/lit/ - Literature

>tfw failing intro to philosophy class

My writings really are too complicated for my brainlet of a professor who thinks Bertrand Russell was a good philosopher and that Kant "could have been a better writer." He keeps saying I need to have "clear and concise arguments" in my essays because he's too stupid to understand my use of parables and rhetorical questions. The level of intellectual discourse in the world really is plummeting down the drain. Are there any books about how to maintain one's hope when you're one of the few geniouses to exist in the world? about how to stay motivated when you're constantly undervalued by society?

>>14242529

>tfw to intelligent to be happy

It really is a fucking curse.

>>14009168
>tfw studying to be a teacher
>but in fucking south america

>>13620923

>little nephew starting to take in interest in books
>he likes total fucking garbage like Pete the Cat, and Geronimo Stilton
>his birthday
>decide to buy him real literature
>get him Portrait of a Lady (the perfect introduction to Henry James), Bleak House and Middlemarch (the greatest English novels), and Thomas Pynchon's V. (just for fun)
>his parents laugh like this was a gag gift
>mfw when they see I'm serious they make me take the books back saying he's too young for those

He's turning into a fucking pleb before our very eyes and I'm the only one who seems to care.

>get tired of reading le classics
>just want a good story with likable characters and easy to read prose
>read pleb fiction to try and relax
>get frustrated with the unconvincing plots, one dimensional characters, and slipshod prose
>have to put it down and read a classic work of literature instead

How do I stop being such a fucking pretentious pseud?

>>12596741
>Also there is a compilation of writer interviews of the paris review. look for that book is really good.

>tfw they used to be all online for free but they paywalled them all

>tfw genius but lazy
>mfw

>>12462912

>tfw to dumb for Henry James

>tfw only 2 used bookstores in town
>tfw one has a shitty selection and the other is better but everything's expensive as shit

How are the bookstores in your area?

>got banned from another bookclub

You said joining a book club would help me find cool /lit/ friends including a patrician qt gf, but it's all a bunch of fucking plebs who can't handle my superior rhetoric.

how do I learn enjoy Stephen King? I don't want to be a pseud but every time I try to read his books I get bored and read Dostoevsky instead. Every one of his books I've read he takes forever to get to the spooky shit and then the spooky shit isn't even that scary. People say he's building up the setting but his vision of America is nothing compared to a gillion other American writers and his characters aren't interesting to me either.

>>11545001

>tfw didn't even complete all the material in half the math classes because the students were too stupid and we kept getting held back
>tfw didn't even focus on literature in "english class" other than Shakespeare (and even then the teacher made sure we didn't have to read the actual play) and instead focused on working on our resumes and cover letters

>>11019166

>tfw never had story time with parents

I just read books on my own. I used to be proud of it but now I'm sad. Turns out they never wanted to read to me because my mother hates books and my father is illiterate. They think today I'm a depressed loser because I read too much.

Any books to get dumber?
I'm too smart, can't stand knowing how cruel this world is.

>Not starting with the Mesopotamians

>>10224043

>tfw this shit is now an irremovable part of the western canon and will have to be stuidied for centuries

>mfw Paris Review is blocking their interviews behind paywalls now

>>18856
>talk about mass government surveillance years ago
>"they don't do that, stop being so paranoid!"
>talk about it now
>"duh of course they do that, If you didn't assume you were naive and there's nothing I can do so who cares"

>tfw to smart to reed

>>8646715
>tfw you will never be born in rich 19th century family in central/western europe
>tfw you will never go to a prestigious university and study theology/philosophy, etc
>tfw you will never spend your days writing while living on your parents massive and comfy estate
Why live, desu?

>tfw everyone thinks I'm smart but I have an untreated brain tumor

>tfw too intelligent to read