There's a scene in one of the greatest summer movies of all time, 2009's "Adventureland," where the nerdy character Joel (Martin Starr) — a Russian Literature and Slavic Languages major whose cynicism outweighs his pretentiousness — gives a book to his crush, Sue (Paige Howard).
The pair had recently made out after a night out at the hip club Razzmatazz, and Joel was feeling bold enough to share a favorite novel by Nikolai Gogol. "He lost his mind, burned the only copy of his final book [and] died a week later of self-starvation," Joel helpfully tells her.
