/lit/ - Literature

Why is this board infested up to the gills in retards? It used to be intelligent. Is it because the whole "trad" meme made reading books a way to oppose [current thing]? Are you secretly Marcus-Aurelius-reading weightlifter faggots who use books as a fashion accessory? It's not the same political spam, waifu fagging, lazy international banter, and troonery that have killed the other boards. It's a unique form of voluminous idiocy that comes out when people who are simply not intelligent enough to talk about complicated things feel very strongly that it would be in their best interest to do so. For the love of God, go back to talking about anime or whatever the fuck it is you did before surrogate father figures on Twitter told you to read the Stoics and leave the literature board to people who possess at least some facility for language. It's upsetting and embarrassing to come here once a month and see the hostile, retarded midwittery spouting up in place of the circlejerky intellectual sophistication we used to have. I'd rather talk about "the same 6 books" over and over for the rest of time with smart anons than see constant sperging about new shit carried on by mouth breathers with delusions of competence.

i do not want to make a new thread, can i get some recommendations for greek mythology books(i would appreciate it if it was not in some form of old/medievial english, because i am not too familiar with those forms of english)?

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Purely in terms of 'foundational' SF texts; for adventure and accessibility, an early Robert Heinlein book like Red Planet; for something Campbellian/Hard SF, Asimov's I Robot; for something dystopian, Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984; for sword and planet, Burroughs' A Princess Of Mars. For New Wave, Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep.

I'm pig ignorant of space opera but CJ Cherryh's Chanur books are popular around here.