/lit/ - Literature

>calmly reading whitehead in the library
>suddenly hear small-lunged shushing from behind me

>>12635566
My current gf knows that I like to read so she regularly gives me garbage books to read. I have like 7 in my room. I usually read some summary online so I can tell her about it and crease the books so they look like they've been read. She knows what books I read, why can't she just extrapolate from my library?

>>10773041
>there is some literary fiction you should read though
>like all of george orwell... or huckleberry finn... or shakespeare
>except don't bother with hamlet

>>10769795
is it really this bad?

>>10726265
>and it would be functionally identical.
I don't think it would though. Putting it in quotes is colder and indicates being baffled, plus it feels like more of a comment intended other readers, not the author of the post being replied to. Putting it in greentext more pointedly (no pun intended) mocks the author to his face and calls to mind the unconsciously assembled amalgam of reaction images we've all seen used next to ">___" posts over and over and over again; the "trace" of the greather-than symbol as a signifier. Seriously, if you saw that ">cop killer bullets" on its own, would it not call to mind the shared characteristics of Costanza's smirk, the concerned Spongebob fish holding his drink and craning his neck forward, Julius' forlorn and hopeless stare through his sunken eyes?

I genuinely believe that reaction images have become integral not only to the context of some signifiers, but to what is signified as well. Costanza's face is part of the definition of ">implying". You can not fully understand what is being indicated by the phrase until you've seen that image, and likewise you can not avoid seeing or "feeling" the face when you read the phrase once you've learned what it indicates.

>>10190159
>someone who commits suicide is mentally ill

Who was that writer that suggested that advertising would get so sophisticated and subtle that you would be shilling products and you didn't even know it?

Sup /lit/
Now I'm not much of a reader of books, one could say I don't read any books, but I've got 3 free credits on audible and I was wondering if you could help me pick some books for a brainlet like me to listen to