/lit/ - Literature

>>19444600
The other problem with stand-up comedy is disguising social commentary/manifesto material as comedy. It's only the delivery that made George Carlin famous, with a bit of rewriting and delivery, you could probably disguise Industrial Revolution & Its Consequences as a stand-up routine.

Any books in favor of a dystopia?

>book uses female pronouns to refer to a random person

>>14562729
Congratulations retard, that is called learning
You left your state of passive disengagement and started to think about the world

>I don't get to read Kant now and dedicate my full attention to it because I have assholes outside apparently celebrating a football win, revving their engines and honking while shouting the countries name. Saw a girl's tits though passing by so that's a plus
Books for this feel?

What is this Bullshit?!
I just picked up Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons", read his short biography and then started reading the introduction and the translator is spoiling parts of the plot.
He is describing how Turgenev saw his characters before the idea of the novel so he knew each character's specific behaviors, mannerisms, thoughts, etc. beforehand and especially since he based certain characters on real people which makes the kiss between X and Y so much more impactful and btw Z dies.
Why can't they put the translator's comments ( which they really just are) at the goddamn end of the book?

>>9522989
>on /lit/
>hasn't read TLOFIAT

>>9219338
Deep

>>9212209

>>9205477
>Accounting is on the verge of being completely automated

You can't automate dealing with clients and business partners, which is what lots of accountants do. CPAs are completely safe

>tfw you finally realized that Postmodernism is a dead-end

>>8762858

Your dichotomy is showing

>>8687534
>you can only improve by reading self-help crap recommended by Oprah

>>7366379

>this thread
I'm not exaggerating when I say that /lit/ would be better off if each and every one of you died right now

He was an inarticulate cretinous know-nothing and I'm disgusted with all of you.

>first time reading 1984
>tfw at the end when you realize that the love of Big Brother is the love of God

>>4639868
I've heard, A Fable is even more opaque; however, I have not yet read "The Sound and the Fury"

>>3805740
>>3805753
>>3805757

Hemingway is probably less exalted for more ad hominem reasons -just going by his Paris Review interview, he seemed like a real cunt. That notwithstanding, his style has also been imitated to pieces and seems like of passé at this point in time.

>>3424780
>This guy

I sincerely believed that was a young lesbian.

>>3387709
bumping with lits

where do you get your books online /lit/? i am trying #bookz without success for the books i am looking for

Should anyone give a shit about how someone looked at a sand dollar right away, from the get go?

>>2920977


From "True Grit" by Charles Portis:

>"No sir, I was not ready to work for her and I told her so. There is no generosity in women. They want everything coming in and nothing going out. They show no trust. Lord God, how they hate to pay you! They will get the work of two men out of you and I guess they would beat you with whips if they was able to. No sir, not me. Never. A man will not work for a woman, not unless he has clabber for brains."