/lit/ - Literature

You're probably a bad person, OP, but I like you a little bit.

>pic is probably you, but today you win

I'm pretty sure Welcome to the NHK (the lite novel) will run you a pretty penny.

Pynchon is the every-man's Pynchon
DFW is the academic's Pynchon

>>2485134
Characters are arguably DFW's weakest point.
>>2485207
>with his engorged serving/masturbating arm, while the other dangles limply?

>>2485183
There's a chance Tommy P could have an inconvenient acid flashback and flee the scene, though it wouldn't be cool just leaving DFW hanging like that.

>How many of you are actually majoring in English/History/etc?

Journalism major here.

>Enjoying it?

No -there are some barely literate people in the program. I'm beginning to suspect these are people who somehow formed a political opinion or aspire to being sports commentators, and thus thought it fit to major in journalism.

I'd rather be an English major; to be totally honest, the two are interchangable. The only difference is that journalism (at least at my uni) is much more job-placement oriented i.e. there's a lot more dithering in the English department, and not much support. I'm feeling very strongly about minoring in it though, I have to take some English classes just to break the utter banality of some of these journalism classes.

>pic is I dunno, just finished Welcome to the NHK at the recommendation of an acquaintance.