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What are you doing /lit/ and why aren't you reading?

>> No.4575764

But I am reading.
I'm reading posts on 4chan.

>> No.4575772
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4575772

>still need to finish "The Introduction to the Devout Life" so I can get to "Crime & Punishment"

>> No.4575799

I'm trucking through Lord of the Flies right now. I'm just taking a smoke break.
As much as I'm enjoying Lord of the Flies, I'm pretty anxious to start The Trial.

>> No.4575807

>>4575754
caus im drunk you cunt ye

>> No.4576048

>>4575807
LOL so?

>> No.4576058

Taking a break from Pliny's Natural History.

Bretty gud but gets heavy as fuck with the descriptions on geography.

>> No.4576059

i'm currently feeling too angsty to get in the right frame of mind to properly enjoy literature, so i'm listening to black metal and browsing 4chan instead.

>> No.4576069

Reading Sons and Lovers.

No idea why I'm here

>> No.4576087

I'm studying for a physics class, playing starcraft, and browsing /lit/.

>> No.4576122

Doing homework. Browsing /lit/.

>> No.4576129

>>4575754
Is it bad that I browse this board more than I read?

>> No.4576154

>>4576129
yes

>> No.4576156

Mostly because I needed to get my daily 10 hours of 4chan in. But I was just reading The Sound and the Fury.

>> No.4576177

>>4576156
good on ya! I'm personally a little more tipsy from the tequila than I thought I'd be so here we be. What is The Sound and the Fury about?

>> No.4576212

>>4576177
So far?

First quarter of the novel is told from the perspective of a mentally deficient man-child burdening a household of former southern aristocrats. Then jumps back in time to the perspective of one of his siblings, in his college days at Harvard, and Faulkner's voice starts to come through clearer.

That's a short and not at all detailed summary, but so far Faulkner's thoughts on time, and how it completely renders the human experience irrelevant are interesting.

Writing style is unorthodox, as characters have thoughts they're immediately written out without warning, and without punctuation, to simulate a stream of thoughts.

Taking it slowly, a lot to analyze, and a lot I could potentially miss, but so far it's incredibly enjoyable.

>> No.4576287

>>4576212
Well that certainly sounds unique.