/lit/ - Literature

>>12539260
intelligence == being able to learn things quicker, higher the intelligence the quicker you learn

People with average IQ are capable of learning and getting the picture, its just takes them a lot longer

Having said that, I would hate to live in a world where I dont understand things right away and not having suicidal thoughts and tendencies shadow my every move

I've been trying to rewrite this so it's less jarring. People told me that it was lacking context, so I tried to fix that.

Please tell me where you stop reading (if it gets boring), or anything else you don't like about it. I'm deadass ready to throw everything out and start over a million times if I have to.

CATGIRL STORY:

https://pastebin.com/raw/CQHbYaBN

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>not starting by reading heine's book on the german romantics
>not reading isaiah berlin's recently published lectures on the german romantic movement
>not reading the early english romantics
>not reading coleridge
>not reading carlyle
>not reading the american transcendentalists
>not reading perry miller's book on the transcendentalists
>not reading louis menand's book
>being an english lit pleb with no historical or philosophical knowledge

You could just have said you wanted to talk about blood Meridian

Any recommendations for books covering the American civil war?

I was hoping for a book rec that is a commentary on what leads up to the war, how it was fought, the economy and social life of each side, and the aftermath.

Textbook recommendations are welcome as well!