/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15488548]

ITT: Books/poems people read because they think they will make them appear more intelligent than they really are

[Anonymous No.15488558]

>>15488548
ITT: we denounce books we got filtered by so we can feel better about ourselves

[Anonymous No.15488569]

>>15488558
Fuck off, Joyce-obsessed pseud. How's Starbucks treating you?

[Anonymous No.15488669]

>>15488569
Cringe

[Anonymous No.15488675]

All of them. Does anyone actually enjoy reading? You only read books because not having read any books is shameful.

[Anonymous No.15488680]

>>15488669
Cope

[Anonymous No.15488692]

>>15488680
Yikes.

[Anonymous No.15488705]

>>15488558

/thread

[Anonymous No.15488781]

>>15488692
Dilate

[Anonymous No.15489093]

>>15488781
Ugh

[Anonymous No.15489106]

>>15488569
Do you need to cope this hard because you found a book difficult?

[Anonymous No.15489110]

>>15488569
>joyce-obssessed
lmao, did joyce rape your mom? if anything the obsessed one is you

[Anonymous No.15489135]

[Anonymous No.15489143]

>>15488558
holy based

[Anonymous No.15489150]

>>15488548
Rent free

[Anonymous No.15489153]

>>15488548

[Anonymous No.15489156]

>>15488548

[Anonymous No.15489165]

>>15488548
Das Kapital
Ulysses
Crime and Punishment
Brothers Karamazov
Gravity's Rainbow
1984
Atlas Shrugged
Infinite Jest
10 rules for life

[Anonymous No.15489172]

>>15489156
lmao u'r retarded.
If anything IJ should be a guilty pleasure of a person trying to come off as intellectual and intelligent.
moron

[Anonymous No.15489186]

This is a hard pill to swallow

[Anonymous No.15489199]

https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/sub

[Anonymous No.15489332]

>>15488692
>>15489093
>>15489106
At least I'm not gay

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1hzdr7/joyces_ulysses_is_not_a_great_book_and_absolutely/

[Anonymous No.15489357]

>>15489332
Massive cope faggot

[Anonymous No.15489448]

These threads always make me sad, not because people don't like books I like -- that's fine; I don't expect people to like the meme trilogy -- but because people like OP can't imagine other people liking these books at all. They can't see how people think reading Ulysses is fun or rewarding. Someone even named the Iliad. He doesn't even think fucking Homer is worth his time.

I don't give a shit what people think about me; I read for myself. /lit/ can understand that often, and people here do read and recommend great and challenging literature, but these kinds of threads make me feel like a foreigner. Rejecting books full of passion and beauty and creativity.

/lit/ is dead; long live the pseud circlejerk

[Anonymous No.15489472]

>>15489448
It's exaggerated by the increase of phoneposters. /lit/ always used to have a layer of effortposting/careposting and a much thicker layer of people skimming threads for excuses to post some shallow contrarian shit. But phoneposting has turned the board into almost entirely the latter.

The real posts are still there, at least residually. I know a few people who browse less and less because of it and I'm considering leaving too. Soon it will only be zoomers talking to eachother like those abandoned servers in old FPS games where it's just bots.

[Anonymous No.15489490]

>>15489472
[Spoiler] how the fuck do you unwire your brain from chan habbits though? I've been here since fucking 2007 on different boards, and it's like a tic[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.15489526]

>the reddit man said so

his argument is that you can't tell what's happening in the text, which is just plain wrong. You don't even need annotations for that. It's fun to read without "getting" the allusions and you can gather the meaning of most from context. Also, Nietzsche threw that notion he quotes out of the window with Zarathustra which is both deep and obscure.

[Anonymous No.15489654]

>>15489448
I feel the same way, which is why I barely come here anymore. When I do, I get tired after reading a couple of threads. I know it's the cliché, "it was good back in the day", but it's actually the case.
When I started lurking this place there were so many great threads about the meme trilogy, unfortunately at that time I hadn't read any of the books, so I'd just read the thread, very excited to read each of those books. Years later, I've read them, Ulysses multiple times, GR twice, and I come here, and maybe there is one person in a whole thread about Ulysses that has actually read it, or tried to read it.
As you said, no one is forced to read and like anything, but these morons, they haven't even tried, because before even touching the book they had a prejudice and a insecurity so strong, instead of honestly giving it a go, they'd rather just pretend they tried so they can say it's absolute trash, empty, pseud-intellectual book, and find other morons with the same """opinion""", so they can agree and feel better about it, they actually want to believe the book is meaningless.
This place was amazing. I used to read a lot before getting to know /lit/, but only shit books. A while after I started lurking, I decided to read the divine comedy, at that time, I didn't even know who Homer or Virgil were, the progress I made, the books I got to read, in great part, were thanks to many great recomendations from anons. Again, as you said, there are still good posts, but they are scarce.
/rant
/blogpost

[Anonymous No.15489697]

>>15489448
>>15489472
>>15489526
>>15489654
Why do people with wrong opinions always have shit prose?

[Anonymous No.15489717]

I'm surprise this board isn't obsessed with In Search of Lost Time.

[Anonymous No.15489776]

>>15489717
first of all it's written in french.
The retarded anglos are in majority here, they'd rather "obsess" with books written in english, since they are unable to read works in any other language but english in the original.
Second, if only about 5% of the posters here have read GR, imagine how many have read the entirety of ISOTLT.

[Anonymous No.15489797]

>>15489717
that's because it's shit and the translations are even worse

[Anonymous No.15489838]

>>15488558
based

[Anonymous No.15490971]

>>15488569
lol yikes

try reading it before you pretend like it's bad.

Or if you have tried, try harder. Sometimes it takes the dumbs a little longer.

[Anonymous No.15491056]

>>15490971
i read it and understood literally everything

ask me anything at all, you state school peasant

[Anonymous No.15491065]

>>15491056
why are you such a faggot?

[Anonymous No.15491149]

>>15491065
i was raped by my 22 year old female babysitter

[Anonymous No.15491280]

>>15489332
>rambling for paragraphs to say "it's bad because there are too many references"
Are people just incapable of understanding that the enjoyment of massive challenging novels comes from the struggle of comprehending them, and that the pushing of stylistic extremes is behind the universal acclaim of many of the 20th century's masterpieces?
>Nooooooo Ulysses is too intellectual! (despite the splendid prose, characterization, and humor being easily accessible to everyone)
>Nooooooo Gravity's Rainbow is too complicated! (despite the straightforward fetch quest and slapstick humor being easily accessible to everyone)
>Nooooooo Infinite Jest is too encyclopedic! (despite the carefully-built world, plot, and sweeping themes being easily accessible to everyone)
Do these people just want every work of literature to be something they can toss aside after the first speedread?