/lit/ - Literature

>>19778208
What do family, friends, love and school feel like?

>>13555339
>Look it up on wikipedia. It's not hard to understand

Lmao

>>12994575
>>12994630
>You're wrong and the only person who believes it
>i-i'm right. Your the only person who believes this. You will not change the narrative I had in my head since childhood. You're wrong. Only you think so. Stop lying. You're wrong. Stop it, why are you posting multiple times pretending to be other people. It's only you.

>go to library to get copy of Demons
>head to checkout
>"Alright you'll just need to complete the mandatory language proficiency test"
>usually just basic shit, easy as fuck
>"alright you're good to go, right after you pass the speaking supplement"
>oh fuck forgot they added they
>"Please pronounce the following phrase: 'я бyдy зaщищaть тeбя'"
>say 'я бyдy зaШиШaть тeбя' by mistake
>librarian (poorly) suppresses a laugh
>"I don't think you're quiet ready for this text."
>throws my library card and the book down the ink well
why the fuck do we need to take the language exam for translations? it's not fair bros.

>>12246492
STOP POSTING ANIME ON /LIT/ THERES 30 OTHER BOARDS FOR YOUR WEEB SHIT

>>12133110

RRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MANGA IS NOT /LIT/ GET OFF MY BOARD WEEAABOO , YOU SHITS

>>11407077
Unironically yes.

>be me
>have an idea for an interesting fictional setting that might make for a decent story
>jot it down on paper
>do some research on plausibility and edit accordingly
>conceptualize a few characters to explore the setting and see if there's any plot there
>hit on something that i feel as though i can work with
>slowly draft one chapter, then a second
>in the mean time, start reading Infinite Jest
>quickly realize that I could write a hundred-thousand page novel and it wouldn't contain even a quarter of the artistry and literary brilliance packed into the first ten pages of IJ
>shelve it all and never look back

i can't be the only one, right?

>look at face in mirror, skin looks decent
>not going to land me a modeling job but its not horrible
>try to take picture for tinder
>skin looks like that of a former heroin addict and current burn victim
JUST

>tfw can't even concentrate enough to channel the pain of being scorned by your oneitis into poetry
someone just fucking kill me already

>academia sucks
>"the real world" is even worse
books for this feel?

>walking home from library
>stopped by library cop, tells me I'm under arrest
>cuffs me and takes my bag
>says I'm carrying books scheduled above my license class
>protest, say I'm a class B and only have class C or below texts checked out
>he pulls out a copy of the Phenomenology of Spirit and puts it in my bag
>"is that so?" he says, smirking
>says it can all go away if I just pay the "fine"

>>11108577
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/lit/ help me

Why the fuck am I so intelligent

>do a few reading speed tests
>150 wpm average

It takes me like a month to finish 400 page book. How do I fix this?

>tfw only 125 IQ

Why was I born a brainlet? How can I be a successful writer without a 160 IQ?

>>10975775
>>10975785
>>10975815
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I read this book last year and I regret it to the very bitter end. I had just read Eco's Baudolino and The Name of the Rose and felt like reading more medieval stuff. Since this was very popular and all-around hailed as a great book, I bought it and read it.
Anon, stay away from it. The whole book IS a soap opera, and it is also very repetitive. The book basically follows 5-7 characters who want the cathedral to be built, and two characters who are VERY VERY EVIL AND MEAN AND SCARY AND BIGOTED AND HATEFUL who want to stop the construction. Almost every chapter works like this: THE BAD CHARACTER puts an obstacle that prevents the main characters from building the cathedral. Then, they need to find a solution. Magically, by the end of the chapter, they do find a way to circumvent the obstacle and keep on building. It is a sitcom-cum-novel. This sinewave pacing runs for about 700 pages. It is pathetic. And let me tell you about the fucking prose. Unlike Eco, Follett makes no attempt to sound medieval, and he writes very mechanically. What do I mean by this? If a character swings a sword and attacks, he will describe the guy grabbing the sword, the motion of the fingers, the raising of the sword, the pressure being applied to the sword, the swinging of the sword and finally the landing of the blow. This extends to non-combat descriptions. Every mundane action is written as if by a toddler who discovered the notion of action sequence. His descriptions, EVEN OF THE FUCKING CATHEDRAL, are very uninspired and they you will leave you baffled by how such an inept author could be so famous. I'm not memeing here, but I literally started to count on the back of the book how many times he used the expression 'with his heart on his mouth': there were more than eight. The female leading character is basically a Mary Sue, who will be raped over and over in order to become "deep". She will also, as if by magic, succeed in every single endeavour she undertakes. This is not a historical novel, no matter how much people say it is. The research was very basic and it fucking shows through every single line in this book.

Don't read it. Don't fucking read it. Life is too short and this book is too fucking long. I hardly ever put any effort on writing posts, but I wanted to warn you: don't waste your time with this bullshit novel, its bullshit author and its bullshit prose. It is worthless. Game of Thrones is light-years ahead from this piece of crap. Please steer away, man. I beg you. Dan Brown is far better as his books are actually pot boilers.

Pic very much related. It's me after finishing this novel.

How are we supposed to keep going in a world where unspeakable evils are committed against innocents?

>mfw inviting a girl over from my French Lit class to talk about literature and share what we've been writing but she just wants to have sex

I'm not even being ironic here, it genuinely bothers me to trust in someone the intimate experience of sharing our thoughts and feelings that should personally mean something to us, only to have her not even remotely giving a fuck and using it as a pretext for hooking up. I fucking hate how disconected we are from art, how we're reaching a Huxley-esque era of biological necessities over a deeper, more meaningful experience of being, and it genuinely makes me want to fucking kill myself.

>>10246460
I feel

>tfw

>>10128973
This is what my hair looks like at 24