/lit/ - Literature

>tfw there is no way in this economy that you can run a used bookstore where you spend all day drinking and smoking with your beta sidekick/best-friend, and your one night stand/possible love interest while you abuse the customers and generally be a lazy academic grouch.

I'm looking for good sources for book reviews.
Sites, blogs, or names of good critics.

I really gotta stop reading goodreads reviews of books I like. Just finished Memories Of My Melancholy Whores, adding it on goodreads, scroll down, 20 fat women saying it's disgusting pedophilia. Probably the same sort of people who give EL James five star reviews.

There must be some intelligent people left on the internet, somewhere..

>>2708759
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>>2654497
German is a truly dreadful language, it sounds like typewriters eating tin foil while being kicked down the stairs.

>>2532622
1. The Old Man and the Sea is a modernist novel.
2. It has a completely different message than Blood Meridian.
3. Blood Meridian is effectively a revised version of Moby Dick, updating it's insights in relation to modern history's impact on the 'Moby Dick' type story. They are similar, but come to different philosophical conclusion.
4. Post anonymously. /lit/ doesn't need more tripfags.

how much are they? thirty pounds? are they leatherbound pounds? they have to be leatherbound, to go with my leather wallet.

>>1356682
>Rand
>On the same level as Kafka, Joyce, and Steinbeck

ITT: lazyfags who need to get off their arses and find their own fucking books.

>>1181333

This is a comic book. Discussion is for /co/ unless of course you're talking about general literary movements such as Cold-War lit and someone mentions off-hand Watchmen then that is acceptable.

But other than that - HOP IT.

>>882541
>>882542
>>882539

Seriously, fuck off. I'm not a woman or one of those self-proclaimed "male feminists" or anything, but this shit is really annoying. Yes, I mad, and I'm well aware I'm probably being trolled here, but as shit as /lit/ usually is I like it sometimes, and this HURR DURR BITCHES AND WHORES bollocks is taking us to /r9k/ levels of stupid.

One day
I'm gonna take a collection
of 4chan posts
make them look like verse
and publish them.
Who knows?
Maybe I'll be MTV's
next laureate.

you'll regret it.

Hemmingway is a good finish.

>>793278
rules:
1. All literature discussion is welcome.
2. Do not upload images with embedded RAR files.
3. This is not a fan-fic board!
4. There is to be no discussion of Ayn Rand.

Asshole book buyer: Are they real leather?

Bernard Black: They're real Dickens.

>>715556
Fran: "You know, in Tibet, if they want something, do you know what they do? They give something away."

Bernard: "Do they, do they... that must be why they're such a dominant global power."
- black books

>>701789
you are not going to like the ending, son. brace yourself.

why do you shitheads always wait until the last moment before you come to us with your problems? jesus christ, give us AT LEAST HALF of the lead time you get. asshole.

was a time you'd create an entire background for a character, including likes, dislikes, clothes, education and a picture.

that's called World Building, and these days, it's out of fashion.

i wish americans would stop saying "whoops, my bad".

i also wish the chinese would get the fuck out of tibet.

we live in an imperfect world.

>>436340
You now realise Neil Gaiman is the twin brother of Bernard Black.