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I have decided to begin reading literature.

This book is my first.

What does /lit/ think of it?

>> No.4460504

First book? I am less and less surprised by the peasents.

>> No.4460508

>>4460504

IS IT GOOD?

>> No.4460514

>>4460508
Go read Lacanian books, or something.

>> No.4460523

>>4460508
it's shit, but it's not like you can tell

>> No.4460526

>>4460523
Quiet, peasant. You are not an expert on this.

>> No.4460532

>>4460514
>>4460523

:(

>> No.4460537

>>4460532
Hey, brother. Everyone is a beginner. Go read something about Jacques Lacan.

>> No.4460538

>>4460532
go read to kill a mockingbird or 1984 or something else for retards

>> No.4460544

>>4460538

>To Kill a Mockingbird
>Not fantastic

Save me.

>> No.4460553

>>4460538

op here

ive got 1984 and im planning on reading it next

>> No.4460555

>>4460553
k

>> No.4460577

>>4460466
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uvoXJHn0o

>> No.4460618

>>4460466
My general recommendation would be. Pick a topic you like. Find out which books have been written on the topic. For a change sometimes throw in books about topics you don't care about or dislike. If it is a good book it might get you interested in a new topic. Repeat till you die.

>> No.4460660

I would read Brave New World first.

That book will put you off literature.

>> No.4460665

>first book

How have you possibly never read a book before?

>> No.4460668
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4460668

>not starting with the /lit/ starter kit

A lot of work was put into this you know!

>> No.4460670

>>4460660
What's wrong with Brave New World?

>> No.4460673

>>4460668
>dat US-centrism

>> No.4460680

>>4460673
Well, over half the people that come here are American and it is an American site, so it's not surprising

>> No.4460681

>>4460680
are they?

are there any stats about /lit/ goers?

not 4chan goers, because /lit/ is like 5% of 4chan

>> No.4460835

I don't like the beets. The book glorifies a man who drunkenly meanders around the country leaving a trail of single mothers in his wake. I found nothing romantic or honorable or beautiful or profound in this book.

>> No.4460842

>>4460544
>liking my dad is cooler than your dad.jpeg
How old are you?

>> No.4460855

>>4460668
Starting people off with Do androids dream of electric sheep is idiotic and is just going to turn people off to PKD. Ubik is much more accessible and easy to start with.

>> No.4460966

>>4460665

I mean without being forced to by school.

>> No.4460981

>>4460835

wrap your johhny you fucken mug

>> No.4461026

>>4460835
Feminist detected.

There's nothing wrong with men being men.

Stop hating men.

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4461041

>>4461026
>taking this bait that hard
>thinking feminists don't fukkin' love the Beats

It's like you've never met an actual feminist

>> No.4461042

There were plenty of men who were better men than the beats

>> No.4461059

It's a great book, but the thing that irritates me about Kerouac fans is that they seem to think that they can continue living their degenerate lives then shit out The Great American Novel in two weeks like he apparently did.

When in fact he may have wrote the original in two weeks but it took him months or years to edit and refine it, change things around, etc. Kerouac was a hard worker and was pretty conservative after all, which is why I think he disliked that dropouts and Bukowski-types started jerking off over him

>> No.4461088

>>4461026
Didn't realize ignoring your responsibilities as a father was manly.

>> No.4461115

>>4460673
I don't think you're crying hard enough

>> No.4461166

>>4461041
Feminists hate the Beats, except the gay ones. Feminists find real men offensive. It's one of the reasons why the Beats are so out of fashion in academia.

>>4461088
>Man up and work a stupid job to support me so I can get fat and nag you to death and divorce you and take half your money!

Nice definition of manliness there.

Fact: Pumping and dumping and franchising are the only ways to be a real man. There was nothing wrong with what the Beats did.

>> No.4461185

>>4461166
>Feminists hate the Beats

You're spot on. I took a literature module in college on 20th century American lit, and all through the Kerouac seminar everybody (including fashionable males) shat on Kerouac and said it's sad that he let himself down by including no strong womyn in On The Road.

I brought up a bunch of Beat females (mostly poets) and they all looked at me as I'd denied the Holocaust (which I do)

>> No.4461214

>>4460466

Great book, one of the greatest, highly influential.

>> No.4461226

>>4461185

Why can't the strong womyn write their own fucking books if they're so strong?

>> No.4461247

>>4461166
I made a post about being a father and you responded with some nonsense about marriage. Good going.

>> No.4461259

>>4460466

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzcPYw1iZo4

>> No.4461262

>>4461259
that female protagonist is so fucking cute hngg

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4461277

>>4461226
You better watch your mouth meathead

>> No.4461279

>>4461277

woman on the interwebs detected

>> No.4461319

>>4461185
>they all looked at me as I'd denied the Holocaust (which I do)
top kek bro the holocaust happened and saying it didnt happen is not going to make it unhappen

>> No.4461329

>>4461319
I'm not doubting that a couple of million jews died, mostly from gunshot wounds and starvation/disease

The gas chambers are a myth, as are the objects made from jewish skin and sho on

>> No.4461331

>>4461329
yeah nobody cares but the holocaust happened u cant deny it

>> No.4463112

Wtf /lit/?
When did this board become such a shithole?

>> No.4463118
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4463118

Hey guise. I just reached a point in my life where I think I'm unintelligent and I want to join in literary conversations and feel better about myself So far I've bought

>1984
>A Clockwork Orange
>The Great Gatsby
>To Kill a Mockingbird

Which of these will make me smartest, quickest?

>> No.4463272

>>4461329
lel

>> No.4463289

>>4463118

I lol'd.

>> No.4463296

>>4461277
>we must be our own heroines
>bitching about dead people not writing about what you want
I'd probably be mad about how feminism turned out if it wasn't so amusing.

>> No.4463383

>>4463118

So should I just not read?

>> No.4463395

>>4463383

No, of course you should read, but start with stories you have a particular interest in. For example, when I was younger and hadn't read a book in a long ass time, I picked up Silence of the Lambs because I liked the movie (and Goodbye Horses). Don't read to 'make you smart'.

>> No.4463401

>>4463383
No, you should just not make empty minded threads. If you take that ethic to discussing reading before actually doing so, it is unlikely that you will do so. If there was no source material on the internet it would be fair to ask what you ask, but in this case there is a sticky on the top of the page which will clearly guide you in the right direction to starting your foray into literature.

Perhaps once you read the book you should make the thread to discuss it.

>> No.4463402

>>4463395

Thanks for the input.

I see what that dude was trying to say now.

>> No.4463877

definitely start reading the book. it's exciting and i loved it. if you hate it 50 pages in just stop reading. i find the reason most people hate it is because they dislike dean's morals.