/lit/ - Literature

[Ellen Page !!sWDDxnhkzXu No.944300]

I remember reading this book in elementary school.

It was hyped to shit by all of the teachers and the librarian. I read it and thought it was retarded and overrated. Then I picked up a copy of The Stranger and realized everyone in elementary school was a retard in comparison to me.

[Anonymous No.944316]

please go back to /mu/

[Anonymous No.944339]

Don't hate on Hatchet man. That's not cool.

[Sizer !cqOC93qhlE No.944358]

You're not Ellen Page......Ellen Page is fucking wonderful

[Anonymous No.944364]

shit, i lol'd because I can imagine Ellen Page actually being like this

[Anonymous No.944392]

I have a VHS of the movie based on this book. It's pretty decent, although it leaves a few things out like the egg eating and sparrow cooking.

[Anonymous No.944411]

ITT shit we read in elementary school

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.944415]

>Gary Paulsen

Dogsong was better. I read it at age five, and totally did not understand the bits about the protagonist finding a pregnant woman out in the snow. It was heavily implied that they fucked, but I didn't get it.

[Anonymous No.944420]

>implying I can remember whatever the fuck I read in elementary school

Actually I can remember reading Lord of the Flies but that's pretty much it

[Anonymous No.944425]

[Anonymous No.944439]

oh yeah I read Swiss Family Robinson too

I also remember reading some book about Jews

[Anonymous No.944452]

>>944411
Oh god. All I remember about that was some kid falling on his axe and dying. This and Bridge to Terabithia screwed with my head for a while.

[Anonymous No.944547]

>>944300
Hatchet was rad, I read it three times in middle school, however THE FUCKING WATERCOLOR ON THE FRONT PISSED ME OFF

FUCK IT'S SO UGLY, I MEAN, YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT AND IT'S OKAY UNTIL YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN'T SEE SHIT BECAUSE THERE IS A TRANSPARENT GREY HATCHET IN THE WAY OF FUCKING EVERYTHING

AND THEN YOU SEE THAT TRANSPARENT WOLF HOWLING AT THE TRANSPARENT MOON AND YOU JUST WISH THAT THE AUTISTIC FINGERPAINTER WHO CREATED THIS ATROCITY WOULD HAVE HANDED OFF THE ASSIGNMENT TO SOMEBODY WHO ACTUALLY HAD SOME ARTISTIC TALENT

But the part where he was eating frozen dinners was pretty sweet.

[Anonymous No.944581]

wait was that this book about that dude from new york who decided to go live up in the woods or some shit for no reason? shit, that book was cash as fuck

[Kimmo Alm !!TAPh5M5QXV0 No.944585]

>>944300
>come to /lit/
>see an Ellen Page thread
>my face

[Anonymous No.944588]

You're thinking of My Side of the Mountain.

[Anonymous No.944589]

>>944588

holy fuck my childhood

[Kimmo Alm !!TAPh5M5QXV0 No.944627]

Meh, I was reading all the entry-level classics back then.

Where the Red Fern Grows and The Giver were what I read for class, but I didn't think they were very profound.

London, Stevenson and Dumas were my homeboys in those days.

[Anonymous No.944642]

>>944627
LOL I was reading the Aeneid in its original latin at that age you dumbfuck. Jesus that's like 3rd grader stuff.

[Capt Haddock !Fzb9d9iCrg No.944647]

I remember Hatchet.

Didn't he find like a years worth of supplies in the plane just moments before being rescued?

I bet he went fucking nuts.

[Kimmo Alm !!TAPh5M5QXV0 No.944664]

>>944642
>implying I wasn't reading that stuff WHEN I WAS IN 3RD or 4TH GRADE
>implying this thread isn't about shit we were reading in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

[Anonymous No.944666]

i never even knew this was a book, but i loved the movie as a child. im off to amazon.ca i guess to go find me a copy.

also, my side of the mountain, i fucking loved that book, read it 15 times in elementary school (i actually stole the school libraries copy), and we watched the movie version of it in grade 5 and it was complete garbage. i hated the movie. he went up there for algae experiments? algae! wtf man, you shitty ass movie, stop ruining my life.

[Anonymous No.944678]

>>944664
>implying that you could even understand half of it
>my face when you don't already know another language at that age and aren't reading anything but entry level english lit

[Endo No.944714]

I smell hipster....

[Anonymous No.944738]

Holy fuck I smell pretentious douchebaggotry and trolling on a level never before witnessed. I'm terrified. This may just overwhelm me.

[Kimmo Alm !!TAPh5M5QXV0 No.944871]

>>944678
>implying you aren't trolling past your bedtime
>implying you aren't a faggot

[Anonymous No.944883]

>>944871
>implying that you aren't a moron for bragging about your childhood experiences with infantile literature

[apparentlyromanceisdead !3fgu3tOPlw No.944887]

Brian's Winter was better than Hatchet, but they were just children books. They're of no more literary note than Jacob Two-Two. I enjoyed them when I was in grade 3.

[Anonymous No.944889]

>>944411
The worst book I've ever read. It may've been good when I read it when I was... hmmm.. SEVEN, but when I attended high school, sixteen and seventeen year olds would cite this along with Harry Potter as one of their favorite books. WHAT
THE
FUCK

[Kimmo Alm !!TAPh5M5QXV0 No.944908]

>>944883

[Climaxia !!TDuIMMzqVEY No.944916]

>>944738
Yeah, this is the douchebaggery I see every day on /mu/.
I know outsiders may feel disturbed but we're used to this.

[Anonymous No.944919]

>I'm smarter than everyone and I tell people that all the time.

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[Anonymous No.944930]

>>944908
Way to be butthurt. Try dropping your trip before you try to order me off of the internet.

[Kimmo Alm !!TAPh5M5QXV0 No.944953]

>>944930
What? Now you mad just cuz I'm stylin' on you?

[Anonymous No.944978]

>>944953
You have no style. You have no intelligence. All you have is a trip code and a terribly inflated opinion of your own cleverness.

[Kimmo Alm !!TAPh5M5QXV0 No.945004]

>>944978
Yeah, you jelly alright.