/lit/ - Literature

I gave up reading after having to read huckleberry finn in school

>>12019785
how much did he rent you for

Ive only read like 2 books. im new and trying to get into reading and im currently on 12 rules for life. I know it sounds like bait but its not. pls no bully

>>12019794
start reading fiction. Non-fiction is scientifically boring.

>>12019792
Aaaaaahhh DAMN

>>12019794
I'm really proud of you anon. You can make it, I believe in you.

>>12019806
I plan on starting with the classics. I got 1984 and animal farm, gonna try to get catcher in the rye and all those other mandatory reads. I never read anything in my classes because I was in and out of schools growing up so ill have to go back and read all those

>>12019794
remember that starting with the greeks isn't a meme

also when people say greeks they mean homer

>>12019810
Thanks friend. doing my best

I'm sure I have but being a relatively young guy the topic of books never really comes up often in conversation with people in my age group. The only person I regularly bring up books to is my gf but she doesn't really discuss things with me, she just listens to what I have to say.

>>12019806
I disagree, non-fiction is often far more interesting than fiction.

>>12019825
>non-fiction is often far more interesting than fiction

name a non-fiction book that even comes close to something like dante or shakespeare

>>12019825
>The only person I regularly bring up books to is my gf but she doesn't really discuss things with me, she just listens to what I have to say.
That poor girl.

>>12019785
My Dad hasn't read a book since 2001

>>12019832
Why 2001?

>>12019819
I believe it! I jumped into Nietzche and understood a good chunk of it but its clear that I need to go read plato and homer and stuff just to grasp it all. I also just bought Infinite Jest after browsing here for a while and it made me realize I shouldn't just jump into complex books without improving my comprehension and all that so im starting small

>>12019829

>>12019836
damn

>>12019834
9/11 touched a lot of lives

>>12019840
Yeah, and your priest touched a lot of kids.
But why is that a reason to stop reading?

>>12019850
God is dead and we all lost our innocence

>>12019840
it really brought some people down to earth

>>12019830
She's actually more well-read than I am. I'm not so autistic that I'll speak at length about it but I'll bring up an idea I found poignant.

>>12019829
Nothing comes close but I'm talking about averages not the best literature of all time. I'd rather read a standard textbook on any subject I find interesting than a middling work of fiction.

>>12019852
They didn't fly so good.

>>12019785
i meet a family living out of an rv in the national forest,they had a 10 year old kid with dreads that was pre-literate,i noticed when we played xbox on my friends generator set up that the boy was not reading the text.i then showed him my copy of homer explained its history and taught him to memorize the opening lines of the butler translation

>>12019785
My best friend is illiterate, he has never finished a book before not even retarded shit that he is interested in. Funny though, he’s still much more intuitive and capable of incisive critique than most of my classmates and the anons i encounter here who have masters and phd’s from elite universities.

>>12019966
Intelligence and knowledge aren't as correlated as people would like to believe.

I can't tell if I'm illiterate or not I don't read the highbrow art books lit likes a lot of them just say stuff I thought as a teenager and young adult or are boring and obtuse for the sake of it with prose that reads like an English major who's "experimenting" I just read my funny books from humorists . The funnies!
>>12019794
>>12019819
Not start with Romans?

>>12019990
Intelligence that isn't applied is no better than ignorance.

>>12020001
retarded busybodies ceaselessly inflicting their stupidity on the world are the source of all calamity

>>12019995
>Not start with Romans
The Romans started with the Greeks. The Roman national epic is a sequel to the Iliad. The Roman historiographic tradition (Livy, Tacitus, Strabo) and rudimentary scientific knowledge (Pliny the Elder, Vitruvius) mostly builds upon Greek knowledge of the world. Roman sailors and soldiers used maps and geographical reference books made by the Greeks (Ptolemy's Geography, for example). What little there was of Roman philosophy (Cicero, Seneca, Apuleius) was almost entirely copied off the Platonists and the Stoics.
The Romans built their empire on Greek discipline and using Greek technology. What little they had of native traditions and culture were mostly their language, their military uniforms, their form of government, and some of their religious rituals.

>>12020116
>>12019995
If anyone wants to ask me any questions, I am a Pagan.

Yes, an old housemate of mine. Had never read a book outside of ones he had to read at school.
Though he had his reasons, he had some kind of autism and he couldn't relate at all to characters in books and movies etc, he was kind of odd to talk to in real life as well but he tried hard. He'd also had cancer twice by age 21 so he had other things on his plate.
Because of this thread I looked him up and he's actually doing better than me, he's an artist doing exhibitions all over the country. Out of all the people I've ever known he's the one that deserves his success the most.

>>12019785
My ex gf. I lent her East of Eden and she got around 30 pages into it and gave up. Just let it sit around for months on end. I don't think she's really ever read a book for pleasure (i.e. outside of school).

>>12019785
I have, she was my Ecuadorian Quechua house keeper for a year while I taught English in Ecuador.
I was amazed that she couldn't read or write, she spoke Quechua and Spanish fluently and took up any English I taught her easily.

>>12020230
mfw you're friends with oscar murillo

>>12019785
The average person doesn't read so yeah.

I know someone that doesn't know how to read or write except for his own name.
He can barely understand numbers

>>12019819
I am not sure if you should start reading with the Greeks. It would probably be better to start with pop-lit and then transition to more difficult texts.

>>12019806
spot the NPC

>>12019785
I had a 28 year old acquaintance who borrowed my copy of 'Of Mice & Men.' when he picked it up he said 'i haven't read a chapter book since high school.'
He returned it 6 months later unread.
I doubt to high heaven he has read anything but picture books and maybe a Simpsons comic or two in his whole life.

>>12019785
>animeposter
looks like i met one now
also rule 2 btw and r/literature might be a better place for you

i prefer literal retards or non-literate people over those who give me the false hope of "yeah i love to read" and then they recommend some YA fiction shit even though they're almost 30

>>12021788
I don't think that's helpful for someone who is serious about reading

>>12019806
>scientifically boring
go back to playing games on your phone, goblin.

>>12019806
Dumb ape

>>12019785
Someone in one of my college classes literally described himself as illiterate

What else did Donald say?

>>12021555
D-Did you guys bang?

>>12019794
Light fare is perfectly fine when you're just building up the habit.

>>12019829
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.

>>12023990
lol