/lit/ - Literature

What makes it so hard for people to read supposed 'walls of texts' but they'll happily spend hours upon hours listening to the auditory equivalent of it that's 10x longer and even less focused in direction?

>book's characters are all cishet white people

yikes

>>12701508
>What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top?
>You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the ten books that have meant the most to them, you'll be reminded of books you have always loved and introduced to works awaiting your discovery.

>Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey

>preface/introduction is by some shitty trendy pop writer rather than an actual scholar

>bookstore customer asks where the Dostoevsky or Solzhenitsyn books are
>mfw he always asks the qt staff helping him is she's heard of Jordan Peterson

literally every time. do they expect to get a gf this way or what?

>not removing all filters in honor of Quentin

Shine on you crazy diamond ;_;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAFb7ZojOhY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hggSxpKxBas

should i read the grapes of wrath before the new school year starts? or listen to it on audiobook?

QUENTIN'S TRIPCODE CRACKED
QUENTIN'S TRIPCODE CRACKED
QUENTIN'S TRIPCODE CRACKED
QUENTIN'S TRIPCODE CRACKED
QUENTIN'S TRIPCODE CRACKED

Quentin##Caddy

have fun!

won't work this time either bro

butthurt basement dwelling pretentious fag detected

>/lit/ ENCOURAGES you all to submit your own writings for critique, judgement and revision.

Says who?

I don't do drugs because i like myself and the "idea" of being high or drunk horrifies me also enjoy your shit-tier jobs druggies while i'm out being a huge business magnate due to my clean lifestyle

>>1136111
nothing was funny about that post though besides the fact that he thought someone would give a shit about his life

>>1125299
>implying it isn't a well known fact on here that I dislike Vonnegut

>>1120639

>mfw fiction moves people

>>1099838
>implying plebeian
enjoy your pseudo-intellectual russian lit while i'm enjoying my master race american lit

>>1092679
>>1092679
>so I get my grip on you over the internet :p

>>1088442
>implying I live on a flat