Who's the saddest qt grill in all of literature?
Alyosha's gf.
Has to be Plath.
Pizarnik, in some pics.
Obviously adults who read YA books are the lowest of the low, but are teenagers allowed to read them? I have sisters aged 14 and 16, and for Christmas I was thinking about buying them 'The Alchemist' and 'Looking For Alaska' because they're both keen readers and it's exactly the sort of shit that they'll love to read.
However, I am worried that if I encourage them to read YA books now, I might inadvertently lead them into a lifetime of being plebs. So my second option is to buy them Ulysses and Infinite Jest.
What should I do /lit/?
>>7474723
Yes, if you have bad taste once, you will always have bad taste.
You're allowed to like pseud shit like Marx or Nietzsche as a teenager though.
Buy them something between your two extremes, idiot.
There is plenty of good fiction for teenagers.
What are they interested in?
It's pretty hard to into lit if you're a teen girl. Be careful what seeds you sow unless you want to reap lesbians, because this is how you grow lesbians, do you want a family of lesbians anon?
What do you think this W.H. Auden poem is about?
HUNTING SEASON
"A shot from crag to crag,
The tell-tale echoes trundle;
Some feathered he-or-she
Is now a lifeless bundle
And, proud into a kitchen, some
Example of our tribe will come.
Down in the startled valley
Two lovers break apart:
He hears the roaring oven
Of a witch's heart:
Behind his murmers of her name
She sees a marksman taking aim.
Reminded of the hour
And that his chair is hard,
A deathless verse half done,
One interrupted bard
Postpones his dying with a dish
Of several suffocated fish."
Do
Your
Own
Homework
>>7474078
Oh, I'm 42 years old. I can assure you, this isn't homework. It's merely curiosity.
Just ordered the meme triology off amazon.
What should I do to prepare myself before they arrive?
Start with the greeks? Like, seriously, you won't understand jack shit from Ulysses if you don't.
Infinite Jest is just a bunch of text. You CAN understand GR but you mostly read it for the experience.
That's the old meme trilogy
>>7466690
Should I do anything special to enhance my reading experience? Maybe a special diet?
So, today is my birthday and I've just turned 18. In spite of that, what book should I start to read today? Here's my list:
>Steppenwolf
>Ulysses
>Our Ancestors
>The Death of Ivan Ilich
>Canterbury Tales
>The Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
Also, I've got some money to spare and I'm keen to listen to your literary recommendations for a freshman into adulthood :^)
poor babby
Read the sticky. Your list is fine.
that better be an original spelling edition of canterbury tales with footnotes, faggot
Is it possible to read a lot and remain an idiot?
Pic not related.
>those menopausal redundant trophy wives whose beauty, their only redeeming value, has long faded
>essentially an unlimited amount of free time every day for decades
>spend the whole of it reading fluffy garbage the likes of which drugstores will not even supply
>a boundless erudition of cheap harlequin romances
yes
>>7477491
Depends on what you read.
Yes.
Example: Me.
Normally I read some 30-50 pages into a book (going that far just to give it a fair shake) then lose interest forever, but I read this book cover-to-cover in one sitting. The message resonated with my own views of the world yet still had me engaged, characters were tolerable, the plot worked, and it gave a fairly accurate depiction of how military works despite the sci-fi setting. Can you, /lit/, recommend some books like it?
>>7477446
>The message resonated with my own views of the world
So you're a fascist then?
>>7477452
Maybe he is what's it to you?
>>7477459
While fascism isn't necessarily bad, it has historically sucked ass.
Is this true?
>>7476905
Untrue. Yesterday I read my grandfather's obituary and it gave me a great deal of stress
>>7476905
Reading takes full attention and concentration. Music and walking don't.
So it would make sense that immersing yourself in a book murders more of the ruminations, fears, anxieties, and insecurities that fuel stress.
>>7476905
No. That is at best a very incomplete statement. Balance and so on.
I need a cool mononym, /lit/, reasonably obscure historical character prefered.
>>7476571
Erysichthon
>>7476652
this is a nice one
>>7476653
this is a nice one
How do you discipline yourself to read books?
I'd like to learn more (like statistics) but despite having unlimited free time I always find myself doing stupid shit on the internet. What can I do to improve this situation?
Schedule your time; write a to-do list and allocate time for those activities; ensure you have time for relaxation, socialisation, and physical activity aside from your study.
for math stuff do x pages a day
keep it around five to ten
you'll finish it in around a month, which is amazing if you consider that text being taught over an entire semester
the key is slow and steady
this isn't like reading fiction or even regular non-fiction
>>7476568
>(like statistics
wtf???
why you want to learn statistics?of course you cant force yourself to read it cos its retarded
read something you like
if you dont like reading dont read
Is it true that you should only one book at a time?
Yeah
>>7476540
>>7476548
Thanks homies.
Great thread
Looks like I came to the right place when I heard start with the GEEKS XDD
>>7476550
you made this post shit from the start with anime
Imagine a world without politics, politicians or political ideologies.
Imagine a world without free will
Imagine a world where you ARE the little girl
Imagine a world where everyone could have a literary Jewish gf
Any advice for someone who wants to become more articulate? I do a lot of thinking and reading and have developed many ideas and opinions that i want to be able to communicate effectively.
Start by reading my diary, tbqh
>>7476272
Aristotle's Rhetoric
i also have this issue. sometimes i pretend to be mute.
keep in mind you've never heard Thomas Pynchon's voice
how to spot a pleb:
>mfw there's a Mein kampf thread on /lit/
>OP asks if it's worth reading
>some dumb faggot says Adolf has bad prose and is subsequently not worth your time
Adolf wasn't a writer, you dumb faggots. And criticizing him like he is one proves one of three things. One, you're a faggot. Two, you haven't read the book. Three, you're a faggot and haven't read the book.
someone who writes is a writer you fucking faggot. die of aids, faglord
>>7476176
dont you say.
>>7476176
STORMNIGGERS ON SUICIDE WATCH
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At the bookstore and wanting to buy either The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao or This Is How You Lose Her. Which of the two should I buy?
Shameful self-bump
>>7475945
Oscar Wao bb
though I personally don't care for either
doesn't diaz work at like, MIT or something?
he looks like the warden from Orange Is The New Black
what a ridiculous man
>>7475945
This is How You Lose Her. I love that collection so much.
