/lit/ - Literature

>tfw you realize your taste in literature makes you better than most people

>>4751241
>fun

>>4548226
Yes, the contemporary literature awards and "media" surrounding it are very affirmative action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Resentment

>>4387475
>>4389221
The Iliad was in between literature and history. It is far far more important as a poem and as something that showed us what the Greeks thought and how they lived, not as a damn story.

There's the infamous lists which epics are known for (most notably, the ships, but then there's also the YALIBABAR, WHO LIVED BETWEEN THE HUIGFSD AND UFIH RIVER, SON OF HERYIKAJ WHO WAS SON OF...), there's all the geography, there's all the Greek customs (the games and how they bury people and how they worship...), and in the original Greek, it's supposed to be some of the greatest poetry ever written, but I can't vouch for that.

The story? The story is digressive, one-dimensionally mythological, and underwhelming. Far more of the Iliad is this hero fighting that hero and this side getting slightly more advantaged than this side and this petty quarrel between this god and that one than any explicit attempt to move forward the plot of Achilles.

>>4076550
Living of literature isn't the same as being a writer. There's all kinds of parasites.

>>4008737
>150 pages in probably more like 4 hours
>

I'm kidding, but yeah as you said still doable. If you have an average job (not hard physical labor or anything like that) you should be able to read as much as you want; we do get a lot of free time in this day and age.

>>4001261
This man would like to have a word with you.

>I am judging the hell out of you in all my postmodern jadedness.

As if that will have any relevancy in 50 years.

>>3973352
>browsing /v/

The idea occurred to me in another thread but I'll post it here too.

Should I (we) make a /lit/ patriciancore chart?

/mu/ has one (by the infamous CLT) and I think we should as well.

Obviously /mu/ sucks but it'd be fun and helpful to collect the highest works of literature.

We have Exit-level but that only deals mainly with esoteric depression.

Hey /lit/ is it better to fuck, sorry, read a bunch of average books or read a few really really hot girls, I mean, books in your life time.

>>3625150
>>3625165
>>3625167
can't we keep all this babby philosophy so-deep talk in one thread

Am I even on the literature board any more?

>>3539038
>reading for plot

>>3528786
>tumblr
>intellectuals

>/lit/
>not intellectual

>>3501331

Harold Bloom disapproves, man. That is all you need to know.

What is the point of criticism? What value does it get the elite reader, the average reader, the non-reader?

From where I stand, criticism seems like arbitrary discrimination, a way for academics and aesthetes (that is, non-creatives) to posture, blowing smoke and the less literate in order to elevate themselves. Doesn't this kind of partisanship only work to stifle literary and creative innovation?

title unrelated but cute

>>3387650

Hamlet was uncut

therefore no lube was needed

>>3264981
Bloom seems to disagree.

>not reading The Prelude
>2012

Do you even read?

>>3067747

Blood Meridian was good and you should feel bad.

>>3047003

You just labelled yourself a non-retard.

You fucking retard.

>>2835185
Harold Bloom ("The Western Cannon")

>>2329606
Because I, Harold Bloom!, have not given it my flabby stamp of approval.