/lit/ - Literature

>narrative switches between third and first person

>[sic]

>>20100559
You're that guy who wrote the story about how pancakes are better than waffles.

>spacey girl I know asks me for book recommendation
>tell her to start with the Greeks
>she says oh wow I actually just read a lot recently I got the great books and I’m going through them
>feel a bit shocked and incredulous
>great books of the western world ?
>yep I’m going through the Greek drama now
>look at her like I’m skeptical
>I’m on Sophocles
>really? You actually read everything before that?
>uh huh you wanna see?
>say okay and actually get a bit interested and she says come over to her apartment that weekend because her roommate is out and we won’t annoy her
>come over
>sure enough she has them in boxes and has Sophocles out
>suddenly notice what looks like a scrapbook with a big heart on it
>what’s that?
>she opens it, it’s a bunch of postage stamps
>my dad got me into collecting stamps when I was little now I’m obsessed
>mfw
>tell her you know this is basically like funko pops right?
>what do you mean?
>is it the same with your books?
>huh?
>ask her why she is even reading the great books
>because. It’s fun
>feel very annoyed but control my anger and manage to leave calmly and politely

Are women basically the anti book?

>download ebook
>there's a reddit space after every paragraph

>needless to say

>Reviewer is an over-socialized moralist who cares about the book's message and not how well its written