/lit/ - Literature

>Austen - Average writer only remember because she's a woman who wrote some vaguely subversive books
>No mention of George Eliot

Why does George Eliot get so very little love on this board?

One of the top-rated comments says, "I'm so glad you said what you said about Twilight, it is so true and so fabulous that it got an entire generation reading and it really entertained us all."

I don't take issue with anyone simply for enjoying Twilight, but I hate how - and I hate to be such an elitist cultural snob - some people have the view that reading books without pictures in and of itself is somehow a brilliant thing to do. Sure Twilight got people reading, but reading what? It sure hasn't done much for the popularity of the Bronte sisters, even though one of her books was based largely on Wuther Heights (according to Meyer), or any other writer beyond the world of pop-fiction. Even stop signs get people to read. What matters is what are people reading. Reading Twilight and Twilight-esque literature is fine. Reading nothing but that type of thing (which it seems all the people who ran that channel do) is, it seems to me, foolish. It also seems to me to be a sign that a lot of the people who go around urging kids to read - soccer moms and the like - don't really read much themselves. A personal example of mine is my parents who have always insisted they don't have time to read, but they've always urged my younger sister to. Simply reading isn't somehow a sign of being cultured, intellectually bold, or anything like that. So many of the great things about literature - beautiful expression of emotion through poetry and the honest exploration of the unknown and unsettling - are lost with such an outlook.

I have nothing wrong with them as they are genres which promote an active imagination. I do, however, find flaw in people who are too close-minded or lazy to read anything else.

ITT: Good books with short chapters

pic-related: Babbitt, Main Street, Elmer Gantry, Arrowsmith

American Psycho scared you? Really. Fucking wow. Wow. Just fucking wow. Holy shit. Fucking wow. You're a fucking pussy. Wow. Just fucking wow. Holy shit.

Wow.

Go to /sci/, and ask what "ten" means.

Sinclair Lewis>Fitzgerald

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He thinks /lit/ has mods