/lit/ - Literature

I've been getting into reading more, because I wanted to experience a lot of the classic stories that I wouldn't get to in other media. But I'm struggling to really get the full experience. I feel stupid for not feeling more emotionally engaged, and missing things like theme, and other literary devices. I can enjoy the stories, but I feel like I'm barely doing more than reading the words, and I know there's a lot more going on that I want to get. So can you guys help give tips on being a better reader?

>>13092186
We can talk all day about whether it was theft or not but that argument never leaves the realm of semantics. What you need to understand is that ownership itself is such a stupid fucking concept when taken as an actual, ontic property of things (EX:That house *is* something I *own*.). As the kids call it, it's a spook. You (and others) give it power. But that isn't a particularly deep observation, what are the implications of it,however? It means that theft, too, is a spook. And you may say, "fuck that reductionary bullshit." You still believe theft is real. This would make ownership real as well. But, why then, do the workers explicitly have to own it (capital)? That's when you realize that there is nothing scientific or sensical about Marxism. Your reasoning for believing that produced value belongs to the workers is nested deeply within a larger framework related to fairness and such, one that is probably shared with most unconscious capitalists desu. It simply expresses itself through your ideology while somehow making the original wellspring (the framework) less potent. Things are no longer right (to you) because they are right, but rather because Marxism passed it on to you. At the end of the day it's just another ideology that decides that "this way" is somehow "the way" and there is no other. You and a select few are clued in but all of us "retards" are just lumpen scum. "Oh but its so much more efficient than capitalism". So is fascism and integralism, but they are in a similar boat. Just preferences formed by a neurotic interest in politics which isn't possessed by you but actually possesses you. I guess what I'm getting at is that you should come clean and say you like Marxism because (among other reasons likely unrelated to politics) it just leads to better outcomes for you and people you care about. However, please don't come post on this board acting as if Marxism is some math problem you've figured out and now believe will save the world. There are no relevant universals to your beliefs. Your willful ignorance of other ideologies is childish. You haven't even moved on from value theory into big boy stuff. Just stop kid. Being a Marxist in 2019 is like being an emo kid in 2019.

>>12131574
I mean it's pretty good i guess

>>12038366
>interacting with people from 4chan outside of 4chan in any way

>>8198946
If you have to ask you need to work on it.
You're dealing with emotions here.
Only advice I can give you is that it's more instinctive than cerebral.
Being relaxed is key.

>>7951100
>I don't understand it; therefore, no one does
Lol okay, anon.

Literature is just entertainment.

>>7800865
>You must be living under a rock

looks like it

>Also it's in the selected OP chart.

I've made it a habit of overlooking extremely generic covers, that's why I missed it

>>5957448