/lit/ - Literature

Wait a minute... This wasn't written by a dead white guy before 1960 at all! What are you trying to pull here?

>>866378

>>866378
/lit/ loves haruki makimakamura or whatever that fucker's name is.

doesn't mean they have good taste, but they like the most popular foreign authors

I gave it to my sister as a gift, and she said she liked it. We've both seen the anime and loved it.

I liked it
what are some other eventful books about traders, /lit/?

Judging by your trip, you will probably like this book about wolves.

>>866407
>eventful
>traders
DOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO

Is this the source of that random anime series that came out a few years ago. Well, I didn't get into the anime, but I read a couple of light novel series (Vampire Hunter D and Twelve Kingdoms). Both were well translated. Hell, Twelve Kingdoms had all of the diagrams and maps translated as well. Depends on the company. Tokyopop does good work.

>>866401
>>866407
That gives me a little reassurance, thanks

>>866404
Made me smile. Good show.

>>866368
I loved this novel very much, and volume two, and I cannot wait for the rest to be translated.

>>866435
Yep. This is the source. I've finally got into the anime and, surprisingly, it ended up being of the few animes I like so I wanted to check out the original work.

It's published by Yen Press and, well, I don't know a thing about them.

Yay anthros!

You make me sick.

>>866518

>>866495

WTF! Dude, you are on 4chan. That green haired girl on the 404 page is yottsuba and yen press is the company that translates the manga in the US.

>>866537
Well then that must be good!
Fuck I only go to /v/, /m/, and /lit/ so I don't have a damn clue about this.
I'll go order it. Thanks.

you have to tell me how spice and wolf is not anthro
you can't do it because it is

I read it. It's the same thing as the anime first half of the first season. It has some details that are different to the anime, but the plot and the descriptions and interactions between Holo and Lawrence are great addition to the plot. If you already liked Holo I am sure you will like her more now. Concerning translation issues I couldn't really say since I can't read the original work but it does contain some grammatical and spelling mistakes.

Yiff yiff.

wanna yiff?

I would totally yiff with Korbo.

>>866581

Sniffing your crotch right now.

>>866589
fucking korbo

Wait, what's the big deal with the cover?

Is it not ANIMU enough or something?

light novels are trash

utter trash

it's like a comic, minus the drawings

Goosebumps books have more artistic merit than a light novel

>>866615

>>866608
Yes, it is not ANIMU enough.

The only Japanese light novels I'd want in English are the Most Irresponsible Man in Space series, and it's never going to happen.

>>866615
>it's like a comic, minus the drawings
wait... what?

>>866627
I'm serious. It's just dialog and like a tiny bit of "I entered the room and it was cold."

The first light novel I read randomly switched from omniscient third to first person, and I knew it was trash.

>>866615
>All comics everywhere are worse then Goosebumps.
Oh jeez.

>>866615

Huh. Goosebumps? Really. That's the third time I've heard that used in a pejorative comparison today. Could it be that your opinions are fucking spoon-fed to you by a cohesive group of other shitty nerds? A "meme" perhaps, hmm...

anyway, you're dumb

linebreak

suck my cock

my cock

>>866608
That's the old cover. Yen Press changed it

>>866608
No because I just feel embarrassed carrying a book I'd suspect if I found on a shelf would be next to shitty romance or smut novels. I'd hate to have the anime cover of it as well.

>>866637
Oh, I had no idea what you meant, but that just sounds awful.
So they're kids' books but Japanese and that makes them mature?

>>866637
Yeah man just like full on Novels. I read "Twilight" and the narrator started masturbating over Edward so I totally had to drop the whole Novel genre.

>>866643
>>866643
well I guess you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover

It's okay. It's a very light read, but since it's called 'light novel' that's to be expected.

Here's the first page from a light novel, for those of you who don't fully comprehend how bad they are:

>"Damn it!"
>Seven-thirty in the morning. It was a fine day, and dim inside the house. The house was a double-room plus kitchen apartment facing south in a two-story townhouse, about a ten minute walk from the railway station. Rent was around 80,000 yen.
>"I give up! I just can't get this right!"
>A frustrated hand wiped the mist from the mirror. The run-down bathroom was foggy due to an early morning shower. So after wiping the mirror, it returned to being cloudy. It was pointless to take anger out on the mirror no matter how frustrated one was...
>"This stuff is nothing but a rip-off!"
>Make yourself gentle with floating bangs -- That slogan was seen in the latest men's fashion magazine. Takasu Ryūji's bangs were now "floating". As the article instructed, he pulled his bangs at length, blow-dried them until they stood up, and then gently rubbed them sideways with some hair gel. He specifically woke up a half-hour early in order to make his hair resemble that of the model's and have his wish granted.
>Nonetheless, "Maybe I was too naïve in trying to change myself just with my bangs."
>Ryūji dejectedly threw the trendy magazine, which had taken him a lot of courage to buy, into the garbage bin. Unfortunately, his poor aim meant it completely missed, opened itself up as it landed, and tilted all the trash out of the bin. The open page read "You can still make it in time for the start of school. Gentle or wild? Our journey towards modeling."
>Were it up to me, I'm not too sure if I would care about modeling. Still, I wanted to change.
>But I failed.
>Feeling defeated, Ryūji wet his hands with water and messed up his hair which he had spent so much time making up. He reverted to his usual randomly straight hair. He then knelt down to pick up the trash that was all over the ground.

Who would continue reading this shit?

>>866676

I'm mad at you for posting that tripe in my general direction.

>>866676

Wow, it's like shitty fanfic.

>>866676
At least it's easier to read than Alice in Wonderland.

>>866676

There is no such thing as translation. I fuck dogs. Words and structure correlate 1:1 across languages. I fuck dogs. Plus, men aren't supposed to care about fashion or they're gay. I fuck dogs. That excerpt is terrible. I fuck dogs.

>>866676
That's an unprofessionally translated one from Baka-Tsuki.

But they are pretty much all like that. Strawberry Panic's light novel is especially bad.

FLUTTER FLUTTER. FWOOO.

>>866691
ahahahahahahahaha this is never going to stop is it

>Here's the first page from a light novel,
>a light novel
>posts something completely unrelated
Way to make yourself look like a fool. You know, Twilight was a pretty shitty series so I might not want to check out Lord of the Rings.

>>866696

Did you mention something about dogs and fucking? I didn't get it the first time.

>>866691

maybe it's just hooble goble

>>866701
judging by the wikipedia article most of them are similar to this.

>>866709

Judging by you, you're a dumb fag

Gee, I'm glad this board is called Literature, and not just Books...

>>866722
since nobody's given me any evidence pointing to the contrary, I kind of have to go with what wikipedia tells me.

>>866727

Yeah, you go with Wikipedia. You, you do that. Go with, uh, them. Okay. See you.

light novels: because real novels are just too damn hard.

>>866731
If you want to argue the point, you could tell me why you think light novels are better than what this thread makes them out to be.

Quote from Strawberry Panic, professionally translated by Seven Seas.

>Flutter flutter...
All around them, cherry blossoms scattered to the ground. In the middle of a cherry-blossom-colored mist, a larger figure and a smaller figure stood close together atop a hill, surrounded by thick, old cherry trees. Standing atop the gently rolling hill of bright green, the two figures looked like they were floating in a thin, cherry-colored cloud.
"The time has finally come to say goodbye, hasn't it?"
"Oneesama, I...still..."
Fwooo. A gentle breeze blew. It scattered the cherry blossoms again.
Flutter flutter...

Wikipedia - Saving you 4 years of college education 2001.

>>866742

>Fwooo.

Fffffffffffffffffucking

MASTERPIECE

>>866742

Who the fuck is Seven Seas

>>866750
ONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

>>866742
This is what I meant by it being like a comic without pictures. It's got god damn sound effects.

>>866743
>Saving you 4 years of college education 2001.
wat

>>866753
Some manga company like Tokyopop and Viz. http://www.gomanga.com/

>>866644
I feel the need to defend Light Novels because some are decent. I wanted to quote Twelve Kingdoms, but I'm not at home with my books. It's written in pretty straight-forward language, but a lot of the storyline is focused on politics and social issues. So, readable to kids, but not kiddy subject matter.

>>866763

>I feel the need to defend Light Novels

Why?

Will your parents die if some losers on the Internets think what you like is shit?

>>866763

I feel the need to defend light novels because it's like watching a couple of unemployed tweakers hassling a retarded kid. You know they're human garbage and they're just doing it because they can get away with it, and it's gross.

>>866724

>Implying /book/ didn't already exist

this threads needs more HOBBLE GOBBLE

>>866784
In your analogy, the retard represents the light novel, and the tweakers represent us?
That is definitely not a flattering analogy.

the reason they're called "light novels" is because they're light reads. And they're light reads because they're written like shitty kids books.

>>866773
No. It's just a series that I enjoy greatly so I like to show it in a positive light. Don't you like to share the things you enjoy with others? Sure this place is riddled with summerfags, but there are some decent anon in here somewhere.

>>866791

>Don't you like to share the things you enjoy with others?

No. Fuck them. Why should I?

>>866795
Presumably because you are a human being who enjoys pleasantries and conversation about the things one enjoys.

>>866800
no, those have been here from the start.

>>866791
Wait, the summerfags are the ones posting YA and pulp genre fiction threads, right?

>>866795
>No. Fuck them. Why should I?
I don't know, but you seem to do it anyway quite a lot.

>>866797

I don't see what that has to do with me sharing what I like.

I can have conversation and pleasantries without doing so. Your theory sucks.

>>866789

It's not flattering to the light novels, but it's even less flattering to lazy dumbshit pseudo-lit-nerds who don't have the fucking SACK to take on actual lit crit and so resort to bagging on fucking light novels and expect us to laugh with them. No, fuck you, you are not a fucking wit, you're just more banal insufferable garbage and you have no ideas of your own. Get fucked.

>>866800
Why not, we know that the regulars only post Rand and Joyce threads.

>>866807

It's not healthy to get that angry, guy.

Also, I think you're taking /lit/ way too seriously.

>>866807
that was in no way a proportionate response to what I said.

The only summerfags are the ones posting spammy bullshit /b/ threads. I don't think anyone posting threads that actually talk about books, or even ask for recommendations, can accurately be classified as a summerfag.

>>866813

I'm not bored enough to direct a response to you exclusively. This is only nominally directed at you, it's mainly for the people reading this thread and not posting, the people with educations that stop at high school or community college, who want to be gadflies and commentators but have NOTHING to say EVER, and so must mouth "opinions" that are largely rotten but have no real danger of being disputed by anybody capable of holding their own. It's fundamentally chickenshit.

>>866826
fuck it, you know what? i'm down with this. stay mad, man.

>>866817
This is /lit/'s first summer existing as an imageboard, so who knows. But, from my years on /co/, my experience with summerfags is that they participate in conversation and act like assholes or idiots just to do it. And /co/ is pretty much the friendliest board there is. You really see a difference when summer rolls around.

>>866826

While I admire what you're doing here, I find it somewhat beyond the pale that you're getting this angry because some people on /lit/ don't like light novels.

>>866834
I feel like summer affects different boards differently - summer has different effects on /r9k/ than it does on /tg/ or /co/, you know what I mean?

>>866839

I don't give a shit about light novels. I just hate fucking pussy-ass busters.

>>866849

>I don't give a shit about light novels.

Then why mention them? Why not champion the cause of other books that /lit/ needlessly hates, like Frank Herbert's Dune?

>>866856
Wait, is this a joke that just flew massively over my head or something

>>866856
What, someone hates Dune? Time to get my rage on.

>>866859

No. You just said, if I'm following your posts correctly, that you feel the need to defend light novels.

Then in the next breath you say you don't care about light novels. Now, I know /lit/ is hilariously hypocritical - dismissing HP as fodder for people with room-temperature IQ, and then making HP shipping threads - but really...

>>866856

I don't like Dune. No, it's the fucking TONE of it. Like they're this fucking genius for pointing out that light novels aren't great, and that we'll finally laugh WITH them instead of AT them. It's like white trash hating niggers because that's the only thing they think is lower than them, or some kid laughing at Linkin Park while he listens to Fallout Boy. Plus there's the racist/Japhate overtones. Now, if it was about Dune FANS, I might feel differently.

lolnovels

>>867385

novel have been largely supplanted by video games as the choice entertainment medium for 18-25 males, but fuck being chained to "relevancy".

>>866637

>judging an entire genre based on one book

DOHOHOHO

>>867509
You laugh at me for being quick to pass judgment, but I'm laughing at you for gobbling up shit and asking for more.

>>867544

I'm laughing at you for having nig cock in your butt.