/lit/ - Literature

I have read for fun since I was a little kid. I think was hyperlexic. I used to read a lot more than I do now.

>>11192261
yeah

well, that's slightly unfair. the sojourn in africa was insane, it was like 'heart of darkness' but with so many more horrific details and more fleshed out characters, mostly people being awful but there was a rare good person (or person trying to be good). that section of the book was simultaneously awesome & disgusting.

i also enjoyed the part where he goes to america, the end of that section was pretty tragic. the description of the ford factory was incredible.

but it has slowed down a lot now he has returned to paris. so far, this has been the weakest section the novel.

>>11020569
>tfw Luther was an MA like you but you post on 4chan instead of the church door

>>11011876
I think this >>11011912 is a terrible order and your own is much better. I personally would find it very hard to care about the mythos in the Silmarillion if I hadn't been immersed in Tolkien's world via his excellent, well-known novels first.

My ideal order would be:

Hobbit > LotR > Sil > Unfinished Tales > CoH > Gondolin > Beren & Luthien > then the book of lost tales I & II if you really want more

>>10816770
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>>10817623
I think the whole idea of a distinction between "genre" fiction and the rest is massively contrived. I mean, Tom Clancey and Dan Brown are as much genre fiction as the Sanderson crap, with all the expected tropes etc. The real Patrician's Choice is to read the best cuts from /sff/ and the best from /outerlit/. Having read a bunch of classic "well-regarded" fiction and a bunch of the best SFF, I say with confidence that SFF's best is easily on par with the great vanilla classics

>>10776896
>>10776858
Real intellectuals, like myself, quote without warning.
But if you're going to cite/reference an idea/notion, you do that first, then you say who said/did it.
>I can not mend my own irrationality anymore than Franklin could diminish thunder—yet, like lightning, I now feel less worried by my folly.

>>10776990
>got played
Is immeasurable disbelief now naiveté?