/lit/ - Literature

What's with all the seething? This was an undeniable masterpiece.

>>14699044
It still pains me to think about it.

>>14695342

this book sucks

Can you even relate to this a lot if you have aspergers, social anxiety, were bullied out of higher education and your last minimum wage job (which your crush (who you asked out) witnessed each day)?

This is awful. Who was the bigger brainlet: Goethe for writing this or the people in the XIXth century who considered it good.

Pic.
I just reread Faust, too. After that I'll go through Paradise Lost and Divine Comedy.
Also, as someone who only recently went through the bible, I might look at Arthurian stuff, finally, but I'm not sure where to start at all here, if I should read Celtic myth, etc.

>Yes, such is the frailty of man, that even there, where he has the greatest consciousness of his own being, where he makes the strongest and most forcible impression, even in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish,—vanish,—and that quickly.

>I could tear open my bosom with vexation to think how little we are capable of influencing the feelings of each other. No one can communicate to me those sensations of love, joy, rapture, and delight which I do not naturally possess; and though my heart may glow with the most lively affection, I cannot make the happiness of one in whom the same warmth is not inherent.

>>13004615
But seriously, folks.

>Muh Lotte

What are some good books on unrequited love?

Is this the best book out there?