/lit/ - Literature

>>6577530
Sad, really

Tolstoy. Levin and Kitty's love is the love that I want

Crime and Punishment.
>>4204772
Yea, about ~650

>>3841443
As for why Quincey was the least developed character? Honestly can't help you on that one. Wish we did get more of him though.

>>3841425
Well he is Dutch. Though the only Dutch people I know speak English well. And as of Quincey's death yea it was glorious. Fitting for a rich American adventurer.

>>3841392
Okay...

After having it sitting on my bookshelf, I finally read and finished Dracula. Since it's a classic and spawned one of the most popular fictional characters of all time and popularised the vampire, I knew that there had to be something about it that caught people's eye, but I didn't expect myself to be drawn into the book as much as a I was. By the time Harker is visited by the three vampires until the end, I couldn't put it down. And Lucy...poor old Lucy.

In any case, what did you think of Dracula?

>>3651647
I'm not complaining

>>3651300
When I saw it performed live during my school's annual celebration of Shakespeare (I wonder if they still do it), I shed a tear. Something about it that stirs up the greatest emotions in me.

Henry V: one of Shakespeare's greatest written characters or a "Gary Stu" who can seemingly do no wrong?

>>3629765
French

>>3629562
It truly is. And a bitch to contextualize when translating

What do you think about the thou/you distinction. Should it be brought back in modern English?

Personally, I think it should. After learning French and currently working on Russian, I feel that English is lacking because of the lack of the distinction between the formal/informal.

What the fuck is going on here. Suddenly the cricket has been captured and is sailing to China?

So I'm watching the 1967 Rankin Bass adaptation of Cricket on the Hearth...and...and did they just make Bertha Edward's lover? Because that's uhh...weird

Anna Karenina trailer is out. Anyone excited? Anyone going to rage? Do you think it can hold a candle to the novel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGLRO3fZnQ

>>2572723
The "factual" story broke my heart.

>>2572686
What kind of question is that? No they don't.

After 3 years of my friend pestering me, I finally read Life of Pi. It was amazing. Not my favourite novel, but definitely one of my favourites from this millennium. Anyone care to discuss it?

>>2527794
This.

>>2527864
>marking on the books

>>2527546
Ain't it jay?

>>2480921
People assign P&P and the Good Soldier in high school? Not that P&P is any difficult read, just never had it assigned in high school.

>>2480920
I've read it before. Quite funny, that. Just thought of it now, cause I was at a friend's house and she was watching the film.

>>2480931
>American literature

What? Are you some kind of troll or something?

>>2480878
As much as hated her, I didn't hate her as much as I did Lydia. Maybe because Lydia reminded me of too many teenage sluts

Has there ever been a female character as detestable and as insufferable as Lydia? I can only think of Florence in the Good Soldier