/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6837123]

>first day of lit class
>'tell us your name and the last book you read!'
>gets to one girl
>'i just finished reading this really interesting book about big brother, it was called 1987'

[Anonymous No.6837126]

>what are you reading anon?
>moby dick
>oh I've never read him before, is he any good?

happened to me twice

[Anonymous No.6837127]

>>6837123
have seen worse humour tbh. Did you answer that you are a huge Orson Welles yourself?

[Anonymous No.6837133]

>it's amazing how accurate orwell's writing is given he wrote the book thirty years ago

[Anonymous No.6837134]

>writing class
>half the students say they don't read
>find out they just took it because they thought it would be nice to "be a writer"

[Anonymous No.6837141]

>>6837134
>yeah bruh i wanna be literate fam lmao

[Anonymous No.6837149]

>I love evelyn waugh, she's one of my favourite writers

[Anonymous No.6837150]

>In lit studies
>our year has to select a department representative of some such nonsense
>everyone speaking about how much they love books.
>one guy stands up "i basically read a book a day"
>king is his favorite author
>everyone applauds how much volume he reads
>nobody cares about taste because that would be "elitist"
>the dumb fuck gets elected and and tries to get a petition going for English department to teach harry potter in modern classics

[Anonymous No.6837216]

>>6837150
>>6837134
Is this memeposting or actually true in the (I assume) US? The people in my lit classes have all been relatively well read and most even have favourite writers that aren't pleb tier and are at least somewhat unique (Huysmans, Fontane, Turgenev, Byron etc.)

[Anonymous No.6837227]

>>6837216
I think this is more than just a US problem, it's a pleb problem. An Oxford literature professor once told me she had a student apply who, when asked in an interview about what books/authors she had been reading recently, talked about Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.6837233]

>>6837123
>in existentialism class
>2 hipster kids come to half the classes
>only like sartre
>hate on kierkegaard and camus
>start talking about Sartre finally
>isn't sartre's point about being with others that we shouldn't care what we think so much
>I say the point is how you react to their opinions
>Implicitly stating they give a shit and to stop trying so hard to be cool
>basedgod.jpg

[Anonymous No.6837244]

>>6837233
>existentialism class

[Anonymous No.6837280]

>>6837150
I'd say that King is not a bad choice for a favorite author. The plots might be cheesy,but he knows how to develop actually realistic and interesting characters. I rarely see anyone spend so much effort to small details to paint a precise picture of almost every character.

[Anonymous No.6837299]

ITT: ego stroking

[Anonymous No.6837302]

>>6837299
but we're anonymous

[Anonymous No.6837305]

>>6837299
Great and insightful comment my friend.

[Anonymous No.6837366]

>>6837216

There are tons of plebs who take lit at universities over here. They're mostly in it for the "college experience" and take English because they can't into STEM and because it was easy to BS in high school.

[Anonymous No.6837437]

>>6837302
How does that make a difference?

[Anonymous No.6837453]

>>6837437
ask your mom

[Anonymous No.6837491]

[Anonymous No.6837620]

>>6837216
It's true in Canada, too.

Most people I know who want to be writers have maybe read at most 50 books by the time they're 20, of which the Harry Potter books make up 7 of those.

These people have no life experience, no literary experience, abhor "elitism," yet demand to be writers. As a result, a lot of their stories or poems never rise above bland and banal navel-gazing. All of these people drink, smoke, and "omg looove coffee."

I even asked one guy why people should read him if he can't even be bothered to read more than a handful of books. He couldn't give a solid answer and even admitted that he hates reading.

There's only one girl I've met - a hard feminist - who I would call well read and can actually write poetry, but she's a bit of a snob and has a chip on her shoulder.

[Anonymous No.6837629]

>>6837150
>>6837233

>be me
>be on 4chan
>see long green text
>don't read
>instead post my own
>it probably wasn't that funny anyway
>you just love to talk tbh

[Anonymous No.6837639]

>>6837629
literally me

[Anonymous No.6837708]

>>6837280
>I rarely see anyone spend so much effort to small details to paint a precise picture of almost every character.

L O L
King is the pinnacle of character development? Do explain

[Anonymous No.6837721]

>>6837123
>Join writing club
>One of the admins writes chick-lit and fanfiction
>Other admin is typical harry potter/YA reader
>they both post constantly about being a writer and how much they love books

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him

[Anonymous No.6837756]

>>6837721
>posts
Get off of the computer tublub.

[Anonymous No.6837765]

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.6837806]

>>6837123
>join book club
>everyone is pretty cool, have an awesome time

>work at bookstore
>everyone is pretty cool, have an awesome time

>volunteer at library
>everyone is pretty cool, have an awesome time

>help edit zines
>everyone is pretty cool, have an awesome time

>go on /lit/
>>6837123

[Anonymous No.6837820]

>>6837806
cool people are plebs and those that have an awesome time are also plebs

[Anonymous No.6837824]

>>6837806
fuck yourself pleb

[Anonymous No.6837826]

>>6837806
Have you considered that you too are a pleb?

[Anonymous No.6837842]

>>6837820
>>6837826
>>6837824
>all these people buttblasted that someone else had fun

[Anonymous No.6837844]

>>6837842
why did you quote those last two posts out of order?

[Anonymous No.6837846]

>>6837844
are you autistic?

[Anonymous No.6837849]

>>6837846
you just answer my question first alright

[Anonymous No.6837852]

>>6837123
>tfw all my friends at uni are smarter than me
>one girl just finished reading War and Peace
>another can speak latin and is studying translation
>another is studying theology

It's a good feel to know my place and know that it's not above people.

[Anonymous No.6837860]

>>6837491
>Star Trek desert survival manuals
Kek
>Dune is one of my favourite books

[Anonymous No.6837862]

>>6837620
>she's a bit of a snob and has a chip on her shoulder
Sounds like /lit/

[Anonymous No.6837864]

>>6837852
Don't you know? If you become a critic you can be above people without actually being better than anyone. But don't take my word for it, try it for yourself. You'll be surprised at how quickly you see results!

[Anonymous No.6837870]

>>6837864
Thanks for the tip Bloomberg

[Anonymous No.6837875]

>>6837852
stop being a beta cuck and start being better than them
it's as simple as working harder and smarter

[Anonymous No.6837881]

>>6837842
>pleb is anally devastated about his inferior taste, and projects onto patricians

[Anonymous No.6837884]

>>6837870
How about I give you the tip of my dick?

[Anonymous No.6837888]

>>6837875
I am working hard and I'm doing well. Being comfortable and being a beta cuck is not the same thing lmao.

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.6837891]

>>6837824
are you coming on to me?
>>6837826
i certainly don't think i've ever done or will do something that would earn me a greentext reenactment if that's what you're asking

i just have the uncanny abilities to not surround myself with idiots and to allow people the benefit of the doubt

>>6837852
>admiring someone for reading
>admiring someone for being bilingual
>admiring someone for studying
mon ami, there is a difference between humility and lack of will

[Anonymous No.6837897]

>>6837891
>there is a difference between humility and lack of will
prove it

[Anonymous No.6837905]

>>6837620

Canada here as well and I can confirm.

I briefly attended a writers' club at school and what you said is very accurate. I should also note that most of them were pot heads.

I spoke with one guy who talked about how life changing his acid trips were and about how they're "going to be an inspiration on his writing." When I asked him why they aren't an inspiration now, he said he isn't writing at the moment because he wants to gain more "experience" before starting. And when I asked him what type of experience he was hoping to get, he just talked about all the drugs he hasn't tried yet.

[Anonymous No.6837906]

>>6837620
>a bit of a snob
>chip on her shoulder
Sounds like any women in arts academia

[Anonymous No.6837917]

>>6837891
What reason do you have to believe I lack will?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6837919]

>>6837852
Two out of three ain't bad, but do try to compete with them. A friendly competition is how I've always seen it.

>>6837897
Dictionary
Some may equate the two as the same thing, but you really ought to separate them

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.6837945]

>>6837897
'humility' is one word and 'lack of will' is three
>>6837917
because you listed three things that don't really require much wit. what they do require is will, so if you find yourself in awe of that, it's more likely that you lack will than wit

[Anonymous No.6837948]

>>6837852
>liking being inferior to women

[Anonymous No.6837967]

>>6837888
it actually is. hope this helps

[Anonymous No.6837975]

Why do all you guys have such big egos?

[Anonymous No.6837992]

>sit in lit and writing classes every week
>assemble elaborate stories about every student based only on their appearance and the questions/answers they offer in class
>during the rollcheck i memorize the names of the few interesting ones and go home and look them up on facebook
>try to convince myself i am better than them

[Anonymous No.6838019]

>>6837905
>And when I asked him what type of experience he was hoping to get, he just talked about all the drugs he hasn't tried yet.
top kek

[Anonymous No.6838061]

>>6837280
> he knows how to develop actually realistic and interesting characters. I rarely see anyone spend so much effort to small details to paint a precise picture of almost every character
Try Victor Hugo m8

[Anonymous No.6838069]

>>6837216
>Is this memeposting
To an extent. The US has general education requirements in university, which means that even potential engineers and doctors have to take a basic writing course. Basically, the entry level classes in writing are purposely made as easy as possible so that asian would be engineers who don't speak English can still pass and pay their absurdly high foreign-student tuition. After that, the quality of a Bachelor's in Literature is up to the student himself. There are rigorous classes with great professors available for those with actual interest in the arts, but there are also filter classes for those people he was talking about, who are just there to waste time and get a piece of paper.

[Anonymous No.6838366]

>>6837852
War and Peace is a hard one to read?

[Anonymous No.6838407]

>>6837905
Sound like a total bro

[Anonymous No.6838484]

>>6837123
>I just finished my first year of my MFA program
>pretty diverse group; I'm one of the youngest (22), though
>Mostly well read group
>a few people my age talk about YA a lot, though; which is a bummer

>In my fiction workshop; one older (60's) woman says she doesn't read anymore
>start to dislike her
>we workshop her piece; it's pretty good
>when we have a visiting author, she reads more of his work than anyone else in the class.

[Anonymous No.6838992]

>>6837975
16 year olds like to pretend to be mature.

[Anonymous No.6839020]

>Read's Keyes' 'Flowers for Algernon'
>Girl walks up
>"I love romance novels!"

facepalm.pdf

[Anonymous No.6839068]

>in lit class
>sat near group of qt girls
>teacher asks class what our first experience with literature was
>everyone says the Iliad or Appolodorus' Bibliotheca
>teacher asks me
>I expect the teacher to be impressed so I say Lolita
>he looks confused, almost laughing
>one of the girls looks at me
>I can see them all laughing at me
>'you didn't start with the Greeks?'
>they all start chucking olives at me; laughing
>one of the football players starts chanting 'PEDO, PEDO, PEDO'
>the whole class joins in, still throwing olives
>I run out of class, having already urinated myself (i wasn't scared it's anxiety related okay?!)
>a week later I recieve a letter stating that I've been dismissed from the literature class for not having the required literary experience and being boastful about reading 'inappropriate books'

[Anonymous No.6839069]

>>6837620
>tfw was an edgy teen who thought reading was for fags
>didn't read a single book from ages 14 to 19
>have read around 50 - 60 books in my life
>if I had read as a teen that number probably would be 4 times higher
>all that wasted time

[Anonymous No.6839123]

>>6837905
Hell, dude, I wish I knew that guy. In my university in the US no one in my English classes ever mentions books outside those required for the class, and if they do mention reading outside class it's only ever Catcher in the Rye or John Green (actually I think it's always both). And no one even does drugs! 9/10 people I've met either identify as straight edge or just don't do drugs without labeling giving themselves that label. So people just want to read 4 books a semester, struggle with the final essays (because somehow writing 10 pages is hard work), and move on to the next class, until they get a degree in English with no specific end goal of a job in mind, or something.

I was talking with a girl once who claimed to be really invested in her English classes, taking loads of creative writing classes for practice or whatever. I once accidentally let slip that I just purchased Lolita, and she had never heard of the novel! A fucking English major near me never heard of one of the most infamous fucking novels in the English language!

I have no fucking hopes for the future of American literature. In fact, for about a year and a half, I so hated the English program and its inhabitants that I decided I was only going through with it to feed the flames of my hate. Then I read Stoner, considered how people actually gave a shit about literature a hundred years ago, and decided I must become a professor to try to fix the problem of literature programs in my country. I will be unsuccessful, of course

[Anonymous No.6839131]

Packin a bowl to my fellow potheads. I may not read genre fiction, but I've read more of wikipedia than anyone on the planet, and like I said, I smoke alot of weed.

By the way, I'm a better writer than any of you shitheads. Look for me in Reader's Digest.

[Anonymous No.6839135]

>>6837765
I think it's different with /lit/, m8. We here are all making fun of our peers, but we are making fun of how our peers don't care about literature at all, or only read shit. If they were pretentious, we'd be making fun of them for namedropping the meme trilogy and shit

[Anonymous No.6839143]

>>6837992
>go home and look them up on facebook
>try to convince myself i am better than them
I do this, but with the qts and I convince myself I am not attracted to them because they have John Green shit in their Books section and top40 in their music.

I'd be so fucking happy if I could meet a qt with just basic tumblrcore taste in music and who has read even high school tier lit. But this is somehow impossible. I really do think I am in purgatory, man

[Anonymous No.6839146]

>>6839068
>>one of the football players starts chanting 'PEDO, PEDO, PEDO'
But the Greeks were all pederasts?

[Anonymous No.6839150]

>>6839131
>stoner with a persecution complex and unwarranted self-importance
Seen one, seen 'em all.

[Anonymous No.6839154]

>>6837806
>found poetry collective
>plebby but kinda cool, get to do interesting stuff, try cadavre exquis and shit, get money.

>work at library
>boring, everyone else is bored of their job, have an fairly okay time

>volunteer at bookstore
>feminazi whales
>it's cool, I'm minoring in gender studies [mostly because I'm a faggot and loved M. Butterfly]

>edit and publish
>holy fuck, how is everyone this pleb?

See recent thread about publishing college poetry.

[Anonymous No.6839167]

>>6837126
You must have been reading that book for a long time.

[Anonymous No.6839172]

>>6839167
nice

[Anonymous No.6839178]

>>6839150

Actually, I'm experimenting with character dialogues on an unwary population. How does it feel to be poked and prodded like a Paris floozy?

I bet it feels nice.

[Anonymous No.6839180]

>>6839178
>just pretending to be retarded
Whatever feeds your smugness, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.6839182]

>>6837123
The people in this thread don't want to write well, they want power. I suggest you all get into politics or business, emotions and thoughts beyond "me big, you little" obviously aren't your strong suit.

[Anonymous No.6839191]

>>6837123
>have to take English 102 class at community college
>class ends up being myself and a friend of mine talking to the professor about our assigned reading while the rest of the class stares at the wall, only speaking in short sentences when prompted
>we were the only ones with any initiative in the class and between the two and the professor of us had enough intellectual diversity to carry a debate for the full time slot
>one day we both decide that we're going to skip class one day and go get something to eat
>find out later that professor literally canceled class for that day because he just didn't want to deal with it
>mfw we were both stem majors
>mfw there were probably several people in that class who went onto get english degrees

I can't complain about that course though because I wrote an essay openly stating that the author of one of the works we read was essentially performing the literary equivalent of erotic bondage and orgasam denial and that he, and anyone who enjoyed it, should be shot.

It was one of my professors favorite works.

I got an A+ for that essay.

[Haegelslaeg No.6839192]

[Anonymous No.6839203]

>>6837127
orson welles was pretty huge tho tbh

[Anonymous No.6839205]

>>6839146
Only with boys, anon, only with boys.

[Anonymous No.6839218]

>>6837620
>>6839069
Semi related. How many books/how much of the canon should I have read before starting a lit-related degree? I'm underageb& and have only read like 2 non-childrens novels. I'm trying to read a book a week from now on but even then I'd only be able to read ~70 books before uni. Pls help.

[Anonymous No.6839236]

>>6838992
I do like to tbh

[Anonymous No.6839239]

>>6837123
I took English because History is probably a more useless major. I don't even know what job I want out of it, I barely do the required reading for my courses and return to my room and practice creative writing.

Uni's fun and I'm making friends so I don't really care, this beats supermarket work anytime.

[Anonymous No.6839245]

>>6839131
>Look for me in Reader's Digest.

Oh...Someone should tell him

[Anonymous No.6839246]

>>6839236
do you have smooth sexy feet unruined by age

[Anonymous No.6839280]

>>6837491
>>6837860
I am apprehensive about reading Dune because I know it will never come close to the greatness of this pic.

[Anonymous No.6839285]

>>6839239
Basically why i am planning to go to uni. Currently work in a supermarket and thinking of doing English just as an escape.

[Anonymous No.6839293]

>>6839143
>tfw read the exact same books as my qt because we live in the same place and share interests

[Anonymous No.6839297]

>>6839285
>>6839239
Work at manual labor you fucking pussy boys

[Anonymous No.6839315]

>>6839297
Like reading manuals? For what?

[Anonymous No.6839328]

>>6839297
I have done manual labour. Working at a supermarket is manual labour too. I work in the back unloading/loading the deliveries.

[Anonymous No.6839343]

>>6839191
What's wrong with orgasm denial? I thought it was a pretty /lit/ fetish.

[Anonymous No.6839357]

>>6839343
Denying your partner his/her orgasm, yes.

[Anonymous No.6839358]

>>6839357
>implying it's not the other way round

[Anonymous No.6839366]

Is Chesterton pleb tier or comfy tier?
Not even Christian btw.

[Anonymous No.6839367]

>>6839358
>implying it is
>implying denying oneself pleasure can ever be Patrician
Just kidding, whatever rocks your boat.

>>6839366
Chesterton is great and comfy.

[Anonymous No.6839375]

>>6839366
>>6839367

if chesterson is so great then why can't i find his books online

checkmate christophers

>please give me a fukin link i want to read some of his books

[Anonymous No.6839376]

>>6839375
Reddit really is coming in hard.
Read the sticky, jackass.

[Anonymous No.6839379]

>>6839376

fuck you i use bookzz and bibilotek usually i've read it before i refuse to use those as its too challenging.

[Anonymous No.6839380]

>>6839375
You really aren't trying hard enough, it took me 5 seconds to find the Father Brown omnibus.
And stop meme'ing.

[Anonymous No.6839389]

>>6839380

mate i can't find orthodoxy which is what i want. i did find father brown omnibus just now thank you though.

[Anonymous No.6839393]

>>6839389
Orthodoxy is on Gutenberg, for Christ's sake.

[Anonymous No.6839398]

>>6839393

god bless, thank you child. you've done me a great service.

[Anonymous No.6839403]

>>6839398
Gladly. Have fun reading.

[The cats No.6839433]

[The cats No.6839437]

[Anonymous No.6839676]

>>6837133
>muh conspiracy becoming reality

[Anonymous No.6839757]

>>6837216
Norwayfag here. Most people in my literature classes were into Harry Potter, Twilight, other generic fantasy or shit like Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, or other popular "kiosklitteratur"-writers

[Anonymous No.6839791]

>lit class
>discussing my nigga Conrad and talking about some modernist stuff
>a bunch of hipster leftist girls say Conrad sucks because "Jim was an asshole'
>mfw

[Anonymous No.6839896]

>>6839191
>I wrote an essay openly stating that the author of one of the works we read was essentially performing the literary equivalent of erotic bondage and orgasam denial and that he, and anyone who enjoyed it, should be shot.

sounds like your essay was juvenile tripe

[Anonymous No.6840722]

>>6839191
90% of English majors in English classes are so dead-eyed and nonparticipant, it's fucking bizzare

>taking a poetry class for the hell of it
>professor is pretty cool, loves poetry and has published some of his own
>class of thirty or so, only two students and I ever contribute to his discussion prompts
>rest of the class gives the most surface-level reading possible, i.e. "I think the snow represented the coldness of death"
>Whenever it was time to discuss a work, the professor always looked expectantly at me
>Would call on me when no one else would offer any discussion
>I'm a CompSci major

Never got anything like that in calculus, everyone would ask questions or contribute equally. Are most English majors sensedead?

[Anonymous No.6840733]

>>6840722
Majoring in English is just an "easy" way to get the university/college experience without having to really work or understand complicated stuff like advanced math

[Anonymous No.6840763]

>>6839375
>not using project Gutenberg

[Anonymous No.6840769]

>>6839069
At least you're aware. Stay humble and keep reading.

>>6839218
Why do you even want to pursue a lit degree? You should probably wrestle with that question. Again, at least you're aware of your shortcomings. Keep reading. I recommend checking out some of the Open Yale Courses.

>>6840722
I've been that guy who carries the class. It sucks because then people end up hating you for being that guy, but they don't do anything to contribute to the class anyway so fuck 'em.

I also hate those people who complain about the assigned readings and "can't wait to read what I want" over summer. Why bother taking Shakespeare if you don't want to read him?

[Anonymous No.6840773]

>>6838992
Except for the fact that nearly every story ITT has been about university classes

[Anonymous No.6840801]

>>6837133
>implying

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/17/ministers-to-review-freedom-of-information-act

[Anonymous No.6840802]

>>6839218
If you're tight for time then you should read the greater works of the canon and then go from there. By greater works I mean Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, etc. More minor authors should be read relative to the length of their work(s) and influence. A special emphasis on classical Greek and Roman writers due to their influence. Star reading the Bible ASAP (couple pages/chapters a day alongside another work), or at least the major books of the Old Testament + all of the New Testament.

Here are some reading lists that you can reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_College_(Annapolis/Santa_Fe)#Reading_list

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtadler.html

There's also Harold Bloom's, but it's far too expansive and it doesn't even include philosophy.

[Anonymous No.6840807]

>>6837806
>English major
>almost everyone is a Harry Potter Hunger games reading pleb
>there's one guy who likes good books
>he has read Paradise Lost
>we have a great conversation about romantic movement
>he's English lit and I'm German lit so our points complement each other
>there's also a guy who is a huge Nordic culture loving metalhead
>plot twist: he actually knows his shit
>goes on and on about philology and the evolution of languages, actually knows about Nordic languages and runes
>there's also a qt chick who fucking loves Musashi and is now getting into Vonnegut
>not one of them is a pretentious faggot
>not all is lost

[Anonymous No.6840817]

Romanticism class, I said Infinite Jest and even the teacher hadn't heard of it. Few rows later Looking for Alaska is said.

[Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu No.6840864]

>>6839154
i've never seen such few fat people as when i was working in that store. then again, we did not have an in-house cafe and why else would they be there
>>6840807
hook me up with that metalhead
>i'm glad you're having an all right time anon

[Anonymous No.6840898]

>>6837366
just as easy to bullshit in college

[no u No.6842827]

bump

[Anonymous No.6842834]

bizzump

[Anonymous No.6842909]

>>6839167
for you

[Anonymous No.6842932]

>honors lit class
>almost everyone in class is the type of overachiever who knows how to do schoolwork and get good grades but never had an interesting or novel thought in their life
>over 75% of them are girls
>professor is a feminist who marked us down for not analyzing texts with that lens, even though it's a general lit class
>there's this huge jock guy who somehow made it into the honors program
>turns out he's pretty smart, though not exactly eloquent
>he continually BTFOs the feminist prof with simple language and simple but sharp ideas
>she's never able to refute him, stumbles over her words trying to
>none of the girls in class try to challenge him because they know they're intellectual lightweights and would also get BTFO

He was a true bro. I talked with him after class quite a bit and he was a cool guy.

[Anonymous No.6842959]

>>6840801
>1949 was 30 years ago

feels bad man

[Anonymous No.6843005]

>>6840864
>filename and pic

Nice.

[Anonymous No.6843014]

>>6840722
>tfw I am that person
Its social anxiety and general introversion. I can really only speak for myself--most of what I say in that sort of social situation I immediately end up hating. But I hate just about everything anyone else says. But yeah I should speak up more.

But its definitely not because im sensedead or insincere about my studies.

[Anonymous No.6843243]

>>6840769
I'm probably not even doing a lit degree, want to do philosophy. But we can do another course as an elective. Probably going with lit for that.

[Anonymous No.6843337]

>>6839297
>not wanting to be a literal slave who wastes their days performing sisyphean tasks for minimum wage
>being a pussy

pick one, dude

[Anonymous No.6843352]

>>6843337
being a literal slave who wastes their days performing sisyphean tasks for minimum wage is better than being a literal slave to whatever venture capitalists own 4chan by creating content for them 24/7 for free.

[Anonymous No.6843366]

>>6839069
It's better than reading YA fiction as a teen.

I mostly read sci-fi and other genre fiction at that age. It wasn't until I was like 17 that I started to read seriously.

>>6839791
I thought that was kind of the point of that work.

>>6840807
Man, I've been trying to read paradise lost for forever. Is there an annotated version that could help me understand some of the antiquated language used?

[anonymous No.6843379]

>>6837948
You can't mossad the assad

[Anonymous No.6843623]

>>6839433
sweet mary

[Anonymous No.6843654]

>>6837216
>Huysmans, Fontane, Turgenev, Byron etc.)

Jesus, college freshman liberal students are fucking unbearable.

[Anonymous No.6843670]

>>6837280
Good thing literature isn't about characters, plots, and description, pinhead.

[Anonymous No.6843682]

>>6843654
none of those are bad authors.

[Anonymous No.6843685]

>>6843682
They are terrible hipster tier shit.

"Oooh, look at this author I overrated because I never hear anyone talk about them. Yeah, I'm pretty intelligent. Way smarter than the average Chad."

Yeah, go fuck yourself, cunt.

[Anonymous No.6843702]

> all these people majoring in lib arts
>Not attaining a liberal education in spare time with library books, for free
>Not learning the natural sciences to get a job/broader perspective
>Mocking the quality of discussion they themselves are paying for
>MAJORING in liberal fucking arts
Zenith kek. But seriously why? What are you getting out of a degree that a faggot with a library card and some common sense couldn't get? With the nat sciences you at least need the degree to get a job.

[Anonymous No.6843705]

>>6839123
you sound like some weird /lit/ version of elliot rodger

[Anonymous No.6843710]

>>6839791
Damn, why was Joyce so fine? Not even gay, but I'd let him sniff my arseful of farts

[Anonymous No.6843716]

>>6840807
>>he's English lit and I'm German lit so our points complement each other
>tfw your school only has a general lit program
>tfw can't be patrician as fuck and major in Russian lit
I envy you, my friend

[Anonymous No.6843722]

>>6843705
I'll choose to take that as a compliment. I have no drive to kill anyone who doesn't appreciate literature though lel

I kind of resent you for responding to my wall of text up there, friend. I was drunk when I typed that and I forgot how venomous I could be while drinking and thinking of my books

[Anonymous No.6843733]

>>6843654
>>6843685

You are very mad and very stupid.

Stop buying into all of these identity politics vagaries they are swiss cheesing your brain.

[Anonymous No.6843745]

>>6843702
I actually dropped out of my English program for this reason, though now I'm going to be fucking old by the time I graduate. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.6843754]

>>6843705
fucking this

[Anonymous No.6843776]

>>6839328
>grocery store
>labouring

I'd hate to see you do actual manual labour.

[Anonymous No.6843791]

>>6837216
I've been told by exchange students from the UK that the depth of literacy in undergrad American English students is shocking. It isn't really a well-read-or-not thing, it's just that the level of discourse is just babby stuff.

Plus they aren't paying for a (three year) undergrad education.

[Anonymous No.6843798]

>>6839123
>struggle with the final essays (because somehow writing 10 pages is hard work)
Writing essays is hard, cunt

[Anonymous No.6843833]

>>6843366
>I thought that was kind of the point of that work.
Even if you say that's the point o the book it doesn't make the book or the author shitty.

[Anonymous No.6843848]

>>6843791
I met a kid from the UK once, he was an elitist asshole who was only unique because of his English accent and now he tries to hold on to it even though he doesn't have it anymore

fucking hate euros
I was an exchange student in Sweden in their equivalent of highschool, and though they're just about better in every way - they're pretty damn autistic
literally no one knew the concept of a variable.. and they all legitimately had discussions on the illuminati

I know these are generalizations but they didn't leave good impressions, between that and their Euro elitism over America; zizek was right

[Anonymous No.6843872]

>>6843848
The cool one was Scottish, and they're the redheaded stepchildren of the UK, so she was alright.

[Anonymous No.6843895]

>>6837299
>>6837299
>>6837299
>>6837299
>>6837299
>>6837299

[Anonymous No.6843899]

>>6843798
sometimes

[Anonymous No.6843907]

>>6840801
>the guardian
Not even once.

[Anonymous No.6843954]

>>6840898
Confirmed for attending a shit college

[Anonymous No.6844251]

>>6839757

Fellow Norwayfag here.

Dette kan jo ikke stemme, hvor studerte du? Jeg studerer filosofi ved universitetet i Oslo og alle mine bekjente der er beleste (Innenfor både filosofi og litteratur). Har truffet rundt 5 litteraturvitenskapstudenter via medstudenter og alle har lest intimiderende mye god litteratur.

[Anonymous No.6844265]

>>6843848
Britfags are alright man, most just hold onto the accent because we think Amrican chicks will spontaneously wet themselves.

[Anonymous No.6844272]

>>6838366
It's long and plebs can't commit to it.

[Anonymous No.6844420]

>first day of communications class
>everybody gets asked what book, movie, and album they would take on a deserted island as a way to get to know each other
>one chubby guy with a shaved head says infinite jest
>I laugh out loud
>everybody looks at me
>dfw

[Anonymous No.6844516]

>>6844420
>not proudly exclaiming 'Infinite Jest, Drive, ITAOTS'
>not being a living meme
>dfw

[Anonymous No.6844527]

>>6837852
>one read a book
>one speaks a dead language
>one studying ancient myths

They aren't above you.

[Anonymous No.6844533]

>>6844420
She's at least smart enough to bring ample toilet paper.

[Anonymous No.6844535]

>>6844265
same guy; they do love it

the British guy I knew was kind of ugly but people seemed to find him really likable with it

[Anonymous No.6844606]

>>6839123
>And no one even does drugs
You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Anonymous No.6844613]

>>6839245
Tell him what?

[Anonymous No.6844622]

>>6844535
Please say more about this guy so I can tell if it's actually me.

[Anonymous No.6844623]

>>6843848
England isn't European!

[Anonymous No.6844637]

>>6843685
You suck dude

[Anonymous No.6844642]

>>6844637
Dude totally lmao

[Anonymous No.6844646]

>>6844251
He's probably too pleb to get to know the cool kids.
Or the university could be shit.

I'm doing philosophy at the university in Bergen, and although there is not a lot of participation, the people seem cool enough. I'm only studying part time and haven't had the chance to get to know many people at the university, but the ones I've talked to so far have been nice.

[Anonymous No.6844657]

>>6843670
>...plots, and description, pinhead
If you're gonna insult someones intelligence and fain intelligence using grammar, I'd suggest using it properly.

[Anonymous No.6844720]

>>6843745
Better late, than jobless for rest of your life. These fags are complaining about nothing; the real world is going to be harsh for most of them.