/lit/ - Literature

Skipping shit is for pseuds unless it's Dickens.

>>12582146
What can you skip with Dickens? I'm reading Great Expectations and it's teetering between mildly enjoyable and 'God this better be going somewhere'

>>12582120
no

>>12582120
>>12582146
ah yes, only the pseud skips the pseud book with its pseud parts

>>12582146
if you'r skipping shit in Dickens, you need to brush up on the historical context of the novel.

>>12582220
Thanks dude. You're probably right.

>>12582218
I'm like 500 pages in, I feel like I get the tennis passages already, but like is the score going to matter or something? do I really need to know who does well on the conditioning training? It feels like the book screeches to a halt every time they get on a tennis court (sans Eschaton)

i tried typing like 5 different responses to the op before i realizing i got got

me at family gatherings verbatim

>>12582250

FUCK I LOVE JOHN GREEN

>>12582120
Just skip the entire book lol

>>12582120
>folds corners
>rips a little bit to give some wear
>opens it exactly half way open to give the illusion of progress
>gives a half fake smile to embrace the sincerity in what is really an ironic portrait

>>12582487
I'm not a Green fan, but I'm pretty sure he's read the book more than once. He did a post about IJ for Infinite Summer almost a decade ago. Must be a certain kind of hell to be stuck writing teenager books.

>>12582509
>Must be a certain kind of hell to be stuck writing teenager books
I don't know what hellish landscapes incorporate piles of cash as far as the eye can see. He sold his soul, he deserves it. Also I don't doubt he's read it, just memeing.

>>12582212
>>12582146
Why would you skip shit with Dickens? He's all about the journey. Plotfags I swear...

>>12582120
you can skip the whole book