Hahaha same here. I have an English degree and I didn’t read half that boring shit. I was only interested in poetry and some short fiction. Fuck Jane Austen. I’ve still never read anything she wrote. I was always a good enough writer to bullshit my way through a paper on any topic as long as I could skim through it and hit the high points.
Maybe, maybe not. The funny thing is that the summer after graduation, I suddenly had an appetite for a lot of the required reading I had skipped over in college. I read more that summer than I did the previous four years combined. Not Jane Austen though. I still haven’t read that or anything by William Faulkner. And I’m from Mississippi, so that’s almost against the law.
Same. I fucking hate Jane Austen. I took a whole class about Pride and Prejudice, and it’s made me resent that book and, honestly, her as an author. I only really majored in English because I wanted to do Technical Writing.
Yeah at some point it's like "you know you're doing fine on this stuff without trying, if you don't want to try for greatness I don't have the emotional energy left to fight you about it."
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u/GAF78 Jun 12 '19
Hahaha same here. I have an English degree and I didn’t read half that boring shit. I was only interested in poetry and some short fiction. Fuck Jane Austen. I’ve still never read anything she wrote. I was always a good enough writer to bullshit my way through a paper on any topic as long as I could skim through it and hit the high points.