/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6893603]

>find reddits book subreddet
>go to top of al ltime
>find post about most beautiful paragraph that redditors have read

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/35wv34/whats_the_most_beautiful_paragraph_or_sentence/


The first one is from fucking White Fang...

Goddamn such plebs.

Is this where /lit/ goes for a no bully zone?

[Anonymous No.6893618]

that's a pretty cute boy

[Anonymous No.6893630]

>>6893603
>"She is the 100% perfect girl for me.
He is the 100% perfect boy for me.
But the glow of their memories was far too weak, and their thoughts no longer had the clarity of fouteen years earlier. Without a word, they passed each other, disappearing into the crowd. Forever."

It Murakami really this much of a hack?

[Anonymous No.6893641]

Are there any interesting reddit boards with good content?

[Anonymous No.6893652]

>>6893641
No. Too many teenagers with fake nicety profiles so they can get karma.

It's all about pleb shit like John Green or Hitchikers Dick to the Absurdity, or Jack London, or Hemingway.

It's fucking awful.

The philosophy subreddit is mostly /lit/ in a karmawhoring no bullyzone.

But philosophy is conspiracy shit anyways. So, no content there.

[Anonymous No.6893656]

>>6893641
yasss your mom's vigina

[Anonymous No.6893659]

>>6893641
If you're in to the numbers side of sports, the sports subs aren't bad.

[Anonymous No.6893678]

>>6893641
/r/Mapporn is usually pretty interesting, despite the annoying name

[Anonymous No.6893688]

>>6893641
>>6893678

In other words anon >>>6893678 expected to see rule34 maps fucking each other and got disappointed.

[Anonymous No.6893689]

>>6893641
/r/sex is hilarious

"I am 17 and am trying to have sex with my girlfriend but it will not go in pls halp"

Also, deadbedrooms ;_;

[Anonymous No.6893746]

>>6893603
>White Fang
thats pretty high brow for r/books standarts

[Anonymous No.6893768]

>>6893641
I browse fountainpens, that's about it.

[Anonymous No.6893796]

>>6893746
Honestly looking through that thread there were a fair amount of patrish quotes balancing out the purple prose and Gaiman

[Anonymous No.6893815]

>>6893641
r/YouTubeHaiku and r/UnexpectedJihad are pretty good

[Anonymous No.6893880]

>>6893641
I literally have never used reddit in my entire life, but I would assume that the website is only useful for finding people to discuss very niche hobbies. ex: If I wanted to find people to talk about restoring violins, i'd probably have more luck on reddit than 4chan. I would avoid something like r/music, though. Or even r/classical.

[Anonymous No.6893909]

>>6893880
Yeah, but you would still find someone on there saying that

"there may be so,me quality difference between a Stradivarius and a Wal-Mart bought violin, but there really isn't any point in buying something so expensive. If you can play well, then Wal-Mart will be fine. There is no point in restoring something so old unless you plan on selling it, and even then, what's the point? Just buy another Wal-Mart violin, they are basically the same. No bullzone."

[Anonymous No.6893910]

>>6893652
>>6893656
>>6893659
>>6893678
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>>6893689
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>>6893815
I'm on reddit in my other tab. Found some p fascinating threads on their mental illness boards.
http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/3evwj4/im_a_fat_worthless_socially_awkward_parasite_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Anxiety/comments/3ewy44/anyone_else_not_have_anxiety_until_they_were_in/
http://www.reddit.com/r/schizophrenia/comments/3en4g9/how_did_they_know/
this one seems funny
http://www.reddit.com/r/trippinthroughtime/
But, yeah, other than that it blows.

[Anonymous No.6893917]

>>6893910

#sodamaged
#lifesohardasmiddleclasswhiteperson
#icecreamfellnowimdepressed
#notwellputtogether
#15yearoldproblems
#walkingoutsideisscary
#ifidontfeellikeiamdeadifeelanxiousandscaredgivemepills

>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.6893920]

>>6893880
This. Reddit is best used for niche subreddits and small communities. Everything else is a circlejerk.

[Anonymous No.6893926]

>>6893641
Yeh a bunch of them, even stuff like /r/literature is pretty good.

The whole "hugbox" thing isn't as bad as people like to make out. Being on 4chan a while you realise that most the time being a cunt is an excuse to avoid any sort of proper discussion.

[Anonymous No.6893931]

>>6893641
I don't know, ask /v/ or /b/

[Anonymous No.6893938]

>>6893926
>the whole hugbox isn't as bad as people make it out to be

Every comment section is passive-agressive fake nicety for karma whoring and brainless agreeing without and criticism.

Fuck you

>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.6893949]

>>6893920
Even the smaller communities are nothing but circlejerks.

[Anonymous No.6893950]

>>6893938
>Every comment section is passive-agressive fake nicety for karma whoring and brainless agreeing without and criticism.

I mean it's not though is it. There is more proper discussion on reddit than 4chan by a distance, because contrary to popular belief saying "your a fucking faggot and you should back to reddit" isn't discussion, just noise.

[Anonymous No.6893955]

>>6893641
gonewild and the related subreddits are better than /soc/.

[Anonymous No.6893956]

>>6893950
No there isn't.

It's all a giant circle jerk, and anyone trying to actually have a conversation and not a meme agree fest are downvoted or ignored. That is just noise, at least telling you to fuck off and die is credible.

[Anonymous No.6893990]

Seriously fuck Reddit. I wasted a lot of time there, but a few days ago I deleted my four years old account with a shitload of karma, and I'm not going back. People are so fucking dumb and trite there, but they all think they're geniuses of course. I don't know how I could spend time there instead of here, but I guess the karma and message replies kinda pull you in.

[Anonymous No.6893994]

>>6893956
It's a cliché but you really need to go to the right subbreddits. The best is when it is acting like a link aggregator and then people discuss the content of the link. You just don't have that sort of discussion here, nothing ever scratches the surface. It's incredible rare that any thread on /lit/ isn't just a bunch of authors and book titles being thrown around.

And no, telling someone to fuck off and die isn't credible, it's a way to avoid discussion.

[Anonymous No.6893996]

>>6893603
Implying London can't write a good sentence.
> Goodnight, pleb king

[Anonymous No.6894002]

>>6893994

Some discussions and opinions are just fucking retarded, though, and the initiatior really should consider suicide in such cases. If the discussion is worth having, it will be had.

[Anonymous No.6894007]

>>6893956
This is patently false. Reddit is a circlejerk, but contrarian and 'anti-jerk' opinions are routinely upvoted past standard ones.

[Anonymous No.6894009]

>>6893990
welcome but please keep your new convert fervor to a minimum in public spaces

[Anonymous No.6894012]

>>6893641
askhistorians is pretty baller. you are pretty much forbidden from replying unless you are an accredited historian i.e. postgraduate degree

[The cats No.6894016]

>>6893990
Really I'm just a dick to them like I would be here but without "swear words" and I just don't check the replies if it wasn't important enough to see their whining.

[Anonymous No.6894017]

>>6893990
>Seriously fuck Reddit. I wasted a lot of time there, but a few days ago I deleted my four years old account with a shitload of karma, and I'm not going back. People are so fucking dumb and trite there, but they all think they're geniuses of course. I don't know how I could spend time there instead of here, but I guess the karma and message replies kinda pull you in.

[Anonymous No.6894026]

>>6894002
What do you mean? Do you really think calling something retarded is good content? Far too much interesting stuff on this site gets dismissed out of hand like that because no one wants to think, it's boring.

[Anonymous No.6894030]

>all these reddit cucks

This really explains the shit quality of posting on /lit/.

reddit + /polr9k/ =/lit/

What a fucking catastrophe this board has become.

[Anonymous No.6894041]

>>6894030

[The cats No.6894050]

>>6894030
I've been using 4chan since 2006 and pretty much exclusively go to reddit to make fun of them or to check r/phish

[Anonymous No.6894055]

>>6893603
if you want intelligent discussion on things go to quora or stackexchange instead of reddit

[Anonymous No.6894059]

>>6894050
>r/phish

You're a whole new level of fucked up, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.6894060]

>>6894009

I've been here for years, but I've just split my time too much. What I meant was, how could I ever spend more time on leddit than /lit/.

[Anonymous No.6894073]

>>6894012

And still it's full of bullshit. Check /r/badhistory for examples.

[Anonymous No.6894079]

>>6894026

Yes.

[Anonymous No.6894081]

I never understood the reddit boogeyman. From what I've checked, the site is more akin to a news aggregation, not a forum. "Discussion" is more like a witty top comment and a few replies to the comment, then another short essay on the topic and a few replies. There is no true discussion, but rather comments tangentially connected by the topic. Forums like 4chan on the other hand thrive on discussions. Threads are made entirely of replies to other people, like how discussions actually work. There's almost no similarity in how the sites function.

[Anonymous No.6894089]

>>6894012
So it's just a bunch of post-grad NET's circle-jerking what their professor vomited onto the floor?

Sounds fucking awful and biased and straight up wrong.

[Anonymous No.6894090]

>>6894081

This.

[Anonymous No.6894098]

>>6894079
Why?

[Anonymous No.6894122]

>>6893641
r/academicphilosophy
r/badphilosophy (though it can have a very characteristically reddit feel to it at times)
r/badmathamatics
r/badeverything
r/literature

[Anonymous No.6894163]

>>6894081
>discussion
>4chan

you fucking wot m8.
anyone using 4chan as a location for discussion has a brain problem.

[Anonymous No.6894168]

>>6894163
>muh bantz!
>>6885565

[Anonymous No.6894199]

>>6894168
that thread is embarrassing

[Anonymous No.6894204]

>>6894199
It is, but it's still discussion

[Anonymous No.6894208]

>>6894168
Why have I never seen a single discussion like that about a book in my whole time here?

It's not actually just a meme is it? No one does actually read here.

[Anonymous No.6894214]

>>6894081
It represents the mainstreaming of underground internet culture to many 4chanites. Communities like /r/4chan or /r/(memeoftheweek) appear to destroy the humor of 4chan by vapid repetition. In reality, they're just a symptom of the way internet culture works.

[Anonymous No.6894217]

>>6894208
It indeed isn't a meme. Every confession thread is inundated with people admitting to

1. not reading at all
2. arguing about philosophers they haven't read a word of
3. liking all sorts of pleb YA stuff

[Anonymous No.6894231]

>>6894208
It happens with all boards really. Discussion on the subject matter is pretty vapid, but discuss something off-topic and quality will improve. But still, here's a good thread about BotNS, I actually used it as a reading guide once.
>>/lit/thread/S4685906#p4709223

[Anonymous No.6894253]

>>6893641
Anything to do with sexual fetishes. There's a subreddit for every kind of porn imaginable which is really nice to just go to the top rated posts and jerk off with zero effort to find something nice.

Other than that, reddit bores me. Too many normal people circle-jerking to gain points/upvotes (whatever the difference in that is).

[Anonymous No.6894258]

>>6894217

It's really frustrating me recently, ever thread is just authors names being thrown about and trading insults, never to scratch the surface. It's so god damn boring.

>>6894231
That is a nice thread, I just wish there was more of that sort of thing. I don't know, maybe I need a break from /lit/

[Anonymous No.6894260]

>>6893652
>Hitchikers Dick to the Absurdity
Whee!

[Anonymous No.6894261]

>>6893917
>tfw dip

[Anonymous No.6894275]

>>6894217
>Believing bullshit you see in epic meme threads started by zeeburg

You're a dumbass

[Anonymous No.6894290]

Why are you posting about reddit?

[Anonymous No.6894299]

>>6893603
nah

[Anonymous No.6894384]

>>6894055
stackexchange is based. quora users still has some pretty retarded habits, like they will always start their answers with an anedote.

Reddit is basically the worst of all serious online communities. Its design suppress dissent and shoves popular opinions down your throat. Fuck them, seriously. I absolutely prefer the chaos of 4chan.

[Anonymous No.6894415]

>>6894384
quora isn't as good as se but it's decent imo. there are plenty of people who aren't really smart but they're at least not stupid.

reddit is shit pure shit for a variety of reasons. probably mostly because its users aren't smart lol

[Anonymous No.6894435]

>>6894050
I'll never understand if there are a lot of /lit/izens with atrocious taste in music or you're the same jam band faggot who never fails to mention Phish

[Anonymous No.6894437]

>>6893618
i am in love

[Anonymous No.6894447]

>>6893603
>having an actual discussion about reddit instead of shouting;

L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
N

[Anonymous No.6894458]

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>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.6894466]

>>6894458
>he took the time to go through all those posts to reply to them

>le reddit

[Anonymous No.6894472]

>>6894466
That's a big frog

[Anonymous No.6894481]

>>6894466
Do something about it, pussy

[Anonymous No.6894490]

>>6894481
Yes, that's it. Be a big man on the internet.

[Anonymous No.6894493]

>>6894490
Say that again, pussy, I dare you

[Anonymous No.6894497]

>>6894490
He has been chewing out reddit punks since before you where born pal, you better watch yourself.

[Anonymous No.6894506]

>>6894493
do it
be a big man on the internet

[Anonymous No.6894514]

>>6894506
I'm backing down
Pls no bully

[Anonymous No.6894526]

>>6894514n
prepare

[Anonymous No.6894551]

>>6894458
all me tbh

[Anonymous No.6894711]

>>6894458
>quoting more than 8 people at once

Back to /r/4chan you go

[Anonymous No.6894741]

>>6893641
/r/syriancivilwar has the best discussion of the war on the internet

[Anonymous No.6894838]

>>6894741
Last time I was on there (a year or so ago) anti-Assad people downvoted everything, even factual, that showed the government advancing. I'm the opposite of an Assad fan, but it was pretty biased.

[Anonymous No.6894845]

>>6894838
That was before Islamic State became a big thing though, maybe they've changed after.

[Anonymous No.6894848]

>>6894838
It's swung back to be pro-assad (or rather anti-anti-assad) on account of the Islamic State. Regardless of some popular whims, the amount of original content and precise updates are bar none the best I've seen in any crowd-sourced journalism.

[Anonymous No.6894857]

>>6893641
/r/badphilosophy is basically /lit/

[Anonymous No.6894885]

>>6894857
not at all
they are very far left and pretty much a shitposting brigade

[Anonymous No.6894886]

>>6894741
Wrong.

They are anti-Assad

It's obvious that Assad is the only force of morality there.
Dr. Assad should begin actually gassing the disgusting fucking rebels.

[Anonymous No.6894898]

>>6894885
Pretty much /lit/

Please /pol/cuck, the only rightwinged anything is /pol/ and you are all autists.

/lit/ is left, and no one here is a christian. Only you crossposting cucks.

[Anonymous No.6894950]

>>6894898
>Please /pol/cuck, the only rightwinged anything is /pol/ and you are all autists.
>/lit/ is left, and no one here is a christian. Only you crossposting cucks.

How delusional are you?

[Anonymous No.6894956]

>>6894898
>calling me /pol/ when I have never even went on the board

You sound insecure tbh. Be more aggressive please.

[Anonymous No.6894998]

>>6894458

>linking to literally every post
>this mad about being remotely off-topic

literally autism: the post

[Anonymous No.6895061]

>>6894950
Not as delusional as you and >>6894956
who think the holocaust never happened.

[Anonymous No.6895557]

Everything outside of the cripplingalcoholism sub reddit is shit

[Anonymous No.6895589]

>>6894472
4u

[Anonymous No.6895598]

>>6895557
-.- this whole "im 21 and totally an alcoholic like so much #damaged" bullshit really needs to go.

[Anonymous No.6895776]

>>6894857
/lit/ never went full SRS

[Anonymous No.6895786]

>>6893955
if girlpussy is your thing...

[Anonymous No.6896282]

>>6893641
If you're a /g/entooman as well I would recommend r/talesfromtechsupport.

That's the only sub-reddit I've ever frequented.

[Anonymous No.6896299]

>>6893603
White-Fang did have beautiful passages you fucking half-wit, stop chasing that ego high that comes with belittling people you think less read than yourself.

This goddamn board I swear to christ.

[Anonymous No.6896308]

>>6896299
>>>/reddit/

tbh

[Anonymous No.6896310]

>>6895776
It seems impossible to imagine a 4chan board going full SRS, as full SRS relies on censorship of dissenting opinions (via moderator action or votes)

[Anonymous No.6896317]

>>6896310
4chan can accomplish that via the for free men if they really want to

or /b/-style thread derails

[Anonymous No.6896323]

>>6893909
Pretty true tbh
Tests were done and people couldnt tell the difference between a stradivarius and a regular ol fiddle