/lit/ - Literature

How can I stop being such a fucking moron and falling into dogma or feeling the need to attach myself to material things to define myself without going down the rabbit hole of highly philosophical works or ascetism?

>>16644135
>The unmooring left me existential for a few days

>>16223602
yeah this nigga don't talk so good

Brb gonna have my parents pay my way through life

>pretty gay. I’m curious
no shit faggot

>read the first 100 pages of Anna Karenina
>it's just fine
>mfw

Why is Tolstoy supposed to be better than Dostoevsky?

>markets book as a sci-fi novel
>mfw it's just a fantasy book with spaceships thrown in

Do people who say they only read for prose literally mean it? Like they pay 0 attention to the story or characters or ideas and just want to hear pretty mouth sounds?

>despite -- or perhaps because of --

>>14783721

>"A new right and a new left are rising"
>mfw the authors are apparently ignoring the new centrism movement

>>14341887

>a bunch of dead white guys

yikes! I'll take a pass

>>14323390
>>14323503

>mainly reads dead white men

yikes

>>14292903

>waaahhhh please listen to my man problems even though I live a better life than 99% of women

yikes

>>14254635

>unironically reading a book rated above a 3.0 on goodreads

>>14234436

>paying that much to read a bunch of dead white guys

yikes

>>14216735

>>14214827

>US Presidents biographies

>>14209484

If you can't have fun without using drugs, you definitely have a problem. Please contact your local drug addiction support group, right now.

>50 pages into Infinite Jest
>only two short footnotes
Okay /lit/, what the fuck is happening? I was expecting them to come up every few paragraphs.

When will the memes like Whitehead, Land and Guénon die? They're getting stale.

what if I only read ebooks? How do I post my stack?

>The Prince is satire.
Why do pseuds say this?

>every discussion devolves into capitalism vs communism
>at least 5 regular tripfags
>only meme philosophers are discussed
Yeah, I'm thinking this board is dead

What are some books about sitting at your laptop at 11.49 pm on a Wednesday, wasting time online before bed, but then imagining yourself immediately dying, and slouching forward and lying your head on the laptop, as an intert meat sack, utterly banal and inconsequential?