/lit/ - Literature

Fuck all you sombre faggots.

I’m halfway through
When does it get good?

Is it really that funny?

/lit/ can be so hipster at times...

Try name more reddit book than this shit.

Protip: you can’t

>>10177555
Forgot pic

Is it reddit?

So, now that the dust has settled ... what think?

This is a good book.

What's so funny about this book?

>>9694838

>>9494998
>the best book ever written
even pic related is better than the brothers tumblrzov

Reddit: The Book

I just read this last night and I spent the entire time repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.

I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for those last 30 pags it was so painful.

>Ayy quirky sci-fi lmao
If you liked it you're in the wrong place

Finally Reading, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." 3 Chapters in and I am LOVING it. Finding a good book that makes you laugh out loud is a gem!

Some of my favorite quotes so far:
"Mr. Prosser's mouth opened and closed a couple of times while his mind was for a moment filled with inexplicable but terribly attractive visions of Author Dent's house being consumed with fire and Arthur himself running screaming from the blazing ruin with at least three hefty spears protrudin from his back. Mr. Prosser was often bothered with visions like these and they made him feel very nervous."
"Ford would get out of his skull on whisky, huddle in a corner with some girl and explain to her in slurred phrases that honestly the color of the flying saucers didnt matter that much really. "

ITT: Essential redditcore

>>8512064

I've read the series a few times, in omnibus format. It's British humor so it can be an acquired taste for Americans. It has little to no science fiction conceptual value, unless one considers the Infinite Improbability Drive as plausible. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is just good unpretentious comedy in a scifi setting.

>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying.
>There is an art, it says, or rather a knack to flying.
>The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
>Pick a nice day, it suggests, and try it.
>The first part is easy.
>All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.
>That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground.
>Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.

If this amuses you, you might enjoy Douglas Adams.

I thought that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would just be some quirky, hipster, Wes-Anderson-tier bullshit but it turned out to be pretty clever and original.

this is actually really boring and unfunny

Is this... overrated?

>Is it funny?
Yes

>Does it contain incredible scientific/futuristc fantasy?
No more than any other sci-fi novel

>Does it have any value in terms of character or storyline development that makes literature great?
Absolutely not

I do not understand why it's considered a classic of sci-fi other than being memorable for it's humour. It feels like it is part of the try hard "geek" subculture for and by people trying to build themselves an image, similar to Star Wars.

Just read books 1-4 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time ever. This is unequivocally the best book series I have ever read and I don't know what to do with my life now :(
This is one of those series that I'd always heard about but somehow never got around to reading. Now that I have I'm wondering where it's been all my life, but also realizing that there's a lot of concepts and intelligent existential wit in it that I might not have caught onto if I had read it when I was younger. I haven't ever read anything that was simultaneously this witty, hilarious, intelligent, and original. In fact I haven't been able to put it down since I started the first book a week or two ago. It's honestly a bit difficult to put into words how brilliant this series is, in so many different ways - suffice it to say that if there was any piece of literature that captured my perspective and spirit, this is it.
I just finished the fourth book, which took all of Adam's charm and applied it to one of the most poignantly touching love stories I've ever read, and now I don't know what to do with my life. I feel like I've experienced everything I wanted life to offer me through the eyes of Arthur Dent, and now that I'm back in my own skin in my own vastly different and significantly more boring life I'm feeling a sense of loss. This is coming as a bit of a surprise since I wasn't expecting to find this kind of substance from these books. I had always imagined that they were just some silly, slap-stick humor type sci-fi books.

Is this book actually worth reading or is just meme-tier pulp for nerdy dads and annoying high schoolers?