/lit/ - Literature

As a teen I used to put my book down and pace up and down from excitement whenever the protagonist was approached by a girl. "Surely this will be me someday!", I thought to myself...

>>13296871
Woah there, how did we go from ethnicity to race to IQ? You okay there kiddo?

>>12744901
i fap to trap doujins everyday

>>12735603
>social justice tribunal

>>12735861

>>12686113
(not the person you're arguing with btw)

What are some books?

>>12580349
you mean t. fatass

>>12542309

How am I supposed to write about characters having relationships if I'm a khv incel?

>tfw drop out engineer because too souless
>tfw study pharmacy and made a decent enough thesis to get a place in uni as a professor in some classes
>tfw always reading philosophy and novels, and writing short stories
a-am I gonna be the next Musil, lads?

>Read SIEGE by James Mason

>>11128622

I started reading again after a long while and I have this overwhelming urge to tell people what I'm reading. I also find myself trying to form more complex phrases when speaking and writing. Is it autism? Is it a normal secondary effect of reading books? Does it go away with the more books you read?

For better or worse I feel like I can express myself better. Which is a double-edged sword to say the least.

>400 pages in
>still 1000 pages left

>will to power
>god is dead
>eternal recurrence

Surely a philosopher with such renown as Nietzsche didn't base all his philosophy on feels arguments? It sure seems that way.

>>10860624
>tfw my favorites are Dosto, Mann and Faulkner

I need help remembering the name of a book I read as a teenager.

All I remember is it's a young adult fantasy/sci-fi story (the name was multiple words, not a single word) about some kids who go on an adventure, and the final boss is an AI of some kind, and they defeat it by telling it "I love you".

Even though there's an AI, it's not traditionally sci-fi with spaceships and aliens and shit, nor is it cyberpunk.

Anyone remember this?

>>10769724
>“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”

>Mitya’s book

>>9334353
"Their education is still unfinished".

>watch an interview of an author
>discover he has a high-pitched voice and an unpleasant, frail appearance
>instantly feel as though his ideas are discredited in my eyes
Even realizing this thought process and treating it as a bias to be expunged doesn't help, I always notice myself feeling a subconscious contempt towards ugly authors. On the other hand, I'm immediately relieved if an author I like turns out to be good-looking.

Are we all just slaves to aesthetics and bio-deterministic markers of genetic quality?

>check the catalog
>3 pastas in top 4 threads

Anyone who started learning a second language really late? Almost all I do is read and I've been getting bored of it lately after 6 years of it being my main hobby. I only speak English and I'm 25. I think I should try learning new languages in order to give me a new perspective and some new reading material but I fear it's too late. I hear all this shit about how you're supposed to learn languages when you're young and how hard it is to learn when you're older.

I want to do it but I feel like it's a lost cause.