/lit/ - Literature

>>15889791
I was planning on getting to it after my current book. Why do you think it is overrated?

>>15889791
Man I loved that book

>>15889791
No, it lived up to its reputation

>>15889791
Kind of hard to be overrated when I’ve never even heard of it

>>15889791
You're wrong. It's a belter.

>>15889826
What dafuq? What are you doing here?

>>15889791
OP is cringe and gay.

The Bible is overrated as fuck.

>>15889791
the book is excellent, it probably owes it's popularity in part to it's length, being broken into three parts each comfortably read a day, making for a nice and easy introduction for someone trying to get into literature.

>>15889826
He meant overrated by adults.

>>15889791
>Overrated

>>15889966
It's like 90 pages long dude, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to read it in a single sitting, let alone a single day.

>>15889993
I have kids.

>overrated book?
Robinson Crusoe. That book is a drag to get through and the adventure itself is tedious.

>>15890024
Is that supposed to be an excuse?

>>15889993
no, but someone just easing themselves into literature committing to 20-30 pages a day is a good start

>>15889791

What a book. It was difficult for me to understand some of the words and it took me days to finish it. I'd follow a man like Kurtz.

>>15890024
read it to your kids or put your kids in a kennel
therre are so many options here

>>15890024
Drown them in a bathtub.

>read this book early in high school
>on bus going home
>inside cover says author also wrote a book called The Nigger
>tell this to friend and a black guy in another seat gives me a dirty look

your diary

>>15889798
You might as well just read it since it's so short. It's not terrible just overrated.

>>15889966
>>15890132
Kurtz's development was pretty underwhelming. His character had so much potential too.

>>15890254
Nigger of Narcissus was in Kaczynski's cabin when they arrested him. While in prison he sued for his books back and donated them to the University of Michigan,

>>15892697
Any list of the books he owned?

>>15890132
>>15891520
I only saw the movie, Kurtz is a mad man, kilgure on the other hand is based.

>>15889993
How long is a sitting ? It would take me 6 hours to read 90 pages. I am very slow.

>>15889993
>there's no reason
Except maybe to savour it

>>15889791
Not overrated. A very special book. Unparalleled description of how power works in humans and how the individual relates and understands it. One of the only books I was glad I was forced to read in high school.

>>15890132
You missed the whole fucking point of the book then.

Wrong op. It's under rated. Pic related.

>>15890058
It's a pretty good excuse. I have kids as well and I have lost lots of reading time trying to keep up with them. They will soak up your time by alternating between fun and foolish, but no matter what they do they need to know someone is watching over them. If nobody is watching they just try harder to grab that attention, and that's when the foolishness starts to trump fun.

>>15890058
nigger

>>15889968
No, he mean overrated by highschool students and adults who don't read past mandatory books.

Since we’re talking about Joseph Conrad what is Nostromo like?

It's been over 15 years since I read it, so my opinion might not be the same if I read it again, but "Armor" and "The Forever War" were way better than "Starship Troopers".

>>15893904
Absorbing and savouring is what second- and third-readings are for. The first is always making sure you blast through, so you can say that you've read all these classic works. Then you pick the ones you like and actually properly read those.

>>15889791
I liked it apart from the autistic "story within a story" gimmick

>>15895105
Not gonna lie, sounds retarded.

Pretty much all of Jane Austen
All of Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights
All of George Eliot
All of Elizabeth Gaskell
All of Virginia Woolf
All of Muriel Spark
All of Margaret Drabble
All of Barbara Pym
All of Doris Lessing
All of Zadie Smith
All of Hilary Mantel
All of Sally Rooney

>>15889993
faggot, some people have lives and don't have endless time for reading in mommy's basement

>>15889791
1984 is the default answer

>>15895648
>All of Virginia Woolf
False. Orlando and The Waves are KINO.

>>15895708
It’s would take like 2 hours man

>>15889791
Dune