/lit/ - Literature

>>19397243
>ready player one
do 56ers really?

>>9307693
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>>9311666
just categorize the handmaids tale as a sci-fi and move on. That's what it is because she provides no basis for the events that precipitate the setting of the novel besides "lmao the environment" and "lmao religion" as well as "lmao men are impotent but wont let others know". 1984 and BNW can be called dystopic because they are responses to immediate and specific global crisis. BNW is a reaction to the burgeoning consumer culture and 1984 is one to the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. At the time there was evidence to suggest that there were trends that might lead to these dystopias. Vague precedents such as "the environment made men infertile" and "the religious and luddite-ism suddenly gained more power and influence than corporations and capital" are the hallmark of sci-fi. As an example to qualify this, look at Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep. Essentially it has the same vague and irrelevant precedents to provoke its setting. Handmaids tale is just sci-fi not dystopia, and as the years have progressed it has only gotten more irrelevant. The only reason it is talked about is because it is so easy to teach and is presented in the humanities to cater to the demands for equal representation of a women's poetics which is actually the one thing that it does with any sort of merit.

>>8575229
>newfriend detected
If you hang around for a few more months you'll see the threads where some industrious misguided turd decides to make a strawpoll or google doc vote to figure out """"""""""/lit/'s top 100"""""""""". Usually happens at around new years, then it gets posted to reddit and the top post on /lit/ for new next few days is people being disgusted with reddits opinion.

>>7214696
Damn this feels like something off of existentialcomics.com Source?

So you'll only respect that which serves your standards. That's not respect, that's you being a bitch. You're not the owner of the thread just for starting it, OP.

Here is an unrelated picture because fuck you Mr "respect for those who respect me!!!1!". Grow the fuck up and go learn what respect means.