/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16323507]

>"hey anon, do you read a lot of books?"
>me: "it depends, in the last couple of weeks i didn't really read"
>1 day later
>conversation about homer
>me: "i read iliad and odysses recently"
>"what? you said you didn't read anything"
>me: "wha- ah, i thought you just meant real books, yeah i read entertainment writings/fiction a lot"
>"they are also books...."
>me: "idk, maybe. i just don't think about them when i hear the word book"
Why do people do this, can we please make up a new word for non-books that larp as books? Reeeeeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.16323638]

>>16323507
a book is a book you fucking spastic

[Anonymous No.16323670]

>>16323638
Technically yes, they look the same. But would you say you are well-read when you finish multiple children's picture-books a week?

[Anonymous No.16323681]

>>16323670
You'd probably learn something as opposed to nothing

[Anonymous No.16323692]

>>16323507
Homeric works are poetry, not books

[Anonymous No.16323695]

>>16323670
nobody is going to start inventing new words to cater to your crippling need to be a pretentious, smug douchebag at all times.
it's "I read a book." or "I read a picture book." or "I read a romance novel"

[Anonymous No.16323720]

>>16323695
That’s the point of words, to accurately communicate information in the easiest way possible.
>>16323507
Simpliber, a portmanteau of the word “simplex”, simple, and “liber”, book.

[Anonymous No.16323722]

>>16323507
If it had a front and back cover with a bunch of pages bound in between then it was a book.

[Anonymous No.16323742]

>>16323670
'Well read' means having read canon type books, formative classics. Being knowledgeable in a specific literature, like
children literature and having read a ton of picture books, would make you well read in that literature. If that's all you've read, nobody would consider you well read in the general sense.

[Anonymous No.16323753]

>>16323692
each one is literally divided into 24 BOOKS dumbass

[Anonymous No.16323765]

>>16323507
You’re a pedantic faggot.

[Anonymous No.16323766]

>>16323742
You seem to be one of those who reads just to tell people you read.
Good news, no ones gives a shit.

[Anonymous No.16323801]

Is English not your first language?

[Anonymous No.16323815]

>>16323765
>t. YA reader

[Anonymous No.16323825]

>>16323507
Did you read it in codex or scroll form?

[Anonymous No.16323828]

>>16323766
You seem to be one of those retards who make wild assumptions based on nothing.
I was explaining what people understands by well read, you insecure faggot.

[Anonymous No.16323835]

>>16323507
Books are books.
Instead of "real books" you could have said "literature".

[Anonymous No.16323842]

>>16323815
t. unaware retard

[Anonymous No.16323846]

>>16323835
>Instead of "real books" you could have said "literature".
Then it would be in the same category as philosophy books (which are real books)

[Anonymous No.16323894]

>>16323846
>philosophy is real literature

[Anonymous No.16323906]

>>16323766
>gets BTFO and shown to be a pseud
>resorts to namecalling and making character assumptions
Every single time.

[Anonymous No.16323918]

>>16323507
1) OP made this up. It clearly never happened
2) OP thought a bunch of anons were going to come in here and clap for him.
3) OP is a sad human being.

[Anonymous No.16323924]

>>16323894
*do you have a problem? say that to my face*

[Anonymous No.16323938]

>>16323924
t. doesn't understand allegory

[Anonymous No.16323955]

>>16323938
This. The Stranger by Camus is a better philosophical text than Fagel

[Anonymous No.16323963]

>>16323955
Lol I wouldn't know because I haven't read either but I wanted to mock non-fiction autists

[Anonymous No.16323967]

>>16323918
>1) OP made this up. It clearly never happened
Doesn't change the message
>>16323918
>2) OP thought a bunch of anons were going to come in here and clap for him.
No
>>16323918
>3) OP is a sad human being.
Maybe, depends on your definition of sad

[Anonymous No.16323987]

>>16323967
The message is retarded and based on your arbitrary definition of literature
>>16323967
The message is retarded and based on your arbitrary definition of literature
>>16323967
The message is retarded and based on your arbitrary definition of literature

[Anonymous No.16324024]

Mods?

[Anonymous No.16324096]

literary literature vs books

[Anonymous No.16324540]

>>16323815

[Anonymous No.16324588]

>>16323507
This is what happens when you let /lit/ get to you. This is what it does do your brain, heart, and soul. Leave this place before it's too late bros.

[Anonymous No.16324678]

>>16323507
You are a retard

[Anonymous No.16324714]

>>16323507
It might be easier to come up with a name for OP to distinguish him from normal people.
Anyone have any ideas?

[Anonymous No.16324742]

>>16323507
Anon, the word your thinking of is “literature” because the term is typically associated with high quality; a “book” is a method for presenting large quantities of written and visual information in a portable form, it’s not a denoter of quality. Using “book” in the selective way you do doesn’t just make you seem pretentious, it makes you seem verbally retarded.

[Anonymous No.16324745]

>>16324714
faggot

[Anonymous No.16324746]

>>16323670
you thought she was talking about picture books?

[Anonymous No.16324750]

>>16324714
autist

[Anonymous No.16324754]

>>16324714
Homosexual

[Anonymous No.16324765]

>>16323507
>me: "it depends, in the last couple of weeks i didn't really read"
>me: "i read iliad and odysses recently"
>I didn't really read
>I read
How fucking retarded are you anon?

[Anonymous No.16324779]

>>16324714
some kinda retard

[Anonymous No.16324785]

>>16324754
>>16324750
>>16324745
>>16324678
>>16323842
>>16323638
To be fair, the launchpad for this discussion was already subterranean, OP is, in fact, a faggot. To be equally fair stop lowering yourselves to the level of OP, faggots.
>t. faggot here.