/lit/ - Literature

>>22370178
I'm also reading this and I want to drop it. I'm at the Kirillovich, the prosecutor's speech and it's so boring now. The best parts have already been read.

>>22275838
no alcohol

>>21803621
>I don't know why
> I don't know why I feel scared
Literally because if its not the next Romeo and Juliet, people will shit on it and nobody will even buy a book from you ever again. You get 1 shot to make a good impression, and if you dont, you may as well off yourself

Covid=permanent summer

>don't take notes while reading nonfiction
>when thinking back I end up being unable to fully grasp it after a couple years
>do take notes while reading
>end up reading at a quarter of the speed and write a full page of notes for every 3-5 pages of the nonfiction text
Which do you prefer? Reading it quickly and understanding it faster, but being unable to revisit concepts without re-reading? Or reading it slowly and taking notes so you can look back in a few years to refresh yourself without having to re-read?

>>11923273
>Pumps out book after book all while going to conventions, managing a podcast, teaching a writing course, and taking care of Mormon duties

As mediocre as his books are, at least he has a good work ethic and is well disciplined. I wish I was.

Having a hard time accepting that I'm not adapted to the sexual marketplace fellas
>>11779746
I listen to whatever /mu/ tells me to, lately Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Can you imagine Sysiphus happy, /lit/?

is there a type of person more odious than those who've read infinite jest, some dostoevsky, camus and think they have everything figured out? not even booktubers are this bad

I read all WoT books this year and I disliked it from the first to the last. I suppose some could be called mediocre in the context of the series, but after I stepped out of this cesspool and read some Dazai and Pandora's Star (which wasn't stellar, but infinitely superior to WoT in every way) and American Psycho I realized just how terrible the last months had been and how awful pretty much every book from this series was by normal standards.
Bad prose, bad world building, bad characterization, bad story. There are no redeeming qualities. What started as a mediocre Lord of the Ring rip off turned into the biggest turd I have ever read.

I started just skimming chapters and skipped entire characters and missed nothing. The entire 200 pages worth of Elayne's throne bullshit amounted to absolutely nothing. The endless descriptions of clothes and never changing mannerisms were mind boggling, and I say that as someone who immensely enjoyed American Psycho.

>>5098483
Even cleansing the taint had barely any consequences. It might as well not have happened for the impact it had on the plot. The Cunt Sedai simply did not believe it and consequently completely ignored it and the men's craziness was still a plot point.