/lit/ - Literature

> Travels the world
> United States Senator mother
> World-renowned surgeon father
> Humanitarian trip to Rio
> Dreams of different time periods

Just reading this gave me a headache.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

> Tell me /lit/ am I the only 18 year old who enjoys reading difficult thought provoking books and magazines and not being a shit head pot smoker?
> Tell me /lit/ am I special?

It's high school. C'est la vie.

Prufrock's a good choice--you can really get your teeth into a critical analysis. I wrote an essay on it a few years ago and felt like I couldn't get enough in under the word limit.

Nice work!

> Writing Erotica For Women

Life lessons, OP?

A Little Princess
Tom's Midnight Garden

Also, not exactly what you're asking for, but Goodnight Mister Tom. It's set during WWII and I really enjoyed it--still do, actually.

bookdepository.co.uk

>>1497467

You want disgraceful, take a look at Australia. And we're about to dumb down the curriculum. Got to love the sunburnt country..

On As You Like It: "They belong in the forest coz they're hobos lololololol"

New question: what should a girl read to get some unsuspecting arts student?

tl;dr your reading fetishes

>>1497395

If you're going to France, don't bother learning an accent beforehand. You'll pick it up in a matter of days. I was in Paris for a week and it came naturally after watching tv, catching the metro and just listening to everyone around me.

Finding supplementary texts for an essay on More's Utopia:

> Girl: I'm using a quote from Camus in my intro.
> Me: You read Camus?
> Girl: No. I don't know who he is, but the quote sounds pretty awesome.

>>1497335

To woo the ladies? An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Has Man A Future? and Power: A New Social Analysis all sound appropriately impressive. Whether or not you read them is up to you.

Those covers alone should part legs for you like Moses, though.

>>1497265

This will work, as long as the woman is a pseudo-intellectual and you have at least average looks.

>>1497115

Beat me to it.

Got about 100 pages in and stopped. I don't know if it's worth going back to.

Not really bookrage. More classroomrage.

> Wide reading assignment
> Teacher goes around the class asking for the book/our impressions
> I use the word "bland"
> Girl next to me stares, so I elaborate, "..plain".
> "Why couldn't you have just said plain LOLYOULIKETOUSEBIGWORDS"

I don't even remember what I was talking about.

>>1494570

> then I tripped over my clitoris

Someone give this man a Booker.

> Last read
Young Hearts Crying. Really enjoyed this.

> Currently reading
The Sun Also Rises. Just started reading this last night.

> To read
The Road. Okay, so I'm a bit late in reading this, but it never really appealed to me. I'm on break at the moment though, so I thought "why not?"

Personally, I'd recommend the Stuart Gilbert translation.

Though the original French is the best.

Bridge to Terabithia. God, I loved that book. Still do.

Also, A Series of Unfortunate Events.

I don't see Yates on there, give him a shot.

Hey /lit/, looking for some translation recommendations:
The Stranger
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Brothers Karamazov
The Prince
Madame Bovary
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Currently I'm looking at Stuart Gilbert for The Stranger (read his translation of The Plague and enjoyed it), but would appreciate recs for all. Thanks in advance, will check back in a few hours.

Nice jumper. Looks, uh, comfy.

>>1432190

Why the fuck would you do this?
Assuming not troll, if he treats you like shit and makes you feel this way, dump him. End of story.

Ignatius finds a job as a monster truck driver.

Oh god, the visual.