/lit/ - Literature

>>11791983

>>11688748
Is that you nicky?

>>11679424
clickbait. it's why you shouldn't read news websites and instead acquire your news filtered through the /pol/ hivemind, and why shouldn't read culture journalism. instead acquiring your all of your opinions on writing through /lit/
The above statement is a joke but also true

-Obligatory reading recommendation for this comment
—The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

>>11583929
Nicholas Carr talks about how reading a book like Moby Dick is like filling a bath tub drip by drip.
In comparison, the internet is holding a thimble under a raging faucet.

>>11582820

>>11529205
I love how people go into a thread about controversial books and proceed to either post about why the OP book is controversial or start yelling about not allowing threads about said book. The first option I understand because discussion but I’d like to see people also contribute to the actual topic (ie post an example of a controversial book).

The second option is just insecure people being triggered by a controversial topic... in a thread about books that cover controversial topics. In other words pointless posts.

But since you should be the change you want to see in the world, here is pick related. I find that whenever I bring up the topics that Carr covers in this book with anyone who enjoys tech or are addicted to social media they have a tendency to get a pretty defensive.

>Clay Shirky, a digital media scholar at New York University, suggested in a 2008 blog post that we shouldn't waste our time mourning the death of deep reading- it was overrated. "No one reads War and Peace, he wrote...it's too long, and not too interesting...Now that the Internet has granted us abundant "acess", Shirky concluded, we can at last lay those tired habits aside (111).
Reminder reading a book is a useless anachronism; you'd be better off skimming spark notes for 100 books than fully reading a single one.

>>11070376

It's due to the way you're living, the way your brain has adapted.

>>10364791
Read this book if you're interested in the subject