/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11628976]

ITT sum up your character in one sentence and other anons will recommend a book based on that

I'm just a regular dude who likes to get a little hammered, party with crazy people and all around have a good time.

[Anonymous No.11628979]

I’m just a rad dude with tits

[Anonymous No.11629093]

>>11628976
I just some guy that tries too hard, and nobody likes because of it. But I know deep down that if I ever stopped, no one would find me useful and I'd be forgotten.

[Anonymous No.11629851]

>>11629093
Too close to home.

I want to create something great but I'm constantly haunted by the idea that I'm not good enough and that I will die before I do anything meaningful enough. I yearn for friendship with people that have similar interests but they all despise me because of the moderate success I had up to now and for reasons I can't grasp since I never said a bad word about them and have always tried to be their friend and help them.

[Anonymous No.11629857]

bloggity blog me me pay attention to me blog

[Anonymous No.11629889]

I am a pseudo-intellectual and proud.

[Anonymous No.11629909]

>>11629857
The Fountainhead

[Anonymous No.11629915]

>>11629889
ulyssees - irish fedora's gibberish, not the real thing

[Anonymous No.11629957]

I'm just a buff man screaming in a bucket

[Anonymous No.11630029]

I'm stupid and lazy but I want to try to get better and I keep saying this but I'm still stupid and lazy and fat.

[Anonymous No.11630098]

People love me and think I work hard, but I feel like a fraud who falls easily victim to poor habits and excess.

[Anonymous No.11630126]

>>11628976
"How I sucked 900 dicks in one day" by OP

[Anonymous No.11630350]

Blessed is the prideful man who humbly vales in his sinning unto his death.

[Anonymous No.11630352]

>>11629093
>some guy
>me
feelsbad

[Anonymous No.11631685]

>>11628976
I like guns, and dont like people trying to take them away.
These people make me dream of helicopters.
I like guns.

[Anonymous No.11631702]

>>11631685
Not one sentence.
I'm a retard.
Found my own book, no need to worry

[Anonymous No.11631734]

Woody Allen, but with more erections and nervousness around attractive people

[Anonymous No.11631764]

>>11628976
Who paints the best feet? Is it the Boug?

[Anonymous No.11631779]

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

In all seriousness, I'd like recommendations for some atmospheric works. The type of drawn out environment you'd see in a Radcliffe or Kawabata novel.

[Anonymous No.11631793]

I'm so hard on myself that I beat myself up rather than celebrating on my legitimate achievements

[Anonymous No.11631807]

I have no desires in life. I feel like I’m developing something important in my interior through art and quietness but I’m in a pleasant state of laziness and avoiding social situations as much as I can. I’m growing indifferent to concepts such as god, meaning, love, etc. except when expressed through art as if only then they have any value. I’ve also begun to take myself more seriously in the past months, and I can tell those who used to/are my friends are getting tired of me. But it doesn’t matter. I don’t mind stop being friends with X, but the loss of friendship as an artistic expression feels devastating. I can only feel through literature, films and music. I’m also aware that this sounds like pretentious bullshit, but whatever. End of blogpost.

[Anonymous No.11631808]

>>11630029

[Anonymous No.11631816]

>>11628976
I could get a girlfriend if I tried but I'm comfortable being a volcel

[Anonymous No.11631917]

By my actions I am a sinner, by the grace of God I am a Christian.

[Anonymous No.11631946]

I hate modern society and the retarded gorilla nigger monkeys inhabiting it.

[Anonymous No.11631954]

>>11631917
if you really believed in god you wouldn't sin
>inb4 hurr durr muh original sin

[Anonymous No.11631964]

>>11631954
if you don't want to use your brain there's always /r/literature for you.

[Anonymous No.11632072]

>>11631964
they prolly have some nice subs for larpers like you as well

[Anonymous No.11632134]

I want to be rich and fuck tons of women but also recluse myself and reject body pleasures to reach enlightenment

[Anonymous No.11632162]

>>11631808
based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.11632310]

>>11632134
read no longer human

[Anonymous No.11632442]

>>11631816
Is volcel short for 'delusional incel'?

[Anonymous No.11632496]

>>11628976
The drinking life
>>11628979
Listen to the kinks
>>11629093
Moby dick
>>11629851
Meditations
>>11629857
Anne frank
>>11629957
Starting strength
>>11630029
Nico ethics
>>11631685
2nd amendment jurisprudence would like to have a word with you.
>>11631734
King Arthur
>>11631779
1q84
>>11631793
How music works
>>11631807
Botany of desire
>>11631816
Catch 22
>>11631946
You need to go talk to people not read more books
>>11632134
Thinking fast and slow
Also I am >>11630098 if anyone has any recs.

[Anonymous No.11632578]

I have a hard time connecting with people at anything more than a superficial level, even just trying gives me an incredible anxiety. I end up spending most of my time studying, reading, and working out—too bad I have nobody to show the results of the latter.

[Anonymous No.11632593]

>>11628976
man works with his hands and is pissed because he cant rape the women that flaunt their tits around him in his scummy social circle

[Anonymous No.11632600]

>>11632578
you should try doing drugs, my man

[Anonymous No.11632634]

>>11632600
I don't mind marijuana, but it would be pretty depressing to smoke it on my own, wouldn't it? Heavier stuff, I'd rather not touch.

[Anonymous No.11632676]

>>11632578
So if you can’t connect with anyone then this is either an issue with your ability to communicate and have discussion, or you don’t put yourself in a place to meet the kind of people you would connect with. Though, because you have NO ONE, I’m going to assume it’s your fault.

[Anonymous No.11632720]

>>11632676
Eh, I'm oversimplifying it a bit. What I wanted to say is, I always get stuck in the limbo of casual acquaintance, and I'm kind of afraid to get close to other people—kind of like the Little Prince and the fox, if it had social anxiety that he tirelessly labours to hide. Incidentally, this results in my blowing my chances with women who would be into me.

[Anonymous No.11632742]

>>11628976
on the road
>>11628979
juliette
>>11629093
metamorphosis
>>11629851
big sur
>>11629857
any female author
>>11629889
the moral landscape
>>11629957
the myth of sisyphus
>>11630029
lucky jim
>>11630098
american psycho
>>11631685
kingdom of fear
>>11631734
ask the dust
>>11631779
thus spoke zarathrusta
>>11631793
echo and narcissus
>>11631807
oblomov
>>11631816
rule of st. benedict
>>11631917
95 theses
>>11631946
industrial society and its future
>>11632134
big sur
>>11632578
ecce homo

[Anonymous No.11632782]

>>11632634
Only if you're already in a depressed state of mind. Weed is basically the best drug to take alone, as it doesn't fundamentally increase your socialising, rather on the contrary. But it also amplifies feelings to a degree (the set aka your mindset when taking a drug), so already depressed = more depressed. Feeling alright and just want to connect more with that album or movie (or even book, although I personally don't like reading stoned) or have some crazy ideas, go for it.
When socialising, alcohol. Or "harder" stuff, as you called it.

[Anonymous No.11632886]

>>11632496
Good suggestion, thanks! Unfortunately I've already read all of Murakami's works. Anything else come to mind?

I think anon's suggestion for American Pyscho is good. I'd also suggest Filth by Irvine Welsh and Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. They're all rather different but maybe something will pique your interest.

>>11632742
I thoroughly enjoyed Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Do you have any other suggestions in the same vein?

>He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

[Anonymous No.11632941]

>>11632578
Literally and metaphorically me.

[Anonymous No.11633006]

>>11632782
I might consider it. Thank you for the tip.

[Anonymous No.11633184]

>>11631779
Blackmore's Lorna Doone

[Anonymous No.11633239]

I fail at everything I do. I just can't keep up with life. I can't think. I'm nothing. I can't find a goal. Everything lacks meaning and value when I engage with it.

[Anonymous No.11633249]

>>11632886
>I thoroughly enjoyed Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Do you have any other suggestions in the same vein?
unironically the bible since that's the style he was going for.

book of job and ecclesiastes are the greatest hits imhotbh

[Anonymous No.11633253]

>>11633184
Checking out some samples and this looks delightful. Thank you kind anon! Just put in an order for it, I'm surprised I didn't pick it up sooner.

[Anonymous No.11633256]

>>11633239
bartleby the scrivener

[Anonymous No.11633296]

>>11632496
>You need to go talk to people not read more books
I tried talking to people once
>Bix nood nigga we be mu'fuckin gucci nigga skkkkrtttt yeeeee boiii muda fugga we up in dis mah fuggin sheeit nigga das rite whait boii
Never doing that ever again

[Anonymous No.11633546]

I'm very tall, thin, my hair is dark brown and my eyes are too but many people think they're black at first sight, I live in Northern Germany and my parents both are ethnically German but many people here mistake me for a foreigner and talk to me in English, my nose is pretty huge, I have naturally perfectly shaped eyebrows and I chew nails.

I feel that my exterior attributes characterize me better than my character traits which I find hard, bordering on impossible, to pin down.

[Anonymous No.11633705]

>>11633546
anything by this lad

[Anonymous No.11633924]

Just smart enough to be well aware of my own incompetence and limits, not smart enough to be outstanding or accomplish anything noteworthy.

[Anonymous No.11633942]

>>11632782
Typical marijuana addict. Thinks he literally can't live without it; oh, he assures us, he can quit whenever he wants. How convenient for his habit it is, that he never wants to...

[Anonymous No.11633971]

Average man who has somehow tricked others into thinking he is above average; he put on the charade for so long that he started to believe it.

[Anonymous No.11633982]

>>11633942
That image takes me back

[Anonymous No.11634744]

>>11628976

I'm a schizophrenic transsexual therian former CS student who likes philosophy and occultism, and has had the shit kicked out of them continuously for ~26 years.

[Anonymous No.11634856]

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself, so I've grown to begrudgingly accept my fate as a slave to myself.

[Anonymous No.11634863]

>>11634856
Epictetus, The Enchiridion

[Anonymous No.11634892]

I'm that guy that jacks off too much

[Anonymous No.11634923]

I'm just a college student grappling with some emotional trauma that I've been shouldering ever since I was a kid. I started delving into philosophy as a coping mechanism, toying with idealism and the notion that as long as a few people acknowledge my existence as possible, the likelyhood I'll just disappear from people's memories and cease to exist becomes closer. It kind of helps a little bit to embrace my own insignificance but what I really want is solace. If anyone has any book recommendations that'd be lovely.

[Anonymous No.11635559]

Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose I guess.

[Anonymous No.11635567]

>>11628976
im one of the crazy people you liked to party with until the crazy turned violent, i live for moments of beauty that i don't know how to conjure, making my motivation entirely detached from my behavior.

[Anonymous No.11635590]

>>11628976
i hate people but long term solitude leaves me yearning for interaction, when i get it i almost immdediatly recoil back to my previous state

[Anonymous No.11635634]

>>11628976
I'm a regular dude with a big ass dick

[Anonymous No.11635732]

I love your titties, 'cause they prove I can focus on two things at once

[Anonymous No.11635907]

>>11635559
Doktor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

[Anonymous No.11636095]

>>11633942
OP here: I actually heavily reduced my weed consum, exactly because of afromentioned amplification of depression, from nearly daily to two or three times a month, and even then I often regret it. But I can still see its benefits and recommend it based on them. Really, its like with all drugs: Do it occasionnaly, responsibly and only if you feel like it. But a complete condemnation is utter bullshit.

[Anonymous No.11636172]

>>11628976
Tropic of Cancer, 101%

>>11629889
Ernst Jünger: Strahlungen

>>11631807
>>11634744
>>11635559
>>11635590
The Book of Disquiet

>>11631917
The Book of the New Sun

>>11631807
Against the World, Against Life

>>11634892
Houellebecq: Whatever

>>11635567
Hamsun: Hunger
Tropic of Cancer

[Anonymous No.11636174]

>>11635634
the yellow king

[Anonymous No.11636184]

A usually sad and tired lad who only enjoys art and sport, is not good at anything, spends a lot of time walking, reading or practising drawing, though mostly procrastinates instead of drawing a lot. I'm that boring person that people don't usually notice, but it's a good thing since I get nervous in social situations, unless I know someone quite well.

[Anonymous No.11636193]

>>11635732
bukowski's short stories
>>11633924
this hits too close to home, no idea what to recommend
>>11633239
book of disquiet
>>11631946
kaczynski and anarcho-primitivists
>>11631807
book of disquiet
>>11629889
wikipedia articles on literature, art and philosophy
>>11628976
the sun also rises

[Anonymous No.11636219]

>>11634744
Kubin: The Other Side (give it some chapters, it gets really good)
The Master of the Day of Judgement

>>11630098
The Book of the Long Sun if you like genre lit

>>11631779
On the Marble Cliffs
If you like it and want longer versions, read Julien Gracq.

>>11631946
Jünger and Gracq for you as well. Maybe start with Storms of Steel.

>>11633546
Hertha Müller

>>11636184
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.11636337]

>>11629093
good old neon (not a book but a story by dfw, just buy oblivion if you want a book recommended)

[Anonymous No.11636340]

Bases his worth on his achievements

[Anonymous No.11636366]

A neurotic narcissist who wants to be a hero but cant stop betraying himself

[Anonymous No.11636417]

>>11631764
I love how Renoir painted feet in this picture. They're so beautiful, you don't often see such "girly" feet in paintings from the past.

[Anonymous No.11636426]

>>11628976
I'm just a single man doomed to be obsessed with the past occuring in Hollywood, making up for lost time in an east-coast town I can't leave.

[Anonymous No.11636450]

>>11636366
A hero of our time

[Anonymous No.11636478]

>>11628976
Spent my life going through different unhealthy coping mechanisms in order to sustain a hedonistic lifestyle while still maintaining a job and good grades in university.

[Anonymous No.11636488]

>>11636417
Why are the women fat. Disgusting

[Anonymous No.11636505]

>>11634923
> the notion that as long as a few people acknowledge my existence as possible, the likelyhood I'll just disappear from people's memories and cease to exist becomes closer.
Iktf

[Anonymous No.11636513]

>>11636488
The one in the water isn't fat

[Anonymous No.11636810]

>>11636488
By classical standards they're anything but fat.

[Anonymous No.11636826]

>>11636478
Infinite Jest
Clockwork Orange

>>11633546
The Tunnel

[Anonymous No.11636842]

The only thing I have in my life is going to the gym. I haven't spoken to another human being in months, I have some mental block about social situations which I avoid constantly and am failing my studies hard because of it, and I am unable to change myself except physically

[Anonymous No.11636858]

>>11636488
>Why are the women fat. Disgusting
They're THICC, homo

[Anonymous No.11636862]

Everything is loud and busy, and I just want to be by myself, with nothing on my mind, nothing to worry about, in a sea of time and quiet.

[Anonymous No.11636992]

I prefer to spend most of my time alone but what I value most in life are my relationships with my family and the couple friends that I've managed to stay in touch with.

[Anonymous No.11637064]

>>11636862
same here

[Anonymous No.11637180]

>>11636219
I fucking love Julien Gracq, thanks for the recommendations anon. Picked up a pdf of On the Marble Cliffs and reading it now.

[Anonymous No.11637309]

cronic bad choices and wasted opportunities on top of being completely adrift in life.

[Anonymous No.11637340]

>>11634923
am I allowed to say On the Consolations of Philosophy by Debottom, or will this get me band?

[Anonymous No.11637342]

>>11634744
And you'll continue to have the shit kicked out of you your entire life, hopefully.

[Anonymous No.11637345]

>>11635559
Aviation manuals

[Anonymous No.11637392]

A shitdisturber who ventured on a quest for longterm jokes which people took too seriously due to his rather than clearing things up all around finding of immense joy in further confounding the Dante accusation, such love of his personal Beatrice, having as he never thought of this most any other way than in jest - in fact, as a counter to an era of sincerity he took it upon himself to laugh at himself and make all around him the absurdity that all outside of him pressed in upon him with, leaving him to agree with those fine, select categories of which Tlon was made and man was set in motion.

[Anonymous No.11637568]

i have bipolar 1 disorder

[Anonymous No.11637722]

>>11636826
Which one? By Gass or this Spanish dude?

[Anonymous No.11637728]

>>11636219
Hertha Müller is literally my grandmother's maiden name lmao
What are her books like?

[Anonymous No.11637836]

>>11629957

underrated

[Anonymous No.11637844]

>>11636417

That's not water. It's liquid BRAAAAAAAAAP.

[Anonymous No.11637908]

>>11628976
I self-sabotage all of my relationships in impressively bombastic ways and continually submit myself to recluse after bouts of occasional popularity or deep connection, and I'm on and off on whether I think I do this intentionally or unintentionally. Ultimately I'm okay with it.

[Anonymous No.11638142]

>>11628976

I will do whatever it takes to ensure the existence of my people, even if it means genocide and overturning the system in which I live.

[Anonymous No.11638175]

>>11638142

Also "It's the Jooos!"

[Anonymous No.11638405]

>>11631685
the hungry caterpillar

[Anonymous No.11638744]

>>11637908
Pan by Hamsun

[Anonymous No.11639840]

>>11636095
There's no such thing as "responsible" drug use. You just have different degrees of addiction.

[Anonymous No.11639865]

I fetishize my sex partners but fail to make an emotional conmection, then feel bad about it when everything falls apart

[Anonymous No.11640067]

I seek new experiences even at the expense of all propriety and reason.

[Anonymous No.11640206]

I used to lie a lot, but stopped when the weight of my falsehoods collapsed upon me and I lost my mind, believing that I was the reincarnation of Julius Caesar.

>>11640067
Steppenwolf is a good bet.