/lit/ - Literature

>>19803351
>winter 2017, everybody's calmed down after the political shitstorm the year prior
>teaching a poetry class for non-english majors
>professor i'm working under is very chill, assigns almost no work besides reading and class discussions, so there's nothing for me to grade
>paid hourly so i have to sit in the office and look busy
>pass the time by chatting with the gender studies TA down the hall
>let's call her "becky"
>she's a friend of my girlfriend on top of being a co-worker, so i've kept things pretty professional: weather, family, tv, books we're reading, other small talk topics
>then one afternoon, a young guy (couldn't have been older than 20) storms out of her office and stomps down the hall
>i see tears in his eyes
>knock on becky's door
>she invites me in
>i'm expecting her to be upset too, but i can tell she's been holding back laughter
>no clue how to react
>notice the kid left his book-bag and papers on becky's desk
>she asks: "is he coming back?"
>i look down the hall
>"no sign of him"
>finally she lets out the most horse-like laugh i've ever heard
>she explains that the kid is set to fail the class because he didn't do any of the reading
>he needed an A- or better on this paper to avoid retaking his gender studies elective next semester
>he got a C- on this paper because his thesis boiled down to: "stay-at-home moms have privileges that working-class men don't, so sexism isn't that bad"
>nowhere in the paper did he address the required reading about how historically a majority of women have also worked, just for lower pay and in less safe conditions
>so the first premise of his case is resting on the edge of a cliff
>there are also some genuinely wild leaps of logic --- stuff like asserting that required material he never read was "propaganda"
>or that the mandatory gender studies elective itself constituted "oppression against men," even though it was literally 40/40/20 men's issues, women's issues, lgbt issues
>the professor did her job: pointed this out, and graded the paper accordingly
>he came to becky's office looking to pick a fight
>becky has no say in the grading, and couldn't do anything about his complaints even if she wanted to
>she tells him as much
>he asks if she "at least think[s] [he's] right"
>she says no
>he storms out
>i feel bad for the kid, but i have to admit it's funny
>as i'm saying this, he comes back in to pick up his book-bag
>he blushes, grabs everything, and runs away again
i've always wondered if he browsed /pol/

In Legends of the Jews there is a great story about Rabbi Hanina and the hungry frog.
https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=107&tale=3889
Also, you should know that the plague of frogs in Exodus was actually just one giant frog.

What's your favorite Irish short story? Mine is def Araby or The Dead but I also really like Irish Revel by Edna O'Brien

King of the world
Culture of critique
Dune

How do you guys decide what book to read next

>>13773475
Me too!

Where do I start with aesthetics lads?

What books does /lit/ consider fun ?
Y'know, books that don't really require you to think about them, don't have convoluted plots and a person can enjoy rather passively. What are the best and most memorable examples?

>>12756643
>Go to local used book store
>Buy a Mishima book
>Old man behind register tells me to read Abe, his favorite Japanese author
>tfw face of another is one of my favorite books now
Thank u old man

For all the aspiring writers on this board, just give up. Nobody cares about what you [don't] have to say.

hi /lit/ my question is how and what to start reading, I am 19 and I never read a book from beginning to end in my life, where should I start? my purpose is to become a connoisseur in literature

>>12544921
>its better than an emily dickinson poem i read
wow you really do not get literature

>>12199388
love the review quote