/lit/ - Literature

>there's a genre fiction general thread on the board designed for literature
*gasps* Excusez moi?

>>11205255
Nah, you're good

Is thinking philosophy is better than poetry the ultimate pleb filter?

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>>10938439

whenever you start doing something "seriously" it's important to understand the difference between genuinely wanting to educate yourself and wanting to appear well read.

Anybody can absentmindedly read through great books, check them off your erudition application, and then parade them around saying that you read them and how that is somehow an achievement. Genuine understanding is about depth, not volume: understanding the cultural context, reading about the author, the criticisms of the work, etc.

Great books are challenging to read, and even more so to understand, but they're so rewarding that it's justified tenfold. I'm not saying reading can't be fun, it's just that if you hop in expecting it to be easy, then you're going to be let down.

Read great books and don't trust normies' opinions about anything.

>tldr reading is srs bizness

>>10177158
>Of course I haven't read it. I read a little bit of the first one and I watched a short summary of the second one which is how I got here.

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>>10044718

Good secondary lit for Kierkegaard?

>>9888154