/lit/ - Literature

>>4011636

toppest of lel's

gtfo

>>3650167

Dumas was pretty heavy

>High school lit general

Nigger do you even read

Am I the only one who had to read miserable novels from 6th to 12th grade?

I mean fuck, it seemed like every book we read was either about the Holocaust or American slavery. I literally hated books before I got to high school.

Then when I was in 10th grade I picked up The Count of Monte Cristo on my own and it was like a revelation. A book about nobility, adventure, mature romance, duels and high culture? And superbly written? Holy fuck, this is amazing. And then I read Don Quixote, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shanty, Faust, Toilers of the Sea, and so on.

For the rest of school I sparknoted every assigned novel and kept reading my own books. But when I look back now, I can't help but think school almost ruined literature for me with the wretched, depressing books they forced me to read.

Did anyone else go through this?

>>2629784

The French are several times their better in domain of literature as well.

Dumbass.

>>1922080
>I know, I'll kill fucking everyone, am I original yet?

o rly

inb4 ayn rand

>>1001666
>I read it when it when it came out as a 14 year old and thought it was a book about a boy on a boat with a tiger a zebra, an orang-utan and a hyena. I enjoyed it then.
you tryimg to say it wasn't about that?

Have the complete and free version http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo
>>978514
It is really easy. Think of Dumas as the J.K. Rowling of the XIXth century (thousands time better).

Also, The Musketeers.

>>967430
>Implying setting the scene concisely is not a lot easier when you're 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

does he get taught in those African Literature courses?

there would be only one entry

Hey
What happened to the guy who had a interview with an editor yesterday? Did he come back?
The thread 404'd...
Dumas unrelated.

does this guy count as African Literature? Does he get taught in those wanky social study courses?

Alexandre Dumas had a good bit of niggardly blood

what does /lit/ think?

>>463150