/lit/ - Literature

>>9278153
Joke's on you. I read women authors because society tells me to.

>the amount of times she says BBC in a single vid

>>6888934
>thinking industrialization is postmodern

>>6409333
>mfw I see a bad poster strutting his shit in /lit/

Just bought Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and Camus' The Stranger. What should I expect and what else should I read?

>>1800342
>unironically mocking Sarah Palin

What is this, 2007?

Is it just me or is this guy trying too hard?

He volunteered to bring in one of his stories when the prof asked. He printed out a bunch of copies and at the end attached a little note, which says this:

"I really had fun with this one, I wanted to try using lyrical language in a narrative piece, and thought it would be fun to juxtapose this by writing about a decidedly un-lyrical setting. Now, when I thought about what seemed completely un-lyrical a few things came to my mind: the 80's, SPAM, New York accents, Florida, fish guts, and merchant fishing ships.

Now I can't bash the 80's too hard as I wasn't alive back then, but it seems all Aqua Net hairspray bottles and beepers and Mohawks, and very loud Hawaiian shirts to me. Sorry. New York accents and fish guts are self explanatory, but as far as Florida and fishing ships, I'm sorry, there is nothing appealing in Florida."

That's just the first paragraph.. but there's this line in here:

"Because when you have to wear rubber boots and rubber pants and rubber jackets whenever you walk around the most terrible moaning squeaking comes out, it's like two morbidly obese mice made entirely out of rubber having angry break-up sex; just completely unpleasant."

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>>961504
>My face when the etymology of the word hamlet, meaning a small village, stems from the Shakespearean play.

>>922886

>My face when I realized Naked Lunch is just /b/ for psuedo-intellectuals

I once knew a girl who I'm convinced modeled herself after Franny. Everything about her from the way she talked to her predilection for letter-writing to what she ordered in restaurants was resoundingly similar to Franny from this book.

The funny thing is I only read Franny and Zooey a few years after I had met her.

In retrospect, I now view her as some sort of life-plagiarist.