I've been feeling a growing dissatisfaction and lack of motivation for bothering to do English, considering I completely don't need it for my university courses, but it's just been completely rekindled by studying Chekhov. Even going back and writing an essay about Fitzgerald feels more interesting now. There is colour where once there was only grey.

Literature is fucking awesome. Just thought I'd share.

I felt the same way after reading The Metamorphosis last week.

Even when the fires are suffocated, their warmth shall remain. And if even a single spark is granted them shall they return in all their splendor...

I gotta say, I love writing!

I really enjoyed studying Literature in High School. Came out with an A+.

But as soon as I studied it at A-levels...I just completely lost it. Poetry is not my forte...Seamus Heaney as well as Alexander Pope...*shivers*

Although learning The Great Gatsby, L'etranger, The Butcher Boy, and The Catcher in the Rye was quite fantastic.

Card said
I felt the same way after reading The Metamorphosis last week.

Kafka, right? I've wanted to read that for a very long time - I watched a speechless dance-theatre version of it done by the Royal Opera House here in the UK, and it was just incredible. I'm guessing you would recommend it, then?

Cayden Black said
I gotta say, I love writing!

Well, this is a roleplaying site after all... I think we all love writing, here. 'Tis a wonderful thing.

Alarei said
I really enjoyed studying Literature in High School. Came out with an A+.But as soon as I studied it at A-levels...I just completely lost it. Poetry is not my forte...Seamus Heaney...*shivers*Although learning The Great Gatsby, L'etranger, The Butcher Boy, and The Catcher in the Rye was quite fantastic.

I'm doing the Scottish equivalent of A-Level right now, and I too am... well, I have to actually work now, although I've still not actually read anything we've studied this year. And I fucking loathe Seamus Heaney's poetry. Perhaps I'd react differently if studied it now, but I refused to do an essay on his poems when I studied them several years ago and wrote about Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 instead.
Interestingly, we study Fitzgerald, but not The Great Gatsby - we do Tender is the Night and The Beautiful and Damned instead. I think his ideas and characterisation are fascinating, the inextricable interweaving of plot, character, setting, and all other aspects - but I can't stand actually reading the books. By necessity for the point he is trying to make, they are somewhat dull - not much happens. While that makes for fascinating conceptual discussion, scouring the book for relevant quotes becomes arduous beyond belief. I think that's what started to wear my enjoyment of literature thin.

You know, for me this is pretty much spot on. I really should pick one of the half dozen stories I want to write and actually WRITE IT!

Halo said
Kafka, right? I've wanted to read that for a very long time - I watched a speechless dance-theatre version of it done by the Royal Opera House here in the UK, and it was just incredible. I'm guessing you would recommend it, then?Well, this a roleplaying site after all... I think we all love writing, here. 'Tis a wonderful thing.

It's brilliant, truly.

I would highly recommend it. It's not very long. You could read it in a day if you have more motivation than I do.

I need to get back into reading more. I used to be a voracious reader, finishing a 400+ page novel every week or two, and I haven't been able to sit down with a book for more than half an hour at a time the past few months. I should reread some of my favorites to get my drive back.

Try The Slab if you like game fiction books. Or perhaps the Sundering or even Rise of Nagash. I am not even halfway in that one...

I'ma agree with you guys about writing.

I should really start my book....

Ehh. I like to read, but I can't stand trying to analyze what the writer's ideas or meanings are. I simply just don't care. I want to read for the story, that's it.

Goldmarble said
Ehh. I like to read, but I can't stand trying to analyze what the writer's ideas or meanings are. I simply just don't care. I want to read for the story, that's it.

I had this argument with my teacher once. They didn't understand what I meant when some stories don't have meanings other than to be enjoyed.