discuss fine literature

[Adam]

agreeing with bryan

[Cobalt Blue]

agreeing with bryan

typical anti-shark attitude.

[Adam]

DOWN WITH THE SHARK!

[Cobalt Blue]

bryanism bullshit

[Keychain]

I've read three books in my life.

Sly Cooper: To Catch A Thief
Hack:// Ai Buster Volume 1
Hack:// Ai Buster Volume 2

[LeleleleMAXIMUM]

Are you actually counting manga please tell me you aren't

[GrooveMan.exe]

Hack:// Ai Buster Volume 1
Hack:// Ai Buster Volume 2

I actually quite enjoyed these.

I'm not a fan of the classics, but I do kinda like victorian literature. Jane Eyre is a fucking awesome novel.

Edit: This is what I get when I read the last post but not the first one. :V

Never read 'Gatsby, but the way all the English Literature A-Level students bitched about it, I really don't want to.

[Vipershark]

Are you actually counting manga please tell me you aren't

actually there are .hack books
Like, actual novels.
They just put them on the manga shelf (at the barnes and noble near me, at least) for some reason.

Even though I don't read books much anymore, I actually do enjoy it.
I don't know how I can say this without sounding like a bragging douchebag, but I actually taught myself to read (fluently, I mean) before I even entered kindergarten, so naturally I'm pretty good at it.

But anyway, my mom's a teacher so every year she gets me new books for dirt cheap through her school. I've got so many that they don't all fit on the shelves in my room. There have to be far over 300 books.

But as for "fine literature" that I enjoyed, does 1984 count?
It's the most anticlimactic thing ever, but it really does make you think about the direction that the world is going in.

[Nystre]

i really like the great gatsby too

fake edit: oh, you were joking. w/e, it's still a pretty good book.

you would seeing as it is livejournal: the book

[Vipershark]

gatsby was boring as hell
It took me three hours to get past the FIRST PAGE without falling asleep, and everybody died at the end anyway. Not to mention the useless expansion of EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, meaning a simple explanation of his surroundings could have taken up to two or three pages.
It was almost as anticlimactic as 1984.

[Nystre]

i do not think it was terrible in concept but he really did drag stuff out like anime in book form

livejournal anime

[Vipershark]

I had to read it in 11th grade.
since I'm a fast reader, I finished the book (against my will, but uh) while the class was still reading it.
They hit the halfway point in the book and my teacher was like "okay this is boring put your books away" and turned on the movie.

He then gave us a test on the movie.
It was so boring that my teacher couldn't even stand it, haha

[GrooveMan.exe]

gatsby was boring as hell
It took me three hours to get past the FIRST PAGE without falling asleep, and everybody died at the end anyway. Not to mention the useless expansion of EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, meaning a simple explanation of his surroundings could have taken up to two or three pages.
It was almost as anticlimactic as 1984.

Bahaha, I'd wager that he's small time compared to James Joyce.

Uni students quake in fear at the mention of Ulysses, and even his short stories are pretty goddamn hefty.

[Maxpphire]

gatsby was boring as hell
It took me three hours to get past the FIRST PAGE without falling asleep, and everybody died at the end anyway. Not to mention the useless expansion of EVERY SINGLE DETAIL, meaning a simple explanation of his surroundings could have taken up to two or three pages.
It was almost as anticlimactic as 1984.

I actually liked that book and 1984 and Brand New World.

So I hope that someday you'll get an arm shoved up your ass.

Also Groove, I really want to read Ulysses.

[Vipershark]

Hey, I liked 1984.
That was a good book.

Once you strip away the useless details, gatsby's story was decent, but the entire book itself was just boring.
Not to mention that it was pointless since everybody dies at the end anyway.