/lit/ - Literature

Oh come on, it isn't that bad. Actually quite good.

THIS PILE OF FUCK

>>655837
Drop-out.

>>655841
Faggot.

Catcher in the Rye is the only correct answer to this particular query.

I liked it. I was 15 and after two years of watching LOST I got scared it would pull a fast one on me and we wouldn't ever get to meet the albino dude.

>>655848
I liked Catcher too. I don't know why it gets so much flak here.

>>655848
Wrong-o!

Pride and Prejudice.
Fuck Jane Austen.
"Oh, I'm so funny and empowering to women herp de derp!"

LES MISERABLES

>>655848
I actually got the top grade from the exam of the To Kill a Mocking A Mockingbird. Just because I didn't like it doesn't mean I didn't study it. ;)

Least favorite: The Secret Life of Bees..I still don't know why the teach' made us read that crap.

Favorite: The Good Earth.

>To Kill a Mocking A Mockingbird
wat

>>655855

I enjoyed Catcher, too. I just read it for the first time a couple days ago (I'm 25), and it was good not great. BUT I can definitely see how it would really hit home for kids reading it in high school. It really captures what's it like to be that age, I think.

Rich woman does the impossible considering her gender and the time, and whines about everything the whole time.

I love To Kill a Mockingbird.

I fucking hated reading A Tale of Two Cities.

Catcher is one of the only books I've read multiple times - one of which was required.
My favorite was either that or Animal Farm.

>>655867

>;)

Eat a dick.

In my school we read Catcher in the Rye after To Kill A Mockingbird, and since most curriculum, especially English curriculum is standardized I figured you might have given up. Either that or you managed to enjoy Catcher in the Rye, or you were lucky enough to avoid it.

>>655863
I loathe Jane Austin from the furthest depths of my being. Fucking Victorian pageantry, really? As a human with such an infinite capacity for thought, that's what you choose to write about? "Oh Mr. Darcy, you've seen me in my corset, you knave!" Ugh.

>>655836
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motherfucking great gastsby

The Great fucking Gatsby.

My english teacher even had the gall to spoil the ending (ie: the only interesting part of the book) to the entire class before we even started the first chapter.

>>655904

I think that might have been mine if I hadn't had a completely incompetent teacher and read other things while he lost the will to live trying to teach it.

Bless Me, Ultima

>>655901
>>655904
You guys are faggots, that book is great. The symbol of the green light alone is worth the read.

The Bean Trees.

ugh.

>>655834
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>>655960
All the nifty symbolism in the world can't change the fact that it's boring unengaging shit.

>>655960
People will read that tripe for years and attribute all sorts of nonsense to "symbolism". When you throw in that much crap, someone is bound to see something. Terrible book, you best be trollin

>Their Eyes Were Watching God

You know, I would've liked it if I learned anything from it.

Freak the Giant

>>655960
oh hi mr. fontenot. i also liked that book, but wouldn't rate it as high as everyone seems to have it on lists and shit

>>655842
ccisd? i actually like that book, was loads better than wuthering heights

>>655982
>"symbolism"
>posting on /lit/
Why are you even here?

The Giver.

Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Twice. Oh sweet Jesus.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Jane Eyre
Invisible Man

Feminine and minority centered curriculum fucking sucks.

>>656012
Best be trollin', nigger.

Lord of the Flies.

>>655863
>>656014
This just serves to confirm my theory that female authors < male authors.

>>656016
You best back-right-the-fuck-up. If you thought "Invisible Man" had anything to do with is blackness, you missed a huge part of that book. It's about people in general and their loss of connection with society and reality.

All I got from Invisible Man was nigger nigger nigger. Horrible book.

Frankenstein

holy god oh my damn

I cannot handle Willa Cather at all.

>>656039
Did...did...you actually read the whole thing? Did you even open the book?

whatthefuckamireading.jpg

>>656009
Fitzgerald went on a bender and wrote a pile of tripe, laughing at his readers the entire time. There is nothing symbolic in that pile of shit

>>656024
If you mean that there have, historically, been more great male authors than female, then yes, hooray, you are correct, Cpt. Obvious. If you want to tell me that men are somehow inherently more skilled at writing, you, sir, are absurd.

>>656047
Yeah, it was obviously about a scientist who was an albino and decided to make himself invisible, idiot.

believe it or not. We got a new English teacher (who is hot and I would fuck. Hard) and she asked the office or whoever to pass twilight onto the curriculum. And they did. So we had to read that shit.

I really didn't care for Great Expectations

>>656054
Please tell me you -wore glitter to class on that day or -came to class with a copy of In Search of Lost Time saying, Oh, I'm sorry, I must have misheard the assignment.

>>655833
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The God of Small Things, no contest

>>656056
Did it... -ahem- not live up to the title?

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>>656069
No. But the day I found out we were reading it I stared at her and said "I've lost hope in the future or teen reading. But now you've caused me to lose hope in your future in this school." She was really close to switching it out for Huck Finn but the chicks in there would have destroyed her.

Also she was going to change it to Huck Finn because she loves me. I live in a rural area and nobody cares for school or their future. But I pay attention and try in her class and she flirts with me ALL the time.

ethan frome

Trouble Lights, William Olsen. Not that anyone will be able to commiserate.

The Scarlet fucking Letter

/thread

>>656076
Well played, anon

Needed more shirtless Gary Oldman tbh.

>>656087
Oh man, also a good call.

>>656083
Just sleep with her and get caught so she'll be fired, we'll all be able to see her pictures on the news and fap, and future classes won't be subjected to that awful tripe.

>>656097
SCARLET LETTER MIND fuck

>>655836
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>>656101
Glad my $160,000 Creative Writing degree is doing something right. (x_x) ¬

>>656103
Everything could benefit from more shirtless Gary Oldman

>>656121
Oh america...... lol on top of that Health Care I can get a comparable education for about 1/5th of that. UMAD?

>>656107
agreed and will do.

Pride & Prejudice.

Stopped reading after one page. Bullshitted my entire essay on it. Got an A.

>>656126
I was going to offer up Dracula, but you know, even that might have added some interesting interpretation of the sexual dynamics of the novel.

>>656130
I mon waxe wood, in fact.

I'll admit, Scarlet Letter, O Pioneers and Beloved were all terrible reads for me - but this shit right here takes the fucking cake.

Boring Autobiography + Unlikeable author + uninteresting story + even the teacher being apathetic to what we got out of it = SHIT.

The Red Badge of Courage

>>656210
Book blows. Fucking pages and pages about the snakes of the armies sliding across the mountainside or nonsense. His poetry is badass, though.

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said: "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter--bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."

This.

Am I the only one who didn't like Romeo and Juliet, simply because I didnt like the plot or characters

>>656262
>implying the only reasons to read a book are the plot and characters

>>656244

You just dislike Mexicans.

It was just a boring story, I wasn't interested I anything that happened in it

i despised this book so much i stole it from the library (got caught.

i should read it.

>ctrl + F
>things fall apart
>0 results

really?

>>655987
their eyes were watching god

i learned that hurston is a shitty, overrated writer

>>655848

Thank you. I seem to be the only English major who loathes this book.

>>656365

Uh, bro?

I don't know any English majors who like that book.

Like... seriously. Zero.

>>656369

Then take me to your school, I am surrounded by avid Salinger fans.

>>656379

It's okay to be a Salinger fan, you know. Catcher in the Rye is the worst thing Salinger ever wrote. His short stories and all that shittons better.

You're a bad English major. Stay in your bad school.

>>656386

I had to read a lot of his work, and I can say for a fact it is all shit compared to most.

>>656394
He really hasn't written much, so if you think it's a chore you really are a bad English major.

Catcher in the Rye was total fucking bullshit. I don't know why anyone would think it is good lit.

>>656401

Who are you trying to talk to? Me or stalin?

I'm saying I read most of his work and it is complete garbage. Salinger is a shitty author compared to the likes of Hemingway or Dickens.

>>656406
>>656404

Most agreed.

>>655863
>>655863
THIS! A MILLION TIMES THIS!!

Also, "House on Mango Street" wasn't that good.

>>656406

>Dickens
>good author

He was the Danielle Steel of his time.

i didn't care for the old man and the sea

>>656406
His stories are usually good, his language a little less so. For Esme with Love and Squalor was great, so was The Laughing Man. Definitely not a Dickens or a Hemingway though - though he didn't publish enough to really form a fair comparison.

"In Small Things Forgotten"
driest fucking anthropology book I've ever read.

>>656365

I <3 you Stalin.

this pile of shit covered pages

>>656430

I'm flattered.

In return, another pic.

>>656436

>Duplicate file

woops.

>>656430
>>656436
>>656439
You're not so good at masquerading as someone else. Perhaps you should remember to replace your trip after "bolstering" your popularity.

>>656466

>Samefag calling Samefaggotry.

>HAHAHAHAFAGGOT.jpg

>>656466

Get the fuck out of my /lit/

>>656024
But then you see Woolfe and wonder what happened.

>>656473
>>656478
>unintentionally troll idiots
>my reaction

Implosion by Peter Koenig (English 102)

Great Expectations.

At least it had the high point of some old bitch catching on fire.

Their eyes were watching god

Had to read this my freshman year

>tequila mockingbird

fix'd

Two points:

1: FUCK Things Fall Apart

2: After I read up on Salinger as a person and got into his head a bit, his works made a bit more sense.

Joy Luck Club

The Giver - Lois Lawry
The Golden Goblet - Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Some Shitty Alex Cross Book - James Patterson
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 - A bunch of pretentious assholes. (It has NONREQUIRED in the fucking title, I hate my teachers....)

The Diary of Anne Frank.
My required summary of the book was basically tl;dr, Anne Frank is a whiny little bitch.

>>656638
Oh yeah I had to read that shit too.

pic very related

fuck that shit was awful

the diary of bro broski

Am I the only one that really liked Tequila Mockingbird? I still remember nibbling my piece of bananabread while reading it on a step under the classroom windows. Holy fuck it is such an uneventful, dragging snorefest but if you get right into the book you're riding until the next Atticus Motherfucking Finch moment or the next time Scout says hilariously stupid shit all the while kept engaged by the minor complications along the way of the book.

Angala's Ashes
Oh the Muses in the Halls of Olympus!
Fucking Book made me hate my Irish Heritage more then I already did.

>>655835
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I loathe her writing style with all the ridiculous details she pours into useless shit. I didn't find the story that interesting either honestly. As for Catch in the Rye, I kinda liked that book.

The Bible.

>>656797
I can not tell you how horrible that book was.
Even worse my english teacher made us listen to the audio tape version

Damn, every time maya opened her mouth i wanted to die

I hated "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Before I read that tripe, the worst book I ever read was "Tuck Everlasting" in grade school.

Good grief those books sucked.

This politically correct, token African diaspora shit.

>>656797

Yeah, that was horrible.

TKAMB was actually pretty good.

>>655837
thank you.
i fucking hate that goddamn book.
it's so stupid and retarded AND MAKES ME RAAAAAGE.

OH DEAR GOD I HATE THIS BOOK

>>657375

Potop był gorszy bo było go więcej.

A WRINKLE IN TIME.

FUCKING BAPTIST SCHOOL!

Call of the Wild.
Seriously. Fuck that shit.

Lord of the Flies

This book. THIS FUCKING BOOK.

The Giver - what a piece of fucking garbage.

I was forced to read Fahrenheit 451 and I hated the teacher that assigned it to me (individual book reports), but I manned up and read it. I thought I was going to hate it and I told myself I would but I ended up loving it and thanked her afterwards.

A Tale of Two Cities.

Not that the book is bad. I just fucking hated it as a required reading.

>>655848

Now that you mention it, ugh. Fucking Holden needs to STFU. Phoebe is the only good thing in that book.

I may be alone on this one, but I really did not enjoy this read.

>>657469
What? The giver is fucking awesome.

Didn't even manage to finish it. Had to read it for GCSE for coursework and I just never handed it in. Could have gotten an A if I did but I just could not force myself to plow through that shit.

Best required reading I had was Lord of the Flies and Othello.

Posting in a Cold Sassy Tree thread.

Sounds like it was written by a fifteen year old for creative writing class

Lensman: Triplanetary

It was really interesting before it got to the actual plot.

HOUSE OF LEAVES

GODDAMIT /LIT/ SAID THIS SHIT WAS GOOD
WORST 30 DOLLARS OF MY LIFE. IF I WANT TO FLIP AND TURN AND SQUINT AT SHIT I DON'T UNDERSTAND, I'LL BUY A SWEDISH COOKBOOK.

Sunset Song. Any fellow Scotsmen/women in hear may also have been subjected to this pile of cack. Narrowly beats out Gatsby as the most uninteresting book I've ever read.

Great Expectations

>>657517

>30 DOLLARS

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