/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12669568]

>tfw unlike most of the board you actually read
>tfw you will still never read all of the books you want to read
>tfw even if you had no responsibilities or other hobbies you still probably couldn't
Why even try

[Anonymous No.12669658]

>literature board has been taken over by people who don’t read
the worst feeling in the world

[Anonymous No.12669684]

>>12669658
>taken over
It's always been like this

[Anonymous No.12669697]

>>12669568
Kubrick had a solution, involving reading randomly
I’ll find the quote if you want

[Anonymous No.12669722]

Kubrick:

When I finished Barry Lyndon I spent most of my time reading. Months went by and I hadn't found anything very exciting. It's intimidating, especially at a time like this, to think of how many books you should read and never will. Because of this, I try to avoid any systematic approach to reading, pursuing instead a random method, one which depends as much on luck and accident as on design. I find this is also the only way to deal with the newspapers and magazines which proliferate in great piles around the house -- some of the most interesting articles turn up on the reverse side of pages I've torn out for something else.

[Anonymous No.12669727]

>>12669568
how does it feel that non reading halfwits from /lit/ still know more about the books you have actually read than you?

[Anonymous No.12669735]

>>12669722
Has anyone actually tried to apply this approach? How has it worked out for you?

[Anonymous No.12669737]

>>12669722
Does this mean picking up random books and reading them straight through or just reading many books at once? I'm assuming the former.

[Anonymous No.12669738]

>>12669568
>all
Ambition's folly.

[Anonymous No.12669743]

>>12669722
judging by the awful movies he made, kubrick was a retard.

[Anonymous No.12669749]

>>12669658
I would read, it's just that I don't have access to books. My social anxiety prevents me from going into a library and I don't want to be judged by my choice of books. I'd order them over the internet, but I don't have an account.

[Anonymous No.12669835]

>>12669749
libgen?

[Anonymous No.12669851]

>>12669743
The Shining—saw this on Friday night, and by the end of the opening credits I knew I’d never again have a movie like this
https://youtu.be/2yShQ1IVpYI

[Anonymous No.12669863]

>>12669737
Yes the former
Read books you have no preconceptions about
But Kubrick only read subjects he was interested in
I read about suicide, how to listen skillfully to audiobooks, and about killing old ladies

[Anonymous No.12669870]

>>12669727
I dunno, I have an uncanny ability to talk about what I don't read.

[Anonymous No.12669882]

>>12669835
I hate reading off a screen. I already spend too much time on the computer, I'd rather use books as a means of redirecting my attention.

[Anonymous No.12669885]

>>12669863
>killing old ladies
What kind of book is that? Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.12669888]

>>12669568
My fantasy is to freeze time so I can read all of the books in my university library and hone my writing talent without growing old

Pretty gay I know

[Anonymous No.12669890]

>>12669885
Crime and Punishment by fyodor dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.12669912]

>tfw you spent many years during the golden age of ebook pircay building an immense collection
>tfw you have more books than some small libraries
>tfw you enough time to read tons of them
>tfw most of them are unreadable absolute fucking trash
>tfw this shit actually gets published

>tfw you paid $0.00 for it all

[Anonymous No.12669935]

>>12669749
How about making an account?
Just go into the store say "Do you have book x?", pay and fuck off with it. Most staff working at the library dont give a shit a about it and want everyone to go away as soon as possible. I dont know how you are going to sustain yourself if you cant even go into a store to buy food. Go to the library, get 3-5 books and be done with it.

[Anonymous No.12669966]

>>12669935
I exclusively use self checkout. I hate interacting with cashiers, why hasn't their job been made obsolete yet? Just automize everything already.

[Anonymous No.12670064]

>>12669966
Costumers still prefer the more "humane" aperance, and its much easier to have someone do the shit for you.
None of the book stores in my country have self checkout yet desu.
I honestly dont know how can someone have so much anxiety and insecurity doing something as simple as that. Im a 5'2ft ubermanlet, 23 years old, cant grow beard, super skinny (48kg), big ass forehead, jew nose, bad posture. A being that looks inferior compared to every other human and still manage to get past that anxiety and insecurity shit and get (most) of the things done.

[Anonymous No.12670091]

>>12669851
this video is better than any kubrick movie

[Anonymous No.12670177]

>>12669658
I want to read but books are just so boring senpai

[Anonymous No.12670244]

>>12670177
maybe if you find what really interests you at this moment, then you’ll read

[Anonymous No.12670386]

>>12669743
is there anything more newfag than hating on Kubrick?

[Anonymous No.12670395]

>>12669568
I've actually read all the books I want to read. I just hang around here to discuss them.

[Anonymous No.12670407]

>>12670386
you gotta let the kids play out the contrarian act. they'll get tired of it eventually.

[Anonymous No.12670411]

>>12670395
Okay list them

[Anonymous No.12670477]

>>12670411
I'll try

Don Quixote
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
King Lear
The Tempest
Paradise Lost
Faust
Moby Dick
Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
Notes From The Underground
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
Kreutzer Sonata
Madame Bovary
In Search of Lost Time (personally that's how I felt after finishing it OOOOOOOH!)
Ulysses
All of Kafka
All of Borges
Journey to the End of the Night
Death on the Installment Plan
The Stranger (it sucked)
Nausea (sucked even more)
All of Calvino
Most of Woolf
The Sound and the Fury
Hunger
100 Years of Solitude
Most of Mishima (think I've got it by now)
Gravity's Rainbow (what a meme)
The Recognitions
Vast Majority of The Bible (but its just a meme)

I'm definitely forgetting something but you get the picture, I've read most of the canon. I have an interest in highly metaphysical abstract writing like Borges but there doesn't seem to be much of that out there.

[Anonymous No.12670494]

>>12670477
Oh right, I forgot all the philosophy. Welp.

[Anonymous No.12670507]

>>12670477
What's your favourite book by Mishima?

[Anonymous No.12670515]

>>12670507
Temple of the Golden Pavilion

[Anonymous No.12670559]

>>12670477
What about Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Moliere, Balzac, Flaubert, Stendhal, Chekhov, Beckett...?

[Anonymous No.12670563]

>>12670477
>Anna Karenina
>Brothers Karamazov
Which one did you like the most? I only have money and time for one of those and i really dont know which one to pick. Give me a little push please.

[Anonymous No.12670675]

>>12669882
Boohoo. Just another pathetic excuse.

[Anonymous No.12670712]

>>12670563
Brothers Karamazov but I am biased towards Dostoevsky.

>>12670559
No interest, except I mentioned I read Madame Bovary. You'll notice there is little poetry on my reading list. I don't like poetry.

[Anonymous No.12670724]

>>12670712
>Brothers Karamazov
Many thanks friend.

[Anonymous No.12670744]

>>12670477
You only have read a small part of the canon but that'sokay, there are many more things to engage with.

There is something like 1000 hours of worthwhile baroque musique to listen to on youtube alone, so maybe try that as a follow-up to your reading.

[Anonymous No.12670765]

>>12670744
I have quite a good amount of the musical canon under my belt. I forced myself to read most of those books with the intention of being "well read" but listening to classical was always something I loved to do.

[Anonymous No.12670916]

>>12670477
>Didn't even bother with the Greeks
How's plebhood?

[Anonymous No.12670934]

>>12670916
I've read more books than you :^)

[Anonymous No.12670940]

>>12670177
this tbqh

[Anonymous No.12670942]

>>12669658
They read the Bible.

[Anonymous No.12670951]

>>12670765
How many times have you listened to the complete roster of Bach's sacred cantata ?

Go listen to them RIGHT NOW.

[Anonymous No.12670976]

>>12670942
This board will really be much better when Bible threads are removed. What an overrated piece of shit of a book.

[Anonymous No.12671195]

>>12669966
I only use cashiers. I like them to scan everything for me while I pack with one hand and browse 4chan on my phone in the other. I'm too lazy to use self checkouts.

[Anonymous No.12671223]

>>12670064
>48kg
Wtf. My girlfriend weighs more than this

[Anonymous No.12672575]

>>12669882
e-ink =/= screen, ya moron. order a kobo and get started