/lit/ - Literature

I've been reading Moby Dick for half a year now and am only halfway through.

How do you stay awake while reading? I start feeling tired and start falling asleep once I get about ten pages into anything.

>>10425777
So am I

>randomly ask out a tall skinny qt as I'm walking around campus
>we have a nice date and then hook up for a few weeks
>she doesn't read outside of school

>>9146550
Welcome to reality.

The people memeing STEM are usually business cucks or aspie assholes who got their egos fed by the former.

Are you from Austria?

>>9066221
>You will never lick her butthole

>>7083297
>>"Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"

>try to go to bed early
>end up laying in bed for hours wide awake
>try to wake up early
>feel like shit from lack of sleep
>can't concentrate on reading because of it

>finally finish novel
>over 1000 pages and packed with all sorts of deep themes
>tfw every publisher rejects it saying it's incomprehensible
>tfw some of them even say I should see a psychiatrist

>tfw trying to get through a hard philosophy book and you understand nothing and it's boring, but you keep forcing yourself to get through it because you don't want to be a pleb

>new to literature
>just want to read Stephen King, but have to work my way through the entirety of Western literature to fully understand it
>read the bible
>enjoy the garden of eden story, cain and abel
>get to chapter 5
>it's just a boring list of names
>get bored and give up on my reading quest
>tfw I'll never enjoy any reading ever

>>6334488
I can't believe I actually Lol'd at that. I need to leave everything behind and travel for a while.

>tfw translator notes
>tfw author intro
>tfw prologue

>>6303460