/lit/ - Literature

unconventionality shook its metaphorical fist at the heavens.

50 Shades of Grey is this century's Madame Bovary.

Fuck Cormac McCarthy for killing my favourite character in the sixth volume of The Road. And yeah, I know they'll revive him, but fuck him anyway.

I realize Finnegans Wake is the Piss Christ of literature.

I did something that would be uncharacteristic of the average poster on /lit/

>>3852132
Teen pregnancy has overtaken opium as the abstinence moral allusion of vampire tales.
It's sadly a case of art imitating life

Even though they aren't the same as the original, I enjoy reading translated works.

I think Naked Lunch is a cohesive and well-thought out book

Thomas Mann is my favorite author.

i only read books written after 1950 by women

>>3852153
>implying /lit/ knows other languages than English

/lit/ reads books and not wikipedia pages

worship edge god

>>3852143
You could say anything is characteristic of the average poster on /lit/

Infinite Jest is a good book

Shallow&Tame is the board's best tripfag

I have no strong opinion about George R.R. Martin either way.

>>3852125
Žižek's sincerity beguiles those who seek deeper meanings where there are none.

Jumpshot on ticktacks, you argent-faced charlatan!

Begone, back to the Cosmos of Anal Beads for Timothy and Cafe du Ponyhof.

煩い!

>>3852248
Was that meant to be funny?

>>3852329
have you been hear lately?

Have you guys heard of this Tao Lin guy? He's really good!

>>3852374
fuck. I see it, you don't have to post the corrction.

>>3852374
Yes. And the incessant Martin bashing is turning this board to shit. You almost sound like it should be automatically allowed.

>>3852382
and that one to.

>>3852386
I need to go to bed.

>>3852385
The people that really hate the bookd tend to default to one or two generic insults. They'll point to a weak bit of prose or use the HBO show to make people think it's 'for the masses.' Just ignore them, they're ill informed.

>>3852390
Yeah, I realize that. It's just annoying to see it every time I come here.

I've read a book

>>3852376
wake up, Tao Lin

Bizarro lit is the new modernism

ended with the greeks

That Of Mice & Men question I had?

I got an A+!!!

Thanks for the /hm/ link guys!

I read books.

Also, I'm not a marxist.

My "Books Read" shelves are massively overstuffed and my backlog bookshelf is small.

I pay for every one of the epubs that I have downloaded.

>>3852707
You lie!

So we can all agree that A Song of Ice and Fire is one of the best short stories ever written, right?

>>3852828
Not enough feasts.

>>3852871
Also, it could use some filler for the sake of pacing.
GRRM should have added some subplots of characters escaping only to be recaptured and had more wanderings in the wilderness.
Also, why was Daenerys so underexposed? I really think they should have expanded her sections in the books, and streamlined her character, she's too fleshed out and complex for my tastes.

>>3852877
What's this Hodor that was mentioned once?

>>3852883
He's not a one note side character at all. I especially like his long monologues as a greek chorus type, summarizing events and providing perspective.

I don't think it appropriate to upload photographs of my bookshelves.
Instead, I'd like to have an in-depth discussion about the cultural impact of J.K. Rowling.

>>3852161
lold

/lit/ pls be godfather to my first born

I wonder why those sober intellectual guys from /pol/ and those jolly pranksters from /b/ are ignoring us lately?

Ayn Rand, Stephenie Meyer and Dan Brown aren't mentioned enough

I hate shitposting and off-topic threads.

I hate how well agree Marxism is the way forward

I, personally, have never wondered whether I might be God.

/lit is at its best in the summer

>>3853395
pleb

I'm not going to post about farts the next time James Joyce is mentioned.

>>3852203
Not abstaining from posting on /lit/.

>>3853432
Personally I don't like James Joyce
He's both dead and Irish, and therefore we can disregard his works as having no cultural impact

That /pol/ thread was great fun

There's nothing better than theists and atheists using /lit to debate the existence or nonexistence of God.
It's so much better than discussing actual books or philosophy.

Tolstoy novels are like 90% filler all the time. Who gives a fuck about Russian farming methods? Get to the point you dumb Rusky.

>>3855838
He's not as bad a Homer though
My translation just had endless boring conversations about some made-up religion

>>3855811
But, they're so close to resolving it and figuring out who's right!

>>3852125
Alert Starfleet!

seems like the Borgs have acquired a new way to mask their horrid nature to the outer world.

Everyone at their posts.

>>3856822

I wish one of them would explain what they meant by "exist" and in what sense God exists or doesn't.