/lit/erary confessions thread. Confess your sins, we're all waitin'.

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Anonymous Mon Jul 23 05:17:27 2018 No.11506586 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/erary confessions thread.

Confess your sins, we're all waitin'.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 05:26:26 2018 No.11506605 I want PTA to direct a 4 hour Blood Meridian with a Jonny Greenwood score. Michael Shannon should be in it somewhere.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 05:30:17 2018 No.11506616 I like both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and the Tolstoy vs Dostoevsky shit that happens on this board is ridiculous.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 05:43:55 2018 No.11506649 A Brief History of Seven Killings is honestly one of the best books to be published in the past 20 years and is likely to go down as a literary classic. If Marlon's next book is as good or better he could be the next Salman Rushdie.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 05:47:17 2018 No.11506654 I enjoy science fiction.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:03:15 2018 No.11506695

I love "À la recherche du temps perdu".
Like, seriously. Passionately. Truly madly deeply. It's my BBF (Best Book Friend).

I've read it just to be able to make fun of it, because you know, it is THAT book, heh heh heh. And I've fallen down the Proustian rabbit hole.

And now every time I need a bit of feel-good reading, I take one of the volumes and start reading random pages, and everything starts to be alright with the world again.

I feel so dirty.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:15:51 2018 No.11506733
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Eurocuck here. I'm trying to get into Pynchon but it's hard as fuck for me to understand what's going down. Read TCOL49 for 2 days straight and I'm only 40 pages in. My copy is scribbled full of notes and translations. Am I an idiot?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:18:16 2018 No.11506740 >>11506616 Isn't it just one belligerent pseud who screeches that you can't' like both without providing any argument?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:30:56 2018 No.11506773 >>11506733 What have you read in English before Pynch?

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:36:50 2018 No.11506786

>>11506733
That's the point, to an extent. Don't take notes with TCOL49, it's meant to be all a bit of a blur as you're in the same shoes as Oedipa Maas. She's trying to understand what's around her, believing to be onto something, almost like uncovering a conspiracy. Just finish the book: not to spoil anything, but really if you're taking notes you're in her exact shoes in trying to find meaning when it isn't there.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:36:58 2018 No.11506788

>>11506773
Salinger, Wilde, Mishima (in lack of good German translations), short stories by Faulkner, Raymond Carver, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. For some of these books I had to focus a bit but they didn't make me scribble every page full of translations.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:44:44 2018 No.11506804

>>11506788
Hm, I don't know then, TCoL49 is easier than most of other Pynchon books, I'm not a native speaker either and I can't say I've had a lot of problems with it. If you're trying to make sense of every word and every sentence, that's probably not the way to go about reading Pynchon. I didn't understand every bit and every word of it, but you're not supposed to get everything. You can't understand everything here, that's not what Pynchon does, really. If I felt like a word is important and I don't know it's meaning, yeah, I looked it up. Otherwise, I tried to make sense of it in the context of the sentence.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:53:38 2018 No.11506829 >>11506695 Wow, saucy ;)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:55:24 2018 No.11506837 >>11506586 I put ketchup on just about anything lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:56:06 2018 No.11506838 >>11506837 do you put it on your books?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:57:15 2018 No.11506842 >>11506586 I come here exclusively for higher IQ /Pol/ discussion.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:02:59 2018 No.11506866

I want jezebel posting to be bannable. It's irrelevant to literature and the threads started by a jezebel poster are always derailed from the first response. plus, this is a sfw board on 4chan, hence why the default layout is blue. If I wanted to jack off I'd go to one of the other boards.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:17:40 2018 No.11506921 >>11506605 Shannon could be the white Johnson or Toadvine

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:53:54 2018 No.11507039 >>11506695 Assuming you aren't just joking because I'm the exact same way. I can't be bothered revisiting those salon scenes though, two times is enough. What are you favourite passages?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:58:54 2018 No.11507055 >>11506586 i dont discuss with retards even if they are obviously wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:06:41 2018 No.11507068 >>11507055 I wish I did this more but I'm usually tempted to correct people even if they're idiots

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:28:21 2018 No.11507141 >>11506837 Disgusting.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:29:18 2018 No.11507146

>>11507039
>What are you favourite passages?

Descriptions of Odette.
Those parts when he gets batshit insane about Albertine.
And everything about Charlus.

And the passage I fell in love with that book, I remember even the moment I read it, when and where it was, I remember what I did that day and how pretty the weather was:

>"So that the long plaint of the soul which thinks that it is living shut up within itself is a monologue in appearance only, since the echoes of reality alter its course and such a life is like an essay in subjective psychology spontaneously pursued, [...]"

I remember thinking, "My God, he's insane. And he's awesome. And I'm in love with his absurd book about cookies, women's shoes, pretty girls and remembering all those things that aren't important at all. And how come he uses so many words to say such simple things and still sounds charming, and not annoying? What the hell he just did there?"

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:44:52 2018 No.11507188

>>11506649
> the part where Bam-Bam is buried alive
> the part where Bam-Bam sees his father suck dick with a gun against his head and his mother is mocking him and afterwards they both get a bullet in their head
> hardcore gay sex
> the part where Josey Wales completely empties out a crackhouse floor by floor because a junky fired piss at him from a spray gun
> the depictions of poverty, i.e. sewage in the streets and dead babies

It's a great book but fuck me I'm never off to Jamaica

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:59:27 2018 No.11507230 Im into 3/5 of Don Quixote, but I recently got Neuromancer in mail and I can't focus on Don Quixote now

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 09:54:44 2018 No.11507425

i couldn't finish bleeding edge. it was too filled with what appeared to be injokes and obscure nyc trivia. i was super interested when it started talking about virtual worlds but then i finally lost interest when it never seemed to get back to that plotline. inherent vice was pretty good, though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 10:04:11 2018 No.11507450 >>11506616 >>11506740 YOU CANT LIKE BOTH REEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 10:05:13 2018 No.11507452 >>11506586 I used to like the Kushiel's Dart bullshit back in the day thank god this forum is anonymous

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 10:16:54 2018 No.11507482 >>11506842 Based

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 10:19:40 2018 No.11507492 sometimes when my literary gf is reading the same book as me I will notice she is ahead of me and get jealous so I will seduce her and after the sex tires her out and she goes to sleep I will use that time to get ahead of her in the book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 10:20:35 2018 No.11507498 I slept with a foreign qt and, 2 years later, I am translating an Eastern European novel for NYRB Classics solely to strengthen my relationship with her

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 10:22:03 2018 No.11507506 >>11506654 Yeah dude Pinecone is lit

>>	SAGE THESE THREADS Mon Jul 23 11:03:23 2018 No.11507696 >>11507492 >>11507498 kys

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 11:38:58 2018 No.11507814 When I write casually (for instance on a message board) I can't help but use flimsy adverbs such as "really" and "pretty" that ought to just be deleted from my vocabulary.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 12:19:20 2018 No.11507946 >>11507814 I think words like "really," "pretty" and "quite" have been overused to the point that if you don't use them, you have reason to worry that your writing will be viewed as unenthusiastic and insincere.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 12:21:05 2018 No.11507953 >>11507498 How common are /lit/erary qts in Eastern Europe?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 14:27:10 2018 No.11508487 I haven't finished reading the Iliad for almost 2 months.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 14:44:44 2018 No.11508577 >>11506654 Me too

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 14:46:13 2018 No.11508586 >>11507492 >>11507498 never happened.gov

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 16:48:42 2018 No.11509032 >>11506649 Agreed

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 16:49:44 2018 No.11509034 >>11506586 What's with the Sucy posting?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 16:51:19 2018 No.11509043 >>11506605 Who would be the Judge? Paul Dano could play the kid

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:09:28 2018 No.11509144 I dont like anything /lit/ reads, I like history books, tech books, transhumanist philosophy, and old legends, sagas, and mythologies.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:12:52 2018 No.11509168 >>11506654 For like 4 years I've read only sci-fi (almost 80 books). I was a different person and I kinda regret it but some books were totally worth it, imho it's an underrated genre, to bad it's pretty much dead now

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:16:12 2018 No.11509180 >>11509168 Don't do this to yourself senpai.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:16:38 2018 No.11509183 >>11509144 simple, you're not human.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:17:56 2018 No.11509194 >>11509180 What I shouldn't do?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:21:24 2018 No.11509210 >>11509034 Sucy is best witch to be desuest

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:22:44 2018 No.11509222 >>11509144 t. android that is trying to learn how humans think

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:22:51 2018 No.11509224

>>11506586
I used to read Choose Your Own Adventure books out of order.

I spent my late teens claiming to have read all of the great American authors when all I'd really read was McCarthy and The Great Gatsby.

At one point I used semicolons, parentheses, and brackets in flash fiction pieces.

I read The Fountainhead cover to cover before I read The Bible, and quoted it in every short essay I handed in between my Freshman and Junior years of high school.

Later, I read The Communist Manifesto before reading any Hegel, On The Jewish Question, Kapital, or any book having to do with economics. I thought "this makes sense" and quoted it on the AP Lit exam.

I unironically believed Ludwig Von Mises was the most brilliant economist of the 20th century because he was the "least parasitic" of his contemporaries.

I skipped almost all of the Hal sections in Infinite Jest.

I don't know what's going on in Finnegan's Wake.

I enjoy the work of Stephen King, John Franzen, and Mark Danielewski.

I have Gravity's Rainbow on my shelf in pristine condition but never finished it.

I'm probably not going to read anything except Everybody Poops and MSN articles now that I'm a dad.

Whew. I feel about ten pounds lighter.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:29:24 2018 No.11509264
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>>11506586
I don't finish books.
I always just leave a chapter or two then spoil myself the ending in the most painless way possible.
I just get really depressed when a book ends. It feels like saying goodbye to a dear friend after a lifetime together.

Call me a faggot or a pussy but I won't change my ways.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:42:50 2018 No.11509336

Evola is not a pseudointellectual, and infact, I think he is brilliant. I think Guénon is a race traitor despite knowing his reasoning and have not rational reason to think this way. I am interested by Land and the NRx/acc movement but wish they had more room for senpai Evola. That being said I still think neo-paganism is a good way to "ride the tiger" so to speak and participate in gaelic revivalist movements here in Ireland.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:44:52 2018 No.11509339 >>11509264 You sound like a really interesting character. You should share this with other people, they would find it very endearing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:48:32 2018 No.11509355 >>11509144 /lit/ loves sagas and myths, ya mook

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:50:07 2018 No.11509361 >>11509210 True

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 17:57:36 2018 No.11509401 I've never read the old testament because it's so boring compared to the other parts of the Bible that it's basically impossible to read it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:00:58 2018 No.11509415 >>11509401 eh, song of songs is hot

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:06:03 2018 No.11509431 >>11507230 Don Quixote is infinitely superior to Neuromancer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:08:45 2018 No.11509441 >>11509183 >>11509222 Hahaha, your jokes stimulate me, do you know any books on governing countries?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:12:12 2018 No.11509453 >>11509415 I've never even made it past exodus.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:18:12 2018 No.11509487 I read Greenwood. I stard many book at the same time and i rarelly finish one. I buy Juliette, la prosperité du vice, and i read it one time because i only want to masturbate. I like some creepypasta.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 19:52:44 2018 No.11509917 >>11507492 this is so fuckin fake lmao

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 22:25:34 2018 No.11510407 >>11507230 Fuck Don Quixote I've read the same amount and it's like a children's book. So unnecessarily repetitive and long-winded.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 22:54:12 2018 No.11510467

I've got like 6 books that I'm all halfway through and I've spent more time deciding what one to read than actually reading.
But I've gotten worried that if I continue to finish one book I'll forget all the other books so I should cycle through all 6 books I'm halfway through. I have also been forced to read a shitty book for uni and I don't want to

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 22:59:55 2018 No.11510476 I can't stand Pynchon. He's like Terrance Malick or Death Grips in that everything he makes is self-indulgent tripe people pretend to enjoy to convince themselves they're deep/intelligent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:09:55 2018 No.11510492 >>11510476 pretty self indulgent to post this in a confession thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:13:04 2018 No.11510502 >>11510476 here's one sin he couldn't WAIT to confess tell the truth, you "confess" this on every pynchon thread that pops up here

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:33:12 2018 No.11510531 Still can’t find any works of fiction better than Evangelion

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:36:44 2018 No.11510539 >>11510476 And you get to pretend you're smarter than other people because you see through it, when in fact you're just doing the same thing you accuse these pretenders of doing. FAGGOT

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:37:19 2018 No.11510543 >>11510476 Mallick recently sure but Death Grips can be liked unironically.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:38:33 2018 No.11510544 >>11510476 How are Death Grips pretentious? Where do they attempt to create deep meaning?

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:44:17 2018 No.11510564

>>11510531
Anon I used to know this feel even after a majority of the esteemed literary classics, all the famous art cinema auteurs etc. and while Evangelion is still amazing I recently got into the mecha genre and it has dulled my appreciation of it.

If you follow works such as Gundam 79, the Getter Robo manga series and Space Runaway Ideon you’ll note that the narratives (not the mecha itself) is at times paralleled by Evangelion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:56:27 2018 No.11510597 >>11506733 Read it fast, just going over the words with your eyes. The sentences are constructed so that they become clearer the faster you read

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 23:56:51 2018 No.11510600
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>>11506586
Perhaps its due to my youth (19) or my relative inexperience with literature, but I don't find anything wrong with the GoT books. From what I've seen, people tend toward citing its derivative nature by giving examples of authors who have created similar, and arguably better works in the past. But aren't all things in some fashion built upon precedent, much like any other art form?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:45:57 2018 No.11511448 >>11509264 but you know you can finish it and be satisfied with how beautiful the experience was and later revisit the same book again, right? please just finish your books, you numpty

Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:47:53 2018 No.11511454

>>11509487
I used to be obsessed with creepypasta, even following channels on youtube who did creepypasta readings. Some of them I still feel a little nostalgic for as my first time on 4chan was on the /x/ board and I read some creepypastas that were just good fun (I had a soft spot for those creepypastas about following a routine and going to some obscure place, saying some obscure thing to some madman who would give an object and if all these objects came together who knows what might happen lol)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:48:55 2018 No.11511456 >>11510407 Fuck you

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:50:37 2018 No.11511458 >>11510476 Terrence Malick is mostly crap, I agree, but Death Grips genuinely are good. It's as if hardcore hip-hop Ol Dirty Bastard and hardcore punk came together, it's great stuff, pal. Shit to get turnt to, pal

Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:51:46 2018 No.11511463

>>11510467
How do people get to this point? Is it like an ADHD thing or something? Needing to read multiple books at once? I bet you go at a snail's pace with each book just so you can continue to cycle through each one. No idea why people do it to themselves. I've tried reading two books at once and I get very little else done when I do that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:52:48 2018 No.11511464 >>11510531 Blu-ray re-release in the west when

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:58:19 2018 No.11511482 I get more enthused when I sit down to read genre fiction than any big boy big brain certified books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 05:59:58 2018 No.11511490 >>11510600 Never read them myself, always been a little curious to check them out as I've never delved too much into genre fiction but the times I have done have felt very cosy. Heard the first two or three books were enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 06:05:06 2018 No.11511501 >>11511464 lol never unless if someone pays Gainax loadsa money

Anonymous Tue Jul 24 08:12:21 2018 No.11511808

>>11510543
were Badlands and Days of Heaven good films? I can't seem to like anything else Malick does. I've tried the Thin Red Line, Tree of Life and The New World and they all just made me want to shoot myself in the foot. My impression of him is that he's just trying to mimic Tarkovsky.

Anonymous Tue Jul 24 08:39:12 2018 No.11511881

- /lit/ does better film threads than /tv/
- /pol/-posting should be banned outside of /pol/, it ruins /lit/
- graphic novels count as literature
- the beats are shit, never understood why their work are considered as classics. Similar for Ayn Rand too, absolute shit writer but supposedly held in high regard and I don't understand why
- I never get the anti-women writers thing. George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Donna Tartt, Bronte sisters and Austen are all very good

- reading and listening to music is fine as long as the music is purely instrumental and ambient or . brian eno, hiroshi yoshimura, William basinski, the list goes on...

Anonymous Tue Jul 24 09:01:31 2018 No.11511952

>>11511463
Its like when you get a new book while at the book store or at a library and they are selling old books for a dollar and I usually pick it up. Start reading it because I get told to read it and then i sorta think of the other book as I'm reading the new one and I feel bad for the old book that I didnt continue reading it and I start thinking of the old book and then I go back and forth between them both reading like 100 pages in then swapping books again because I have the same thought again or buy a new book that's on sale that I'll eventually read. Its stupid and I need to break the habit by just starting them all, all over again.

Anonymous Tue Jul 24 09:10:08 2018 No.11511990

>>11511952
Yeah but when you start them over again just try doing one book at a time. Finish what you already started and then move onto the next book. Your progress will be a lot more efficient as you're more focused on one book, you're retaining more of what you read and giving it the right amount of attention.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 09:11:49 2018 No.11512003 I listen to a new album for each book and rarely read without music. It helps me isolate myself so I don't lose focus. I don't focus on the music and normally ignore any and all lyrics

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 09:13:53 2018 No.11512018 I'm a chapter or two away from finishing Don Quixote and I can honestly say I'll be relieved once there's no more pages to read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 09:23:21 2018 No.11512068 >>11512018 if that ending doesn't make you cry, boy i swear to god

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 09:32:54 2018 No.11512105 >>11510600 burzum's music is amazing but varg is a real meme, his baby boomer semi-national socialist shit can't be taken seriously

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 09:37:14 2018 No.11512123 >>11510476 lol death grips isn't even that difficult to listen to how about stop being such a plebbo

Anonymous Tue Jul 24 11:25:32 2018 No.11512547

>>11510564
Glad to know that this feel is shared anon. I’ve heard that Ideon is very similar, but from what I know, it doesn’t have the esoteric spiritual and mystical symbols. Once I actually started studying Christianity, Kabbalah, Buddhism, conspiracies, etc I realized just how misguided the “it doesn’t mean anything” meme is. I’m constantly taken aback by the depth I’m continually able to discover within it, even after having seen it years ago.
>>11511464
The platinum collection on DVD is a sufficient release. It can be found on eBay easily

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 11:27:10 2018 No.11512555 >>11509043 Ed Harris would be legit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 11:40:42 2018 No.11512604 >>11511482 theyre fun

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 15:01:35 2018 No.11513350 >>11506586 I don't like most of Dickens's work

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 17:13:53 2018 No.11513961 I don't read because I don't want to.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 17:17:49 2018 No.11513980 >>11507492 I wish a man would do this to me

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 17:19:36 2018 No.11513986 I keep a small pile of blank business cards in my travel bag at all times. When I see someone reading on public transport, I google the book, write down a brief summary of the ending and, if they haven’t left, hand them the card on my way out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 17:45:44 2018 No.11514150 >>11512555 Damn, he could be perfect

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 17:47:17 2018 No.11514160 >>11513961 Why are you here then

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 21:55:14 2018 No.11515144 File: 8 KB, 320x240, 1529988297872.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11506586 If I read a book that I end up not liking i'll get butthurt and not read again for a month

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 24 23:45:56 2018 No.11515538 >>11506586 Absalom, Absalom! is a better example of an extended allegory than anything Joyce ever wrote.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 00:09:39 2018 No.11515609

I can’t help but immediately look up the definition of any word I either don’t know or do know but only in a vague sense. It obviously makes for very slow reading and even though I could mark such words and come back to them at the end of a section I can’t seem to escape the feeling that I would be proceeding without some important piece of information in doing so.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 04:33:52 2018 No.11516221 I post what I write on tumblr.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 04:44:02 2018 No.11516241 >>11506586 I like fantasy/sci-fi but often find the writing to be terrible. I like well-written ‘literary’ books and classics, but often find the stories to be quite dull. Stuck in between the two, can’t really enjoy either fully. Wat do?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 04:47:41 2018 No.11516245 >>11516241 Read the top two rows in /sffg/s selected fantasy chart and go from there.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 05:00:13 2018 No.11516262

>>11506586
I desperately want to develop a taste for fiction but can't stop myself from preferring philosophical texts over novels and short stories. I don't know how to enjoy fiction for its own sake, and always engage it instead as a playing ground for different philosophical models and ideas, or even worse, take it in passively. The idea of a novel and its world sitting with me is completely foreign to me and I want to die.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 05:01:06 2018 No.11516267 File: 59 KB, 618x619, 1428013088168.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I've shilled Kierkegaard on this board before but I've never read any of his work, only read a couple pages worth of goodreads quotes from him. I am not proud.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 05:08:31 2018 No.11516284

Ive read all of the introducing series of books.... At least i think I have.

www.introducingbooks.com

I cant stand reading, the graphic novel format fit my brain. I can listen to any lecture and remember most every word but books fly through my brain if I read at 10 pages an hour or 50.

Also through all of the lefty schooling im red pilled quite nicely.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 05:10:48 2018 No.11516289 I pretend to write insightful critiques on /lit/ but in truth I just copy and paste reviews from goodreads.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 05:19:18 2018 No.11516307

I barely read anything written pre-1900 and I certainly will never read The Greeks. They're boring and most people here secretly know it. I also refuse to read all the Russian doorstoppers because, even if they contain some great parts, they are objectively bad books for including 100+ pages of digressions only remotely related to the plot. Especially bad with Tolstoy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 06:45:24 2018 No.11516466 >>11516307 What do you read exactly ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 06:48:02 2018 No.11516474 >>11506586 I've read Lauren Southern's book. It's awful btw

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 07:15:25 2018 No.11516529 I’ve read two and a half books of the Twilight saga when it was popular.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 07:17:38 2018 No.11516534 literature is my passion but i regularly skim read and skip pages. it is rare that i read every word in a book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 07:20:32 2018 No.11516543 >>11516307 >They're boring and most people here secretly know it I just finished the Odyssey yesterday and it was some of the most fun and sublime storytelling I've read. I marvel at your bold speech.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 07:21:30 2018 No.11516544 >>11509264 I have the same problem anon The only books I ever finish are ones in a series but I don't usually continue the series either

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 07:42:50 2018 No.11516621

>>11509264
I did this with the last episode of the Wire. When I rewatched it some years later I got to the last episode and didn't recognize any of it at all, then I remembered I cut it off there last time. It was so nice getting to experience something "new" from something old. Like an expansion pack for a thing that was already finished and decidedly never to be expanded upon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 07:59:28 2018 No.11516658 >>11516529 I read all four. Mostly so I could say that they are shit but I secretly enjoyed some parts featuring the werewolf pack.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 08:00:17 2018 No.11516661 I read Japanese LNs in between other more "/lit/ approved" books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 08:50:12 2018 No.11516785 >>11514150 Because I want to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 08:51:41 2018 No.11516790 >>11514160 Because I want to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 10:26:18 2018 No.11517129 >>11510597 Not that anon but how in the hell does that work? Genuine curiosity.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 11:44:58 2018 No.11517440 >>11506586 The first thing I do after I finish a book is google "____ explained"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 11:47:41 2018 No.11517454 >>11517440 patrish af desu senpai

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 12:14:39 2018 No.11517556 >>11517440 I do that with TV shows like Black Mirror.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 12:24:51 2018 No.11517599 >>11517129 >>11510597 He might be memeing, but I actually do get that from Pinecone. His choice of words flows very naturally, even when using technical terms.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 12:26:40 2018 No.11517607
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Every philosophy book that I read makes me feel dumber and that the gap between the writers and me seems to keep getting wider.
Does it ever stop /lit/? Feeling dumb?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 12:26:57 2018 No.11517609 >>11510407 It's about the journey with that book, don't read expecting epig twists and plot.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 12:50:53 2018 No.11517714

>>11517607
you have to understand that being a great philosopher does not mean that you are a great thinker and a brilliant mind (brilliant minds do not become philosophers, they do something worthwhile with their life)
it just means that you've mastered the ability to make others feel inferior to you

now, better?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 12:57:51 2018 No.11517750 >>11509264 I too hate finishing books, the journey of the book is much greater than any end will ever be

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 13:01:27 2018 No.11517768 >>11517440 I do this because I'm a brainlet and I want see other people's views

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 14:40:49 2018 No.11518183 >>11510476 death grips woke teen defense force out in full strength today

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 14:50:25 2018 No.11518218

I find Dickens provincial, out-dated, and just downright boring. Wolf is a bit gay if I'm honest, that passage with the trumpets and angels or whatever in Orlando is pure cringe.
Sometimes I like a writer's style but I can't bring myself to care about the story and then I feel like I'm a bad reader and not really into literature. Faulkner for example. I haven't finished any of his books.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 14:58:36 2018 No.11518262
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>>11506586
i fucking hate gertrude stein, and people who claim that hemingway cribbed his style from her clearly have read enough of the former and absolutely none of the latter

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:05:13 2018 No.11518291 >>11506866 i don't like you, anon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:05:19 2018 No.11518293 >>11516241 Write your own book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:09:01 2018 No.11518303 >>11510476 >like death grips shit, i might love this author then

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:09:38 2018 No.11518305 >>11506586 i touch my pee pee when i shitpost

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:10:30 2018 No.11518308 I've gone through 3 visual novels. Not much of a confession on here, but jumping on a pike, ass first, would be preferable to admitting it to anyone in real life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:16:58 2018 No.11518348 >>11518308 >like 50% of the lads have played katawa shoujo >openly discussed it with them, nobody having any shame about it haha imagine being afraid to admit you enjoyed something

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:17:39 2018 No.11518354 >>11518348 >haha imagine being afraid to admit you enjoyed something I don't have to imagine it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:19:35 2018 No.11518360 I feel unqualified to write my own book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:21:26 2018 No.11518366 I think I'm turning into an intellectual. How do I stop this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:22:22 2018 No.11518368 >>11506586 im not gay but when i masturbate to men i come really hard

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:24:52 2018 No.11518384 >>11518368 Very normal. I'm also not gay, but nothing makes me come harder than when I masturbate to men.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:25:00 2018 No.11518385 >>11518366 Do lots of drugs until your brain shits itself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:34:35 2018 No.11518428 >>11518384 hell yeah dude cum gang

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:36:35 2018 No.11518435 >>11516474 Do you mean pamphlet lol I mean what did you honestly expect? You won't get much insight from people specializing in selling outrage.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:38:00 2018 No.11518440 >>11516241 I feel you bruh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:40:00 2018 No.11518447 Im illiterate and I only manage to post on 4Chan because I use a microphone to convert my speech to text. I also use the computer to listen to all the posts here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:40:23 2018 No.11518449 >>11516267 Just start reading him then, you're clearly interested in him Im starting a witch folder mainly for qts diana, akko and sucy and that ones off right into my academia folder

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:42:02 2018 No.11518457 >>11516307 Wrong

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:45:03 2018 No.11518477 >>11518368 >>11518384 have you ever considered that you might be women?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:45:04 2018 No.11518478 I've wasted my entire life on learning absolutely fuck all. I've realized that knowledge isn't worth a single thing without wisdom.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:46:31 2018 No.11518487

>>11516307
Aristophanes is funny, Homer is exciting, Plato is insightful and surprisingly funny, those digressions in a good doorstopper are never irrelevant and at worst they're still interesting, etc. Just because it's not for you, please don't generalise as many still find pleasure in those books. Maybe you don't like reading or you're picky?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:47:34 2018 No.11518492 >>11516534 How is it your passion then boyo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:49:18 2018 No.11518505 >>11517556 > needs tumblr fanfiction for netflix explained to him

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:50:53 2018 No.11518514 >>11518291 He's right you know

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:51:22 2018 No.11518517 >>11518183 you are definitely a 20yo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:53:26 2018 No.11518527 I only read manga and Russian literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:54:33 2018 No.11518532 >>11518527 >russian So fucking pleb. good god.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:55:35 2018 No.11518535 >>11518505 I'm not a TV guy and National Anthem made no sense to me at first. I'm just stupid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:56:41 2018 No.11518541 >>11509264 i do the same thing with long anime

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 15:58:10 2018 No.11518549 I walk while reading.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:00:37 2018 No.11518563 >>11518366 Irony. Nothing is more degrading in general.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:01:57 2018 No.11518578 >>11518385 no, no, all wrong, this'll just turn you into a more obnoxious kind of intellectual

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:06:20 2018 No.11518608 I had 'sexual' relationship with my same-age cousin as we grew up, and the only reason it stopped was because she moved to another town. She later turned into a lesbian, and I'm not sure what that says about me. I like to read books.

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:10:50 2018 No.11518632

>>11518608
>I had 'sexual' relationship with my same-age cousin as we grew up, and the only reason it stopped was because she moved to another town. She later turned into a lesbian, and I'm not sure what that says about me.
hot

>I like to read books.
not cool

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:36:04 2018 No.11518783 >>11518549 Always seemed counter productive to me but I've seen people do it before. The mix of not paying attention to your surroundings and the struggle to focus on the book while walking is offputting to me

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:37:08 2018 No.11518789 >>11518608 Are you George Michael Bluth?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:43:23 2018 No.11518822 File: 8 KB, 509x619, wojack hands.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11518477 god i wish that were me

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:43:46 2018 No.11518825 >>11518789 Maeby

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 16:53:08 2018 No.11518877 >>11518218 >I find Dickens provincial, out-dated, and just downright boring If I agree with this and have only read Great Expectations, what if any book by Dickens should I read?

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 17:14:30 2018 No.11518960

>>11518218
While we're bashing respected authors I'll just say that I absolutely loathe Thomas Mann. The Magic Mountain read like something made in a lab and felt like a pointless modernist relic. The attempts at philosophical meditation were extremely tedious and it absolutely blows my mind that people on here call him a genius. Death in Venice was also a terrible, heavy-handed waste of time and extremely amateurish.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 17:59:41 2018 No.11519127 >>11518877 Bleak house, pickwick papers or a tale of two cities are good

Anonymous Wed Jul 25 19:28:36 2018 No.11519464
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This book is haunting me.

I already posted about it before but things are just getting far, far too creepy now.

My sophomore year English teacher in High School was unlike all the other teachers in my school. Almost all of them were middle-aged women. He was a gaunt, lean, middle-aged man with sandy hair and a deep baritone voice. He was a quiet man who hardly rose his voice above monotone, who sometimes let us watch Hitchcock films instead of do homework, and every Tuesday and Thursday we would read all class period long.

After Christmas break our project was to pick a book from his list of certified literature, and nobody else could have the same book. It was all extremely high brow for our year, before we read 1984 and Brave New World next year, his list were things like Death of a Salesman, or Demons, or Voltaire's Candide.

And then there was this book.

Its drab cover and its simple premise was interesting, so I read it. To be honest, at that age, I could not completely absorb the book's material, naturally, but passages of it stuck with me and grew as I grew older, like the acorns of oaks.

As life went on, I often retreated back into this book, and it's become somewhat of a ritual for me to re-read it shortly after the new year. Every time I read it, I find passages that echo my own life, and the life of those around me. Its statements on love still grip me and freeze me into a state of wonder and intrigue. Similar to how the slightest tilt of a ship's sails can send it to far different waters, it's no small exaggeration to say that over the course of the years that Stoner has changed my life.

A few years ago, I tried touching base with my English teacher, but he passed away of a stroke.

What shook me to the core happened just recently. Just a couple of days ago, a girl at work slipped me a sheet of paper with her number on it, and I'm going on a date tonight with her. Her name is Katherine.

I am so overwhelmed. All I can I think about is back to the day I picked up Stoner, and I realize now just how different my entire life would be if I wasn't there that day, at the right time, at the right place, with the right teacher, with the right book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 25 19:49:29 2018 No.11519563 >>11516466 My favorite authors are Thomas Bernhard and William Faulkner.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 00:30:50 2018 No.11520639 My only real friend is moving away to another city. I already have very little interest in living, and now there will be nothing holding me back. Which book should I blame my suicide on?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 00:36:55 2018 No.11520658 >>11506586 I read 95% of my books translated even the English ones

Anonymous Thu Jul 26 02:02:41 2018 No.11520942

>>11506586
I never went to college. I graduated with the lowest possible GPA from my highschool, and had to earn most of my credits in a matter of acouple weeks through internet courses, just so I could graduate on time. That was ten years ago.

Two years ago, I found a copy of Kafka's Metamorphosis lying around at work.i had never voluntarily read a book before. I always thought reading was boring, but suddenly I was hooked.

This year I've read 72 books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 05:27:23 2018 No.11521447 >>11520942 Not really a confession but congrats anyway

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 05:30:33 2018 No.11521458 This year I've "read" more audiobooks than actual physical books.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 05:33:04 2018 No.11521462 >>11520639 Maps of Meaning

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 05:33:43 2018 No.11521466 I can't read

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 06:34:49 2018 No.11521584 I mostly post from my ps4 lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 06:35:52 2018 No.11521589 >>11519464 you need a literary editor because im not reading all of that

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 06:36:57 2018 No.11521593 >>11520639 > not trying to keep in contact with your friend via texting and social media or e-mail > not meeting up with them when you're both available you're doing this to yourself, pal

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 06:38:10 2018 No.11521598 >>11520942 that's great! next step is understanding what you just read, some books have pictures to help you out!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:16:13 2018 No.11521700 >>11518877 Literally A Christmas Carol. It's probably his least bloated and it's a great story that obviously still resonates today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:20:52 2018 No.11521709 >>11518822 NERD

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:54:16 2018 No.11521794 >>11507696 t. incel >>11507953 more reliably than in anglo-american universities

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 07:59:33 2018 No.11521807 >>11511881 For once, someone on /lit/ I completely agree with.

Anonymous Thu Jul 26 08:51:12 2018 No.11521906

im writing a final fantasy 6 novelization but it's under a new title and new character names

my agent is very serious about publishing it and there's even an interest in having it optioned for a film (it's still early days though). just keep out for a movie in the next 5 years that looks a lot like final fantasy 6

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 12:14:27 2018 No.11522523 >>11516661 The Spice and Wolf light novel is one of my favorite works of fiction ever.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 12:17:14 2018 No.11522532 >>11521906 I think you're gonna get sued, anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 12:19:07 2018 No.11522543 I read too much. Nearly all of my free time is spent reading. I need some new hobbies.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 14:07:55 2018 No.11522887 I unironically like Infinite Jest.

Anonymous Thu Jul 26 14:42:37 2018 No.11523017

there is a writer in my country, whom i follow on facebook and whose posts i find very amusing, and read each and every of them with great interest

he's totally gay (like, he has a husbando for years), he's absurdly pretentious, he has hilariously obscure interests, he writes bad poetry and he's so politically correct it boggles my mind

his books are dreadful, really dreadful

and yet, i genuinely like that silly faggot :( what's wrong with me? i don't even have the heart to troll him with right-wing memes

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 14:46:03 2018 No.11523032 File: 1.85 MB, 4196x4200, t3z8E95.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You already now lamo xD

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 14:55:56 2018 No.11523060 >>11523017 Who

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 14:58:45 2018 No.11523067 >>11523017 That’s cute

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 14:59:59 2018 No.11523073 I bought infinite jest two years ago and haven't even touched it

Anonymous Thu Jul 26 15:06:20 2018 No.11523099
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i genuinely enjoy feminist theory. not that insufferable lukewarm "eberybody is egwal uwu" shit, i'm talking the hard radical feminist shit senpai. god i hate liberal feminists so much for being uncritical, lukewarm pieces of (usually tumblr or twitter) trash

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 15:16:47 2018 No.11523150 I'm fine with people listening to audiobooks (if it's genrefiction or shitty self-help books or whatever) but I will stab your face if you call it "reading"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:03:44 2018 No.11523346 >>11523032 What

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:04:45 2018 No.11523353 Post Malone is good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:04:48 2018 No.11523354 >>11523060 he's eastern european, i wager that no-one outside my country has heard of him (on amazon uk i've seen some translations of his books, though, so maybe one or two lit nerds have heard of him)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:06:06 2018 No.11523360 >>11523017 Maybe you bromosexual

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:06:46 2018 No.11523361 >>11523354 I want to look him up

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:09:16 2018 No.11523374 >>11523361 jacek dehnel

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:33:44 2018 No.11523472 >>11523374 Well, he looks kind of cute at least. I'd fuck him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 16:38:10 2018 No.11523498 >>11506654 I had to start a new rule for myself, where I alternate reading through genre fiction and non-fiction or classics. Science fiction is like crack to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 26 21:18:21 2018 No.11524594 >>11523353 Unironically agree.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 04:38:08 2018 No.11525841 >>11523498 >Science fiction is like crack to me. could be much worse addiction to fantasy, for example (yes, i do fantasy sometimes, but only recreationally and i have it under control and i can stop at any moment, if i want)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 04:43:29 2018 No.11525851 >>11509224 What the fuck, why would skip Hal’s parts? That is fucked.

Anonymous Fri Jul 27 05:09:50 2018 No.11525889

While writing I listen to the most ignant trap rap I can find. Cardi B, Lil Pump, Post Malone, Drake, Lil Wayne, Bhad Bhabie, Young Thug, Future, Migos, etc etc. Honestly anything about getting money, fucking women and shitting on haters gets me so pumped that I can write like a machine while listening to it. I don't know why, maybe it's the fast pace of the music or maybe it's the idea that I could be successful as a writer and get rich (lol) but something about trap rap really gets me motivated to work hard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 05:10:52 2018 No.11525895 >>11523353 This. Don't get the hate for Beerbongs, genuinely good pop music. I think it's just because he's a white jewish kid who played too much guitar hero.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 05:16:09 2018 No.11525903 >>11525841 The first step is to admit you have a problem, anon

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 05:27:06 2018 No.11525929 >>11506837 Unironically, same. Mostly in private at home tho.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 05:48:29 2018 No.11525969 >>11506837 same, but with hot sauce

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 05:49:04 2018 No.11525971 File: 40 KB, 378x485, 1529916612001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11525889 > that Cardi B line about squatting to make that pussy crack a smile

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 07:21:49 2018 No.11526179 >>11525889 This but for me its EDM

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 08:02:25 2018 No.11526297 I have consumed more stories trough creepypasta narrations on Youtube than I have through books.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 08:04:20 2018 No.11526300 >>11525971 based and redpilled

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 09:00:22 2018 No.11526441 >>11525851 Hal chapter are the best next to the chapters that deal with that addiction/AA/depression/suicide crap. They're comfy as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 11:02:13 2018 No.11526867 I really wish mods would not ban English major only/Leopold Bloom threads

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 11:18:02 2018 No.11526913 File: 14 KB, 256x256, 1520937324684.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sucyposting is the only thing that keeps me going.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 15:16:04 2018 No.11527847 >>11526913 Best girl

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 18:52:57 2018 No.11528700 Sometimes I bump threads I like on /lit/ with lazy /pol/ larping. "Based and redpilled" and such.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 19:15:58 2018 No.11528773 I once read one of those teen girls books about vampires and really liked it. It was mostly about sex and not knowing what is going on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 19:16:57 2018 No.11528779 >>11518360 Same, but I also have a shitton of ideas I want to put into words.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 19:58:56 2018 No.11528916 >>11506586 I enjoy reading light novels. I've read most of Bakemonogatari novels, Spice and Wolf, and some of The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 20:19:56 2018 No.11528990 I like Mary Wollstonecraft.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 27 21:25:12 2018 No.11529262 File: 1.67 MB, 2880x2160, 20180503_150827.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I read 70% of crime and punishment, got bored, and looked up the ending on sparknotes. Im glad i pinched that read early.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 00:11:58 2018 No.11529777 >>11528700 bump with nietzsche

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 00:14:02 2018 No.11529785 >>11528990 literally noting wrong with this

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 00:15:39 2018 No.11529795 My favorite poetry is Americana ballads like "Let Him Roll", "Angel From Montgomery", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 00:17:53 2018 No.11529804 I encouraged /pol/ to come to /lit/ a few years ago because I thought it would be funny and they would keep those idiot /leftypol/ idiots away but now they won't leave and they ruin every thread.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 03:46:27 2018 No.11530370 >>11529262 I don't know what's more disgusting here, that you think sparknotes can be used by anyone over the age of 13 or the fact that you clearly couldn't understand Dostoevsky's message.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 03:51:02 2018 No.11530389 >>11528990 Where to start with her?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 03:52:20 2018 No.11530394 >>11528700 Stop doing that please

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 05:12:38 2018 No.11530594 >>11523150 B-but anon that's the only way I can read 250 words per minute for 4 hours straight

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 07:07:35 2018 No.11530897 >>11530389 Letters written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 09:14:34 2018 No.11531216 >>11509264 im opposite. i have weird desire to finish books, know everything about them ASAP...i am more into learnign for the positive byproducts than the process

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 09:26:21 2018 No.11531231 >>11518478 :L :L :L :L :L look at this fool

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 09:35:55 2018 No.11531268 >>11506837 Are you me?

Anonymous Sat Jul 28 14:59:36 2018 No.11532541
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I really wanted to like The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa, but I found it incredibly whiny and shallow. I expected depth and profundity, but it dragged and got really old very quickly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 17:12:24 2018 No.11533176 >>11528700 God i hate pol posting REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 17:13:31 2018 No.11533180 >>11529262 Yur gonn get hit u ickle shit

Anonymous Sat Jul 28 17:13:54 2018 No.11533184
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i have no sins.
if i like something, i don't feel guilty about it.
if you do feel that way, i have some bad news for you pseud.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 17:14:30 2018 No.11533186 >>11529804 Based and redpilled

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 17:22:42 2018 No.11533218 I have an interview for a funded phd position next week but I have such a crippling anxiety that I'm not cut out for doctoral level studies so I'm not going to prepare since I would prefer to never try than to try and fail

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 22:00:01 2018 No.11534433 Spent most time lurking literature websites than actual reading.

Anonymous Sat Jul 28 22:29:58 2018 No.11534566
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>>11506586
>I find it amusing so many professionals say sci-fi movies are expensive, because the only ones those same people know are from the woods.
>I enjoy Harry Potter in different languages, same with Dark Tower, LotR, and aSoIaF.
>I consider some music to have literary merit, rarely but occasionally an older hiphop song. Mostly poetry > song lyrics, and almost all post-2000's rap is for trite faggots.
>I can accept that those same faggots think I'm a faggot, and find it hilarious that they don't have the higher reasoning skills to consider I think the same of them.
>I find the "it's only valuable in og language" to be errantly retarded. Yeah, will admit you lose some of the kinetic feel, but I'm open to reading the same thing in several languages to better aid comprehension of the work, the language, and the culture surrounding said language.
>I don't give a flying fuck on a rolling doughnut for academia, but I acknowledge what it did for humanity when it was useful.
>I firmly believe video games are the next realm of fine art, much the way film had social stigma and then became an acceptable medium.
>I believe manga is on par with magazine series that used to be published in the west, comics and gn's are analog to doujin. Manga can have literary merit if it inspires works or derives from works in other forms of media. It is on par with comic strips in and of itself. LN's depend on the author. Murakami a shit, Ranpo god tier.
>Loli is fictional and not remotely connected to pedoshit. Half the characters panned as loli aren't human or underage in their works, a quarter are chibi-esque variations of mature characters. Doesn't matter anyway because it's not real.. Lolita = IRL hebeshit, not pedoshit. Pedo =/= rapist, molester it means mental/chemical imbalance.
>Technically speaking, yes the only things we ought to consume are highest tier literature, self-development, and we should all sacrifice ourselves for the betterment of tomorrow's humanity. Since we have no guarantees of being alive tomorrow, fuck that, do as you please -- not to the degree of that yolo faggotry, but within calculated reason.
>Calling people who like loli pedos is the same as calling people who played CoDMW2's full campaign airport terrorists and mass murderers. Anyone who reads mythology is a sisterfucker, gay, an unclefucker, a cousinfucker, or a morally bankrupt murderweasel. Anyone who reads fucked up themes in literature are those same themes waiting to happen. People who watch crime dramas are criminals.
>I'm not trolling.
>Math is a waste of your time on this planet beyond trig. Philosophy is fucking useless to >99% of humanity. Quoting some dead fucker, or anyone else, really, makes you a fucking pseud of the lowest tier -- even lower than those who proudly give IQ or argue there's more than one kind/type of IQ.
>Murica's going to have a big data war with China; the winner will become the first true continental superpower, the loser's literature dies.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 28 22:30:11 2018 No.11534569 >>11518447 lol hard

Anonymous Sat Jul 28 23:39:12 2018 No.11534884

>>11511463
>Is it like an ADHD thing or something?
Probably. Not that I do 6 books at a time, but what happens a lot with me is that my attention span is good for a book at about 250 pages max. So whenever I'm reading something big I get tired of it and have to read smaller stuff in between. Cause I usually wanna take a break from that book but I want to keep reading something.
Same happens if it's something "harder" that I have more work to understand and whatnot.
Plus, I usually read on my phone when I'm in the metro, so sometimes I won't have a good edition of what I'm reading in epub and I just start reading something else that I have so it's good to read on the phone.

Anonymous Sat Jul 28 23:47:31 2018 No.11534916

>>11510600
>people tend toward citing its derivative nature by giving examples of authors who have created similar, and arguably better works in the past
I don't think that is a relevant thing.

>Perhaps its due to my relative inexperience with literature
Probably yes. I've read just the beginning of the first GoT book cause a friend had it and I dropped because it wasn't interesting for me.
When waay younger I used to be crazy about LoTR though (which I do think it's much better than the GoT books), even though I read some "high brow lit" as well, but perhaps because it was way less than today. Nowadays I look at it and all the things I like in literature and in my favorite books simply aren't there.
LoTR is a well written (in the narrative sense) tale and that's it. It's the kind of thing I enjoy to take my mind off. Nowadays, tho, when I want to read something it has to be something I will really appreciate, I don't like reading "to take my mind off and just enjoy" anymore (I do that with TV shows, cartoons, movies, but with books I think it's a waste of time for me).
Nothing wrong with liking them tho, nothing wrong with reading some stuff to just enjoy as well, but those books are simply not the same thing as "well regarded" literature.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 01:34:57 2018 No.11535427 I don't actually read books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 01:41:14 2018 No.11535445 >>11534566 >almost all post-2000's rap is for trite faggots. /r/lewronggeneration

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 01:54:15 2018 No.11535494 >>11533218 Biggest retard ive seen in awhile. >your name wont be remembered

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 04:41:39 2018 No.11536033 >>11533184 This isn't a guilty pleasures thread, dummy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 04:44:26 2018 No.11536039 >>11533218 Better to try, fall and pick yourself up than to never try at all. Never trying is true failure.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 04:47:45 2018 No.11536043 >>11506654 Bradbury baby

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 04:50:43 2018 No.11536049 >>11506842 Leave

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 04:54:08 2018 No.11536059 File: 5 KB, 210x230, ra,shortsleeve_one_piece,x310,45474B_e9c9d4e890,front-pad,210x230,f8f8f8.lite-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Uncle bill is my favorite writer

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 04:54:37 2018 No.11536061 >>11509401 Holy shit did you really think people actually read like Deuteronomy and numbers and shit? You got fuckin memed

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 04:55:08 2018 No.11536062 >>11506649 Lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 07:24:49 2018 No.11536404 I buy books based on their covers and often pay up to 5 times more just to get an edition I think is more aesthetic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 13:04:49 2018 No.11537589 >>11506586 I think Homestuck is one of the greatest literary accomplishments. Not baiting, dead fucking serious.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 13:06:19 2018 No.11537596 File: 32 KB, 154x163, 1532661998290.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I haven't read a book in 3 years.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 13:28:52 2018 No.11537681 >>11517129 You can access the collective unconscious knowledge of most words, but only if you don't think about them too hard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 13:35:26 2018 No.11537708 I only post on 4chan to waste taxpayer money

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 16:16:42 2018 No.11538474 >>11534566 M'lady

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 16:18:25 2018 No.11538482 >>11534566 Most of this isn't /lit/ related. Loli is still pedo shit, mongoloid.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 16:21:01 2018 No.11538493 >>11536062 I can defend myself if you want

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 16:22:12 2018 No.11538501 >>11536404 Publishers know this and it's in their best interest to have aesthetic covers

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 16:23:55 2018 No.11538509 >>11537589 I think plebs such as yourself are some of the biggest faggots. Not baiting, dead fucking serious.

Anonymous Sun Jul 29 18:10:02 2018 No.11539017

I don't read any of the philosophy books half of /lit/ is dedicated to. I like to think I read a wide range of books, but I'm just not interested in philosophy. I will probably ending up reading a few books I see around here. I keep thinking how I haven't the foggiest idea about subjects posters here seem to dedicate their lives (or at least their entire reading time) to.

Anonymous Sun Jul 29 18:32:22 2018 No.11539111

There are so many books to read and not enough time to read them, and especially not enough time to re-read them. Case in point: I checked The Temple of the Golden Pavilion out from the library (I read it two years ago) and returned it without ever opening it. It makes we want to die.

Reading anything over 300 pages is very daunting for me because I keep thinking that I could be reading other, shorter books. So far most of the books I've really liked are on the shorter end, around high 100s to mid 200s in length. Recently I borrowed Invisible Man because I read The Blacker the Berry... and I figured that nigger books written by niggers about niggers and the nigger struggle are pretty good--better than gook books written by gooks about gooks and the gooks struggle, I've found, despite being a gook myself--but Invisible Man is so damn long I hesitate to crack it open before I finish the like eight other books I checked out.

I hate being sucked away from reading by computer addiction but the process feels completely inexorable.

Anonymous Sun Jul 29 19:29:55 2018 No.11539311

About 90% of my reading is non-fiction in the form of wikipedia pages, technical white papers, or published research articles. I think that I have a legitimate addiction to information, in that I can't ignore a subject that I don't know much about.

Years ago I hated cars and guns as stereotypical guy things, but as I grew older I engulfed myself into those subjects with autistic fervor. Ditto for mechanics, electronics, and maths. If there is a somewhat interesting subject that I don't know about it eats at me until I read up on it. I still haven't finished Infinite Jest, because whenever a strange pharmalogical, optical, eschaton, etc. related topic is mentioned I have to delve into it until I have at least a cursory understanding (sometimes it's really hard, there's almost no info out there on binocular film making for instance)

I think the internet made me this way

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 21:29:38 2018 No.11539792 i've forgotten almost all the books i've read. i read a book and then the week after i forget it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 22:23:00 2018 No.11539982 >>11506586 I think my co-author's default style is uninspired trash. So I am the creative arm. He's the helper.

Anonymous Sun Jul 29 22:26:31 2018 No.11539995

>>11539311
I'm similar
Growing up I always loved the characters who knew a lot of shit. Detective stories were my favorite and their knowledge of everything was always cool to me.
So I try to learn random shit all the time, I'm really good at memorizing as well so it aids me. However, what now? I always feel like I come off as a know-it-all when talking with someone and I give them a random fact, so I end up just keeping everything to myself.
I don't even think I'm smart, just have a good memory and know a lot of useless shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 29 22:52:30 2018 No.11540082 File: 155 KB, 1072x1920, mao.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11506586 I exclusively read non fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 11:46:14 2018 No.11541227 >>11540082 >I exclusively read non fiction I exclusively read fanfiction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 11:47:57 2018 No.11541230 I spent the last 4 hours refreshing 4chin instead of reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 13:00:24 2018 No.11541462 >>11506842 >higher IQ >/Pol/ discussion Am laffin

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 13:04:00 2018 No.11541486 File: 133 KB, 582x528, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11538493 Please do actually. Read the book and thought it to be good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 13:15:07 2018 No.11541537 >>11506586 I prefer purple prose over stripped down style.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 13:45:07 2018 No.11541713 >>11508487 don’t be too hard on yourself. it’s a thick book man just, be sure you’re reading a least a little everyday.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 13:48:26 2018 No.11541736 >>11522543 How many hours a day do you read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 15:16:01 2018 No.11542113 >>11541227 i read some fiction but i also majority read fanfiction. What is/are your fandom(s)?

Anonymous Mon Jul 30 15:31:50 2018 No.11542178

>>11541537
Isn't that term negative by definition? It implies there is a way to write intricate English full of clever/interesting formulations and imagery, but there is also a way to botch it completely.

I think spartan English is really tiresome, I want the language itself to be interesting.

Anonymous Mon Jul 30 17:20:10 2018 No.11542588

>>11541486
Cool, glad to hear you enjoyed it, anon.

I loved how ambitious and effective it was in telling a narrative that spanned three decades between Jamaica and crack epimedic era America. It really utilised everything it could to deliver a great literary experience through its use of prose (the natural rhythmic Jamaican patois that just rolls off the tongue is amazing but the self aware cynicism yet liberal prose of Alex Pierce was a refreshing palate cleanser for when the patois may have become tiring) and how every chapter was a stream of consciousness monologue delivering a new perspective on the plan and failure to assassinate "the singer" that felt like it was spoken by new and unique personalities. Plus the perspectives of people in the wrong place at the wrong time was amazing reading these events unfold (Nina Burgess and how she felt she had to escape the country and change her identity because she bumped into a notorious gangster was a real highlight for me, especially since we follow her through each new identity).

It was also probably one of the more disturbing books I've read recently due to its unflinching depiction of violence, deprivation and poverty (Bam Bam getting off of doing coke and making a kid half his age piss himself before he shoots him in the head or when PapaLo beats a kid's mother to nearly raping her because she defended her son for misbehaving are just some of the lighter examples, it definitely got more uncomfortable).

It really is a recent favourite of mine and I hope Marlon James' next book is at least half as good. Also hoping the HBO series is good too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 17:22:59 2018 No.11542597 >>11539111 Dude the longer books are some of the best plus you get extra boner points for finishing real big boy literature

Anonymous Mon Jul 30 17:27:02 2018 No.11542615

I buy more than I read

I have an addiction to buying books in a foreign language in hopes that I can understand it without the aid of a dictionary, so far I own 12-14 .

I have a problem with a lot of fiction today and try my best to avoid it.

I'm addicted to sci-fi

I have a horrible internet addiction which kills time from my reading and 4chan ain't helping

I tend to read a lot of non-fiction and technical historical shit. Example; I don't read about the Siege of Leningrad, I read up on one specific rifle division placed around the Volkhov Front.

I have a really bad tendency to read memoirs a lot. (/his/ is hit or miss on them and /lit/ doesn't like them)

I find technical manuals to be interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 17:29:31 2018 No.11542623 In the shower i always turn the hot water up higher gradually just to see how long i can last, to see how long it takes for it to feel less like the water scratching my back and more like my skin is burning

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 17:30:53 2018 No.11542630 >>11542615 Memoirs are good though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 19:35:19 2018 No.11543145 >>11539995 I really know that feel. It seems like you have a healthy dose of impostor syndrome

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 19:57:04 2018 No.11543224 >>11508487 Me too man. We'll get through it

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