Please leave and never return if you agree with any of the following;

You say The Hunger Games, I say The Sot-Weed Factor
You say Twilight, I say The Recognitions
You say Divergent, I say The Magic Mountain
You say Harry Potter, I say In Search of Lost Time
You say Perks, I say Women & Men
You say John Green, I say shut the fuck up
You say Cassandra Clare, I scream Thomas Pynchon!!
You say Fifty Shades of Grey, I fucken punch you in the face

92% of teenagers have turned to YA and memes. If you are part of the 8% that still reads real literature, copy and paste this message to another 5 threads. DON'T LET THE SPIRIT OF /LIT/ DIE

>now
Stopped reading right there, buddy.
Also why are you making this thread again?

>>9306753
To make this board a better place.

>>9306715
okay this is clearly a bait post but >you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton

who the fuck does this

>>9306771
>wants to make this board a better place
this 1 says you don't

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>the author is dead 1!!1! its actuelly tru!!

>>9306747
subtle barth shilling

>>9306787
so fucked up if true

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>>9306773

>>9306787
>>9306794
Yeah I don't think this is true.

>>9306787
>admits the 1920's was a different era in terms of cultural values around gender etc.
>thinks ancient Rome was like today

>>9306747
I say STOP ONLY READING MODERNISM AND POMO YA CUNT

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>>9306773
it's real

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>>9306773
there's more

Novalis was such a qt

>>9306828
>>9306835
Know what's worse? I'm guessing most of /lit would not have been able to write this.

>>9306715

get out OP.

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>>9306828
>>9306835
>>9306853
BUT SHAKESPEARE'S VALUE LIES IN HIS POETIC STRUCTURE

HE IS TAUGHT OVER OTHER PLAYWRIGHTS BECAUSE IAMBIC PENTAMETER IS A GOOD INTRODUCTION DUE TO ITS SIMPLICITY

TO SUMMARIZE HIS SENTENCES INDIVIDUALLY IS TO REMOVE ALL VALUE FROM HIS WORK, WHY EVEN WASTE YOUR TIME

>>9306847
Novalis is probably the cutest literary figure

>>9306715
who is this? she's cute

>>9306900
it's a trap.
Sorry, I meant he.

>>9306890
>Shakespeare's value lies in his poetic structure
Not his ONLY value, anon. Otherwise he would only be taught in poetry classes.

>>9307104
Pretty sure rewriting him as text messages removes all of his different values.

>>9306715
Humor me sir; are you able to tell where your head ends and your ass begins?

>>9307178
spotted the YA reader

>>9307189
Why would you say a thing like that?

>>9307189
>>9307199


/lit/ - people who have never read a YA book in their lives accusing other people who have never read a YA book in their lives of reading YA

>>9307199
cuz u read YA

>>9306715
Get off my board.

>>9306715
>rarely read for more than 2 hours straight
You tell me when I have the time or nessacary patience to read ulysses for 2 hours straight. Jesus this book is difficult to get through.

>>9307210
I don't read YA, but I do read comics and literature. So , please explain why I cannot enjoy both Sam Humphries' Green Lanterns and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina? Is it inconceivable that someone couldn't possibly enjoy both the Hainish Cycle and John Donne or Andrew Marvell's poetry?

>>9307239
get out

>>9307244
Tell me why any work of Art needs a justification for it's existence, and I'll think about it. I think by creating arbitrary boundaries between genres and forms, you are breaking one of your own rules.

>>9307272
out

>>9307276
Can you tell the difference between an author creating beautiful prose and and an author masturbating to his knowledge of the dictionary?

>>9306715
lmao

>>9306747
Is this pasta making a comeback? This is like a decade old /mu/ meme isn't it?

This is the only one that stumped me:
>you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature
Gormenghast, Perdido Street Station, Roadside Picnic are great works.

I'm reading Archaeology of The Mind by Panksepp and Biven.

>>9307321
I'm sorry, my son, but according to OP you aren't a Real Reader.

>>9307207
Everyone read Harry Potter.

>>9307333
oh goddamn it

>>9307297
out

>>9307154
Idk, anon. Take away all the "fancy" thees and thous and it all just seems a lot like bold and the beautiful with added puns and the slang of the day.

>>9307397
Plots didn't matter to Shakespeare at all.

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"He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it."

/lit/ never changes
>muh nietzsche
>muh critical thinking,
>muh greeks
>t-this degree isn't just useless toilet paper, it means I'm smart and know how to read!

>>9307443
kys

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>>9306715
Make me.

>>9307376
Got 'em, anon.

>>9306787
Fuck is this real? They are pushing it in schools?

>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work

Why do I have to explain it to you? I like it for reasons that I like it, and I don't have to put them into words in speech or words in my mind.

but prose IS pretentious bullshit and the author should get to the point already

I pass all the questions, and honestly don't know at this point if that's good or bad. Can't sift through all the levels of irony.

>>9308422
I think he means if you're already talking about it, but are unable to make comments beyond booktube-tier "I really like this, I'm enjoying it a lot." Is it the plot, the characters, the style, etc.

>>9308414
No.

>>9306815
>>9306828
>>9306835
Who cares lmao retard kidshits are gonna read retarded kidshit

This isn't any worse than normal "translations", it just makes you feel old.

>>9308537
yee

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>>9306715
>>9306771
You seem troubled friend.

>>9306715
lol by that dumb list people like milton couldn't post here
I know it's bait but kys

>>9306715
I wholeheartedly embrace this brave attempt to make /lit/ more autism-friendly.

>you
>believes in the notion of self
>thinks he has "a grounding in philosophy"

hahaha

Your not a writer, your a reader.
and that's o.k.

>>9309347
>he thinks Milton read YA
kys su teknon

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If you don't reply to the rear pumpkin spice Pepe you will be a normie for the rest of your days.

>>9307357
Found the YA reader.

muh greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks

>>9306715

>your rarely read poetry

>>9309664
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules

>>9309668

Illiterates ought to leave this board immediately, and never return.

>>9306826
Why? They are literally the peak of literature.

>>9309699
NICE MOTHERFUCKING MEME YOU CUNT

>>9309699
t. retarded American turd

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>>9309701
Stop being a mad pleb. Start with pic related.

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>>9309699
>They [the moderns] are literally the peak of literature.

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>>9309707
I'll do if you start with pic related.

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>>9309699

>>9306815
>>9306828
>>9306835
Nobody fucking buys that except for deluded grandparents, what you should really be worried about is shit like "No Fear Shakespeare"

>>9307220
>not reading an episode a day for 3 hours straight

>>9309723
I'm actually going to read that after finishing GR :)
>>9309747
How will I ever recover?

>>9309626
Is "found the X / X detected" the most pointlessly obnoxious meme?

>>9309932
Alright, then I'm going to buy GR :)

>>9309936
crybaby detected. qq moar

>>9309936
It's pretty much a reddit-tier meme

>>9309937
Nice, the first 70 or so pages are a little hard, but is worth it.
Any tips for the commedia?

>>9309949
No problem, I'm ready.
Just read it with a commentary or buy an edition with footnotes. It will be long, but don't give up.

>>9309941
found the reddit poster

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>>9306715
Replying just to tell you I haven't left yet.

>>9310718
>pic
Iove bizarre outsider art. More?

>>9310718
You said somewhere you wanted to make this board a better place; thus you should realise that driving out the mediocre and the plebs through the constant shilling, if not of OP's particular content, at least of the ideas behind it, would do /lit/ a great favor.

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>>9310718
>that picture!?

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>>9310728
>>9310749
>>9310751

I would rather have Butters back than listen to all of these people from /books drone on. Its like someone took our balls.

>>9310718
>Hello all. Time to pause for a message from the creator of this ridiculous mess, Kermit Guildersleeve, the probably mentally retarded :-D. This is the kind of art that your academy takes on look at and gets their naught knackered nethers in a knot. They huff, and puff, and even though they all see themselves as cigarrette and latte guzzling lo-fi rebels constantly speaking the truth to power, whatever that means nowadays. You see, these people are frustrated. Art to them is a signifier of intelligence, a lock that their overpriced "education" is a key to. It seperates them from us. The intelligensia from the unwashed masses who do, like, jobs and stand around scratching their collective bums. These are people who are too good to experience the sensual pleasures of reading great literature on the pot. Art to them is a stiff, dead, masturbation to their own percieved genius. There is nothing real or vital about it, the life of cave paintings or greek statuary or the fireside poets or even '60s comics is gone. Its dead, an effusion from something already empty. There is no blood, no fire, no love, just pointless sensuality. In short, as you may guess, I believe that these people who hold themselves in such high esteem for doing all sorts of drugs and rutting like gerbils in heat deserve richly every ounce of mockery that my riotously funny pictures of people defecating in many interesting ways can provide

>>9310811
Basically.

>>9310825
What compels you to compose this kind of art?

>>9306715

>ya is bad
>who is horatio alger jr

get fucked pleb

>>9306715
>you speak a single language
>you believe 'the author is dead'

These two apply to me. I'm gonna stay, though. :^)

>>9310838
The Ivory Tower.

>>9310860
American detected

>>9310865
No shit, buddy. You had a 50-50 shot. Very impressive.

>>9310872
lack of knowledge of statistics detected

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>>9309938
never understood qq

i cry from the inside of each eye, not from the inside of my right eye and the outside of my left eye

should be qp, or at worst pq

>>9306715
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read poetry

What did he mean by this?

>>9306715
>>you read any form of genre fiction
all fiction has a genre

>>9311001
You need to read poetry to appreciate its form, BUT DON'T YOU DARE ENJOY YOURSELF OR YOU'RE A FUCKEN PATHETIC PLEB

Strive above all else to rid yourself of all emotion, this is the only path to being patrish.

>>9311975
>Implying that enjoying yourself = entertainment

>>9306715
qqqqqqqqqqq

>>9312378
feels good

>>9312362
>entertainment
>ɛntəˈteJnm(ə)nt
>noun
>the action of providing or being provided with amusement or enjoyment
Shut the fuck up, you tiresome brainlet.

novalis is so damn cute!!!

>>9306715
In all my years on 4chan I've never understood the point of threads like this. What satisfaction are you getting out of this? Why? I just don't understand.

>>9313189
It is not within our ability to understand, we may merely rationalize to the extent that it is useful. Why do you think op created this thread?

>>9313189
An elenchus, as you would know, always serves a moral purpose.

>>9306715
kill yourself
now
don't wait

>>9313189

>years on 4chan
>hasn't realized that everything that matters is getting replies and that this has only intensified since the implementation of the (you)

Honestly a bit slow of you anon.

>>9306787
That is faker than the Piltdown Man.

>>9306815
>>9306835
>This passes off as an insult to literature.

Amici miei, it is clearer it is supposed to be very much entry-level. So as long as it stimulates the young reader to at least try to get the "pure" version later on, there is hardly any harm in that.

>>9306715
By definitivo, classica were new once upon a time. Maybe reading contemporary literature has merit.

>>9306715
who is this semen demon?

>>9306835
>>9306815
>Doesn't realise that this kind of things exist since the beginning
I mean just read for example the medieval rewritten Aeneid which take the original and add medieval themes and is actually a good read

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>>9310728

>>9314761
novalis

>>9314798
kys

>>9316324
see previous reply

>>9314496
>Amici miei, it is clearer it is supposed to be very much entry-level. So as long as it stimulates the young reader to at least try to get the "pure" version later on, there is hardly any harm in that.
"It gets the kids reading :DDD"
Reading shit is worse than not reading.

>By definitivo, classica were new once upon a time.
The mindset which did inform their production was not modern and didn't value novelty.

>>9306890
>conceding that shakespeare's shit is formalist tripe with no content