/lit/ - Literature

>>3882040
ignore this guy OP hes talking out his arse

>>3881971
shut up

>>3882037
why is he a moron? just because he trip? seems unfair to me

hi sunhawk. im a new tripfag around here, i hope we can get to know each other and be friends.

>>3881932
I do, my library is a white people one so it's pretty damn good most of the time. I guess I'd say it's "worth it" but its free so i dont know what youre losing in the first place.

>>3881915
nobody really cared about what i used to say before i used a tripcode, idg why people react so violently just because of the name.

>>3881911
>a rationalist outlook or system

there you go, i dont fuck with that euro-centric racist ass bullshit.

>>3881884
Thanks for the recs, I'll check them out. I've always heard Sandman mentioned but didn't realize till I googled it a few minutes ago that it was a graphic novel.

>>3881887
aha are you really trying to school me on humanism and then you quote www.thefreedictionary.com? come on son.

the rest of your post isnt even funny enough to be worth bothering with

>>3881882
in my school at least all the engineering people were those smelly white dudes who drank lots of energy drinks and bragged incessantly about their STEMness, so idk, maybe its a regional thing.

>>3881885
rule of thumb is that P and V is the best you can get for dostoevsky. how much of that is just viral marketing and how much is truth i wouldn't know, but thats what people are going to tell you.

>>3881872
pynchon's work is essentially historical fiction so if you arent somewhat comfortable with stuff like latter imperial/colonial american + european history in particular it's going to seem sort of random. if that's not the problem idk i like the way he arranges the text but i can see why other people wouldn't.

>>3881871
have you met engineers dude? hung around with a large number of them? if you're one yourself i dont mean anything personally but as a social group they're sort of annoying and uneducated outside their esoteric field of expertise, at least in my personal experience

>>3881866
From Hell is fucking great. i was sort of apprehensive because of the graphic novel thing and the silly fanbase/cult around V for Vendetta (i still havent seen the movie/read it) but it really surprised me and has made me more open to recommendations in the medium.

>>3881852
there are a lot of factors stopping a culture from being intelligently literate, and a lot of it has to do with economics. but i dont want to get into that. and when i said bestsellers i meant that loosely, obviously good stuff appears somewhere on the list from time to time, but you have to admit most of it is puerile junk.

>>3881855
idk only comic book i've read is From Hell

>>3881845
there's one guy who feels embarrassed about having 200 steam games in his library and then one other guy being so stubborn about semantics he wont admit that stephen king is genre lit. hell, wont even admit genre lit exists. no skin off my back.

>>3881822
i've never read lotor so i couldn't say. stephen king himself admits that he writes "the big macs of literature" so i dont really know where you're going with this.

>>3881153
Gaiman books aren't kids book, it's just smart and well crafted pulp. Same as watching something like Breaking Bad on tv....it's not going to teach you anything or make you work very much but then the plot is pretty good and it won't insult your intelligence too much either.

>>3881813
that seems a bit high to me but like you said fuck if anyone knows exactly the amount....all we know is that it isn't very large.

>>3881808
im 14 but you're the one calling someone else a "faggot". alright.

and what do you mean obviously untrue? you literally believe genre fiction doesn't sell vastly more than "serious" literature? like, do you need me to link to some data?

>>3881784
i didnt use any big words though. if you think they were maybe a dictionary would do -you- a little more good

>>3881801
it's not imagined, it's a fact that an overwhelming majority of fiction produced and sold in the u.s. is commercial lit. or do you think the dalkey archives are doing gangbusters in sales figs?

>>3881781
oh and lol a 4chan poster telling *me* im bad at posting.