/lit/ - Literature

>>22290839
>didn't properly understood it

>>18709466
>Hurr durr everything's subjective. I'm so cool.
Where is your evidence. Certain things are objectively disgusting (rotten flesh) by that logic, there are some traits which are objectively beautiful.

>>18637597
>haha life is about immediate satisfaction bro
>wat do u mean I'll never feel the joy of having created something
>wat do u mean I'll never be able to appreciate the deeper joys in life, those that come from tedious study
>wat do u mean my dopamine receptors will just burn out at some point anyway
dumb frogposter

>>17418224
>lives in a country where women aren't disgusting "liberated" fuckholes with three-digit body counts yet
>is somehow complaining about this

Do stories need good characters?

imagine thinking that homer is not a hyper-realistic piece of literature

>>13272044

>>12882337
>Gemmell kinda sucks as an actual fantasy writer, he just has really good action

>>12838131
>Who gives a fuck about "literary prose"

How do i learn to be a good judge of literature? Like, if someone asks me why i like Blood Meridian i'll answer "uuhhh like, the prose was very good y'know and like the Judge was pretty cool and the descriptions were nice i guess". I can't form a coherent reason on why i like it. I wanna learn how to be an incisive critic, specifying exactly what techniques, and why they're good, that makes certain works of literature, good books. What books should i read?

Any advice for a brainlet trying to read difficult books? I'm having a tough time reading Gravity's Rainbow and JR. pls help

>>12678724
>they've been saying it's a ghost that has nothing to do with the brain
You're just some idiot, but some actual scientists think like you do and that's the appalling thing.

>>12612653

I read some of his shit briefly and I didn't understand anything, so I dismissed his oeuvre as pretentious wankery

Hello /lit/, brainlet here.
I just started reading Smith's Wealth of Nations and I don't fucking understand a lot of the words. How do I make my knowledge of old english better? Just read? Any suggestions?

>>12133165
For sale: books, unmarked.

tHoMaS pYnChOn AkA dA pYnChMeIsTeR

>>12103033
>technology is culture
Bravo, Nolan.

>>12097496
>different axiomatic systems are necessarily contradictory and mutually exclusive
It's time to go back to asking /sci/ how to integrate e^x and reinstalling archloonix, based stemlord.

How do I put down my cell phone and video games and read a book without being bored in 2 minutes?

>>11987404
>fashionable nonsense
>destroy western civilization
>jews

“fiction isn’t worth reading”

>>11887405
>masturbating to literature

>Arms akimbo