/lit/ - Literature

>>3794779
This book is just fucking magical.
Look it had Slenderman before Slenderman was cool.

So....so what's your favorite book, /lit/?

>>1462315

This guy got me thinking the most. He was by far the demon that disturbed me the most.

He introduced me to the concept of subtle, banal evil, far more horrible than anything with big fangs and claws. You knew where you stood with gaping maws and serrated teeth.

When I was 8, Norton Juster introduced my to Nyarlathotep.

>enjoying a book, really in the world of the book, totally feeling what the author is saying
>get to a paragraph with several unnecessary, "telling rather than showing" adjectives
>have to spend the next seven pages analysing the quality of the prose instead of the story or themes

>>1216951
I'm pretty sure there are two proponents and detractors at this point. I'm not, and I'm not saying that Wallace is better than Pynchon, Gaddis et al. I think he's addressing the human experience differently than they are. It's an apples and oranges scenario, I think we could leave the guys to people on a matter of preference ("If you're more pissed off you might appreciate Gaddis' vitriol more than Wallace's feel-good agenda") although there are ways to quantify one over the other if you really wanted to go into that. I don't really. To be honest I'm mostly trying to think of ways to promote Wallace to /lit/ unfamiliar with him as an alternative to all the critique of him that seems to crop up in his threads. Pandering to empathize with him might have been a bit knee-jerk- I probably went there because he's a bit more candid than authors generally are.

Bump because slow.

>>653633
Then it sure is a good thing I said I like them, isn't it? Also; you should explain to me why love for Hemingway is a prerequisite for bibliophilia.