/lit/ - Literature

What do you read when you start wishing you were dead again?

I wish I had a competent/non-pretentious way of expressing my feelings regarding our existence as meat puppets living in a physical world that cannot and will never live up to our expectations or provide what our over-evolved minds really want.
Not only that, but thinking about my slowly decaying body and the final moments of absolute terror I'll feel in nearly every death-scenario drive me up the fucking wall, not only because it produces me great anxiety, but because it's such an intense topic.
Imagining that the worst day of my life is yet to come totally undermines any feels I experience at this very moment: I enjoy life on the notion that one day I'll experience the most horrible pain, the most horrible loneliness, something I can't escape from, something that is waiting for me on the horizon. How can I still go on living, how can I still have any projects knowing that my future is not only certain death, but prior to that absolute despair?
I feel like I'm on the verge of falling into a very dark abyss I'll never crawl out of: Right now I'm balancing on a tight rope, feeling safe and content, but any moment now I'll fall, and I'll remain at the bottom forever.
I experienced baby's first existential crisis 5 years ago, and though I have been numbed to the bad feels that came to me everytime I woke up, I feel, no I know, the worst is yet to come.

The meaningless of life, our mortality, our terror of death, our incompatibility with nature, these totally eclipse any made up belief/value that exists. It's the most intense and most interesting aspect of our existence, this whole angle of existential horror and despair

It's such an amazing and interesting topic. I only wish I could express it coherently and better than the average 14 year old redditor.

>>10847593
But I'm halfway through
>>10847611
Really?

Fucksake guys you better be wrong

>>10667398
>Just played through the entire Master Chief Collection today

>Goddamn it, now I want to re-read Protector and The Ringworld books again

>Have a pile of unread books to get to though

Convince me to not do it guys.. Also, what are some other good "mysterious superstructure in space" kinds of books? I've read the Rama stuff already.

>>10362801
"The Foundation for Exploration


The most important organization of thought in history."

I was going to read a little bit to not dismiss you, too.

>>7480365
>"If you are reading something so disguting I might as well help you understand it".
>I might as well help you understand it
Brah, you missed out on some primetime puzzi.

>>6139790
>how so? she is easily bored and doesn't like when i don't find something she likes to do together to amuse her.

Jesus Christ. You're a fucking mangina. Fuck that actually, you might have a pussy.

Let's hope you and her go down in a blaze so you can learn a bit about women. Honestly, I'm praying for you to lose her and get with someone better.

Men like you hurt my soul, you deserve better.

welp, /lit/ I think I've built up the moxie to ask for literary advice, I've been at a few stories for awhile and I'd appreciate if someone of you mucks can give it a look and tell me if I'm moving in the right direction? if any interest, perhaps we could trade emails?

>that feel when you don't know how to ask because you don't know if they might react negatively to weed

Just ask her though. If she says no, she says no. If she judges you for asking, you probably didn't want to hang around her in the first place.

Tatoos are for plebeians.

I love nice people, regardless of race.

>>1994722
>medieval Ireland
>what we should aspire to

I was really tempted to just laugh and blow by your post but I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt.

>A disagreement over the law or finding of fact could result in a feud, but you had basically no hope of going against what was obvious to anyone or playing lawyer games with technicalities

How is there a law in the first place if there's no centralized legal system? And what the fuck, are you advocating mob rule?

>It was notably mild and reasonable, with most penalties being compensation of some sort, since to work well it needed a consensus that justice was being done, otherwise it would provoke feuds.

So this works because if it doesn't there'll be civil war? Why even take that risk? And what if a monopoly with a huge privatized military force treated an average Joe unfairly? What's he going to do? Seems he'd lose a Feud pretty handily. This is why we need state-controlled armies. You guys are fucking loons I swear.

>>1973365
>Flannery O'Connor
>one of the finest literary minds who ever lived


My dick bent in three places when I read that

>>1802422
>thread free of arguement or signs of derailment
>not on my watch!

“One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about” - Bertrand Russell

>>1796824
But if you didn't understand anything the woman said and continued to bombard her with responses to what you misinterpreted as her own statements you would not be communicating, you would just be making sounds at each other.

Fitting you think books are

>>1785409
>born at 1 1/2 lbs
>realistic manga style
>quantum physics
>black
>lesbian
>pansexual

kill.exe

Why are you here?

Get out.

>>1480241
Okay, well, let me ask you something then, and this is a serious question if I'm going to pick the series up again. I actually never finished the book, I read another one instead and didn't look back.

How much reading do I need to do where I don't know what the characters are talking about, where there are names/places/events/historical information- ex. "burn's sleep" that are not explained, and the like? I feel like if that stopped, or I got through it, I'd like the books.

>>1440486
>kawaii
>>>/c/

>master race

why doesn't the master race e-reader have a touch screen again?

>>1396979
I got the 3G version for christmas, it's fucking loud in my room because of interference w/ speakers.

I don't leave my house so I guess it's not that good for me

>known manufacture problem
>reading on an LCD display

>>1372250
>buy
>books

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE do it