/lit/ - Literature

>the hunchback’s tale in Arabian Nights

I legitimately think we’re eventually gonna drive butters to suicide and this thought makes me happy.

>finish reading book
>get to start reading another
>mfw

>mfw reading book and can start reading a new one

>>14247398

>mfw family gives me Chapters/Indigo gift cards so I can just order the books I want and not get weird looks for wanting incel books

>tfw don't need drugs because I'm high on life

>>13969264

>mfw Bojack Horseman is finally ending next year

>tell mom I'm gonna live the /lit/ life
>mfw she was cool with it as long as it doesn't get in the way of my chores

Do your parents approve of you living the /lit/ life?

>>13628319

>reading feels like a chore
>put away the boring old classic or philosophy book
>actually read something entertaining
>mfw actually having fun reading again

woah

>finally stopped trying to comprehend super complex philosophy/politics books
>finally stopped slogging through boring old outdated "classics"
>started to read just what I want to read for entertainment purposes
>mfw happier than I've ever been in life

You say Plato, I say Paulo Coelho
You say Kafka, I say King
You say Dostoevsky, I say Dan Brown
You say Hegel, I say Harry Potter
You say The Bible, I say Fuck Off!

Life is too short to read what you don't like. Everyone here complains about being depressed and hating everything, and you obviously aren't finding answers in your precious /lit/core books, so you really need to chill and enjoy a nice story, simply told, with likable characters.

>>13496555

>read 10 pages of book
>shitpost of 4chan
>read another 10 pages
>update threads, shitpost some more
>read another 10 pages
>...
>mfw got lots of shitposting AND reading done today

Recommend me some books so I can fit in over there.

>he's scared that we might be right
i get to live happily while you have to live in fear of burning in hell

>>13443835

>read 10 pages of book
>shitpost on 4chan for a bit
>read another 10 pages of book
>shitpost on 4chan some more
>read another 10 pages of book
>....

>>13328856

>not intelligent enough to understand Joyce
>mfw intelligent enough to understand DFW

First day as a new man. So far so good. Woke up, took a shower and about to head for work. Will do some reading once I'm done with work. I'm tempted to read the Bible.

I hope you have a good day anons.

>Charles Dickens
>Jane Austen
>Victor Hugo
>J. D. Salinger
>Kurt Vonnegut
>Joseph Heller

>>13014368

>that kid who bought every new Guinness World Record book every year and was the coolest kid for a week before everyone got bored of it until next year

that kid was me.

Putting it quite simply and politely, what literature can help me become a decent fellow?

>>12610517
>mfw

>>12530403

>read a few pages
>check on threads
>read a few pages
>check on threads
>repeat all day
>mfw get my reading and my shitposting done

>>12469895

>read forward/introduction
>it actually provides important historical, biographical, and philosophical context
>mfw end up appreciating the book better having read it

>>12293937

>read a Victorian novel
>adequate amount of description which serves the story very well
>paragraphs of beautiful writing and intricate sentences, while still being very clear
>author clearly puts effort into the moral implications of his or her story and is very refreshing in our amoral post-modern age

>>12282801

>tfw parents gave me Chapters giftcard so I can just get whatever books I want