/lit/ - Literature

>>4686946
>implying that the real value to a story is the physical condition of a few of its pages, not the story it has to tell

Help me /lit!/

What's a good synonym for city-state? The world my story takes place in operates under a system similar to ancient Greece, where every city is kind of its own thing. I don't want to call it city-state because it's too long and doesn't roll off the tongue well, but something like 'city' or 'kingdom' isn't really accurate.

>>3327392
>Why on earth would you read good literature for a plot twist?

Why on earth are you so fucking stupid? Who the fuck said I read 1984 for the fucking twists? You're not SUPPOSED to know a twist is coming, you abysmal cuntlicker, that's the whole fucking point.

Just because I fucking hate spoilers doesn't entail that I read solely for that. If the author doesn't want you to know something on page 20 because he intends to rock your world on page 145 with the same element, you let him write his fucking novel how he wants to and give the intended experience to the reader. Who the fuck are you to say what's OK to change in a novel? You're not the fucking author.

>but there's no substance to the plot itself

That's because you're fucking stupid and watch movies and books with shitty plots, you autistic motherfucker.

The idiocy of this board is astonishing.

>reads
>thinks plots don't matter

You're misguided and should look into other things; you're obviously reading and watching movies for all the wrong reasons, one of them being ego-bloating. Enjoy feeling smart because you despise what you claim to appreciate.

>people calling it Tokyo Blues instead of Norwegian Wood

>>2614435
>>2614425

OP here. This book is just about some fucking bitch named Edna. Her husband provides her with disciplined kids, a mansion, infinite moneys, infinite free-time, tons of dinner parties, and everything she ever wanted. (This takes place in the 19th century.)

This apparently isn't enough for her, and she cheats on him thoroughly. She has several affairs, essentially abandons her husband who still works constantly through all of this, and she just takes a huge metaphorical shit on their relationship. She fucking weeps for days and gets depressed when one of her young men who she is having an affair with leaves for Mexico because, holy shit, she's ruining a perfectly good relationship, and this young man is in fact NOT a socially-inept autist and realizes that's "not good."

So the wife fucking kills herself.

It's technically about some huge awakening of the female mind or some shit, but man, this book is absolute trash. She drowns herself in an ocean not because she feels awful that she cheated on her husband, but because she couldn't continue to cheat on her husband because this young man isn't a total douchebag.

Oh yeah, and her drowning of herself is portrayed as heroic, and is a metaphor for her freeing herself from life's bonds. The bonds of a perfect life, with everything provided for her.

Fuck this book.

>>2441837
fuck

Just finished A Storm of Swords. What the actual fuck George R.R. Martin.

>>2154277
>Besides the fact that the dude sounded horribly pretentious (like, you could tell he was trying to say something philosophical) which annoys me because I like reading through the whole thing and then thinking about it not thinking about it while reading

>>1997128
>ICE 9

But that's not cold at all. That was the entire point!

I started reading this thread. It looked strange but kinda sweet.

Suddenly Glau.

Holy shit man, this is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen on 4chan and that's saying a lot.

Meanwhile in the egalitarian corner:
>WTF are you all doing?!
>Feminism never can into equal through gender war

Seriously, fuck this place. I left /lit/ two months ago because of tripfaggotry, and I come back to visit only to find 3-4 tripfag threads on the front fucking pages?

You are all fucking retarded.

>mfw Charlie has a wet dream while he's STILL RETARDED
(Flowers for Algernon)

>My face when I come to /lit/ to get good discussion on video games.
FUCKING /v/

>little house on the prairie
>Rocky Horror
>Warriors