/lit/ - Literature

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>>12915892
>>12915870
>tfw not reddit at all

>>12915898
What if I was a redditer all along?

reddit is based and the people on the specialized subreddits are smarter than 99% of the people on this board.

>>12915892
/Thread

>>12915870
Is it IRONIC that I obsessively read and reread this book, as in literally I'd read it every night before bedtime and then when I finished it I'd go back to the start again the next night, over and over for more than a year when I was about 12/ 13 years old?

>>12917581
It would only be ironic if you weren't autistic as shit yourself. In your case, your preoccupation with the book was what is known as "coincidence".

Is it worth reading or is it just some YA crap?

curious and incident together as words is quite the reddit combo

>>12917656
It's pretty crap brah. The """mystery""" is solved roughly like 2/5s into the book and the remainder of the text consists of the protagonist bitching at his cuckold dad like a barely functional, ungrateful autist and aimlessly wandering around Britbongistan in search of his whore mother.

>>12917656
Serious question, have you enjoyed any book from the last ~15 years that was a best seller?

>>12917749
Mostly no, but I haven’t read that many. Atonement was fine though.

>>12917825
And Never Let Me Go.

>>12917729

fun fact: The author obviously intended for this book to be about autism, with the protagonist being autistic and written in an autistic style, but too many autistic people claimed that this book had nothing to do with their own autistic experiences. Mark Haddon backtracked and said the book isn't about autism it's just about someone who's "an outsider" or something.

>>12917848
>Mark Haddon backtracked and said the book isn't about autism it's just about someone who's "an outsider" or something.
Jesus christ, what a buffoon. Yee okay, an outsider who can't read maps and retardedly attacks people for even slightly touching him. I'm glad this wasn't published recently, Haddon would have employed fucking fidget spinners as a major plot point and motif.

>>12917848
I'm autistic and I don't know why other autistic people do that when they see autistic characters. Spergs are almost as different in personality and experience as normal people. Must be the autism

>>12915870
Weird and smart
- the boston globe

>>12917878
"I couldn't put it down!" -Stephanie Meyer

>>12917640
>The current cultural conception of what X word means is different than the outdated dictionary definition, look at how smart I am mom
Yikes dude, yikes!