/lit/ - Literature

Inspired by the storytimes of /co/, why don't we post complete books page by page as images in here?
It could boost better discussion and help spreading certain books.

A question about Shakespeare:

He didn't write dialogue how people normally talk, did he? He wrote it in a very poetic way. Doesn't this throw or turn people off? If movies today had people speaking like poets, wouldn't it be considered lame?

Or did people really talk like that? I find it hard to believe.

Don't see one make one.

Need criticism on these sonnets:

If I talk about it is a nocebo
But I think this do needs to be addresséd
I have to tell all that I’m getting rotten
You do not need to care about what happens
I just want to tell what is rolling in me
You see how I am getting all different
I’m worried about the way I can change
I do not want to do harm any body
But I know that others do want to harm me
I want to apologize from down this place
Because soon I will not know who I have been
I do want help but I feel that all are lies
And so I will lie to myself on this way
So do not worry, you can’t do any thing.

—And—

All that matters now is that I am with you
I have never met you in any good way
But everything we do feels like it is all new
I’m worried because I can’t hear what you say
But you are a baby and I am all yours
For everything you need I take no few
And from now on remember that I own you
In my hands you are going to spend all too
You are so little I say you sha’n’t grow old
Call me daddy and I will call you all mine
You are my treasure and my world from now on
They said that seating you in my lap isn’t fine
They took her away, now she is all stardust.

For class tomorrow I have to read 190 pages of a book. I started reading a while ago and got to page 45, and I had to take a break. I did find the book enjoyable, but found that I was reading for too long and just needed a bit of a break from it. Is that bad, that I can only get to page 45? The pages are dense.

ITT /lit/ writes a story one sentence at a time


I awoke to see that she was lying on the bed, her silk dress riding up her milky thigh.

does my poetry suck, /lit/?

...

Heat waves allure the horizon of clay
Of the road as I
Recline in a leather seat in an American diner
Eroding time
Drifting along from
Place to place across the highways
The deserts and cities
The heat of the tarmac dull
As the sunset envelops the day
And I fall asleep to the delicate breeze
Of welcoming night
And I,
I may awake
In whatever and whoever’s place
And continue to be free

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>that feel when /sp/ has more literature discussion than /lit/

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