/lit/ - Literature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gdsdqu5XWI

>decide that I should read books today
>see above video
>realise that my net enjoyment would be greater if I just stayed on my computer

How do you deal with the fact that the edgiest stuff is on 4chan or the internet? Do you think books need to up their game and become weirder?

>>3287352
>mfw someone thinks he has it all figured out

>>3282502
>reaction image elitism

>mfw I've never owned a gun, nobody I know owns a gun and nobody I know has ever been in a situation where they would have needed a gun because I live in a fucking civilized society

ITT: third world problems

>>2880043
Analytic philosophy thinks it can actually come to conclusive answers

>>2847635
LOL
oh op, you silly faggot

>discussing ethics

Post stories of times you had lit related talks with people you met.

>meet two girls in a bar who said they liked reading
>thisisgoingtobegood.jpg
>ask them what books they like
>they start naming required reading
>i ask if they've read anything since high school
>one of them tells me she likes russian literature
>names nabokov
>hasn't read any tolstoy or dostoyevsky
>at this point i have to hold in my laughter
>now the other tells me she also reads poetry
>she names some poems that i happen to know
>ask some questions about them
>doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about, probably hasn't even read them
>my face as i walk away from these dumb bitches, feeling superior as fuck

Thanks, /lit/.