/lit/ - Literature

>>14789552
Nothing doesn't exist.

looking back at the time spent here, it's mostly just relating books one ought to read, but never actually discussing said books with anyone. perhaps this is an unfortunate reality of literature as a medium, given the comparatively large amount of time investment needed to finish a book compared to other hobby boards, and also the fact that /lit/ pays no attention to contemporary books so there is nothing really new to discuss, that recommendations rarely resolve into actual discussion. likewise, outside of a few staple or entry level texts, you often find it impossible to actually discuss a book with anyone; plus discussing those few books people have actually read becomes boring over time, especially because new anons who have read them (bless their hearts for doing that much) tend to say the same thing over and over again. so you're stuck in a bind where you either don't discuss anything at all, or engage in an eternal recurrence of the same newfag posts. so really what do you have left? recommendations or miscellaneous topics. the problem with this is that it has attracted a long line of people asking for recs and an increasingly small pool of people who can actually give them recs, so people just post /lit/ charts which they have no knowledge of, resulting this bizarre form of inter-generational chinese whispers where anons recommend books they haven't read to other anons who themselves don't read. furthermore, this has set the culture of spoonfeeding that has resulted, as you point out, in the most prevalent topic on /lit/ being some variation of a recommendation thread, which begets newfags (the most likely to make such threads) taking it as the standard affair. i mean, at least /fit/ and /ic/ have obnoxious stickies that people are directed towards, but /lit/ is practically a vaguely book-themed /adv/. as for miscellaneous topics, given that /lit/ doesn't follow contemporary literature, this defaults to lowest common denominator topics which can be engaged in without any specific knowledge—so, politics, gossip, and shallow "philosophy". and these threads by their very nature, will always be more accessible, which leads to a perverted political-economy of what threads are made and which get bumped off the catalogue. this is further complicated by the particular crossboardi
fuck it, who cares. /lit/ has so many problems endemic to its situation that there's no point typing anything more

>By the conventional model, there should be intellectual moderate creating some kind of narrative that incorporates both of them.
you cant draw clean water from a poisoned well