/lit/ - Literature

>>9468737
>I-it's a p-pun, you d-dumb goi!
Oh, son! We all got the 'pun', laddie - sadly, you don't seem to understand the pun of the real word 'vagina'. But do keep reading your ever-so-speshul book-of-wit-that-plebs-don't-get: it makes you better than those filthy other people who don't care to understand your bullshit.

The Leopard

Also this one is perfect >>9043400

I just want to take a second to talk about how The Great Gatsby is one of the worst, most dull, pedantic book I have ever read. Perhaps it would have made more sense to me had I read it decades ago when its jargon was common, but even then I find the book to be borderline doldrum. It's the story of an asshole who meets a decent guy who falls completely in love with a cunt so vapid it makes the book look like the Dissertation of Man by comparison. I don't like Gatsby either, he's an idiot that I at least sympathize to some degree, yet I find his character to be as infuriatingly dense as it is purportedly intelligent.
But the book itself is ultimately just damn boring, and while I don't think it's written poorly in a technical sense, as it makes great use of literary techniques to create believable characters and imagery, its meaning is shallow and has no right to drone on like a self important twat only to show to me how unlikable everyone in the fucking book is. It's like Keeping up with the Kardashians in book form and I couldn't force myself to be interested in it.

I do not understand why the book is held in such high regards in so many circles. It is uninteresting, surface level tripe. It only maintains any mystery at all due to depriving you of any significant information, leaving you to infer what is going on, but anyone familiar with the time period will pick up on exactly what is happening by chapter 4, leaving its shocking reveals to be as stimulating as being hit with a wet piece of bread.