/lit/ - Literature

>only remembered and appreciated by Christfags
Orwell liked Milton.
Hitchens and Dawkins both say that knowledge of the Bible should/could be taught for essential literary and cultural study, and Hitchens once mentioned Milton specifically amongst other artists.
I like Paradise Lost.
All atheists.

>>1625040
Not if we look at the implications of the word "insect" and compare them to the dominant male society.

y u mad

>>1409258
I also post in recommendation threads all the time and give book reviews and often offer a brief analysis of books or themes for people. Seriously, your hemorrhoids must be the size of golfballs at this point, calm down.

Other people had their examples, going to add mine because it's obvious: Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.
Also recognize that a lot of those premises are just hack stories to make money. It's easy to tap into people's misery and pessimism, because it also, usually, draws out their feelings of sympathy and empathy. It's a fact of drama that is nothing new.