/lit/ - Literature

I'm a goddamn literature student and my attention span or whatever it is is so so short that I can barely bring myself to read books anymore. Anyone in the same situation? Situation's gotten so bad wanna kill myself.

>“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”
None of the people who mock this line will ever write anything so kino.

Guide me back /lit/. I've been chasing money recently, and because I was actually successful, I fantasized a lot about a luxurious lifestyle of material and bodily pleasures, but the feeling is empty as hell. It feels as if I spat on the ground laid by the very men, whom through their works, made me the man I am today. Rec some books for this feel and how to fight it.

>be me
>OP's teacher
>he's a kind kid, helps around the class, have heard some rumors of him being strange at parties but write it off as him being autistic
>last week of this semester, have to give the students an exercise
>decide to make them submit an essay
>see OP's submission come in, he's an excellent author
>click the file
>it's his fuck journal
>mfw

Tfw I’m literally gay. Books for this feel? I’ve already read Confessions of a Mask years ago and I’m thinking of rereading it

>>18142531
Something similar happened to me but I just started delving into /x/ shit instead (not stupid conspiracies,those are a waste of time mostly)
>>18142553
>>18142573
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