/lit/ - Literature

>>1756601
>implying Joyce's prose is difficult
>implying you're not retarded
>implying footnotes aren't a waste of time for an intelligent reader
>implying meaning can be extracted from works

>>1754424

umad?

>>1753973
Fucking outsiders twice? I'm too tired lol :3

>>1753973

Forgot Macbeth Sophomore year, along with Perks as some side shit I read. Franny and Zooey was another Salinger work I read.

Freshman Honors:
Things Fall Apart
Night
Bless Me, Ultima
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet

Sophomore Honors:
All Quiet on The Western Front
The Alchemist
Catcher in the Rye
Ordinary People

Junior Advanced Placement:
The Crucible
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Frankenstein
Into The Wild

Senior Advanced Placement:
The Kite Runner
The Scarlet Letter
The Brothers Karamazov (others read something by Ibsen/Voltaire/Sophocles)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Slaughterhouse-Five
Beloved
King Lear

Things I read for fun:
Ender's Game
1984
Death of a Salesman
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Skinny Legs and All
A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Naked Lunch
On the Road
Breakfast of Champions
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Still Life With Woodpecker
The Martian Chronicles
The Metamorphoses
The Aeneid
The Oedipus Cycle
Paradise Lost

Before High School I read shit like The Giver, Hamlet, The Outsiders, Gilgamesh, and The Outsiders along with Harry Potter, Swiss Family Robinson (my first book!), and Captain Underpants.

I didn't really have much free time as a child.

I was originally discouraged because I was going to do Finnegans Wake this summer, but I guess I'll do both.

>>1744290

Ulysses is not a tough read at all. I'm sorry that you can't understand simple English.

>>1741520

>>1740615

It's true what Joyce said, you will dedicate your life to reading his works. I started with A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man a year ago, and decided to read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake afterwards. I'm still only in chapter 2 of Finnegans Wake. I've decided to read it a few times after the first time to understand more, and I'll probably read it even more times in my life.

The irony about Joyce's life is that his last words were "does nobody understand?"

Sorry Sunhawk, but you are retarded. I suggest you stick to reading YA fiction until you can handle real books.

>>1691644
Fabulous, seriously cut this shit out. We all love you here.

but not really you fucking faggot.

Hey OP,

If you really want to hear about it, the first things you'd want to know are my opinions and all that /lit/erati crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Wow! You're such an intellectual. Can you help me with my chemistry homework, bro?

You're not the first person to think these thoughts, welcome to postmodernism!

>>1689213
Looking for Alaska by John Greene.

Instead of discussing betrayal, you should discuss the themes surrounding the relationship between a father and son. Spend a few paragraphs to illustrate the relationships between each son and Willy. Explain how the relationship reveals the message prevalent in the thematic statement you made. Use some more literary elements to spice up the Essay.

Beloved by Toni Morrison. It's decent, but incredibly overrated by most people.

Sup Yuppie.

The only way you can become a good writer is to write like the fist of the north star. Also, don't write edgy shit about being a trap. Not too many people can relate and it'll only sell based on shock value.

Anyway, have fun here on /lit/.

It got me into Stream-of-consciousness narrative back in High School, so for youngin's it mite b cool.

>>1684614

Are you done with greentext stories BB?

>>1684374

Plus, that's a real old copy of Frankenstein. A first edition copy of the novel is about 193 years old, you could easily get $10 for it.

>>1684134

It's an incredibly extended metaphor, at least 20 pages long. I refuse to shit up the board with so much imagery and allusion. Just read the book and you will cum buckets and shit bricks.

>>1683723

I found Slaughterhouse-Five to be Vonnegut's most literary work next to Cat's Cradle. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Breakfast of Champions are very entertaining compared to Vonnegut's other works. You really can't go wrong with Vonnegut, though. I'd finish GBYMR if I were you just because it has a great twist at the end.

>>1683318

Ulysses does have that nice masturbation scene though.

>>1682994

He probably stole it.