn't read anything yet. Someone I know and is quite knowledgeable told me to try his books.

>Stephen King.
English isn't my first language, so I can't say if it's true when I hear people like EmptyHero saying that Stephen King writing is awful.
When I was between 16 to 21 years old I bought almost all of his books, mostly old ones and a few written shortly after his car accident, his latest release that I bought many years ago was The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, nothing published by him after that. My opinion is that his books after the car accident got a lot worse he become way more bitter and you can feel that by reading his crap around that time, although I heard that he released a new trilogy that looks good.

I think his style is very pragmatic, without being overly short and lacking in detail. When I used to play or be a GM on RPG forums my writing style was kind of similar to his in some ways. I would say that many of his short stories are good, while his books may be a waste of time for others and really infested with shitting passing from time to time. My main problem with his stories are the tropes he uses repeatedly over the decades, especially because of the hate he feels towards his father and mother.

Meanwhile, other books, even ones that are close to a thousand pages long can be read really quickly and every once in a while you'll read about a character that you will really like.
This makes me believe that in fact some of his books were written by ghost writers.
If you want to try reading one of his novels, I would recommend The Dead Zone, Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot, The Stand.
From his collections with shorty stories, I would say Night Shift, Skeleton Crew and Everything's Eventual are really solid.

>Twain
He's good, simple as.

>Ken Follett
I already imagined that he was really popular with women. I only read Eye of the Needle.

>Dan Brown
The only books of his that I liked were Deception Point and Angels & Demons.

I must know, bros, is Solaris by Stanisław Lem actually really good?

Is Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad actually worth or "muh evil white people"?

Are Ursula K. Le Guin fiction books really amazing? People keeps praising her over and over again.

>>5147
Heart of Darkness is a fun little read for what it is.

>>5139
>>5140
For King, this gen-x boomer is usually not pozzed, even tho he's a King fanboy

are Louise Penny books french-canadian kino? I accidentally brought one of their books and I don't know anything about her.

>>5147
Heart of Darkness is not about white people bad. It can be interpreted that way, but that's not what it's about.

It's about what happens when colonial masters give up responsibility in exchange for greed.

Faulkner was a self-hating confederate.

>>5158
And? The majority of anons here are Eurochads, not Amerimutts.

>>5158
Does he actually talk anything about sucking nigger dicks like Tarantino and many modern americans liberals???

Is this anti-Dup kino?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Institute_(King_novel)

>>5140
Everything's Eventual was the King book that I read, the short stories were good almost kino.

are Conn Iggulden historical fiction books good or not? Many years ago I was curious about reading his books about Roma and the mongols.

>>5174
Just like Clive Barker, for Stephen King, read his small tales books instead of their novels.

Night Shift, Different Seasons and Skeleton Crew, for example. All those are good like Everything's Eventual.
Four Past Midnight is good, but way pretentious. I want to buy Nightmares & Dreamscapes and Hearts in Atlantis.

>>5173
Did Stephen King actually write a "government persecutes psychic tweens" book? He's such a fucking hack.

>>5200
Based pedophile kike!

Im still waiting for some help around here

>>5245
Just read books it isn't that hard. Take one of the authors you're intetested in, browse his bibliography, and find a title that interests you. Look up a synopsis of the book, and if if it interests you, just read it.

>Is Haruki Murakami really the best Japanese modern writer or just the one by beloved by westerns?
Gosho Aoyama is the most celebrated in japan

>>5254
that's a kike, why should anyone care about his cold takes?

>>5150
I decided to check this channel. That old dude is immature and seethed about authors not having the same political views as him.
I wonder if Zach also disavows Harry Potter nowadays.

New Armand White take about Stephen King.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/stephen-king-prophet-of-the-apocalypse/

During this month, I read for the first time The Long Walk and I'm close to finishing Thinner (73 pages left), both published by Stephen King when he used his pseudonym as a Richard Bachman.

I recommend everyone here to read The Long Walk, is actually good, not perfect, but even the typical patterns you find in so many of his books are less boring in this book. He supposedly wrote the book when he was 19 years old, but it's pretty obvious that he massively revised and changed a few things in the novel before it was published.
I found the book to be a solid allegory about the life of men as well as the Vietnam War. The characters are great, even the ones you're supposed to hate.
I give it a solid 4.5/5

Thinner is more liberal, focusing on the "corruption" and filth of the small white and wealthy New England communities and how gypsies are treated. If you can stomach that liberal tone, the book does have some nice stuff, especially the bromance among the protagonist, a descendant of Irish and an Italian who's a medbvll.
The protagonist is more "eloquent" and articulate than I imagined, as I've only watched the movie in the past and thought he was more goofy, some of his reflections are good and some of the other characters he's encountered so far are colorful and interesting.

>>5296
I finished reading Thinner. I'm not sure how I feel about the book now that I've finished it. I knew how the story ended, but still.
I would say the prose isn't bad, I usually like Stephen King prose, isn't eloquent or poetic, but neither is it too simple and lacking in detail, or makes you feel like you're dragging through the pages.

As always, I think King really fails to deliver surprises and if you know him well enough some things in his works are quite predictable and personally that's my biggest criticism of any of his work, especially since I'm someone who has a good talent for figuring things out and reasoning based on a few clues and patterns.

I think the book overall had a bad passing, half the book was construction that ended up becoming unnecessary, I think the story took too long to move forward and when it did it was too fast.

The protagonist was a mix of someone determined and intelligent with careless and idiot, especially after getting help from his italian bro.

For anyone wanting to read online https://thinner.bib.bz/

Does anyone here is familiar with Scott Westerfeld, David S. Goyer and Stephen Graham Jones?
If so, would you recommend them for the anons?

Is Ursula K. Le Guin actually a good writer or just praised for being a woman? People are always recommending her.

I'm reading Mistborn, is actually good for a modern fantasy.

>>5349
You lied to me. This is just generic love triangle YA dystopian shit but with low tech.

>>5349
>>5415
>>5415
If that is Brandon Sanderson Mistborn, it's actually very trad and whitepilled, left-wingers hate him for not being a subversive kike like most of modern fantasy authors.

>>5115
I brought that book today, and another of wrote by him. I've read only one of his books so far and I enjoyed his weird fever dream aspects and the overload of metaphors