/lit/ - Literature

>>21642575

>>20815073
Brave new world is the best of the three. Its also a far better prediction of current year than the others.

>social pressure and degradation of culture lead to drug and sex addicts desperatly trying to fill the void which leads to an overall sense of hopelessness and meaninglessness

God fucking damnit /lit/. Everytime I try to sit down and actually read a book I slowly start feeling myself drift away. I get unfocused, I have to read the same sentence several times and my vision goes blurry. My eyelids start to feel heavy and eventually I can’t stop myself from falling asleep. All of this despite getting a stable 8-9 hours of sleep per night. Does this happen to you too? How do I stop the sleep goblin from stealing my intellectual gains?

>Go to popular Fantasy magazine site and sift through the quality of stuff that gets published to get an idea of how good I am going to have to be to get published
>Read this story https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/how-i-became-megapunch-or-why-i-stayed-with-dylan/
>It's just so unfunny and uninteresting
>Literally poop and toilet humor but not the ridiculous farcical kind
Seriously it's not me is it? This stuff is just garbage, how does this get published? Not trying to be demoralizing but this is considered bad by most people right? I am just asking you guys to get a gauge and understand what is needed to be published?

>>19199267
God FUCKING DAMN IT why can't I live in the matriarchy.

>it’s been 50-60 years since the last significant literary movement
Please don’t tell me that the Beats and Postmodernism were the series finale of literature. Please tell me there’s something new, something different coming soon.

>7 books behind schedule on my goodreads reading challenge
AAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

>>17417321
I-i can't read.

>force myself to read everyday
>doesn't even enjoy it but pretend i do
>doesn't play video game or smoke weed anymore when that's all i only want to do
Book for this feel?

>>16490905
BE MY /lit/ GF
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>>16360539
Confession: I dropped Dracula precisely because of that. I went in expecting Gothic settings and bloodshed, and the first few chapters were that, but then it turned into literal anime, with more "power of nakama" speeches than the average shonen, and more saccharine scenes than the average slice-of-life iyashikei anime, and I couldn't take it anymore... I'm not shitting on your opinion, I'm actually agreeing with you. It was literally like eating honey from the jar, it's so sweet it makes you feel sick.

>>16349976
>For social science books, read neither text nor footnote.
What must I read then?

>>15849350
ditto but i also kinda regret that i cant have kids with a cute black girl, i wish i was an 18th century colonizer so i could have concubines desu

>tfw read lots of philosophy but still don't have a personal philosophy

>semi depressed
>isolated
>very few friends
>lazy and undisciplined
>19 y/o NEET
>no gf
Any books that will help me get out of this rut? I just want to be happy

>>15467525
GOD PLEASE, ALL I WANT IS A QT GF THAT LOVES ME