/lit/ - Literature

>local bookstore installed pleb detectors

>buy my sister American Psycho for her birthday
>come home for the weekend and we are talking about it
>”Anon are you trying to base your personality around this fictional character?”
Jesus Christ what are some books that will help me develop a real personality rather than just copying it

>>10523198

Is this real?

>waiting in line at bank
>see lesbian couple and son who looks to be ten or so get in line behind me
>son is wearing a tiger onsie costume
>one of the moms, the butchier one, tells kid to read his book we'll be waiting here a while
>he reaches into his back pack and takes out volume 5 of In Search of Lost Time
>ask couple "I-is that kid reading Proust?"
>mfw the kid looks up and says "re-reading it"

ITT: times you met patricians in the wild

>>10009969

is that gif real?

This thread is cancer

>local bookstore installed pleb detectors

>Anon, I've been thinking, and I've realized that maybe all these depressing books you've been reading just isn't helping your depression at all. Now, I've gotten rid of everything pessimistic, or about death and sadness, or anything with an unhappy ending. Maybe now you'll start to lighten up and enjoy life!
>Oh, and I've also gotten rid off anything that looked too long and difficult. Books are supposed to make you relax and have fun, and you really need to relax and have fun.

So what is left in your book collection?

>>22976
Ever heard of progressive overload? Each workout you increase the weight by either 2.5/5/10lbs. If you're bulking, do the highest amount of sets on all exercises. If you're cutting, do the lowest amount of sets on all exercises. He answers all of this shit on his website and comment section.

>ask literary studies friend about what to read to get into literature
>gives me a list
>3000 books

>>9158672

>tfw Game of Thrones and Star Wars are the epics of today

>>8967072

>look at bookshelf
>surprised at how many gays there are