/lit/ - Literature

>>13600422
based and burgerpilled

>american lit

Speak American, dammit!

How do I learn to enjoy reading?

Has anybody on /lit/ ever wrote anything big? Is there a man on /lit/ who has actually become a successful writer? Is there something I can download and read and which is not an utter shit?

>>4973493

It is a superior novel.

It is a short read.

Fucking read it. You can kill it in a day and it'll last you a life.

Why don't Americans like books?

I was thinking of getting an e-reader and finally read shit more. I was looking around at the kindles and saw the regular nook for like 69 bucks and theres a paperwhite for a little over 100$ but I think they're going to come out with a 2014 version of the paperwhite soon so I'm not sure if I should wait or not? Kinda bugs me how amazon puts ads on them after you buy it unless you fork over more shekels for them though. Are any other e-readers better? Also how is electronic ink? Is there really no strain and it's just like a book?

>Formulating opinions without cultivating wisdom.

Welcome to the Land of Opportunity.

Please don't rip on me /lit/ but I must ask.

I'm hanging out on irc at #bookz now how do I actually get a book from here?

Do I just type the name or some shit? Nobodies really talking in here, everyone is just searching books.

I actually am not new to irc but haven't been in #bookz before.

Any help?

Also would adobe reader XI be good enough to use for reading e books on my laptop?

ITT: OP wants help using #books and is new to e reading.

Looking up irc.undernet.org
Unknown host. Maybe you misspelled it?

>>4034273
>>4034278

What book(s) should I read while traveling around Europe? Anything like the European equivalent of On the Road?

>>3359078

>>3355572
Good for you; I see you've achieved Business Administration nirvana and I wish you the best.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, old boy.

>>3330863
>Choosing to like bad things
>Sunk Cost Fallacy
>Image from Portal

>>3290569

>u amerigen?

>>3162695

It was only like 2.5k words long, and way too Nabokovesque in description to be arousing now that I think about it.

I don't think moot gave a shit when he named it /lit/ instead of /bk/ or some shit

I don't see NO GRRM TOO PEDESTRIAN in the rules

>>3066441
what's wrong with audiobooks?
reading on the other hand...
pic related

>Limits on the checking out of library ebooks.

Explain the reasoning behind this.

I haven't read in a long time, and my reading skills are now terrible. How can I build up my reading comprehension /lit/?

American education is the only system I know.

It needs to be completely revamped and taken off the self-esteem bullshit model. I just finished highschool and got the highest marks in the school for every class and finished with the highest writing scores. The sad thing is that I could of probably put more effort into it. When I got my high marks, I was actually somewhat disappointed unless the scores were immaculate and over-the-top. No other kid was like that, but I feel like that's the mentality in countries where their cultures aren't shit.

I like Nordic model schooling (namely Finland). Grammar, spelling, and handwriting wasn't stressed at all in my school. This is because if the county wasn't satisfied with a schools performance they could simply lower the grading regimen to subsequently raise the averages; ergo they get more funding. I think focusing on poverty is a better way to start to fix the schooling problem here. Eradicating poverty fixes societies in so many ways.

Instead of being about education it's about money. Our military budget is a huge pit of waste. Most all gifted kids are pulled out of normal kid classes and put into special classes. Then when they're older they get offered comfortable jobs making bombs or working on rail guns.

But maybe I'm an iconoclastic bleeding-heart socialist faggot.