/lit/ - Literature

The amount of books I'd rate as 10/10 I could count on my fingers.

Literature as a medium has so many critical points of failure that it's so easy to end up with a mediocre product at best and dreck at worst. For example anime only has to succeed in animation and have a "okay" plot to be considered enjoyable. Video games don't even need that, some of the most well regarded games have low fidelity graphics and sound design coupled with simplistic gameplay. However the sstars really have to align for truly great piece of literature to come into the world. It's not enough to have someone brilliant as the author, it has to be that magical mixture of the right place at the right time with the right words. I'm not knocking books as "lesser" or anything, I'm just trying to say it's really really fucking hard to find something to read that justifies the time investment. Once you've read through one or two fantasy novels, biographies about WW2 or about meaning of life you've read through them all.

The Count of Monte Cristo is the perfect example. Book itself is bland, just by having read similar works you're able to guess what's going to happen. The prose is lackluster also, although I can't blame Dumas for it. In short the book is a product of its time and painfully mediocre by modern standards. The same can't be said about the anime. It has vibrant colors, a decent plot, voice acting and it actually feels unique in a way no book can. One frame is worth a thousand words, just look at pic related.

I can hone my tastes in video games or anime, however the same cannot be said for literature. Only a handful of good books exist for each topic and preference works only with a wide selection of choices.

>>15948031

>pic related???

Here's a space anime version of the Count of Monte Cristo, although it didn't quite hold up when rewatching it having read the book and matured half a decade.

The Count of Monte Cristo is my favourite novel and I watched pic related because I thought I’d find it funny to see how it got messed with by Japanese influence, but despite the weird setting change and all the departures from the original story I enjoyed it, even noticed a few visual references that showed despite the adaptations changes, they had read the book