/lit/ - Literature

>he doesn't appreciate Tolkien

Tolkien is the Homer of the modern age. It's ridiculous that LotR is often written off as a "good story" and nothing more, like a Dumas novel. If Homer wrote The Odyssey today I'm sure it would receive the same treatment.

>>10166303
>reading
>hobby

>>10131676
>the Renaissance
>actually adopted cultural ideas, beliefs, traditions, practices

>>10103986
>Fascism

>>10102476

>implying translating is actually writing

it's literally just copying the original text and pasting it into a different language

zero effort outside of minor grammar changes

>had had
>créée

>>10082604
>quite literally just requested cp
>not a pedo
ok buddy

>It's a "Jacob gets a kid from another maid" episode

>ITT : I'm a pleb that can't into real nihilism so I'll just say that nihilism is only for edgy teenagers xDDDD Lol op btfo

>attempt to start reading Nietzsche
>look up what's his best work to start with
>get suggested On the Genealogy of Morality
>reading preface
>"you should read my previous works before this to understand what i'm trying to convey"
where the fuck does one actually begin with Nietzsche?

>>9963119
>>The true causes of racial-group differences in IQ, or in any other characteristic, are likely to be too complex to be captured by locating them on a single hereditarianism-environmentalism dimension.

WHAT OTHER DIMENSION OF HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC EXIST YOU FFFFFF

>>9938866
>Yeah I'm thinking I got my question answered. Lovecraft is horror for stupid people who literally are terrified of thinking. I genuinely think that's it. The entire schtick of Lovecraft is "forbidden knowledge" that will make you CRAAAAAZY Oooo scary! This must be what it's like for idiots to read a science book.
>14 year old atheist confirmed

>main character is a writer

>honorificabilitudinitatibus

>discover a good author
>tfw I found out that he was a degenerate druggie homosexual
>tfw feel involuntary disgust when reading his works because it was written by a subhuman degenerate piece of shit whom I would gladly put before a firing squad if given the chance
Why are there so many fucking faggots in literature? Fuck this life.

>read iliad
>read odyssey
wow thanks guys I feel SOOOOOO much smarter after reading greek young adult fiction

>start reading Song of Songs
>there's no sheet music, only the lyrics
What did God mean by this?

>my favorite part of the Iliad is when the giant horse comes around :)

>i loved the part in the iliad when the wooden horse comes

>>9683728
>Tfw the oddysey is considered the sequel
Dont i feel like a retard now

>publisher calls his Jewish buddies over to beat you up

>>9408461

>>8905732

> Reading literally the worst work of fiction that human kind ever shit out