/lit/ - Literature

We have no standards left

>>19689357
>'Zelda said that the way I was built I could never make any woman happy and that was what upset her originally. [This conversation was held somewhat after what Hemingway describes as "what was then called her first nervous breakdown."] She said it was a matter of measurements. I have never felt the same since she said that and I have to know truly.'

Zelda went crazt because fitzgeralds dick was awful

>>19443271
Abhorrent.

>>19265619
>I mean you're welcome but it's unusual to see someone so old here
Do you not realise that you are the one who is being welcomed?
Some of us were here when you were literally going to kindergarten.

A clear lack of exposure to any serious literature. Sounds like the "deep thoughts" teenagers think they have because they are thinking a little bit for the first time.

>>19153509
...Harry Potter...that accursed book...Harry Potter...HARRY POTTER! HARRY POTTER! HARRY POTTER! HARRY POTTER! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>16146300
the entire western canon

>>13899038
So why in the fuck would you compile a reading list like that without having read all of the works included, and thoroughly studied many of them? Which, forgive me for assuming, you haven't.

Redpill me on speed reading. Is it a meme? Or can you actually use it to get intellectual gains? Pic related, the man can read War & Peace in 2 hours.

>The eBook...I recently went through my first, and last, eBook experience, on which I read a 50th rate thriller by the overrated Michael Crichton called Timeline. By pressing a button I was able to read through the book and I found it to be not a good experience. Whether in terms of the quality of what I was reading, or the ghastly procedure in which I was following.

>>12137723
>Dosto
>beautiful prose

>You got to search deeper!
>Yet still no suggestions

>>11759973
I had someone tell me about this series in 2012 after the second series aired and how they started reading when it first came out.

I thought, cool, I'll be able to read as the new books come out, which must come out faster or else the show will catch up.

>read all 5 books in about 2 months
>even a newfag like me has been waiting 6 years for this shit.

>>11550299
It's hard to believe there are people holding these opinions who can read, so I really wouldn't know.

>>11391448

Why has /lit/ turned into /his/2

I thought the philposting was meant to be contained there

PHILPOSTERS GET OUT
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>11045207

>out with the lads last night
>drunkenly text pretty much every girl i know at 4 am
>none of them respond until this morning
why do i do this

> He ate the last of the eggs and wiped the plate with the tortilla and ate the tortilla and drank the last of the coffee and wiped his mouth and looked up and thanked her.

Wow, it's the peak of high literature.

>>10829777
>creating characters out of thin air instead of having them all be people you know with different names
>not already having been in love with all of you female characters before pen even reaches paper

>>10710134
>King James Bible

>>10659410
>UCLA

>>10588961
>Still in HS
>I tell myself that elite higher ed like that is removed, bourgeois, and artlessly apollonian
>It's nice to be in an environment that's pretty smart but rarely pretentious and never elitist about that fact

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