/lit/ - Literature

>>693211
>implying buying anything but used books

Atonement
That's a true movie about not only writing, but stories in general.

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Joy Luck Club
overanalyzed shit

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>>669858
Yeah, my bad =S

>>669842
Albeit the last line is mainly troll bait, it still certainly has resonance as a paradigm of our times.
Case and point is the current government and businesses that are slowly degenerating society due to the cultural emphasis on capitalism. I don't see many senators or philosophers debating this fact, nor taking action against it.

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>>669816
umad?

Insecurities are particularly evident in this thread.

Watching Fight Club does not make you a Philosopher.
Purchasing a guitar does not make you a musician.
Reading Kafka does not make you a literati.
Going to college does not make you a scholar.
Owning a skateboard does not make you an athlete.
Owning a jersey does not mean you are on the team.
Having a full address book does not mean you have friends.
Knowing a large volume of facts does not mean you are intelligent.
Getting laid does not mean you have life experience.
You are not a more popular person for wearing designer clothes.
You are not an important, creative individual for refusing to do so.
You are not a charity case because you have suffered.
You are not stable or healthy because you have not.
Listening to Mozart and rejecting My Chemical Romance does not mean you are cultured.
Watching Quentin Tarantino and not Michael Bay does not mean you are cultured.
Painting a picture instead of playing a videogame does not mean you are cultured.
Reading the book before you see the movie does not mean you are cultured.
Going to Church does not make you Religious.
Not going to Church does not make you spiritual.
Having an opinion does not mean you cannot be wrong.
Being right does not mean anyone cares.
Reciting MadTV and Dane Cook does not mean you are funny.
Not finding these things funny does not mean you have a sense of humour.
Poor artists are not automatically better than successful ones.
Technically skilled artists are not automatically good ones.
No one is impressed that you're older, and no one thinks you wiser.

I appreciate Murakami for his style, but the comparison to Kurt Vonnegut is spot on.
Also, Palahniuk isn't a horrible writer. Read Choke, then come back here and apologize.

Mistborn is way fucking better

You might want to read Murakami, more specifically Hard Boiled Wonderland.
It's not hard to read, and it's a good entry level book in that it's themes and ideas are somewhat easy to grasp.

FUCKING LOVED THIS SERIES
only to go on to read better things.

After this I read His Dark Materials, and never looked back.

>>628312
Definitely his style.
Read Requiem for a Dream if you have a chance. Same author.

>she it technically an author?

For my birthday, my girlfriend gave me a first edition 1936 leather bound copy of Robert Frost's A Further Range
I really love my girlfriend =)

Hey /lit/
What did your parents read to you before bedtime when you were little?

For me it was Narnia, the entire series. That inspired me to pick up LOTR in elementary school and from then on I've been hooked on books.

pic obviously unrelated, she doesn't know how to read

you guys are on crack

What are some strong female characters associated with Modernism, or the fall of institutionalized values?