/lit/ - Literature

>>19202758
>to make notes in
What the hell is wrong with you???

>>18718824
His name is Trismegistos
Trismegist->O<-s
Fucking anglos, stopping fucking up names. Why you're doing this?!

Ah and btw, it's called Aristoteles and not Aristotle. And Platon and not Plato. I fucking hate you burgers.

>>18324564
Not true. Go to hell. One of these days, youse white cunce is gonna pay.

Anons recommend me fantasy books filled up with lots of anger.
I think that anger is the best emotion that appears in fantasy books. It makes action progress faster because there is zero hesitation and unnecessary analysis which is crucial for a good fantasy book. Let's not fool ourselves that there is a deeper meaning in fantasy books. They're meant to be read fast and provide fun.

WHAT IS HER NAMEE

>"I've read parts of it."

>be Harry Potter fan
>be reader of classic literature as well
>try to talk to fellow Harry Potter fan about the blatant WWII/Nazi/holocaust allegory in Deathly Hallows as well as the biblical implications of Harry's death and rebirth
>"wtf are you talking about anon it's just a kids book, I didn't get any of that from the books"

>take 300 level creative writing class as part of the major
>have to read tons of shitty stories but there are a few people with talent
>surely the shit will get weeded out in the 500 level class
>get to the 500 level class
>people turn in banal stories about working part time jobs and "normal college life"

I fucked up, fell for the meme, etc. For those who have taken creative writing classes, how do you get through 20 pages of something that is thoroughly uninteresting?

>be English major
>have to take survey classes in literary history, focusing on particular periods of American and British literature
>read fragments of novels
>read shorter novels from great authors that aren't considered their masterpiece due to time constraints
>read only small selections of poetry from the great poets, but never any complete collections and barely any long poems
>read short stories from authors that are primarily notable for their novels

Was it unreasonable for me to expect to read the greatest works of all time as an English major? Am I just a fuckup for not reading these things before becoming an English major?

>footnotes are at the end of the book

>>8712930
>onimatopoeia
>songs with pages of verses
>arse
>' ' instead of " "

>>8680038
>a million different fucking covers and editions and collections
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>creative writing assignment
>peer review during class
>professor specifically tells everyone to not just talk about spelling/grammar errors
>classmates proceed to talk only about spelling/grammar errors while saying "yeah, it was good" to everyone

>>8525601
>night angel trilogy
REEEEEEEEEEE QUIT RECOMMENDING THIS EDGY GARBAGE

>>8250663
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

JUST GO READ THE WIKI ARTICLES ON IT ANON. THEN YOU CAN DISCUSS THE BOOK WITHOUT HAVING TO ACTUALLY READ IT. THATS ALL THAT LIT IS ANYWAYS

>read book
>wow that was short
>check the foreward
>"A few passages have been omitted which would offend modern ears"
>check Wikipedia
>literally half the book is missing

>some autistic librarian fucks up the date pubished for one of the books you've read
>your OCD and your own autism is triggered every time you look at your read shelf and the books are out of order

Why do I continually figure out the most productive and sensible course of action and then immediately do the opposite?

Every time I set up a list if things to do for the day I spend all my time drinking coffee, browsing 4chan, and avoiding work. I feel like I'm constantly falling for the naturalistic fallacy. I get the idea that scheduling stuff is keking myself.

And the ironic thing is that the stuff I schedule is genuinely interesting and rewarding.

Is my predicament a sign of an unparalleled genius unwilling to make the first step unless that step is a flying leap with tonnes of backflips... or is it the sign of a low willpower faggot who will torturously fall in to mediocrity (I suspect the first)?

>be me
>sophomore in high school
>assigned oral book report
>thinks i'm a genius compared to my peers
>picks the illuminatus! trilogy in a moment of sheer autism
>uses powerpoint back when no one used it
>day of presentations
>name is called
>realized I have severe glossophobia
>sets up powerpoint
>sees I have 25 slides
>dies inside
>starts presenting my essay
>halfway through I blank
>can't remember anything
>starts to summarize a Tom Selleck movie
>finishes
>everyone is confused
>teacher is stunned at the display of autism just witnessed
>goes back to seats
>no one really claps
>next person is called
>presents the da vinci code
>mfw

Who /stupidprofessor/ here?

>mfw he called Plato "the first Gnostic"
>mfw he calls literally everything he doesn't like or doesn't understand "Gnostic" or "Calvinist" or even once "Gnostic Calvinism."

It's been a long semester.

NORMOCEPHALICS GET OUT
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>sit down to read
>suddenly itch with the fury of a thousand suns

>sentence is longer than 10 words