/lit/ - Literature

>>18022090
why, aren't you a joker

>>17432914

>Fantastic story, would recommend!
>3 stars
Whatever hogwash the reviewer types out doesn't even matter, 99% of people only look at the stars and anything less than 4-5 stars is irrelevant trash

>Reading makes you a better writer!

Then why aren't I improving?

Hey guys I found somebody else that visits /lit/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTE-ig7NhY

>>11480691

>read 30 novels a year, a mixture of classics and genre shit
>there are always books out there that I want to read, but still never get to
>feel like I don't read enough despite supposedly reading more than the average American

>you will never be old money
>you will never have an ancestor affectionately referred to by his title, as in "the judge" or "the commodore"
>you will never have your wedding to an equally pedigreed young lady at the most exclusive social club in the city

>>11080884

>every English professor ever says that The Sun Also Rises is his best novel
>every English professor ever says that his short stories are better than his novels
>mfw my favorite Hemingway is his 500 page gritty war novel For Whom the Bell Tolls

>analyzed Araby for a community college english class
>didn't realize the narrator's conversation with Mangan's sister was just a fantasy
Joyce bamboozles me again, I thought I understood him because of /lit/

>be English major
>be reading a book unrelated to class waiting for the class to begin
>another student walks in
>"What are you reading anon?"
>"Oh, I'm reading [classic of literature]
>"Yeah, I read that in high school. Have you really not read it before?"
>tfw I'm constantly reminded that my high school was a piece of shit and I'll never catch up to everyone else

>>10702810
i didnt want to read the winds of winter anyways

>tfw you will die in Henry Kissinger's lifetime

>>10465483
>th-the rest of /lit/ is laughing at muh GRR Martin again
>wh-why do they think I use Malazan to compensate for my tiny wiener?

>be me
>get to know this college girl who always takes the same bus I do
>find out she's lit major
>ask her for recommendations
>she tells me to read Steinbeck
>tell her I tried once but wasn't my thing
>she starts taking a different bus
>never see her again

Don't judge me, fucking pseuds

>>9943817
>>9943859
>tfw i love dfw
>tfw ill never go to amherst and study his work and live the /lit/ life
>im not even an english major
>in some shitty uni in the middle of nowhere
why live?

but really how'd you guys get into amherst? ill never get to go there but perhaps some day ill visit the campus.

>>9713815

>tfw you weren't born a girl and attaining bodily perfection is forever impossible to you

>>9681103

I miss /fit/

>the last chapter is 60 pages

>mfw I finish reading "A Painful Case"
Jesus Christ, Joyce, why'd you do this?

>>9298319
fuck that feel.

>>9184109
>tfw want to be an actor but theater people are SJW as fuck and 4chan will make fun of anything that's not stem and people hate your profession because of what idiots in hollywood say

>tfw I only know English like a cuck
>I will never read Rimbaud, Goethe, Tolstoy, Homer, Virgil, Cervantes, or Dante in their original languages
I want to fucking die already

>ever since I started browsing /lit/ I don't read books anymore
>I don't even read greentexts more than 10 lines long
What the fuck have you guys done to me

>Banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

>I know thee not, old man.