Well...

[Anonymous No.7053576]

[Anonymous No.7053607]

"he does not even know that the many are bad, and the few, good"

[Anonymous No.7053611]

sorry, mangled the quote (it was from memory):

"For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle."

—Le tearful fireman

[Anonymous No.7053787]

/lit/ is a quadrillion times better than any of those shitholes

[Anonymous No.7053796]

>>7053576
But can I freely call people ignorant niggers while spamming anime reaction images on any of those sites?

[Anonymous No.7053829]

Are there any literature forums that don't suck?

[Anonymous No.7053834]

>>7053829
my diary tbh

[Anonymous No.7053850]

>>7053829
Yes, and they aren't mentioned here for a reason.

[Anonymous No.7053862]

>>7053850
If there's a reason no one wants to mention them here, then they probably suck anyway.

[Anonymous No.7053929]

>>7053787
Why?

>>7053796
Doubtful, but is that a necessity?

>>7053850
Why don't they suck? And why are they not mentioned here?

[Anonymous No.7054106]

>>7053929
It's a meme you dip

[Anonymous No.7054151]

>>7053929
>Why would they suck?

Let me quote a bit, would you?
>“Discussion of fantasy, science fiction, and just about any other literature (Yes, this includes comic books!)”
>“Discuss the storylines of the novels, comics and more”
>“What do you imagine your favorite literary character looks like?”

All you will find on those websites is Reddit-tier content, endless threads on A Song of Ice and Fire, teenager's poetry sharing, people pretending having read classics, charts and political correctness flowing through every message. /lit/ is a shithole too but it still is a bit less mediocre.

[Anonymous No.7054155]

>mfw people think /lit/ is intelligent
I assume they've never been in a thread about Marx or God.

[Anonymous No.7054160]

>>7053829
Worldliteratureforum livens up around Nobel season but is dead the rest of the year. Fictional Woods is a little busier but the regular posters seem to be a bunch of crazy old cat ladies.

[Anonymous No.7054174]

>>7053850

Boy, please... mention them. If they are good they must have some excellent filters--whether de facto or by content. So far I think lit is as good as it gets for the honesty and outrage of anonymity.

[Anonymous No.7054189]

>>7054174
Good communities are hidden as much as possible. Once they're exposed, less cultivated members come and soon flood the place with their own mediocre writings, superficial commentaries and empty discussions about bestsellers. There's no way someone will help finding them.

[Anonymous No.7054203]

>>7054189

Alright, Anon, I'm hooked. Take me to the place where I belong.

[Anonymous No.7054224]

>>7054203
I surely won't introduce an anonym to my own place, not mentioning it's an entirely French speaking board focusing on classical literature and language. I suppose there might even be few members who haven't read anything past 1918.

[Anonymous No.7054227]

>>7054203
You belong here

[Anonymous No.7054233]

>>7054227

Thank ye.

[Anonymous No.7054238]

>>7054224
This has to be bait.

[Anonymous No.7054246]

>>7054224
>it's an entirely French speaking board

Tell us, man. I've been searching for a board to help me practice reading French.

[Anonymous No.7054265]

>>7054246

Not the French Anon but I can assure you, you do not want to be in a 19th century board with french frogs. From what Franon says it seems all they do is complain about the current state of the arts--I guarantee it

[Luddite No.7054276]

>>7054246
No way. I don't even believe it would help you, the way we talk is not something you should read if you want to speak French properly.

Try instead http://ia802703.us.archive.org/17/items/contesfranais00buffgoog/contesfranais00buffgoog.pdf If you think you can handle it.

>>7054265
No, we mostly discuss the work itself, literature history, language matters and grammar. Of course we all whine about the decadence of the literature but it's not that important. And by “classical” I rather meant 16th to 18th centuries than 19th.

[Anonymous No.7054295]

>>7054246

Not the French Anon but I can assure you, you do not want to be in a 19th century board with french frogs. From what Franon says it seems all they do is complain about the current state of the arts--I guarantee it

[Anonymous No.7054307]

>>7054276
>Try instead http://ia802703.us.archive.org/17/items/contesfranais00buffgoog/contesfranais00buffgoog.pdf If you think you can handle it.

Thanks, but I have actually read that already. So far I've read that, Le Petit Prince, L'étranger, a few magazines and comics, and I just started La Place de l'étoiles. I feel like I need actual interaction now, or at least to see some. Do you happen to know of any other French message boards about literature? My preference would actually be for something more oriented towards contemporary lit, though (since it's currently a gap in my knowledge).

[Luddite No.7054322]

>>7054307
Well, I don't know anything that would fulfill your needs. Contemporary literature is less discussed in France, many authors like Houellebecq even seems more famous in English speaking countries. Places like Etudes-litteraires are actually quite inactive and extremely disappointing in term of writing quality and you maybe would try dedicated forums on websites like Jeuxvideo.com but it's pretty mediocre if you want my opinion. You can still look for a French thread here on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.7054324]

I used to use this site before I discovered /lit/

http://www.etudes-litteraires.com/

[Anonymous No.7054325]

>he doesn't frequent literature newsgroups from the fr. hierarchy

[Anonymous No.7054333]

>>7054322
>advising jeuxvideo.com ever
Just go to cable6.net/f if you want to experience the true French imageboard experience (tm)

[Luddite No.7054340]

>>7054333
How could you conclude from what I wrote I was advising it?

Don't go on cable6. It's ridden with angry illiterate teenager. You won't find anything remotely interesting.

[Anonymous No.7054347]

The best discussions aren't found on websites instead they are isolated to group emails between professors, certain authors and critics.

[Anonymous No.7054454]

>>7054174

Not him but your best bet is to just find some people online that actually read and start a Skype group or IRC channel

I've done both over the past year

[Luddite No.7054463]

>>7054454
This how most of the aforementioned communities are born.

>>7054347
To be honest I don't think those groups would arouse my curiosity for it probably talks about news and current trends. My attention is more excited by grammar, stylistic and æsthetics debates, classical studies and linguistics. I tried to get into Chomskyan linguistics but can't help feeling not interested with such a level of abstraction.

[Anonymous No.7054485]

Mon dieu, un geek littéraire. Il en reste si peu, quelle engeance fascinante.

[Anonymous No.7054513]

>>7054333
The content of that /f/ board is almost identical to that of any American imageboard. The language is the only thing obviously unique to France. Even the Brazilian chans have more unique a culture. What happened to underfoule anyway?

[Luddite No.7054526]

>>7054513
Those imageboards are not representative of the French culture. As I said they're mainly filled with teenagers who spent too much time on 4chan reposting memes and “copypastas”. If you speak French you can even feel it in the way they write.

[Anonymous No.7054537]

>>7054526
My French is pretty bad but I can still see what you're talking about. I was just questioning the other bloke saying
>experience the true French imageboard experience (tm)

[Anonymous No.7055919]

>>7054276
That sounds like garbage

[Luddite No.7055927]

>>7055919
Luckily you're not invited!

[Anonymous No.7056270]

>>7055927
I won't miss it.

[Anonymous No.7056286]

>>7054155

[Anonymous No.7056298]

>>7054151
>people pretending having read classics
>implying that's not /lit/ to a fucking T
Agree with the rest, though. I fucking love you guys.

[Anonymous No.7056312]

>>7053576
>discussion of fantasy, science fiction, and just about any other literature (Yes, this includes comic books!)

This has to be bait.

[Luddite No.7056321]

>>7056270
To be honest, I don't believe any community with literary aspirations would highly regard someone who does not punctuate his single sentence despite answering five hours later. Such a degree of laxness leaves little room to respect and credibility.

>>7056298
Indeed but /lit/ has occasionally good discussions and, at, least, is quite aware of being this pretentious to the extend of making fun of it. Also, I think many people whose English isn't the mother tongue come on /lit/ to practise.

[Anonymous No.7056327]

>>7056286
>>7054155
Fuck off, /pol/.

[Anonymous No.7056336]

>>7056327
Does muslim dick taste like kebab?

[Anonymous No.7056342]

>>7053862
>>7053929

Why would you want to bring this user base anywhere?

[Anonymous No.7056348]

>>7056321
Funny you'd point out punctuation and pretentiousness.

>and, at, least,
Nice

[Anonymous No.7056353]

>>7056342
If it's a place that doesn't suck, then it must be a highly controlled setting in the first place, and simply wouldn't allow the kind of shitposters who frequent 4chan to participate

[Luddite No.7056374]

>>7056348
I didn't know such an obvious typographical error needed to be explicitly corrected but if you're reduced to point them out, that's fine.

>>7056353
Anything was said with
>>7054347
Good communities won't risk watching their value wither with the migration of worthless posters.

[Anonymous No.7056378]

>>7056353
>highly controlled
Perhaps they aren't prison camps and the people there know how to post and disagree like adults.

[Anonymous No.7056398]

>>7056374
>>I didn't know such an obvious typographical error needed to be explicitly corrected but if you're reduced to point them out, that's fine.

>>7056321
>>To be honest, I don't believe any community with literary aspirations would highly regard someone who does not punctuate his single sentence despite answering five hours later. Such a degree of laxness leaves little room to respect and credibility.

lmao

[Luddite No.7056405]

>>7056378
Unless the moderation is severe, which imply a high control, less worthwhile, productive members will flood the place and change its architecture. It's not hard to outnumber a small community, particularly on literature where few actually know what they're talking about.

>>7056398
Do you imply it was an error of you? Does that “lmao” is also a memory lapse?

[Anonymous No.7056445]

>>7056378
Yes, and the point of strict moderation is to keep people like that there, and stupid outsiders away. You might say this limits freedom of expression, but people who have shown themselves to be intelligent will have special privileges to post the kinds of things they want to, whereas newbies will have to prove themselves first. A meritocratic system is ideal for an internet community

[Anonymous No.7056458]

>>7056321
Actually, the best online literary discussion community I've seen has pretty lax rules regarding grammar and punctuation

[Luddite No.7056468]

>>7056458
Do you have a link? I almost can't believe a place of this kind can be of any worth.

[Anonymous No.7056491]

>>7056468
I'm not sure if you'd be interested, but the book board at ilxor.com (mainly a site about popular music) has better literature discussion than I've seen on any other publicly visible English-language forum http://ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=55

[Luddite No.7056505]

>>7056491
I would be a fool not giving a try. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.7058191]

Bump.