/lit/ - Literature

I feel like I read it too late in life for it to have the emotional impact so many other people claim it had on them.

Wasn't bad by any means, but largely forgettable. For me, anyway.

>>10943108
Same here, I guess. I'm not sure if it was down to my age, really, but I had already developed a kind of cynicism that made it *very* hard for all the glorification of childhood/childish innocence in the story to resonate with me.

Love the art and some of the encounters, though.

>>10943089
I liked it as a child. While in school read Nightflight, Wind Sand Stars, and Southern Mail- the latter two are excellent.

Am indifferent about the book. Love Exupery though, like the other anon says he was a badass who wrote awesome shit; just a shame he was French and couldn't write it well.
The film that came out recently made me bawl like a baby. Better than Citizen Kane. 11/10 movie.

was always too edgy and retarded to enjoy something like that

>>10943108
>>10943132
>>10944621
This. It wasn't redpilled enough on women and non-whites

>>10943089
I didn't like it even as a child. And never understood why other kids liked it.

>>10943089
First book I read entirely in French, so that was cool. My teacher loves it but I could never get into it.

>>10943089
Beautiful ideas, good characters, average prose. It used to be my all-time favorite book, but I've read a lot since then and realized that it's only "pretty good." Still has a special place in my heart.

it's a timeless masterpiece in my opinion

>>10943089
First book I read entirely in French, so that was cool. My teacher loves it but I could never get into it.

If he is so little why is he a giant standing on an asteroid?

>>10945112
If you had read the book you'd know, moron

>>10944665
Same here, I guess. I'm not sure if it was down to my age, really, but I had already developed a kind of cynicism that made it *very* hard for all the glorification of childhood/childish innocence in the story to resonate with me.

Love the art and some of the encounters, though.

>>10945111
>First book I read entirely in French
Same here. What did you move on to?

>>10945117
wow really swaying me to read the book with your immense powers of having a stick up your ass.

>>10945131
Why should I care if you read it? I'm not invested

>>10945105
>an overabundance of white characters
>timeless

>>10945136
invested in deez nuts apparently

>>10943089
It's important.

I was surprised by how oversold the book was. I was expecting some kind of transcendental classic given its reputation, but it was just a children's picture book with some metaphors.

I even read a few analysis of the book to see if I missed anything, but there is really no depth to the book at all. Any complex analysis of the book derails into a biography of the author or analysis of french culture after the war.

I think this book is popular because it jerks off the middle and lower classes: "Look at how smart you are, understanding this snake metaphor!" "Money is for boring adults who hate themselves!"

>>10943089
Super Mario Galaxy in /lit/ form

>>10945828
Care to extrapolate?

>>10945126
That's honestly the only one I've finished so far. Everything else has been reading menus and shit.

Overrated but still decent

>>10946970
>"Money is for boring adults who hate themselves!"
t. missed the point entirely

The businessman's obsession over money has a sense of poetry to it, and the prince acknowledges that ownership is a beautiful thing. The end of the dialog doesn't assert that "money is bad," it asserts that "ownership should involve more than merely claiming something for oneself." In other words, the businessman should get up off his ass and do something with the money, instead of just counting it over and over.

I can't believe you've managed to misread a children's book this badly.