/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21596977]

This is my favorite book. Thoughts? What is your favorite book, /lit/bros?

[Anonymous No.21596983]

>>21596977
Depends on my mood. It is impossible for me to cut down my list of favorites to just one

[Anonymous No.21596986]

alexander poop's iliad

[Anonymous No.21596987]

>>21596983
how about three? off the top of your head?

[Anonymous No.21597049]

Here's mine.

[Anonymous No.21597065]

>>21596987
I struggle even with top 5. There are like 30 books that constantly rotate

[Anonymous No.21597099]

>>21596977
It peaks in the first chapter, I literally picked up the book last night just to read the first chapter. Then it's mostly just misery porn, which is great if it's your kind of thing but it's really not mine; I didn't have much interest in the subject matter either (maybe because i am british). Very well written though, the only thing I can say objectively holds it back is how ridiculously ignorant and senseless everyone Steinback wants you to dislike and disagree is. Felt like a soijack strawman meme with how dumb he made them seem. Makes you lose trust for the author and you get the impression he is trying to pull ideological wool over your eyes.

pic rel is probably my favourite

[Anonymous No.21597116]

>>21597049
kek
>>21597099
where's the joke?

[Anonymous No.21597122]

>>21597065
how about 10 best most recent reads?

[Anonymous No.21597129]

Honestly I have never felt so warm and cozy reading a book

[Anonymous No.21597131]

>>21597129
what's the joke?

[Anonymous No.21597142]

>>21597116
wdym

[Anonymous No.21597151]

>>21597142
>The Rapes of Wrath instead of The Grapes of Wrath
>Boner instead of Stoner
it's a meme thread

[Anonymous No.21597153]

>>21597116
>>21597131
>>21597142
oh my bad, for a moment there i actually thought this was a thread about books. Haha im such an idiot! Should have known this was too unlikely to believe.

[Anonymous No.21597162]

>>21597122
Now that I see it’s a meme thread I’ll pass. My feelings are exactly like >>21597153

[Anonymous No.21597241]

For me, it's:

[Anonymous No.21597367]

>>21597162
excuses

[Anonymous No.21597371]

>>21597153
it's about making a joke with your favorite books, autist.

[Anonymous No.21597606]

>>21597371
if changing 'Stoner' to 'Boner' is what constitutes a joke around here than perhaps you'd be better served stripping the covers of these books and hanging them on a thread around your neck as "bling". That's the relationship you people seem to have with literature: surface level, and as an element of fashion.

[Anonymous No.21597678]

>>21597606
Yeah. It’s very juvenile. Not only is the board a dung heap now but I feel like I’ve matured and have outgrown the board. But here’s one for you OP

>The History of Fart by Grombrich

[Anonymous No.21597703]

>>21597606
Lighten up, bitterfag.

[Anonymous No.21597731]

>>21597703
why should I lower my standards for your benefit?
how about you get better.

[Anonymous No.21597737]

>>21597731
Don't like the thread? Leave. No need to smear people's faces with your menstrual blood.

[Anonymous No.21597740]

>>21597737
The womanly one here is you, telling others to 'lighten up' and calling them 'bitter' for expecting some iota of quality in posts.That is the most womanly response possible in that scenario. You wanna sit here and talk about period blood, you're gurgling in the rancid copper flavor as we speak. Time to change the old plug before you get toxic shock.

[Anonymous No.21597741]

>>21597606
Don't take yourself too seriously, anon, it's not good.

[Anonymous No.21597746]

>>21597731
MFers on /lit/ touch one book and decide they will never laugh at another fart again.

[Anonymous No.21597750]

>>21597741
another womanly statement.
just be lax and don't bother improving, just be a slovenly indolent meat sack who makes minimal effort replies, constantly falls back on cliches and never says anything remotely interesting. otherwise you're "trying too hard" you're "taking yourself too seriously" and other such womanly, despicable accusations that no one with a pair of fully formed testes would ever say out loud with a straight face. I repeat: i will NOT be lowering my standards for the lowly masses. YOU can get better or face continued criticism.

[Anonymous No.21597776]

>>21597740
>no u
Deflecting is womanly. I called you a female first, now you're deflecting the message. Men have a sense of humor. Women don't. You clearly have a female brain since this thread makes you seethe (yet you're still here).

[Anonymous No.21597787]

>>21597750
People don't get paid to write anonymous effort posts. There is no reason to do anything here but shitpost for fun. Reminder: You are still in this thread that you claim to hate.

[Anonymous No.21597797]

>>21597750
also, I made two effort posts in other threads and no one replied, so much for the quality board. take the fun pill.

[Anonymous No.21598006]

>>21597787
>People don't get paid
why does everything have to be about money? what kind of base philistine are you? this board is supposedly meant to be of a higher caliber than the others.

[Anonymous No.21598009]

>>21597797
the fact that you're calling them 'effort posts' just betrays the fact you feel like you want a pat on the back commensurate with every extra character you typed on your smegma-locked keyboard. the process itself is meant to be the enjoyment. so much for the 'world of letters'...

[Anonymous No.21598026]

>>21597099
>Makes you lose trust for the author and you get the impression he is trying to pull ideological wool over your eyes.

>Steinbeck's contacts with leftist authors, journalists, and labor union figures may have influenced his writing. He joined the League of American Writers, a Communist organization, in 1935.

>Documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2012 indicate that Steinbeck offered his services to the Agency in 1952, while planning a European tour, and the Director of Central Intelligence, Walter Bedell Smith, was eager to take him up on the offer.[69] What work, if any, Steinbeck may have performed for the CIA during the Cold War is unknown.

You don't say...

[Anonymous No.21598033]

>>21598006
quality is ignored. shitposting gets more replies and interaction. you're replying, aren't you? if I wanted to be ignore I would just write a blog.
>>21598009
>online anime forum
>world of letters
you're delusional

[Anonymous No.21598038]

>>21598009
You are literally this soijak kek. Effort posts are valued anon but you cant expect people not to funpost on 4chan

[Anonymous No.21598060]

>>21596977
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.21598384]

>effort post
Might be the most pathetic term I've ever read on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.21598557]

This one.

[Anonymous No.21598561]

>>21598384
you haven't heard "based" yet?

[Anonymous No.21598562]

>>21598009
>so much for the 'world of letter'...

reading this in jpete's indignant voice

[Anonymous No.21598610]

>>21598561
based and lil b are good you cunt, the term was just corrupted as is inevitable.

[Anonymous No.21598619]

>>21598610
>anglo
>niglover
par for the course

[Anonymous No.21598790]

>>21598561
based is based

[Anonymous No.21598792]

>>21598790
based is cringe

[Anonymous No.21598798]

>>21598619
>chud
>seething about a stupid meme

stuff like this is why you will never get a hole in one or any hole in general

[Anonymous No.21598802]

>>21598798
>simping for the negroes this badly
reddit moment

[Anonymous No.21599126]

>>21597241
underrated, kek

[Anonymous No.21599238]

>>21596977
Ficciones, by Borges. I read it once every year, more or less

[Anonymous No.21599550]

>>21596977
>What is your favorite book
I don't have a favorite book.

[Anonymous No.21600674]

>>21596977
checked. I don't remember this particular edition...