/lit/ - Literature

Your prose is nice, you just lack drive and are afraid of the big scary world no one told you would be waiting for you once you finished your transit through college. You have potential, and you know how to explain yourself, so just do it.

First order of business is that you must stop being a lump, and have some adventures. What will you write about if you've never done anything? Go to Europe, sleep with a prostitute, go to Asia and visit a remote monastery. Go to south America and build houses for the poor.

>You have to live before you can put anything on the page.

Now get out of here you crazy little faggot.

>>4050520
>Posts of a picture of infinity zest unironically
>This being contrite mean skill
Stay Pleb my friends

/Lit/I am in need of some serious advice.
I am 21 years old, turning 22 in December, and I do not feel like a man. I am embarrassed by my lack of experience, and honestly yearn to live to the fullest extent that I can, who doesn't?
I want to live a rich life, but I don't know how. Do I just abandon everything, an education, financial obligations, a family, and what may be real love in order to search for it? Or will that just leave me coming around full circle to find that I had it all along if only I could have committed to what I fled from?
I'm even considering joining the army /lit/, I have a constant hunger, and it cannot be satisfied by the way I live.
Please help,advice from people who actually have a clue would be appreciated.
TL;DR What makes a man a Man?
Pic Related, its what I want to be.

you now realize that guy in those beer commercials is based on hemingway

>>1442062

Also this. Her protagonists are one-dimensional and unlikeable. Her "villains" and side-characters are better-developed and more relatable.

Pic related. I pictured D'Aconia as him and it made the book slightly more tolerable

Hey /lit/

How does one live an "interesting life?"

hemingway!
he was the most interesting man on the planet

In no order.

Mason & Dixon - Pynchon: Brilliant, sprawling historical fiction. Pynchon can create fully realized characters when he wants to and M&D is a testament to that. It might be hard for some to get into because of the writing style, but once you get used to it it's really quite an enjoyable and linear read, although it digresses a bit towards the end. Basically, as soon as I had finished the book I wanted to start all over again.
Blood Meridian - McCarthy: What is there to say about this that hasn't already been said? The Judge rapes my mind, over and over. McCarthy's prose is amazing.
The Trial - Kafka: Something about this book affected me so profoundly when I read it. I can't explain it, but I feel like I could relate so well to Josef K. It's impossible to read Kafka and not see the world in Kafkaesque terms. I cannot walk into large, empty buildings or deal with any form of bureaucracy without thinking of Kafka.
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy: Oh so worth the length. It's been said that Tolstoy writes the world as if the world were writing Tolstoy. You don't feel like you're reading something that has been written, you're just experiencing everything so perfectly. I've never encountered such well-written characters.
Madame Bovary - Flaubert: I'm halfway through this, but I feel like listing it because it's one of the first times where I've picked up a book and it's clicked immediately and I suddenly understood the brilliance of the style and content. Not to mention that every sentence is amazing.

Forgive my faggy blurbs, I just don't like this whole style of "what are you reading what is your favorite book post a list and leave the thread" type deal. I want to how why people like their favorite books, or why I should give a fuck.

Stay thirsty, my friend.