/lit/ - Literature

The big college in town is hosting an exhibition match for the men's soccer teams of Mexico and Brazil. Can't wait for not only the town being overrun with foreigners but a good chance of rioting.

>>14559469
It annoys me that I immediately recognised that pic is from the Wikipedia page on schizoid personality disorder.

does anybody notice how societies that are centrally planned and mapped out usually turn out horribly?

>>13000000
Based

>5k word written today
>only 200 words ahead of schedule

>>11867612
Happy birthday anon. I'm sorry.

>attaching Kanye experiencing fucking psychosis with indeterminately located exploitative imperial projects and further conflating it with an imagined whiteness in general, as opposed to a hypothesized purer "freedom" of certain "true" black people

>>11111984
that's pretty funny, but that looks like it's over 6'0

ITT: Books that left you feeling uncomfortable.

Maybe the book is literary shock value, or maybe it's a book that got a little too real, a little too relatable for you. What ever that book is, I would like to hear about it.

>>10984875
>Have to go to some small ass town in North Dakota for an engineering project
>Flight gets in a 7 am, satellite office has no internet/no computers set up yet
>Go to coffee shop/book store across the street from office because nothing else to do
>Buy a copy of The Brothers Karamazov to see what the /lit/ memes are about
>8/10 girl at the register smiles at me
>"Oh wow, Brothers Karamazov, that's next on my to read list, my goal this year is to read more Russian literature, I have finished Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from the Underground so far, have you read any Dostoevsky before?"
>Panic trying to think of something to say to the cute /lit/ girl , I just end up staying silent for 15 seconds
>"...sorry, I know I talk way too much, here's your receipt."
>"Th-thanks"
>Get a coffee from the other side of the store, start reading, the cute girl keeps exchanging side eyes with me
>Try to work up the courage to talk with her but after a couple hours she switched out with someone else and leaves
>Next day office is set up and for the next two weeks I'm too busy working or at site all day for, the few times I make it back to the shop she isn't there
>Before I leave I put up a missed connection ad on the local cl as a hail Mary, no response

I wish I didn't have fucking autism.

>>10568511
Dan Brown

>>9950984

Opposite for me. I no longer worry about suicide as much as I used to because I have far too many books that I still want to read.

>>9563394
>A church of Christ, who died so that all may be washed of their sins and reach salvation through him, has a vetting process

>>9521502
Yup, same guy.

Frame your "asking" her out as something extremely casual. Don't make it a big deal, or anything grandiose. Just propose to get drinks, or to hang out at one of y'all's place. You gotta make a move, though. Women say all sorts of shit, and just because she shot down her best friend doesn't mean she'll shoot down the next guy that asks her out. Seent that shit plenty of times to know by now. Her best male friend is probably beta incarnate, I'm willing to bet.

I'm scared of rejection as well, but there comes a point where you really have to grit your teeth and go for it. But if she did reject you, how do you think you'd react afterwards?

I got girl problems, too. I've been seeing Janie since the new year, chilling, casual sex, nothing serious. A few months ago she introduced me to her friend, Amy. Well, my feelings for Jane have been waning, feelings for Amy rising.

Problem is, Janie and I have been friends since high school and they're co-workers. Not see each other everyday co-workers, but they still see each other often enough. I don't even know how Janie would react if I dropped this on her.

Amy is 6 years older and separated from her husband of 5+ years. There doesn't appear to be a chance of reconciliation as he cheated on her multiple times and turned into a hamplanet.

Should I forget about Amy?

>>8996475
>that is longer than War and Peace.
You're underselling it mate. The fanfic is more than four million words long. That's eight times as long as W&P.

>dialogue indicated not by quotation marks but hyphens

>>8540015

I thoroughly enjoyed Infinite Jest and don't understand why it gets memed so hard