Recently I got into highly acclaimed literature because I heard it had narratives that were vastly superior to low-brow entertainment (like anything that's not artsy film). So I read Crime and Punishment and I thought it was pretty interesting. But the way everyone acted it was like the book was supposed to give me an existential crisis or something like that. I also read The Great Gatsby which I think was basically just a 1920s Shakespeare play and I think it was just fine but not groundbreaking. I also tried to read Infinite Jest but I think it filtered me honestly. Anyway what do I do? Am I too retarded for this? Should I just watch anime instead or?
Why are you faggots all so INSECURE?
What you read might not be low-brow but it sure as hell isn't high-brow. Just read more and what you want to read until you find out what you like.
>>24986898What do you consider high brow?
>>24986891Congratulations, anon, you've discovered that the only difference between genre fiction and literary fiction is that snooty homosexual academics jerk themselves off to the latter.
>>24986955Muh gravy rainbow. Muf federate dances. Muh batal and selin. Heady stuff nigga, very respectable
>>24986955I'm not gonna dress you a list but just stay away from anything recommended to you for its plot, or written after WWII. If it doesn't check any of these boxes then see if a book is well liked -- and read -- by normies today. If it is, proceed very cautiously and assume it's middlebrow until you're good enough at spotting highbrow lit.But honestly you might want to stick to what appeals to you for now; you can't go back to enjoying simpler stuff once you start sniffing your own farts.
>>24986969Eh it is a bit better
>>24986955Jo Nesbo is great
>>24986955DON QUIXOTEONQUIXOTE
>>24987026Nope, that's lowbrow.
>>24987047Filtered.
Steppenwolf is the Evangelion of literature. See which one you like better
>>24986969What I have learned is that a lot of that sort of literature seems to disregard things like plot, which OK you can do that, but I don't find it interesting personally. Why would I read Infinite Jest when I could have a 30 minute conversation with someone in a rehab center?
>>24987246Nta but the ubermensch "plotless" writer (there is always a plot) would be a good stylist, poet, psychologist, sociologist, phenomenologist and philosopher. A great book makes you think and/or mesmerises you with its beauty.
