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I'm getting tired of reading classics and am thinking of trying a Stephen King novel. Am I a pleb? Should I just end it all?

>> No.12203505

You aren't a pleb. Your interests are just morphing with time. I wouldn't start with Stephen King though - he's a bit of a basic bitch.

>> No.12203506

Why do you care? Once you're dead no one is going to care about what books you read, or about anything else you did for that matter.

>> No.12203656

>>12203506
bad take soiboy

>> No.12203676

>>12203656
Once I'm dead no one will care whether I was a soiboy.

>> No.12203677

>>12203506
>Nothin’ matters, Morty!

>> No.12203682

>>12203677
Is this some zoomer show that I'm supposed to know about?

>> No.12203689

>>12203682
we’re all just on a big rock floating through space and time nothing matters read stephen king

>> No.12203699

>>12203689
>Calling nihilism immature is my coping strategy

>> No.12203703

>>12203699
it’s not me it’s just my brain chemicals and stuff

>> No.12203732

Do yourself a favor and read “Let the Right One In”

>> No.12203766

Read Carrie, it was the first for me and i liked it a lot.

>> No.12203769

>>12203499
What's that schoppy quote about bad literature again?

>> No.12203779

>>12203769
just google "Schopenhauer poison books"

>> No.12203808

>>12203703
I wonder in Zapffe's coping mechanisms would it count as "isolation" or as "anchoring"? Is it just blocking out the bad thoughts or anchoring oneself on the idea of "maturity"? Maybe a bit of both.

>> No.12203975

>>12203677
>>12203689
>>12203703
Nihilism is a sham but there’s still a pretty good chance your life is entirely worthless if you spend a significant amount of time on imageboards.

>> No.12204556

>>12203975
Your life is worthless no matter what you do.

>> No.12204565

>>12203499

It's okay you'll realize that King is for plebs and be reminded of why you read the classics in the first place.

>> No.12204578

>>12203499
Go to the shower and sleep. To work tomorrow. No other advice will come.

>> No.12205014

>>12203808
>taking Zappfe seriously
this just keeps getting better

>> No.12205063

>>12203499
There are better popular fiction books out there then Steven King

>> No.12205170

Go for it. I read one of his books last summer, it wasn't that bad.

Just don't expect more than cheap entertainment.

>> No.12205235

>>12203682
If you automatically assume it's a zoomer show, you know where it's from. Don't play dumb

>> No.12205252

>>12203499
How much do you make? <100,000? <50,000? <10,000? What exactly are you doing with your life? Are you helping out by volunteering? Working on a project that will make some kind of a difference? Are you happy with your life? In all likelihood you're average, maybe even below, and you'll be nothing by the time you die. Your greatest accomplishment at most will be reproducing, your biggest failure are all the regrets you've chosen and the time you 'wasted'. Everyone says it, you only get one shot at life, but no one ever really thinks about what that means. "I'll eat this burger because it's tasty.", "I don't feel like working extra hours on my project because I already worked 40.", "I'm too tired to do what I should be doing.", "I'll do it tomorrow.". Is this you? read whatever fucking book you want, what really matters if you read Harry Potter or some great philosopher, if in the end you still commit to nothing, never amount to anything, and never attempt to better your future to the greatest degree? You're a failure in all arbitrary regards to society. A failure physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. But with one decision you stop being one. That's all it takes. I went from putting a few hours a week into my side hobby into making it my full time passion at 50-80 hours because I love it. I am making my dreams come true, I have forged my own business, and I am helping out in the community any ways I can. Life is just living on a floating rock through space, but you need to make it something you will die happy as. It won't matter after you're dead, or maybe it will - knowing before you die you have made a difference in society in its finite worth, maybe that's good enough to know you should give life everything to know you made a difference in another beings life. Life is not to be lived in nihilism, it is only meant to be experienced and then move on. Without struggle you are ignorant, without knowledge you have no mind. With no mind you are nothing but a body, as only a body you are nothing but a slave. Free the mind, open the spirit, and the body will yield so the mind may flourish. Your trinity is everything, you have one shot at making your life something. Fuck nihilism, I don't care if this is a cringepost, you're all wasting your lives being addicted to 4chan, and that's what most of you are, addicts. But you don't have to be, you don't have to fail, lose, do nothing. And to the nihilists, if life is nothing but a fleeting moment, why live in such moments by pain and sadness? Romanticists only go so far fren, the rest of the journey is action.

I hope you all have a good day. I hope OP reads a book he enjoys, and I hope you all work on life, even if it may be temporary. This was my one post for the week, so unfortunately I am gone. You just need to have one thought, and you can create action from then on. I believe in all of you!

>> No.12205409

>>12205252
You and all of your accomplishments will be dust before you know it.

>> No.12205452

no. stop coming to /lit/ for validation and read whatever you want.

>> No.12205543

>>12203769
Can't say I agree with scoppy that bad books are poison. Sometimes it's important to read bad books to anticipate bad arguments. Plus you're also limiting yourself to whatever your adolescent idea of a "bad" book is, thus locking you in a bubble over time

>> No.12206814

What about science fiction. Thinking of copping Hyperion -y/n?

>> No.12206837

Read hearts in Atlantis.

>> No.12206888

>>12205252

good point for you and those that think like you but questionable assumption that contribution to society is the only path towards satisfaction

>> No.12206962

>>12206837
This desu, say anything about King, but this one gets me the feels.

>> No.12207387
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12207387

>Borrowing this thread because I don't want to make a new one for my dumb question.
Is it normal to be confused when starting with the Greeks? I'm reading the Iliad (Robert Fitzgerald translation, if that matters) and I only have a vague sense of what's going on. I normally understand the novellas I read, but this is the first time I've been kind of lost when reading a book. Am I retarded and should an hero?
Here's a pic of my cat for the trouble.

>> No.12207465

>>12207387
What are you confused by? The Illiad starts at the very end of the Trojan War so maybe you should read up on how the characters got to that point? You also might struggle if you don't get the very beginning because you won't understand why Achilles stops fighting with the Greeks.

What you should know is that the Trojan war begins with the abduction of Menelaus's wife, Helen, by Paris, son of Priam, King of Troy. Menelaus rallies the Greek's to lay siege to Troy under the command of his older brother Agemmemnon and recover Helen. The siege lasts for like nine years with both sides evenly matched until, at the beginning of the Illiad, Chryses, a Trojan Priest, puts a curse on the Acheans (Greeks) for refusing to return his daughter, Chryseis, who has been taken captive by Agamemnon as a "spoil of war." The Acheans suffer from nine days of plague until Agamemnon finally agrees to return Chryseis, but demands that he take Bryseis, a captive of Achilles, as compensation.

Achilles gets really pissed off about this and decides to stop fighting for the Achaeans, more or less setting the stage for the rest of the epic.

The only other characters that are really important are Hector, Priam's other son and the best warrior in the Trojan Army, and Patroclus, Achilles' best bud and likely lover.

If there's something else besides background that's confusing you, feel free to ask.

>> No.12207574

>>12207387
Nice kitty cat. Take your time on the Iliad, it can seem quite dense at first. Maybe look up maps of the locales spoken of and see where all the characters are from, and read up on anything mentioned that you're not sure of like centaurs or amaranth

>> No.12207575

>>12203499
Sk is based

>> No.12207583

>>12203499
I read King's short stories when I was 12 or so. They're good, some of them, The Mist was quite good much better than the film & tv adaptations. Well, the film was ok but the ending was wrong. The tv show was more like the second season of twin peaks but not as good and that was a lowered bar

>> No.12207812

>>12205252
thanks dude. honestly!

>> No.12207856

>>12205252
I should actually focus on reading and writing. I don't believe contributing to society is the sole path to fulfillment, but I did need an excuse to get off my ass and actually do something that won't make me feel like I've wasted my time. I love you /lit/ even though you're retarded and /r9k/ is bottom of the barrel and depressing. Makes me feel like smoking even though I don't smoke. Later boys, and writers I hope you all actually deliver something at some point.

>> No.12209656

>>12206837
Is me. I've read everything he's wrote but the outsider. I'll be getting it soon I think. Also, try the stand, unabridged version.

>> No.12209663

Read some pulp scifi or something