/lit/ - Literature

>>9499749

>>6380265
>>6380269
He's right. Not a man in history has tried beer for the first time and went "Mmm, this tastes good.".

You force yourself to drink it and eventually you find it tolerable. It's an acquired taste and essentially social indoctrination to either fit in or act somehow superior. There's the whole idiotic culture of "blackout drunk erry night xDDD" and the higher brow morons going wine tasting and sipping whiskey, as if its some measure of culture.

You may well enjoy the sensation of being drunk, but you're full of shit if you think it tastes good (ignoring shit like alchopops which are specifically designed to mask the shitty flavours).

>>4748849
Indeed mein freund! I think Man and His Symbols, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and The Golden Bough make a wonderful and most commendable triad regarding the issues related with religion from a psychological and sociological point of view, they should probably be added to /lit/'s sticky thread.

>>4582921
>I have pretty much no childhood memories outside the fucking playstation and school.
My only childhood memories are of vidya, and I think it's not too bad

The alternative would probably be more vivid and abundant memories of my parent's failing relationship and their growing hatred toward one another, so I'll take vidya thank you.

My real problem lies not with what I remember my childhood as, but the almost complete lack of bro/sis presence. I have a brother and sister, and while we played vidya together sometimes, I don't know what they did and I'm too ashamed to talk to them about it. I wonder how they drowned it out, because it can't be how I did

I read Book Thief a year ago, shortly after I read Ender's Game. I enjoyed both thoroughly. While the intended audience may be children/ young adult, the implicit meaning of the books are understood and appreciated by those who can appreciate a well written book.

Don't think so narrow-minded. Read what you want, and gain what you seek from books. There is no benchmark.

>>3879952
i can confirm the veracity of this statement. i had shit handwriting in school, must have been awful for my teachers. well i quit handwriting after school and just recently dug some old notebooks out of storage and was appalled at what i saw. i thought 'i know i can do better than THAT'. so i did pretty much what anon said, just made a conscious, concerted effort and improved. i quite like writing now, its relaxing.

I'm unemployed. I haven't done any writing since I left school but now I have the time to I may as well, can we have a novel brainstorming thread?

>>3557002
There is none. Some people really like it because they read it in their teens, that is all. Why did you even start this thread? Were you interested in circle-jerking about how much it sucks or did you want to troll /lit/ by praising it for its 'whatever'? In any case, /tv/ is that-a-way --->

Нек' у срећној буде будућности, макар у музеју, знак мрачне прошлости. И нек' се у време те свеопште среће, негде сачува неки траг несреће. Нека несрећа стоји као успомена на та лепа, али и прошла времена.

-Matija Bećković

>>3048157
7/10
Quite interdasting.

Recently I got a job helping students at my school whose first language is not English. however, I feel guilty/bad because I'm not actually able to help them to a great degree. I can write perfectly fine, but only when I try to explain to the students WHY something is the way it is do I realize I don't actually know. I can tell when a sentence has been written incorrectly but I can't articulate why.

are there any good ways I should go about fixing this? are there some recommended grammar books that would be good for me? (preferably with interactive tests/questions).

So I've read "The Stranger", "The Plague", and "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Camus. Should I bother with any of the other books, or just move on to someone else?

If I should move on, should I go to Sartre or someone else in the same vein?

Or should I just read Ayn Rand over and over again and rape people?