/lit/ - Literature

In college to expose myself to more topics and ideas and then it ramped up after I graduated and moved back home where I had no friends and needed to stave off the barbs of ignorance penetrating my brain piece. Now I'm depressed with no friends and drink too much and read because I can connect with characters in novels in ways I never have been able to do with other people in real life.

I've always been a reader but I started reading big boy books around 12 or 13, starting with Dubliners. People who read to "change their lives" or whatever are maximum cringe.

>>12366827
>ywn buttfuck your tomboyish /lit/ sidebitch on her poorfag student bed
why live

Fits and starts since early teens. Started to up the title count in 2010.
On the one hand I wish I could read more/faster, but on the other I don't want to live like a complete hermit. The only good thing about work is getting out and socializing.
The work still sucks even if I like my coworkers

Nice haunting film

19, uni student, lonely/loser, read occasionally, watched tons of movies, hmm, aren’t books the same thing (sometimes better even?) read a smattering across many genres, I was poor (still am) and the cheapest used books were classics, and lookie there, that there crime and punisher by a one, Fedor Dos-dos...toyehvski? Has a cool cover. Nor did I treat reading the same ever again, and for the next year I was quite literally high on literature, could not get enough.
Then I found /lit/...

>>12366925
shut the fuck up

>>12366928
Bump

>>12366925
Never come back to /lit/

>>12366827
haven't started yet

>>12366925
Shut the fuck up

>>12366827
When I was about nine my teacher gave me the Alice in Wonderland and Narnia books because was nice and knew I liked reading.

>How has you life changed since?
Mostly downhill but it's probably unrelated.

>>12366827
I really got into literature when I was 17 after reading Hamlet on a five hour flight across the country at night

>>12366925
Shut the fuck up

>>12366827
When and why: Since Christmas, read two or three books a year before now, spent pretty much the entirety of last year switching back between Herodotus' Histories and Plato's Republic. I just want to be knowledgeable and to have something intellectually challenging to engage with since all my real life relationships have been disappointing in that way.
Bonus: Not at all.

>>12366827
>there's a guy in my uni who knows about incels, r/TheDonald, 4chan and /lit/ memes
>said I looked like Henry David Thoreau (unkempt)
>mfw I alienated him by being too weird, rightwing and incel

>>12366827
i was depressed, my teacher was gloryfing Foucault, so i started to read him, then Nietzsche, then i went on Philosophy degree, and i thing that improved me like nothing else

Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky at 15, I'm not sure why, I wanted to dive into something obscure and unknown, at the time. I ended up liking them genuinely.

I don't know if anything changed that wouldn't have had happened otherwise.

I've always been a reader but I started reading serious and intellectually challenging literature at the age of 18. I have since become even more lonely, miserable and annoying.

>>12368139
>there's a guy in my uni who knows about incels, r/TheDonald, 4chan and /lit/ memes
What a terrible retard he must be. It's good for you not to hang out with this person.

>>12366827
I've always read elemental genre fiction and comics, around 2010-11 I started mixing in a serious book or two each year and 2017 was the first year I read more "literary" works than non-literary.

>How has you life changed since?
I've become a closeted pseud and generally a more happy person.