/lit/ - Literature

How is this a meta thread, and why were you on /a/?

Anime is for 9 year olds and tasteless faggots. Which one are you?

idk but we're almost at 1 million posts!!!!

>What happened?

The novelty wore off and people realized that "post a picture of the book you're reading" threads weren't fun

These threads.

This is what brought down /r9gay/.

>>998925
No way in hell you're getting that Get, Stag

I got the last one, I plan on getting the next one

>>998930

I think /r9k/ brought /r9k/ down.

and to think you told me to get out for suggesting the board needs more lit theory discussion

>>998928
Film connoisseur

they've given some okay recommendations in the past. And if you don't like that, tough luck

I hope we get a mod that bans genre fiction discussion. This is a Literature board, after all.

r9k was always flat out awful. It was never brought down.

mods? on lit?
won't solve hte problem of the short supply of content.

>>998920

Half of the threads are not about /lit/ but philosophy which starts shit fights because everyone sees the world differently

The problem with /lit/ is there's no steady supply of worthwhile new releases to speculate about like they do on /co/, /v/, and I assume /a/. So we inevitably end up talking about the same stuff.

if people really want content, get a reading group going or something and actually discuss some works.

>>998989

true

>>998994
Let's do this. And tea is mandatory at every meeting. How about Invitation to a Beheading or Camus' essay on Sisyphus to start?

The real problem is that everybody keeps calling each other hipsters. I know that's okay on /mu/, but we have less people. It's drags the atmosphere down.

>>998989
zine is semi-steady, and we get poetry threads all the time

However, it's hardly professional quality and most people just grow to hate it. A shame really

>>998976
True. If we were to get all of /lit/'s trolls banned, it would probably have EVEN LESS discussion. Ack

>>998989

I don't think the problem is that there aren't enough books to talk about; the problem is that there are _too many_ books to talk about. For any book that isn't particularly well known, there are probably only a couple of people here who've read it. This means that someone will post a thread about it and then no one responds because no one's read it. The only books that we can get a decent discussion going about are the ones that everyone's heard of, which is why it often seems like most people here only read fantasy books and the standard high school curriculum: everyone reads lots of other books, but those are the ones that significant numbers of people have in common.

>>998994
I'm_okay_with_this.jpg

>>998933

The life anbitions of a moron

>>999002
make a thread about it tomorrow. i has werk werk so won't be there

>>999015

Ah yes, that's a good point.

/vp/ is going to hit 1,000,000 posts before us.

>>998984
>Half of the threads are not about /lit/ but philosophy
implying literature is nothing but poorly written philosophy

>the problem is that there are _too many_ books to talk about
If you knew any theory you would understand that each book isn't a beautiful singular gem that must be pored over individually. We can generalise to a practical extent; whether it be under a formalist framework or under a myth seasonal framework, or whatever horseshit theory of literature you prescribe to

>>999054
why so edgy man. aren't you a buddhist or something

Does /lit/ even have a mod?

>>999095

I think mods only come here if someone reports someone.

basement dwleling neckbeard detected

>>998994
This is actually a really good idea.
It would have to be things that we could all get a hold of though.

>>998984
Philosophy is to /lit/ as
consoles are to /v/.

CAPTCHA IF YOU DONT LET ME POST I WILL CUT OFF YOUR DICK WITH A RUSTY BUTTER KNIFE.

>>998920
You seriously think an attention whoring tripfag mod who literally destroyed the entire board for his amusement is in any way a good thing for any board?

>>999195
Just checked over there.

yea, the place is getting nuked. He looked promising in the beginning...

i could mod lit
i'm a bit more mature than the average lit-goer

I think this site just takes one word from your entire thing and gives you a result on that.

Go write smoething. Anything. Now replace one word with God. You'll get Dan Brown. Go, seriously, try it.

>>999210
I support his.

captcha: nigger purifier

>>999210
if i were mod i would have given you some temp bans. but you've mellowed.

anyway, go clean your room.

>>999210
Mikael, stop being so immodest.
Seriously tho, here's the problem.
>>998920
> highest posts per minute
= most trolls.
Less posts, higher quality. I don't want the most popular board.

ah shit, my bad

SAGE AAWY

if I were mod this place would be Pretentious Hipster Palace and I'm the King

hmm?

The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

Seriously though, read it, its a good book. All those abstrcat art pieces that infuriate you? This books explains the intellectual fashions that lead to them. It's short too.

>We were like #4 or something

...Are you high? From the start /lit/ has been one of the slowest boards on the site.

*raising voice*THOUGH I DO THINK SOME OF /LIT/'S MEMBERS WOULD BE MORE THAN WILLING TO ACT AS MODERATORS.

Damnable "by invitation only" selection process.

This might work until someone eralzies you never flip pages or read the same book everyday, and then your kindle-in-a-book becomes even more wanted in a thief's eyes.

Kafka is Kafka.

>>999275
>implying any anon on the whole stupid site wouldn't jump at a chance to mod

I remember hearing that fact in a thread from the early days. believe it or not, we were going damn fast at one point.

something you shouldn't have taken seriously.

captcha: eludes last

Tranny detected.

>>999334

I've been here from day 1, and outside of the flood of /b/ trolls raiding the place for the first week or so it's been pretty damn slow. It did have its moment, but there's only so many times some people can argue about books.

>>999367
Do you remember that Mulan thread? Where we actually got the whole MAKE A MAN OUT OF YOU song out without any repeats or interruptions?

Fuck the spam, This is my line in the sand

>>999367

Then there was the /mu/ invasion a few weeks ago. I say give it time, it'll heat up slowly.

>>999389
oh?

Let's get down to business

and defeat the huns

>>999411
>get down
>get

Kind of, but not as bad as Literary criticism

>>998920
>>998933
>>998942
>>999391
Who is this guy? I think I remember him from "The Iron Giant" but I'm not sure, what's his name?

IT IS SO EASY TO ROPE CHINAMEN INTO THIS

>>999389

I was on a self-imposed 2 month hiatus. Just got back last week. Nothing's changed, man.

>>999433
christopher poole from the animated series

>>999411
>>999415
Did they send me daughters?

>>999444
thanks brah

>>999453
any time

>>999433
hes the junkyard owner