/lit/ - Literature

to be called a retard by the people who have read no more than 5 books

It's the same on every board. Most people on /tv/ don't actually watch movies or series, they just shitpost.

>>16962102
This board is for us pseuds who like to talk about books that we haven't read. The more books you haven't read, the more options for discussion you have.

To make fun of people who have red more than Fife hawks

>>16962102
https://youtu.be/_JHidfKURbc

>>16962102
Five books at all or in a year?

>>16962102
>>16962131
>>16962135
>cringe pseud projection

>>16962102
I lurk and wait for threads about the books I have read.

>>16962102
Are there any good alternatives to /lit/ where people discuss western canon/classics, as well as a wide range or philosophical topics? Genuine question.

>>16962102
to jack off to pseuds seething at Marx

>>16962102
So that when I go to bed at 5 AM and need something to blame for my utter lack of focus and productivity, at least I can point to something with a modicum of entertainment value.

>>16962102
I literally have no idea how many books I have read, sadly. During my time as an undergraduate and a graduate student, I was reading so many goddamn books that a lot of them I straight up forgot about after the semester was over. There was one semester during my graduate studies where I read about thirty fucking books in three months.

>>16962102
I've read about 55 this year

>>16962424
Are you new to the internet? There's no alternative website for any hobby. Your best bet is a 4chan board, no community, or actual cancer.

>>16962102
>most people haven't read more than 5 books
Th-That isn't true, is it?

>>16962662
Can confirm, /lit/ is the only place where at least 50% of posters reliably contribute. Hard to find that elsewhere, though I wish I hadn't found it desu. The more I browse /lit/, the less I read.
>>16962666
Anon... I am afraid it is...

>>16962102
>be me
>be at 46 books since mid-March even with college classes
Haven't had this much time to read since I became a wagie two years ago
Bless you COVID-chan

>>16962657
What is your job

>>16962102
1. No one who reads knows how many books they've read, because they aren't keeping track.
2. No one who reads is interested in bragging about how many books they've read, so they ignore your garbage threads.

>>16962687
>Anon... I am afraid it is...

>>16962698
This. My best year so far.

>>16962698
das a lota books mayn
i prolly read like 10

>>16962851
Mass literacy and its consequences have been a disaster for the /lit/ race.

>>16962991
Aren't you only able to read because of mass literacy? I don't imagine you are a scion of the elite classes.

>>16963171
You really don't understand, anon - all of /lit/ are spiritual aristocrats. If it hadn't been for the population explosion after the industrial revolution, we all would have incarnated in the bodies of aristocratic scions. Unfortunately, since there is a shortage of these bodies today, our spirits were forced into lower grade vessels.

>>16962332
Either is unacceptable

Do comic books count?

>>16963195
I'd be a monk reading sacred texts, yes

>>16963328
Based Brahmin caste poster

>>16963299
This isn't /co/, so no.

>>16963349
If audiobooks count, I "read" about one every two weeks. Just finished that huge 2 part Stalin biography by Kotkin, can't wait for part 3. I'm annoyed that some shit I really want to "read" is not in audiobook format tho, specifically Houellebecq and Kaczynski. Guess I will actually have to sit down and READ those which sounds very time consuming.

>>16963482
Reading is faster than listening...if you are a ready that is

>>16964105
*reader

>tfw don't read nearly as much as I know I should

It's a combination of several factors.

1. I shitpost on 4chan a lot, and generally procrastinate a lot online in general. I do way too much online bullshitting.

2. I am a writer, in addition to being a reader. I'm actually a REAL writer in that I've had several short stories and poems published under my real name. I have spent all of 2020 actively working on a major work which I hope to get published. So some of the time I could be spending reading, I have spent writing. And I think some people don't fully appreciate how much time, how much thought process, the act of writing takes up. It's not just a matter of setting fingers to keyboard, or pen to paper. You have to give your mind time to churn and process so that you come up with ideas, plot points, character elements, that sort of thing. The crafting of a story is a process that extends beyond the actual act of writing itself.

3. I am a slow reader when I read on my own time. I love to "live" in books. I don't like to power through them to check off tallies on a list. In addition to my aforementioned tendency to procrastinate, I like to take my time with books and read them slowly, to enjoy the experience. I reread The Lord of the Rings in 2019 and I did so very slowly. It took me more than half the year. But I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I took a similarly slow pace rereading The Divine Comedy this year. Both times were very pleasurable to me, and I felt I truly enjoyed and appreciated what I was reading.

But I definitely do need to actively push to read more. I need to at least read a few chapters of my current book every single day, which I do not do right now.

Fortunately I do a decent job contributing to /lit/ because of all the reading I have done for my schooling. I have done fucktons of reading for both my undergraduate and my graduate degrees, so I can at least make sure I give good help to others on this board, where great works of Western Literature are concerned.