/lit/ - Literature

>>12064183
>implying I don't want the obsolescence of work
If anything the automation issue was the first issue that allowed me to see such class relationship so blatantly.

>>12054580
>Stealing IPs is meritorious
I guess China's ascent to global domination via that technique is justified then

This is a public service announcement for all newcomers to /lit/ brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. Those of us who have long called this board home have noticed a significant deterioration in posting quality and an influx of plebs in the last few months. We can attribute this to it being summer or that many of out top 100 charts were posted on reddit and viewed many hundreds of thousands of times, but whatever we blame it on doesn't change the facts of the matter which is that plebs who don't belong here are shitting threads up.

Thus, this public service announcement was made for those who are determined to stay even if they are way over their heads. Here are some important things you need to get through your head if you are going to stay and post without being ridiculed. Take notes.


1. Under no circumstances will you ever praise or even mention any book taught in a standard high school curriculum unless it's clear that the book is already well-received on /lit/ (to account for the few good books/authors occasionally taught in some high schools like Shakespeare, Conrad, Nabokov etc. The vast majority of books taught in high-school are complete pleb shit.

2. Genre-fiction is pleb trash and anyone who reads it frequently should be curb-stomped. If you are going to post in bookshelf threads then take your GRR Martin et al., off of the shelf before you photograph it you retards. Don't ever mention genre-fiction unless its in a containment thread specifically for it.

3. Israel did 9/11

4. Don't ever defend yourself by trying to insinuate that the person ridiculing you for your shit taste is simply trying to get you to stop liking what they themselves don't like. This will instantly reveal you to be a mega-pleb. There is objectively bad literature and roughly 85% of the time people here are being honest with you when they say an author you like is trash.

5. Don't ever bring identity politics into threads on /lit/. We are here to discuss literature and not women or minorities. If you want to have a thread asking about favorite women authors thats fine but don't ever attempt to use "all white men etc" as an argument to detract from something. Also don't ever ask why literature from African authors isn't more popular (its mostly shit). Bringing up identity bullshit needlessly irritates even most left-wing /lit/ posters.

6. /Lit/s harsh attitude towards plebs and pleb books is a necessary and vital part of the board as it helps maintain a homeostasis of quality by weeding out and discouraging plebs from posting.

7. Anything by Douglas Addams, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, B.E.E., Bukowski, Palahniuk, or Orwell is complete pleb trash and not to be mentioned.

8. Start with the Greeks or Indians, when you finish one read the other


Brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. For those of you who are already patricians™, don't give up hope. For those of you who are newcomers, at least try to make it less obvious.

This is a public service announcement for all newcomers to /lit/ brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. Those of us who have long called this board home have noticed a significant deterioration in posting quality and an influx of plebs in the last few months. We can attribute this to it being summer or that many of out top 100 charts were posted on reddit and viewed many hundreds of thousands of times, but whatever we blame it on doesn't change the facts of the matter which is that plebs who don't belong here are shitting threads up.

Thus, this public service announcement was made for those who are determined to stay even if they are way over their heads. Here are some important things you need to get through your head if you are going to stay and post without being ridiculed. Take notes.


1. Under no circumstances will you ever praise or even mention any book taught in a standard high school curriculum unless it's clear that the book is already well-received on /lit/ (to account for the few good books/authors occasionally taught in some high schools like Shakespeare, Conrad, Nabokov etc. The vast majority of books taught in high-school are complete pleb shit.

2. Genre-fiction is pleb trash and anyone who reads it frequently should be curb-stomped. If you are going to post in bookshelf threads then take your GRR Martin et al., off of the shelf before you photograph it you retards. Don't ever mention genre-fiction unless its in a containment thread specifically for it.

3. Israel did 9/11

4. Don't ever defend yourself by trying to insinuate that the person ridiculing you for your shit taste is simply trying to get you to stop liking what they themselves don't like. This will instantly reveal you to be a mega-pleb. There is objectively bad literature and roughly 85% of the time people here are being honest with you when they say an author you like is trash.

5. Don't ever bring identity politics into threads on /lit/. We are here to discuss literature and not women or minorities. If you want to have a thread asking about favorite women authors thats fine but don't ever attempt to use "all white men etc" as an argument to detract from something. Also don't ever ask why literature from African authors isn't more popular (its mostly shit). Bringing up identity bullshit needlessly irritates even most left-wing /lit/ posters.

6. /Lit/s harsh attitude towards plebs and pleb books is a necessary and vital part of the board as it helps maintain a homeostasis of quality by weeding out and discouraging plebs from posting.

7. Anything by Douglas Addams, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, B.E.E., Bukowski, Palahniuk, or Orwell is complete pleb trash and not to be mentioned.

8. Start with the Greeks or Indians, when you finish one read the other


Brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. For those of you who are already patricians™, don't give up hope. For those of you who are newcomers, at least try to make it less obvious.

>>11613324
>media interests dictate your quality of life
>having a reaction macro means you're an anime nut
you're just a brainlet I'm afraid

This is a public service announcement for all newcomers to /lit/ brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. Those of us who have long called this board home have noticed a significant deterioration in posting quality and an influx of plebs in the last few months. We can attribute this to it being summer or that many of out top 100 charts were posted on reddit and viewed many hundreds of thousands of times, but whatever we blame it on doesn't change the facts of the matter which is that plebs who don't belong here are shitting threads up.

Thus, this public service announcement was made for those who are determined to stay even if they are way over their heads. Here are some important things you need to get through your head if you are going to stay and post without being ridiculed. Take notes.


1. Under no circumstances will you ever praise or even mention any book taught in a standard high school curriculum unless it's clear that the book is already well-received on /lit/ (to account for the few good books/authors occasionally taught in some high schools like Shakespeare, Conrad, Nabokov etc. The vast majority of books taught in high-school are complete pleb shit.

2. Genre-fiction is pleb trash and anyone who reads it frequently should be curb-stomped. If you are going to post in bookshelf threads then take your GRR Martin et al., off of the shelf before you photograph it you retards. Don't ever mention genre-fiction unless its in a containment thread specifically for it.

3. Israel did 9/11

4. Don't ever defend yourself by trying to insinuate that the person ridiculing you for your shit taste is simply trying to get you to stop liking what they themselves don't like. This will instantly reveal you to be a mega-pleb. There is objectively bad literature and roughly 85% of the time people here are being honest with you when they say an author you like is trash.

5. Don't ever bring identity politics into threads on /lit/. We are here to discuss literature and not women or minorities. If you want to have a thread asking about favorite women authors thats fine but don't ever attempt to use "all white men etc" as an argument to detract from something. Also don't ever ask why literature from African authors isn't more popular (its mostly shit). Bringing up identity bullshit needlessly irritates even most left-wing /lit/ posters.

6. /Lit/s harsh attitude towards plebs and pleb books is a necessary and vital part of the board as it helps maintain a homeostasis of quality by weeding out and discouraging plebs from posting.

7. Anything by Douglas Addams, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, B.E.E., Bukowski, Palahniuk, or Orwell is complete pleb trash and not to be mentioned.

8. Start with the Greeks or Indians, when you finish one read the other


Brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. For those of you who are already patricians™, don't give up hope. For those of you who are newcomers, at least try to make it less obvious.

>>11121905

It's adorable that that's what she told you. :3

Say hi to T'Shaun'Dav'eus for me.

>>9678546
>he thinks translating is difficult

>>9674647
I think I hate the /r9k/ mentality of being against weed just because 'normies' use it and bitching about it 24/7 as much as I hate burnout stoners obsessed with weed culture. There are people who smoke who are faggots about it and those who aren't. There are people who don't smoke who are faggots about it and those wo aren't. You, OP, are one of those faggots.

I don't smoke, by the way.

>>9377206
>Determinism, but I'm

>>8864878

Name some of your favorite literary film adaptions.

Teaching a Stone to Talk
Chuck the rest into the garbage bin

>>8619019
Faust
<tiny power gap>
Deus Ex

I bet JC and Goethe would have been friends in real life

I've never experienced the other two, actually I probably have the Beet-oven but can't recall the nature of the works by number alone so it is more or less like I've not experienced them

>>8572560
If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Is Infinite Jest anything but a meme? What's the charm of a novel that no one can understand, and which only appeal is the absurd?

>>7902934
>cute
she looks like she prematurely turned into someones aunt. i can bet she smells like mold

This is a public service announcement for all newcomers to /lit/ brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. Those of us who have long called this board home have noticed a significant deterioration in posting quality and an influx of plebs in the last few months that within the past week has become acute. We can attribute this to the Katie fiasco making the front page of reddit or one of our top 100 book lists being posted on reddit and getting over a million views or other events but whatever we blame it on doesn't change the facts of the matter which is that plebs who don't belong here are shitting threads up.

Thus, this public service announcement was made for those who are determined to stay even if they are way over their heads. Here are some important things you need to get through your head if you are going to stay and post without being ridiculed. Take notes.


1. Under no circumstances will you ever praise any book taught in a standard high school curriculum as anything but an enjoyable read from your past that you don't care much about now. The vast majority of books taught in high-school are complete pleb shit. The only exceptions to this are Nabokov and Conrad as they are taught at some schools.

2. Genre-fiction is pleb trash and anyone who reads it frequently should be curb-stomped. If you are going to post in bookshelf threads then take your GRR Martin et al., off of the shelf before you photograph it you retards. Don't ever mention genre-fiction unless its in a containment thread specifically for it.

3. Israel did 9/11

4. Don't ever defend yourself by inferring or saying that the person ridiculing you is doing the "stop liking what I don't like". This will instantly reveal you to be a mega-pleb. There is objectively bad literature and roughly 85% of the time people here are being honest with you when they say an author you like is trash.

5. Don't ever bring identity politics into threads on /lit/. We are here to discuss literature and not women or minorities. If you want to have a thread asking about favorite women authors thats fine but don't ever attempt to use "all white men etc" as an argument to detract from something. Also don't ever ask why literature from African authors isn't more popular (its mostly shit). Bringing up identity bullshit needlessly irritates even most left-wing /lit/ posters.

6. /Lit/s harsh attitude towards plebs and pleb books is a necessary and vital part of the board as it helps maintain a homeostasis of quality by weeding out and discouraging plebs from posting.

7. Anything by Douglas Addams, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, Palahniuk, or Orwell is complete pleb trash and not to be mentioned.

8. Start with the Greeks


Brought to you by a /lit/ patrician™. For those of you who are already patricians™, don't give up hope. For those of you who are newcomers, at least try to make it less obvious.

>>7256027
>implying human nature

>>7221518

You are coming off as an obnoxious jerk, just stop. Being open-minded is a virtue, and you really shouldn't be so eager to tell people they are wrong for disagreeing. Its not even correcting false statements, you are just needlessly nit-picking and shitting up the thread.

>>6952640
i am proud to be an atheist though since it draws a clear distinction between me and you morons who have been brainwashed and blinded by your own contrarianism and ironic shitposting