/lit/ - Literature

>>23175267
idk lol

>/lit/ humor threads now indistinguishable from ylyl threads on /b/
I thought better of you guys

>>21228823
for the aesthetic

>>20174064
This one always rips my sides into oblivion

>>15080362
which one of you faggots threatened karen

>>13714804

Is the abridged version adequate? If not, where can a penniless wretch like me buy the whole thing unabridged? I'd rather read it unabridged, but the only unabridged ones I can find look real untrustworthy. Is it worth scouring foreign book websites for decent unabridged volumes, or should I just buy it abridged?

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>>13489786
I never called Kubrick entry level, I called 2001 college, which it is. And although I classed Kubrick with Tarantino, Aronofsky, and Wes Anderson, I love all of those directors, as I've said. And I never said that Bergman, Tarkovsky, or Kurosawa are particularly deep, only that I've been watching them lately. It seems that you have reading comprehension problems; must be all those movies!
>>13489836
What don't you like about Kurosawa? I enjoy him more than the other two, presently.
>>13489841
Kubrick is overly apotheosized. If Kubrick is great, then Tarantino is too (and there's nothing wrong with that).
>>13489972
I don't listen to music, so I don't follow your analogy. Who?

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Oldfags: do you regret getting into reading? Do you feel that you have missed life opportunities (social, sexual, fiscal, spiritual, etc.) due to your interest in reading? What do you do for work? Are any of you married? Do you have children? What do an average weekday and an average weekend look like in your present life? What have you gotten out of reading, tangibly, outside of entertainment and maybe being slightly better spoken?

Any books out there that discuss the sociological elements involved in building and maintaining an effective public forum of ideas, extending from historical examples such as the Greek Agora or the Roman Forum or the Italian piazza all the way up to social media and imageboards, as well as the forces that lead to the decay of community and cogent conversation? Given that the janitor-gestapo do not permit us to discuss the decline of /lit/, I would like to read up directly on that which facilitates a good forum of serious discourse and also on the toxic effects of malignant immigration and slapdash moderation.

>>12799041
This is the only solution. Pretension is what makes /lit/ great. Dishonest conversation about literature is still conversation, and it encourages corrective effortposting. Lazy meming does nothing and encourages nothing and is a blight on this site. The meme trilogy is both a joke and a benchmark: for every poster we persuade to read even one of those books, and especially read all of those books, we have another person who is capable of reading beyond the level of a ten year old. Shelf threads and stack threads are tiresome but they nonetheless encourage reading, because being in the immediate presence of books makes it just that much more likely that you'll actually open them. Literature and language are /lit/'s heart and soul, but philosophy is its lifeblood. Even all of the LARPative Christcuckery keeps /lit/ in closer orbit to Beauty than the alternative, and even the proliferation of trite threads about the manifestos of banal murderers is a truer /lit/ticism than Londonfrog or Butterfly or niggerposting. Take /lit/ back: the pseud at least strives for sublimity rather than accepting wallowing in phenomenological filth.

Do you like to read books? What books? How many books do you have? What's the longest book? What genre of books do you like? Have you ever written a book?

Is there anything more pretentious than reading/owning books? You want to be in close proximity to the words of a smart person in the hope that by glancing over them with your eyes you will absorb some of the knowledge they express. I've only ever seen pseuds do this. If I ever see a book in the room of a potential lover, I am always quick to come up with an excuse and leave. A real intellectual takes inspiration from real things, like contruction work or insects. The smartest man I ever knew only referenced one text in his life, the use instructions for a Japanese hand dryer.

>>12482681

I don't browse any social media other than /lit/ and Goodreads. Books for this feel?

>>12190973
THIS MAN RIGHT HERE >>12191888 GOT TRIPLES

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