/lit/ - Literature

Do you ever feel like a bad mood might be making you give up on books that you'd normally read?

Is this even a bad thing? If the book isn't enough to make you happier, is this just a nice way of getting rid of stuff that would've been a waste of time?

Is Speed reading worth?
>pic semi-related
The biggest problem on speeding up the reading is the "amnesia" that it causes when you only absorve the message, but easyly forgets about passages and words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading

>tfw you have a massive to-read list
>tfw you loved a book but still haven't read more by the author

>Fahrenheit 451 is 2nd favourite book, read nothing else by Bradbury
>V was the best book I've read this year, only read TCOL49 apart from that
>Basically every sci-fi or fantasy book sounds interesting

>>2716670
>>2716670

>>2696146
>mfw the lapsarian narrative presents the world as a shitty simulacrum of Eden

I like Daft Punk.

Get off my 4chan.

Read a book per week.

SOMEONE WRITE ME A 500 WORD POEM ABOUT WUTHERING HEIGHTS FOR MY A2 ENGLISH

Pic related, the only picture I had featuring a book.

ITT books that made you react like this while reading a certain page.

>>1873588
>>1873588

>thanking mods for the sticky i made

>try to read lolita >might as well be on Literotica.com >he rants about how being a pedophile is alright >tries, and fails miserably, to argue it scientifically and historically >close book on chapter six.

Fuck. That.

>>1699777

>Oh, that's right, it's because /lit/ knows fuck all about literary criticism.

>mfw I'm majoring in Literary and Critical Theory

Oh man, /lit/.

You gotta help me out.

When I was younger, one of the first books I really loved was about some really shy girl who befriends this rude,blonde girl who's really a ghost in a forest, and in the book it explains that the ghost lived on a prairie (I think), and one day she wandered off and fell into a well and broke her neck or something. This ghost was a real bitch; she was stubborn and constantly got the shy girl in trouble. I think the ghost's name was Alice, or something. Does anyone recognize this book, like at all? I'm tutoring this inner city kid in a couple of days, and I wanted her to read it since it seems right up her alley, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Any ideas?

Pic related, hopefully the look on her face when she finds out the girl is a ghost.

>>1525582
I think I just dynamically shit myself.

>mfw the Lockheed crashed into the Games Building and it rained fire twenty blocks away

>>1353382
cool, thanks for the feedback. it doesn't make perfect sense but i guess those excerpts you quoted kinda reflect my own state of mind. i can see how anyone else would be lost though

>>Piss exploded from her pussy like a fire hose.

>>1254752
>calls me a hipster
>bitches about /b/ tactic

The wilderness whispered to Kurtz, and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core...

>>1195394
>old books
>Dune

>>1139097
>pay
you're doing it wrong OP

I just realized that I haven't been to /lit/ in a couple of days. Why you might ask? Because I've actually been reading now.

AH-hahahahaha!