/lit/ - Literature

watchmen ofc

>>7023283
The Book of the New Sun, tbh

the bible is shit. don't read it it's just lies made up by desert kikes to keep the sheep in line.

Childhoods End is pretty much EoE in book form

>>7023283
Nothing compares to how SHIT Evangelion is

Serial Experiments Lain is a genuinely great work despite being an animu.

Sage for not literature.

>>7023303

>>7023309
i like how whenever someone says evangelion is shit they fail to provide a reason as to why

>>7023309
>Lain is great
>despite being animu

>implying something being anime automatically means its bound for low quality
>trying to stunt for /lit/ plebs

This is how you identify posers

>>7023377
back to your containment board weeb manchild scum

>>>/a/

>>>reddit.com/r/anime

>>7023283
Evangelion was inspired by Space Runaway Ideon which was inspired by Forbidden Planet and Childhood's End.

So maybe Childhood's End.

>>7023316
>watch evangelion for the first time
>meh
>watch it again a year later
>blown the fuck away

>>7023316
It's basically pseudo-philosophical. It's an entertaining enough show but it doesn't actually contain any deeper meaning.

>>7023316
It was a joke.
I actually really liked Evangelion.
A lot of people complain about the biblical symbols and what not having no real meaning, but I think that actually worked in the shows favor. The evas are godly, beyond humanitys control and understanding. So the meaningless symbolism ultimately works. It makes them mysterious, as they should be.

>>7023377
Anime is a business first and foremost, which is why it's considered pleb. It's very difficult for a director to push anything risky because it could tank the whole studio if it fails. Thus it's rare to see works that push the boundaries of what animation is capable of, or deviate from the archetypes and patterns that sell.

Literature doesn't have that problem. It's incredibly cheap to print words, so if a book fails it's not like it'll tank the publisher. And even then there's still digital publishing, which is almost free.

Riddley Walker is objectively the best post apocalyptic novel ever written, and if you disagree you're a peon

>>7023422
This theead is about apocalyptic lit m8, not post

>>7023415
Anno wanted to tell his fanbase to go outside and become well adjusted so that they wouldn't turn into him. His failure still torments him to this day.

Gunbuster was prettier and Royal Space Force made its point better but EVA is still great stuff. Anno gets a bit too much shit sometimes, he's got a good eye for directing and is very self-aware and worldly which is a good and rare thing in anime right now.

>>7023415
It's not SEELE's philosophical ramblings about nothingness that make people consider it 'deep'.

>>7023436
>Anno wanted to tell his fanbase to go outside and become well adjusted so that they wouldn't turn into him. His failure still torments him to this day.
ayyy

Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
summer on 4chan

>>7023638
>Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose
>apocalyptic fiction
>one character mentions the Anti-Christ

>>7023283

>>7023647
Yeah, it's not really an apocalypse... but it is, in a way...