/lit/ - Literature

read it and find out

>>6607839

Yes. It's not quite like anything you'll read elsewhere. You'll get more out of it if you're well versed in Christian theology, but it works well in any case.

>Is C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy worth the read?
No.
Read Walden instead. In the chapter on reading, he will give you good book recommendations for when you finish.

>>6607959
So all you do is recommend Thoreau? You are a shit-tier meme poster.

So what's it even about? Can I get a basic premise?
All the back has to say is it's a "delicious book, full of wisdom and savor"

>>6607987
I realize it is intimidating to talk to someone who, in a sea of mindless blanks, is audacious enough to post with a name. Trust me, if you take my advice, your life will drastically improve. I am only trying to help you.

>>6608021
>tripfag AND avatarfag
>on a high horse and wants to help

/lit/ what happened to you.

Here is a passage from Walden directly addressing your post:

>I think that having learned our letters we should read the best that is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a-b-abs, and words of one syllable, in the fourth or fifth classes, sitting on the lowest and foremost form all our lives. Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading. There is a work in several volumes in our Circulating Library entitled "Little Reading," which I thought referred to a town of that name which I had not been to. There are those who, like cormorants and ostriches, can digest all sorts of this, even after the fullest dinner of meats and vegetables, for they suffer nothing to be wasted. If others are the machines to provide this provender, they are the machines to read it. They read the nine thousandth tale about Zebulon and Sophronia, and how they loved as none had ever loved before, and neither did the course of their true love run smooth — at any rate, how it did run and stumble, and get up again and go on! how some poor unfortunate got up on to a steeple, who had better never have gone up as far as the belfry; and then, having needlessly got him up there, the happy novelist rings the bell for all the world to come together and hear, O dear! how he did get down again! For my part, I think that they had better metamorphose all such aspiring heroes of universal noveldom into man weather-cocks, as they used to put heroes among the constellations, and let them swing round there till they are rusty, and not come down at all to bother honest men with their pranks. The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down. "The Skip of the Tip-Toe-Hop, a Romance of the Middle Ages, by the celebrated author of 'Tittle-Tol-Tan,' to appear in monthly parts; a great rush; don't all come together." All this they read with saucer eyes, and erect and primitive curiosity, and with unwearied gizzard, whose corrugations even yet need no sharpening, just as some little four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered edition of Cinderella — without any improvement, that I can see, in the pronunciation, or accent, or emphasis, or any more skill in extracting or inserting the moral. The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties. This sort of gingerbread is baked daily and more sedulously than pure wheat or rye-and-Indian in almost every oven, and finds a surer market.

>>6608021
Condescension detected

What about Walden do you find so universally life-changing?

>>6608044