/lit/ - Literature

>>16891458
Yes, I see your argument. Good insight on Nietzsche, thank you for bringing your highl evel thinking to the table.

>>16579029
Which is why we need this >>16579035

>>16558768
Cope

The elitism on here is tiring from time to time. This place never changes; it's always the same circlejerk. The same books, the same authors, the same everything.

What if I don't want to read about a guy whose hunted by a police with a stick up his ass because he stole a loaf of bread? What if I don't want to read about an obsessive whaler? What if I've already read them? What if I don't care whether or not what I read is the most philosophically advanced book in the history of ever? I'm a grown-up, so ultimately, it doesn't matter what people think about my choices in literature. I like escapism, and that's that.

Well, then you might ask why I made this post. It's simple: I like to vent and I also like to browse the boards to see what's what. How about some variety for a change?

If you like classical literary works, this isn't a knock on you, specifically. I like many of them too. Go ahead, make threads about them all you like. This is more meant for the people who think reading them, or having read them, makes them some kind of intellectual.

"What? You think physicists talk about videogames? No, no--peasant, they talk about Anna Karenina." *smuckle*

(That's a paraphrased retort in an actual conversation I've heard, and that's what some of you sound like. Think about that.)