/lit/ - Literature

No beavers allowed here.

Read books I guess. It worked for me.

What the fuck kind of answer are you looking for?

>>4674152
newfag detected

he didnt ask about becoming a literati but about litfaggotry.

and idk if that is still possible op, this board is too shit these days, it doesnt reveal its essence anymore. sorry.

>buy some penguin classics
>put them all on a shelf
>take picture
>start thread
>????
>profit

Protip: just start the thread talking about the editions or the covers and dont you dare reading any of the books!

>>4674144
You need a minimum of at least 2 years of
AP literature in highschool (if you're American) and some college doesn't hurt too. Then you need to pick a couple of authors that you like (not necessarily for any particular region) and then be a dick to anyone who disagrees. Oh and don't forget to shitpost about bourgeoisie scum and "tfw no class warfare."

Also, this guys is not a /lit/fag (>>4674152)

be as elitist as you can

>>4674168
*for any particular reason

>>4674148
>Not recognizing a weasel.
Good job, dumbass.

Don't go the library, go to the bookstore.

>>4674165
Better yet, go get a tattoo of this dumb bullshit on your shoulder. Take a picture of it and start another cancerous picture thread.

Simple. Be a pretentious nard, claim that lesser known Shakespeare plays are truly the most patrician, and bash all postmodern philosophers while quoting Hegel.

>>4674185

>Someone asks a simple question and you need to find a ham-fisted excuse to namedrop Hegel.

It's always amusing to see anon be pretentious while decrying pretentiousness.

You keep working for that validation, m8.

the important thing to remember is that you don't have to read.

>>4674181
The Waves is hard mode...?
Why? Woolf's style? it might be a little confusing the first 4 pages, but when you get it there's nothing "hard" on the whole novel.

>>4674192
>you don't have to read.
Well, you only have to read wikipedia entries so you can pretend you've read, that is.

>>4674193

>The Waves is hard mode...?

to beginners, yes. this is a beginner's list after all

>>4674193
Oh fuck off.

start with the greeks

>>4674193
>>4674196
The Waves is pretty much a poor man's Ulysses.

fall in love with butterfly

>>4674197
I'm not that much into fiction. I've been reading only philosophy for the last five years and only like 6 months ago started with fiction, so I'm a beginner.
One Hundred Years of Solitude was hard and challenging, for example. The Waves was good, but there was nothing hard in it. Damn, I've read manga and watched anime that were harder than that, and weeabo shit is considered mentally challenged-tier around here.
>>4674196
No, you fuck off, retard. Maybe you're just too dumb. Have you considered that possibility?

fetishize hardness like the plebs who argue about how (not) difficult something is to show off how smart they think they are

>>4674208
Once I found Ulysses on a bookstore and read one random page and shit didn't make sense at all. I don't think that has remotely anything to do with The Waves. I mean, you can take any random page of The Waves and you won't get pure nonsense.

>>4674208

Stop wrongfully conflating things like a fucking dullard.

>>4674210
This. I find in all of her naive thoughts a quaint charm. And each time I profess my love to her, she rejects me, which only strengthens that love. Hope you're reading this, Butterfly. :)

>>4674235
I think she likes only girls.
>just pretend you're a girl.

>>4674237
What's important is we love her/him.

>>4674144
Read moar.

But really I'd say you need to do a humanities subject (ideally literature or philosophy) at university. I guess you might also be able to fake it by combining reading with good online lecture courses.

>>4674239
>I guess you might also be able to fake it by reading wikipedia entries

>>4674229
>implying woolf wasn't directly influenced by joyce