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Did it predict the future of entertainment?
Ask again later
No, because our pictures (memes, if you want) are always joined with texts. Reading is very essential in our modern world, even if it's just for small sentences. Also many books are being sold everyday (shitty or not, it doesn't really matter in my point.)
is this worth reading? i have the turkish translation though.
![tacops[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/pqB1Q4A.png "tacops[1].png")
What does /lit/ think of text-hased multiplayer roleplaying games?
Pic related, people say it's like writing a collective story.
We think they're mud.
>>7667010
Roleplaying in general is one of the rare mediums where postmodernism doesn't feel circle-jerky or clumsy. It rarely makes for good stories; still, the collective experience is fascinating.
My nigga playing SAMP, what server is that? SAMP isn't bad at all as you can experience different scenarios, but it can be addicting and make you waste useful time.
What are your literary guilty pleasure's, /lit/?
I'll go first
I actually enjoyed Cathcer in the Rye. Maybe I should reread to make sure I'm not completely misremembering it, but whatever.
I don't have any. I'm not stupid or insecure.
Catcher in the Rye is one of the greatest American novels so I don't get the problem. You think you're too cool for liking obvious classics or are you too cool to like things other people like?
>>7666021
Sometimes when I really need to center myself I read books with black and white morality because sometimes I really need the good guys to triumph over the bad.
Hey /lit/ I just marathoned the first 20 pages of this book. Does it get better? What did you think about it?
>>7663161
>marathoned
>>7663161
>marathoned the first 20 pages
>>7663161
fank you fo buying my shit sucka hahahaha stupid white peepo
Just wanted to update you guys
>>7667185
>no The Recognitions
>no Women and Men
>no The Tunnel
You fucked up, anon.
>>7667185
gonna hazard a guess that the fault in our stars is only there because there are a lot of john green hate threads and we don't want to disparage authors we haven't read
I mean, we do, but it'd be retarded to do that
>>7667192
Those are forced shit nobody here ever reads
Show me your e-books
>>7666767
I read some books too in iBooks on my phone but mostly poetry and shorter works.
But it sort of trivializes my reading for some reason. I remember my books when they're physical copies
>>7666767
What is the point of this thread?
Are their books generally frowned upon by /lit/? Why? I went to the local bookstore and there were many of classics available for relatively cheap, the only thing that prevented me from buying some was because I thought I read on /lit/ that Penguin's translations are shit.
Penguin is a good birde, /lit/ is just overreacting
Give me an adequate answer goddammit /lit!
They do tend to go cheaper, but some do commission new and improved translations. But you shouldn't be reading translations to begin with, or had you forgotten that?
alright you janitor shit you have been deleting some really good threads and the ones you've been making have been garbage
how about you lick the diarrhea from your mom's nostrils and keep your hands off my goddamn board
NO MODS NO MASTERS
NO MODS NO MASTERS
>>7665800
Best thread in catalog
Nice dubs
Beta uprising? /lit/ seems to be filled with robots lately.
what are the best german-language novels? my vote would be for jakob von gunten, the castle, radetsky march, and effi briest
castle and those stories of mister keuner by Brecht.
Das Siebte Kreuz, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Mann Ohne Eigenschaften, Buddenbrooks
Faust
What the fuck was this book about?I didnt understand shit.Did gregor actually die or did he return to being human again?Why has he turned into bug in the first place?Overall, what was this book telling?
he didn't fit in and he was made to fit in in the end.
fuck the plot.
What the book was about is open to interpretation and everyone can have an opinion on it, like with most literature. There's not correct answer. That's the good thing about books, make you think.
One perspective that I enjoy is that it's a critic on the way society treats the mentally ill and how those illnesses affect the person itself.
>>7659667
It doesn't matter why he turned into an insect. What matters is that the book shows how quickly those close to you can turn against you. It's a reflection of guilt.
Hello /lit/, I'm looking for an introduction to english poetry, something that covers history of english language and poets, explains prosody in english poetry, and include some poems as sample and explain the archaic form of words.
Thanks in advance.
Norton and Oxford both have pretty solid historical anthologies like what you're looking for.
I've written loads of poems about what I imagine her excrement and urine smell like
>>7667406
What should I search for?
This year's prize was given to Sarah Howe and her collection, "Loop of Jade".
Do you guys think one of the other poets would have been likely to win? I was personally banking on Les Murray.
Her poetry (at least what I've been able to read online) doesn't seem very interesting at all, but she is very attractive and member of an ethnic minority.
>it's a "minority woman undeservedly wins a cultural prize" episode
>>7667315
>she is very attractive
I have a week to write a short story for my literature course.
Any ideas, /lit/?
write about having to ask fat pseudo-intellectuals from a bengalese shari weaving forum for ideas
https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/
You should be bursting with ideas my dude. Cmon...
Is this truly that good, or is just another meme like IJ?
>>7666443
Like all of the books /lit/ recommends, its pretentious trash
I shit you not, this phrase is used:
I camelike an ad in the mail.
>>7666443
It is truly good. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise because they either didn't understand it or didn't read it. I'd give it a little over 20 years until it's recognized as one of the most important works of literature ever written.
>>7666554
Please actually read it before you spout shit about it.
Bought some random old penguin classics copy of Crime and Punishment for 2 dollars, the magarshack translation. Is the translation good or should I just get a p&v or something similar
>>7664913
mcduff is best but magarshack isn't bad either
i do not personally like p&v
>>7664913
learn russian
put my p in her v in the magyar shack
