/lit/ - Literature

>>19335007

>>10810734
>>10810735

>>9405034

Do you think there's any value in finishing a book you don't like to the bitter end?

I've gone through some sluggishly boring passages in my time, but if I like the other parts of the book overall I consider it worthwhile. I've only finished one book I ended up absolutely hating, and that was with the hope that the ending might redeem it somehow. Now I've decided to just drop any books I'm not really enjoying because life is too short to put myself through the sort of irritating torture that "The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year" provides.

What books do you absolutely detest and why? Do you think you're "allowed" to hate a book if you've not read it the whole way through?

>>7268432
>>7268438
>>7268451

>>7106134
ugh

>>6748400

>>6084761
As long as you're learning the fundamentals of versecraft, rather than the focusing on the literary aspects of the poem, which most classes do, keep with it.

I took two semesters of poetry in undergrad, and it changed the way I understand language, how English is all about stress, and verse/poetry is all about knowing how to frame those beats in a structured way, just as a painter has a canvas while painting, a boundary in which to work. Knowing verse refines the use of English that defines the extension of the very best poetry.

Ask the prof. how much you will be learning with regards to versecraft, scanning for and marking stress. That's honestly the foundation with which you may be able to understand and someday write poetry of your own.

At least try to summarise it you half-brained prick

Lit starter pack is better. Seriously. That's the type of stuff that gets the weirdos who are predisposed to come 4chan into reading.