#it’s not great literature

[tinkerbitch69]

The worst part of being trans on an English course is listening to people give Harry Potter a verbal tongue bath cuz it’s an ‘amazing and well crafted piece of literature’ prefaced of course by a completely vapid ‘fuck JK Rowling’ to show they are in fact… An AllyTM

But if you dissent from the popular opinion of 20 somethings who stubbornly refuse to move on from their childhood obsession or take off their nostalgia glasses and you dare to argue that actually on just about every level Harry Potter is kind of boring, uninventive and thoroughly uncompelling as anything other than indulgent wish fulfilment?

Then they look at you like you just spat in their face.

Anyway Fuck JKR AND Harry Potter! No death of the authoring your way out of this one 😒

[incohorace]

what studying literature feels like

[soupexpertt]

I really like this russian edition of classic books. Letting famous artists do the covers in YA style was such a simple but clever decision. According to the recent study the number of teenage readers increased, possibly thanks to these covers. I own traditional classics with blank covers but if I ever see one of these in the wild, it’ll probably make me go feral.

Here are some of my favs:

Dracula (art by Renibet)

2.Jane Eyre (art by Ulunii)

3. Little women (art by чаки чаки)

4. The Idiot (the hedgehog-omg-) (art by Xinshi)

5. Pride and Prejudice (art by Cactusute)

6. War and Peace (art by Xinshi)

7. Wuthering Heights (art by Renibet)

8. The Great Gatsby (art by NIKEL)

9. Frankenstein (art by Iren Horrors)

10. Crime and Punishment (art by REDwood)

11. Anna Karenina (art by Ulunii)

12. The Cherry Orchard (art by lewisite)

13. The Master and Margarita (art by Renibet)

[elainiisms]

*me at the club* so does anyone wanna discuss queer undertones in classic literature?

[soracities]

Julia Armfield, from "The Great Awake" [ID in ALT]

[linnytheseagull]

More classic literature YouTubers because it's so funny to me

Bonus content:

[epiph-annie]

breathing dreams like air

[deviika]

F. Scott Fitzgerald // Daniel Kahneman

[iamnotshazam]

there is something deeply wrong with nick carraway in gatsby. motherfucker has been disassocating probably since the end of the war. he watches a marriage almost implode in front of him and in the stunned silence afterwards tells the awful husband, "oh yeah i just remembered today's my birthday"

i dont think casual and high school level discussions focus on how deeply weird nick must be in person and how that affects scenes? i vaguely remember analyses usually focusing on daisy and tom and gatsby but they all use nick as a barely functioning soundboard for horrible behavior and when he doesn't say anything are probably thinking "well nick seems so chill he would stop me if this was Truly Weird" and nick is meanwhile staring off into the distance thinking about what he ate last tuesday and that green eyed bilboard

edit: right and the accident literally happens next page so the weirdness of nick is probably skipped over by most readers

[stillgotscars]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[thegreatgatzbi]

I really should draw more of my Nick and Gatsby tbh

[susiephone]

when you're forced to read the great gatsby in high school, one of four things will happen to you.

you don't actually read it

you read it, hate it, get through the unit, and move on, but always resent f. scott fitzgerald a little bit for writing the book nearly every american teenager is forced to read

you read it, like it, and feel very smart because of this. depending on other aspects of your life and personality you may get 3% more annoying as a result

you read it, like it, and feel very smart because of this... and you're also gay. you definitely become at least 5% more annoying because of this, and nick carraway owns a bit of your soul forever. you have thoughts on this book that would make f. scott spin in his grave but you don't care because that fucker deserves it for what he put zelda through.

i barreled through door #4, as did a lot of us on this website.

[natylureechidna]

Three horsemen of horror visual novels

[beatricethestrange]

I might make a part two because there's a lot more I wanted to put.

[quotespile]

And was friendship that different in the end from love? You took the possibility of sex out of it, and it was all about the moment anyway. Being here, right now, in someone’s life. Making room for someone in yours.

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

[plesiosaurchestra]

what if gatsby was a mushroom and he called people “old spore” instead