/lit/ - Literature

Two other suggestions from a concerned /lit/izan:

1. Stop bookshelf threads. I don't think there exists anything more masturbatory on all of 4chan with perhaps the exception of last.fm threads on /mu/ (and actual masturbation threads).

2. E-reader threads. Similar comments as those above, especially the fact that it has nothing to do with the actual writing at all. More of a "technology" thing anyway.

Also as a general suggestion, I think a conscious effort to discuss certain books LESS is in order i.e. Lolita, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Infinite Jest, etc. I am not suggesting banning these from discussion, just an effort to inject some newer topics into /lit/. Like Gogol, Gaddis, Barth, Flaubert, Roth, Bolano, Edmund Morris, Henry James, or Conrad. These authors (and others) rarely come up.

Represent from SC

PS: Can philosophy discussions be less insipid? That would be nice.

The short story "The Death of Ivan Illyich" is a great place to begin. After that it's just a pick and choose situation between "War and Peace" and Anna Karenina".

Burroughs isn't that great: go read some Faulkner.

Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison.

We get it, you guys are black women and may have been raped. Doesn't give you an excuse to write God-awful poetry and prose.

Graduate Highschool, read Faulkner.

No need to thank me OP.

>>515795

Just out of curiosity, did anybody else dig it?

>>504988

While I don't agree about Jane Austen (haven't really read her) this statement is 100% righteous.

Rodney Dangerfield- Falstaff