/lit/ - Literature

>>4703391

>>4033414

It's an interesting question really. 4chan really lends itself to the idea of a literature board in some way and really fails in other departments. On the one hand, anonymity helps voice alternative opinions and absurd arguments and jokes. On the other, it hinders authors because of plagiarism and can deeply disturb debate.

/lit/ also is perfect because the board uses it's own topic to communicate, but then it also contradicts itself in 'discussing books and philosophy and shit and not actually reading'.

Really /lit/ is best seen as a little cloud full of ideas that may spark your own creativity.

Bump

What is the about anyway? A few chapters in and the plot jumps around between several characters. One is even a barley literate gansta

>>3523271
>Wait, are you that crazy guy who was shouting at me on the train for reading

>>3394221
>See qtπ girl reading Infinite Jest

Help! I'm addicted to pot! It's ruining my life!

I can't stop laughing.

I don't know if I can do it. It's not the size of the thing, I've taken in many a weighty tome, but something's just not clicking. Somewhere around page 87 right now and I don't feel like I'm reading it so much as enduring it.

Every now and then it comes alive for me, but I'm gonna admit sometimes I just haven't got any clue what the fuck he's talking about, especially with the whole alternate reality aspect regarding the book's world.

I think all of the digressions are turning me off too. By digressions I don't mean endnotes, but if the focus was a little tighter on the Incandenzas I might be less turned off. I understand all the tangents tie into the themes, but, I don't know... I'm bored with it. Should I keep going?

>pic related, she apparently feels the same way