/lit/ - Literature

>>18882161
Tits

Yes but I thought it was pretty good and still think so as a matter of fact. I doubt non-Americans have to read it for school though OP.

>>18882169
I had to
t. German

>>18882170
Guess I was wrong kek.
How did your class engage with it? Did you read a translation? Did you get to say "nigger"?

>>18882191
>How did your class engage with it?
Everyone found it kinda funny, it was in 2010 so well before everyone was oversensitive

>Did you read a translation?
No we read it as part of our English class

>Did you get to say "nigger"?
yes

>>18882161
Why else would you read Black-on-White rape apologism other than being obliged to?

>>18882169
we had to read it in australia

>>18882170
I didn't
t. auch German

>>18882161
I didn't. I had a pretty great teacher, he realized that I was not reading the books and just writing my essays and doing the tests by extrapolating what I needed from the class discussion and figuring out what the teacher expected (only lit teacher I had in high school that figured that out, never got lower than a B doing it) so he called me in after class and said he was going to assign me different books than the rest of the class. He did good in his selections, Dandelion Wine, Trout Fishing in America, If on a Winter's Night A Traveler, Growth of the Soil and Gravity's Rainbow, I think he assigned Gravity's Rainbow to slow me down so he would not have to assign me a new book every week, he ran me in circles with assignments for Gravity's Rainbow. Great teacher, wish I had more like him.

>>18882161
I didn't think it was all that great.

>>18882212
du Glücklicher

>>18882169
we didn't had to

t. russian

>>18882162
would you care to elaborate?

>>18882169
We had to

r. Irish

It's shit

>>18882169
Non american here - I am from Britain and I read it when I was about 11 or 12 despite not having to read it. At school I remember having to read inspector calls, Hamlet, animal farm, macbeth and a christmas carol

>>18882363
inspector calls was a real strange book

its essentially socialist/femenist propaganda but in a very uncompelling way. I mean its not bad but its not exactly good. feels like the equivelent of atlas shrugged for the womens liberation and labour movements of the 19th and 20th century

>>18882169
We had to read it in English at an English class. I didn't really like it as I mostly avoid reading prose in English, or better, I had a hard time imagining everything and felt like I missed a lot of nuances so I pretty much skipped through it. I tried the movie and it was even worse.
Later, when I read the translation into my 1st language, I could vividly imagine everything way better. I read it in no time and it's still one of my favorite books.
I can read newer stuff in English like no problem, especially theory or poetry, but I don't have the patience to grind through stories which seem like plain text not invoking anything plus I'll obviously never be that good in English, because I don't use it often.

>>18882169
>Yes but I thought it was pretty good and still think so as a matter of fact
You cant be serious.
Its contrived as hell.
The characters are flat as fuck as well.
None of the characters change. None of the characters are complicated. Its a piece of bad propaganda. Saddam probably wrote better books.

The only "compulsory" book I read was LOTR. I'm proud to never have opened a Tolstoy or Dostoevsky work.

>>18882361
>>18882207
>>18882170
Why?
Its an American book. And a shit one at that.
We don't read shitty books about your country.

>>18882161

not even then.

>>18882543
Why are you proud of it exactly? They both did write some great books, you are just missing out.

>>18882543
Answer this truthfully if you dare:
Are you fat and/or have a neckbeard?

>>18882547
you filthy faggots americanised west germany as part of the cold war and then after the re-unification of germany the east got americanised as well

>>18882672
Yes to both

>>18882667
Missing out on what? 1000 pages of christcuck moralizing?

>>18882935
you are dense when implying that the only dosto work worth reading is brothers karamazov.

I had to read it twice.

>Jezebel poster

>>18882161
Yes, along with various books on the Holocaust. That's basically the entire curriculum. I made sure to ask my teacher when she was passing out the copies of 'Night', "teacher, why are we reading fiction?" She didn't like that one bit.

>>18882161
I've read it voluntarily last year. I liked it.

>>18882161
I liked it because I got to say nigger in class

>>18882486
This is so incredibly wrong. Throughout the story we see both Jem and Scout experience things that change their perspective. They learn to show kindness to others no matter their background and they learn how biases can affect not only people but entire communities. It only looks like they're not growing as characters because they're children. An adult is more set in their ways and thus has to change more significantly in order to grow. Children are much more malleable and are learning right from wrong, not re-learning it.

>>18882935
SAD!

>>18882169
Belgianfag here. We didn't had to, specifically, but we had to pick one in a panel and read it, and it was among the choices. I didn't pick it though, and picked Jamaica Inn instead because the blurb at the back was cooler. Not sure it was the right choice, though.

>>18883242
Concession accepted christshit

>>18882935
>1000 pages of christcuck moralizing?
Dostoevsky wrote more than enough book that doesn't cover this, anon. And even the stories than lean into the christan moral, there's always more to it. His writing career was long enough for him to cover many different style and theme.

>>18882547
Have to learn about sacred blacks and how they're really the victims of injustice. How else would society function if the scripts to excuse away black crime weren't implanted in the minds of each citizen?

>>18882161
No I chose to read it at school cause I wanted to.

Out of all the blue boards, /lit/ posts the hottest girls, even beating out /biz/ My theory is that book readers have interesting personalities so they get laid more.

>>18882162
That boob vein
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>>18882935
>1000 pages of christcuck moralizing?
You had already read LOTR.

>>18882161
I wanted to learn how to kill mockingbirds.
Shit book.

>>18882161
Yes a dumb bitch no get out of my I have to jerk off to anime porn

>>18882169
We didn't have to. Poland.

>>18882161
never read it, sounds gay

>>18882161
I'm on chapter 3 and I think I'm missing the point because now I really want to live in a comfy impoverished village in the Alabama swamps.

>>18882161
Eastern Europe here, we read excerpts from old man and the sea and few others, no mocking bird. In all honesty it was all shit (not to say that our own literature is any good), I didn't read it back then and I wouldn't read it now.

Where are these women in my life.

>>18882161
We didnt have this but i didnt read a single book they recommended us. English is the one subject you can study a few days before exams and get great marks

>>18882169
We read it.

t. Leaf

>white woman falsely accuses negro of rape (KAREN!!!!)
>shitlib fag white man is a hero for defending him from the angry racist backwards townsfolk
wholly anti-white book that should be banned from school curriculum

>>18882169
I had to
t. Leaf
Atticus Finch is based and due process-pilled

>>18886798
faggot ass leaf what the fuck is wrong with you?

>>18886794
>women act like devious whores
>inbred southern retards are dangerous and stupid
Seems pretty accurate to me.

>>18884187
Depends on the day desu. Sometimes the coomer tier threads on /biz/ win out over them on /lit/.

>>18884187
>>18887971
/biz/ owns, no question. Op's chick is cute though.

for me, it was sparknotes

>>18883098
>t.

>>18883075
whos jezebel?

>>18882161
I was technically forced to but I didn't actually read it like most books, I think i just re-iterated the thug notes summary of it and passed that assignment btw reading books is gay go be a real man and hit raccoons with sticks.

>>18882161
yeah it was fun. the whole class wanted me to read it in a texan accent (im not american) and i got to say nigger out loud

>>18889505
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel

>>18886794
except the shitlib fag whiteman turned out to hate niggers in the next book

I never read it and probably never will.

>>18882161
>To Kill a Mockingbird
A good book.

>>18882161
I never hear it talked about in way that makes it seem worthy of being a classics. It seems more like its lasted because it book about racism written by woman.