/lit/ - Literature

I confess I don't understand what this is.

I fap to booktubers.

Once while I was at my friend's house, and while he was in the bathroom, I quickly fapped (I was trying to hid a hard on for several minutes by that point) and ejaculated on page 268 of his copy of Ulysses.

>>7063214

Which ones?

Going off >>7063214

I use booktube videos as background noise and sometimes fully watch them for the sole purpose of being angry. I don't know why I do this.

i've read angels & demons by dan brown. also a lot of chuck palahniuk

I never read The Republic. And I'm not planning on doing so

Joyce's work took life to me, I lived those moments he described in his novels, as if by translation, from page to life, paper to life, and it gave me the most beautiful experiences I've had but now I'm experiencing a huge withdrawal effect and realizing how fucking insane and out-of-my-mind I was

>>7063507
Why not? It's a pretty quick and easy read to be honest.

>>7063191
I'm a proud pleb. I've read almost none of /lit/ approved recommendations, save 1 or 2 that was part of a school assignment.

Bukowski got me into reading.

I own quite a few of those Barnes and Noble "leatherbound" editions.

For years I thought Arkham came from Batman, not H. P. Lovecraft.

>>7063520
One day I picked up a pencil and put it down on the desk and the sheer pointlessness of the action sent me into a deep depression that lasted 7 years.

>>7063233
The cute ones. Wish Katie's stuff was still available online.

>>7063228
What the fuck. ;_;

>>7063574
what cure

>>7063574

>>7063574
well at least you got to experience in 7 years what took the west a whole century to cover

I read about 80 of the Star Wars EU novels before they started focusing on the clone wars. I had a ton of fun with them. Even the Vong.

The only book I've fully read is the hobbit and two of the lord of the rings before I got too bored to continue.

>>7063554
Is this generally frowned upon? I have Walden and some stuff by hawthorne. I don't really see a problem with them.

>>7063228
What edition of Ulysses was it? This is important.

I'm literally too scared to read this

>>7063228
that's fucking great

>>7063191
I'm over 30 and I just read my first manga at a friend's request...and enjoyed it. now I'm reading second but I think this'll be it for me.

nausicaa (sp?)

>>7063244
I read a Palahniuk from time to time when I don't feel like reading challenging lit

I like reading Neil Gaiman for his prose. I also don't actively hate John Green

>>7063686
>I also don't actively hate John Green

pleb

I can't read greek

>>7063563
Not something to feel guilty about.

>>7063191
I enjoyed Les Miserables, solely because I sprung for a crazy poetic and liberal translation

>>7063686
JUST

>>7063662
Beserk is the only manga worth reading. Golden Age, of course. Anything after that is optional and isn't as good.

>>7063689
Possibly. But hating someone I've never met and his work, which I've never read is a lot of effort and childish

>>7063686
I don't hate John either. I would never read his books and his youtube channel I would probably enjoy if I was 10 years younger but that isn't enough to make me feel some kind of slave morality towards him

>>7063642
I read it in a snow cave by candle light. After I was done I turned off all the lights and say in complete darkness contemplating death.

>>7063702
cool! i'll add it to my list. I have a few snooty literary books to get through but i'll check it out.

I'm currently reading nausicaa (like it) and I read masion ikkoku (about a dude going through/finishing college who is in love with his building manager???) it...was...awesome.

>>7063700
does anyone actually disagree with with?

>>7063712
If I never went on /lit/ I'd probably be enjoying Crash Course.

>>7063727
Cheerios don't carry STDs

>>7063700
>>7063727

If he has to turn people into cereals to make his point, then it isn't very humane

>>7063723
Nausicca is great - have you seen the film? Never read that other one. I don't read manga all that often.

You can find Berserk entirely online, by the way. Golden Age is a very long arc near the beginning.

>>7063727
Yes; cereals don't carry diseases, don't have any sense of morals (subjective or otherwise), don't have a concept of love or companionship, and are not humans. It's a false equivalency and he should feel bad for equating humans with cheerios.

My backlog is so massive just thinking about it leaves me depressed because there's no way I can read them all

>>7063749
of course I've seen the film. it's why I bothered with the manga.

it's great. manga does have more content but the movie does capture the mood and style of it really well.

I fear of becoming a "pseudo-intellectual", but can't help to look at everybody as stupider than me

>>7063820
>can't help to look at everybody as stupider than me

oh you'll get over that once you realize that's what everyone aged 15 though mid to late 20s is thinking too. most older folks aren't into a lot of "intellectual masterbatory" stuff...not because they can't hack it...but because you get tired of it then you have a job and a family to support and your dreams are dead. it's best to not even dream at all, anon. joking aside it's just priorities. they change when you get older. I hope you're not over 30.

>>7063837
nah, i'm 19, which is why i think i'm a huge idiot and hack

>>7063727
Me, because it would predict some future things like infidelity. And I think he knows most of the people who reads him is female, so he tries to make them like him more.

>>7063849
one cool thing about being older is that I've accumulated so many embarrassing idiotic moments that I can't keep track of them all anymore. you'll get there eventually too HA. yeah life is never perfect but you learn to live in a world that doesn't meet typical youthful idealizations of how it's "supposed to work."

>>7063820

It seems you fear becoming like the rest of fam. And are half way there.

>>7063728
You sound thoroughly spooked

>>7063936
maybe because its spook ridden itself and I can now see it for what it really is.

>>7063750
He's not equating cheerios and humans, he's applying human reactions and morals to them. If anything, he's equating eating and having a relationship, which are similar enough considering you do both based on how much you like the food/person you're enjoying.

The point, as I'm sure you know, is that feeling special is a dumb desire and not being unique (or special) doesn't necessarily mean you're not fully appreciated, or loved.

You think it's preposterous to compare both situations because you believe sex is something more than merely enjoying a person, akin to how one enjoys food. Which is fine, but not everyone agrees.

You'll also have to tell me why women enjoying numerous cerealpeople is worse than men doing the same thing

>>7063698

Norman Denny? That's the one I'm reading and it's crazy over the top. I don't know if that's how Hugo wrote in French, but goddamn, everything is romanticised to hell and back.

>>7063549
Kerouac got me into reading.

>>7063992

There is literaly nothing wrong with this. The Kerouac hate is mostly just a /lit/ meme. He, along with Bukowski are good writers.

As far as /lit/ is concerned if you're not writing something either incredibly technical or all encompassing your work has no value.

Writers like Bukowski and Kerouac do their own thing and do it well. If you like that thing then what's the problem?

>>7064089
>Bukowski is a good writer
AHHHHHHHH MEME ALERT

>>7063637
1992 Modern Library Edition

>>7063644
I know.

I thought the same guy wrote Ulysses and Infinite Jest, in my mind the author looked like David Foster Wallace

You can imagine how greatly I was confused when I noticed that Ulysses was published in the early 20th century, DFW looks rather modern

>>7064126

Bukowski hate is the meme tbh fam smh

I am russian and read tolstoy in english.

>>7064221
Are you fucking retarded?

>>7064221

Which translation?

I believe Hunter S. Thompson was basically correct about everything political but was a hack of a writer who is, more than anyone else, to blame for the modern phenomenon of journalistic essays where the subject is first and foremost the authors.

I believe that Salman Rushdie may be the greatest English prose writer alive today but is currently at the risk of having his entire life's work associated with people who want an excuse to kill Muslims and thus being painted as a regressive or reactionary idiot, which he is not.

I believe that War & Peace was boring as fuck, horribly didactic, and outside of Pierre, not even that interesting in terms of character or psychology.

I believe the term "post-modernism" is garbage and that what Pynchon, Marquez, Rushdie, Zadie Smith, etc. all do (Wood's "Hysterical Realism") is much more closer in creative spirit to pre-realistic art (i.e. ancient Greeks) than it is to any more recent literary movements.

I have only read Inferno of the Divine Comedy.

I have never read anything by Toni Morrison.

I am Tolstoyan and read English in Russian.

I spend more time looking for books to read than actually reading.

I've felt the pofundity of reating what is considered literary, but I still look for fantasy and scifi pulp garbage.

>>7064237
>reating

>>7063681
it's not bad he just writes the same formulaic story every time with minor changes

>>7064233

These are mostly sensible and informed opinions.

Also, on the subject of Hunter S, I would not say he is to blame, more, what his publishers asked of him was to blame. He became the journalistic equivalent of typecast.

If you read some of his shorter articles where he's sticking to the subject instead of placing himself in it then he is an excellent journalistic writer, in that he sticks to the point and elaborates his points in a clear and concise manner. An excellent piece of this type was an essay he did about the origins of the hippie movement if you want to look it up.

>>7063728
I go on /lit/ and I thoroughly enjoyed Crash Course English as well as History because I'm able to mentally separate Greene as a human from the textbook and script he's presenting, which is rather lackluster.
Greene himself is a good orator and a natural personality for broadcast.

I love YA (fantasy) romance, if its target demographic is teenage girls I will probably like it.
The more she cheats the better.

I think anyone who criticizes Hemingway for being misogynistic and homophobic a complete fucking casual

i skimmed the catalog of ships

I have 100+ books on my shelf that I've never read.

>>7064180
You monster...

>>7064221
This is not horosho.

>>7064355
Hemingway isn't mysogynistic though, he simply holds women up to the same broken view of the world he holds men up to.
Yes, he talks about few women (but then really he talks about few men) and those he speaks of are greatly flawed individuals, but that's just a point of humanity.
Brett is just as broken and terrible as Jake in The Sun Also Rises, for example, despite being so in different ways, and Hemingway himself never damns or condemns her for anything other than specific actions.

Dunno about the homophobic thing, was that in his writing or in his speech?

I started reading The Odyssey and got really bored and dropped it half way.

>>7063191
>i visit /lit/ about twice a month
>i buy every shit you recommend
>i NEVER read those books
>actually i'm lazy faggot who doesn't read books
>"someday i'll read"

>>7064214
>>7064089

>>7064513
you should pick it up again and get a companion for it

>>7063727
I don't think the point is that /lit/ generally disagrees with him as much as that he represents everyone /lit/ hates.

I read Star Trek novels.

>>7063761
>tfw
look, i just back up because I was too sick of feeling like trash

Read, nigga. We're all gonna make it

Never read a single book and I've been posting here since 2009.

Robert Heinlein, specifically Stranger In a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, is what got me into literature.

I read 100+ classics a year and I only like 5% of them.

>>7064738
It's more embarrassing that you continue reading stuff you don't like.
Especially if you spend that much time on reading.

>>7064797
How do you find stuff you like without going through stuff you don't like?

>>7064830
If you go through that much stuff throughout the years you're just randomly picking stuff.
If you read 100+ books for one year, you will know what gets you hard and you can get recommendations for books that are similar.

Randomly readings hundreds year after year while disliking an overwhelming majority is just stupidity in my eyes.

>>7063624
I collect shitty out of print Doctor Who novels. I have an entire shelf of them I hide with a blanket so people don't know I'm a pleb. Also so they don't get tanned in the sun as they're fucking expensive and I might sell them one day.

>>7063691
I choose Latin over Greek.
At least I can read the corn letters without translation.

>>7064857
Well, I'm not picking at random because they're all canonical books.
But what I like about a book is unique to the book itself, so trying to find books that are similar is a pointless task. Because I like Proust doesn't mean I'm going to like Knausgaard because they're similar in some superficial way.

I've never read Stirner, yet I enforce his philosophy and shit-post as often as I can with him. I was also responsible for the "What did he mean by this?" catastrophe that hit /lit/ a week or 2 or so (i'm really bad at remembering how long ago did things happened), by making up to 5 threads in less than 2 hours.

I also use the word cuck all the time.

>>7065098
I thought "What did X mean by this?" started on /mu/

>>7065104
I'm not sure where it started, I think it's a /tv/ meme, but I'm only talking about 1 or 2 weeks or so ago when there were up to 7 threads at the time asking about it.

>>7063700
CUCK

I read to write.

>>7063191
I'm a nigger

>>7063244
I read some Dan Brown when I was 8 and it was technically challenging, would probably bore me now tho :/

>>7063700
tfw virgin gf

>>7063214
>I fap to booktubers.
me too :)

>>7063702
Pleb. Palepoli is the manga you should read if you only read one.

>>7064513
down with this sort of thing

Been on lit a few times, but I don't recognize any of the books that are talked about here so I just leave after a few min.
Does anybody here like the books by Robin Hobb? I feel like she's the greatest author I've every seen, but are there books written in her style that aren't too old. I want to be able to understand it and English isn't my first language either.

/lit/ made me go back to college.

>>7063191
Crime and Punishment got me into reading.

HAHA
I WENT STRAIGHT INTO GRAVITYS RAINBOW WITHOUT READING ANYTHING ELSE BY THOMAS PYNCHON
HAHAHAHAHA

I'M COMPLETELY BONKERS

Madeleine L'Engle is still on of my favorite authors.

got 600 pages into War and Peace and dropped
got 300 pages into Anna Karenina and dropped
really liked his short stories tho

>>7064960

I have the same selective process as you but I am less picky. I am very good at finding something I like in almost any book. The only book I've ever failed to find anything I like about is a Confederacy of Dunces.

>>7063727
Yes. I wouldn't "slut shame" or anything, but I'd be uncomfortable going out with someone with a reputation for frequent sexual encounters. In my personal opinion, the wanton exchange of sex shows that the person only values it as a physical commodity. I don't see why this is considered wrong nowadays. You're making a decision about someone based on decisions they have made which reflect the content of their character. Ps. I think this standard should be held for men as well.

>>7066120
u absolute madman!

/lit/ got me into things other than tv shows and videogames. I am a STEMlord postgrad, I developed an overwhelming hatred for everything constituting nerd culture and science culture around me, I couldn't tolerate video games anymore, I guess I wanted to be a snob when I started. This place indulged that. I lived the snob life for a year and eventually mellowed out and stopped defining my identity by my hobbies. I read loads now but also enjoy other cartoons etc. I still can't stomach anime though. Fuck that shit.

>>7063191
I've read all Harry Potter books and I loved them. Hate me /lit/.

I can't buy books on account of being poor.
I download every e-book I find online.
I never read them because laptop screens are just really bad.
I'd probably buy an e-reader but I can't find kobo aura h2o anywhere where I live.

>>7066190
It's a secret that everyone has read them and everyone fucking loves them.
I don't understand /lit/ hate for Harry Potter.

>>7066197

It's to maintain the us vs them dynamic of /lit/ vs pleb boogeyman of the year.(/r/books this year)

I unironically read fanfiction, and am of the belief that some of it is of high quality.

I got horrifically deceived and betrayed by an egoist who I met as a result of reading Stirner.

>>7063727

I think the analogy he's using is pretty shitty, doesn't get across the correct argument at all.

But my girlfriend has had sex with others in the past and so have I, so I agree with him that who gives a fuck. Doesn't make sense to me how people feel so betrayed by it, they literally had no idea who you were at the time, why the fuck shouldn't someone have sex on their own time?

>>7064513

I stopped reading Beowulf with like 15 pages left because I was way too bored.

I'm infuriated with the current illegal immigrant crisis occurring in Europe, as this will surely affect my prospects of moving to Germany next year.

Also, I hate when my fellow americucks try to defend Israel.

>>7066276
The immigrants will be easy target come WW3.
That is their only purpose.

I don't read

>>7063642
Do it. It's so short. Then watch the film adaptation 'A Simple Death'.

>>7063727
>does anyone actually disagree with with?
no, women exist to be fucked
even the feminists and a few betas agree on this

>>7063191
I have not enjoyed every Kafka book i've read

>>7066308
Did you read translations?

I thought Great Expectations was beyond boring.

>>7066301
Why exclude men? Neuter?

>>7063727
What is so hard to understand about past patterns predicting future patterns. It shows how much she values sex and refraining from pleasure. It also matters how many drugs she has taken and her relationship with family, it would be great if we could ignore significant risks but that doesn't change the likely outcome.

It took me 3 months to finish Inherent Vice. I still pretend to like it if someone asks how I feel about it.

>>7066390
But why exclude yourself? is the point.

>>7066422

Yah, I agree on this point. Which is why I agree with Green. I'm a shitty prospect, I lie, do a lot of drugs and have cheated a fair bit. I can't expect a girl to accept that without myself at least being willing to accept any past she has.

It's a 2 way street.

>>7064428
That's not how you pronounce хopoшo

>>7066422
Double standards will always exist. See I don't believe men and women are equal in every respect, so I see no conflict. I don't expect to be picked up by beautiful women either which means I tend to make conversation first. So if a woman believes men have identical standards to the expectations men have of her simply out of spite for those standards then I guess that would also be a red flag for long-term partnership.

>>7063702
>meme-opinions

I am more intelligent than 98% of this board

>>7066482
99% are DFW, pinecone, joyce bots.

>>7066482
>I am less intelligent than 98% of this board.
We know!

I hated GR,it felt like most of it was filler for no reason. Lot 49 was much better.
At least some parts of GR are amazing, pynchon writes beautifully when he wants to.

>>7066482

Everybody on this board thinks this, but what did you actually achieve to prove this? Have you ever published anything, have you ever studied at a top 10 university, have you ever won an award for anything?

>>7063554
I have a leather pocket edition of The Hobbit, it's pretty nice. Has that classy gold trim on the page edges, that always makes me erect.

>>7063727
im a girl btw

>>7063554

I do too.

I think the first three Halo novels are really good and I re-read them regularly

>>7063507
You should. It's pretty good.

>>7063520
After reading 'A Painful Case' and 'The Dead', I could confirm that he was the best writer of the 20th century. I didn't need to read the rest of them, I could just feel it in Joyce. I've still to read the rest of his works, but I'm sure that I will.

Harold Bloom called the current era the "Chaotic Era" and I think that's correct.

David Foster Wallace's run on sentences and clunky syntax is far better executed than Cormac McCarthy, though McCarthy is by far the subtler writer.

Ali Smith is potentially the best female writer alive.

Walt Whitman should be kicked out of the Western Canon. His poetry is meant to be Socratic: self-aware, a product of the time, and without wisdom. The time has come to put him aside for the more contemporary poets.

>>7066767
i heard these were really entertaining, don't be ashamed anom

>>7063624
I'm so depressed that the EU is getting canned. I invested so much of my childhood into the Thrawn trilogy, the Corellia/Centerpoint stories, the Rogue Squadron series, even the New Jedi Order. I hated the Vong at first, but eventually started to like seeing my favorite characters pitched against a ruthless, brutal, conquering hegemony.

>>7066826
Completely agree. If it's entertaining, never be ashamed of having read it.
In any case you come out having read MORE than others. Knowing more is never a bad thing.
Also, I can't believe people give others a hard time for having read Harry Potter. Whoever believes that HP is worthless, should just an hero already. Only fucking Twilight is worthless, and that too only because the fucking vampires sparkle like fucking fairies and pixies. Even 50 shades is a tolerable erotic literature if you are a woman.

>>7063244
When I was like 12 I fapped to the bit in Angels&Demons where the dude almost rapes the main female character (forget her name)

>>7066878
Aah, to be young and horny all the time.

>>7066804

mfw these are my two favorite short stories

'A Painful Case' I read like two weeks ago and it was just so sad

>>7063244

I did too.

When I was 14.

What's everyone's favorite e-reader?
Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage or Kobo aura h2o?
mine's aura - that extra 0.8 inch is goat.

I-I-I didn't actually start with the greeks...

>>7066767
Fall of Reach was great. The parts of 'The Flood' that were about the marines were pretty good, but the rest of it was basically a room-by-room walkthrough of the game without any kind of reflection or exposition at all. First Strike was pretty decent.

I hated that Halo: Reach the videogame conflicted the story of the book. Then my friend told me they were both written by Eric Nylund, and my head exploded.

>>7063191
I have read '50 shades of Grey' and i'm a 30yr old man. I hated it but i still finished it.

I am one of the first Wolfeposters on lit

>>7066916
No shame really. Trash quality or not, a book is a book.
Also, good job finishing what you started.

>>7066911
>911
never forget!

I actively write genre fiction and have no interest in becoming a writer who's a part of the 'literary canon'.

Doesn't mean I won't try it, though.

>>7063191
I read only eight books this years and I feel like shit because of this. I'm trying to read more :(

I've been stuck on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle for almost a year now. I actually quite like it, but I'm on the last 120 or so pages, and it feels like it's overstayed its welcome.

>>7067002
how long were they

/lit/ helped me to accept Jesus Christ as my redeemer.

>>7067027
250-600.

>>7067031
Jesus cannot help you. You must redeem yourself.

>>7064221
Tы eбнyлcя?

>>7066281

>>>/pol/

>>7067107
that's actually pre good, don't beat yourself up for not reaching /lit/'s autistic expectaions

>>7067382
my ex-gf was reading one book per week and i always looked at myself and thought that i can do better ;<

>>7063191

>My favorite book is still Green Eggs and Ham ;-;

>>7063191
i never actually read most books i claim to have read. i read the wikipedia article of it then the last few pages. that gives me enough information that's enough to bluff about having read them.

I have never read a book.

>>7063984
Christine Donougher
Holy shit it was good

I like how Hugo's characters all start babbling endlessly about the dumbest shit when they know they're moments from death.

I got 300 pages into Infinite Jest before giving up. It was those long bits like the video phone thing that made it too frustrating to get through

>>7066911
The game really triggered my autism when I found out that the dates and events didn't match up to the book.

Yesterday I finished the Odyssey and watched a whole season of Pretty Little Liars.
Today I listened to Liszt and Debussy, then went to 4chan, then read on the basis of Distribution Theory, then watched the reduffision of a talk-show, then went to 4chan again. I did all that to postpone having to search for a flat, submitting my application to my masters, and answering to a former teacher's mail. I don't kow where my life is going. Help me.

>>7063984
Hugo is kinda crazy over the top, but in a very impressive way. It's like Napoleaon's life was made into a prose style.

I thought reading meant taking a shit until i was about 9 years old. Because my dad would always read when he was shitting. I shit my pants in class all the time when they'd tell us to read our assignments, and thought i was the only one doing it correctly.

I once had a semi-erotic dream about the play Hamlet

It was fully erotic, and more about the writing of the play than the play itself

Xxxstories.com

>>7063191
I'm currently reading "Gone Girl" and it's fairly entertaining

I tried to read v, but never got even remotely invested in any characters. I put it down within 100 pages.

The plague made me drift off so often that I actually started using it as a sleep aide. I never finished it.

>>7064233
All that is fine except for not finishing the Comedy. If you liked the Inferno you'll not regret it. If you didn't like the Inferno...you'll probably not regret it.

>>7069115
We're the same person.

>>7065511
this, tbh

>>7068900
Nothing wrong with pulp novels. I just read a detective novel and it was great.

>>7069115
>>7069396
All me

I read Moby Dick for the story
I only got about 1/2 through Purgatorio
American Psycho was the first book outside of HS I read, the second was House of Leaves
Tale of Two Cities bored me to tears and I only got to the second part

>>7063191
I think that a pleb book with a message is superior to a patrician book with the same message.

Which one is going to reach more people?

>>7063702
>No based Fukumoto
God fucking damnit /v/ fuck off.
You know jack shit about manga or anime, yet you feel compelled to judge it.

>>7069942
The patrician one because plebs won't do anything with the message. That's why Dostoevsky is often said to change people's lives and Green just quoted for le quirky deep quotes by narcissistic idiots.

>>7064414

>tfw

>>7064414
I know your pain

>>7064233
Agree about rushdie

>>7068534
>>7068498

It's immediately obvious I think that Hugo was a romantic poet before he was a novelist.

I'm about 2 thirds of the way through the book right now and it really is magnificent.
At first I hated the massive digressions and thought they were unnecessary waffle, but I've since come to realise that they add a lot to the book. The world is incredibly fleshed out, and the over the top speeches and actions of the characters are good ol fashioned 19th century melodrama, and I love it.

>>7069906
>I read Moby Dick for the story
Tbh not the worst thing you could do. The last three chapters just as a chase scene are fun to read.

>>7064233
>I believe the term "post-modernism" is garbage and that what Pynchon, Marquez, Rushdie, Zadie Smith, etc. all do (Wood's "Hysterical Realism") is much more closer in creative spirit to pre-realistic art (i.e. ancient Greeks) than it is to any more recent literary movements.

wtf are you talking about

>>7063191
Gravity's Rainbow sucks. The prose is nothing really interesting, it ends up being fairly boring with no important themes, and the only interesting part is seeing Pynchon's varied knowledge of different subjects.

However on /lit/ this is wrong because apparently I just don't know how to read or else I would be shitposting about it like everyone else.

I only liked about 4 or 5 stories in Dubliners. I thought the rest were stupid.

(they were Araby, Evangeline, A Little Cloud, The Dead and probably one other...)

>>7071684
but you know you're wrong, deep in your heart you know it

that is why you had to post this in the confessions thread, because you know you need to be absolved for your shameful, stoogly wallowing about at the foot of such a masterpiece, feigning indignation when it is clear you haven't a sense of literary dignity to offend

all you really need, no want, is to be absolved, so consider this your absolution, now go, go and reread Beyond the Zero again, this time with the diligence befitting such an effort

>>7066197

niga pls i read zola on a blackberry curve

i steal shitty books from friends' houses and throw them in recycling bins

when people ask about the book im reading i create an entirely false biography for the author and lie about the content unless i know theyre familiar with the author

>>7071128
Ahab spotting the whale and bellowing out is the most emotion I've ever felt given off from a book.

>>7065511
I worry constantly that I do this. Sometimes I can feel like I divorce the act of reading from my writing, but I can't help but feel that if I read mostly to write, my writing would be better.

>>7063723
There are a lot of other things that are great. Go for Goodnight Punpun. Classic about a shitty boy with a shittier life. lots of fun. Most things by Fukumoto are pretty good (kaiji, Kurosawa, etc.)

I haven't fucking finished a book in 2 months
Instead I waste my time shitposting on /lit/ /sp/ and /int/

help

>>7066120
>not I'M COMPLETELY BANANAS
Clearly you have not read GR

>>7068531
Sounds like you're not doing bad. What's the matter?

I compulsively read trashy fantasy books that the authors are giving away for free because they're hoping that someone will buy the rest of their series after the first free taste.

I also read tons of web serials, which are pretty much just like those books except even less edited.

The only books in the past few years I've finished that I wasn't assigned to read as part of a class are the Oreimo LNs.

>>7073390
Fukumoto is my favorite.
I wish that we'd get an official translation so I could support the guy.

I'd also reccomend reading 'I saw it'
It's a semi autobiographical piece about a Hiroshima survivor and the economic aftermath.

I love Palahniuk books and each of them makes me feel pretty profound stuff even though it's widely regarded as teen reading. Same with Vonnegut but he's a little more varied.
Who should I read next?

I have read every book written by Lee Child.