/lit/ - Literature

>>3707499
>be in geology 101
>professor got her doctorate studying lunar and martian craters
>shows us slideshow one day of lunar craters she studied
>girl raises her hand and says "wait, wait.you actually went to the moon?!"
>entire 250 person lecture laughs uproariously
>girl cries and runs out of the room
>mfw

>>2883880

Nah. I didn't like that confederacy of feels book anyway, but it's still not the word. There's another word for fortunate happenstance that enriches your world. I just can't remember it.

I thought /lit/ could into words, but then again I don't come here often.

>>2350979

>That feel when I can carry around an entire library with me in my coat pocket
>that feel when I no longer have to pay for most books
>that feel when I read more because of the convenience

Seriously though, these paper vs ebook arguments are dumb. They each have their place. Illustrated books aren't going to be worthwhile on an ereader, and there's something to be said about amassing a collection of physical books too.

>>2297036

Seriously, if you can't hold a conversation with an ordinary working class guy, you're no kind of an intellectual at all. You're just a fucking snob. He may have had something interesting to say, and you might have been able to tell him something he didn't know before.

People like you are why people who read get so much aggravation.

>on flight to Memphis, layover before coming home to Yerp
>Massive tall dude sits next to me
>Pardon me sir, all that lovely polite American shit
>Asks me what I'm reading
>Tell him it's Ken Kesey
>Ain't that that hippy acid guy?
>Surely is sir, but this one is actually about rodeo riders
>Show him the cover of Last Go Round
>Turns out he has a son in the National Amateur Bull Riders of America or something
>Guy turns out to be as interesting as all hell, despite the fact that the last book he read probably had rounded corners that you can chew.
>We end up buying each other drinks on the plane, then when we land, we raise our wrists a few times in the shitty airport bar
>mfw he picks up the tab because I'm a guest in his country
>mfw he tells me a couple of stories that I can certainly adapt for my own writing, and that there is almost certainly going to be a tale about a skinny limey squashed in by a massive yank somewhere in my portfolio soon.
>Best plane ride in time.

That is how you travel in the US and A.

Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Finca Vigia Edition)

>yfw you come home from a long day of work, excited to open up a book and begin reading

I pity those who choose not to read or cannot enjoy it. Movies are great and video games are great, but nothing is as personal, satisfying, rewarding and enriching as soaking in all those delicious words. Nothing challenges your imagination like books do. Why is it that people don't read again?

Books are just swell