/lit/ - Literature

>>16818976
>>16819098
> I actually agree with your criticism it is a problem I have
I'm that anon, (I called him retard) and I disagree with you. Simplifying it would be a heresy, yet, of course, it is your work. And I understand if you want to ''adapt'' your style to the masses. But it would be sad nonetheless. (The fact that it has ''muuh many words'' makes it funnier and more bizarre)

>>16801233
In that sense, the best way of improving is learning grammar. But, then, it isn't about being simple or purple. Bee yourself.

>>16801269
>"dust-coated floor"
That would be better if the narrator was a non-omnipresent third person, but, in this case, ''Everything in the room was covered in a thick layer of dust.'' gives a sense of individuality, like it's from the eyes of the subject.

>The absence of the chair has no perceivable connection to the fireplace
It has. ''There is no chair but, I will sit in the floor because there is a fireplace''.

just be yourself

Welp, my Sunday turned out exactly like I expected it to. Aimless sitting and walking around central London hoping that something spontaneously happens so that my youth feels like it hasn't been completely wasted.

On the positive side, I think I am finally able to stop giving a fuck about boring books that the pseuds want me to read.

Reading is so unfulfilling. I feel like I need to read shitloads of boring as fuck books or else I'm a pleb or pseudointellectuals will call me a pleb. I decided to read five extremely important books and then tell myself to forget this feeling forever. The books are the republic (read and liked), brothers Karamazov (read and disliked), war and peace (at about p60 and it's good), great expectations (40 % through and it's shit), and a tale of two cities (will probably be shit).

I hate this fucking feeling. I see fiction as entertainment, not some stupid fountain of "insights".

I should be spending my time doing practical stuff or learning stem stuff, not reading myself stupid. Everything feels like work.

To summarise, I simply don't have the balls to follow my own intuitions and tastes, even though I genuinely believe in them. And even after the five books it won't end. Dickens is boring shit but he has tonnes of boring books you'll be called a pleb for not reading. The Idiot is on my shelf and I will give it a fair shot but not have the balls to give up if it becomes boring.

I'm sick of seeing college threads filled with normies in the prime of their lives. Let's have a literary safe space for people aged 25+.

>age
>job / how you spend your free time
>reading
>hopes
>hates

>26
>ridiculously low effort government job, spend most of my free time sitting around in public feeling sad, reading, gym, internet
>The fountainhead, great expectations, war and peace
>hope I'll stop reading boring books, learn programming, do productive things in spare time
>currently consumed by blackpill despair (I'm too ugly to ever have friends or attention from women)

Guys, I keep hearing how people are stupid to question religion or the "incredible transcendental nature of continental thinkers". If you dare to ask why you shouldn't believe in any other unfalsifiable system you get abused.

So what are the benefits of pretending, I mean, knowing Nietzsche's "profound truths" (that nobody can agree on) or about any other area of bullshit, I mean, deep thought?

Does it let you walk on water or do a physics degree in two days? Where are all the superhumans kept? Surely they choose to use their incredible powers outside the Critical Theory or Women's Studies department?! Their powers are being wasted!

>go on Milo's Dangerous book amazon page
>see who is quoted as praising it

''If you don't use your freedom of speech, one day you might find that it's gone. Buy this book while it's legal.''--Peter Thiel

Smart people are /pol/... confirmed! leftypol in RUINS!

https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Milo-Yiannopoulos/dp/069289344X

Recommend me books based on my opinions below pls

I like good writing too much to enjoy most sci-fi or fantasy novels. I'm too much of a non pseud to like boring as fuck pomo novels that the dumb masses are told to enjoy. So called literary fiction is mostly extremely faggy stuff pushed by new Yorker reading "literary intellectuals". Most 19th century books are hideously ovetrated. Literary theory is bullshit. Continental philosophy is bullshit. Nonfiction books are usually unentertaining information dumps. Who shares my my taste? Here are books or authors I enjoyed.

Most modern books are marketed towards faggots. Basically the "anyone except white males" crowd. Pre 1900 books are honest books but so many are just hopelessly boring.