I think all I read was "I'm a pretentious douchebag who pretends to find value and insight in books to which I cannot relate, written by authors whose names I have memorized to seem intelligent to strangers."

"Real literature" doesn't mean it was written by a dead guy. It means it's well-written, evocative, and unique. There are plenty of examples of brilliant writing you can find written in the last 50 years, stop trying so hard, no one cares that you force yourself to read Shakespeare.

Cheers

This.

I like a lot of literature, and am wondering how many people are actually capable of rating/reviewing a book. I ask this because it's quite easy to like the canonized books: a lot of people read them and have an opinion about them. James Joyce's books, for example, have already been thoroughly analyzed and commented upon. The same goes for Kafka's: the hard work has already been done. There is a lot more challenge in reading and forming an opinion on an new author.

On topic: I like Mark Z. Danielewski, and José Saramago the most

kafka is pretty insane. I mean waking up one day as a giant cockroach... the guy who writes that clearlys got some issues...

Kafka is amazing, I loved A Country Doctor.

3 cheers for this guy! Well put!

...and for his other work: the main character in The Trial has problems with some invisible government I think that's "irksome"...

russian authors are amazing (dostoyveskey, tolstoy) but a lot of stuff is actually completely overrated.

Lets take an example; the legend of the seeker is HORRIDLY written, but it's a good story (according to some, is topped reading fantasy years ago). Does that make the books "good litterature" or just popular?

I'd say Ayn Rand's books are masterpieces, but her writing skills wasn't the best, yet I'd consider it as good litterature because it got content.

Idc about main stream, i usually read to educate myself

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is pretty win. And yes, I have read the original.

e\ you know, the one without zombies XD

This post was edited by t0W on Sep 10 2010 09:43pm

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Thank you my day has been made.

hahahah. this guy always has a dildo up his ass.
makes me laugh.