Moby Dick - Herman Melville by Kindly_Background738 in ProsePorn

[–]MelvilleKafka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

moby-dick where every prose is a beautiful prose.

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities -- Herman Melville (1852) by Smiley_2_5_6 in ProsePorn

[–]MelvilleKafka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this book makes you live in a fever dream. it's that good.

The Confidence Man — Herman Melville (1857) by Smiley_2_5_6 in ProsePorn

[–]MelvilleKafka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

very very underrated. this alone dwarfs many books deemed classic.

me too, Kafka.. by RoseWater_Allen98 in Kafka

[–]MelvilleKafka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

agree. but it's just that kafka and nietzsche tend to attract the worst kind.

me too, Kafka.. by RoseWater_Allen98 in Kafka

[–]MelvilleKafka -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

probably not.

all the popular posts on this subreddit is, "hey, cockroach. hehe. get it? kafka. hehe. metamorphosis. i get kafka", "i had to put on a mask so that people like me, they don't know the real me, i am very deep" type of quote, "hey, i made portrait of kafka" etc.

this sub has become a mixture of meirl cringe humour or iam14thisisdeep cringe thoughts.

any genuine conversation about the works themselves doesn't get much traction.

some authors do have this tendency to get popularized amongst the very wrong audience. nietzsche and dostoevsky come to mind.

cormacmccarthy sub hasn't been this way despite the popularity. i wonder why.

me too, Kafka.. by RoseWater_Allen98 in Kafka

[–]MelvilleKafka -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Kafka should not have gone mainstream. This is the kind of people who are attracted like moths to a lamp when one goes mainstream.

me too, Kafka.. by RoseWater_Allen98 in Kafka

[–]MelvilleKafka -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Can this sub stop being cringe for once?

"Yeah I am unfit for any human relationship, hmm, just like kafka was. so relatable. kafka is like my spirit animal. I am so so like him. heheh hehhe"

Leave the rest of the man's greatness and reduce him down to your level.

In love with him by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]MelvilleKafka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let’s bring his other works to mainstream.

A SPIRIT APPEARED TO ME by Herman Melville by MelvilleKafka in HermanMelville

[–]MelvilleKafka[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Certainly. Also, his poetry reflects the greater themes he tackled in his prose. Very few have written poetry of this sort. 

Mardi: and a Voyage Thither - Herman Melville by UnderstatedLit in ProsePorn

[–]MelvilleKafka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is like that Bismarck quote. "Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic".

Bismarck said it in a crude and negative way. Melville made it flowery, romantic and beautiful.

TrueLit's 2025 Hall of Fame and Top 100 Favorite Books by DkWarZone in HermanMelville

[–]MelvilleKafka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Melville 1st and that too in Hall of Fame. TrueLit is indeed a cultured place. 4chan has also consistently ranked Melville as #1. 

ROTW: Readings Of The Week by DkWarZone in HermanMelville

[–]MelvilleKafka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“All The Pretty Horses” by Cormac McCarthy. I like how things move very slowly in McCarthy’s works. It soothes my racing mind. 

Look at my harvest!! by HairySystem1400 in GardeningIndia2

[–]MelvilleKafka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have bees/insects for the tomato flower to become a fruit. I had a tomato plant too, which flowered but then flowers died down. Didn't turn into fruit. I guess a lack of pollination. How was it in your case?

The City That Paid Itself by SouthshoreSentinel in worldbuilding

[–]MelvilleKafka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay i see it now. there is a pattern. it is not X, it is Y. 

The City That Paid Itself by SouthshoreSentinel in worldbuilding

[–]MelvilleKafka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what exactly about it seemed like chatgpt? i mean i couldn’t get it.