/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11639358]

what goes through your head when you read?

[Anonymous No.11639371]

i didn't realize crossdressers were such avid readers

[Anonymous No.11639384]

A miasma of sudden and intense drives and curiosities sparked by a free-associative process that I can't turn off

[Anonymous No.11639401]

i try to imagine OP doing something cool and heterosexual but even in my imagination he's a massive faggot

[Anonymous No.11639404]

>>11639358
usually nothing, which is why i like reading so much. helps me forget about my crippling, agonizing anxiety and depressing and general lack of motivation to continue existing and paradoxical fear of dying

[Anonymous No.11639423]

I don't know why someone has decided to make all these anti-male threads but it is amusing.

[Anonymous No.11639537]

>>11639358
>enjoying books
pseud

[Anonymous No.11639543]

>>11639358
The words I am reading?

[Anonymous No.11639548]

>>11639423
It's one resentful woman.

[Anonymous No.11639589]

>>11639423
>>11639548
Probably has something to do with that pornstars Twitter post

[Anonymous No.11639599]

Literally just what score I'm gonna give it on goodreads.

[Anonymous No.11639611]

i imagine the scenes on the book played by my favourite actors

[Anonymous No.11639620]

>>11639423
it's charlotte sartre

[Anonymous No.11639630]

Only what i am reading with occasional insights sparked by it.

[Anonymous No.11639635]

>>11639358
>WHY AM I BALD AT 22
>WHY AM I BALD AT 22
>WHY HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
>WHY AM I BALD WHY WHY WHY

[Anonymous No.11639639]

>>11639358
What is it with weird MFA people and Proust? Like it used to be Hemingway, then it was DFW, but now it's Proust.

[Anonymous No.11639658]

>>11639358
Trying to pay attention to what the book is saying. What else would you even be thinking about?

[Anonymous No.11639662]

>>11639635
cant stop laughing at this wtf

[Anonymous No.11639676]

>>11639635
Tell people you shave it for swimming

[Anonymous No.11639687]

Nothing I focus on what I'm reading so I don't miss anything

[Anonymous No.11639710]

When reading: whatever’s happening on the page played out like a movie, I’m a visual person.

If my mind wanders while reading then it goes to, from most often to least often, though anything in this list is going to go through my head a lot:

>suicide (zero desire to kill myself but I witnessed a family member’s attempt a few years ago and it is constantly on my mind)
>guns (what I want to buy and gun design ideas)
>cars (status of my project car and future mods and purchases)
>novel and story ideas
>planes (I’m a recreational pilot)
>favorite authors
>novel I’m currently reading
>current events and politics
>my job search since graduation is on the horizon
>business plans and ideas
>my studies (MBA program)
>finance and investing
>tfw no gf

[Anonymous No.11640803]

>>11639358
Just a highlight reel of my worst moments on loop, pretty much.

[Anonymous No.11640829]

Idk I guess I think about checking my phone

>the most normie answer in this thread. Yes I am this boring irl too.

Props to the guy with the bald post tho, kek

[Anonymous No.11640839]

>>11639423
Anti-male bait is the most effective type on any 4chan board. You can make it as blatantly obvious as possible but some sperg will still take it

[Anonymous No.11640847]

>>11639358
>women
>thoughts
Nice one op

[Anonymous No.11640852]

Either just a mental reenactment of the text or a hatred for the author

[Anonymous No.11640860]

>>11639423
I don't know why someone has decided to make all these anti-female threads but it is amusing.

[Anonymous No.11641119]

>>11639548
Don't have to be a woman to buy into straight white males being responsible for everything bad that ever happened, like, ever. Or maybe op is making fun of that nonsense, hard to say.

[Anonymous No.11641187]

>>11639710
same, but add
>Western civilization is fucking dying and I can't do shit to save it.
and
>What the heck even goes on in South America?

[Anonymous No.11641189]

>>11639635
high test. congratulations, anon. you've made it.

[Anonymous No.11641193]

>>11639635
lmao
dude if you'r egonna be bald at least fuck some bitches with your uncontrollably high T levels

[Anonymous No.11641197]

>>11639371

[Anonymous No.11641198]

>>11639358
Whatever I'm reading with slight analysis/interpretation. fear that I've just only glazed over the past half-page of words. a truly irrational anxiety about not reading enough, since by reading 20+ pages a day I'm vastly ahead of your average american in terms of reading

[Anonymous No.11641207]

>>11639423
I like it, change of pace.

[Anonymous No.11641208]

>>11641198
>he justifies only reading 15 pages a day by comparing himself to the average libtarded americunt who hasn't read a single page in their life

[Anonymous No.11641216]

>>11641208
Alright dude we all know you want to say it: how much do you read a day. Let's see how big your anonymous dick is at 3am

[Anonymous No.11641259]

>>11639371
fpbp

[Anonymous No.11641267]

>>11641216
okay well, I just got done reading The Hidden Life of Trees, took me 3 days, very nice little treehugger book. I've been reading Warlock by Oakley Hall, finished the first part and decided to take a break. Now i'm reading Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and i'm loving it so probbaly gonna finish tomorrow and then go back to Warlock
Invisible Cities is probably the best book I've read yet this year

[Anonymous No.11641268]

>>11641216
Why do you have to make reading a competition? Make sure you're enjoying it instead of trying to get "ahead of the average American"

[Anonymous No.11641279]

>>11641268
I'm not. Like I said it's a pretty irrational anxiety about not reading enough when really I should just be content reading

[Anonymous No.11641300]

>>11641279
dude if you dont like reading then dont do it. if you read to prove something to anyone other than yourself, just stop. read for yourself, it is an entirely internal experience

[Anonymous No.11641309]

>>11639358
Seems I'm the only one here who thinks about the book I'm reading as I'm reading it.

[Anonymous No.11641346]

>>11641309
there's a strong implication here that using your brain actively has rewards, and, within the current paradigm, I do not think I agree with that

[Anonymous No.11641356]

I want my slap my erect member on her ass cheeks

[Anonymous No.11641359]

>>11641356
me too :D

[Anonymous No.11641361]

Nothing. I'm devoid of emotions.

[Anonymous No.11641414]

>>11639635
I'm 22 and my hair is beginning to thin. Feels like shit man. I have this elongated face that can only look normal through elaborate hair styles.

[Anonymous No.11641435]

>>11640839
the pendulum is beginning to swing the other way again

[Anonymous No.11641448]

>>11639358
I imagine whatever is happening in the book in the style of an anime

[Anonymous No.11641643]

>>11639384
this + suicidal thoughts if I get too distracted and have to repeat too often to understand the text

[Anonymous No.11641652]

I just count down pages until I'm done, I fucking hate reading but have nothing better to do, I don't enjoy anime and games

[Anonymous No.11641689]

>women
>reading
nice meme

[Anonymous No.11641692]

>>11639620

Brekekekekek

[Anonymous No.11641708]

>>11639384
>>11641643

[Anonymous No.11641723]

>>11639358
I mostly just try and compound a mental picture while i'm reading, don't really think, rather just focus on the words.
except sometimes i fiend cones and I think "I would like a cone" while i'm reading or a similar sentiment and it distracts the fuck out of me.

Dont ever smoke weed erryday if you're into cerebral shit or wanna ever call yourself an intellectual, it's not the most damaging drug ever but it basically just adds a whole lot of nasty useless noise into your thought process.

Can't wait until I've finally 'quit' it for good and put that part of my life behind me.

Come to think of it, the text of this post resembles a pretty typical thought process while I'm reading.

[Anonymous No.11641769]

>>11639635

[Anonymous No.11641850]

>>11639358
This is exactly what I was thinking when I was reading Proust.
>t.female

[Anonymous No.11642026]

>>11639358
?
The text of the book goes through my head when I read. What is wrong with you people.

[Anonymous No.11642044]

>>11639423
More likely an estrogen fueled tranny defensive of their assumed female identity.

[Anonymous No.11642290]

>>11639371
OP fucking rekt

[Anonymous No.11642304]

>>11639358
I always read a page then realise I didn't take anything in so have to actually go back and reread the page. This happens more than I'd like it to.

[Anonymous No.11642328]

>>11641723
You'll get there man. Just stave it off. I was "lucky" enough to have a major panic attack after smoking one night.

I don't want to sound too pseudy or underage, but I realise now what people mean when they say weed can have a psychotic effect, even though mine was nothing so drastic as a psychosis. Had been smoking for 5+ years when all of a sudden I heard an actual voice whispering just horrifying existential shit in my ear.

Took me like 6 months to recover fully. Never smoked again.

[Anonymous No.11642587]

>>11639635
>>11641414
You guys sound like women.

[Anonymous No.11642648]

tfw have a hard time visualizing.

[Anonymous No.11642692]

>>11639635
Same. I lost the genetic lottery: I'm stupid, unattractive, unhealthy, and balding. Life is unfair

[Anonymous No.11642712]

>implying I actually read any books

[Anonymous No.11642845]

>>11642328
My roommate had a panic so bad from weed recently that I had to take him to the hospital. And in a way, I also thought it was kind of lucky. Because while I was trying to stop smoking I was also the only person that could buy weed so he would constantly ask me to help him buy weed and smoke, which was always too tempting for me.
>>11641723
>Dont ever smoke weed erryday if you're into cerebral shit or wanna ever call yourself an intellectual
>it basically just adds a whole lot of nasty useless noise into your thought process.
I agree with this so much, nasty useless noise is exactly what I'd call it. Weed ruins anything that takes any mental power at all. But not only that, I'd smoke weed occasionally if it only made me stupid for the moment, but it lingers into the next few days for me and that's what's made me want to stop for good. Everytime I smoke I feel like the next few days are fuzzy.

[Anonymous No.11643123]

>>11639548
Yep, thats me. I want a lit boyfried. Stop ignoring me.

[Anonymous No.11643213]

>>11639423
How's it even anti-male at all? I don't see either gender be particularly mocked: they both read what they like and have genuine thoughts about it.

[Anonymous No.11643294]

>>11640803
I still can't believe Wallace knew James Joyce AND Camus

[Anonymous No.11643316]

>>11643294
That's a common misconception, only Wallace and Camus knew each other. At the time that picture was taken, they had no idea they were sitting next to Joyce

[Anonymous No.11643331]

>>11640803
Fun fact: that picture was only taken in the first place in order to go in the photographer's cringe compilation.

[Anonymous No.11643352]

Mostly just blank churning, its not like I remember any of the things I've read, but somehow I've been reading it.

[Anonymous No.11643392]

>>11639635
Do people really still care about that?

[Anonymous No.11643418]

>>11640839

high IQ take

[Anonymous No.11643437]

>>11641346
If you apply your faculties to a lucrative career and networking it might, depending on what you consider a reward.

[Anonymous No.11643486]

>>11639358
I find a kernel of truth in this bait. Women seem to have maintained a certain earnestness that modern man has either lost or never had in the first place.

[Anonymous No.11643491]

>>11643486
Men aren't allowed to feel. So they won't.

[Anonymous No.11643511]

>>11639635
this

[Anonymous No.11643522]

>>11640803
reminder that Pynchon was the photographer

[Anonymous No.11643530]

>>11639358

I'm both. What does it mean.

[Anonymous No.11643532]

>>11642692
Same here. I'm also a tranny so yeah, fuck you, genetics.

[Anonymous No.11643535]

>>11639358
not much outside of what im reading. sometimes i think a lot of stuff is going over my head which makes me anxious.

[Anonymous No.11643543]

>>11643535
I found out that when I'm getting anxious about that I have a much harder time comprehending the text because I start overanalyzing ever little bit. Helps me to just force myself to chill and enjoy.

[Anonymous No.11643690]

>>11643392
>do people care about being sexually attractive to the opposite sex

[Anonymous No.11643693]

>>11643690
>bald men can't be sexy

[Anonymous No.11643694]

>>11643690
>>11643392
>>11639635
You guys are making this problem worse for yourselves by talking about it so much
Most women don't even think about receding hairlines, they'll just look at a man and think "he looks like that," unless he's got a full-on chrome dome or patchy mess
Stop bringing receding hairlines into the public sphere as something to be mocked
They can't be consciously deterred by it if they don't even have a name for it

[Anonymous No.11643707]

>reading isn't about enjoyment anyway
this is true. brain/lit/s btfo

[Anonymous No.11643714]

>>11643693
you literally just become 'that bald guy'. and when in your early twenties and bald you become 'that creepy bald guy'

>>11643694
t. pic related

[Anonymous No.11643751]

>>11643714
I've never heard a dude be called creepy for being bald. Just buzz your head really short or actually become the bald guy and people will respect that. It's better than pretending like you still have hair.

[Anonymous No.11643763]

>>11643751
yeah plus u ever see old pics of your bald friend with hair? it just looks fucking goofy

just get a neck tattoo and a beard

[Anonymous No.11643772]

>>11643751
i have heard that happen at work, there's this dude who's bald but he's also short, has a pot belly, wears aviator glasses and cargo shorts, everyone says he looks like a fucking pedo, probably if he hit the gym and got some tats people would say he looks like an ex-con which is way better, he's probably too short to be taken seriously in a suit, but if he were taller that could be another option

[Anonymous No.11643852]

>i hope my former english teacher runs into me and sees me reading this
S-so I'm not the only one?

[Anonymous No.11643888]

>>11641189
>>11641193
I don't get this meme, why do old men go bald when they hit the age when their testosterone levels drop significantly? Shouldn't young people be the baldest people and then grow more hair when they are old?

[Anonymous No.11643896]

>>11639358
>I wish I could project as tastefully as Tom Clancy

[Anonymous No.11643924]

Mostly just how much I wish I was dead

[Anonymous No.11643939]

>>11643772
>this dude who's bald but he's also short, has a pot belly, wears aviator glasses and cargo shorts
>everyone says he looks like a fucking pedo
Yeah I don't think this is because he's bald, good point.

[Anonymous No.11643944]

>>11639358
>>11643852
Read Lacan's lectures. He explains why we think like this.

[Anonymous No.11643961]

>>11643944
Can I get the quick rundown?

[Anonymous No.11643972]

Literally nothing, not even the words on the page.

[Anonymous No.11643978]

>>11643944
I'll check it out. Cheers, anon.

[Anonymous No.11644394]

>>11639358
>I wonder what shitposts can I make about this book
Well, don't you feel the same, females of /lit/?