/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11586955]

So /lit/, what is your excuse for not reading as much as this big brain?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--wz576ke0

[Anonymous No.11586956]

gyal dem

[Anonymous No.11586962]

>Pop-anthropology
>Pop-politics
>Self-help
A budding genius

[Anonymous No.11586964]

>>11586955
i dont read books to fit in

[Anonymous No.11586972]

Booklist:

https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AFQAVNR4JNI5BRAE5VMAGJ57RU6Q/252AOEG17NIJ1

[Anonymous No.11587090]

I read like 20 volumes of manga and light novels a week. I can't read anything heavier than Oscar Wilde or else I get extremely bored.

[Anonymous No.11587170]

>>11586956
reading >1 book a week is why i will never touch this

[Anonymous No.11587241]

>>11586955
Because I enjoy reading.

[Anonymous No.11587258]

>>11586955
mate i listen to an audiobook a day, does it mean that i remember what the fuck is in the audiobook? not a chance bro

someone who studies a book will absorb more information than somebody who just rushes through it

[Anonymous No.11587278]

>>11586955
what an insufferable faggot

[Anonymous No.11587283]

>>11586955
i feel like this would promote a shallower mode of processing information instead of improving your deep reading skills (inferential reasoning, critical analysis, reflection, etc.)

[Anonymous No.11587296]

>>11586955
wow one whole book a week. What a fucking madman

[Anonymous No.11587315]

>>11587296
my brain expanded by a few cm's in diamater reading this post

[Anonymous No.11587333]

>>11586955
DUH MAINSTREAM METEOR

[Anonymous No.11587345]

>>11587333
Huh?

[Anonymous No.11587351]

>>11587345
Huh?

[Anonymous No.11587353]

>>11587351
wdym lol

[Anonymous No.11587355]

A lot of salt in this thread

[Anonymous No.11587374]

>>11586955
>Filling your brain with Intellectual Poison
Quality over quantity, lil' twink boy.

[Anonymous No.11587375]

>>11586955

[Anonymous No.11587376]

>>11587355
nah just truth bombs as far as the eye can see

[Anonymous No.11587377]

>>11587355
kek, there isn't that much

[Anonymous No.11587383]

>this one weird samefag trying to make this thread a thing
>he really wants /lit/ to make fun of this guy

Why does he do it, bros?

[Anonymous No.11587402]

>>11587375
i hate this meme, I was unfortunately born with a deformed skull and have a slight inward lump in the rear center of my skull

instead, my skull expanding sideways so my head is wide as fuck

i just leave my hair extra long in the back and people think i'm a fucking genius

[Anonymous No.11587411]

Reading a lot of junk isn't meaningful like reading one great books. Honestly there aren't many books that you "have" to read. You should just read core lit and then focus on your own life, with a sprinkle of something fun every now and then.

[Anonymous No.11587447]

god this guy infuriates me. he really reminds me of that one character in pale king that no one liked because he was way too tryhard in all aspects of life

[Anonymous No.11587457]

>>11587402
How often does the barber fuck it up?

[Anonymous No.11587468]

>>11586955
>blocks your path
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7Wt8lDK0s

[Anonymous No.11587739]

>>11586972
He's at Harvard? I went to a shit school but my first year I still read 4 books a week, and almost none of it was of a pop-anything nonfic variety. He's reading the kind of stuff written for community college dropouts

[Anonymous No.11587747]

>>11587411
My ninja here gets it.

[Anonymous No.11587818]

>>11587258
Why don't you study the audiobook? That's what I do. Watch a lecture on YouTube, there's tons of free lectures from top tier universities available online. The internet is a superhighway of information.

[Anonymous No.11587831]

>>11587333
Audibly lol'd. Nice trips btw.

[Anonymous No.11587954]

>used to read half a book whilst pooping
>get a smartphone
>mess around on the phone instead of reading (sometimes read torrented epubs)
>getting back into reading more than fragments at a time due to attention span and the dopamine hits that comes with browsing the internet

Feels good, man.

[Anonymous No.11588004]

>>11586955
This is why i never get excited when people tell me that they read a lot. "oh yeah i read a lot, like one book a week" yeah but it's all empty pop psychology nonsense, mate

[Anonymous No.11588061]

>>11586955
The only thing impressive about this is the fact that he's able to force himself to complete all that self-help pseudo-intellectual garbage. How the fuck can people read that shit?

[Anonymous No.11588070]

>>11588061
>implying he actually reads them

[Anonymous No.11588218]

>>11586955
>antifragile


Is he, dare I say it, our guy?

[Anonymous No.11588272]

He's cute. Which I were at Harvard to meet him desu.

[Anonymous No.11588304]

>>11586955
I like his energy and his earnest demeanor. It made me want to read more. You can critique his book choice, as many have done in this thread, but his mindset is valuable, and I wish more people had his attitude toward reading.

[Anonymous No.11588318]

>>11586955
It's not that hard to read lot's of books in a short amount of time. It's just reading. You can practically do that in your sleep, granted you also dream of words to read. The problem is you have to actually digest what you're reading and sometimes do all the voices in your head. I'm sure people are busy with other things too, who has all their free time dedicated to reading?

[Anonymous No.11588350]

>>11586955
That kid is cancerous.

Reading pop-self-help books like that every week is a piece of cake but also a colossal waste of time.

Try reading stuff of actual complexity, like Tolstoy or Kant. It'll take you a lot longer than a week but it's a much better way to spend time reading, and it'll actually challenge you.

[Anonymous No.11588351]

>non-fiction

[Anonymous No.11588357]

>>11587468

>5 more minutes

[Anonymous No.11588369]

>>11586955
>a book a week

Do normies really think this is impressive?

[Anonymous No.11588377]

>>11588369
>>11588350

He got into Harvard though

[Anonymous No.11588383]

>>11588377
while beeing white and non jewish

[Anonymous No.11588402]

>>11588377
legacy admission

[Anonymous No.11588405]

>>11588369
/lit/ seems thinks more than 40 books a year is impressive. Go into any how many books do you read in a year thread and see what people respond to people saying 60+. It’s a lot of ”omg how do you do it” and ”stop lying” and ”comics dont count!”

[Anonymous No.11588415]

Classic liberal cliché worldview. Blames school system for people not reading. Remember kids

>every little child has an Einstein in them

[Anonymous No.11588420]

>>11586956
GIB
MILKIES
NOW

[Anonymous No.11588446]

>>11588402
he transferred from a Canadian undergrad

[Anonymous No.11588457]

>>11586962
stfu dumb nigglet

[Anonymous No.11588465]

>>11588446
he's a grad student?
ahahahahahahahhahha
the absolute state of ivy league

[Anonymous No.11588479]

>>11588377
Yeah, for being a computer nerd pseud, not for being intelligent.

[Anonymous No.11588515]

>>11588369
>>11588405

Some of us aren't shut ins mate

[Anonymous No.11588519]

>>11586955
He's not wrong

[Anonymous No.11588532]

>>11588377

>The college watchdog site reports that the Harvard Extension School — Harvard's hybrid continuing education program — is offering students the ability to be fully Harvard certified during the 2017-2018 school year, by taking courses like “Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food,”

Is America capable of nothing but high-powered memetics? This is supposed to be one of your proudest and most illustrious institutions, no?

[Anonymous No.11588542]

I saw this video. Once he started talking about how he went to Harvard and had that obnoxious speech impediment I stopped watching. Insufferable.

[Anonymous No.11588555]

>republic, iliad and odyssey in the second list
AHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.11588556]

>>11586955
There will always be another book, another dessert, another woman. All which ones believe will change their life.

[Anonymous No.11588557]

>>11588542
How do you know if someone went to Harvard?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

[Anonymous No.11588559]

Cause I’m lazy and preoccupied with writing my own book

[Anonymous No.11588570]

>>11588515
It’s not difficult to read 50-100 pages before going to bed. If you want to spend your time doing something else, go ahead, but it’s pretty embarrassing when people think you have to be a magic wizard speed reader man or a shut-in to be able to read that much.

[Anonymous No.11588573]

>>11588555
>AHAHAHAHAHA
cringe

[Anonymous No.11588577]

>>11588555
whats next? infinite jest? trynna finnagans wakes? fucking pseuds mang

[Anonymous No.11588581]

>>11588465
If this is Ivy League imagine tge state of comunity colleges

[Anonymous No.11588624]

>>11586956
>>11587170
Leading a chaste lifestyle is almost a prerequisite for reading voraciously. The dopaminergic motivational pathways are wasted on sexual pursuits, the subconscious is filled with whatever fantasy or pornography you conjured or consumed, and the brain itself functions slower because prolactin levels (an anti-dopamine hormone) have gone through the roof.
You can sit down and pretend to read a book a week but you can't truly read a book a week with true recollection without total celibacy-- abstaining both from masturbation and sex.
This makes reading no longer a chore, but a pleasure.

>"The greatest intellectual geniuses in both ancient and modern times led continent lives, and there is yet to be recorded one individual who freely expended seminal fluid who ever amounted to anything. In most cases, individuals who have achieved have been forced by necessity to abstain from sexual indulgence, as Cervantes, who wrote Don Quixote while in prison, or Dante who wrote his Divine Comedy while in exile. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" when blind and when he did not indulge in sex. Sir Isaac Newton, active in intellect until the age of 80, led a continent life from birth, and so did Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, both of whom retained their creative genius [until] an advanced age.

Stop masturbating. Stop watching porn. Stop having sex. If you minimize the potential for arousal, such a task soon becomes effortless.

I would assume the only reason the guy in the OP was able to do this, was because he looks depressed and they prescribe drugs which suppress the sex drive. This is inferior to embarking on continence at your own volition. These drugs have adverse effects.
He obviously is a pseudointellectual that went to an expensive undergraduate institution under the delusion that that somehow makes him really smart. It doesn't.
He strikes me as the character to skim the books and say that he has read them, which is a very different task than reading it word for word. This is why the book selection is insipid self-help books.

Abstain and you'll read more than a book a week. You will move mountains.

[Anonymous No.11588636]

>>11588581
European uni masterrace

[Anonymous No.11588657]

>>11588624
u wanna me aint blow gyal dem wit my woodie? yuh be da blaadclart pussy man. i enjoy my live. its natural living like lion or a king! i do what i wanna do. nobody can say me smth maan. books is ovarated ting & smart dem are a same happy as simple ppl yuh know? reading = nothing.

[Anonymous No.11588741]

>>11588581
Literally every lecture is given by PowerPoint with the occasional TEDx Talk thrown in. I believe this the case for second and third tier unis as well.

[Anonymous No.11588749]

>>11588570
I probably read roughly 50 pages per day, no way is that enough to get me through 60 books per year

[Anonymous No.11588763]

If you and the OP are all supposedly prodigious readers that know 10 languages, why are you not writing great works of fiction of philosophy? If you have the knowledge and skill of a professor, why are you not professing?

[Anonymous No.11588787]

>>11588624
overrated pasta

[Anonymous No.11588789]

>>11588559
Seeing Camus’s shit eating grub in that picture gets me every time

[Anonymous No.11588793]

>>11588570
It is definitely not easy to read 100 pages before going to bed. Especially if it's something like Kant or Derrida. Do you read for over an hour before going to bed?

[Anonymous No.11588794]

>>11588624
based and redpilled

nofap is making me into a polymath

semen is necessary to access esoteric knowledge, this is known by philosophers

[Anonymous No.11588827]

look at the books he's reading, it's a fucking self-help library with the same depth of blogposts

mouse-eared bugboy should be ashamed of himself

[Anonymous No.11588858]

>>11588794
Known by philosophers (eg Kant), true scientists (eg, Newton, Tesla), composers (Beethoven foremost, and yes, Mozart was extremely chaste in his early years which is when he produced his best work), artists, and physicians throughout most of recorded history. It is only the perversions of the past 80 years, beginning with the psychoanalysts followed by the sexual revolution, that have undid this once common knowledge and practice and turned it on its head. The laurels of abstinence may be praised until the end of time and the examples in antiquity abound, counted among the greats of their respective fields.
Rufus said "To Relax the Mind is to lose it". How true of en expression is this? To relax and indulge in such passions reduces the greatness of the human mind to nothing more than a windup machine intent on its next sexual hit and nothing more. Once reinforced, you are nothing more than a person indeed doing the same thing over and over again. At least the insane person expects a different result! With sexual excess, one does the same thing, and gets the SAME result. It's as pathetic as injecting heroin. It is divorced from our rational faculties and indulging for any other purpose than procreation, is not logical, and entails an abandonment of autonomy over self.

[Anonymous No.11588872]

>>11588827
>the subtle art of not giving a f*ck
big brain

[Anonymous No.11588880]

>>11588858
lol virgin

[Anonymous No.11588918]

>>11588858
>these successful virgins were successful because they were virgins

Category error.

[Anonymous No.11588932]

>>11588918
Nowhere did he imply that but whatever makes you less insecure

[Anonymous No.11588940]

>>11588932
He was explicit: success is confered by celibacy. How then do you explain the thousands of authors who had tons of sex and/or masturbated?

[Anonymous No.11588980]

>>11588793
Yes, sometimes. Not so much with philosophy as it’s indeed more tiring, but for fiction it’s nice.

[Anonymous No.11588985]

>>11588377
Just because you're reading high brow literature doesn't mean you're not intelligent.

[Anonymous No.11588986]

The cringiest thing about this kid is that he feels compelled to broadcast how much he is reading bc apparently he thinks he deserves a sticker or something. Reading for external validation is cringe but people on /lit/ attention whore like this all the time too. Obviously his taste in books sucks but if he was reading shit that people here like, /lit/ would be even more triggered, lets be honest.

>>11587468
Hahaha beat me to it. Came here to post this.

>>11588304
Best post in thread.

[Anonymous No.11589003]

>goes to Harvard
>reads exclusively midwit and lowbrow trash
The absolute state of America’s most prestigious educational institution

[Anonymous No.11589007]

>>11588827
>Life 3.0

Just a really watered down Superintelligence

[Anonymous No.11589037]

>guy discovers the joy of reading and shares it with the internet
>/lit/ is SEETHING
Bet you all the people getting mad read mostly for attention and are jealous of this guy getting more than they ever will

[Anonymous No.11589043]

>>11589037
There is no joy in reading the trash he reads

[Anonymous No.11589046]

>>11588880
>>11588918
Virginity and abstinence are two separate concepts.
>>11588940
>How then do you explain the thousands of authors who had tons of sex and/or masturbated?
Celibacy helps confer a productive state of mind unburdened by the physiological consequences of sexual thought and indulgence, that is conducive to success.
Indeed, there are thousands of authors who have indulged but you make an argument of quantity, not quality. They are not counted among the greats in their field. People frequently mention authors and show literary examples such as Proust as a counter; however, this is almost a joke. It does not require much to just write at length. He doesn't compare to the likes of Tesla, Pythagoras, Newton, Kant, etc. And lastly, just because someone led a licentious life, does not mean that their incontinence didn't impair them. There are examples of successful drug addicts. In both cases, most would be better off unburdened by the consequences that arise from their reckless abandon in the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure.

[Anonymous No.11589090]

>>11589037
>reading is reading

[Anonymous No.11589120]

>>11587468
what a chad

[Anonymous No.11589152]

>>11586955
The fact that if you read a book a week you basically have to be BIG-brained or only read shit-tier books

[Anonymous No.11589193]

>>11587468
Lol all of you faggits saying you this isn't a valid way to read are just ignorgant. I've read 220 books this year. HOW many have you read? 10? I have 220 gold nuggets, you have 20. 80/20 RULE! Everyone knows that principle! Checkmate, faggits.

[Anonymous No.11589265]

>>11589037
>the joy of reading
the guy literally has to force himself to finish a book. "it might seem like work but keep at it!" or whatever he says.

[Anonymous No.11589299]

>>11587468
Holy sht, I literally do the things he says in this video to see if a book is worth reading before I buy/download it or to shitpost on books I've never read.

[Anonymous No.11589321]

>>11587468

>skip to 3:33, the geometric and theological nexus of the video
>a bespectacled man narrates: "everybody should be always reading [sic] a self-help book [because everybody wants] a better life" over an elevator backing track
>calmly close the tab
>write up a post exposing this man for his poor taste in ltierature
>reopen the video to make sure I had the correct timestamp

watched it twice

[Anonymous No.11589383]

>>11586955
I like his optimism and positive outlook. I also admire how he acknowledges that for the budding reader reading can feel like a chore, and hypothesizes as to why that is. I very much agree with his ideas on this.

He's unironically inspired me to read more.

[Anonymous No.11589389]

>>11586972
not a terrible list desu

[Anonymous No.11589464]

>>11588357
>The War and the Peace
LMAO rite now

[Anonymous No.11589863]

>>11587402
post pics

[Anonymous No.11589890]

>>11586955
>that lisp

What a homo. Should be lifting instead

[Anonymous No.11589896]

>>11589383
Shut up faggot, books are wasted on you

[Anonymous No.11589994]

>>11589890
>start lifting
>gain the body of a demi-god
>still have lisp

[Anonymous No.11590019]

>>11589994
>Mike_Cernovich.jpg

[Anonymous No.11590074]

>>11588515

Some of us spend only an occasional 10-20 minutes shitposting here before realizing that this board is still shit and populated with turboplebs who don't read. That gives us more time to read.

[Anonymous No.11590087]

>>11588858

And then there's Joyce

>“My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

[Anonymous No.11590094]

>>11589046

>People frequently mention authors and show literary examples such as Proust as a counter; however, this is almost a joke. It does not require much to just write at length.

Thanks for allowing me to disregard every other opinion you spout. I did nofap and noporn for 18 months. Only change was that I was incessantly horny.

[Anonymous No.11590114]

>>11587402
haha

[Anonymous No.11590129]

He's at Harvard and doing computer science, so he must be analytically smart, at the very least. What if he knows that midwit shit and an overly earnest go-getting demeanour are the best way to get YouTube views?

It's comforting to think he is ignorant. What if he is like us but TOTALLY committed to rising up in society by any means necessary?

[Anonymous No.11590174]

Because I'm too busy shit posting.

Aside from that, I'm a slow reader.

[Anonymous No.11590179]

>>11588858
Assuming this isn’t a copypasta, I mostly agree. However, I’m curious as to why you believe that Mozart produced his best work during his early, celibate years. Assuming that he was entirely truthful in his letters to his father and remained a virgin until his marriage to Constanze, I’d nevertheless say that his works steadily improved from this point until his death, and that his late works approach more greatly a perfection of melodic, contrapuntal, and structural form than any of his earlier compositions.

[Anonymous No.11590189]

>>11588532
america literally is a meme country, it's not an organic entity. it's based on a zany idea some french lads came up with in the 18th century and does not have a homogeneous culturally connected populace nor a history.

the middle kingdom will take over again soon though luckily

[Anonymous No.11590300]

I would like to stop jerking off but I can't escape the dopamine rush.

[Anonymous No.11590372]

>>11587090
based lowbrow poster

[Anonymous No.11591478]

>>11586955
>highlighting books

[Anonymous No.11591490]

>>11590300
Naltrexone removes the reward.
Take that and make good effort to stop, and after a while, you soon enough will be free.

[Anonymous No.11591538]

>>11586955
>Goes to Harvard
>Has time to read 1 leisure book per week
This faggo obviously isn't working if he has so much free time so daddy and mommy must be footing the bill for his ivy league education. not his fault but it still pisses me off.

[I Go !2HARVARdHk No.11591569]

>>11588377
OP here, so did I.

[Anonymous No.11591599]

>>11590129
This seems like the case given his social media accounts. Very eerie, honestly. He's shaped himself in the forms demanded of by modernity.

[Anonymous No.11591633]

>>11588624
Can confirm. Am on day 956 of Nofap. After about 3 months is where I noticed the changes. Mental acuity and clarity was greatly increased, motivation and energy levels became similar to being on amphetamines without side effects, my need for sleep was reduced from 8 to 6 hours, I started eating clean without any effort, my voice became deeper and my body language improved, I became charismatic in an effortless way that seemed to produce a form of magnetism on women, my reflexes improved and I became capable of slowing down the flow of time at will, I became able to move small objects using my mind alone, could levitate in place, became capable of healing people from all illnesses with touch alone, learned how to summon a golem to crush my enemies, learned how to alter the molecular composition of matter with my mind, and finally around 180 days in I learned the secret name of g*d and unlocked the secret alchemical truths of the universe.

[Anonymous No.11591659]

>>11591633
nofap is like CHIM but in real life

[Anonymous No.11591664]

>>11587468
This is hysterical

[Anonymous No.11591706]

>>11590087

[Anonymous No.11591721]

>>11590087
The OG BRAP poster

[Anonymous No.11591774]

>>11589896
based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.11591817]

>>11586956
Mmmmmmmm

[Anonymous No.11591823]

>>11587468
>Most books only have one or two good ideas in them.

Hitler:
>“The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.”

[Anonymous No.11591836]

>>11588794
>known by philosophers
once a philosopher, twice a pervert

[Anonymous No.11592492]

>>11588624
Pasta I know, but the greatest writer of all time was a fart loving deviant

[Anonymous No.11592544]

>>11587739
Harvard is for rich kids, not necessarily smart people.

[Anonymous No.11592557]

>>11587739

The dude got into harvard because he's somewhat good at running. Not because of some academic achievements.

[Anonymous No.11592571]

>>11588741
Can confirm. Community college is basically like an extended high school now.

[Anonymous No.11592586]

>>11588657
wut

[Anonymous No.11592620]

>>11586955
fucking bugs, they crawl up the wall so you cant step on them too.

[Anonymous No.11592627]

>>11588741
Can confirm. At a State Uni. No regrets though desu.

[Anonymous No.11592672]

>>11591569
>That trip
Okay, I can forgive you this time.

[Anonymous No.11592731]

>"as a person, I hadn't learned a lot"
>picks up reading YA instead of experiencing life
what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.11592748]

>one book a week
what and arbitrary choice
Whether it is a 100 page novella or a 1000+ page door stopper, gotta finish in a week.

[Anonymous No.11592826]

>>11592748
Yeah, brainlets use it because they use it in their lame competitions to read the most books. All they read is just YA trash anyway. Best way is to follow a schedule. X minutes/hours per day

[Anonymous No.11593008]

It's thursday and I have already read 2 (two) books this week (220 pages total)
AND I plan on reading another one before the week is over
get on my level, brainlets

[Anonymous No.11593014]

>>11587447

Does DFW describe every facet of the modern human personality?

[Anonymous No.11593737]

>>11588872
What is that book even about? Do you know?

[Anonymous No.11594713]

>>11589265
desu it would be tough to finish the books he's reading (malcolm gladwell and such)

[Anonymous No.11594729]

>>11587468
Based. BASED!