/lit/ - Literature

there's only a writer's club. but i'd be too scared to go if there was one anyway.

how come so many of you aren't aspies? serious question.

>>1405897
>how come so many of you aren't aspies? serious question.
because it's not 2007 anymore and 4chan is the facebook for cool kids

>>1405905
What? 2007 was when all the "cool" kids at my high school spammed the school's myspace message boards with 4chan shit

i'm only a senior in highschool

i'm in my school's book club

>>1405897
More than you might think.

>>1405889
The last semester was kind of lame, it basically came down to our president not scheduling the usual events we do, and instead spending time plugging his own readings and shoehorning in his own opinion of the speakers who came to campus (usually negative). But we have a new president in the spring, so it'll be better.

A meeting usually consists of discussing/planning events and then people will give informal reviews of books they read or do readings of their own work or work they enjoy. Generally, I'd give it a 7-8/10, last semester was a 5 though.

>>1405905
back this up or stop lying to yourself.

>>1405915
don't you feel scared to review books in your own opinion in case people think you're a freak?

this is me>>1405911:

in my book club, the librarian picks the books for us, or we choose to or three books and vote on them. the majority of the people in the club are girls or gay guys, so we read a few "girly" books that i didn't like (i'm the only straight guy there, though my best friend, who i go to the club with is gay. he's the normal gay guy, though, and not the "campy" type).

>>1405916
This is not the dark side of the internet it used to be. Nor the weaboo's nest. Many normal people browse in here according to their hobbies and academic interests. You freaks should find someplace else or head to /r9k/.

>>1405932
i'm not saying it's a secret club, i'm saying normalfags don't find 4chan unless they hear about /b/. which if they were normal then they wouldnt be interested in it.

no one comes here to the literature board unless they spend too much time on the internet in the first place.

>>1405944
This is not a 4chan only phenomenon. Many weaboos and true geeks (nerds) are being bullied in the only place secure for them over many years: the internet. The people and the world they were afraid of is leaking here through facebook and tumblur and what not. Internet, computers and technology are aimed to normalfags now.

>>1405961
That's because dorks deserve to be bullied so they quit acting like such dumbass little wimps.

>>1405961
i'm not really a nerd & most people would consider me a normalfag irl. my point which you ignored is that the only normalfags that actually find this place are the ones that spend too much time online so are pretty fucked up in some way or other.

>>1405964
Yeah, attractive and successful persons are taking over the internet, subjugating the weaboos and virgin nerds which reigned once into oblivion. Who knows, maybe dorks have created a new nest by now, one we dont know about.

>>1405974
if anyone knows about the new dork nest please tell me

this is not a joke, this is a serious request, i want to get in on that shit

>>1405967
We're talking about normality as a member of society, not as a member of jersey shore or the crack guetto. Most people spend many time online and are aware of 4chan as part of pop culture.

>>1405978
I know, a friend of mine told me he is as sick of the internet as he was sick of the world and society by the time he got into the internet and by the exact same reasons.

>>1405979
>many time online

english no is your first language maybe

>>1405978
if you honestly believe this place is filled with normalfags then you won't be happy anywhere.

i'm just surprised none of you are aspies. maybe you're all here for weaboo + outcast reasons.

>>1405982
You are correct, my first lenguage is spanish. Maybe i should have said: Spend too much time online, or something like that.

>>1405985
>i'm just surprised none of you are aspies

If only you knew.

>>1405981
i mean, i wouldn't go that far, but yeah, kinda

>>1405985
i don't believe it's filled with normalfags (although i tihnk there's a pretty good number + also it depends on your definition of normalfag)

it just kind of blows and i would love it if there was a better forum for talking about nerd shit

>>1405985
>no aspies

lolwut, /lit/ is the most autistic bord on 4ch. next to /sci/

>>1405979
>We're talking about normality as a member of society
ok then 4chan has been for normalfags since 2003 or whenever it was made. just because someone hears a /b/ meme on another site & knows it came from 4chan does not make the people on here individuals without emotional issues, an above average social life, interests that aren't 'nerdy' activities or without an interest in Japan. you will lack one of these traits to be here.

4chan was never TOTSE, faggots.
And remember, if you can't find it, they don't want you there.

i was in for a while.

we had to read stupid crap like before women had wings and secret life of bees so i gave up.

My university doesn't even have a literature club. i sad.

I was in my high school's book club for a whole 2 weeks.
I quit once I saw what I was actually supposed to read. I had a choice between Nicholas Sparks, some shit about popular girls in high school getting involved in shit that only highschool girls find interesting, and one book about some teenage baseball player that was thrown in there to make the males in the room(all three of us) feel slightly less homosexual then we would have reading Nicholas Sparks.

The other two guys were in there just to waste some time and get credit for something(I was too, for the most part), and teenage girls almost universally read shit. And this was a democratic process of book selection so it's not like I had any real choice here.
I figured if I was going to read books I might as well do it by myself and read something I actually enjoy.

Oh, and I had to actually go out and buy the fucking thing if I wanted to participate.
Screw that.

I'm actually on the committee of the book club at university. People e-mail suggestions to the president and a vote is taken at each meeting. The two books which get the highest votes are read next time, you choose one book and read it.

As you can imagine, it's mostly female, so a lot of 'female' books get suggested. This term, we read 'A Clockwork Orange', 'The Woman in White' and 'American Gods', but a lot of suggestions are of stuff by Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen etc.

>>1407275
Sounds hellish. Hope you're getting some pussy.

>>1407281
My experience from book club tells me that almost none of the girls in the room at any given moment are below 200 pounds.
Sure, you can get pussy there. But would you really want it?

There's the literature/'literary' club that goes to plays and whatnot. Then there's the book club which is just a lot of people who want to read and discover new books. I'm apart of the latter. The dude who runs the literature club had a tizzyshit about the book club existing because he said it wasn't 'necessary'. The 'literature' club has not read a book in over FOUR YEARS.

no tnx.

Also, meetings themselves are almost always sort of a mess. Mostly concerned with fund-raising and stuff. But the book club might be discontinued because the guy who started it is going to main campus next semester. Shit sucks, but none of the rest of the members are organized to get it going again.

Still in highschool.
Our Book Club is all fucking stupid teen lit.
90% of the books are about a drug-addicted, depressed, cutter girl with a single-parent who just moved to a new town and learns how to be a friend with a girl who has Asperger's, Parkinson's and half a thumb hanging off of her clit. Hoorah, meedly-dee, inspiration.

>>1407281

It's not bad at all, the only negative is when I had to read 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf for a literary workshop, absolute garbage, the worst book I've read in my life (inb4 2deep4u). It gives me an opportunity to make cakes and stuff as well, which I bring along to meetings.

>>1407289

The girls that show up are actually very pretty, there aren't any fatties in sight.

>>1407289
Fat chicks need cock too.

>>1407324
>make cakes
Hang on...
You're there for the cock, aren't you?

>>1407337
HEY NOW

There's nothing wrong with a perfectly heterosexual man enjoying baking. It's manly as hell, dammit! You are creating something out of nothing! Using only your bare hands, and fire! What could possibly be more manly than that?

Now that I think about it, my college doesn't have a literature club. I should do something about that.

>>1407337

>man who bakes
>must be a faggot

Come on, I expected better than this from /lit/. I'm not there to get my dick wet, it would be too weird in any case. The meetings are one of the few chances I get to make cakes and stuff, I'd do it every time but there are union rules about bringing food to meetings.

It's also good practise.

>>1407343
Wrestling a wild boar in the Florida wilderness, like I and my dad have done on the dirt road outside our neighbor's orange farm.

>>1407357
Oh, yeah, I bet you wrestled your dad's wild boar

>>1407362
Not like that, dumbass.

But my dad's hardcore, he saved a stray dog from getting eaten by a gator.

>>1407356
Actually, was implying you were penis-deficient.
Bake a mean Victoria sponge myself, but it's manly when I do it because I have a beard, and am therefore not homo.

I don't think my university has a literature club.

Come to think of it, why don't I start that?

>>1407390
Clean shaven is manlier.

Nothing says beta male peon like a beard.

>>1407401
Sure, sure.
Whatever reassures you that your balls aren't laughably tiny.

>>1407424
The smaller the balls, the bigger the dick.