/lit/ - Literature

My autistic ass can't come up with a way to 'appropriately' tell my sister that the whole world isn't out there to get here, and holding on to resentment ain't gonna fix shit. I'm just afraid that things would get heated up and she'll try to kill herself again or run away.

For my next book, I was thinking either The Count of Monte Cristo or Don Quixote.

Which should I read first?

>be 3rd year BA English Undergrad
>About to be 22 years old
>wanna go for MA in English but also something else
>don't know which college to pick
I'm fucked aren't I? It's almost time for applications too.

So the other day I had to do some chores downtown and I went walking bringing a book with me (Crime and Punishment).

For some reason I started reading while walking. How retarded does this look? I was surprised I was able to concentrate and take in everything that was happening in the book while at the same time not getting run over by a car. My conclusion is that you can read a book and walk just fine if the street isn't too busy.

>tfw no book I will ever read will have the same emotional impact Spring Snow had

>>9882406
believe me at least Jaime cares for his brother

Serious question: I don't know how to use punctuation marks properly, etc. My grammar is seriously fucked from bad schooling.

Is there a course I can take which will teach me the very basics?

For example, I don't know when I can use:
>-- (the dash)
>; (rarely use this because I don't know if I should)
>"" (I don't know when to use quotation marks, and how they should correspond to a new line, or whether I put the period . after or before the second " mark)
>' ' (I don't know what the fuck these are even for)
>: (I know a little, but not confident enough to use it knowing it's 100 percent correct)
>- (hyphen, I have no idea whether or not I'm using it correctly)
>, (I often put commas all over the place because that's how I speak, with spaces etc, not sure if it's correct usage)
>() (not sure what the fuck brackets are for either.)
>' (apostrophe's and single quotation marks (') I don't have a clue)

Is there a course I can take? How do I into grammar? I'm fucking retarded, I think. I need a basic run through of when and where to use each, and whether or not I should comma the end of a quotation, etc.

HELP ME

>>9740024
do it

As much as I enjoy some of Peterson's lectures, his contempt for post-modern and Marxism is annoying. Mainly because of his "followers" all suddenly label anything and anyone with a vague notion of either as libs, cucks etc and completely disregards any conflicting information, which I'm sure Peterson himself would be against.

>24
>Iceland
I'm trying to read an Icelandic crime novel by a female author. It's like the first Icelandic book I've read for about 3 years, and it's dawning on me that I have a very tenuous grasp of my own fucking language.

>>8059007
>Cultural Marxism
Ever believing this exists as more than a footnote in Communist theory

>>7545862
I pray for that day my friend