/lit/ - Literature

>>10447659
>mastication

>be me
>in grade 12 english
>have to write a comparative essay between two gothic novels: 'the picture of dorian gray' and 'wuthering heights'
>wuthering heights is too long, boring
>don't read it
>get A- on the essay
>university year 1 english class the next year
>wuthering heights on the reading list
>fuck.png
>decide to not read it
>get an A- in the class
>mfw
who else /genius/ here?

>>10382658
This post is beautiful.

>I don't read fiction

Do you read the last page before starting a book /lit/?:

>tfw meteorological nihilist

>>10279315

reading is a waste of time because it doesn't develop any commercial skills unlike mathematics

>>10253996
>be Jordan Memerson
>want to make a lot of $$$ and gain notoriety quickly
>perform the brave, heroic act of refusing to use someone's gender pronouns
>get worshiped as a hero by autists on the internet for whining about a letter he received from the school's faculty
>never receive any actual death threats, never have his life threatened, never actually get censored, never get imprisoned, never even get fired from his job
>simply whining about gender pronouns and being a professor of psychology is enough to be labelled a martyr for free speech by gullible anti-SJWs on the internet who desperately want an authority figure to affirm their whining
>whine about postmodernism and the cultural marxist boogeyman, even though postmodernism is a massive, broad subject never cite any actual literature or works or books by postmodernist authors or the Frankfurts, just say "they're all dumb guys trust me" like a true academic while occasionally namedropping Foucault or Derrida without actually addressing any of their arguments
>give the anti-SJWs you conned an imaginary enemy to blame all their problems on, while posing yourself as a hero when you've done jack shit and ironically whine about virtue signalling in academia while proposing no actual solutions to the postmodernist boogeyman
>fearmonger about a Canadian bill that you didn't even bother reading that was just a slight modification of a previous human rights bill that has already been in effect for decades, only it added "gender identity" to the list of criteria that you can't discriminate someone for and doesn't even affect universities because it only has federal jurisdiction
>virtue signal about how you would go on a hunger strike if you were arrested because of this bill, even though to this day no one has been arrested because of it and there isn't a single shred of evidence in the legislation or court records suggesting that would happen
>claim that a disgruntled twitter employee deleting trump's account is treason, then delete your tweet when everyone calls you out
>make 65k US dollars a month on Patreon from gullible morons who think you're brilliant for making glorified vlogs that spout Jungian purple prose, whine about children's movies being feminist propaganda and make vague, whiny criticisms of postmodernism that isn't backed by any actual evidence
Ah yes we have a true """intellectual""" on our hands

>>10241137
If he's so smart then why is he dead?

>>10218588
Anime is alive and well

To increase the sales of my book I'm going to participate in a scandal. Any tips?

>>10056526
maybe you should've said what you actually meant in your first post

>>10002419
yeah bro, it's just shitposting
nobody actually believes in anti-semite conspiracy theories

Why aren't you writing your novel in sonnets, making it about some generic sci fi fantasy about totalitarianism about trump, some metaphor about the alien bugs being ISIS, some new age shit, making it using hollywood generic plot structure?

Literally easy nobel prize.

Well I actually don't read books. I do however reread the summaries of wikipedia pages of the books I have in my possession as well as the reviews on amazon and goodreads. Most books are way too big while reviews are nice and short, and there is more variety in writing. I also don't understand the ideas behind books so reviews and especially wikipedia helps with that.
There is one book I do however read and that is the dictionary, well the online one that is. I don't like big words because I get their spelling wrong very often. But I find that mixing big words with the summaries I've read, and talk about that, impresses my peers. When I say to people I'm reading I actually play video games on mute. I'm a bit worried that they somehow catch me playing vidya instead of reading the books, but then I realize that I can just say "Yeah finished it already." Before I 'read' a book I always make sure to read a few summaries in case I need to answer someone's question of what I think of it. Another problem might arise when somebody knows the book better as me, but I figured that unless you reread books, you will forget most of it because that's how memory works. So I can always say "Heh, don't remember it. Will have to reread it." and then I just read a few summaries (usually some new ones).
I think it is helpful not just to namedrop big words but also to familiarize yourself with some of the buzzwords in the literary scene. And not just that, I also watch videos by people who are 'literary' and study their manners of speak and how they use their body (gestures and expressions). I copy those. So far I think everything is working out well and people really think I'm living the literary life.

>tfw a byronic hero
What are some books with this type of character?
Already read Wuthering Heights

>>9897513
>Inherent Vice is good.

>>9894447
>he didn't start with the Greeks

>>9888013
>just read this book that I read and then you'll agree with me

>the bible is the word of god
>but the koran is much better written
???

It seems alah is a better writer than yawhe.

>>9862222
By the quads!

>>9830668
"Show, don't tell."

ITT please share your good feelings about reading/writing, by describing books you've read, things you've written, or realized, and so on.

>tfw started to read The Federalist Papers on my work breaks, already the first four in per the below pace
>I am a fairly slow reader, but I can still crank out exactly one Paper on average during my break period (usually a half hour, sometimes a bit less depending on the shift)
>The work will neatly divide itself into nice, discrete nuggets that I will be able to easily move through during my breaks for the next few months, at this pace

I also read a few huge art books cover-to-cover recently, though of course the other half of the point of such books is to look at the pretty pictures.