/lit/ - Literature

>>6780338
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So straight edge that he only got drunk once in his entire life.

What a sad bastard.

If (as a native English speaker) you haven't read the following books:

>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Aeneid
>Metamorphoses
>Inferno
>The Canterbury Tales
>The Faerie Queene
>Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear
>Paradise Lost

you are not well-read

If (as a native English speaker) you haven't read all of the following books:

>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Aeneid
>Metamorphoses
>Inferno
>The Divine Comedy
>The Canterbury Tales
>The Faerie Queene
>Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear
>Paradise Lost

you are not well-read.

That feel when I gave a girl Mrs. Dalloway as a birthday present with a stupidly long inscription praising the book and her.
>omg this is the most wonderful gift ever
>I've always meant to read Virginia Woolf
>I want to read the book so I can discuss it with you!
Several months later now and it hasn't been mentioned since. She probably got 5 pages in and gave up. Fuck. For some reason I feel disappointed in her, like I regret writing all those nice things. Am I right to be? It was probably a terrible gift in the first place for someone who doesn't read much. God this is dumb.