/lit/ - Literature

>>21479791
>But I'm young, so maybe it's always been like that?
No social media and the like have definitely made this shit infinitely worse. The facade of appearing intelligent has become far more important than actually having anything profound to say

why would you think otherwise?

look at the guy, look at the book. obviously it's teenage-girl-core dogshit. give your head a wobble mate.

>always like that
this 'booktube' and 'booktok' thing, thankfully, didn't exist five or so years ago.

>>21479791
Is he queerbaiting? He strikes me as gay but not really.

>>21479889
he has a gf i think

kys

>>21479791
ratface

>>21479791
>But I'm young, so maybe it's always been like that?
It's always been like that. Not necessarilly YA, but the majority of readers have always read pulp fiction/romance/thriller/mystery novels. YA is just taking those aforementioned genres and making the protagonists be high school or college aged.

>>21479791
Never heard of him.

>>21479791
Is he someone I should know about?

i have it on good authority that he took dakota warrens anal virginity

>>21479791
This guy used the term “girlbossing” to describe the pawnbroker in Crime and Punishment. He is, intellectually and physically, a sodomite.

>>21479889
Thought so myself. And as a card carrying queer myself you know the type.
>>21479972
That is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for exclusively non-homosexual tendencies.

>>21479791
this is what the literature department at a top British university can produce...shameful honestly

>>21480678
kek

>>21479791
Mmm cute

>>21480230
>It's always been like that.
No it hasn't. There has always been a decline as elitist hold on cultural institutions waned. However, the mass democratization onslought of social media has caused the biggest disruption since mass literacy (and this includes consideration of the slow and steady diminishment of universities, transforming into mass education mills instead of institutes of elite education, taken as a whole). Don't worry zoom zoom--if you read enough there's a chance you'll escape the pull of the above and get some perspective.

A majority of his content doesn't pertain to books of lasting artistic value, and thus I wouldn't classify him as having much to do with literature. I'm sure he is respected within the realm of pulp novels, though.

Also, his tier-list of the "classics" is definitely one of the dumbest videos I have seen. He considers The Book Thief greater than Moby Dick and Ulysses, and Harry Potter greater than Mrs. Dalloway and Slaughterhouse-Five. He also includes The Hunger Games as a classic, while having no mention of Homer or Tolstoy... I understand that there are different tastes in literature, but come on...

It's fairly clear he hasn't read much literature besides his college and high-school reading assignments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92QbQOK8VTI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzMT2PpaGlU

>>21481633
you'd think that having studied literature at one of the best universities in the world would mean something, but it doesn't unfortunately

>>21481633
First time I ever heard of this guy. Watching one of the tier lists you posted and the first three books that reached his "6 out of 5" tier he "invented" are Emma, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Bell Jar. He's definitely a homo.