/lit/ - Literature

>>20140474
>My summaries fall short and sound hollow, even as I read them back.

>>18231056
The Book of Joshua

What's your favourite psalms /lit/?

For me its psalm 137 & psalm 30

Is Manly P. Hall a spook?

>>16802492
can you be my internet gf?

>>16549532
book-achio

:^)

>>14884835
If you wanna learn X, do X.

>>14763948
you should become a phartist

>>14717563
he was hungry

Best thread on lit rightnow. morning

>>14647994
i laughed

i wanna control my emotions

what's a book that reads like a movie?
books that reads like movies general

Remember guys take a water break, you shouldn't be posting with out taking a hydration break
2L of water a day is the bare minimum amount a person should drink

What makes a story scary for you? I'm writing a short story and I want it to be terrifying.

>tfw brain hurts and felt exhausted reading 2 pages of Kant's Critique of reason after months of on netflix and not reading

How do I get back into reading? My brain is mush from netflix, porn and 4chan

Bronze Age Mindset.

Redpioll me

How to write a wholesome short story?

You have two choices:

either be an author or chad

Finnish here. It's juvenile book but I'm a simple man, I liked it a lot. Read it twice.

>>12823163
>cultural relativism

>when I was younger
>"Lol the curtains were just red, who cares, why am I being told to find subjective conclusions and being judged as if they're objective?!"

>When I was older and smarter
>"The curtains were red for a very intelligent reason by the genius author, a reason which gives maximum insight in to human nature and the objectivity of aesthetics, not that I will dare ask why I should care about those or why everything is so obscurantist!"

>when I reached my final form

Literary Theory, as it is practised and as a whole is a set of intentionally vague, contradictory, and ever changing rules that create a logical system used by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex in order to monopolise the judgement of art, secure government funding, compete in the form of social posturing (by far the strongest reason), promote a large government, and guilt trip insecure members of the public in to paying for and proclaiming enjoyment of art.

>inb4 you say "I don't know art but I know what I like" in a non RP accent

I'm not even passing judgement on the "value" of this dominant version of "literary theory". I'm simply awaiting the butthurt that will inevitably commence just from pointing out that other forms can exist and not genuflecting towards the dominant form.

>>12559708
I re-read them when I'm learning a new language (english, italian and german). no bully

I ask because it’s such an important idea.