/lit/ - Literature

>>22704586
>and especially don’t read stories with sex in them

>>22581742
>sage

>>21386666
>debunked by Lenin

>>21285293
>tfw I haven't studied

>>21053814
An anon on here said they liked it! :^D

>marine corps boot camp
>go to the base library
>some fat disgusting slob hasn't returned his overdue book yet
"Alright you maggots! Since Private Pyle here is such a Rhodes scholar, I'm gonna have all of YOU hit the deck while Private Pyle reads his novel!"
>Have to do pushups for hours while Pyle reads Proust
That evening we all made sure Private Pyle had some "bad dreams"

>>18651468
>be super richfag
>literally your servants have servants
>buy your kids the best education money can buy
>it apparently doesn't teach them anything at all really, according to >>18651468
Well gosh, you should open a business where you go explain to ultra-rich parents why those private schools are a waste of money and they should send their kids to Martin Luther King Jr. High School instead. Call yourself an "education school consultant" and charge $1000/hr

>>17085785
With the sole exception of Lolita, Kubrick always intentionally chose lower-quality books to adapt to film, because he thought it would mean more to use his directorial ability to turn those into great stories.
>inb4 2001. The novel 2001 was written alongside the film with Stanley's direction, so 2001 obviously doesn't count as a book adaptation
Case in point, The Shining. Kubrick took an absolute garbage tier author and turned his garbage book into the greatest horror films of all time.
TL/DR No, don't bother reading the novel of Barry Lyndon, you can read better stuff instead. Like the Greeks.

>>15901554
>globohomo advocate leftists trans Marxist something something something
>Using implied homosexuality as an insult

>>15383430
>God blessed Job even more than he had before because Job had been patient.
>dude sorry about that wife and those kids of yours I fucking killed. I'll make it up to you it's just a prank bro

>>14300163
kek