/lit/ - Literature

>going on Reddit

Back to >>>/reddit/ with you.

>>8904025
fuck off, faggot

>bragging about reading 12 books in a year

and i thought /lit/ was bad HOLY FUCK

we're a bunch of edgy psueds and we're literally some of the only people in our generation carrying the torch of classic literature... even english majors these days are getting by solely on gender/postcolonial studies. we're it lads.

>>8904035
Your mom sucks dick for free. Unless it's mine, then she has to pay me.

I always wonder if there are people on /lit/ who came directly from reddit or other sites and never graduated from /b/.

>>8904025
Want to make a top post on /books? Just say something along the lines that reading is important and it totally changed your life, it literally saved you and bla bla. The karma whoring there is ridiculous.

I like to browse subreddits of people confessing shit about their lives.

>>8904025
holy fuck i'm mad

>>8904106
the answer is obviously no

>>8904025
For those who don't want to expose themselves to the toxicity of Reddit, here is what was posted by the 12 books guy:

I always found reading to be a bit of a chore. There is so much visual stimulating mediums out there with television series, movies, video games, etc. that I found staring at pages to be a bore. After turning 29 this past January with a wife and a three year old, my free time was very sporadic. I needed a hobby I could do in spurts and that I could put down whenever I wanted.

So I decided I would write. I used to write all the time in High School. I write on forums and Reddit all the time. How hard could writing fiction be? I fired up Word one night, popped my knuckles, and started. An hour later, the empty white screen of Page 1 taunted me. I was lost. And the most common advice I kept reading was that "to write, you need to read". It made sense. A chef needs to taste all the ingredients and try different food to know how to combine those flavors to achieve the dish they wish to create. Reading a cookbook will show you how to put ingredients together, but not explain why you are putting them together. A writer needs to experience how words go together, not just read about how to properly construct a sentence.

So I scrapped any writing goals I had this year and shifted to reading. I told myself I would make the time to read one book a month. 12 books this year. It was going to be hard, painful, and boring.

I was wrong.

I signed up Goodreads and bought my first book in a decade. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell. After the first few chapters something happened. It was like I was put on autopilot and things just clicked. The pages pretty much disappeared and as I was reading, the words painted literal scenes in my head. It is really hard to describe but it was something I never experienced when I was forced to read "the classics" in school.

I finished my last book of the year, book 4 in Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, The Saxon Shore. My stats according to Goodread's "2016 - Your Year In Books":

Total Books Read: 23 Total Pages Read: 9215

That is staggering for me. I almost doubled my goal this year. The longest and most popular book I read this year was Shogun by James Clavell. I ended up loving that book so much I bought a few copies and handed them out to some friends of mine as Christmas gifts.

(1/2)

>>8904116
Cont.

I can't imagine not reading now. My kindle goes with me everywhere and every opportunity to snag a few minutes of reading time I take.

I read a few things that were harder to get through, but I didn't find difficult. But.. when you find something that clicks with you... it feels like you are transported a new world. Words disappear and all you see is the story you are experiencing.

Honestly, my original thoughts of writing have been completely cooled off. There is so much out there to read. So much to consume. The thought that every book I see when I walk into a library could be a portal to a completely new world is exciting.

Reading is exciting. I look forward to it almost every day. A whole new world, well millions of them, have been opened to me.

(2/2)

>>8904119
Gotta be honest with ya, that was so powerful, I almost shed a tear.

The way that guy wrote about it is cancer but I think it's nice he has rediscovered reading for pleasure.

Sometimes I think /lit/ forgets reading is meant to be fun as well

>>8904116
>>8904119
alright alright, this dudes obviously the duke of plebtown, C. Ommoner. But c'mon.. at least he started reading. I mean its clear the dude is enjoying his newfound hobby. Sure he's mostly reading super pleb stuff, but who are we to shit all over him for actually exploring something he previously thought was of no worth?

>>8904175
Fun?

>>8904190
we're patricians

>>8904175

>>8904116
>>8904119
At least he's having fun. Look at you, /lit/. Are you having fun reading?

>>8904190
I agree with this. I think 4chan is often too cynical.

I absolutely despised reading for most of my life until 24. There are many reasons to blame for that, most of which is the garbage kids are made to read in American schools. The teacher would always be like "we're going to find a book for you that you like" and they'd give all these YA books that pander to kids about loneliness or acceptance and these many didactic moral lessons that are just completely devoid of and interesting shifts or moral questions. Between that and trying to force high school kids to understand the subtleties of Shakespeare or Jane Austen, the American school attitude toward literature is absolute garbage that underestimates the intelligence of kids and then try to jump them straight to Beowulf.

As a result I didn't read a full real book until maybe the 9th grade. From about 16-23 I read about a book a year, several by Stanislaw Lem, White Noise by Delillo, some Brett Easton Ellis and a lot of nonfiction but it was always a chore and I would start and stop 20 or 30 books a year.

Around 24 though, I decided for some reason that I wanted to read Book of the New Sun and that really clicked. The fact that it was broken into 4 books with tiny chapters probably helped a lot. Made it very easy to keep reading with a good stopping point and it actually had enough substance to it to keep me reading and interested. Since then I read maybe a 150-200 pages a week.

It's an awesome feeling when you finally find that love for literature. It's like an entirely separate world opens and you suddenly have access to whole realms of thought that you previously thought closed for you or too laborious to attempt.

Anyway, wrapping up this blog post. I get why that guy feels so good, and yeah it would be nice for him to read slightly more challenging stuff but it's not like he's reading the Hunger Games or twilight and everyone has to start somewhere.

Take it easy, guys.

ITT:

>well at least the kids are reading!

Fuck off you cunts. You sound like your pleb parents.

>>8904106

>>8904402
holy fug

If your glutamate isn't inducing double-stranded DNA breaks then you're not reading.

>>8904320
Having fun is for babies. I'm a man, I have the classics instead.

Nigga this >>8904060 can't be true. Anybody knows about some good non-pleb literature forum?

>>8904420
>not taking 500mg of magnesium and a b-complex every 300 pages
>not minmaxing the methionine cycle and homocysteine metabolism

I bet you want your glial astrocytes suffocated by tau and amyloid brambles, you fucking brainlet.

>>8904083
My process was:
/b/ → /v/ → /co/ → /tv/ → /lit/

>>8904025
holy shit wow, normies are being normies

>you have to go back

>>8904382
tl;dr

>>8904485
>fireworks are called "fake fire" in poorspeak

>>8904489
>>fireworks are called "fake fire" in poorspeak
Artificial means more than fake. It also means made by men's hand or art.

-ars,artis → work, opera
-facere → to do

>poorspeak
I may be poor, but I'm gonna hop the border soon, so...

>>8904485
Didn't you miss two squares


I hate the new captcha, use the legacy one

>>8904083
I remember visiting b when I was 14 and being scared away after seeing all the gore and porn.

>Who, in your opinion, is the most badass female character in all literature?
>Eowyn from LOTR. The scene where she kills the Witch King proclaiming "I am no man" is one of my favorite scenes of all literature.

>>8904190
It's funny because the majority of /lit/ only pretend to read

Let's get even more outraged together, guys.

Someone go to twitter and find a female author who complains about white men.

Someone go to tumblr and find a feminist or a numale who says something bad about masculinity

Someone go to facebook and find a nonwhite saying something stupid about literature

Bring back your loot and let us erect our idealized self-image by jerking each other off

>>8904505
I remember visiting b and thinking "holy moley... I want more"

>>8904213
>>8904290
>>8904427
Never ceases to surprise me how people on such high horses can still reach their keyboards

Cancer thread.

MODS please do your job. Reddit threads are absolutely worthless.

>>8904513
>getting butthurt over 4chan shitposts
Go to reddit normie

>>8904513

>>8904539
>getting butthurt over shitposts

Yes. What's the issue?

>>8904025
>be /lit
>try to be special snowflake cuz I actually read book
>ponder to other elitist pricks about how elitist you are instead of actually discussing books
>realize no one on /lit/ actually reads or doesn't have the mental capacity to form original thoughts

you guys are pathetic

>>8904541
Ressentiment is ressentiment

>>8904548
>get mad that 4chan makes fun of redditors
>so le pathetic! Loser virgin autists
Spotted the redditor

>>8904557
>virgin detected

>>8904561
Not a virgin m8, just a concerned 4chan user calling out redditors and normies where I see them

>the same 3 pictures every time polacks get mad

>>8904570
>normies

You aren't on /r9k/, you pathetic piece of shit

>>8904573
He's been here for one whole day

>>/lit/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=IMG_0576.png&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post

>>8904573
>>8904574
I don't even care anymore. This board has been lowering in quality because redditors want to make everything about them
>le r9k frogpostera need to be hanged
>disagree with me? gb2pol xD
>stop being mean to people! This is a safe space
You newfags haven't managed to integrate to 4chan culture at all, and then you go and ruin every thread with your obnoxious liberal snark, it's exhausting.

>>8904582
It's a good picture.

>>8904582
Thats one dedicated froggy.

>>8904585
Ah, you're the one who thought there was a conspiracy against conservative views when your bait thread was deleted:
>>/lit/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=IMG_0574.png&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post

And all frog faggots do need to be hanged.

You're new. You probably came when the 'le reddit socialist invasion' picture was posted on /pol/ and /r9k/ 800000 times, and now you're here to wage ideological war.

How many of the threads in pic related did you create? That was yesterday. This isn't a reddit invasion, it's a /pol9k/ one

>>8904585
There's a reason though. The board has been lowering quality because of people making threads that has nothing to do with literature lately.

>>8904585
But you, the brave aryan soldier, still make your stand against the omnious threat of the red(just like them commies!!!)ittors. Fighting the good fight all day without rest or monetary compensation.

>>8904599
>redditor calling me new
I wasn't spamming shit, put I do recognize that the mods are biased.

My issue is with people here who act like this is reddit's offsite meme factory and get mad at imaginary enemies.

Frogfaggotry is integral to 4chan. The ability to discuss controversial ideas and to have fun shitposting is too. But redditors need to go in every fucking thread and make the same lame "jokes" (usually attacks on the character of posters, calling them virgins, Nazis, etc). It's just so predictable. I wish reddit had a good literature board so you guys didn't need to come here, we'd all be better off.
>>8904605
Reddit-tier

>>8904607
You sound triggered.

>>8904607
>usually attacks on the character of posters, calling them virgins, Nazis, etc
>"REDDITOR, REDDITOR, REDDITOR!"

>>8904119
>so much to consume

Plebs see reading as consuming books.
Fuck.
Fuck.
REEEEEEEEEEE

>>8904616
>>8904620
reeee and so on

>>8904320
Yes, i am actually. At least while reading.

YOU'RE ALL FROM REDDIT

>>8904402

how can you not have a powerful enough mind to imagine someone moving?

>>8904633
>filename isnt IMG_XXXX.jpg
Immersion ruined.

>>8904633
I'm not

>>8904633
Milhouse likes reddit!

>>8904627
Smug pepes only make it more clear how badly you shit up the board
I don't give a fuck what your views are or where you came from if you follow the rules of /lit/, namely, not making threads about your autistic politics or thinly-veiled excuses to whine about women and blacks and instead making threads about books

>>8904667
This.

He'll call you reddit now, though

>>8904402
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>8904106
except we have those threads on /lit/ ...

>>8904585
dumb frogposter

There is a lot to learn from reddit. Specifically how not to become a shepherded normie that can only speak in a systematic pattern. I only go on there because I study rhetoric and am doing research on this stupid way of speaking redditors have which contributes 80% of their vapid smugness. The most important thing is to either start or end what you say with some vaguely condescending old timey Cracked bequeathal of satisfaction (and always satisfaction) such as "you, I like you" or "god bless you you magnificent bastard." Then there are lots of autistic fillings you can put in, which are mostly references and never ever original content. Maybe I'll post the thesis on here someday.

>>8904735
Please don't.

>>8904735
Please do.

>>8904077
desu most of our moms suck dick for free

>>8904433
/r/ literature

>>8904025
falseflagging

>>8904320
I haven't been having fun since I was born.

>>8904083
I got here by literally clicking a link from reddit. My friends told me never to go to /b/, and for years I just assumed that /b/ was all of 4chan so I avoided the whole website. Eventually when I got sick of reddit and all the shitty dead message boards out there I gave in and jumped ship over here. Now I'm kicking myself for not coming here years ago when I had the opportunity. There's literally no other place on the internet with a high volume of discussion about geek interests, aside from maybe Twitter which is pure cancer.

>>8904502
>I may be poor, but I'm gonna hop the border soon, so...

BUILD THE WALL

>>8904777
Disgusting

>>8904541
>He posts a /v/ image

>>8904777
>I came from reddit
>scared of /b/
>geek interests
I bet you unironically tell people to go to /pol/ and /r9k/. Graduate from newfag college before you tell us how the site should be like you fucking normie. We hate reddit for a reason.

>>8904627
Me on the left

You on the right

>>8904831
>he's still here
>he spends his holidays keeping 4chan pure from the reddit menace
>4 free

>>8904842
>Me on the left
This isn't Twitter

>>8904831
>He's STILL trying to convince people that /pol9k/ is real
Feel free to stop larping at any time

>>8904831
That image was made by a newfag. You can tell because they're a dumb frogposter who probably came to /b/ to look at ylyl threads.

>>8904831
I love the fact that no other board has as many redditors on board as /pol/.

>>8904831
I didn't say anything about how the website should be, nor did I say anything about /pol/ or /r9k/. What the fuck are you talking about?

>>8904845
>reddit newfag misuses a 4chan meme
Why am I not surprised
>>8904853
Nope.
>>8904858
>y-you're a le newfag!

>>8904851
>He just realized that this isn't Twitter

>>8904831
>>8904845
>he's posted this pic 6 times in the last 24 hours

the absolute state of frogmen

>>8904861
m8, /pol/ colonized Reddit not the other way around. Redditors hate /pol/
>>8904862
t. leddit shitstain
You need to lurk for at least 2 years to be one of us

>>8904864
Yep.
It's SAD, really

>>8904627
Haha ohhh he bouta do it again
>>8904831
Ohhhh ho ho HE DOIN IT AGAIN

>>8904876
>le twitter nigger humor

>>8904873
>Shit didn't bathe in us, we bathed in shit!
>Checkmate shitlord!
Again, you can stop larping anytime.

>>8904025
>reddit
>phone
out

>>8904886
>implying the_Donald wasn't a necessary evil to win the election

>>8904873
I'm well aware that the_donald is 4chans work. The funny side effect is that now you have all those brainless reddit drones coming to /pol/ to get those dank maga memes straight from the original source. Yes, /pol/ made reddit shift a bit to the right but in exchange they got the biggest wave of reddit newfags in the history of 4chan. Enjoy your new friends.

>>8904903
If they're for securing a future for the white race and getting women back in the kitchen, then I'm all for it

>>8904903
Sounds like some alegory for the Middle East and the Western world.

>>8904907
Have an upvote, good sir!

>>8904116
>>8904119

holy...i want more

>>8904919
>he hasn't taken the redpill

back to plebbit, invader scum

>>8904898
It did nothing to effect the election. All it did was birth the larping ledditor frogmen horde.

>>8904903
If there are any reddit newfags to /pol/, they're quickly becoming integrated into the culture. Nu-anons don't. And the Donald isn't NEARLY as extreme as /pol/ is.

>>8904926
Holy...
Here's some gold!

>>8904926
xD epic satire friend! I wish I could upvote this a thousand times!

>>8904907
All they will do is water down your little board culture and take the wind out of your sails with an endless amount of "funny" shit threads.

>>8904935
XXDD

>>8904926
you, I like you

>>8904927
Nope. Trump wouldn't have been elected had it not been for /pol/ memeing.

Man I remembered just now making a 6 part anti-reddit post on /fit/ in 2011.

It's like start of WW2, still raging on 5 years later..

>>8904933
>>8904935
This. Clearly satire. Bet he doesn't even authentically hate women and degenerates

>tfw I've browsed 4chan since 2008 and have never once visited reddit
>tfw routinely called redditor by the redpillers

>>8904941
>a 6 part anti-reddit post on 4chan
Literally Rebbit.

>>8904940
That's not we're talking about.
Bathing in shit didn't effect the election at all.

>>8904116
>>8904119
>29
>a wife and a three year old

reddit is composed of literally nothing but prematurely old people that have granite kitchens and ride bikes for fun

>>8904960
the_Donald helped bring a LOT of normies to vote for Trump.

This is why /pol/ is the cancer killing 4chan. Nobody would care about their political bullshit if they just kept it to the political board. Instead they're trying to make the entire website a neo-nazi breeding ground, dragging their shit into unrelated boards and bringing down board quality. They're not here to discuss anything, they're here to recruit. It's pure fucking cancer and it needs to be excised.

>>8904960
>effect

>>8904973
It wouldn't be an issue if you didn't call everyone "/pol/"

>>8904973
hehe your redditor

>>8904967
26 is a good age for a kid though.
And I wish I could get a granite kitchen but thats not popular here and importing it would probably too much.

>>8904973
They're the new furries.

>>8904967
The young at heart though, they love their video games. Their wives even make them Zelda themed cakes and pillows.

>>8904967
/pol/ is like that too. They fantasize about having a steady paycheck and a nuclear family. They work on fitness, investments, fashion, and literature to feel mature.

>>8904989
/pol/ thinks reading is for brainwashed numale cucks

>>8904967
It's pathetic honestly. I can't imagine living the boring life of a reddit nu-male

>>8904986
>Wives
Poor cucks. If only they'd taken the redpill before making the worst mistake of their lives.

>>8904992
t. has never been to /pol/
>people who disagree with me are dumb and uneducated
Why do liberals think this?

>>8904992
It is.

>>8904995
This honestly.

anime waifus > real wives

They're retarded

>>8904973
Before the /leftypol/ invasion there were stormfront, jidf, ctr, and other groups trying to recruit people. Another tactic is to just shitpost to prevent people from discussing anything important. The Russian and American governments have used this extensively as well.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/irina-borogan-andrei-soldatov/kremlin-versus-bloggers-battle-for-cyberspace

>"This boiled down to an aggressive invasion of discussion forums used by liberal commentators, where vulgar and indecent language and personal insults were used with the aim of scaring off contributors and even shutting down the forums completely. The idea was that self-respecting people would stop accessing forums where discussions were conducted in such a way."

>>8905004
>believing the Russian intervention myth

>>8904996
>Only liberals think the opposition is stupid
>Implying the entire concept that anything that isn't redpill is a collective delusion isn't the same concieted attitude