/lit/ - Literature

>>22999999
My bible does have those... as the apocrypha... placed in between the OT and NT

>>22926551
>made every author, even fucking Gogol, sound like Charles Dickens
>ruined the inherent humour of Dosty
>skipped passages she was too lazy to translate
>was only popular because she had a monopoly on translations, as soon as modern translators came out she lost
>dunked on by Bunin, Nabokov, and many others
Garnett trannies, I...

>>22405451
Some anons will say just get laid but that doesn't work. I've hooked up a few times from meeting girls online/dating apps, often times I feel pretty good about myself after hitting it, but a few days to a week later after the hookup I'm back here, browsing on 4chan, still acting like an incel loser, still hating myself. Pussy is overrated.

>>21638297
>it's a ride only i ever seen
What were the books on?

>>21413935
I've always wondered what it's like to be a woman. You're physically inferior to men in virtually every way, the entirety of history is built by the accomplishments of men while your gender was treated as part of the household with no access to education until around the 19th century, you're biologically made to take care of kids while men go on adventures and shit, and with exceptions like Hannah Arendt, women thinkers only ever talk about gender issues cuz they don't have anything original to say. I guess for an intelligent women who's aware of all these things it must be a very concerning or at least interesting state of affairs, especially if you want to be seen as an individual and not just a baby making machine but aren't satisfied by all the woke feminist bs, if not outright reject it. One thing that separates men from women is that men are detached from their gender, they don't ever think about "being a man/male" in that existential sense, they just see themselves as human beings first and foremost who just so happen to have xy chromosomes. In short, men are genderless in a way, or rather, they're the default, whereas women are the secondaries that follow behind and compare themselves to men, either positively or negatively. So if I were you, try to detach yourself from your gender, look at women perhaps how men would, and go from there. Studies show female average intelligence is the exact same as male average intelligence, so there's no reason you couldn't do this. If you were a man, do you think you'd be more sexist? I feel like if I were a woman I'd be a little misogynistic and just consider myself an outlier or whatever. Just a final note: a lot of feminists claim that men are fragile because they feel threatened when women act confident and smart and talk back to you. We're not threatened, we just find it obnoxious that you think acting like a stuck up bitch equals to being more respected.

>>21400647
>Also, looking for recommendations for something similar.
If you liked Crime and Punishment read more Dostoevsky, particularly Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot. For someone similar, read his contemporary Tolstoy, particularly War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Death of Ivan Ilyich. You could also check out Gogol, honestly there's no one better than the 19th century Russians imho.

>What the fuck, /lit/? Have I really just wasted 10 years of my life? Were people right when they bullied me for being a weeb in high school?
Here's the thing, I still watch anime for the animation/aesthetics/cute girls, and that's about it. I'm under no delusions that they represent great fiction in any way, though there are entertaining stories like Attack on Titan. Berserk is also good. You shouldn't feel bad about anime/manga, I'm pretty sure most people here consume it. But if that's ALL you consume then yes, you should feel bad. In any case, start reading the lit I mentioned above, unfathomable kino awaits you.