/lit/ - Literature

Can anyone else just not fucking read this when he starts talking about Marque De Rollebon? It's so boring I can't even force myself to read it, I really don't give the slightest fuck about M De Rollebon.

holy fuck I don't care about m de rollebon

This is seriously one of the most boring and tedious books I have ever fucking read in my life. It's just a guy walking around town and speaking nonsense.

gaah I'm so glad I found this thread. I don't think I can complete this book, it's taken me 3 days to get 15 pages in, because I'm just not confident leaving a page and feeling like I understand what's going on. It's so confusing. There's a story within a story, the guy describes vague events, and uses language like how the sun miserly on the window cil and steel beams "like the look you make when you wake up after a night of bad sleep, or after you write a page without stopping". Fuuuuuuck. I wish he would shut the fuck up about his mother fucking history book too, I really don't give a fuck about who assassinated Paul 1, NOT A SINGLE FUCK!!!

This is hard to read.

How do you guys get out of "reading ruts"? I know I can't be the only one. It's like I want to read up on some philosophy, and people like pynchon and dostoevsky but just can't get interested like I used to. I only got like 50 pages into Inherent Vice and haven't picked it up all christmas break
Note: I have plenty of time, I just get engrossed in other things (e.g. i olympic lift and obv there's much to it so I'm constantly on fit and r/weightlifting). Anyone else got this ADD-type deal?
>pic related, prolly tried reading 3 times

Planning to read this after I finish Karamazov. I'm pretty excited, but what can I expect, and is there anything that I would be advised to read beforehand?

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>Implying

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Yes it's a fairly easy read and easy to understand. Read it, it's a good book.

About half way through. Good book so far.

"Too bad Spongebob’s not here to enjoy Spongebob not being here."

Am I missing something or was this the biggest peice of garbage ever written?

so after babby's first existential crisis, i was recommended to read Nausea. Anyone want to discuss it?
Firstly, (even though it happens towards the end of the book) i was confused as to why The self taught man, the humanist, turns out to be a pervert.

I thought Sartre was in favor of humanism?

I didn't even finish it. It frustrated me to no end. Roquentin seemed like a whiny little bastard the whole time.

What are some other books similar to La Nausée?

Sartre and Camus are kinda depressing. I think Sartre more so. Also Sound and the Fury isnt particularly happy book

Why am I having a existential crisis when I am 21 years old? Why is the main character in this book almost exactly like me?

Is this book worth reading?

so does anything actually happen or is it just a borefest the whole way through

Just finished Neausea. Where do I go from here? I want to read more into existentialism. I heard that Heidegger was a big influence to Sartre, so would that be a good next step?

Also, Neasuea reminded me heavily of Notes from the Underground (My favourite book) What are some other books that are similar to these?

Jean-Paul Sartre's "Nausea"
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so the "nausea" is objects losing their subjective meaning? like, the beer glass is no longer a beer glass but instead a round open cylinder made of glass with an imprint on it? roquentin starts seeing everything not as functional pieces or purposeful items but instead just clumps of neutral material? then he applies this to his own life and finds that he is not really "roquentin" but instead just some meaningless thing with no past or future and only an existence? is that why he's so disturbed by the concept?

the "nausea" is the sudden loss of meaning to a previously structured world? am i getting this right?

I have yet to read it, and i'm sure the people who have wouldn't mind reading it again for discussion. Plus, it's short and easily available online

Anybody here read Nausea? What did you think of it?