/lit/ - Literature

>brother is mega pleb WWII history buff (still in high school)
>only reads books about the Holocaust, Nazis, various atrocities, and Hitchens
>thinks fiction is useless and mocks my enjoyment of it
>sees 'American Psycho' for the meme value one day
>decides to read the book
Should I dissuade him, /lit/? Will it be too pomo for a non-reader to understand? I'm kind of worried that he'll hate it and get turned off fiction forever.

Just starting.
>the singular and plural of some words sound exactly the same
>you could figure it out from the context within a sentence if it's singular or plural
>they're still spelled differently
>mfw
English >>>>> all other languages

>>7355450
>changes in gender roles causes low birth rates

Ayn Rand isn't a philosopher so much as she is an burner of strawmen. Her 'arguments' consist of little more than imaginary people she doesn't like espousing ideas she disagrees with in a ridiculous fashion vs. imaginary people she likes espousing ideas she agrees with in a ridiculous fashion. ie.
>"I love communism because I just love taking away freedom and creating inefficiencies!", said a fat, balding man who collects My Little Pony toys in his spare time.
>"Well, I love capitalism because I like earning my money instead of stealing it from people!", said a strong-chinned blonde man who was also had an IQ of 180 and a was also a professional bodybuilder.

>>7340090
No, it's just you this time.

>be 15
>have to read Slaughterhouse-Five for English
>hate how cutesy and saccharine it is
>the teacher loves it
>she also hates Beowulf and anything at all complex or difficult to read
>hated the class because we did bullshit projects instead of reading, because I actually liked the more advanced stuff we read
>realize later how fucked America's education system is if English teachers are literally more pleb than their students

>>7294030
>Taylor Swift
>garbage

Sage, report, and move on, everybody.

>>6602890
Hesse, Salinger and heller are nothing compared to epic Greek poetry or Elizabethan tragedy. The bible and ij are memes and Kafka is just shit

>>6595428
>that nose
>that prose
>those clothes

>>6188893
>Trying to make sense of ancient sandpeople farmer logic created so that slaves and the general pleb populace would be more complacent and accepting of their circumstances