/lit/ - Literature

If most of what you like is free verse and modernist/postmodernist, you have become dangerously stuck in "dumbass 19 year old phase" and must learn Latin to escape

>>4605976
Did you know that most of new Latin students are there to look cool with Latin?

Carpe diem man

Books are usually written in different languages, most people don't know this because translators deceive you

>>4605980
carpsi matrem tuam

>>4605976
Oh no, learn French.

>>4605974
All books have a definite number of pages.

Books can be used for reading.

There are books that have hard covers.

>>4606011
wow!!

Books are written by humans.

100 % of Mein Kampf copies are actually books.

During the Midwest drought of the 1930s in the United States, commonly known as the "Dust Bowl," people would sometimes pass the time by reading books.

The book "The big sleep" was written by
Raymond Chandler!

>>4606021
During the Great Book Drought of the 1920s, people had no choice but to pass the time making idle conversation.

For a book to be read, it first needs to be written.

Books are using made paper.

"The Lord of the Rings" besides the movie title, is actually a book. It existed as a book even before the movies.

A lot of writers are dead right now.

A lot of books have been destroyed by people themselves, during the ages.

Guys this is fascinating.

>>4605974

You won't be a liked and respected writer on /lit/ unless you're dead.

>>4606069
There is no notifications of Thomas Pynchon not being alive, and he writes.

>>4606073
Thomas who?

Books are often judged by their cover

Books can be any size

/lit/ is actually dedicated to talking about books, not reading them

Shakespeare invented over 80% of the words we use today

>>4606081
!!

Some books feature not just words,but also printed images!

>>4606083

The rest all come from Latin and German words.

>>4605983

damn son, if that made sense in Latin, it might have fondled my jimmies

>>4605974

Some books are to be tasted

>>4606109

others to be swallowed

>>4606110

and some few to be chewed and digested.

significant time can pass while reading books. this is especially true if the book has many pages and/or is difficult to read

>>4606110

C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

>>4606113

o fuck me

The word "book" comes from the English "book", meaning book.

>>4605974
Books are made using ideas

The Barnes & Noble Nook comes from the word "book" because it rhymes.
The Kobo eReader comes from the word "book" because it's an anagram.
The Amazon Kindle comes from the fact that people used to use books to build fires.

books are fun

A group of two or more books is called a booktet.

>>4605974

Books are read from front to cover, including the pages in the middle.

>>4606133
Except japanese literature without translation in the western vision of front and cover. Japanese literature is not made of books

A bookmaker is someone who takes bets.

Robert Frost was not probably involved in Great Syrup Flood of Boston in 1916 that killed over sixty people.

>>4606136

It is a fact that there are no such things as books in Japan

The first ever book was made in 1245 but was destroyed and book was only reinvented after the discovery of gravity.

In his 1977 Book "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller", Italo Calvino reveals to you that the Original Poster's picture has a toad with bowling balls as its eyes.

>>4606142

A bookkeeper is someone who keeps your books safe. A librarian places your bets. Know the difference.

>>4606146

The first book made after the discovery of gravity by Leibniz was called the "incunabulum" because "incunabulum" means "gravity" in German.

Writers are in general cunts

if you place all the Mr. Men books together, it reveals a hidden message on the spines.

A book is a tv series without images

>>4606163
I hope you mean "Writers are, in general, cunts".

I hear that the books have text, I dunno if its true but is a cool fact.

>>4606226
a lot of books have text, but only few have a meaning. - paolo coelho

>>4606255
Paulo Coehlo most of the times just looks like a poor man's Alejandro Jodorowsky

Words may be re-used multiple times in the writing of a book.

>>4605974
100% of books are written by writers. Is yours?

>>4606163
Yeah because they feel good

>>4606120

this thread is too postmodern for me

>>4606336
Postmodernist books are postmodernist books

>>4606167
Fuck you, now I have to go and see if this is true or not.

Books are sluts. You can & will catch a venereal disease from them.

>>4606047

my life is a lie

you will eventually die, to ignore this fact you engage in conversations with people about trivial facts "books are usually rectangular" "the president is out of the country' "they say this movie is very emotive"
this is what you will never hear "you are forced into this life, without any given explanation, you will be forced to leave it too, nothing you do will change this, blow up a building for no reason, by killing you are only realizing their fate"

Books are four letter words

Each paper in a book is called a "page". This comes from the computing term "web page".

Did you know?

The Bible was not invented until the invention of the hand cannon in medieval times to defend Crusaders from bullets.

The paperback was not invented until the 19th century, following the invention of coat pockets.

If you booked a book to take a look, you could cook a hook and bookity book.

>>4606163
Who is this 'General Cunts'?

>>4606118
Unless you're Tao Lin.

>>4606599
And why are writers so determined to be inside him?

There are thousands of books but less than thirty letters.

>>4606626
>less than thirty letters
'Fewer' than thirty letters. Also, Unicode would like a word. inb4 Library of Babel

>>4606603
rekt
nice one

>>4606204
I hope you mean, "Writers are cunts in general."

>>4606635
>'Fewer'

If anything, Unicode proves that "letters" is an uncountable noun.

Is is a synonym of the word is.
Books are not made out of paper.
Most, if not all books are books.

Cookery books are actually less nutritional than other types of books.

If you get a book and it says it's Modernest, it's lying because there's something even moreso.

I get that a lot of this thread is just you guys jerking each other off, but I actually heard something cool recently

apparently when authors have big giveaways of signed copies of their books, they don't sign each book individually. instead, the publisher sends the author just the first page of the books to be signed and then they include it with the rest.