/lit/ - Literature

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> go to bookstore
> see this book categorised as a book suitable for children
> get told it's an emotional children's book and that because it's so simply written they can read it quickly
> buy it for my nephew
> get told by a close friend the book is actually written simply because statistically that is how autistic people can understand and it relates to their struggle with empathy and awkwardness
> he tells me the outline of the story about the murder of his pet dog by his father who is fucked up after a brutal divorce and the autistic son goes to find his mother
> my brother asks why my young nephew now knows how to say "cunt," "mongoloid" and "spastic"

I know I'm partly to blame here really but fuck bookstores and their clerks who try to talk about books to customers like they've read them when they haven't

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> this much broken english

/lit/erary confessions thread.

confess your sins, plebs.

ITT: literary pet peeves. Shit that gets your goat.

> author directly addresses the reader

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Director: David Cronenberg
Harry Potter: Jeff Goldblum
Ron Weasley: Jeremy Irons
Hermione: Ian Holm
Albus Dumbledore: the re-animated corpse of Marlon Brando
Prof. Snape: 100 year old Kirk Douglass

Composer: Trent Reznor

Production designer: old rusty pots and pans and a bit of newspaper

somebody really needs to do the harry potter franchise some justice