/lit/ - Literature

>on the bus
>see qt3.14 reading IJ
>tell her I've read it 3 times
>she says this is her second time and that "you can piece the story together much easier" on rereading it
>ask her what her favorite part is (I told her mine was the eschaton game)
>she says it's when Don Gately's on the hospital bed near the end
>she wasn't kidding, she's actually read the book before
>get worried
>ask her if she likes Thomas Pynchon
>she says yes and that she's looking forward to the IV movie
>she says it's not her favorite Pynchon book though, and that he hasn't really been on the same level as his earlier work
>her: "But it would be really hard to beat Gravity's Rainbow!"
>ask her what she thinks of Joyce as one last test
>"...he's the most important writer of the 20th century. Of course I think he's great."
>tfw the horrible realization that she's serious about all this

I was so disgusted that I left the bus much before my stop. I told her I'd see her on /lit/ later, but she pretended not to know what that was.

I think we're going too far with these jokes. Meme books are taken more and more seriously every year. What should we do about this? We just have to be more serious about this shit. We may lose our favorite memes, but it's worth it to save the state of literature nowadays.