/lit/ - Literature

ITT: Overrated garbage

How come I can play a game for 10 hours but I can only read for like an hour before needing a break?

>>3645013

make that part of the character

Name a better book.

Protip: You might

What does /lit/ think of Faulkner?

Am I retarded or is this a tough read?

So I've been reading the Sound and the Fury on a recommendation from a professor and I'm about halfway through the second chapter, and I feel compelled to ask

what the flying fuck

I just read The sound and the Fury, opinion on the book? it was pretty hard to understand.

I had to reread the 1st section because I didn't understand what was going on until 40 pages in. I'm so glad the book isn't written like that for the entire thing though or else I would have thrown it away. The beginning of the 2nd section though seems promising.

>read this book, expect intricate prose and great diction since idiots often say its a tough read
>i think it may be around the "difficulty" of proust
>its written from the perspective of a retard
>fucking huck finn dialogue
Wow I could have wrote this book. It's just like the curious case of the dog in the night or whatever that other shitty retard book is

The Sound and the Fury

Quentin and Caddy down by the branch with the honeysuckle and she smelled like trees and a knife do it i cant do it you are contemplating an apotheosis where and i wasnt lying father i have committed incest

>read "The Sound and the Fury" by Faulkner
>get about halfway through Quentin's section where he and Caddy are down by the branch contemplating double suicide
>cry

OP is illiterate and will never appreciate the the beauty of encountering a truly great book.

Herp derp dragons.

...yea imrite

Singular greatest use of stream-of-consciousness...perfect illustration of the impressionistic/vague yet vivid manner in which thoughts coarse through the human mind...


nothing happens, weak unconvincing characters, psychoanalytic framework

Make sure there aren't any distractions, and just focus on the words. Look for things that seem out of place in the novel because, remember, everything is relevant to the story.

That tends to keep me focused if I dirft off.

Also, if you want something that engages you, I suggest reading the book in the pic.

Who are the 10 greatest American writers?
These are, in my opinion, the 10 greatest American writers:

Thoreau
Emerson
Whitman
Twain
Melville
James
Faulkner
Hemingway
Frost
Williams

I want to see who you think are the 10 greatest American writers.

This book is better, but whatever man.

most overrated books of all time.

pic related

The greatest novel ever written by the greatest novelist.

Bitches don't even know.

Posting more good American lit.

.....(argumentative faggots)

The Sound and the Fury

My all time favorite

Is Dead Souls that awesome? Why? (just curious, I want to read it)

I'll play

It's been a while since I read a book that I couldn't put down until it was done. I mostly get bored with them and just leave them on the shelf/return them to the library.

What should I read? Pic is last thing I didn't bother finishing.