/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2747071]

>Go to Waterstones
>Everyone in the queue has 50 Shades of Grey

[Anonymous No.2747075]

If I die and have a personal heaven and there are bookstores there then everyone will always be buying the best books and waiting in line and they'd always be ready for great discussion.

It would be glorious. They would have their Pessoa, Grossman, Pancake, and Bernhard. All the people in line would always be ready to introduce you to a new and amazing author. oh book heaven, I wish you existed.

[Anonymous No.2747077]

Yeah, yeah. Last month, everyone had "Hunger Games"

The month before that everyone had Harry Potter or something.

Stop worrying about other people, and worry about yourself.

[Anonymous No.2747443]

>>2747077
I have to say, in all honesty, that those books, regardless of any misgivings I have about them--I can at least understand the interest they have generated. They at least have some modicum of dignity.
50 Shades of Grey, however...what the fuck. Absolute shit.

[Anonymous No.2747455]

>mouthbreathers buy it due to popularity
>only read it during commercial breaks
>takes months to slog through it
>think of themselves as cultured for having read a book

[Anonymous No.2747456]

>>2747443
If you think that's bad, try buying yaoi manga. I dare you. Just one. Bonus points if you can actually look the cashier in the eye.

[Anonymous No.2747458]

people are sheep

[Anonymous No.2747470]

>hurr durr porn is so bad men should never watch it ever hurr
>50 shades of grey comes out
>omg woman are entitled to their porn as well if men are hurr

[Anonymous No.2747492]

oh god OP please tell me you're joking or exaggerating

[Anonymous No.2747503]

>>2747077
do those books actually spark a more general interest in literature? i seem to know a lot of adults where the only books they've read in the past 15 years or so, are Harry Potter & Hunger Games. (that is, among fiction; they've read plenty of books by journalists, with their arms folded across the cover).

>>2747071
that's interesting; oftentimes Waterstones' selection is cited in nationalist shitposting threads as evidence that the U.K. is a more literary culture than the U.S.—perhaps true, but i dunno if that can be seen in comparing Waterstones to Barnes & Noble.

[Anonymous No.2747507]

>>2747470
>using 'hurr durr'

>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.2747519]

Why do you get so upset about this? Just write a masterpiece and do some fucking promotion.

Jesus Christ, the thing that is wrong with today's society is that those who has the ambition lack the ability and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.2747532]

I don't mind Hunger Games being a big success, I don't mind Twilight even or the Da Vinci code even despite their shitness. Yet the popularity of 50 shades of Grey pisses me off.

[Anonymous No.2747538]

>>2747519
>implying I haven't done that already

[Anonymous No.2747547]

>>2747519
Do you have brain damage?

[Anonymous No.2747549]

>Work in bookstore

>We sell out of these within minutes come the new boxes of stock for them

>See a kid flicking through it in the queue

>Parent not taking notice

Hopefully she was just glaring at the pages because she could. But she did look 11 at least.

[Anonymous No.2747618]

>>2747456
Better written porn then "50 shades" and at least openly it know to be porn, or just a weird love story

[Anonymous No.2747625]

I got rage quited on by a gay man "for my liberal agenda" when I fucked around and said "the fan base of fifty shades of grey is killing feminism" lol

I never seen such rage quitting over a retarded opinion in my life. He went a rant a rant that I horrible to judge these for not reading the book in full ect ect

[Anonymous No.2747624]

flavor of the month diamond dozen pop fiction. don't be a pre-madonna about it.

[Anonymous No.2747635]

>>2747625
Wat.

[Anonymous No.2747641]

>>2747625
Are you drunk?

[Anonymous No.2747642]

>>2747618
Eh. It depends. Mostly it's just really tedious teenage love stories. With maybe sex at the end.
One of my favorites is 50% sex and 50% kicking people in the face with guns. It's awesome.

[Anonymous No.2747646]

I was told that tumblr bloggers write better porn. Anyways, yeah, not touching that.

[Anonymous No.2747654]

>>2747503
>books by Journalists
Why are supposedly real stories so popular these days, anyway? It's perplexing how people will flaunt any given book or movie just because it is "based on a true story".

Why does anyone care about that? The moment an event is put down on paper it becomes fiction, no matter how good the investigation behind it was.

[Anonymous No.2747659]

>>2747625
Wish I was, no I just horribled typoed.
Wish the rage quitting story was me being drunk too, alas it's not

[Anonymous No.2747667]

>>2747659
Your superpower is incoherency, isn't it?

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2747674]

>Waterstones.

Not buying books at the superior Blackwells.

[Anonymous No.2747687]

>>2747674
>Blackwells
Not buying books at the superior local second-hand bookstores

[Anonymous No.2747698]

>>2747654
Are you this nigger? >>2747519
You have that signature directionless cynicism.

[Anonymous No.2747709]

>going to Waterstones
Do you enjoy overpaying?

[Anonymous No.2747714]

>>2747674
Waterstones varies greatly between shops I know of one which is brilliant and several which are crap around my area

[Anonymous No.2747720]

>>2747709
Do you enjoy not having enough money to throw at crisp, fresh, unread books?

[Anonymous No.2747721]

>>2747720
Yes because Waterstones is the sole distributor of books in the world, also
>implying the books in 'Stones don't get manhandled daily

[Anonymous No.2747735]

>>2747721
>Implying I don't have a team of Polish immigrants disinfecting and gently ironing the pages of my overpriced books before I read them.

[Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma !!RBaVX6t0twu No.2747862]

>>2747687

I would if I could find one in my town that isn't complete shit.

[Anonymous No.2749474]

>>2747720
I can get similar quality books for much less on amazon.