/lit/ - Literature

Do you ever get asleep whilst reading? Do you ever get bored? How strong is your ability to focus on the text? How long can you keep repressing your thoughts generated by the book before they completely blow up your concentration?

Can we have a thread where we share ebooks on MEGA like /his/?

I really want some ebooks

Should I feel bad for forgetting basic grammar rules that I've learned in grade school?

At times, I have difficulty with differentiating between simple parts of speech, like: predicates (simple, complete, compound, nominative, adjective, etc.), direct and indirect objects, what a prepositional phrase is, appositives, subject complements, etc.

English is not my mother tongue, however, I do have a damn good grasp of the language, and of the grammar. It's just when I come across some technical terms, I draw blanks, then shamefully look up the definitions of said terms. I start to question what I really know about English. Does anybody feel the same?

How useful is it really, to have the definitions of what a fucking correlative conjunction is, or to be able to tell the difference between restrictive and non-restrictive appositives?

Should I unblock her?

>"I can tell if a woman wrote a book just by reading a paragraph or two, it's evident in their style" - VS NAIPAUL

Is this still true? Since women are losing their feminine touch and becoming masculine I assume it doesn't hold anymore

>Discussing Pope's The Rape of the Lock
>Male lecturer says that Pope's scathing criticism towards women is often seen as misogynistic not didactic
>A female colleague raises her hand
>Maybe he is one of the first feminists for wanting women to see how their petty behaviour amounts to nothing
>then I fell in love

>>6885603
>>6885697

anon, what's wrong?

>>6849556
thank you


I don't think I would have been so merciful, had our roles been reversed

This is an example of subtext, obviously alluding to Tess` loss of virginity from Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

The sun was so low on that short last afternoon of the year that it shone in through a small opening and formed a golden staff which stretched across to her skirt, where it made a spot like a paint-mark set upon her.

And trying to get out of the text of The Catcher in the Rye that Phoebe got raped is not reading between the lines but reading lines that are only in your mind.

>>6779036
newfags

What does /lit/ think of this summer-reading list for literature of the Enlightenment period?

>Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

>Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

>Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock

>Samuel Richardson - Pamela

>Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews

>Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy

>Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

>Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield

>>6500342
>Queen of /lit/
butterdyke

>>6234889
Once this place was full of beauty

>>5348042

5th Get married to a cutie pie and have a family.

>>5224629
Are you telling me this picture of her isn't real?

What are some good books on people who create alternative personalities for themselves?

I know of Fight Club and Jekyll & Hyde. Anything else? May also be non-fiction.

>>5083508
can't post the NSFW ones on a blue board

bump for atheism

>>5040928
>saggy

What is your philosophy? How did you find meaning, God, purpose?

How ought you live life according to that philosophy? Is everything permitted? Is attachment good/bad? Are you a pseudo-buddhist?

/lit/ femenon thread, cus fuck da mods for interferring with the will of /lit/

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