/lit/ - Literature

>>9999726
too beta to keep my own diary even desu. Chad writes all of my entries.

Hey, I'm 17 year old brat that wants to think for himself but can't really go for the first step. What books should I read, I was thinking of Nietzsche, but I guess people here fucking despise him as fuck. Anything on Joradn Peterson's list is worth it? Educate me.
>inb4 bait

Why literature romanticize melancholy and sadness?

I used to think like that until due to some circumstances (not to discuss here) I was diagnosed with depression. Surely not anything romantic like we usually find in literature but the complete opposite, and without a clean way out (side effects of antidepressants are the worst part).

>>7087908
Just finished it.

I'm looking for good thrillers or criminal novels.
I know its kinda pleb-tier, but once in a while i like to read a book for fun.

I want stories about murders, serial killers, or ritual killings that focus on the police or forensic work.

I kinda liked Jeffery Deavers Bone Collector and now im looking for more stuff.

>>6781981
I want to starve myself to death. Read somewhere that is a quite painless way to die, feeling nothing after the third day without food and water.

We had some fantastic threads a while back where anons would use a prompt and post their fresh, raw work. Let's do that again.

You don't have to follow the prompt if you don't feel like it'll help you.

PROMPT: "He seems lonely. What do we do?"

>wake up at 10 am
>go to 4chan
>it doesn't load
>I have no idea what to do now
>realize how empty life is
>try again
>holy shit it works
>go to /lit/
>life has "meaning" again

With the room barely lighted, shadows danced across our walls as their color changed again and again, from blue to green and then from white to pale red. I could see when pale red light her breath coming out of her almost closed lips and dissolving just in front of her face. I wasn't surprised because of the cold of the night, but I would expect —though I must confess that my expectations about her hardly become true— that her, rather than stay in the freezing night, would get into bed instead of keeping her monk-like position above the chair as she did by now, all day and night.

"Will you turn that thing off?"
"Yeah..."

But she didn't. It has been happening for a while and for more than I can remember. I heard a few coughs, she had a cold, she had had it for months.

"Who am I?" —I asked
"You"

It was a serious question, one of the many that she misunderstood due to a zero-focus issue, a problem that she doesn't seem to have with those who are not and who I would not call just like she does, effortlessly, with no qualm when she does. But I asked myself seriously, 'who am I?' in the situation in which I am. Though I had no answer I was, at the same time, too fearful of leaving — leaving it behind a like burning a book 'cause past the climax the thrill was no more. But has, the one that concerns us, finished or living an impasse? Being unable to tell where the end lies is why it comes from dawn to dusk looping with no end. Just like a fool attached to a joyful memory in times of hunger, I live where I am not because I stay, laying in bed with no sleep everytime and just wanders where those place where I'm not.

>mfw this is literally me

>tfw you shall never write on english because it's isn't you mom tongue

>>6409319
>But only so I can consume your life and excrete it later as my own OC writing.

>mfw people here like my writings
>mfw they don't know they're all about me
>mfw not taking antidepressants make want to become an hero
>mfw I can't write when I take them and spend the whole day watching react videos on youtube
>mfw I'm fucked up with or without pills
>mfw the only thing that can help me is friend or a girlfriend
>mfw I'm not worthy of having any

Don't bother studying philosophy. Shit made me an alcoholic and depressed. You're going to learn and realize that you can't change the world.

>See qt
>she is reading
>the lack of misery is what I think is happines.jpg
>fantasize about dissussing philosophy and science with her
>know name already
>find her social media accounts
>she has a tumblr
>....
>Talks about sjw crap
>feminist shit everywhere
>shes bisexual
>only talks about women
>I will never get to smash her ass then discuss existential theories

Ending it never looked so good.

>>6274876
This.

>reading the backstory of Dosto's life after having finished Brothers Karamazov
>mfw Alyosha is named after his son

>>5720063

well said

Talk to me about Nicomachean Ethics. If the proposed is true and the entire point of life is to be happy and everything else is so much meaningless drivel, a means to an end, is there any point to living a life of depression?

>Tfw I will never be capable of time travel.
>Tfw I will never be capable of traveling back in time and witnessing the rise of the Roman Republic.
>Tfw I will never witness the rise of the Roman Empire, its expansion, and eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire all in first person.
>Tfw I will never travel to the present and construct the most accurate portrayal of ancient Roman lifestyle/history.

Just die in my fucking sleep already.
;__;