/lit/ - Literature

>>10627110
>I have people who think they're my friends, but really they are friends with a character I learnt how to play.
You got me.

> TFW RedLetterMedia said the new IT movie was just OK

>>9909242
i didn't ask for these feels, anon

>>9786490
> holding the page ready to turn to the next one
> have a habit of holding the page tightly
> accidentally tear the page
> page torn, not enough to damage the whole page but just enough that it takes a piece of the sentence with it

This has happened to me at least twice now and it always bugs me. It's like, it's not a big enough deal to worry about it, right, nor is it a big enough deal to get the book replaced, but motherfucker I don't feel right about it until I've replaced the book.

>>9718012
> tfw we don't even know if Homer really existed
> tfw only two pieces of his epic poetry survived out of possibly 12

>>9668362
> in college
> anyone I knew in college who said "music is my life" never liked you asking of them "do you mean that a certain kind of music is your life, a certain band, or music in general?" because they always think they're open to everything, even if they listen exclusively to metalcore
> they're also the same people who skip every song that doesn't hook them in the first few seconds

College was the worst fucking time in the late 00s. I hate the young "adult."

>>9639969
> Pynchon will never finish his next book before his death
> McCarthy will never finish his next book before his death

I read Blood Meridian thinking there would be a blood-red jewel in there somewhere but then I found out meridian meant something completely different.

> tfw a writer
> live from home because not earning enough to buy my own place (t-thanks tory government)
> earn enough to buy things for the house, been published and won a few awards
> the only person in my family who supports it is my mother, everyone else thinks i'm just sitting at the computer for hours because i have nothing else to do and "when is he going to get a job, when is he going to get work experience, etc

/lit/erary pet peeves thread.

What really gets your goat when you're reading, getting a new book, studying, discussing literature, etc?

>>9538711
> not having a black magical waifu or daughteru to recite spells and listen to coltrane with
> not having a black grill who does dirty RPing with you in the bedroom including the master and the slave and you're her slave

>>9482951
>When walking around with a book I'll deliberately carry it with the cover facing inwards so that nobody thinks I'm some hipster showing off his new book™ accessory

W-what the fuck? Are you me? Or is it that autistic self-worrying 4chan people that do this?

>>3876400
My boner could pierce diamonds right now.