/lit/ - Literature

The vast majority of my reading used to happen on the Internet, in the form of posts and comments, and my brain was constantly being bombarded by poorly written drivel, created by STEMlord NPCs.
Recently, I bumped into Mark Twain's essay "The Awful German Language", and it reminded me of how high quality writing can be. I remembered how a well written text is entertaining in in of itself, regardless of it's content.
I've started reading again for the first time in a while, and now I don't use the internet as much as I used to. This is mostly because I now know that I can read higher quality, more entertaining and more informative things in books.
I know a lot of people post here but don't actually read, but you can pick up an easy text and just work your way up. Attention-retention is a skill you can develop, and while posting on the internet mostly just burns your time, books can enrich your life. If my zoomer brain, rotted by internet marketing and social media, can do it, so can yours.

>browsing at the bookstore
>pick up a book and read the blurb
>"hey this looks pretty interesti-"
>see that the author is female
>put it down and keep looking

>>14678421

>saying that he was not like other humans, followed a different Law.

Oh I'm definitely using this one

>managing an office of 50 employees
>get a new VP in charge of our region who decides he loves surveys
>have to do an initial one for the whole team to gauge employee satisfaction
>will do another in 6 months to see how things have improved
>responses are "completely anonymous"
>get the results back
>do okay, but get some scathing responses about my management from people I've had to discipline in the past
>we can see "anonymized" results from each employee
>hidden in the HTML are the employee's ID #
>systematically start writing up/firing the people who gave me bad responses
>for legitimate reasons, but things I would have let slide before
>promote and praise the ones who gave me good responses
>get much better results in the next wave of surveys
>get praised for my improvement
>get a nice bonus check as well

>in love
books for this feel?

>>12639084
Imagine being unable to accept the fact that your former colony destroyed your empire and relevance in the world.

>randomly googled zizek for a shitpost on /int/
>saw this
based

Most editions of books gives notes for the literary allusions and allegories though

Make way for the ultimate pseud

>Jesus wept. John 11:35

>>8973447
Camus

>>7842253

>>7784366
No u

Call me Ishmael.

>any major that isn't stem
>shit
pick 2 and only 2. A Liberal Arts degree is a joke and so are you for wasting money on a worthless piece of paper

>>6967672
>enjoy being a burden on society
Oh... But I do

>>6742136

>the "fuck 1600s English court translations of ancient world literature, in verse" meme is neither temporary nor ironic

Oh well. No enjoying passages like the following allowed:

>The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

>prof asks if you have Russian relatives because you speak too well for a non-native

>>6440430
Calm down, Pierre. It looks fine from the trailer. You've just put too much salt on your escargot.

>six hour reading with whiskey and cigarettes on stage

>>6415729
so elegant

>read 6 books this month

how many did you read?

>>5600394
Shut up faggot

What makes a good literary villain? What makes a bad one?

Who are your favourite villains?