What's your hottest literary take?

What's your hottest literary take?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    We need literary fascism.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you need homofascism of the self
      don't let women dictate your worth

      stolen from:

      [...]

      btw

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hhehehe

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hhehehe

        >go on IQfy
        >read a post
        >kek
        >transcribe every word into a new greentext (for the lulz)
        >hit return and post it
        >nobody is the wiser
        4chuds will say this should be illegal.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I think Ernest Hemingway is over rated.
    t. Someone who is on bad terms with his local used book store owner because I said I didn't care for Hemingway. Like he refused sale to me that day and hasn't talked to me since kind of bad terms.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think his short stories are neat but I've yet to read his novels. I've noticed style can change dramatically for an author that way, is that the case with Hemingway or no? Because if it's not then I also agree he is overrated, but definitely worth a read.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't think there is much difference actually. If you like the short stories you will probably like his longer stuff. Its not even that I think Hemingway is bad. I compare him to a really talented photographer. He has an eye for things that should be depicted in writing. But to me thats all. I think he doesn't have much as far as his own style, he just kind of lets things speak for themselves. Which is fine but gets boring for me after a while, and is definitely not a good reason to refuse sale to someone trying to buy Stefan Zweigs biography on Balzac.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Zweig
          >Ballsac
          both hacks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >homie got filtered from the book store

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dude I’ve given him a shot multiple times. I suffered through one of his books last year and am comfortable concluding that he sucks.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like him fine, but american writing trying to copy his style for a century has been a disaster.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Eudora Welty is underrated outside of America's South Atlantic. She writes better stories than anything the Brontë sisters did.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I have the Optimist's Daughter because I was interested in southern literature (Stryon, O'Connor, Faulkner, McCarthy) but I got turned off because the prose seemed extremely plain, is she similar to those other authors?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's good and important to read books that are objectively bad.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    discord is a homosexualed troony hive btw and every moment you spend there you get even gayer than previously before.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Death of the reader makes more sense than death of the author.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody knows what readers think of a book till after they become critics/essayists. It makes no sense lol

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have a few:
    Ray Bradbury is overrated. His flowery prose is used to disguise his lack of narrative and poor characters and generally bad writing. The extreme example of this is Dandelion Wine. The closest he gets to actually being great is October Country.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Agreed

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dandelion Wine was straight up insufferable. I think I got to the second chapter where he was repeating the title of the book over and over like it was some big deal and it only served to annoy me and piss me off. It was so frustrating coming from F451 which I enjoyed.

      My hot take: Fitzgerald's prose style is unfairly overlooked. He has great imagery and control of language without waxing too ornate or too tight. He's just right.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I was excited to read sound and the fury. Turns out, I can't get into any novel about the American rural life. Steinbeck, Faulkner, and all those redneck-esque settings do nothing for me. I don't know why I'm biased against it. I never once lived in a city, myself.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I mean obviously. Deleuze has practical lessons around class struggle.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You shouldn't allowed to have a controversial literary opinion if you can't back it up with direct quotations from the texts being considers. Also, you should have to earn a literary license before you're allowed to read classic texts.
    Almlost every American will not pass this test.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I agree with you on every point

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Give me some examples of what you would have on a literary license.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Gender: They/ Them

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/Plato

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Literature is for entertainment. People who think it's for "art" are pseudointellectuals.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This book deserves to be burned.
    Not because of any harmful political ideals but merely because it is garbage.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >lame attempt to be le witty
      >describes atrocity matter of factly
      >so it goes
      ad nauseam. this book was absolute dogshit

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    History is fiction

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fiction is focused on singular human characters.
      Most historiography is focused on collective institutional characters.

      The genre conventions are so radically different that your claim makes no sense. History is however "fictive."

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the top 4 fiction writers of all time are proust, borges, cormac mccarthy, and tolstoy

    death of ivan ilyich is tolstoy's best work

    proust's rat/brothel story makes me like him more

    bukowski is the pinnacle of poetry

    the context in which you read a book is infinitely more important than the book itself. so much so that there should be some IQfy chart on WHEN to read certain books. for example if you're a new dad, in your first year of parenting, The Road by McCarthy will be the greatest reading experience of your life. If you're a wageslave with the usual sunday night existential crisis then Bukowski's poetry will be great for you. If you just went to a funeral and saw a lot of family members you haven't seen in a long time, In Search of Lost Time will hit you like a fricking nuke and so on.

    ryan holiday is a fraud and a gigantic fricking homosexual and if you read his books you're one too

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm tempted to agree on the last one, having read the same book in different contexts really highlights different aspects of it, so it's natural to connect emotionally during certain moments.
      However, I must reject the order that you must select your readings according to their resemblance to your circumstances. I think an honest reader must approach a text in good faith, suspending his own affects in order to truly engage in contact with something external to him, which I believe is the pleasure of literature

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Literature was once an important art form but is now unnecessary since we have TV and movies. People’s revealed preferences show that this is just about everyone’s opinion, but we still pretend like literature should matter because it’s old.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      OP said hot takes not moron takes.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What's your hottest literary take?
    George Orwell is the most accurate describer of men's libidinal interiority, and he achieves this twice in Aspidistra and Clergyman's Daughter. Men really are that shallow, self-defeating, limp wienered, and prematurely dribbling.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That I do not need to provide a citation and that 'i made it all up' is an entirely valid position.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Eisegesis can be valid, but it is an argument from poetic first principles. Which means you need to take a lot of acid / mushrooms and account for the duality of man, the jungian thing.

      The normal format for this kind of argument is the western novel btw.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hell is a Catholic invention.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I probably have a few.
    >I genuinely enjoy reading Evola's work. It's great but I don't know why anyone would proselytize about it.
    >Mary Shelley and even Ayn Rand are better writers than Margaret Atwood and Jane Austin.. Both of whom are genuinely terrible fanfic writers that give women a bad name more than anything else.
    >Ayn Rand's ideas are dogshit, but almost everyone who shits on her lives her philosophy.
    >Ezra Pound really was one of the best American poets of the 20th century and the only reason anyone doesn't like him is because of an ideology they don't even know anything about. In fact, more than half of those people usually only seem to manage to spell it correctly by accident.
    >It's not a bad thing to build a family library.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Ezra Pound really was one of the best American poets of the 20th century
      He was the first arthoe.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That doesn't detract from what I said.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes it does. Arthoes cannot be artists. They are damned to a life of being art-adjacent. Pound is very sad character in literary history. His writings about poetry are so wonderfully engaging and passionate, but the Cantos are just embarrassing.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The IQfy canon is overrated and boring.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      All shit posting is ironic.

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