/lit/ - Literature

I avoided Discworld for like half a decade because I was put off by the godawful cover art.

>>8639942

>>7778174
>rather than being happy with the fact that they read books
I don't understand.
Why should that make you happy?

>>7486574
>chad makes her paint his warhammer minis
Aren't we kinda stretching the definition of Chad here?

>>7491712
I'll never understand why the British like Boudica so much. Isn't she like, literally the worst military leader of all time?

Raised an army of two hundred thousand, sacked and burned a few undefended cities and killed a bunch of civilians, then she encountered a tiny Roman army and got absolutely destroyed. Like, the Romans were literally considering abandoning Britain before the battle since they thought the Briton army was supposed to be extremely dangerous, and then they just crushed it effortlessly while outnumbered roughly 20:1.

Yeah, yeah, I know barbarians usually lost against Romans in those times even when they heavily outnumbered them, and that victors tend to exaggerate the numbers the foe they defeated had to look better, but come on, 20:1? Even for barbarians that's embarrassing.

>>7468909
>there are a lot of people doing videos about books and the vast majority of them are women

>>7459327
>You would rather make your mom and dad experience that pain than take it on yourself.
Why the hell would you feel sympathy for them? They're failed parents, and they're solely responsible for their child being a worthless NEET by not raising him properly.

Not to mention that they're still continuously enabling the NEET lifestyle of their kid by supporting him. If they actually cared about him and his future, they would force him to get his shit together.

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds

>>7412899
>these dramatically shifting times of revolution, social unrest, and preeminent destruction of society
What the hell are you on about, you fucking nerd?
We live in literally the most boring time since the French Revolution.

>>7320285
I used to buy 2-4 books a month. New, but mostly paperback, so it was relatively cheap.
A few years ago I got a Kindle, and I stopped buying physical books entirely. Ever since I got a Kindle I read a lot more books annually since it's much easier, faster, and more convenient to acquire them, and I get to read books I downloaded on a whim which I probably wouldn't have bought if I needed to spend 5-10 bucks on it.

Since I'm not an idiot, I don't buy e-books, I just download them for free, so I saved quite a lot of money over these past few years, even taking into account the initial cost of buying a Kindle.
I doubt I'll ever buy a physical book in my life ever again. I honestly can't imagine going back to physical books anymore. Only physical books I read these days are those I get as gifts.

>Are you ever less inclined to finish books?
I haven't noticed any difference in this regard, but I very, very rarely ever drop a book. Usually if I start reading it, I finish it. That hasn't changed.

>>7305938
>The only people that would be discussing fanfiction in /lit/ are the people that are already here.
That's not true, there have been quite a few cases of newcomers coming in and literally killing off entire boards with their numbers thanks to moot.

>>7303806
Ban genre fiction.

Why is everyone pretending they don't know the difference between regular derivative works and fan fiction?

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
Are there actually people who want to post and discuss their fan fiction here?
What the hell?

>>7230918
I don't anymore. I dropped out halfway through (on 3rd year out of 5) when I got a decently paid job.
But it was a local university in a post-communist European country, not a particularly noteworthy one.

>>7230343
>Left-winger post: those righties on /pol/.
>Right winger post: those leftiea on /pol/.
And they're both right? Loonies who sperg out about their shitty political opinion should go post on the board that was literally created to serve as a containment board for loonies who sperg out about their shitty political opinions?

>>7230670
>implying modern lawyers know anything about the history of jurisprudence
In literally the first semester of the first year of law school, we had two different historical courses, one for Roman Law, and one for general history of law. Both were required courses.

>>7172181
I thought the Fremen never referred to the planet as Arrakis, only used the term Dune?

Or was that a movie-only thing? I don't remember.

>>7173520
>>7173577
>The /lit/ Guide to the Literature: Chart Edition
>by PaganWolf73 · 16 hours ago

>>7173556
>And the other guy. In 2008 there was always at least one thread on the front page hating on niggers. How you could argue that is left wing, is beyond me.
Perceptions of what is left wing and what is right wing change with time.
During the Bush era, if someone was an obnoxious internet atheist (New Atheist, anti-theist, however the fuck you want to call it), a proponent of free speech, and a person who criticized the government, he would be considered a leftist loony. Today, that exact same person, with those exact same opinions (atheism too due to libertarianism), would be treated as a rightist loony.

SJWs on the internet practically did not exist outside of a couple of lolcows like BitingBeaver. It was a completely different political climate. People would call themselves leftist and make nigger jokes, and then justify it by saying they're not racist since there's a difference between niggers ("thugs") and black people.

>>7173478
>4chan was never and has never been the front page of the internet you mong.
No, you just weren't around back then because you're too young to remember it.
I started going to high school in 2004.
I came to 4chan in 2005 because half the shitters in my class and half the people on my WoW server talked about this hacker on steroids site called /b/. Everyone on the internet knew about 4chan back then, it was "the" site to be on. All the kids talked about it and all the kids wanted to go there, it was the coolest site on the internet.

And I'm from a freaking post-communist European country, so it was that popular over here, I can only imagine how it was in Western Europe or native English speaking countries.

>>7173446
That's the origin of the "kek" meme. But the thing is, that meme was originally popular among WoW players back in like 2004-2006 when the entire internet used terms like "lol" unironically. Back at this time, when 4chan still had some taste in video games, WoW was widely shunned as a bad game so wowfags didn't have too much of a presence on this site.

Lel, top lel and all those other lol corruptions were created on 4chan and mostly posted on boards like /v/. It was only many years later, after [s4s] was created, that 4chan started using kek, a term that was popularized by that board. So yes, it does have origins from WoW, which is where the [s4s] people took it from, but it's origins on 4chan comes from that board, not from WoW, and most people who use it probably have no idea it came from WoW.

Don't listen to this Reddit-obsessed retard ( >>7169441 ), terms like lel were used on this site before most of us even knew Reddit existed. Reddit only really became huge on the internet in like 2010-2011, no one knew about it before that. And I remember shitters using lel in like 2008.

>>7168016
4chan peaked between 2004-2008 when it came to internet relevance. Back then, everyone knew about 4chan, and everyone went to 4chan. Schoolkids around the world used 4chan as their first major community/comedy site. It was literally the front page of the internet.

Now, in 2015? 4chan is about as culturally relevant as SA is. It's glory days have long since passed. Kids start with Reddit and Tumblr now, not with /b/ and /v/.

Which is honestly a good thing. I hope this trend continues and 4chan goes back to being a weeb site.

>>7165847
What the fuck is /leftypol/?