/lit/ - Literature

>>22614006
Funnily enough as a man I liked everything about that book except the main character and his relationship with the girl. Firstly his two-first-names name sounds like one of those fake Hollywood screen names actors took to sounds more masculine, like John Wayne, and he's simultaneously disillusioned with the cause of the war and disillusioned with Spain yet is totally ready to sacrifice his life in a suicide mission for it, complete fearless badass, obviously, then there's his tragic backstory laid on thick and CONSTANT internal monologue about how your whole life is just 2 days or whatever, I mean it's a nice bit of philosophising but it just goes on and on. Then there's manic pixie dream girl tomboy Maria who also has the tragic backstory and was raped by soldiers but not vaginally, LOL, so he gets to take her virginity, of course. It's just too much. Loved the side characters, though.

>>16625701
>Getting good enough at one thing to be noticed is hard enough, two such different fields is near impossible.
>Life is just about getting validation from others

>You can become a "happy with myself" loser
Imagine believing "this makes me happy" isn't a good enough reason to do something.
This post reeks of a cancerous "there's no point in doing something if I'm not literally the best at it" attitude. 99% of people in any subject won't become world-renowned geniuses in their field but that doesn't mean they shouldn't bother at all.
Ironically this kind of mindset is what keeps people from trying anything new or getting actually good at anything.
Keep coping.

>>16626402
>n-n-no! YOU'RE coping!!!

>>15699229
this is your brain on /pol/

>book

>>14114064
These threads are just an excuse for /r9k/-refugees to bitch and whine and I'm surprised the mods haven't intervened already

>"Now a Major Motion Picture" on the cover

>>11346403
nice peterson

Why the fuck aren't there any names? I don't know shit about poetry.

Are we being purposely obscure? fucking assholes...