/lit/ - Literature

Most of lit's threads are either about books you're supposed to like and read because they're sophisticated, or because you need to read them to be "well read", and traditionally both of these things are highly synonymous with books that are well written, so there is nothing wrong with urging people to read most books for this reason. If you find you do not like the books cited, then you either do not understand them well enough to like them, as is the case with more complex books, or you simply do not like the best that literature has to offer and would be more suited towards some other form of recreational entertainment in which you can truly excel, such as video-games or comic books. This is a board dedicated to the discussion of LITERATURE, for people to develop their appreciation of PLAY WITH LANGUAGE, not a little cubbyhole for you to waste everyone's time with trying to demystify your scrambled brain on why you got sensory stimulus from written text.

Pale Fire. A truly great book, I loved it because I love excellent wordplay and storytelling, both of which are characteristic of excellent literature. This is all the consummate reader needs to care about.