/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17159651]

The amount of books I'd rate as 10/10 I could count on my fingers.

Literature as a medium has so many critical points of failure that it's so easy to end up with a mediocre product at best and dreck at worst. For example anime only has to succeed in animation and have a "okay" plot to be considered enjoyable. Video games don't even need that, some of the most well regarded games have low fidelity graphics and sound design coupled with simplistic gameplay. However the sstars really have to align for truly great piece of literature to come into the world. It's not enough to have someone brilliant as the author, it has to be that magical mixture of the right place at the right time with the right words. I'm not knocking books as "lesser" or anything, I'm just trying to say it's really really fucking hard to find something to read that justifies the time investment. Once you've read through one or two fantasy novels, biographies about WW2 or about meaning of life you've read through them all.

The Count of Monte Cristo is the perfect example. Book itself is bland, just by having read similar works you're able to guess what's going to happen. The prose is lackluster also, although I can't blame Dumas for it. In short the book is a product of its time and painfully mediocre by modern standards. The same can't be said about the anime. It has vibrant colors, a decent plot, voice acting and it actually feels unique in a way no book can. One frame is worth a thousand words, just look at pic related.

I can hone my tastes in video games or anime, however the same cannot be said for literature. Only a handful of good books exist for each topic and preference works only with a wide selection of choices.

[Bret !!TofYfxGwckt No.17159730]

Hahaha cummies

[Anonymous No.17159815]

>>17159651
>Once you've read through one or two fantasy novels, biographies about WW2 or about meaning of life you've read through them all.
Imagine actually reading as little as OP has and actually believing this.

Name 3 similar books to Count of Montecristo please.

[Anonymous No.17159839]

>>17159651
>The Count of Monte Cristo is the perfect example. Book itself is bland, just by having read similar works you're able to guess what's going to happen. The prose is lackluster also, although I can't blame Dumas for it. In short the book is a product of its time and painfully mediocre by modern standards.
Let me guess you read it, if at all kek, in translation

[Anonymous No.17159859]

Your problem was not starting with the Greeks

[Anonymous No.17159871]

>>17159651
nice try
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[Anonymous No.17159879]

>>17159651
Gankutsuou was fantastic conceptually and visually, but the mechs were dumb, and the contrived, on-the-nose ending instead of the gay sex we all wanted and expected brought down its overall score.

[Anonymous No.17159936]

>>17159871
I thought the same thing as him, except not about anime.
>>17159815
Sinuhe
Got
Papillon

[Anonymous No.17159997]

>>17159871
Fell for a pasta, God damn me.
>>17159936
>Sinuhe
No idea. Synopsis seems vaguely similar.
>Got
Retarded.
>Papillon
Written 100 years later, with a bunch of ass insertions is nothing like Dantes' revenge or ascension.

[Anonymous No.17160047]

>>17159651
Only someone who doesn't understand art would say something like this

[Anonymous No.17160104]

>>17159651
>One frame is worth a thousand words, just look at pic related.
True, not even a thousand words could make my eyes bleed the way this frame does.

[Anonymous No.17160934]

>>17159879
The end made sense considering God was not mentioned and redemption was not a central theme as it was in the original work.

[Anonymous No.17160940]

>>17159651
monte christo is 19th century pulp though
read epic poetry