/lit/ - Literature

>>5824131
Pic related. It shows the normie way and the NEET way through two characters who have been friends since youth.

>>5824141
"Throughout the novel he rarely leaves his room or bed and just manages to move from his bed to a chair in the first 50 pages" lol..

Men are the same confused scared children as ever, they just learn to hide it better. Adulthood is the emperor's new clothes as a cultural institution.

>>5824144
Das it mane.

this is all you really need to understand your place in this world and how it relates to other people

Listen to this mans youtube lectures, he has more wisdom than any of us will ever be able to comprehend. I wish I discovered this at your age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTTwKn_dx0

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/apr/06/books.booksnews

>Tfw I grew up with a single mother, sister, in my aunts house
>TFW I have never felt like a man

>>5824131
>how do i become a man
first you must define what a man is
inb4 250ng/dl

Read Elliot Roger's manifesto, it's dope

>>5824178
>>5824131
shit guys, is /lit/ the new r9k?
it applies to me aswell, fuck, worst feels ever

>>5824212
It's alright, embrace your inner child. Join us on journey to adulthood as men

>>5824234
the journey never ends.

What is a man? I think your pursuit to answer this question will result in frustration. You'll be a dog chasing your tail.

You exist, you have a cock. End of story. You're a man.

The question is, what do you enjoy?

>>5824159

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYLNbZGpDmE

Hemmmmmmmingway

A man has a moustache and chest hair and works eleven hours a day in a sweatshop in India. A man doesn't worry about finding himself.2

>>5824279
>What is a man?

A miserable little pile of secrets.

>>5824343

If a man is living in the first world, why does he have to "find himself"?

>>5824131
confederacy of dunces.

it's sad that single mother's always fail to raise decent boys and they inevitably go off looking for a "male" role model and end up being degenerate manchildren.

>>5824131
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It could be about you, OP. Lost Illusions by Balzac is a also a great coming of age novel. There are many others.

>becoming a man

What a fucking spook. This is usually uttered by retarded Americans who think that dying for Israel or working for 11 hours a day for JewCorp makes them sooper mature le alfofas.

Also you can really tell that women are society's sacred objects when you realise that there are.no behavioural standards for them to live up to.

Stop this bullshit.

>>5824356
You'd think that with all this money we could afford a sound identity and purpose.

>>5824144
not him, but don't judge a book by its cover or its wikipedia page.
doesn't show how to become a man, but for a depressed person this book can be a good wake up call.
it describes of the excuses of the avoiding personality

>>5824462
Bur the Stolz parts are about becoming a man in the conventional sense of the word.

>>5824146
yes, and getting a steady job (often out of luck or priviledge) is usually when you can fully start to act as an adult and give lessons.

>>5824466
I don't remember, all I remember is I'd rate it 8/10, very good book.
tons of artists have failed trying to write about depression and listlessness.
I remember the opposition between the 2 friends.

>>5824131
tough question.
I don't have the same background, so I won't recommend my favorite books (like Bokowski's Ham on Rye, which is more about dealing with a crazy father. But it came to mind, if you want to be a tough guy)

>>5824343
top pleb

>>5824131
who do you admire?
Tom Cruise, or Obama?

>tfw halfway to 23 and don't really consider myself 'a man' yet

>>5824575
You're 11 and a half?

>>5824131
>how do i become a gentleman of society?
So you thought you'd ask a community on a Chinese cartoon imageboard, whose users comprise of virgins, paedophiles, and NEETS?

>>5824549
Neither, I look up to men like Joe Ragan and ghandi

>>5824647
Seemed like a nice place to start

>>5824647
>Chinese cartoon imageboard
come on...
the anonymous culture here is known for "do it faggot", and insults like "whiteknight", "SJW"...
I know some boards where asking about manliness would be ridiculous (protected communities with ***warning triggers***, **no bully**, policies of banning for not being cute enough), but not here.

>>5824648

Tell me about the Bob Marley posters you have in your room pls :^)

>>5825099
god you're a retard

>>5825162
at least you know my name.

>>5825150
get up stand up!

>>5824648
>I look up to men like Joe Ragan

lmaoo, if you're asking how to be a man on lit you've already failed

>>5825198
>reading books = not being a man
kill yourself

>>5825241
>reading books
>/lit/

lmaoo

>>5825150
>>5825185
I know he's not someone most would look up to, but I find his podcasts to be very inspirational

>>5825198
I'm asking if anyone has read any novels on the subject

>>5825678
The one with Russel Peters where they had to cut Deadmau5 off the whiskey because he was being a dick was fucking hilarious. Also the one with Giogio Tsoukalos where him and Rogan pretty much admit to playing the dumb or crazy guy to make money off their target audience.

>>5824407
/thread

>>5824131
Being a man is pretty much being strong enough to defend yourself and others you care about, and complete and total financial independence. Till you have those two things, you shall not be a man my son.

Sage.

>>5824407
>thinking masculinity is a spook
chickenshit beta detected.