/lit/ - Literature

i only want to own books i like but i don't know if i like them before reading them but if i buy books i already read i feel stupid and if i buy books and don't like them i feel even more stupid to have paid for them and don't want them in my collection

>mfw book has no proper 3 act structure

I'm in my early 30s and I've come to the conclusion that reading books was a scam. It never resulted in fame, money, or pussy. I've never even had a conversation about any book irl because I have had no friends.

Rather than reading books, the best thing to do if you want to live any sort of intellectual life is to get into as high ranking a university as possible and then build your milieu from there.

I've even come to hate the physical form of books. I will never buy one again, only pirate them and read them on my Kindle.

If you're young, heed the above advice and make all things literally an ancillary part of your life, which result from other activity, rather than anything core to your activities or identity. And don't listen to /lit/. /lit/ is a bunch of people on the lowest level of the pyramid scheme after the scam stopped working. This isn't the pre-internet era where le libraries are filled with le hidden wonders (just masturbating homeless people and decaying furniture, while everything is easily discoverable online) or where you can quote Sartre to get a le book-loving qt gf (they have Chads on tap through Tinder) or fit in with your local gang of lovable hyperliterate misfits (all vaguely smart people go to 10 universities (or 2 if you're in the UK); the online discourse casts a shadow over all offline conversation).

And I know the objection to the previous paragraph: "I'm a lone wolf, the equivalent of the monks keeping Aristotle alive!" No, their modern day equivalent are speed runners being memed in to troonism.

Why do couples bicker? It’s annoying desu to listen to it

>>22406929
Hi frens!
I have been thinking about making my dream game for a while and started to learn art and code and have been for some time. I sat down a few months ago and actually tried to write out some sort of rough outline of the plot of my game and I realize to me shock and horror that I can't write for shit, and my game should have shitloads of story in it which is a problem.
Actually I failed out of school because I hated it, and although I would say that I know how to speak very fluently, I don't have any idea why or how anything works. Things just "sound right" or they don't to me.
I sort of know that a verb is an action word(?) and a noun is a thing(?), but other than that I know absolutely no theory; like I have no idea what an adverb or an adjective is or what all the punctuation symbols are called or anything.
I checked the recommended books on this thread OP and found pdf's of Garner's Modern English, and Style as Grammar but the first book is incomprehensible to me and the second seems too advanced for me, it doesn’t really explain the basics.
Would you guys have any resources for total beglets like me on the basic actual rules of the English language? Not fancy writing advice type stuff, but like grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, conjugation etc? Website or book suggestion would be super helpful! I just want to learn the foundation! Thank you!

I do not understand the appeal of hyper obscure dense authors like Hegel and Joyce

>>21776340
Only 15 pages a day…
It’s over for me right anon?

Any lit on every relationship just hurting so much

>7 page draft due in 3 hours
>haven’t even begun

How do you read ancient or classic literature without getting depressed? Every paragraph it seems there's some casual reference to pain, death, terror, child abuse, just a pure stream of hate and anger in every classic book I've read.
>Try reading Plato, Laches. First few pages a character talks about abusing and manipulating his kids so as to discipline them
>Aristotle, Ethics. Talks about how some people are born to be slaves and how it's okay to abuse them
>Homer, constant bloodshed and terror and violence
I want to never read again if this is the contents

Whenever I sit down to write, I either feel like a genius or a fucking retard. There's no in-between. Today is a retard day.

>can't remember anything i read

Books that were so strong in mental influence that they destroyed your depression?