Please leave and never return if you agree with any of the following;
>you read any form of genre fiction >you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature >you barely know your classics >you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level >you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected >you speak a single language >you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton >you read for the plot >you read for entertainment >you rarely read nonfiction >you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy >you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer >you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon >you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors) >you mostly read contemporary literature >you believe 'the author is dead' >you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology >you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point' >your rarely read poetry >you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity >you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work >you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism >you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities >you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
This is a board about literature. You're not welcome here. Please take your plebeian garbage to /b/ or reddit, where you will find both a demographic and a general atmosphere more consistent with your tastes and your culture.
Also, what is the patrician book you are reading right now?
Lincoln Stewart
You say The Hunger Games, I say The Sot-Weed Factor You say Twilight, I say The Recognitions You say Divergent, I say The Magic Mountain You say Harry Potter, I say In Search of Lost Time You say Perks, I say Women & Men You say John Green, I say shut the fuck up You say Cassandra Clare, I scream Thomas Pynchon!! You say Fifty Shades of Grey, I fucken punch you in the face
92% of teenagers have turned to YA and memes. If you are part of the 8% that still reads real literature, copy and paste this message to another 5 threads. DON'T LET THE SPIRIT OF Veeky Forums DIE
Elijah Barnes
>now Stopped reading right there, buddy. Also why are you making this thread again?
Anthony Robinson
To make this board a better place.
Jaxson Harris
okay this is clearly a bait post but >you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
who the fuck does this
Connor Clark
>wants to make this board a better place this 1 says you don't
Grayson Adams
>the author is dead 1!!1! its actuelly tru!!
Dylan Jenkins
subtle barth shilling
Evan Long
so fucked up if true
Easton James
...
Jordan Watson
Yeah I don't think this is true.
Joshua Harris
>admits the 1920's was a different era in terms of cultural values around gender etc. >thinks ancient Rome was like today
Matthew Gray
I say STOP ONLY READING MODERNISM AND POMO YA CUNT
Dylan Cruz
it's real
Anthony Ward
there's more
Xavier Rodriguez
Novalis was such a qt
Owen Anderson
Know what's worse? I'm guessing most of /lit would not have been able to write this.
Wyatt Morris
get out OP.
Aaron Wood
BUT SHAKESPEARE'S VALUE LIES IN HIS POETIC STRUCTURE
HE IS TAUGHT OVER OTHER PLAYWRIGHTS BECAUSE IAMBIC PENTAMETER IS A GOOD INTRODUCTION DUE TO ITS SIMPLICITY
TO SUMMARIZE HIS SENTENCES INDIVIDUALLY IS TO REMOVE ALL VALUE FROM HIS WORK, WHY EVEN WASTE YOUR TIME
Jaxon Ross
Novalis is probably the cutest literary figure
Jose Cooper
who is this? she's cute
Cooper Jones
it's a trap. Sorry, I meant he.
Tyler Gomez
>Shakespeare's value lies in his poetic structure Not his ONLY value, user. Otherwise he would only be taught in poetry classes.
Isaac Hughes
Pretty sure rewriting him as text messages removes all of his different values.
Hudson Reed
Humor me sir; are you able to tell where your head ends and your ass begins?
Adrian Cooper
spotted the YA reader
Luke Scott
Why would you say a thing like that?
Nolan Kelly
Veeky Forums - people who have never read a YA book in their lives accusing other people who have never read a YA book in their lives of reading YA
Charles Edwards
cuz u read YA
Eli Bailey
Get off my board.
Liam Lopez
>rarely read for more than 2 hours straight You tell me when I have the time or nessacary patience to read ulysses for 2 hours straight. Jesus this book is difficult to get through.
Asher Young
I don't read YA, but I do read comics and literature. So , please explain why I cannot enjoy both Sam Humphries' Green Lanterns and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina? Is it inconceivable that someone couldn't possibly enjoy both the Hainish Cycle and John Donne or Andrew Marvell's poetry?
Landon Ortiz
get out
Asher Cooper
Tell me why any work of Art needs a justification for it's existence, and I'll think about it. I think by creating arbitrary boundaries between genres and forms, you are breaking one of your own rules.
Christopher Cruz
out
Cooper Long
Can you tell the difference between an author creating beautiful prose and and an author masturbating to his knowledge of the dictionary?
Lincoln Bell
lmao
Levi Hall
Is this pasta making a comeback? This is like a decade old /mu/ meme isn't it?
Noah Ross
This is the only one that stumped me: >you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature Gormenghast, Perdido Street Station, Roadside Picnic are great works.
I'm reading Archaeology of The Mind by Panksepp and Biven.
Christian Johnson
I'm sorry, my son, but according to OP you aren't a Real Reader.
Landon Bell
Everyone read Harry Potter.
Luis Edwards
oh goddamn it
Julian Martinez
out
Samuel Williams
Idk, user. Take away all the "fancy" thees and thous and it all just seems a lot like bold and the beautiful with added puns and the slang of the day.
Daniel Rogers
Plots didn't matter to Shakespeare at all.
Jeremiah King
"He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it."
Veeky Forums never changes >muh nietzsche >muh critical thinking, >muh greeks >t-this degree isn't just useless toilet paper, it means I'm smart and know how to read!
Jack Powell
kys
Cooper Scott
Make me.
Anthony Mitchell
Got 'em, user.
Gabriel King
Fuck is this real? They are pushing it in schools?
Brayden Price
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
Why do I have to explain it to you? I like it for reasons that I like it, and I don't have to put them into words in speech or words in my mind.
Jack Evans
but prose IS pretentious bullshit and the author should get to the point already
Lucas Morris
I pass all the questions, and honestly don't know at this point if that's good or bad. Can't sift through all the levels of irony.
I think he means if you're already talking about it, but are unable to make comments beyond booktube-tier "I really like this, I'm enjoying it a lot." Is it the plot, the characters, the style, etc.
Grayson Jenkins
No.
Parker Powell
Who cares lmao retard kidshits are gonna read retarded kidshit
This isn't any worse than normal "translations", it just makes you feel old.
Joseph King
yee
Angel Hughes
You seem troubled friend.
Colton Diaz
lol by that dumb list people like milton couldn't post here I know it's bait but kys
Benjamin Cooper
I wholeheartedly embrace this brave attempt to make Veeky Forums more autism-friendly.
Ryan Moore
>you >believes in the notion of self >thinks he has "a grounding in philosophy"
hahaha
Christian Wood
Your not a writer, your a reader. and that's o.k.
Austin Collins
>he thinks Milton read YA kys su teknon
Eli Lee
If you don't reply to the rear pumpkin spice Pepe you will be a normie for the rest of your days.
Jacob Rivera
Found the YA reader.
Nolan Perez
muh greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks
Brody Gray
>your rarely read poetry
Ian Fisher
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules
Alexander Ross
Illiterates ought to leave this board immediately, and never return.
Cooper Cox
Why? They are literally the peak of literature.
Aaron Cooper
NICE MOTHERFUCKING MEME YOU CUNT
Brandon Morris
t. retarded American turd
Logan Cox
Stop being a mad pleb. Start with pic related.
Blake Myers
>They [the moderns] are literally the peak of literature.
Connor Diaz
I'll do if you start with pic related.
Ryan Gonzalez
...
Wyatt Torres
Nobody fucking buys that except for deluded grandparents, what you should really be worried about is shit like "No Fear Shakespeare"
Thomas Reed
>not reading an episode a day for 3 hours straight
Jordan Wood
I'm actually going to read that after finishing GR :) How will I ever recover?
Hudson Robinson
Is "found the X / X detected" the most pointlessly obnoxious meme?
David Myers
Alright, then I'm going to buy GR :)
Ian Torres
crybaby detected. qq moar
Jose Adams
It's pretty much a reddit-tier meme
Chase Bennett
Nice, the first 70 or so pages are a little hard, but is worth it. Any tips for the commedia?
Connor Hall
No problem, I'm ready. Just read it with a commentary or buy an edition with footnotes. It will be long, but don't give up.
Dominic Diaz
found the reddit poster
Michael Collins
Replying just to tell you I haven't left yet.
Daniel Campbell
>pic Iove bizarre outsider art. More?
Nathaniel Butler
You said somewhere you wanted to make this board a better place; thus you should realise that driving out the mediocre and the plebs through the constant shilling, if not of OP's particular content, at least of the ideas behind it, would do Veeky Forums a great favor.
Samuel Cooper
>that picture!?
Jonathan Taylor
I would rather have Butters back than listen to all of these people from /books drone on. Its like someone took our balls.
Alexander Torres
>Hello all. Time to pause for a message from the creator of this ridiculous mess, Kermit Guildersleeve, the probably mentally retarded :-D. This is the kind of art that your academy takes on look at and gets their naught knackered nethers in a knot. They huff, and puff, and even though they all see themselves as cigarrette and latte guzzling lo-fi rebels constantly speaking the truth to power, whatever that means nowadays. You see, these people are frustrated. Art to them is a signifier of intelligence, a lock that their overpriced "education" is a key to. It seperates them from us. The intelligensia from the unwashed masses who do, like, jobs and stand around scratching their collective bums. These are people who are too good to experience the sensual pleasures of reading great literature on the pot. Art to them is a stiff, dead, masturbation to their own percieved genius. There is nothing real or vital about it, the life of cave paintings or greek statuary or the fireside poets or even '60s comics is gone. Its dead, an effusion from something already empty. There is no blood, no fire, no love, just pointless sensuality. In short, as you may guess, I believe that these people who hold themselves in such high esteem for doing all sorts of drugs and rutting like gerbils in heat deserve richly every ounce of mockery that my riotously funny pictures of people defecating in many interesting ways can provide
John Martinez
Basically.
Juan James
What compels you to compose this kind of art?
Jonathan Davis
>ya is bad >who is horatio alger jr
get fucked pleb
Carson Lopez
>you speak a single language >you believe 'the author is dead'
These two apply to me. I'm gonna stay, though. :^)
Joshua Robinson
The Ivory Tower.
Sebastian Ramirez
American detected
Connor Carter
No shit, buddy. You had a 50-50 shot. Very impressive.
Tyler Lopez
lack of knowledge of statistics detected
Jaxon Russell
never understood qq
i cry from the inside of each eye, not from the inside of my right eye and the outside of my left eye