ITT: unpopular opinions
>I read and didn't like The Stranger by Camus
>I found Crime and Punishment so boring I didn't find it warranted being read
ITT: unpopular opinions
Easton Peterson
Ryder Garcia
>translations are good
>reading theater plays is good even if you don't see them performed onstage
>you don't need to read all the works a work of philosophy is founded on before starting reading it
>there is no absolute "must-read", in fact it isn't necessary to be literate to live a good and worthy life
>most languages are good, especially natural languages
>the existence of dolphins proves that intelligence is overrated
Anthony Flores
>the very idea of memes is pretty lame
>if you're not posting and reading effortposts on Yea Forums you're wasting your time
>twitter isn't that retarded despite some extreme nutcases
>twitter isn't that important
>being on instagram is probably better than just lurking on Yea Forums and posting memes
Nathan Walker
>being on instagram is probably better than just lurking on Yea Forums and posting memes
Why?
Grayson Reed
Disgusting mongoloid
Brody Stewart
>it isn't necessary to be literate
I completely agree yet can't stand people who show a complete lack of intelligence. Am I just conflating the two or am I lying to myself?
Lucas Ross
(N for Nigger/Good, Y for Yikes/Bad)
Y
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Y
Thomas Turner
Philosophy is much more entertaining than fiction.
Notes from the Underground is extremely boring.
Jack Cruz
>cinema is more artistic than literature
>history is more important than literature
>philosophical and scientific works (however artistic) are not literature
>mythopoetics is the only form of literature, and
>literature is for the plebeians
Wyatt Torres
fiction is retarded
Jack Johnson
>there is no absolute "must-read", in fact it isn't necessary to be literate to live a good and worthy life
"Must reads" exist within Literature, though. Who even cares about life lmao
Asher Gomez
If you like it in theory but dislike it in practice, then you don't really like it.
Juan Allen
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra is not literature
Wyatt Barnes
>literature is for the plebeians
History --which you claim is more important-- says otherwise, though.
James White
John Foster
Wrong. Where does it say so?
Gabriel Campbell
>One Hundred Years of Solitude is incredibly dull and overrated. Marquez is a good author but that’s easily his worst work. His best is Chronicle of a Death Foretold
>The Confidence Man by Herman Melville is one of the greatest works of prose writing of all time
>Roberto Bolano’s writing is mediocre
Cameron Johnson
All the so-called great writes were part of the aristocracy. They certainly weren't plebeians. Plebeians don't read nor write.
Bentley Mitchell
>All literature past the 15th century is unnecessary
Samuel Sanders
>entertainment (n.)
>1530s, "provision for support of a retainer; manner of social behavior," now obsolete, along with other 16c. senses; from entertain + -ment. Meaning "the amusement of someone" is from 1610s; sense of "that which entertains" is from 1650s; that of "public performance or display meant to amuse" is from 1727.
Robert Carter
>Poetry is predominantly pretentious garbage
> US writers seem to be inherently better authors than most other countries, seconded by Spanish lit
> Sci-Fi novels written by non Eastern European’s are tired as fuck
>Bret Easton Ellis was a good writer
Leo Long
Crime and Punishment is noir fiction in which this neet does a murder and gets away with it but doesn't gain anything from it, kind of like half the missions in GTA.
Also I read it because I had a fever, but fever broke and I stopped reading halfway through because I had math to read.
Austin Martin
the plauge is the better camus book
Henry Diaz
And The Fall is better than The Plague.