/lit/ - Literature

>get an e-reader
>pirate everything
>purchase nice physical copies of your 10/10 favorites
>drown in pussy

>>11705605
>got a lot on my plate right now since im a philosophy major

>>11694105
>being trapped by silly language games
>not transcending language and speaking in silence

>>10962490
A: We are robots.

>>10783709
>>10783760
I'm one with the universe. I can see everything now.

Yes, you're a brainlet. But you can train yourself to become better. Keep reading, even when the works you're tackling seem boring. And treat yourself every other book, have some scifi or pop lit to wash out the palette. Perseverance will pay off.

t. started with the Vonnegut as a teenager and the Greeks ten years ago

>>10711201
not that guy but im in the same boat.
>8 severians
wut. theres like 2. little severian and the narrator/protagonist.
ok you dont have to explain everything you just said but theres that part at the end of the 4th book where he just starts mentioning all these different severians but i thought he meant it in a metaphorical way.
>the first severian
>the claw of the conciliator
what are you going on about? are you saying the conciliator was a severian?
>what is the fourth book?
ok so you're saying its book of the new sun, the one severian has written. please tell me how this makes any kind of sense.

>>10315072
Maybe I'm the chubby cunt
Maybe you're a brainlet
Maybe I'm right and you're wrong
Who knows?

>>10286217
All your base are belong to us
All of us are belong to your base

>>10176109
What if the longest work of fiction... is reality itself?

>>9539709
Computers are the real fortune tellers after all. It's a sign that the human race is finally completely disposable.

>>9489257
>but I still always find dialogue to be the weakest part of almost everything I read.
Honestly, I don't get it. Am I the only one who genuinely loves dialogue in a book? Especially the dialogue in Dostoyevky's novels is so passionate, nuanced, cunning, and genuine that it feels like a real verbal conversation - and sadly, such conversations don't exist anymore.

Dialogue is the merit I measure authors on, because that's where an author has the opportunity to show his understanding and skill in summarizing the complexity of human nature. Unless the prose is highly eccentric and well executed like, for example, in Tristram Shandy, the story is nothing but a necessary evil for me.

>inb4 my plebeian ass should fuck off this board and come never again

>>9246714
>One word essay due in 2 microseconds
>Neurons haven't even fired in such a way as to even conceive of a word yet

>>8955392

It's another episode of "21st century pampered/sheltered student thinks they're smarter than the greatest minds in all of Human history"

>>8908370

HB: is there any discernible talent in here? there appears to be none! plz pm me if you find any, thx

>>8901948

>institutionalized power, racism, and how fascist regimes can take advantage of everyday class and race prejudice

These are good things. Why would I want kids reading books that put these things in a bad light?

>There are few kid's books so openly telling readers not to trust the competence or benign intentions of teachers, media, government, etc

Thank God.

>>8893337
>no wojaks
try to stop me

>>8842506

>all the arts and sciences have been choked and deluged by an unheard-of dilettantism
>unheard-of dilettantism

He predicted /lit/...

>>8828602

>Check Amazon
>1808 pages

Mein gott. Only £20-£30 though.

>>8823484

>torrent
>2016

For what purpose?

>>8764275

I only really had one childhood friend. I've never had many friends in general desu.

>>8764278

I don't do drink or drugs bro. Straight edge.

>>8764279

Why?