TAKE THE LIT PILL

lit more like shit
but really there are way too many fucking tripfags there

>>untouched by woke capitalism
Jesus have you not to read anything from this century? SJWs fucking own literature industry and all publishing companies. Straight white males literally can't be writers these days

Thank you Yea Forums for your kind regards. I will take your advice and be heading over there shortly.

It's much better as a book. Plays are for plebs who can't read. Proof: the retarded comic relief in every serious play

Shakespear was a faggot and actually reading itself is for fags

/litv/? for screenplays?

>books
>Cheaper

if you download free maybe

most books in my country cost the price of a movie ticket

>buying books

>Plays are for plebs who can't read
So, exactly the audience he wrote for. Also,
>thinking Shakespeare isn't plebeian material

>Shakespear was a faggot
do you believe every jewish lie you are told? you must be American

he wrote lots of sonnets too, retard. Also, it's not like you have to do one or the other, you can watch a play and read it too at your own pace to appreciate more closely the poetry in them,

*blocks your path*

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Have any of you ever even read Shakespeare? None of it actually makes sense and its a bunch of gibberish. Nobody actually talks like this in real life.

You can find practically any book in existence for free online.

no but I've read Tails Gets Trolled and it sounds similar
I wonder if it, too, was intended for the stage

lol
LOL

I finished reading Passage by Connie Willis recently, and now I've started on the Dresden Files novels. They're fun since I wanted some simple enjoyable fluff.

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Shakespeare literally thought plays were better than books. Visual medium > faggy words on tree fibers

Nah, visual medium is superior.

>written by Frank Bacon

Act 1, Scene 1: Outside CIA's plane

CIA is waiting on stage with three HENCHMEN. Enter MASKETTA, PAVEL and three PRISONERS

CIA
Hark ser Pavel, and good day,
My Christian name is CIA.

MASKETTA
We journeyed to the meeting zone,
But the doctor was not alone.

CIA
I fear doctor this party ends,
Our deal did not include your friends.

PAVEL
Nay friend, you are incorrect.
These men do not my life protect.

MASKETTA
Worry not, Ser CIA.
For these men you need not pay.

CIA
Good Ser, I plainly fail to see,
What use these men would be to me.

MASKETTA
Dear agent, these hooded knaves,
Nearly put us in our graves.
They laid in wait to spring their trap,
The doctor they aimed to kidnap.
The rogue who set them on their task,
Was the man who wears the mask.

CIA
Surely you do not mean Bane?
Hark, take them aboard our plane.
Langley I shall notify,
That with the doctor we now fly.

PAVEL EXITS. The HENCHMEN, PRISONERS and CIA follow.

Act 1, Scene 2: Aboard CIA's plane

Enter CIA, three HENCHMEN, PAVEL and three PRISONERS

CIA
Hark now, knaves, and listen well,
For you may soon end up in Hell.

CIA produces his pistol and a roll of parchment.

CIA
I shall speak loud so all can hear,
This flight plan makes all matters clear:
The aircraft on which we now travel,
Holds me, my men and Doctor Pavel,
There is space for just one of you,
The sky awaits the other two.
The first of you to knowledge share,
Will stay with us safe in the air.

CIA takes PRISONER #1 downstage and holds the pistol to his head.

CIA
Tell me man, and tell me true,
The name of he who hired you,
To take the Doctor from his home,
And carry him to place unknown.
...Will you not speak? Then you shall die!

CIA fires his pistol into the air. The HENCHMEN pull PRISONER #1 upstage.

CIA
"Not good" 's how I'd describe you fly.

CIA takes PRISONER #2 downstage, and points his pistol at his head.

CIA
The next among you I shall ask:
Bane! Why does he wear the mask?
(Beat)
Your silence is both strange and bold,
For one who fights for naught but gold.

PRISONER #3
Perhaps the man does simply wonder,
Why, before you'd throw him yonder,
You would shoot him in the head,
And cast him out when he is dead.

CIA
Yes, a man here who can speak,
You may be the one I seek.
Tell me this: what is your name?
Lest you suffer a fate the same.

The HENCHMEN pull PRISONER #2 upstage. CIA removes PRISONER #3's hood to reveal BANE, the Masked Man.

BANE
It matters not, dear CIA.
It did not matter until the day,
I set my mind upon my task,
And donned my distinctive mask.

CIA
If I removed, with my fair hand,
The mask that has become your brand,
Would forth the maw of death creep,
And bring about eternal sleep?

BANE
An action such as that would be,
Painful to an extreme degree.

CIA
But the pain that would ensue,
Could surely be endured by you.
For after all, I clearly see,
A man of grander build than me!

BANE
It seems you have mistaken it,
It won't be I that bites the bit!
Painful times are sure ahead,
But not for me - for you, instead!

CIA
Surely Bane you had not planned,
To end up captive in my hand?

BANE
Of course dear man, now here I am.
I shall unveil my master plan.
The Doctor's aid we had sought,
But in with you he threw his lot.
With my own eyes I had to see,
What knowledge he had shared with ye.

PAVEL
Nothing! I have not told them a word.
To think otherwise would be absurd.

CIA
Ser Bane it seems you are now here,
Pray, dear ser, lend me your ear,
And allow me, if it pleases you,
To ask what you intend to do.
So tell me, if you even can,
What's the next step in your master plan?

BANE
My plan, you see, is quite insane,
For I intend to crash this plane!
To send it falling from the sky,
So all aboard will surely die!

BANE stands up and breaks free from his bonds. He punches CIA in the face, knocking him to the floor. PRISONER #1 AND PRISONER #2 stand up, also breaking free, and begin fighting the HENCHMEN.

CIA
NAY! You cannot do this Bane!
For I am the lord of this plane!

Fighting and alarms. BANE and the two PRISONERS succeed in overpowering CIA and his HENCHMEN. PRISONER #1 exits. PRISONER #2 turns to join him, but is stopped by BANE.

BANE
Hold up, brother - you stay here,
We cannot all just disappear.
One must stay inside the plane,
But your death shall not be in vain.

PRISONER #2 sits down, smiling.

PRISONER #2
Tell me, brother, if it pleases you,
Of the ravaging fire that we pursue.
Is it small and calm and unexcited,
Or is kindled, warm and ignited?

BANE
The mighty flame for which you die,
Is burning hot and rising high!

BANE takes PAVEL over his shoulder. PAVEL protests, but BANE is too strong.

BANE
Pray doctor, 'tis not the time for fear!
That moment has yet to draw near.

Exit BANE and PAVEL, leaving PRISONER #2 on stage. Lights flare, haze vents from the stage and there is the sound of a crashing plane. Lights down.

Visuals and not having to do shit is superior to having to decipher black and white symbols

And despite that, he is still better than today's sellout Hollywood bullshit.

The thing that books can’t do for me while movies can is that movies can invoke feelings of terror, happiness, and sadness much better than books can.

Buy from thrift books either on eBay or their website for like $4. Or just use library genesis and get them for free.

Are there any better alternatives to Yea Forums, too many pseudo intellectuals and communists there.
Also how do I know what I’m reading is genuinely good prose and not nonsensical rambling pretending to be meaningful?

>t. illiterate

>too many pseudo intellectuals and communists there.
You're not really going to find a forum to discuss books that isn't filled with pseudo intellectuals. Liking literature is considered shorthand for being smart.

Yes, it's called r/books and they even have an epic new meme about how stupid female characters written by male authors are. You should check it out, it really fresh, funny and not overused at all.
>how do I know what I’m reading is genuinely good prose
By reading more

Based

>be me
>buy PRS-500 on release
>use it for a decade, expect e-ink reader market to be awesome when it's time to get a replacement
>it fails
>time to get a replacement
>here's your Kindle, bro

What does everone think about Elena Ferrante?

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*likebook mars in your path*

>My kingdom for a mortadella

Unironically agree - everything worth reading, watching or listening was already made.
What will be left after the Millenials, GenXers or Zoomers? Nothing, because they stand for nothing and are worth nothing, everything is just hyperironic deconstruction and nothing else.

>woke capitalism
>stuff corporations full of muh systems if oppression bolsheviks
>t-t-the capturtilismists did that you b-bigot

Thank you for that fren

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>reading fiction ever

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I'll have to upgrade again soon because my Kindle Oasis shed some plastic and is no longer waterproof, but it happened five days outside of warranty so Amazon's foreign call center employees do not have a script which is concerned with me

Is fathers and sons good?

>it happened five days outside of warranty
So maybe fuck off and stop bothering them?

>asking Yea Forums to save Yea Forums
I think they need to be the arena for the proxy war between sneedlets and maskchads

Insecure.

Nintendo lets me send my things in for repair out of warranty if I pay them for it. Amazon just does not give a single fuck.

Film is unironically the highest form of art.
It contains all the other art forms in all the filmmaking elements, from fashion, architecture, design to music, photography, the writing and performances and puts the time element into it.
With film, you can express your idea in just one single frame through framing and composition, the performance, production design, sound
etc, while with literature you have to use multiple sentences just to set up the scene and for the reader to grasp what's happening. Reading words linearly is not ideal, film is just much more efficient. Also with film you get an exact fixed artistic expression that can’t be changed, while with literature it's entirely different with every single person because they all self impose their own pacing while reading, some read a book in a day some in a month, with films you get the exact experience the artist intended. Not to mention the fact that readers rarely read the direct expression of the artist, more than often just a translated reinterpretation.

Now that doesn't mean everyone uses the medium of film to it's maximum potential ofcourse, but it has a far greater potential than any other art form out there.

>sneedlets and maskchads
all zoomers and discord filth should be executed.

brainlet

Shakespeare is somewhat inaccessible to some

Any literal who author from 1850-1950 will be able to write better than just about every writer working today though. And very accessible language.
I'm not even joking.

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>Inexpensive
I wish. Books have got to be one of the most expensive media forms now.

shakespeare sucks

Yeah they're like $30-60 new in Canada.

>thinking Shakespeare was the author
LMAO I BET YOU NIGGAS ALSO BELIEVE THE EARTH IS ROUND

What will Yea Forums fags read when they’re done with the western canon, modern literature is trash

William Shakesman

Lol reading is for fags. Why force yourself to do all the work imagining when tv and film will do it for you

I enjoyed that, thank you

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

books are not for npc:s, you need to be able to visualize, which most of Yea Forums can't

There are only maybe 200 classic films

This reads like Dr Suess you illiterate faggot. Its called iamb

have sex, litcel

What's wrong with Dr Seuss?

He ain't Shakespeare. I'd have to same reaction if I saw star-bellied sneeches in The Garden of Earthly Delight

Which fucking country?! I've travelled the world and never been anywhere where 2nd hand books aren't cheap

>pinnacle of human achievement
Byt that's not Cervantes

LITERATURE, AND CINEMA, ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

>Straight white males literally can't be writers these days
Keep telling yourself these false prophecies. Fatalism is peak brainletism.

>I can't enjoy something that makes me use my imagination.

And I'm the brainlet? Do you only watch documentaries too?

>Do you only watch documentaries too?
Dumb assumption. This thread is about literature and I merely made a mockery of fiction. No valid reason to call me insecure. Probably ass-mad projection or simply an unsuccesful troll attempt.

You type like a retard, at least learn to write if you want to be le ebin edgy pseudointellectual

Look up 'library' in the dictionary. It will blow your fucking mind.

>namecalling and buzzwords

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Reminder that Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare.

Sir Francis Bacon is the real author.