/lit/ - Literature

Never, I learned from young age to contain my autism in public. The only time people realize I read books is when they come visit and see my home library, but that rarely happens anyway. If I could afford a bigger place I'll just keep all the books in a special library room and not in the living room.

>>21287713
it happens if I am on a date
>talking about hobbies
>I mention reading
>She asks what I'm into
>show my power level
>'Oh I don't really read, anon, but that sounds interesting!'
I just wish I could find a woman who actually reads and reads interesting books. ideally she'd a higher power level than me

>>21287755
>a woman who actually reads and reads interesting books
haha hahahahhaaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>21287762
I know anon, I'm fighting a losing battle.
I don't think it's a coincidence that so many good authors were sexless virgins

>>21287713
Someone will tell me they love to read, I'll prod the territory by saying I enjoyed some total entry-tier literature like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka or Orwell, the kind of stuff generations before the internet would read at 15-17, and then they'll immediately be flustered and scared and say they wish they took more time to read.
I'm not even trying to bait them into it, I hate their reaction, and I would never even for a second consider bringing the haughty, pretentious, posturing attitude of /lit/ into a real world conversation, but it seems completely impossible to me to even broach the subject of literature to many people, without them automatically assuming you're about to go full sperg on them.

>>21287766
> I hate their reaction, and I would never even for a second consider bringing the haughty, pretentious, posturing attitude of /lit/ into a real world conversation

What's with this btw? People feel like they're being called out for not reading and assume you're pretentious because of it. Nah man I've just read books since I was a child

>>21287770
The anger of the pleb.

>>21287713
I told some pretentious nerd why Don Quixote is a shit book and how this in turn means that Borges was a fucking retard. This resulted in him introducing me to several other people as "a person with interesting opinions about Don Quixote" which is probably the worst thing that have ever happened to me.

Every day, and without shame, but I don't consider it some mark of intelligence, like the rest of you seem to. Everyman's hobbies give them gifts, mine just happens to stuff my head full of obscura.

>>21287777
kinda deserved for calling borges a retard.

>>21287755
What are you into, anon~?

>>21287780
Yeah, I've since realized that I'm actually the retard. However I still tell people the very same thing including calling Borges a retard because I think it's funny. Few people have actually read Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote and those who have are usually easily convinced that my (incorrect) opinion is right.

How much of your pl is recommended to show qt lit girls?

>>21287796
French pedophiles, depressed (problematic) americans and whatever poetry you pretend to have read.

>>21287790
i'm blushing :3

>>21287770
We are just very clever animals, it can’t be helped.

>>21287799
I have gathered 5 Jean Paul Sartre novels from a free library,in my shelf just in case

>>21287777
>got completely and utterly rekt
>later seethes about it impotently and anonymously on the internet
Based pretentious nerd to be honest, what were some of those people? Especially based with the haughty but not entirely impolite reference to to "interesting opinions", but also blowing you the fuck out by immediately demonstrating that your contrarian-for-the-sake-of-contrarian take is trite and has been done in a much more skillful, stimulating and interesting manner before.

>>21287755
"i want a girl who shares my hobbies" is such a retard trap

>>21287817
if you're only looking for sex, sure, but I've been in long relationships with girls that don't share my interests and it normally means that my interests have to be sacrificed.

It would also be nice to discuss lit properly for once without coming onto this website - I can't think of any of my male friends that have touched a book in the last decade either.

It's worse if your movie tastes are completely different,that normally ends with you watching romcoms for the rest of your life.

>>21287817
Yeah it's best to just love them as they are. They have their own way of seeing things. Don't try to make men out of them cuz it'll just disappoint you and confuse her.

>>21287838
>>21287817
to be clear, she doesn't have to like the same books as me. in fact a girl who is super into good books that I've never heard of and wants to tell me about it sounds hot as fuck.

>>21287778
>Normal hobbies make things
I feel this way too. I sometimes wish I had a productive hobby like playing guitar or photography or something. As it is I just consume ever more obscure things.

>>21287833
Yeah it’s true because if you don’t pick based on mutual interest, then you’re resigning mostly to the base instincts, and that wears off pretty fast. That’s how you get stuck in a shit relationship with kids.

>>21287851
>That’s how you get stuck in a shit relationship with kids.
it happens all too often. nearly happened to me. also, if your interests are being sacrificed when you don't have kids, just imagine how little time you will have for them after you have kids.

>>21287842
Literature has no purpose. Men are the only sex that cares about stuff that has no purpose. It's only men who collect model trains just cuz it's fun. Women need to see a reason to do something before they do it. Reading challenging literature has no purpose so women don't care about it. Unless maybe she's convinced herself that it will give her social skills or something. It's the same reason why only men dig random holes in the ground - it's the ultimate purposeless activity.
*It's not as simple as "women don't go in depth". They go in depth if they see a reason why it will benefit them. They go super autistically in depth into skin care because it makes them more attractive. They go super in depth into reality shows because it teaches them social skills.
Women are smart but they need a clear reason to do things.

>>21287868
Bugman simp. Literature is the soul of the world around us. It is what enlivens and animates the capillaries of the social form. It has a purpose, but it is elusive to the small-souled bugmen and the fairer female sex.

>>21287765
>so many good authors were sexless virgins
lol cope, the best ones had no trouble at all

>>21287868
>They go super in depth into reality shows because it teaches them social skills.
lol, get tested for the tism

>>21287888
name one

>>21287896
Bukowski? Hemingway? it's a silly notion. if you're smart enough to write good you can figure out how to get laid.

>>21287896
Lord Byron
Honore de Balzac
Cormac McCarthy

>>21287905
>>21287906
Prove they've had sex.

>>21287905
in reality I can get laid I just cant be bothered with women who don't share my interests anymore.

>>21287910
>Lord Byron
He had a daughter.
>Honore de Balzac
He had a daughter.
>Cormac McCarthy
Multiple kids, one of which he dedicated The Road to.

>>21287914
>I just cant be bothered with women who don't share my interests anymore.
which I think is perfectly fine. i just hate the retarded incel shit that seems to pop up and be falsely tied to being smart.

>>21287917
yeah the incel stuff pisses me off too. I wish I could explain to them that sex itself is actually pretty overrated and not worth sperging over.

>>21287896
Tolstoy, Hamsun, Musil, Joyce, Beckett, Pynchon, Thompson, Hesse, Heller, Conan Doyle, Wilde, Celine, DeLilo

No particular order, I literally just looked at the part of my bookshelf visible to me and started listing names until I didn't care to go on, because incel delusions literally are delusions, incurable by external evidence.

>>21287925
my original reply was mostly a joke, obviously there are authors who have had sex

>>21287915
Next step of the incel delusion is that those are actually bastards and they were cuckolded, because the most foundational and unshakable belief of the incel is that there are some people who are apodictically unfuckable, and the rest of creation flows from that instituting Truth.

>>21287713
I don't know if it's specifically to do with literature, but I remember completely deconstructing (in a calm, friendly, non-confrontational way, just as part of casual conversation) someone's prior belief in atomism/materialism at a gathering once, and seeing the dazzled look as though they'd just seen through the veil for the first time, after they had first made some rebuttals and counter-questions which I dispatched. I remember they remarked that "there still has to be some substance to everything, right?", to which I agreed, while cautiously hinting towards what might be a more correct understanding, or at least the best direction for further enquiry. Probably the closest in my life I've come to a Socratic dialogue, even to the point of ending in a (constructive) aporia.

>>21287915
>>21287936
>still no proof
Sex isn't real.

>>21287942
Nice.

>>21287896
James "fart fucker" Joyce

I don't know if these are good examples, but people always tend to be shocked if read on your 30 minute break at wage jobs
>work a college bookstore for the back to school rush
>most kids who work there are students who are only doing the job to get the discount on textbooks
>read books on my 30 minute break
>people are shocked and ask why I read
>not what am I reading
>but why am I reading

>work at movie theater
>again, read on my 30 minute break
>luckily at the movie theater basically only one person is on break at a time
>so I have the entire break room to myself to read and no one bugs me
>I typically leave my book in the break room
>other people at this job also bring a book to read while on break
>some gay guy who's getting a degree in English or gender studies sees my copy of Proust in the breakroom
>he asks me if that's my copy of Proust in the breakroom
>after I confirm he goes on a slight rant about how he knew it was me because I'm the only person at this job who he could ever envision reading literature let alone Proust
>the reason behind his rant is there's this kid (at least 18) who ONLY reads Rick Riordan
>he just reads the Percy Jackson series and the Egypt one and the Norse one over and over and over again
>this kid also gets praised by customers for being such a "smart young lad who is reading"
>that always got my goat because he would literally read while we had customers and ignore them and they would still praise him for being a smart lad reading YA NOVELS

>one time someone asked me how my weekend was or if I did anything fun
>told them I've been reading some books by an author I really enjoy
>they ask who
>I tell them the author is Nathalie Sarraute and that she is a French author who was very influential in the Nouveau Roman movement
>"Oh is that kind of like Camus? Wasn't Camus a...what did you say? New Voh what now? Well I just LOVED The Stranger haha, I think I read it in high school."
>Erm no, not exactly. Camus wasn't nouveau roman but he is a great writer and I enjoy his books
>"Haha I know right. I just remember something about the sun or something lmao"
>I then tried to engage further on Camus and couldn't get anywhere
>as soon as I started pressing things more specific than "sun lmao" they just copped out by saying they "read it in highschool lmao"

>>21287942
the dude didn't just rage quit the conversation. so I would call that a win.