/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6791271]

>>itt: books you would burn every copy of if you could

[Anonymous No.6791299]

>>6791271

[Anonymous No.6791305]

>>6791271
i'm not a nazi, i wouldn't burn any books.

[Anonymous No.6791316]

>>6791305
This.

All books are precious whether I agree with the contents or not.

Each represents perhaps hundreds of man-hours of work, and could be said to contain a little part of whoever so penned it, preserved for posterity as long as it may be read.

I would even go so far as to say, that I would rather destroy a man for having written a book, than I would a book for having been written by him.

[Anonymous No.6791324]

>>6791316
No seriously fuck the illustrated classics editions

[Anonymous No.6791325]

>>6791271

There is not a single book that I think should be burned.

censors pls go

[Anonymous No.6791333]

>>6791325

[Anonymous No.6791334]

[Anonymous No.6791392]

>>6791334
Didn't yousee book of eli

[Anonymous No.6792044]

>>6791392
I still don't get how he beat all those people despite being blind.

Besides the power of Jesus I mean

It kinda knocked my suspension of disbelief askew.

[Anonymous No.6792047]

>>6791271

Probably the most destructive piece of literature in the whole of history. It literally ruined storytelling for the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.6792050]

>>6791333
>it was a pleasure to shitpost

[Anonymous No.6792059]

>>6791324
Why? I enjoyed them a lot as a kid.

[Anonymous No.6792066]

My diary, tbh

[Anonymous No.6792118]

>>6791324
Those are one of the best resources for introducing children to literature.

[Anonymous No.6792131]

>>6792047
Nobody reply to this troll post, let's end it here

[Anonymous No.6792136]

Any abridged or censored piece of literature, which is most literature.

[Anonymous No.6792148]

>>6792131
Not the poster, I agree.

>>6791271
Hard to pick between the 95 Theses of Luther or the Quran.

[Anonymous No.6792151]

>>6791334

Edgelord here , step aside sheeple

[Anonymous No.6792157]

>>6791316

[Anonymous No.6792204]

>>6792157
See, I'm fine with lynching and burning the authors.

But the books should be kept as a warning to future generations.

[Anonymous No.6792295]

>>6791324

because of these books I knew the plots to all the classics by the time I was ten years old. It helped immensely as far as understanding references in other works of literature. Why would you want to burn a children's book?

[Anonymous No.6792561]

>>6792151
he don't seem that edgy. I'd burn it just to see the effect it would have

[Anonymous No.6792578]

>>6791334
you made me do this

[Anonymous No.6792976]

>>6791271

[Anonymous No.6792985]

>>6792976
The only write answer

[Anonymous No.6793005]

>>6791299
>that quote

[Anonymous No.6793083]

>>6792148

I agree with the Theses, but no Quran means no Hafez and no Khayyam. I'm a selfish motherfucker, I'll let ISIS exist if I can keep the Divàn and the Rubaiyat on my bookshelf. I need them.

[Anonymous No.6793145]

Bible, Quran and the Talmud just for the hell of it. Fucking worthless scum.

[Anonymous No.6794182]

>>6791324
yeah fuck you, this is how I got into reading, and I kept all of them to read to my kids

[Anonymous No.6794216]

Instead of burning the books, I would burn every worthless fucking worm who still worshipped those kike desert fairytales. I would slaughter them in the streets and as they begged for mercy I would say"Where was your mercy for us when you persecuted atheists in the inquisition? where was your mercy when you spammed THAT STUPID FUCKING HAT MEME WHICH HAS NO basis in reality AT ALL every fucking day. There will be no mercy for you now." and then I would behead every religitard and throw their bodies into the swamps of the south (most christians in the us are in the south, it's a scientific fact heat makes you stupider)

I would then have all the bibles and torahs and korans shredded and used for toilet paper, the first good use they'd be put to since their conception.

seriously fuck the christfags

[Anonymous No.6794662]

>>6793083

Arabic must be a pain in the arse to carve

[Anonymous No.6794730]

>>6794216
"Waaah! "Waaah! remabuh duh seks million atheists!"

[Anonymous No.6794763]

burn every single YA fiction novel on the earth and send all YA "writers" to die in a concentration camp/

[Anonymous No.6794875]

[Anonymous No.6794889]

[Anonymous No.6794891]

[Anonymous No.6794906]

>>6791271
>martin luther's complete works
absolute most abominable and destructive set of writings in the history of the West, would burn every time (with pleasure)

[Anonymous No.6794921]

>>6794891
Is it that bad? How is his Story of Civilization?

[Anonymous No.6794924]

>>6791271
Descartes - Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
Threw Western Philosophy off course and into subjectivistic, idealist bullshit for literally 400+ years, still wading through terrible mind-body dualism garbage and revivals of Kantian epistemology trash. Waiting to go back to the good old days of Albertus Magnus and Bonaventure, when philosophy was actually good.

[Anonymous No.6794930]

>>6794921
ignore him he's memeing

[Anonymous No.6794937]

>>6794930
How so? Durant being bad is a Meme now? Or is it something bout Histories of Philosophy?

[Anonymous No.6794955]

>>6794937
durant is based read the history of philosophy it's fine.

[Anonymous No.6794983]

>>6794921
Actual quote at the end of his chapter on Aristotle, which incidentally is followed by a chapter on *Francis Bacon* skipping literally everything in between:
>"The glory that had been Greece faded now in the dawn of the Roman sun; and the grandeur that was Rome was the pomp of power rather than the light of thought. Then that grandeur too decayed, that little light went almost out. For a thousand years darkness brooded over the face of Europe. All the world awaited the resurrection of philosophy."
>durr hurr dark ages lel roman philosophy don't real
>lelel medieval dont philosophy
This book was published in 1926. At that time, Maurice de Wulf (1900), Fernand van Steenberghen, Pierre Mandonnet (1920s and 30s), and Martin Grabmann (1909) had all already published their groundbreaking works on the history of medieval philosophy. For him to adopt this Hegel-like "ten-league boots" position about medieval, given the time he was writing in, is absolutely despicable, and, from a scholarly standpoint, unacceptable.

[Anonymous No.6795019]

>>6791324
I loved those when I was like nine

[Anonymous No.6795048]

Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.6795051]

>>6792976
why? I haven't read it or seen the movie, but isn't it considered above-average as far as romance novels go?

[Anonymous No.6795061]

>>6795051
JG is a "meme author", so whatever the topic of the thread the longer it gets the more probability he'll appear for whatever reason because /lit/ is a pathetic shadow of its former self. Honestly i think this board would improve overnight if the use of the word "meme" was banned.

[Anonymous No.6795067]

>>6794983
I see

[Anonymous No.6795071]

>>6794889
Ya I unwittingly bought this thinking it would be a generally unbiased look at philosophy through history. Nope.

[Anonymous No.6795074]

anything by the beats or tao lin

pic related

[Anonymous No.6795082]

>>6794983
>that quote

I'm mad.

[Anonymous No.6795222]

>>6791316
How hard are you memeing right now?

[Anonymous No.6796672]

>>6791271
Is pic related or what? If so, why would you burn all those great books??

[Anonymous No.6796692]

>>6794983
while i still hold medieval phil was smaller and trivial its retarded to say it didnt exist or didnt impact how things happened during that time.

[Anonymous No.6796715]

This motherfucker right here.
Fuck the terrorists and heir goddamned squiggle language

[Anonymous No.6796749]

>>6791334

I just knew this very very clever answer would come up just from reading the op.

[Anonymoose No.6796756]

>>6794906
Butthurt Catholic detected.

[Anonymous No.6796765]

>>6792578

[Anonymous No.6796775]

>>6791271

Hello /lit/!

My name is Stacey Taylor, and I’m going to college for Literature.

I’m sick of having to read all these dead white males. They are so irrelevant and obsolete. They are so toxic and problematic.

If I could, I would burn every single book or file that contains the evil of their oppressive thoughts. Every book written by any white male ever needs to be burned.

In fact, I am thinking about staging a Protest Against Toxic White Males by burning some books by the most loathsome writers like Hemingway or Joseph Conrad. Ugh, I hate Conrad! Did you know he uses the n-word in his stories? I started reading ‘Heart of Darkness’ but I couldn’t even finish it, it’s just SO offensive. Can you believe that he call the jungle a Dark Heart because of all the innocent, oppressed PoC’s??

So where do you guys want to get together to Protest Against White Males by burning some books by these problem writers? I’m sure you guys would love to join in. I’m in Chicago, I go to Columbia University!

Let’s do this!

#TeamBlackGuys

[Anonymous No.6796854]

>>6796775
Hi Stacy!
You sound like a two dollar fag and your trolling abilities are an atrocious.
Tits or GTFO

[Anonymous No.6796859]

>>6796854
I wasn't trying to troll, you dimwit.

I was being satirical. Notice the Nazi book burning image?

[Anonymous No.6796923]

>>6796854
Newfag supremo

[Anonymous No.6796931]

>>6796775
This is 4chan Stacey.

We burn black guys.

#blacklivesmatter
#butonlyabout3/5asmuch

[Anonymous No.6797526]

>>6796859
uhhh, wot? like seriously satirical?

[Anonymous No.6797562]

>>6792157
>implying it wouldn't be interesting to read in 50 years to get a glimpse at early 21st century social media.

No book should be destroyed.

[Anonymous No.6797605]

>>6794763
even Infinite Jest? what would /lit/ do without it?

[Anonymous No.6797721]

>>6794906
>absolute most abominable and destructive set of writings in the history of the West

Okay crusadefag, now go read 95 theses and come back when you can show me a single one that is not an obvious moral or christian truth.

[Anonymous No.6798244]

>>6795048
salinger is a genius, and you're not a competent reader if you think otherwise.

[Anonymous No.6798290]

>>6796854
criiiiiiiiinge fuck

[not historically ignorant like(...) No.6800356]

>>6791271

[Anonymous No.6800362]

>>6794875
fuck you dude derrida is gr8

[Anonymous No.6802241]

>>6792157
Well fuck dude you can't convince everyone to get into literature in the same way you did, you can't even expect them to like it. This is just like a sparknotes version with a twist that 15 year old girls will find funny.

Like really what the fuck is wrong with this board this isn't a hard concept to grasp ahhah.

[Anonymous No.6802248]

>>6796854
Wow its like you're wearing a sign that says "Im 16 years old and read about 4chan on knowyourmeme.com!"

[Anonymous No.6802250]

>>6792044
It's due to shitty script writers

[Anonymous No.6803031]

>>6794924
hahahahaha

[Anonymous No.6803062]

>religious
>catholic of all things
>thinks martin luther's writings are more destructive than..
>oh
>i don't know
>anything catholic

[Anonymous No.6803080]

>>6792118
>if it gets kids into [x], I don't see what's wrong with it

This will now be the thousandth time I've encountered this lazy defense. Amusingly, when Harold Bloom got hit by this same platitude during his criticism of Harry Potter, he simply responded "They don't [get kids into literature]!"

[Anonymous No.6803691]

>>6803080

I read all the HP books as a kid, now i'm reading dostoyevsky