>he only reads books that other people recommend
>he only reads books that /lit recommends
>he doesn't acknowledge his own taste but reads in order to be "well-read"
>he thinks that being literary makes life more romantic
>he only reads 800+ page maximalist novels
>the opposite of everything OP said
>disgusted reaction imagine face.jpg
etc.
>>7563899
>>he only reads 800+ page maximalist novels
How many of those even exist? I can't imagine there being that many of them unless you lump in scifi/fantasy garbage that's "maximalist" by virtue of taking thousands of pages to tell a story in.
>>7563899
>he can only post on /lit/ by shitposting
>he will get banned
So, you just walk into the book store and grab things randomly off the shelf, rather than allow people who know what they're talking about to guide you?
>>7563931
I'm not him but you could always just look up authors you like and see who they were influenced by/who they influenced and keep branching out that way in both directions without necessarily asking for recommendations.
>>7563941
so you always end up at the greeks... nice way to break out of /lit/ faggot
You must rely on something to help you separate the wheat from the chaff, and it's either other people's opinions or advertising.
>>7563941
I'm not the guy you're responding too but is much easier and faster to have recomendations and go from there.
>>7563949
>both directions
There's nothing wrong with having your book selections influenced by other people, but you really ought to have more than one source of input. If /lit/ is your sole contact with the literary world, or "lit chat" then you might end up with a strange and narrow experience of it.
>>7563950
DFW wrote an essay about that, "Deciderization" in Both Flesh and Not. It's pretty interesting.
>>7563966
Mmm... What doesn't /lit/ cover, though? A few lesser-known names here and there. The broad strokes, though... There's no Deep Literature that you graduate to after Shakespeare and Homer.
>he sub-vocalizes
>>7565017
Kek, back then they only read out loud. What a world, the intelligent back then would always read aloud and now some people pretend that subvocalizing is a stupid thing to do
>>7563988
>litizens actually believe this
This is exactly what he was talking about desu
I started reading hardcore two months ago. Read 1984 and of mice and men. Thinking of starting finnegans Wake and infinite Jest.
>He always bashes fiction and only reads non-fiction in order to fit a certain mold.
