/lit/ - Literature

>several inane frog threads regularly shitting up the board, nothing done about it/people still engage them constantly
>random tourist makes genuine question thread seeking recs about a particular topic
>anon makes a bunch of retarded non-answers instead of being a positive impact on someone's day or just contributing to the fucking board in any capacity
No wonder people think this board is dead

Assuming you don't want to just hear people tell you that shit sucks now OP, I guess you'd want to look into aesthetics. You could probably do worse than Scruton, and without straying directly into polisci and punditry maybe give Zizek a look

>>20646377

>OP asks me the clarify what i mean
>write clarification
>he doesn't reply

>>19099795
>pulling the epistemic nuclear option to refute hobbes

>>15980283
>>15979390
Jesus got the name “God’s Voice” because he just spoke and stuff started.

>When the ship's systems switched to their native signal, however, he was surprised. He looked at the display. It showed nothing but white. He looked again at the display, and couldn't believe what he was seeing. Black? Not even white? There was nothing. A bright light glowed inside the room above the ship. The light was not black, it was the color of the sky.

>"Oh shit," the crewman said. "I really didn't see it." He pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger in his own body. Everything went as it should.

>When the ship's AI switched back to its native signal, everything immediately went black.

>>10854949
Stop tormenting me with these Jezebels.

Why do people write like this?
>“How do you get to West Egg village?” he asked helplessly.
Shouldn't it be:
>He asked helplessly, “How do you get to West Egg village?”
I want to know how they are talking before I read what they say. Not after.

>>10294509

Write down a worry that you have, and someone else give you an author that deals with that worry. I'm worried that I do things that make people hate more, or feel uncomfortable with me.

>Movie poster becomes the cover
>Or main cover stays the same but a giant piece of shit is plastered onto the front saying "NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"

>>9840299
>KJV

>>9840098
>reading magazines in the internet age

Dude I don't even read news websites anymore

Bought my first book today.

What am i in for?

I came in hopeful.

Should I read "The Art of War"? Did you have any practical use of its contents?

>>7091303

>>7029230
>those spins

>>6907849
>rating everything five stars

>trying to concoct a blend of Bateman, Alex, Ignatius J. Reilly and Wolf Larsen

>>6222363

>read too much literature
>start seeing self as a main character
>being a bad person and having defects is a good thing because it means the person is an interesting character
>even sitting somewhere and smoking a cigarette is romantic and beautiful
>have hugged flowering trees trying to imitate the little boy in Swann's Way

I wish I was joking

>>6117736

hey /lit/ I need your help.
Have to write 500 words on this book called Things Fall Apart based on these related questions:

How much power did women have in Umuofia?
Could Chielo protect other women?
What protection did women have against brutal husbands?
Why did they believe that their military strength came from a one-legged old woman who lived when the village was first founded?

anyone read it?