/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19338704]

Do you support little libraries /lit/?

[Anonymous No.19338711]

>>19338704
We have these in a park near my old place, as well as a "take one, leave one" shelf at my old uni. I got some pretty good books from the latter, so I support them. I left cringe bad books though so maybe I'm an arsehole.

[Anonymous No.19338717]

>>19338711

At least you didn't leave Chick Tracts.

[Anonymous No.19338823]

>>19338704
I love in a neighborhood with fairly wealthy old fucks so the ones here have some solid literature instead of thrillers. Picked up a couple Philip Roth books for the collection so I approve.

[Anonymous No.19338870]

>>19338704
Seeing that sign on the box, is it sponsored by the government?

[Anonymous No.19338874]

>>19338823
>Roth
>Solid literature

Choose one.

[Anonymous No.19338878]

>>19338704
Support how?
As in I stio myself from taking a shit inside of one? Sure I support them.
The books are always garbage.

These should be private with a code and should be more like a book club.

[Anonymous No.19338911]

>>19338878
pretty funny they took down a few local ones because someone kept putting copies of mein kempf in them

[Anonymous No.19338916]

>>19338911
based loss leader

[Anonymous No.19338939]

yeah but some yahoo stole all the books from it

[Anonymous No.19339037]

>>19338704
I take all the good books and keep them hahahahah

[Anonymous No.19339126]

>leave a bunch of dime a dozen diet/finance books my parents bought once and never read in there
>take every book of worth, have like 50 Harry Potter books, 25 Bibles, 10 books on the JFK assassination, 15 copies of 1984 + Fahrenheit + Brave New World total, and a shitload of Agatha Christie books I'll probably just mail to a random person for fun
>most books not written by a name I've seen on here before get used as kindling
>any book written by a woman is ripped in half
>pretty sure a drug dealer intentionally dead dropped a burner flip phone in one of pic related, I smashed it to pieces and flipped off a guy who was sitting in his car who looked like he was going to pick it up and then ran away
>one book was just some guy's PhD thesis comparing Marx to Sartre, I hadn't read either then but that didn't stop me from mailing it back to the guy with a 40 page rebuke I wrote in like 30 minutes
>place pictures of my ultrasound in random books as a bookmark
>place fake notes in random books like "pick up Sam from football practice at 5:30, 10/21/05"
>once bought like 10 copies of Infinite Jest and dropped them all off by an elementary school, taking all the other books with me and leaving a super pretentious note about what good literature is
>buy cheap current gen video games and put them in there to subvert some busybody mother who thinks that forcing their kid to read a randomly picked YA fiction book will make them smarter
>print out Kaczynski's manifesto and drop it off
>used to print out Marvel movie spoilers and drop them off in there
>am currently writing an alternate ending to The Catcher in the Rye and having it printed, I'll then buy a bunch of copies and rip the real ending out, replacing it with my rendition and dropping them off in various states

[Anonymous No.19339130]

>>19338704
I just take whatever books I like and don't bother leaving anything because I am a misanthrope. I feel most of humanity has betrayed me, so I do little things to get back at them and would like the idea of living on a high tower watching people burn during an apocalypse as I play with a jigsaw puzzle involving beautiful illustrations of wildlife.

[Anonymous No.19339144]

>>19339126
classic copypasta

[Anonymous No.19339773]

>>19339130
This needs to be exercised on paper and turned
into a short story. Now get to it.

[Anonymous No.19339784]

>>19339773
If you have any referrals to literary agents, then I'd consider it.

[Anonymous No.19339799]

>>19338704
would the cops get called if i go and leave about 20 copies of hitler's peace offers in one of these?

[Anonymous No.19339812]

>>19338704
In theory yes, but usually these are filled with garbage. Living in Boston, there are a good number of these, and even a cart of free books downtown. And, almost every single time I walk up to one, it has nothing of value.

[Anonymous No.19339884]

>>19338704
I'd make sure to keep a copy of Mein Kampf in every box if I could ever find an edition that isn't annotated to high heck.

[Anonymous No.19339891]

I've had luck by universities and churches. Always end up finding a Lewis I'm missing.

[Anonymous No.19339906]

>>19338874
Roth is unironically solid literature

[Anonymous No.19339910]

>>19339784
Write and send to slush piles. One unpublished short story isn’t getting you noticed by an agent, let alone signed.

[Anonymous No.19339936]

>>19339910
Literary agents are only interested in works with LGBTQ+ and inclusive diversity themes nowadays.
I did publish one horror story in a reputable literary journal, but I have had no luck with my picture book. I've given up trying to become an established writer.
I did query a collection of my horror fiction to a couple of agents also, and I made sure to mention my published story. However, I had no luck there either.
I want to focus more on idyllic children's literature now. Writing horror fiction can be mentally taxing.

[Anonymous No.19341530]

>>19338704
Of course. I just got a book about Michelangelo, (poems and letters) with an origami bookmark hidden in the pages.

[Anonymous No.19341534]

>>19338704
I off loaded around 1000 books to various little free libraries this summer.

[Anonymous No.19341536]

They're full of literal garbage

[Anonymous No.19341569]

>>19339936
I am a 40 year old straight white male and I had no problems getting an agent, my writing does not even deal with political or social issues and I had only been published in a few middling journals. She already has gotten me published in a reasonably well respected journal and seems fairly confident that I should have enough attention in a year or two to get a deal for a novel, just need to keep at the short stories. Finding a good editor that I work well with is proving much more difficult.

[Anonymous No.19341571]

Every time I see one of these I piss in it

[Anonymous No.19341628]

>>19341571
Same, only I shit in it.

[Anonymous No.19341785]

We have these around my township but the books usually all suck and are in bad condition. I don't think a single person even uses it because every time I go to the park all the books are the same and are in the exact same position

[Anonymous No.19341935]

>>19339936
>reputable literary journal
>horror
Pick one, anon. Some woman writhing about in her rape fever dream doesn’t count as horror.

[Anonymous No.19342447]

>>19339126
holy based

[Anonymous No.19342460]

>>19341935
Weird fiction is a respectable literary genre. You have good writers like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Poe, Aickman, and many others in this genre...

[Anonymous No.19342485]

>>19338704
Thinking of putting copies of my diary in them one of these days. Neighbourhood has three set up. That's free exposure.

[Anonymous No.19342520]

>>19342460
My point is that it was not published in the last ten years in a “respected literary journal.” The journal might be respected, the journal might be literary, but it’s not both.

[Anonymous No.19342541]

>>19342520
I suppose I left out the third possibility from my initial post: it’s not horror.

[Anonymous No.19342566]

>>19338704
A few months ago I passed one of these with all but the first of the Expanse series. I went back to my place to get a bag and some books to put in their place and by the time I got back (hour and half later) they were all gone.

Still upset to this day

[Anonymous No.19343022]

>>19338704
I put my decent op shop (thrift store) finds in them from time to time. I don't really find anything worth taking besides the obvious classics (Popular Penguins are ubiquitous here) and the odd vintage Pelican book. Pic related is the best little library "haul" I've had to date. I left three books

[Anonymous No.19343208]

>>19338704
In the suburb where my abode is located no faggot asshole will dare even leaf through the books, they'd rather sell them. How retarded they are ! You think that their IQ is frankly neath 0...

[Anonymous No.19343325]

[Anonymous No.19343340]

My neighborhood tried this.
Junkies stole all the actual books and other people used it as a dumpster for their school textbooks and newspapers
Such is life in south america.

[Anonymous No.19343394]

>>19338704
I life next to a major street with a mall on one side and a swimming complex on the other side, soo recently I set up my own little mini library and I filled it with about 30 books I didnt want. Within a month most of those books where gone and new ones have replaced the old books. After more then a year the only two titles I kept was a book on animals by Midas Dekker and some Reve.

[Anonymous No.19343399]

i hate libraries
it's a grift

[Anonymous No.19343404]

those little libraries are filled with children's books

[Anonymous No.19343461]

We have an absurd number of these in my town. Most the books seem lame but occasionally there's a gem in there - both legitimate and hilarious. In my neighborhood I found some ridiculous QAnon shit there the other day.

[Anonymous No.19343476]

Niggers tear these things apart when they see them.

[Anonymous No.19343496]

>>19343476
good

[Anonymous No.19343524]

>>19338704
they stopped them because all the crack heads were taking the books to sell for more crack.

[Anonymous No.19344549]

Do what the fuck you want libraries > take one, leave one libraries

[Anonymous No.19344577]

>>19343524
Where the fuck do you live? Detroit?

[Anonymous No.19344624]

>>19339884
>>19339884
Oh anons ITT are "struggling" with the Mt. Everest-scale challenge of placing copies of Mein Kampf in their little neighborhood library la-dee-da. Well these puppies are like $3 newly printed.

>*shoves into the little library in the boomer neighborhood where I used to live*

It wasn't there when I came back a few weeks later. Either one of the boomers trashed it or one of their kids grabbed it. And I didn't even pay for it. The party just gives 'em away