/lit/ - Literature

I'm so fucking exhausted from work that I can't bring myself to write. What do bros?

Last night I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep when I had an epiphany of sorts:
Your life trajectory is pretty much set in stone from the moment you are born. “You can be anything you want to be” is an illusion. Everything you do aside from meeting basic necessities is ultimately just something to pass the time until you die.

It also occurred to me that I am most certainly not the first person to think about this.

Do any philosophical works expound on this idea?
Can you recommend me any?

>be me
>12 year old me reads fantasy
>get to action scene
>heart is pounding, reading really fast, in a state of flow
>be 27 year old me
>action scene makes my eyes roll back into my head with boredom
>get really into scenes where main character is finally linking up with his love, or some other social drama involving the heart
Is this what it’s like to grow up? I never imagined being an adult male who loves romance

How have your literary tastes changed over the years?

When I was a teenager and younger I read pop lit: Harry Potter, Eragon, Stephen King.

Nowadays, at 27 years old, all I read are books that 10 or 15 years ago you could not have paid me to read. Like War and Peace and Proust. I distinctly remember believing I would never read such things and that they were “boring” and “outdated.”
In part thanks to /lit/ my mind was opened to the great works and now all I want to do in life is sit down with a nice cold brew coffee and while away the hours reading about provincial life in some European country.

>go to college
>fall into the trap of believing in all the typical academic ideas that are now taking over our institutions (CRT, gender theory, other critical theories)
>basically a bleeding heart liberal
>graduated college
>/lit/ gets me into the classics and philosophy
>become extremely anti-academia and anti-“progressive” all from reading great works of literature
Anyone else?

>>17136245
It's kinda just on alot of assumptions that when a story is created it is not just put on paper but rather birth the existence of a new world in a way. or that parallel universes even exist. if the former is true then who is to say that our universe is not one of many perpendicular universe? it's just a really weird thought i've had brewing for a few weeks

>Your favorite book
>Your deepest, darkest secret

>>15450994
>born to mate for slave auctions

why live?

how are you holding up, /lit/?

>>15360394
none of these people said any of this. Why is it chique for technocrats to pretend to be well read? Is it to justify their perverse wealth? It does not work. Everybody knows that it is mainly luck and nepotism. They love posturing:
>muh 100 hour work week (work goy and you may become project manager)
>muh books
I doubt that bezos, musk and billy boy ever read anything substantial. They read yuval harari and pinker at best. Stuff that confirms their world view. If they actually read the classical canon they would wake up with a cold sweat from guilt. Dont believe these idiots

I can’t sleep, /lit/

how are you holding up, /lit/?

>>15266484
Just finished a thousand page novel and feel somewhat depressed. It was absolutely great but so deep that it fucked my head up. I am anxious and felt guilty for how I lived my life so far. I habe to digest that before I read something else. Why is all that is good so painful?

>Your favorite book
>Your deepest, darkest secret

how are you holding up, /lit/?

>Just want someone to love and share in the small joys of life
>Everyone in my social circle is essentially a free love hippie
>Everything is about sex, romance is dead
>Once got called a bigot for not agreeing 'polyamourous' relationships are good
Is life supposed to be a repeatedly fluctuating experience of great humor and emptiness at the realization of how absurd it is?

What are the most redpilled books?
No, I don’t mean “Redpilled” in the /pol/ sense. When I say redpilled books I mean books that will change my understanding of reality. Books that will slap me in the face with their assertions and observations about life.

literature for life not turning out the way i had hoped it would as a kid?

I'm really fucking depressed and unhappy with no energy left, the whole country is in quarantaine for a few weeks because of the corona virus. Recommend me some books to get me out of this shit i'm tired

Anyone feel like you were more creative and imaginative as a kid?

What should I write to diminish the pain in my daily life?

Got alot of drafts, looking throught them to find any gold but it's all just shame really.
got put on the graveyard shift for a few months so i need to be REAL disciplined (had to fix up my room and everything too.
Even though i have tons of friends now, i have good physical health, and i have a good sleep schedule, I still want to fucking die most of the time. I might have depression, but if i get it looked at i might loose my job.
Who the hell eats raisins?