/lit/ - Literature

>>21813647
Surprised at how my life just went on a huge downwards spiral in February/March 2020, and I couldn't recover from it until the second half of 2021. I'm in a better place right now, but things from back then still haunt me to this day. I engaged in self-destructive behaviours, purposefully ruined my life, broke my relationships, engaged in vices. I can't remember most of the things that happened back then. I ended up having a mental breakdown in October 2021, and was close to committing suicide, but my life started improving from that point on. I still don't know why I didn't kill myself, but I realized that I had hit rock bottom, and things couldn't go lower than I was at that point. Sadly, I still think about what happened back then, and it causes me a lot of anguish. If I've suicidal lately, it's been because of those things I did back then. I'm afraid I could go back to my old ways. I'm afraid those things might come back and ruin my life now.

Honestly lads gaypost all you want I am also a homo but try to stick to literature instead of this thirsty never-goes-anywhere thot-behaviour.

I want to understand poetry better. What should I start reading first?

Books about alienation? I feel trapped, surrounded by people who don't speak my language, isolated, rejected, a man with no roots and no tribe. What can I read to make me feel better or otherwise improve this circumstance.

Werther and Charlotte.

>>12235371
Post-punk

>>12127523
non-heterosexuality is of little consequences except as a negation of the heterosexual ideal

>>12114017
>your gf

So what exactly makes The Recognitions so hard? Is it just that it's long or is it something like Ulysses' use of language and Gravity's Rainbow going all over the place?
Also I remember someone posting an excerpt where if I remember correctly someone was saying to someone else about how they were being fake or pseud or something like that and it was really good so if anyone can post that that would be great

How the fuck do people read several books a week? I can't even read more than 50-60 pages a day. I enjoy reading but I can't do it that much. The Internet has fucking ruined me

What's some /lit/ approved TV?
>The Wire
>The Sopranos
>Twin Peaks
>Deadwood
>Blackadder
>Fawlty Towers
>The Office (UK)
>Peep Show
>The Inbetweeners
>NGE
>Utena
>LotGH
>Mushishi
>Lain
>Monster
>Haibane Renmei
>FLCL
>Haruhi
>Monogatari
>Cowboy Bebop
>Bernard-jou Iwaku
Any objections? Any other nominations?
and don't you dare nominate Black Mirror

How old were you when you started reading literature that this board would approve of?
How old were you when you read your first 'difficult' book?