/jp/ - Otaku Culture

books are old media
>>>>>>>>>>>>>/lit/

Sci-fi, fantasy, and a bunch of nonfiction. Whatever catches my eye at the library.

>>8545495
Your mom is an old media.

>mfw reading books is huge in Japan and neckbeard Otakus dont realise

Reading is for faggots.

>>8545497

Leave my mom out of this and I'll leave this out of your mom.

>>8545492
Yea, I read manga and light novels in addition to VNs. I think traditional books are going the way of the dinosaur though.

>>8545500
What Western books are popular in Japan?

Is Tolkien popular there?

>>8545506
>manga
You should get out.

>>8545516
No. It's mostly just good western books that are popular there.

>>8545518
Nobody likes a try-hard.

>>8545522
You shut your whore mouth.

>>8545506
>I think traditional books are going the way of the dinosaur though.

Why? Because of e-readers?

E-readers won't make books obsolete anymore than escalators have made stairs obsolete.

>>8545529
Neither illiterate fucks.

>Is Tolkien popular there?

I ask because the closest thing I've found to Japanese fan artwork for anything Tolkien related is hobbit yaoi.

That's only on the booru boards though. What would the tag for Tolkien be on pixiv?

>>8545516
I've no idea how popular it is but there is a complete translation of the novels available. For some reason they split it into nine volumes.

I want to read house of leaves...

and SICP.

>>8545562
Is that an Alan Lee painting on the cover?

>For some reason they split it into nine volumes.

What? Tolkien always wanted LotR to be a single book but internally it's split into six parts. What the hell were they doing splitting it into nine?

>>8545562
They probably decided it'll do better in the LN format. I can see the rationale.

I was reading "Don Quixote" and "Les Miserables" a while ago.
I put them on hold like everything else I enjoy though

>>8545579
They apparently like their books to be thin.

It's actually 10 volumes with the appendices.

>>8545566
There is apparently a translation: 計算機プログラムの構造と解釈-ジェラルド・ジェイ-サスマン.

>>8545594
>They apparently like their books to be thin.

1Q94 was is about 1000 pages long but it was only split into 3 parts.

>>8545587
Don Quixote is the perfect /jp/ novel.

Dulcinea is my waifu

>>8545548
The tag is 指輪物語

I'm disappointed that the ディスクワールド tag has only two posts.

>>8545604
Has anyone here read 1Q84, or any other modern Japanese literature?

I've haven't read anything Japanese that isn't completely ancient. Just the Heike Monogatari and whatnot.

Yes, I like to read books.

>>8545647
A fan of Diskworld huh?

I need to get around to reading those.

>Tom Bombadil

aw shit here we go

>>8545658
I WIRR REED BEWKS

Mostly I read only technical books and some classics novels.

I have interest to read some Japanese literature, any recommendations /jp/?

>Lord of the Ring

>>8545713
here's a list from /lit/

>>8545657
Murakami is kinda meh, imo. Give his books a try if you want. Your tastes are probably different than mine.

Here, have a link
http://www.jlit.net/authors_works/

>>8545685
Okay aside from this I'm not finding anything else that's any good...

You have failed me pixiv. You are no better than deviantart!

last thing I read was Moby Dick, after that I miraculously developed an aversion to books

>>8545754
Why? That's a great book.

>>8545757
I know, but still, for some reason I just grew illiterate. Wait, now that I think about it, the last thing was Alice in Wonderland after all.
That was a year ago. I have a Joseph Conrad lying around here, but I can't bring myself to read it. Also, VN backlog. Illiteracy hooray.

I mainly read fantasy stuff like discworld or dresden files.
Tried one of that Murakami hack's books once too, but yeah, sticking to what I usually read instead.