/lit/ - Literature

>>12614375
to read is not to study
I wouldn't care too much
then of course sometimes you realize you missed something and it's too late already because people are laughing at you
I still wouldn't care, that's life

>>12614645
So shut up and read?

>>12614375
>brainlet can't do both at once

>>12614375
Is that harry potter fanfic written by an AI? Amazing that a robot can write better than the author of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

just read with a highlighter/pen and mark things you like. that's doing both at the same time.

>>12614836
But what if there is no philosophy and i'm just injecting my own meaning into the book?

>>12614894
Welcome to the world of literary criticism, friend. A good book won't prescribe a philosophy to you but instead allows your own ideas, concepts and speculations to flesh out the text. The whole idea of looking for a "hidden philosophy" is a faulty, shallow and poor way of reading. A book should be a way of investing or simulating your own thoughts, not telling you how to think.