/lit/ - Literature

“Perhaps the real killing of a mockingbird was the friends we made along the way”

>>20036757
>The day was June 16th, 1904 and Leopold Bloom was about to have the greatest day of his entire life.
Greatest opening to a novel of all time.

>>20036757
"I want to fuck that little bitch Lolita"

Nabokov is the prose GOAT

>racism is like, bad and shit.

>"Well, my dear friends, it has certainly been a long and eventful Journey to the End of the Night."

>"The setting sun was a red hole in the sky guiding the riders westward towards the sinister crimson like a Blood Meridian."

>YUR HAYUR WAS THAYUR, RODION! WHY DID YOU KILL THEM?
>i didn’t
>RODION!

>”Although he spent most of his life feeling as though he was a moby pussy, and perhaps at times even a moby asshole, in that moment he came to the realization that all this time he was rather the Moby Dick.”

"Thus", spoke Zarathustra.

Where the title of the book is given as a quote within the book, it's the author putting his synthesis like stakes in the ground to keep children in the play area.
It's strongly associated with midwit literature where the author is afraid idiots won't understand and clever people might not agree

I was forced to read this in high school and suffer months of Marxist interpretations about Kapitalism and feminism.
As in fact I was with every single text in the literature curriculum

"See the cat? See the cradle?"

>It looks like I am finally about to have my Death in Venice

>>20036757
>For never was a story of more woe
>Than this of Romeo and Juliet.
Really, Shakespeare?

"I can't believe the director picked an actor who was that much of a ham, let alone in a play presented before the king"

>>20036768
What does she mean by this?

>>20036940
Amen

>Looking back, Odysseus realized that the long trip home really had been a real Odyssey.
Thanks Homer.

>>20036940
Glorious.

Not funny. Kill yourself. Anyone participating in the this: kill yourself. Would you all please return to Reddit?

>>20038259
No.

>>20038259
What book is this from?

>>20036808
Isn't it a funny coincidence that Lolita is a loli? Do you think Nabokov knew about loli before writing lolita?

>>20038729
The Incel Diaries

"The King was pregnant"
- Le Guin

>>20037023
Under8ed

>

>>20037023
lol!

>>20038259
Forgot your meds again spergy schizo?

>>20036774
What novel?

>>20037087
took me a minute

"It was you, Patrick; you're the american psycho!

>>20038259
this, honestly. what a bunch of low grade fucking idiots you all are for participating in this. have some self respect.

>>20036887
>>20036940
>>20039601
lel

>Senior José Arcadio Buendía, you are hereby sentenced to a hundred years in prison, which you will be spending in solitary confinement

>>20038259
>>20039615
Samenigger detected.

>>20040006
based self-denouncing samefag

>>20036887
>"If you do the Crime", he said as he lowered the brim of his hat over his eyes, "prepare for Punishment."

>A screaming comes across the sky. Ce n'est pas grave - it is rain. "Bow!" Slothrop sez.

>>20038729
The Big Book of Reddit.

>The Kid spoke "I guess it really was a Blood Meridian"

>Boo Boo took up the bar of soap and began to write with it on the bathroom mirror: "Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction, here comes the groom, whose name is also Seymour..."
Salinger kind of phoned this one in.

>"Come on Dante, we'll miss the comedy. The critics are calling it divine"

>>20040114
retard

>Mon Dieu Edmond, it's you! You're the Count of Monte Cristo unabridged translation by Chapman and Hall!

>>20036757
There is none. Its the worst piece of shit Ive ever had the misfortune of reading.

The only people who think its good are people who havr only read the books they were froced to in school and its only to virtue signal.

>>20040247
You got filtered hard

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

>"There they are, that's them!" Duncan Idaho pointed at the dusty silhouettes of the Bene Gesserit witches on the open bled. "They're the Heretics of Dune!"

>"Surely this jest must end?"

"Don't you see, Pyotr? It's all just a cycle. First there's the War, then there's the Peace. And maybe that's just the best we human beings can do."

I'll be honest, I tear up a bit every time ...

>>20038938
finnegan's wake

>>20040255
And not even by the book, but by this thread kek

I may not be able to give a quote but The Catcher in the Rye book made me feel relatable to the main character.

>>20041194
By both. The Great Gatsby can be kind of annoying in its ways (it's basically written for women and the male equivalent of art hoes) but thinking it's actually terrible is retarded. It is quite clever and has some legitimately good wisdom in it.

"She kept talking. She told everyone. There was more to it, and she was trying to get it talked out. After a time, she quit trying."

–Raymond Carver

“Winston watched the clock strike midnight. It was 1983 no longer.”