/lit/ - Literature

>>12909365
>Al bear camoo

>be reading book
>the characters start talking about their depression as if psychiatry is a fact and not a ludicrous theory which relinquishes people of a sense of responsibilty for their actions

>English Comprehensive (free school)
>Read Steinbeck, two plays by Shakespeare, a play by Priestly and a few chapters of Bronte

That's it. That's all we read. In college (optional high school senior) we read one more Shakespeare play, the Great Gatsby and a terrible book by Sebastian Faulks.

Even University is pretty piss-poor to be quite honest with you, familial. The English education system is one of the worst in the developed world. By college, even University, there were students who still struggled to read out loud.

Really, we should be the best in the world, but we've pissed it all away.

>Allow me to explain why big government and surveillance is bad whilst simultaneously praising dictatorial leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Bashar Al-Assad and holding a 2+ hour talk on how much I praise Putin despite the fact I'm supposedly an ex-Trotskyist who hates Communism yet Putin was the ex-director of the post-collapse version of the KGB

>>6852435

>introduction by Christopher Hitchens
>mfw

>Chris Shitchens thought the war in Iraq and Afghanistan was a good thing

top lel

reminder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6Us5_BaVU

>>4625034
You sound like a joy to be around OP.

In terms of my experiences with friends and with girls who attempt to talk about literature, I tend to do anything possible to change the topic of conversation for these reasons:
a) I will find out that they are horrifically more intelligent than I am which will make me jealous, angry, and embarrassed
b) I will inevitably end up sounding like a pretentious twat spouting sophomoric opinions, given the fact that I am an unpublished dolt who has little to no credibility
and most importantly
c) while I find infinite joy and discovery in reading, most discussion of literature has only irritated or bored me.

I love being a conservative purely from an eschatological point of view and very much enjoy reading about how this civilisation has gone to shit.