>>510418780It's kinda funny to read an incel write about being an incel desu.
Like he wrote a scifi about his personal experience but pretended he was the Buddha, Fucking funny as shit.
I don't think it's self aware.
>>510418559This books globohomo as fuck, but a lot of schools have banned it
>>510418472 (OP)I particularly hated The Alchemist. I could not spend a chapter without almost falling asleep.
I grew up in a super white, low SES, rural area. There was no globohomo where I lived.
Ethan Frome was the worst book I've ever read.
Kite Runner. "Brown child am sad", the book.
>>510418559>believe women
>>510418959Why, because it says "nigger"? kek
>>510418472 (OP)I read that book about that kid that got abused by his mother when I was in middle school. Shit was fucked.
I beat you all. My highschool had a class called Holocaust Literature.
It was introduced into the curriculum and taught by Mrs Feldman. I am not joking.
This shit made me suspicious when I was reading it.
>>510419247My kid was telling that was the reason, mostly because students were overly enthusiastic about saying nigger out loud
>>510419405That makes it even better kek
>>510418472 (OP)I read this literally 20 years ago, why is it globohomo
>>510419346We had to pre debunk holocaust denier talking points in AP history as like the first assignment when we got to WWII
>>510419400I remember reading Farewell to Manzanar after reading Night and all I could think was the jap bitch was such a cry baby.
>Aii ya! I have to eat rice with peaches on top! You can't do that! Japanese don't mix sweet with rice! This is terrible!>Aii ya! The bathroom toilets don't have stall doors! Japanese can't pee with people around!Meanwhile the kike has to do some unpaid labor for several years but deals with it.
>>510418472 (OP)Peoples History of United States by Howard Zinn
Even as a kid this pissed me off
>>510419400i had to read this shit multiple times between elementary, middle, and high school
>>510419546Niggers are all virtuous salt of the earth.
Whites are all paranoid militants
>>510419801This is one of a few kid books that my wife and I had to sit down our daughter and really talk about.
Oh and who could forget this fucking shit too?
>>510419893All I remembered was baseball and the kid untying a knot, maybe I'll reread it.
>>510419973The TV movie is even more globalhomo.
>>510419400God he's such a fucking lying kike it's unreal
I remember reading this and shit like "The Boy In The Striped Pajamas", thinking back it's insanity they made kids read such jewish drivel during their most informative years
Your "education" isn't, it's programming
>and then he got gayraped lol
Came out of nowhere. The teachers definitely wouldn't have put it on the reading list if there wasn't rape in it. If you want Iranian literature, why not just do a chiller story?
>spends so much time building up the back and forth relationship between the geisha and the burned scar man
>think it's gonna be about learning to love someone not pretty but still is good on the inside
>jk the tall american blonde chad she was pining after since forever is the real endgame
>ending is him whisking her away to america
Westernized trash
>>510419926That was a good book, go fuck yourself.
>>510419546Globohomo was arguably worse 20 years ago because it had no name and was harder to identify.
>>510419378>Set in communist "utopia" that has gotten rid of everything that could possibly cause people to not be equal, even the ability to see color>MC gets assigned to be the one person allowed to have memories of what life was like before, begins to realize it's all horrible and soulless>Big plot twist is when MC realizes they kill people who are inconvenient, mostly old people but sometimes babies>Ends with him escapingSeems pretty anti-globohomo to me.
>>510420948because the fish is a nigger
>>510421494I havenโt read it
>>510419625Fuck you.
This is easily one of the top ten English novels of all time.
Maybe I was just lucky but we read:
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings
That was Then, This is Now
Go Ask Alice
None of which seemed to promote globohomo. If anything, it really made me see that fighting against that type of power made you a happier person. Just having convictions and sticking to them made me feel like most of the people I was around in school were vapid and incapable of critical thought.
>>510419893I remember there being shitbags on both sides and not knowing which was which color.
>>510418472 (OP)some girls diary
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>>510422490This gay shit too
>>510419625best book of all time, if you think its about capitalism you missed the point, its the american dream.
>>510418472 (OP)I hated that fucking book, and im not even white
>>510418472 (OP)Night by Elie Weasel. The worst holocaust fiction ever produced
>>510419053I heard students from other English classes talk about Ethan Frome and that book sounded stupid as shit. Then again, I think writers like D.H. Lawrence and Charles Dickens fucking suck, so what do I know. I only have a degree from one of the best universities for comparative literature in the entire country, and I come on here to bitch about the niggers that live near me, and women having voting rights.
i made it through high school without ever reading an entire book :)
>>510418472 (OP)Does anyone here know that book that has a character in it called Ajax? It was about a coming of age story about summer camp and the boy called Ajax smelled of urine.
I only remember bits of it but I remember it being very subversive.
God i hope you all burn in fucking hell
>>510422907Which university?
>>510422907>Then again, I think writers like D.H. Lawrence and Charles Dickens fucking suck, so what do I know.When Great Expectations came out it was so popular you could call it the Harry Potter of its time. I found it so boring I can't even remember most of it. I'd say the same of almost every other book I've read from the 19th Century. What was up with people back then?
>>510421578It's one of the first, if not THE first, modernist novel of notoriety. Read/watch Hemmingway's speech when he accepted the Nobel prize for literature: Fitzgerald did something very new, but it's not the best, and I don't think I'd say it makes the top ten of novels written in English. It doesn't mean he's not an artistic genius for writing it. The fact that this was written 5 years after finishing This Side of Paradise, which was essentially an American Elizabethan novel, is fucking ridiculous.
I will acknowledge that he's literally who comes to mind when you say "great American novel," and there are many others I prefer to him (sorry to be a pedantic shithead).
>>510419707What high school did you go to? Even in the early 2000s that is introductory level history in college
>>510422532The gentiles are pigs in that one too. Would you rather be a pig or a cat to the jewrats?
>>510423120Sarah Lawrence, probably.
>>510423152His books were released one chapter at a time in the newspaper, and he was paid by word. That's why all of his books are so drawn out and boring, they're mostly padding.
>>510423004I just looked up Holes to check. That wasn't it. Thanks though. I got the equivalent of an ear worm about that book with Ajax in it. I think my subconscious is trying to tell me something related to that book and that piss smelling Ajax character. But I can't remember what its called or much else about it. I remember reading it as a kid in school made me feel disturbed.
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>>510418472 (OP)All the bullshit I had to read from grade through middle school put me off from reading
They are all depressing, miserable books in addition to being preachy
Didn't even discover the Lord of the Rings series until high school
>>510423286I understand it's an obvious choice, but it's absolutely the obvious choice for a lot of strong reasons.
Curious what your favorite American novels are, in any case.
My taste in literature is kind of basic.
>>510423152I just chalk it up to Dostoyevsky not being translated very well. Dickens is a hack writer. I really do think people call "chick lit" that, because women are incapable of being aesthetes. They simply have no taste. It's like how most movies or television is complete dogshit today.
>>510423424That was by design, anon. Kikes got to read fun books.
>>510419242>>believe womenUm, excuse me sweaty. Believe ALL women. You're welcome.
>>510423424>They are all depressing, miserable books in addition to being preachyYeah in elementary school I joked the ones with the Caldicott Award or whatever the fuck stamped on the cover had gotten them because the judges felt sorry for them, and then in freshman year of high school I asked the English teacher why everything we read was so gloomy and depressing. Then I found online Nazi literature including a fictional story about a guy in Mississippi shooting all the niggers in his school, now that was uplifting for little me.
>>510423289>What high school did you go to? Even in the early 2000s that is introductory level history in collegeNot that anon but I went to a private school in Virginia, and we had Zinn's book, but the teacher also had us read Paul Johnson's A History of the American People
He would always refer to it as "Paul Johnson"
This was AP history though
>>510423559The story of Crime and Punishment is the worth the trip if you like novels either way. Itโs a perfect story for the modern world and so many people could learn a lot from the story of Raskolnikov and his want to do good as an โexceptional manโ
I never was forced to read anything, but I always enjoyed reading. My kids are homeschooled, this is one of the books I put in the curriculum.
>>510423765Mike? Is that you?
>>510423910>Kafka goes to a trailer parkSeems kino
>>510418559I came here to post this.
>>510419378This one is actually kind based though. I guess it depends on your views on Christianity references in the later parts.
>>510418472 (OP)>anon, read this book about christcuck mythology (Gil Vicente's Autos)No.
>anon, read this book about christcuck mythology and portuguese wanking (Lusiadas)No.
>anon, read this book about rich aryans being le ebil, the rich aryan MC romancing a prostitute by hiring her, then battling his sister over inheritance, then everything he does for a living fails and everybody around him dies, and then MC dies pathetically (Machado de Assis' Memรณrias Pรณstumas)No.
>anon, read this book about men being evil because they kill wives who cheat, also MC is aryan and cheated by his best friend (Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro)No.
>anon, read this book about racism being le bad and how aryans are le ebil, or this other one about racism bad, faggotry being treated as something normal and aryans abandoning their families for nigger pussy (Aluisio Azevedo's O Mulato and O Cortiรงo, respectively)No.
>i-if you don't read them and present me a summary, I'll make you repeat the grade!Nah, just gonna search for 3 summaries on each work on the internet and make a summary out of them. Must be so easy now that ChatGPT is available, lol.
Half of our writers are either sons of whores, niggers, or proto-leftists aka christcucks, and they appear in history right after republicucks dismantle our Empire. There's few good authors in this shithole.
A few good brazilian works that I know of and the faggot leftist nigger loving teachers wouldn't recommend us to read:
>a book rightfully shittalking the shitskins up north while also bashing republicucks (Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertรตes)>Olavo Bilac's poems
itt litmus test for reading comprehension
I had to read some book about a black kid from South Africa and then write a report on it so I read a couple of pages and stopped because it was nonsense. in my report I wrote South Africa was great when white people ran it then came along Nelson Mandela blowing up people in restaurants and now blacks run the place and it's a dangerous shit hole so I'm glad I live in Scotland where there is virtually no black people. I remember refusing to accept the belt so they suspended me for a week. I never apologised and told the head teacher that he was a traitor to our country and he had no idea how much I despised him. He was foaming at the mouth in anger I then offered him a square go which he bottled out of. I learned a valuable lesson that day which is traitors like that guy are weak
>>510418472 (OP)Animal Farm (socialism is bad okay?! It just is!)
Death of a Salesman (capitalism is bad okay?! It just is!)
>>510419357Explain how 1984 is globohomo
>>510424149>Animal Farm (socialism is bad okay?! It just is!)midwit take
>>510424118Who knew people that primarily communicate with each other over a message board in plain text could be fans of literature. Imagine that.
>>510424118Huh? What that means?
>>510423860Japanese mid-century modernists also hit that vibe very well, and I say that having to make it clear I think Haruki Murakami is a shit writer--at least per his translations. Kobo Abe is a favorite of mine, along with Taeko Kลno. Ennui and a kind of shifting foundation feeling comes through really well from them. Obviously, the time period was very different.
Will say that the hopefulness and redemption of Raskolnikov seems flat today, but I think that's because of how the world is--and how women are.
>>510420568That's a book about "Kissin' Kate Barlow" a white woman who fucks a nigger.
Heart of Darkness - goyim children are evil and without authority you'll descend into barbarity okay?!
The Jungle - Americans exploit foreign immigrants and capitalism is disgusting okay???!!!
A Raisin in the Sun - nigga muh dik shit nigga bitch cracka
>>510424320>How the world isDark but prescient. I loved 1q84. It was like a Ghibli movie about autists finding love with each other through having sex with other people. It was bizarrely charming
>>510422907>I only have a degree from one of the best universities for comparative literature in the entire countryAnd you think that gives you credibility or something?
>>510419625Them casting spiderman as the narrator for the film was actually a good choice.
>>510424216Americans are so afraid of socialism that you look like a 3rd world shithole at this point. No health care, no education, poor quality food, no children being born because no government support for families.
>>510419400The part where the Germans threw jewish babies into the air for machine gun practice snowballed me into holocaust denial.
>>510424608>rustytrombone.gif
>>510423965I'm not Mike but I'm not surprised there's a similar story out there.
>>510424084>a book rightfully shittalking the shitskins up north while also bashing republicucks (Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertรตes)>Olavo Bilac's poemsCool, thanks.
>>510424608Itโs absurdist fiction. It comes off as almost vaudevillian
>>510418472 (OP)Of course all the fucking Holocaust books they shoved down our throats but there was also so many boring brown stories no one cares about like the House on Mango Street. Picrel is one I remember that was at least pretty well written and memorable. Written by a Jewish guy ofc
>>510419700>Meanwhile the kike has to do some unpaid labor for several years but deals with it.least believable aspect. and that book was a riot. i think everyone lowkey had a chuckle.
>Frindle
I sincerely blame this faggot enabling literature for telling kids they can shoehorn memes into lexicon. Never should've been given that nugget of information, now there's faggots pushing their tranny delusions in schools.
Were any of you assigned this?
>>510425168Everyone was. It was "teenage angst: the book"
>>510425041my sincerest contrafibularities
>>510425168Nah. Read it in summer school along with A Clockwork Orange to fulfill a reading assignment.
>>510418472 (OP)i had to read Lord of the Flies, and for some reason, it made my dick hard
>>510418559boo bradley did nothing wrong
>>510425332if lots of shirtless children on an island makes your dick hard, wait until you read donald trumps memoir
long story short those newbery medals have an RFID chip in them and if you ever read one when you were little you are still being monitored to day
>>510418472 (OP)Of all the drek, 100 Years of Solitude and The Alchemist were more offensive for being mid.
>>510425549You knew you were getting pozz'd shit when you saw a Jewbery Medal.
>>510424212Itโs a poorly rewritten version of Trotskyโs The Revolution Betrayed, saturated with a feeble and overwrought anti-totalitarian sentiment.
>>510419707AP history. Fuck this literal communist slop
>>510419546its not this entire thread is just racist cope. believe it or not most people dont spend the rest of their lives sitting around shitposting on 4chin wondering if they are being fooled by a jewish conspiracy. they just live their lives and are happier for it
>>510425168No I read it over a summer where the public library had a program where you wrote down all the books you read and got a prize or something, I read Lord of the Flies the same way. Doesn't the guy who "helps" the main character molest him or something? This is why I just read the Bible nowadays.
>>510424432I know what an appeal to authority fallacy is, and you're right about that. Then again, you ever get a tenured professor who got their doctorate at Yale take you under their wing because they thought you were a talented academic writer?
Name your five favorite literary fiction books or you can suck my dick.
>>510419378this is christian anti-communist at best
>>510418780> ends with native american man an hero'd because of how fucking JUSTed globohomo society is>>510419053yes, regardless of political affiliation, it still makes no sense as part of high school "canon" it's just an awful awful piece of literature
>>510419400at least they had us read All Quiet on the Western Front to balance this shit out
>>510419625if you can't appreciate this, you might be an NPC or underageb&
>>510419801>>510419921kek
>>510421494>>510421529>>510420948It was the other fish who wanted gibs. It's about forced sharing. Rainbow Fish wasn't accepted by his peers because he was vain and refused to give away aspects of himself that he was proud of (his beautiful rainbow scales). Eventually he ends up sharing his rainbow scales so every fish has one and he's not unique anymore. He has to dull his shine and literally give away parts of himself to make the others look good. The moral of the story is that one likes you if youโre special, and if you keep bending to their whims theyโll go on to ask you for more favors kek.
This is one of my favourite books to read to small children.
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>>510425574With the exception of Cortazar and Borges, magical realism always seemed retarded to me. If anyone has good recommendations I'd love to hear them.
Sorry, I only read fist of the north star and berserk. Everything else is gay.
The Wayside School books were awesome, I remember really appreciating the absurd humor as a kid
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Nobody actually read any of the books assigned in school. How would you complete a dissertation on something you were given 2 weeks to read, where in-class reading days consisted of some mouthbreather picked to read aloud at 10 words per minute.
Most of my schooling was just jeets cheating and tyquarious throwing chairs, forcing the bar to be impossibly raised or lowered simultaneously for everyone else desu
>>510419625This anon plays his DS in public.
>>510425041people said reading this one felt like doing a ritual of somesort. wish i had a .pdf so i can see what adult me would think, there's gotta be stuff hidden in there.
>>510425168it was a fun enough read.
>>510425549>newbery medals have an RFID chip in themSURE WHY THE HELL NOT, i'll believe just about anything these days.
>>510418472 (OP)I remember I had to read that play about the kid who fucked a horse. Donโt remember anything about it other than that.
>>510426491The one with naked harry potter?
>>510426290Juan Rulfo is the mad wizard in this genre. Borges is somewhere there as well. Others are meeh.
>>510426575Bulgarians are always my favorite posters on this board. Thanks man, I'll check him out.
>>510426370Those kids on the top floor must've had treetrunk legs from climbing that shit every time recess ended.
>>510426527No fucking clue what youโre on about. Donโt remember anything but the horsefucking, which was couched in symbolic terms as riding bareback naked. Pretty obvious in hindsight, but I just thought it was weird and dumb back then. Equus.
>>510419700Meanwhile the Japanese have a dessert that's literally called Mango Sticky Rice
>>510426726Yes that one, Daniel Radcliffe did it
>>510424212/pol/ wants to live in a judaic-marxist totalitarian global world order
>>510426758>rice with peaches on top
>>510423419I'm pretty sure there's a minor character in Holes called Ajax. Otherwise long shot but maybe one of those Among the Brave books?
>>510426425https://bayanbox.ir/view/2959660441211987084/Andrew-Clements-Frindle.pdf
>>510426370>The Wayside School booksi remember the weird woman with the third ear on top of her head who wanted to toss a baby out the window, and the author's blatant self-insert was the school janitor, and he got with 3 ear lady.
and all the bad guy teachers had repto reverso names. he probably knew...
>>510423765>Nazi literature including a fictional story about a guy in Mississippi shooting all the niggers in his schoolSauce
>>510419653>>510419346Gotta give the kikes credit, their propaganda machine worked like a well oiled machine
I remember kids in school saying we should have genocided the Germans after learning about the holomeme
Meanwhile we all had German last names because its the Midwest and our grandparents all still spoke German
>>510425549>>510425673Of the Newberry books we "had" to read in class, My Side of the Mountain was based and got me interested in self-reliance and survivalism. I thought all of the sketches and diagrams of his shelters and traps in it were cool too
Presumably everyone knows that JD Salenger had a very large hooknose?
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>>510424889I got away with only having to read Number the Stars but it still makes me mad even though I ignored all the nazi stuff and just jacked off to the scenes of the girls cuddling in bed.
>>510426940thanks a bunch good anon friend! o7
>>510426425Now that you mention it, when our teacher read it to us he changed the main character's name so that he would have the same name as a kid in our class and the name of the school so that it would be the same school as ours. I wonder if he got instructions for that at a teacher's workshop to really drill it into our heads?
>>510425576I threw up reading that
It was fun saying nigger every other sentence at least
>>510425895Sounds like something a PHONY would say.
>>510427018My Side is based. Even if a woman wrote it, she is one of the very few that understood a boys desire to live alone and test oneself. Julie of the Wolves was bleh though.
The people in this book all have brain implants to connect to the internet.
>>510418472 (OP)had to read this piece of shit twice
>>510426862You mean jewish shills
>>510418472 (OP)This one's a classic.
Older Anons might recall the jew, Pierre Salinger, who was a fixture on the ABC Talmudvision network for decades upon decades.
>>5104243921Q84 is relaxing. I just think that he relies too much on tone without any commitment to meaning. I dropped The Wind Up Bird Chronicle somewhere near 50 pages before the end, and I got through about half of The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki. I like that affectation, but I think it gets cold when it's modern. It's like an inversion of what Bertolt Brecht said about narrative: (I'm not quoting verbatim) you shouldn't feel any sense of resolve or release from a narrative that should be inspiring you to enact triumph. Similarly, some narratives and writers make you feel a kind of kinship based on the world without putting in the effort to inspire hope.
For whatever reason, I sort of liked Norwegian Wood, but I was in college at the time and working a shitty job dealing with depression, so it was like being an angsty kid reading The Catcher in the Rye and being in love with a girl you see dating other kids. I read it later and I hated nearly everything about it. I just assume a lot of cultural and historic information come into it that make it difficult to really "land" with me.
>>510426904They're straight up lying
>>510423910why does this kid's book look like a Cannibal Corpse album
>>510421345>Seems pretty anti-globohomo to me.It's very anti-globohomo, but the presence of Christianity in any positive light causes the soulless mulatto la creaturas that populate this board to break out in hives.
>>510427688most christikes are shitskins and so are you
>>510419625Did you even read it?
>Gatsby's backer was a jew gangster who fixed the 1919 world series>Entire rich playboy persona was an act to impress a girl>Old money families were flawed but understood their role in society>You can't buy class
>>510422907>I have a degree!That makes you less credible than everyone else in this thread, retard.
>>510425902>no seriously, you don't understand, a jew at the university wanted to groom me specifically!You're hemorrhaging credibility with every cope post you make. Go make an OP about it so you can finish transforming into the worlds most massive faggot.
>>510419926THIS book, however, was complete jew shit
>>510418472 (OP)Push harder, OP. I'll certainly will kill my childhood friend cause of a book.
>>510419926>>510426370Earlier book by the same author, this one's about giving up your childhood dreams and uniqueness (and inner voice) to be a good goycattle consoomer, all for a whiff of pussy.
>>510427875Fug I remember reading that, and strongly disliking it.
>>510427817Name your five good novels (without including gay porn erotica).
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This and Diary of Anne Frank
The jew propaganda was in full swing
>>510426370There is no 19th floor.
There is no Ms. Zarves.
>>510427652>They're straight up lyingOf course they are, most information about atrocities in World War II didn't exist until 20 years after the war ended. No one even spoke of a "holocaust" until Elie Wiesel published 'Night' in 1960.
All the information on nip internment camps was also fabricated, they just made it the fuck up for their sensationalist novels. If anyone called them out on it, they would hide under the label of "historically inspired" or "inspired by real/true stories."
>>510427748>laugh at subhuman shitskins who hate Christ>memeflag immediately appears as though summonedGod loves white people and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it, you shit-eating subhuman.
>>510427931What part of "you're a gaylord niggerfuck shabbos goy" do you not understand, retard? Nobody gives a shit about your certificate that authenticates your brainwashing.
>nooo, nooo, you have to respect my appeals to authority! I'm an authority respect meeee>name what you like so I can shit on iiiitThe 'traditional' definition of a novel includes the presumption of realism, or at least an attempt at realism. As such, the overwhelming majority of "novels" suck donkey dick, because they're uninspired trash written by boring people and communist jews. The ability to write is the ability to go anywhere and do anything: why would anyone with any amount of genuine creative ability or artistic spirit constrain themselves in such a way, when they could be doing literally anything else? That's like choosing to paint but only in greyscale, because you think colors are inherently immature.
Most of the best modern literature comes from children's books or young adult novels, because certain authors are very racist and embed those themes into their works.
To prove a point, I'll name three. None are novels, because I spit on your faggot ivy league elitism. It was invented by whiny jews trying to insist that their globohomo propaganda pieces were the pinnacle of literature, and I do not respect it.
>The Adventures of Tom Swift, in particular the originals by Edward Stratemeyer>The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, who is extremely racist and depicts his demons exclusively as niggers and jews>The Boxcar Children, because fuck the fed and fuck paying taxesI'm not giving you five examples because you're still clinging to the idea that your degree is worth fucking anything. Grovel on the ground and admit your education was a waste of time if you want more than this out of me, because as it stands, you're a waste of time to talk to. I don't debate pseuds, and anyone who simps for universities and the modern education system is a massive pseud.
We had to read this....I kid you not. By far, the most degenerate, neurotic, arrested-development trash ((literature))) I ever read. By (((JD Salinger))) btw. Frankly, even the Marquis de Sade was more insightful and less tawdry.
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I chose my books you stupid ass niggers. Gifted Sigma Privilege. fuck out my face
>>510424520I dont remember seeing Toby in any movie where he didnt steal the show completely. Superman, seabiscuit, Gatsby..hell even tropic thunder
>>510430307you had zero assigned reading? you stupid faggot ass nigger.
>>510431184>you had zero assigned reading? you stupid faggot ass nigger.Not him, but all assigned reading we conducted in class, at least in my school. If we were "assigned" reading we were basically allowed to choose whatever book we wanted. Presumably because my school was still run by white Christian men who gave a shit at the time, and they didn't want children to grow to hate reading because some delusional ivy league retard forced them to read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.
Even that wasn't a perfect system, though. I remember having to do a book report on Moby Dick, and foolish child that I was, I gave an honest review. Which is that the book was interesting, but Melville obviously needed a good editor, because there were large sections of the book that ran on without any real point, and that this is provably true since there are entire chapters that could be skipped to no detriment to the story, or even to the notice of the reader.
This so greatly offended my English teacher that he docked me two full letter grades and gave me a C+, even though my paper was perfect in every other way.
That was my first lesson in why academics care about their egos far more than the truth. Ironically, when I became an adult and was far more learned, I found out that Melville ALSO thought Moby Dick dragged on excessively, and was in desperate need of editing, and that it was his personal friends at the time who insisted it be published in it's raw and rambling state, "for the atmosphere."
So I was right, in the end. Herman would have agreed with me.
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>>510418472 (OP)> The young hero of this compassionate and realistic novel is Boris, a twelve-year-old Russian who lives through the 500 days of the Germain siege of Leningrad in 1942. One day he and his friend Nadia, who is fourteen, meet a German patrol in a potato field where they have been foraging for food. Expecting to meet death at the hands of the enemy, they find to their surprise that the enemy soldiers are as weary, hungry and tired as they are, and the children are allowed to return home, unmolested. This strange meeting changes Boris' whole outlook on the war and sets him on the road to manhood. In spite of further trials and hardship, Boris is eventually able to forgive the enemy and, in a courageous gesture, he exemplifies the redeeming spirit of mankind.
>>510420948>>510425059It's pretty much like the other Anon says. To keep it brief, I pretty much told her not to sacrifice the things that make her unique for the benefit of others and to not feel bad rejecting people who beg for your things and use guilt to ply you.
>>510432262>Even that wasn't a perfect system, though. I remember having to do a book report on Moby Dick, and foolish child that I was, I gave an honest review. Which is that the book was interesting, but Melville obviously needed a good editor, because there were large sections of the book that ran on without any real point, and that this is provably true since there are entire chapters that could be skipped to no detriment to the story, or even to the notice of the reader. fucking based, moby dick is not a character study or allegory it is a sci fi book about whaling and how americas industry is fueled by it
>>510418472 (OP)Does Shakespeare count as Globohomo? Brave New World? Jonathan Swift?
I'm old guys, shit old
Amazing how this piece of shit inspired Dune. Worst book I was ever forced to read.
>>510432456>It's pretty much like the other Anon says. To keep it brief, I pretty much told her not to sacrifice the things that make her unique for the benefit of others and to not feel bad rejecting people who beg for your things and use guilt to ply you.The Rainbow Fish is a book that exists to convince white kids that it's moral to let niggers and jews rob and molest you until nothing remains. That you're not allowed to be pretty or proud of yourself, and that anything that makes you special and unique is evil unless you communistically redistribute it out to every underserving subhuman taker around you.
I have no proof that Marcus Pfister is a kike, his private life is obscure and his surname isn't unusual in Switzerland. But that being said, his ears are VERY low on his skull.
>>510432814its a ripp off of the ugly duckling
>>510429105You wrote five paragraphs because you can't read between the lines. Do us all a favor and throw your computer into a lake.
>>510418559this book taught me the terminology "niggerlover", so it was good for that at least
>>510432262your wall of text also drags on forever and is in dire need of editing buddy
Well I know FOR SURE this shit is globohomo
>>510432931>You wrote five paragraphs because you can't read between the lines. Do us all a favor and throw your computer into a lake.You're still not groveling or admitting your academic jewification was worthless, niggerfaggot. What was the point of your gay-ass degree if you can't even follow basic instructions?
>tell the pseud you're not going to take him seriously until he renounces his pseud-dom>he accuses you of failing to understand, like the slimy deflecting kike he got his fancy piece of toilet paper fromReal pseud hours out here tonight.
>>510433082>your wall of text also drags on forever and is in dire need of editing buddyAsk me how I know you're an ESL turk who hasn't been on this website longer than 5 years.
>>510418472 (OP)this is the slop they give now
"all but my life"
>waahhh we all got the shits.
>waahhh i was rescued but my friends died of stravation"
such vivid memories for such vivid lies.
Got failed from English because my essays were all racist, and for some reason that makes them score 0 in every category.
I regret nothing
Globohomo books summed up
>moralistic
>contrived
>pseudo-history
Take any historical event, reverse what actually occurred, make that the moral.
The George floyde of books
>>510433401Two of my favorite guy managers I ever had were destroyed this way. There was this really based black guy that our black cunt manager claimed was sexually harassing her and they beleived her and got him canned.
So I followed her home one night, parked down the street, waited about 20 minutes, than drove by and cracked my door open and shoved a steak knife into her tires. I did this three more times over the next few months.
I loved hearing her cry about having to spend 600 on a whole new set of tires. It was petty but worth it.
>>510433579And what do you do for work now sar?
>>510433880You shouldnt intervene in the affairs of niggers anon
>>510418472 (OP)We got a lot of rape books for some reason. This was 2008-2012 so idk if that matters. But there was Scarlet Letter, Speak, shit like that. Obviously we had the mandatory Holocaust shit - Anne Franke, Night, etc.
>>510424212He's a conservative MIGA, books like this are considered "woke" now
>>510420402I distinctly remember my english teacher admonishing me for saying I didn't know they considered it rape in arab countries, since I thought they were all gay.
>>510425041My librarian tried to get kids to read this one. I didn't though because I thought the cover art was gay.
>>510418472 (OP)while the stupid jews were prescribing this absolute horseshit along with the rest of the faggot propaganda ITT, I was reading Tom Clancy
flew right under the nose of heebstein, they thought i didn't know kek
>>510418472 (OP)They shilled this in school like she was the modern day anne frank, she doesnt even die ffs
>>510423075>NOT MY HECKIN GAY BOOKARINOS!!
>>510418472 (OP)It's about a girl who goes back in time to experience the Holocaust.
>>510428208Try James Clavell's King Rat.
I read the book before I knew who Clavell was.
Once I was an adult, and had read many more novels by Clavell, I revisited the book with the knowledge that Clavell had actually been IN the camp he wrote the story about.
The man was a POW in a Changi Japanese labor camp when the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan and wrote a story that was half fantasy and half truth. I'm sure the descriptions of their living conditions and treatment were true, and the fiction part was the King fantasy of a man playing the trading game to provide the prisoners a better quality of life in their confinement.
>>510434149He's a pajeet you stupid bitch just like you
>>510422532This graphic novel was egregious, americans are dogs, poles are pigs, french are frogs, british people are totally left out but they show up in 1 panel as fish driving a jeep. He should have at least had the humility to make the mice rats instead.
>>510425691Correct me if I'm wrong but are you left wing
>>510432262Melville spewed stream of consciousness thoughts for a novel and whoever was supposed to tell him "Hey, let's not go on an endless rant about the sneaky glimmer in the eyes of a savage in the dark that is supposed to be asleep but is or is not winking at you in the dark is not conducive to storytelling" didn't happen. Instead, all of Melville's drunken memories are shoveled into a book and counted as being a story.
I enjoyed the tale of hatred, revenge, and ultimate self destruction for what it was.
We didn't need three paragraphs detailing Queequeg's asscrack tattoos and their significance.
>>510424212It's not. Anons just a retarded kid that learned about the book and thought it applied to the thread.
>>510419926STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY GLOBOHOMO LIKES THIS SO MUCH. IS IT BECAUSE THERE IS NO MESSAGE AND READING IT IS AN UNEQUIVOCAL WASTE OF TIME? IT'S NOT EVEN BAD JUST UTTERLY WORTHLESS.
>>510434149You're a fucking retard with zero clue about the book you speak of.
Can you even spell the name of the author of without googling it?
>>510418780This is a very on the bus prediction and critique of globohomo
>>510418559Her second one was even worse when Scout goes to College. The biggest twist was finding out Boo Radley was actually white.
>>510419926I didn't dislike it. Sideways Stories from Wayside School (same author) was better though. Sammy was a dead rat.
Genuinely the worst most jewish piece of dog shit fantasy fetish writing Iโve ever encountered. I hate this book.
>>510419872>gay taffs with full-blown AIDS>republican themesSounds fucking awful, mate.
>>510427748There's the jew
>>510418780Brave New World is exactly the opposite of globohomo propaganda.
You might call it predictive programming but you are not supposed to agree with anything in that book.
Even the "noble savages" are retards. And the spawn of miscegenation between the modern society and the old kills himself because he realizes that he does not belong anywhere in the world.
>>510432931Academia is a worthless blight on society and you're being a faggot. You're not even making a point, someone just said they didn't like a book and you went: "Yeah, I heard that book sucked but would I know I just have a worthless degree from a worthless school." then you've been trying to suck yourself off by going on and on about it. I'm almost certain you're a jew
>>510428064The worst part is they put a blonde girl on the cover instead of the ugly jew cretin itself. I suppose kids would've sided with the National Socialists if they had
1984
Portrait of the artist as a young man
Hamlet
Romeo & Juliet
Anthony & Cleopatra
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Wuthering Heights
To the Lighthouse
Hawksmoor
Pride & Prejudice
The Ice Cream War
Our Country's Good
A Doll's House
I must be forgetting some modern drama and prose here tbqh.
Overall I enjoyed nearly all of it. Hawksmoor is about ritual satanic sacrifice so might be the most globohomo (just kidding, that would be Our Country's Good about convicts in Australia and Imperialism etc)
>>510427667That's exactly what came to mind kek
>>510440367How did I forget Heart of Darkness?
Also our English teacher showed us a bootleg copy of A Clockwork Orange when it was still banned in the UK (admittedly by Kubrick himself rather than the censors).
>>510436774That reminds me they made us watch some stupid movie about a kid that doesn't think the Holocaust is a big deal and in it he gets transported back on tome and gets gassed at Auschwitz.
I'm going to just straight up raise my children to believe the Holocaust is fake and that all jews are evil. This stuff needs to start at home
>>510418780IRL they zap gay twins here, to create the beta sex slaves. All the cucks and faggots hate me, because I got zapped and I am not gay.
>>510437821It teaches you racism bad, interracial good, gypsy good, and White people evil.
>>510440367What's wrong with any of the shakespeare ones? Romeo and Juliet could maybe be interpreted as promoting miscegenation ig.
not a book, but we watched this in my German Lessons.
>>510423910I enjoyed that stupid book more than I should have
>>510424212Itโs an examination of how socialism was being corrupted and cooped by totalitarian regimes with no sense of irony, forethought, or introspection completely missing the real world evidence that suggests that all socialist societies eventually fall into totalitarianism as a default because of the mandate the temporary government has of absolute market and social control before the socialist utopia is born and the erroneous idea of class theory being applied to the world at all since itโs not an accurate description of the relationship between classes or their relationship with work
>we just need to try pure socialism harderThe book
>>510419926Did the cover art change?
>>510418472 (OP)Some whiny book against old Le Pen, found it the other day and it was written by a kike, very funny.
>>510426425>people said reading this one felt like doing a ritual of somesort. wish i had a .pdf so i can see what adult me would think, there's gotta be stuff hidden in there.Oh yes...I think you mean this...Joe Atwill. His piece is fucking genius
n fact, among the assassins purportedly in possession of Catcher in the Rye were three of
the most famous in history . Mark David Chapman, after he had shot and killed John
Lennon, calmly opened his copy of Catcher in the Rye and proceeded to read it before
being apprehended. John Hinckley was also carrying the book while attempting to kill
Ronald Reagan. It is alleged that Lee Harvey Oswald had a copy in his apartment and that
it was one of his favorite books, though this is disputed.
https://archive.org/stream/JOEATWILLTheFreemasonInTheRye/JOE+ATWILL+-+The+Freemason+in+the+Rye+_djvu.txt
>>510430030>We had to read this....I kid you not. By far, the most degenerate, neurotic, arrested-development trash ((literature))) I ever read. By (((JD Salinger))) btw. Frankly, even the Marquis de Sade was more insightful and less tawdry.Jerome Salinger also likes young girls...look into Camp X-ray and how many guys from there went into entertainment after WW2
>>510419422You have to understand how utterly fragile Jews, non white and white wimp egos are. It doesn't matter of those books are pushing a "Not all niggers," narrative. It's that anyone reminded the niggers THAT they were niggers that really hurts. Such people never got over the painful reality of not being white Chad or Stacy and they can't tolerate anything that reminds them of it. They don't want to be pitied. They want to be something they can never be. And if they can't have that, they will settle for the complete destruction of everything white.
>>510432784Dune (coon) is just Islam in space.
>>510419274Child called it? I used to bring that to school and show everyone the page where she burns him on the stove lol. I think the book also said "fuck" which i had bookmarked to show off
>>510442270Worse. It's just the retelling of this Mahdi prophecy and teens lost in Africa.
>>510419801Why the fuck did this book get an animated series.
>>510418472 (OP)>what if small town america, but le evil!!
>>510427163That vaguely tickles a memory. Tell me more.
This entire thread just reminded me the surest way to get me to hate a book is to have me dissect it rather than read it
>>510418472 (OP)I was Mars for Halloween fr
>>510419400This book is what made me realize the whole thing is a lie, specifically the part where German soldiers throw a baby through the air and use it for target practice.
>>510443808>US soldiers in prison TODAY for brutalizing foreign civilians.>"I don't believe soldiers would do that."Wake up, anon.
>>510418472 (OP)Not in high school but I got tricked into reading atlas shrugged recently. Overrated piece of garbage
>>510418472 (OP)This gay shit was on my 4th grade reading list.
>>510443930Americans do not have the Geist that the Germans have though
>>510430307Is that book version good? I watched the Amazon Prime series and although it had "nazis le bad" undertone in it, it was still quite good. The ending was quite nonsensical and seemed like they were suddenly in a hurry to wrap it up, but otherwise it was great
>>510444170that book made me sad :(
>>510419378this book was depressing, but basically a good message about where society is going. in the story everyone takes drugs to repress their sexuality. when the MC first has a dream about a naked girl, he tells his parents and they're like "oh, when that happens you just start taking this pill every day and those feelings will stop."
it's like 1984 for kids.
>>510442538Funny the last "stoning" that happened in america was in New York in the 1910 or something.
>an angry mob chased down a hit and run driver >and threw stones at him until he died>>510419801My wife got this for our son and I had to stop reading it to him
>male fish>most apparent attribute is "beautiful" >must give away all his stuff>to have friends>the end.Truly awful slop.
Senior year, any one have to read "stranger in a strange land?"
Another turbo gay tranny trash novel.
>oh look there are aliens, and they have... 3 sexes!
>>510427779i think high school is too early to make kids read this. all i remember is that the girl gatsby likes accidentally ran a women over while driving gatsby's car, so gatsby let everyone think he was the one who did it, even to the point of letting the husband kill him. it wasn't globohomo but it just made me sad. maybe it should be a college book instead?
>>510425168i read this like a year ago (at age 40). the narrator is really physically and mentally ill and basically hates everything and everyone, but then at the end he makes the decision to try to become a better person for his sister's sake. so it's pretty gross all the way through but then has a surprisingly happy ending. also people say it's REALLY telling the story of someone who is about to enter into freemasonry or something. also the big secret of life is "FUCK YOU", which makes sense if you're a freemason i guess.
>>510424371While Heart of Darkness does use colonialism as its back drop, itโs actually a supreme midwit take to see that as the point of the story. (Im not pointing at you, im pointing at the education department of every single state in the West)
The story is first and foremost about the break down of structure, meaning, and even reality in โDeep Places of the Earthโ. The story is a modernist retelling of the Journey to the Underworld. The hero coming back and telling Kurtzโs wife that he died a noble man is basically him going โnormies wouldnโt understandโ and is sorta a shot at the surface level reader
>>510425332when my class read Lord of the Flies, everyone else thought Simon was the weird one. i think that's the first time i realized what an NPC was.
>>510420907It was also a lot more subtle just a small nudge or sidenote about the correct thinking and it didn't get in the way of telling a story. Honestly I think part of the reason why younger GenX and Millennials are going crazy over defending Tikkun Olam is from cognitive dissidence. Their core believes are being challenged and subconsciously they have been defeated but they keep doubling and tripling down and going crazy over it.
>>510425691are you sure you're not talking about animal farm? 1984 has no revolution, it's just a nightmarish hellscape from beginning to end.
>>510425168Look into the author or this book, it was his only book and was a huge success. Thing is he was an mk ultra scientist and the book is believed to have secret mk ultra programming techniques in it.
>>510437926Orson Scott Card
>>510446388No it wasn't. You're a fucking idiot.
>>510432814if you can't find evidence of judaism, look for freemasonry or sexual dysfunction. both make a person into a jewish pawn. utopianism too, although that usually doesn't happen by itself.
>>510446736Stay mad glowie
>>510424132>And then everyone clapped
>>510445952I think he meant Lord of the Flies. Heart of Darkness is about a man going native in the dark heart of Africa and an attempt to humanize the primitive Africans, not demean them. It was more honest than most nigger apologists like though so many people think the book is racist for describing the primitive brutality too clearly.
>>510436662Kek. For some reason. I always remember her describing getting a pizza with "ketchup" on it and being perpetually disgusted at the idea.
>>510418472 (OP)Diary of anne frank and night by ellie wiesel, two back to back jewish propaganda books back in the freshman year of high school(2011).
>>510427420that's kinda funny
>African yam farmer beats his wives, commits martial rape regularly, and kills possessed babies, the book
End with white missionary coming to save the niggers from savagery. What a shit book
>>510441737"the catcher in the rye" is how you know an event was staged by the cia. it was their calling card for a while. also many of those events are fake and no one really died.
We were forced to read this dogshit from cover to cover, write extensive reading logs, and a review of it as part of obligatory English lessons. There's a gay makeout scene in the first five pages, and none of the cast are straight. Focuses on some jeet / SEA mysterymeat fruitcake importee meeting a native Briton and having him discover he's gay. Fucking humiliation ritual if ever there was one.
>>510447259Every single one of us in the class, by the way. There were stacks of these books (which are really sloppily drawn cartoons, maximum of 50 words a page) piled in the classroom - there were no alternatives. You could not read anything else. You could not refuse. You had to comply.
>>510446871What? You're just wrong. And uneducated.
>>510447259are you a zoomer? when did the gay / tranny shit start in schools, do you remember?
i'm a millennial myself and the gay/tranny/multiculturalism shit wasn't a thing yet in my school years.
Calling someone a faggot or a retard was completely normal
this book is basically pro-genocide (via miscegenation).
>>510447486did you know btw that the jewish (((bonnier))) family in sweden also owns book publishing business in Finland including school textbooks and such.
I wonder who printed those gay books and who chose them for the curriculum...
>>510447259That is unfortunate. What grade/year of education was this? I teach at a middle school (11-14 year old students) and this series was popular a few years back with the types of queers/fujoshi you would expect. I believe it got a Netflix adaptation as well. I think it dropped in popularity significantly since then, since I haven't seen or heard about it in years.
>>510425041>I sincerely blame this faggot enabling literature for telling kids they can shoehorn memes into lexicon. Never should've been given that nugget of information, now there's faggots pushing their tranny delusions in schools.Kids have been doing that since before you were a sperm bitch.
>>510419400This. God it makes me want to vomit thinking about how much Holocaust propaganda was crammed down my throat in school.
>>510440743Follow in my footsteps fren. My kids don't believe those lies.
>>510421578Absolutely not. Gatsby is studied in high school literature classes precisely because it is a simple and unsubtle work. It is essentially the training wheels for real literature and, while it is a good novel, it is not even close to being one of the best English novels of all time.
>>510427110How come wiseposting never caught on?
>>510446983>itโs about humanizing the nativesNo! Natives are depicted as subhuman and part of the message is about how that subhuman capability exists within all men.
And still thatโs the surface level exoteric take. Because the Darkness that Kurtz sees is the Truth. Kurtz was the prime mover, the Sun that the world revolved around. And he wasnโt a condemned brutal man, he wasnโt a mad man, he was the only sane man left. He controlled the Heart of Darkness as a Sorcerer King.
Heart of Darkness is about a Journey to the Underworld in search of primordial Truth/Power and becoming mad in the process. Itโs rather โLovecraftianโ. The colonial backdrop is sorta form of pulp exoticism.
>>510426370Teacher looks very Jewish
>>510447529Yeah, early 2000s zoomer. Growing up, we had a nigress in our class, back then schools were shilling for refugees more than gays - I'd say that started after gay marriage was legalized, around 2017.
I got in bad trouble a couple times in literature class because I criticized multiculturalism and globohomo in a creative writing assignment. I wasn't punished by getting detention or anything - I wasn't "shut off" or "re-educated", I got straight up bullied by the teachers, they would mentally abuse me every time I slipped up, pull me into classrooms during breaks to scold me, and I literally had one of the assistants stand over my shoulder during classes watching everything I wrote in my notebooks. I would be told to erase anything she didn't like (jokes, drawings - if she really didn't like them, she would pull me into a separate classroom to yell at me).
This was 2016-19, I was just a kid. I'm in HS now [spoiler](surprised I don't do well in academia?)[/spoiler], and I would say we cover climate change, multicult, and sexual tolerance more than anything now. I remember getting a 9 in chemistry once - not because I studied chemistry, but because everything on the test was about climate change, and I answered everything with the same answers as I have for ten years: ride bikes, recycle, reuse... cars bad, electric vehicles good, greenhouse gases...
It's incredibly tiring.
As for the social aspects, we still call each other retards and faggots, just not in front of teachers or girls.
Anything more? I'm fucking dying of heat stroke, I'm just stringing words together as they come.
>>510448013โSubtletyโ is the playground of pseuds.
>>510448013I'll add that it's sophisticated enough for high schoolers that they can get a good idea of what reality is like in a capitalist country, specifically America. Money can buy you things but cannot change reality. People that have money are more worried by class, while people who have no money think it can buy you class and entrance into the upper echelons of society. Ironically, the Old Roch like Tom are brutes and idiots with no morals while Gatsby had studied class, manners, and was sincere. But he had to do immoral things with dangerous low-lifes to get the money that he thought could make him happy. You see at the end just how shallow Daisy (and Old Money, by extension) is when she basically shrugs off Gatsby's brutal murder and announces they're going on a long holiday to Europe to avoid the unpleasantness. It's a good intro for teenagers to realize people are just fucking assholes out for themselves and being sincere may just make you the biggest sucker of all. Can't have a soul in the game of capitalism. A film with closely related themes is Renoir's The Rules Of The Game, which depicts the rich chewong up and spitting out people of the lower class, often manipulating them with lies and promises they'll never keep.
>>510427467Halle Berry was smoking in the movie
Anything Maya Angelou was torture. I remember being a kid and thinking "These poems suck. Do people think she's good because shes black?". They always made some huge deal about her being a nigger
>>510447786This was only last year, actually. We're high school students, mean age 16-18. It won't surprise you that the teacher was one of the usual suspects.
>>510445045This is a Robert heinlein board, nigger
They forced this garbage on me in 6th grade. I luckily was able to avoid all the rest of the Holocaust propaganda books though
>>510449115The only good female poetry is the kind that reveals how fucking insane women actually are inside, like Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton. I swear to god most women in America's internal monologue is the same as the bipolar neurotic hypersexual mania Sexton's work reveals of the female psyche.
>>510447506>being educated means knowing JD Salingerโs publications Shut the fuck up
>>510449480The only good poetry is Homer. It's all downhill after that.
>>510448642Holy shit I didn't have any idea it has gone THAT bad that sounds INSANE, thats like full on USA education now.
No wonder the PISA scores are dropping like a fucking rock, I always thought it was the introduction of shitskins and the subsequent lowering of challenge for everyone so they could pass - and of course that everyone has now their brains fried by smartphones and social media.
But on top of all that everything is THAT fucking kiked, well thats just incredibly blackpilling to hear.
Im early 90s millennial and we were the last people who continued scoring higher on PISA, after our age cohort it started to go down. But directly after me it wasnt that the curriculum was being kiked yet - there was just more browns.
During my time literally none of that was thing. Like multiculturalism, gays or trannies I dont think were ever mentioned even once in any material - like the world was still normal then because what the fuck does any of that have to do with education
It really seems that it has turned into a kiked re-education camp of indoctrination instead of proper schooling - and I thought that shit was only in America
Do you have gay-tranny indoctrination materials inside the schools like this clip from america?
>>510449514Certainly more educated than you, uncultured retard.
>>510451076Youโre not and I can guarantee that. Youโre a pretentious douchebag though
>>510449977PISA is a dogshit metric, literally anything is better rate of passing driver's licenses tests, Briggs-Meyer, grocery store surveys on whether or not you liked the samples. They don't even use it for placement, at least use SAT scores or something even remotely tangible.
>>510449977LMAO, if it were that bad I would've already shot myself, don't worry, man.
That being said, I live breddy far north in a highly Christian area: the only trans student I've ever seen was when I studied in the south. I would say kids nowadays are just plain stupid, uninformed, following what school tells them. A lot of them rely on AI for too much (in a creative movie assignment, none of the kids wrote a script: they literally just asked chatGPT for movie ideas, and then asked it to elaborate on that prompt). In literature class when we were made to read a book, this one girl I got paired with chose to read a children's book - and didn't even finish it. Couldn't give a short summary of what she read, didn't understand it.
Other than that, we're still okay. Holocaust here, climate change there... we're not full-on parody level yet. Still hurts a bit.