/lit/ - Literature

>I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said:

>“Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it later. But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling to one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

>“Oh, and by the way . . . there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.

...

>“Basically, kid, what this all means is that life is a lot tougher than it used to be, in the Good Old Days, back before you were born. Things used to be awesome, but now they’re kinda terrifying. To be honest, the future doesn’t look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Human civilization is in ‘decline.’ Some people even say it’s ‘collapsing.’

>“You’re probably wondering what’s going to happen to you. That’s easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You’re going to die. We all die. That’s just how it is.

>“What happens when you die? Well, we’re not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You’re just dead, your brain stops working, and then you’re not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called ‘heaven’ where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There’s no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you’re going to die someday and disappear forever.

DEAL WITH IT, PUSSIES

BIBLEFAGS BTFO :^)

admit it anon, it's actually pretty good.

My little brother's 14th birthday is coming up. He's been reading pic realated, which hurts me on a visceral levell. I want to put him on to better sci-fi at least, since he seems to have an appetite for it.

Problem is, I don't really read scifi myself. I've been considering:
-Dune
-Neuromancer
-The Three Body Problem
since I understand they are all quite good. I'm open to other suggestions tho, if you feel strongly.

Don't let my brother be a pleb /lit/. Think of the children.

I got Kindle for my birthday and hammered through Ready Player One in a day. What did you guys think of it? I haven't watched the movie. I suppose the references were pretty fun, but the story was fairly uninteresting and the writing was juvenile. I read that Gamergate largely had a negative impact on the popularity of the author.

If we took this book and replaced popculture references with greek, roman and Biblical references, do you think /lit would be fellating it then?

I was not prepared for how much of a turd this is. I wasted an audible credit on it....read by wil wheaton and it fellates him almost every chapter.

I'm not surprised that this was (and is) so popular with "geeks"

>Friend gives me a pdf of this
>Decide to give it a read despite the bad things I've heard.
>After slugging through twenty pages of really bad substanceless references there's an extremely hamfisted rant about why god isn't real and life is meaningless.

I can't even fucking continue. There's never been a book I've dropped so fast holy shit.

ha ha it's just a bit of fun, anon, haha dude you're a gamer I bet you'd love the references, ha ha dude stop taking everything so seriously, it's just a book! :)

Why do we hate it again?

Lmao be an atheist!

what are some of the best normie tier books like pic related

not books of the same genre but books of the same mainstream flow that you enjoyed

>>10890739
Pic related and anything else by Cline
The Bible

ITT: The worst book you've every read