/lit/ - Literature

it seems to me that half of you read the /lit/ 100 and the other half of you read nothing at all. no one on here appears to discuss literature at all. this might as well be called /lit/ - literature that none of us have read.

as someone who is incredibly well read in comparison to the average /lit/izen, as someone who has posted here since this board's inception and as someone who has read literally thousands of books, I'm going to use this thread to restore this board to its original purpose and actually talk about literature.

post a novel title here and I will rate it out of 10 to one decimal place pitchfork style and post a short review.

Hello /lit/, I'm getting pretty fed up of the current literary landscape being dominated by post-mfa graduates and their obsessions with identity politics. I know a lot of you feel the same way. I was thinking of starting a publishing press which published books we would be more into, more based on the aesthetics of literature and so on.

it could be organised online but would have physical copies printed of course. I was thinking if there was enough people interested we could all donate into a patreon or a gofundme and work to set it up (i.e. a website, printing costs).

I would, of course, need to get a group together, a group of misfits who have a passion for prose and a good eye for literary aesthetics. as we could do everything online geographical location is not an issue.

would people be interested in helping this idea become something? and I'm obviously not talking about something like the /lit/ quarterly, I mean publishing actual novels and marketing them properly.

No. I did walk for 2 hours, but I'm gay.

If you want the best representation of old /lit/, I recommend a text that was meme'd quite a lot during the days just after his board's conception. Mallory Gilphy's Headphone Cascade is probably one of the best books I've ever read, told from the point of view of a dog named Derrick who is capable of speaking in English, but sometimes gives into his less than sophisticated canine mannerisms, depicting his walk with his owner down a road close to their house that up until now they have never walked down for reasons unknowable to the dog. As the story goes on, the dog probes why his owner never wanted to go down this road, and where it leads. It's a story that explores loyalty, human cognition and the finitude of the human experience. Sadly you never see it posted around here anymore. Of course, in the end you realise neither entity is walking the other, for they are just as in the dark as to where it leads.