/lit/ - Literature

>>19079938
They haven’t figured out how to pirate yet

They be well read and shiet

>>19079938
because women read unlike men

>>19079938
women read more

Because men don't read anymore, and women don't read literature, which is why schlock is king now
>>19079946
You're literally a part of why modern literature sucks balls

>>19079967
Oh noo please don’t say that

>>19079967
>schlock is king now
Schlock is always king. You sound like one of those teenagers that think that most of the European population used to be Beethoven

>>19079967
Describe to me how pirating an eBook is any worse than checking out the same book at my local library?

>>19079938
>the quran and sartre
based

>>19079967
>Implying any good books were made for profit

>>19079946
Piracy doesn't look cutesy

A very small percentage of men read and most of that small percentage are poor fags

>>19079997
women appreciate beauty, men hate it

>>19079938
What list? Provide the list.

>>19080009
>implying a rainbow shelf is "beauty"

Go look at the bookposters on Youtube, instagram, and Tiktok
You’ll see

>>19080028
>doesn't know about the "shabby chic" aesthetic
Anon has never touched a woman

>>19079953
Yeah. Problem is they read absolute drivel they'll forget about a week later. If you're just reading to pass the time there are better activities out there.

Stop letting whores live rent free in your head. Coom inside whores then promptly dispose of them. That's all the attention a human female should receive from you. Don't think about them, don't talk about them, don't simp for them. Coom and go.

>>19079987
technically some money went back into the system because of your library card cost

>>19080002
This is true. I'm a literature scholar and the only person outside of my academic career who talks to me about books is my 70 year old gay godfather who lives in a halfway house for $200 a month. I teach elementary school and my coworkers, other teachers, haven't read anything past Harry Potter and Dr. Seuss.

>>19079996
Publishing is a business. The reason only shit is being published is because shit sells

>>19080074
>>doesn't know about the "shabby chic" aesthetic
Why would I care
>Anon has never touched a woman
???

>>19080094
>library card cost
KEK

>>19080124
Bait. Explain why you're teaching elementary school. You can't just bait like this and leave with no explanation.

80% of all consumption is female driven

Everything today is marketed towards women, because they are the consumers.

>>19080134
men doesn't care about beauty confirmed

>>19080149
Women have always been the consumers. Men earn money so women can spend it all.

>>19080094
My library doesn't charge for cards

>>19080157
t. Third world loser

>>19080009
It's the opposite. Women are beautiful and accumulate cute objects to attract men, who appreciate it in contrast to the real world, which is hard and ugly.

>>19080149
This statistic is thrown around a lot, but it doesnt pass any common sense filters. Just another psyop, and people believe it through repitition.

>>19080194
Class sizes of incoming college freshmen are heavily skewed towards women. It's around 60-70 percent. There are recent articles on this phenomena. So I don't see it as a stretch that the majority of consumers and those making consumer decisions are women. Literally every ad I see is skewed towards women.

>>19080194
“But where do you see this exceptional power?”

“Where? Why, everywhere, in everything. Go see the stores in the large cities. There are millions there, millions. It is impossible to estimate the enormous quantity of labor that is expended there. In nine-tenths of these stores is there anything whatever for the use of men? All the luxury of life is demanded and sustained by woman. Count the factories; the greater part of them are engaged in making feminine ornaments. Millions of men, generations of slaves, die toiling like convicts simply to satisfy the whims of our companions.

“Women, like queens, keep nine-tenths of the human race as prisoners of war, or as prisoners at hard labor. And all this because they have been humiliated, because they have been deprived of rights equal to those which men enjoy. They take revenge for our sensuality; they catch us in their nets.

1890

>>19079938
blue haired agents

>>19080204
Yeah, men buy stuff though so I dont believe it, sorry

>>19080235
Yeah see above

>>19079967
based and schlock pilled. just browse new releases. the sheer amount of worthless schlock is staggering. when males read they apparently tend to read either /sffg/ schlock or big tiddy elf waifu self insert porn that aren't even good enough to be considered /sffg/ and get released under categories like "litrpg". it's basically an english version of those shitty isekai LN that features some loser effortlessly getting a waifu harem and winning fights with some autistic cheatery sidecut.

>>19080094
My library card is free Anon.

>>19079938
OH GEE. I WONDER IF IT'S BECAUSE MOST BOOK BUYERS ARE WOMEN. HMMMMM.

>>19079938
Everyone thinks it's because only women buy books, but this is confusing the effect with the cause. The cause is that the entire publishing industry was taken over by women.

>>19080074
>"shabby chic" aesthetic
my god, the complete state of this board....

>>19080346
Fiction has always been female dominated.

>>19079938
Women need two things: to pretend they are smart (physical books) and to pretend that they live in a world that is which is complex and difficult for them (fiction).
Also, most fiction books have colored spines that they love to show off to visitors.

>>19080124
>literature scholar
>teaches elementary school
You’re just a retarded teach for America faggot

>>19080145
>>19080371

Can't find a job teaching college because I'm a 6'3" blue-eyed white man.

>>19080134
Because you if you've ever been with a normal woman for any prolonged period of time, you would have picked up on these things through osmosis

>>19079997
Scythe is a genuinely interesting YA book however why does she own the sequel but not the first one ???

>>19079938
Because they like to consoom

>>19079946
fpbp

Why do women mark up fiction books like this?
I see them with copies of YA novels covered in sticky tabs

women read much more than men. the majority of people who write now are also women, and publishing houses are also all staffed by women.

>You should totally read The Tale of Royal Court of the Prince of Thorns and Crows by Samantha Smithwright. So good. I cried

>>19080503
You get more out of a book if you slowly analyze it, write down notes, reread it a few times.
Pic related are marks for Finnegans Wake, which pretty much requires this sort of practice to be read at all.

>>19080503
the inner monologue of certain women is a sight to behold... (screencap from a journal with me vid. i refuse to believe a grown person thinks like that)

>>19080094
>because of your library card cost
what burgertown do you live in?

>>19079987
The book was payed for by someone at some point, even if it's a donation

>>19080534
>I usually read YA but I really liked the book. I want to rep more genres
Lmao

>>19080534
I just wonder why a person would think they should document something so banal, you could probably learn more by documenting your time shitting

>>19080574
probably to fill up the space between cutesy stickers and decorative bulk.

Why does every best seller have thorny branches on the cover?

>>19080503
I've made notes in books before, usually to cf another work or to summarize a theme so I can find it easier later. I didnt know people wrote what are basically reactions, "my respectful king!!!" and such. Seems strange to me

>>19080503
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Simple fiction novels (called "young adult" or "new adult" or something) are essentially video games for women. The kind of man that invests a lot into video games probably isn't exactly an intellectual heavyweight, why would the female equivalent be any different?

>>19080511
It began with the takeover of the publishing industry.

>>19080503
unless you plan to re-sell who gives a shit what you do with it?

>>19080652
I dunno, I think it's just artifact of the general movement where humanities are, at least in numbers, totally dominated by women.

Any tips for finding new fiction books with male protagonists? This shit is ridiculous.

>>19080714
Just read old books. There's already enough to last you multiple lifetimes.

>>19079938
"The easiest way to make money is sell useless junks to idiots." - Adam Smith

The entire industry is set up to sell things to either kids or women. Childish men buy things to appeal to either of the two.

Test

>>19079938
Real men are illiterate and rely on oral tradition.

>>19080503
>please im going to jump into a volcano I love them so much
>"Not all me" you're right Mr. Darcy is something else
>UWU <hearts>
I wonder if women annotate their books like this because these are literally the only things they think about while reading, like's there's nothing else going on in their head so they just write down how they feel at that particular moment

>>19079946
I MEMBER!

>>19079953
There is absolutely no difference between not reading, and reading the kind of books the average young woman reads

>>19080644
damn. fair point.

>>19080801
sure there is, read Mcluhan

>>19080383
>Can't find a job teaching college because I'm a 6'3" blue-eyed white man.
Nice persecution complex faggot. I bet you applied to two jobs in a metropolitan area and then gave up.

>>19080503
Here's the problem with women. They're stupid. Not retard level, but 99-IQ average lukewarms. But unlike a 99-IQ male, a 99-IQ female has had her ass kissed her whole life, and no one stopped to tell her she's not that bright and ought to shut her mouth before the stupid falls out. No one can criticize a woman in any way, now. They're raised in "yaaaaas girl SLAY queenz girls are all geniuses and kick-ass bosses!" They get an ego, they get a head full of hot air, but they're still 99-IQ lukewarms. In addition, being female causes one, in almost all cases, to think with emotions and not logic. So women do stupid shit like believe their dreams are premonitions or have some insight to reality, that astrology is real, that birthday stones and zodiac signs are instruments, and that happy thoughts are just as productive as productivity. They're also predominently extroverts, and as no one is allowed to tell a female to shut the hell up a little, they run their mouths constantly. A typical female probably says 10x words and sends 10x text messages as a typical male in a day. So you have something about 20 watts, with an inflated ego, that can't be criticized or informed they are not as smart as they think they are, that talks and talks and talks all day, that runs on emotional thinking and crystal magic zodiac charts. The result is insufferable retardation, but remember, she's a girl, so you can't punch her teeth out. And on goodreads this means swarms of mouthy hubris-filled femoids rate YA-of-the-month novels 5 stars and actual literature 3-stars because "it was boring" or "the characters were mean" or "I didn't get the point."

What we need is an honest society where the half-chewed crayons can be told to their face they ought to keep their mouths closed before the stupid falls out.

>>19080998
Damn. That was too specific to not be personal.

>>19080503
women are not real

>>19080998
>So women do stupid shit like believe their dreams are premonitions
Reminds me of what I read in pic related where Czar Nicholas II allowed Rasputin, a homeless, illiterate peasant who claimed to have magic powers, to live with his family and make governing decisions and also family decisions because his wife was sure he was the real deal

>>19080998
appreciate the effort post.

>>19080311
Men don't buy nearly as much as women. Basic necessities don't count. I literally only grocery shop and go to a bookstore. That's my consumption in the market besides gas for a car. Now take your average woman. I'm sure you can see where this is going

>>19080503
>trifle /noun/
>proceeds to define it as a verb
???

>>19081077
In his defense, it seems Alyosha did in fact feel better after being wooed by the pedo. If your sole heir to the throne is chronically ill and there's one dude who seems able to "cure" him, YOU WILL listen to him.

>>19079938
Because they're the core demographic of the market. Anyone who works in literature can tell you that women make up ~60% of buyers. Following the rules of the market, the product is aimed at making sure the majority buys it.

>>19081152
This n=1 anecdote does not sway me simply because I have known so many people in my life and so many of them consoom. Belief that 50% of the species commits 80% of the transactions strains all credulity

>>19079938
Because women are the ones reading fiction

>>19081252
You can't believe it because you're an idiot.

>>19079938

because they are more likely to spend money on a 20 dollar book

>>19079958

>>19079946
that makes sense, even though they are the majority on those social medias for book lovers

maybe they are just more attwhore than men, huh
that would explain why

>>19080194
>>19080311
>>19081252
lurk more you fucking newfag.

>>19080801
Reading requires a certain attention span that many young people today don't have. The fact that someone can have the patience to read a book for fun can say a lot about them in todays age.
I'd rather date a woman who reads stupid bestseller fiction than one who just scrolls social media endlessly for fun.

>>19080009
Point prose in print is not beauty

>>19079953
>>19079958
not necessarily it just means women buy more books not that they read them

>>19081252
take a basic marketing class loser they outright tell you this

>>19080474
>Scythe is a genuinely interesting YA book however why does she own the sequel but not the first one ???
According to her comments,
>“I’m also out of space on my cart which means I can’t buy any more books until I read more off my tbr”