/lit/ - Literature

Why live if I'm neither great, talented nor beautiful?

>>17921550
I say that I'm a writer but I've finished writing a book.
Also, plan to write erotic shit if that will help me pay the bills.

>the Haze woman found the diary

>>17862258
She looks like this girl I had a crush on when I was 16

>>16123067
>tfw just started learning German

>>15378265
Makes me sick what they've done to bookstores. I used to go in to buy classical poetry and now the section is full of neoliberal slam poetry "my pussy" shit.

>>14705994
>Harry Potter
>Goosebumps
>Diary of a Wimpy Kid

are there any good books on understahttp://s.4cdn.org/image/buttons/tomorrow/post_expand_plus.pngnding other people?
or is it the sort of thing where you just have to consume a breadth of different books to get your own general methods of understanding people?

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Oh god, writing good prose feels insurmountable.

>tfw you have another strong bout of depression and can't even summon the energy to read a book
>spend hours staring at a computer screen instead

>>13004234
>you will never be able to understand Kripke
results in the same problem

>>12981424
My diary desu

>those perfect female bodies

>>10811961
saw thread, looked at, died inside.

>>10729833
No anon you are mistaken. There is no book titled "1984".

Hi /lit/ I've been working on a reading list and I wanted to get some feedback. Here's what I have so far:

The Greeks
Homer: The Iliad, Homeric Hymns
Homer: The Odyssey, Homeric Hymns
Hesiod: Works and Days
Sappho: Fragments
Pindar’s Victory Odes
Hesiod and Theognis
Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation (Hackett Classics)
Complete Works of Sophocles
Complete Works of Aeschylus
Complete Works of Euripides
Complete works of Aristophanes
Aesop’s Fables
Apollonius of Rhodes: The Argonautica
Menander: Dyskolos

The Romans
Complete Works of Horace
Complete Works of Ovid
Vergil: The Aeneid, The Georgics, Eclogues
Seneca: Phaedra, Medea, Oedipus
Complete Works of Catullus
Lucan: Pharsalia

Medieval
The Bible
Dante's: The Divine Comedy
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron
Beowulf
Anna Komnene: The Alexiad
The Song of Roland
Chrétien de Troyes: Yvain, The Knight of the Lion
Poem of The Cid
Nibelungenlied
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Dindsenchas
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love
Rustichello da Pisa and Marco Polo: The Travels of Marco Polo
Anonymous: The Mabinogion
Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History Of The Kings of Britain
Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe
Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat

Renaissance

That's all I have so far. Any suggestions? (I know the Bible wasn't written in medieval times by the way, I put it there because of its importance to the culture of the period.)

>>10453777
I met her at work where she had the shift before mine. I was immediately struck by her and desired to make a positive impression. We talked to each other and I sensed an interest in me from her which culminated in her staying after work the longest she's ever had. Her excuse was she had homework to do she couldn't do at home and was only staying for an hour but that hour became two and then three and ended with me praising her passion in music to which she made an expression I will never forget. She flashed a demure smile, her eyes flitting towards a corner, her body suddenly swaying in that schoolgirl like way as she looked to me and said: "Perhaps this will happen again tomorrow..."

I lost her eventually due to a mixture of misfortune and stupidity.

I've had a crush on this girl for months, and now it's stronger than ever. She is a really nice person too, while I'm your average dude posting here.In the end, most likely nothing will happen, however it's nice to imagine that something did.
Do you know any books that would be fitting for this situation, or love ones in general?

>>10214577
>Cunt Sigurdsson
>teletransports
>Yeehaw!
>no biggie

brb kms

>>10191893
>tfw i will never have a patrician qt gf with a highly educated clitoris accustomed to Maybach seats and passing Cristal

>>9597417
>NEET. Starting college in a few hours. Nervous, staying up and drinking beer.
>Autodidact, creative writing, college freshman.
>The Idiot, The Masks Of God, NIV Bible

>>9120897
do it

Is there any book that can teach my how to time-travel back to 2014? Barring that, how bout just some literature to help me deal with the nostalgia and crushing sense of disappointment?

>dad tells me to paint some stuff
>get mad and go for a walk and tell myself I'll spend all my time at the library of the university I recently graduated from
>go for a walk
>get depressed when I walk past the university knowing that tonnes of normies will soon be having "the time of their life" at the place
>know that I couldn't bear sitting in that library and being surrounded by Chads and Staceys

Life is suffering. My time at university passed without any social life at all. My only contact with girls ever is with escorts (I've never even flirted).

Fuck morality and society. Some men were born good looking enough to get shitloads of sex on tinder daily, others repulse girls just by existing. What a joke.