/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16292675]

Confess your /lit/ sins.

[Anonymous No.16292678]

>>16292675
I have not read a book in about a week

[Anonymous No.16292682]

>>16292675
I haven't finished Heart of Darkness after reading about 2/3 or more of it, and I haven't opened it in over a year.

Also, not sure if this is a sin, but I find reading while somewhat stoned very enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.16292684]

I have read too much occult literature and I suspect animals are psychically aware of my fondness for them and sometimes allow me to come closer than other people because they know I will not harm or disturb them

[Anonymous No.16292688]

>>16292675
I'm not sure I'm gonna make it, bros

[Anonymous No.16292691]

i don't like james joyce or faulkner

[Anonymous No.16292695]

>>16292675
I found The Iliad to be boring in the middle. The stuff about the pre-siege and battles is utterly dull. I haven't continued it since January.

[Anonymous No.16292698]

>>16292682
Nigga its like 10 pages long wtf

[Anonymous No.16292702]

>>16292688
I am sure you are going to make it

[Anonymous No.16292711]

>>16292675
I want to read Anne frank's diary

[Anonymous No.16292719]

>>16292684
I have the same but without having read much occult literature. I don't even really like dogs, more of a cat person, but dogs usually love me more than cats

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[Anonymous No.16292840]

>>16292702
Thanks anon, I just need more short stories published! The clock is ticking!

[Anonymous No.16292904]

>>16292719
Dogs love everyone brainlet

[Anonymous No.16292926]

>>16292904
Some more than others dipshit

[Anonymous No.16292931]

>>16292684
Based schizoid animal lover

[Anonymous No.16292936]

>>16292675
I only read 1-2 books per month

[Anonymous No.16292940]

>>16292675
I find ancient fiction incredibly boring, with a few exceptions (namely Sophocles, Aristophanes and Lucian)

[Anonymous No.16292977]

>>16292684
I think animals are a lot more in tune with their instincts and much better at recognizing body language and other subtle cues. You probably just come across as less threatening than other people. Same reason why dogs often bark at people who are afraid of dogs, they can tell.

[Anonymous No.16293009]

>>16292675
I sometimes read while playing videogames instead of setting aside time for just reading.
I recently spent a few dozen hours on Total War Troy, and I would read a few pages of the Illiad between each turn.

[Anonymous No.16293014]

>>16292904
Are dogs women?

[Anonymous No.16293034]

>>16292977
>think animals are a lot more in tune with their instincts and much better at recognizing body language and other subtle cues
i disagree. i think people are just undersocialized today. i think animals are less attuned (but still somewhat) to the body language of humans as humans. the real difference is that we add labguage on top of body language and culturally we have pushed for explicitcy of language rather than the implicity of body language due to atomization in modernity. If you lived in some polonesian close nit tribe you would recognize every twitch of body language from another of your tribe.

[Anonymous No.16293054]

>>16292675
It takes me longer, and I mean, WAY longer to read and finish a book more than the average individual.

If I could cope for it, it would be because I really want to digest what I'm reading instead of just consciously reading quickly to progress and not take in the words.

[Anonymous No.16293112]

>>16292797
Cringe
>>16292940
I do as well.
>>16293054
I used to be like you. Try to do exercises to improve your reading comprehension
http://www.readingsoft.com
>>16292688
Me too anon.

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>>16293112
You don’t love books. Why are you even here?

[Anonymous No.16293161]

>>16292675
I think about suicide everyday. Every day the possibility of doing it seems closer, more real.

[Anonymous No.16293163]

>>16293112
Seems I run at 225 wpm which is average, I'm sure I can get better and I am definitely faster on paper/books than reading off a screen, and the same applies when reading fiction.

However if its a non-fictional information based text, I am quite slow as I intend to comprehend the concepts within the book fully before just blindly reading forward.

[Anonymous No.16293170]

>>16292675
read from the screen

[Anonymous No.16293186]

>>16292684
based schizo

[Anonymous No.16293196]

i read books while microsoft flight simulator is running in the background

[Anonymous No.16293200]

Last time I read a book was around 7 years ago

[Anonymous No.16293203]

iv only read two books this year and listened to around 50 or 60 audiobooks

[Anonymous No.16293225]

Didn't read yesterday :(

[Anonymous No.16293252]

>>16292719
Me as well. I've always had cats since I was an infant and I get along very well with them. Dogs are different because the little rat dogs must people have are actually pretty skittish.
>>16292904
I once had an untrained German Shepherd who hated blacks and fat people. He would just watch anyone else, but he would fly into a rage if he saw (smelt I guess) a tubby or a black person.

[Anonymous No.16293255]

>>16292675
I only read fiction
I read for fun
I eat while reading and I don't really care if I stain the pages.
I dogear my books if I can't find a paper-knife
I am agnostic
I probably read more than you

[Anonymous No.16293278]

I rarely finish a book. Don’t get me sideways, I always have my nose in one, but seven times out of ten I will quit before reaching the last page.

So much literature in the last two centuries is terribly tiresome and blasé. The tortured soul is the superstar of literature and I cannot relate. I’m very happy with my life and what God has given me.

I have shirked novels. The resolutions are too weak and pitiable, more accepting the loss than claiming the victory.

Now I cannot keep my nose out of the Bible. I am not a seminarian and I know almost nothing, but my mother and I grill every pastor and seminary graduate in our circle of friends for new insights into theology and Scripture.

[Anonymous No.16293357]

>>16293278
>I have to relate to literature to enjoy it
What's it like being a woman? Must be rough, considering how misogynist 4chan is.

[Anonymous No.16293368]

>>16293278
It didnt click in my head that Muppet meant the Muppets, so when I read that it suddenly became hilarious.

[Anonymous No.16293375]

>>16293150
>If you don't like my retarded joke that means you don't like books.
Cringe. I probably read more books that you ever did it in your miserable life you stupid dyke.
>>16293163
Just do more practice anon. It work for me. Also, don't force yourself to read something you don't like. When I was in HS, I barely read anything because they force us to read mediocre shit(kill a mockingbird and shitty ya novels). It wasn't until I went to university that I started to read more and more because they had a more interesting curriculum. Currently I am 25 and I love to read Non-fiction.

[Anonymous No.16293378]

>>16292675
I am fluent in only one language

[Anonymous No.16293384]

>>16293378
fluency is overrated. reading is paramount.

[Anonymous No.16293385]

I read about 10 books simultaneously and cycle between them, rarely finishing a single one in a reasonable amount of time.

[Anonymous No.16293390]

>>16293014
No, but most women love fucking dogs (in theory). Both have a high affinity for otherness

[Anonymous No.16293394]

>>16292695
Yikes

[Anonymous No.16293418]

I dropped Ulysses at Eumaeus
I dropped Gravity's Rainbow halfway through Counterforce
I dropped Blood Meridian around when they assault the ferry
I'm halfway through Mason & Dixon and may drop it because while I enjoy it immensely, I'm getting the same fatigue and can never make myself power through if I don't feel like I'm "getting" anything out of the book anymore.
I can force myself to keep it up for a while, but with these ultra-dense pomo books that's still hours upon hours of reading.

[Anonymous No.16293443]

>>16293384
Well, I can’t read anything substantial in any other language, either. I’m in 3rd year Russian so I’m hoping I will be able to handle something soon

[Anonymous No.16293446]

>>16292688
I used to think this and now I play the lottery. Until the drawings go off, I think I'm going to make it again. I also stopped contributing to my 401k. I use all my excess money on lottery tickets. I'll give it a few more years.

[Anonymous No.16294034]

>>16293378
Fresh OC

[Anonymous No.16294286]

>>16294034
kek

[Anonymous No.16294311]

>>16293390
do they fuck dogs or not? who fucks "in theory"?

[Anonymous No.16294871]

>>16292675
I have only once ever had a friend in my entire life

[Anonymous No.16294896]

>>16292675
I refuse to read haiku unless it is by Japanese masters and the English translation is accompanied by the romaji and the runes

[Anonymous No.16294942]

>>16293255
Only the last one is truly unforgivable here.

[Anonymous No.16294956]

>>16293357
this desu, the 4chan obsession with the underground man, pessoa, mishima, etc. because of their "relatable" qualities has always struck me as womanish

[Anonymous No.16294963]

>>16294311
they do empirically and theoretically

[Anonymous No.16295018]

>>16294956
that's a holdover from the tfwnogf era of 4chan, before everyone started larping as alpha men or being incels. note that most robots were not like incels, they were defined more by absurdity and self-loathing than anger at women.

[Anonymous No.16295149]

>>16295018
I remember that era and I miss it. It was before certain posters made it their goal to make everyone a defeatist. We're all gonna make it

[Anonymous No.16295222]

>>16292675
Everytime i start writing a book i stop after a few pages and abandon it

[Anonymous No.16295251]

I didn't start with the greeks and regretted it

[Anonymous No.16295254]

>>16292675
>Confess your /lit/ sins.

Hemingway just bores the hell out of me.

[Anonymous No.16295267]

>>16292695
>I found The Iliad to be boring in the middle.

I loved the Odyssey, hated The Iliad.

[Anonymous No.16295278]

>>16292675
I haven't read a whole novel in a year. I've only been reading other anon's writings. I use to be reading non stop before it, I really don't know what happened.

[Anonymous No.16295318]

>>16295267
Filtered

[Anonymous No.16295343]

>>16293112
>208wpm
>100% comprehension
what does it mean

[Anonymous No.16295489]

>>16295343
You got a reading speed slightly below average, but you comprehended everything.

[Anonymous No.16295717]

I climax on the page of the climax of a book and then I would leave it on buses or benches.

[Anonymous No.16295771]

>>16294942
Goddamn agnostics!

[Anonymous No.16295794]

>>16294311
I just didn’t want to be banned for global rule number 1. Of course women really do

[Anonymous No.16296844]

>>16292675

Strictly speaking, I am sinless since sin is defined in terms of god. But I do understand the popular sense of the word, and what you were going for.

[Anonymous No.16296952]

>>16292675
I claim to have read double (2x) the number of books I've actually read.

[Anonymous No.16296964]

>>16296844
>he thinks if he doesn't believe in god he just goes away
oh sweatie

[Anonymous No.16296977]

>>16292675
I have so many I've just given up, feels pointless trying to save my soul at this point. I don't believe in hell anyway, I think people with broken souls just get snuffed into nothingness, which is really all I want at this point, the idea feels cleansing to me, like it's washing away part of the shit in the universe.

[Anonymous No.16297036]

>>16292675
I've never finished reading a novel in my entire life. After about 50-100 pages I'm all like, "This is trash, I'm a way better writer than this fag."

Now I just read smatterings of nonfiction books.

[Anonymous No.16297038]

>>16296964

The reason why I am without sin is not because I don't believe in god.

[Anonymous No.16297110]

About 5-6 years ago I decided to cut back on the time I spend online and read instead. This was largely fuelled by 4chan discussions and charts. It took a year or two, but I finally built up to reading 50-60 books a year. By this point I've read something like 400-500 books, about 2/3 fiction and 1/3 non-fiction. Now I am dismayed when I look at /lit/ as it is painfully obvious how few people actually read the books they are discussing. /lit/ is like an esoteric enlightened consumerist subculture, in which the aim is to show off your intellect while doing as little as possible to develop. Thankfully this has made most threads on /lit/ unbeatable to read and basically cured my image board addiction. As a follow-on effect, I have spent more time developing relations and friendships with those around me, cultivating my passions, and just generally bettering my life.

It feels good and I'm not even going to ever look at this thread again.

[Anonymous No.16297114]

>>16297110

You still made this post and therefore you lose.

[Anonymous No.16297168]

>>16297110
fuck off dipshit nofap "reader" oh boy you read 50 books a year. normal people have sex instead. even normal incels madturbate..... only unironic hardcore readers (as in 50 fucking books a year) i've known are anti sexual pieces of shit. that will be a strong NO from me.

[Anonymous No.16297638]

>>16292675
I buy far more books than I read.

[Anonymous No.16297690]

>>16292675
I'm a totally lapsed catholic. the racism and homophobia and all of that is repulsive to me but what makes me really want to get off this hell board 4ever is all the tradcath larping. I spent enough time trying to rid myself of my faith which I am still deeply affected by. I hate being flogged on this board for it. it really makes me feel horrible, and I know that someone is gonna tell me that that is exactly how I should feel. Because according to the books thats how I should feel, its the gravest sin. but God, how awful to point the hell gun at my head. I hate it more than anything.

[Anonymous No.16297694]

>>16297168
dude if you're so opposed to reading fuck off /lit/ lmao

[Anonymous No.16297709]

After years of reading fiction, I’ve grown to despise it. I only read non-fiction now.

[Anonymous No.16297829]

>>16292675
Symposium made me bi and it's irritating as hell because now I can't stop reading gay /lit/.

[Socorrista No.16297909]

>>16292675
Glad to see the Church is welcoming the Return to monkey Movement

[Socorrista No.16297917]

>>16295254
Just fuck off.

[Anonymous No.16298077]

>>16292682
That second one the opposite of a sin

[Anonymous No.16298141]

>>16297690
They used to call this place hurtbox back in ye olden days. If you know people here will make you feel bad and you don't want to feel bad, then why you keep coming? You might be more Catholic than you would like to think.

[Anonymous No.16298150]

>>16292675
I’ve only read 2 books this year.

Also I’m aware of how cringe some of his work is but I’m a massive Stephen King fan and defend his work to the end.

[Anonymous No.16299105]

>>16295254
low test

[Anonymous No.16299153]

>>16296844
thank you autist for explaining the point of the format that we all already know.

[Anonymous No.16299191]

>>16292675
I dropped Moby Dick after reading through about 200 pages in favor of David Copperfield

[Anonymous No.16299240]

>>16292675
I now own more graphic novels than books. I deserve death.

[Anonymous No.16299251]

>>16297709
>fiction
>non-fiction
As if they're any different.

[Anonymous No.16300454]

>>16293446
let us know if you ever win big somehow lotteryfag

[Anonymous No.16301072]

I haven’t been the best person.

As a young boy, I’ve always wondered what I was doing wrong, why I was never 100 percent sure god existed

Later in my late teens, the mystery of consciousness and the fact that I have qualia pushed me towards spiritualism, and I am more confident that there is something more to reality

I struggle with the inconsistencies and moral dilemmas in the Bible. From the problem of evil, to “god allowing free will” despite hardening the pharoh’s heart, to allowing slavery under mosaic law. It sometimes gets to confusing that I get angry, and I become furious when people warp the Bible to nonsensical limits in order to be consistent, like how people are willing to say that genesis is non-literal, but go on to take other books as literal

I struggle with hentai, and when I read it, I get intrusive thoughts that say “this is sin” but I try to stop them by telling myself everyone sins, or that god’s morals in the Bible are inconsistent, or that the Bible was heavily edited to control the masses.

I’m sorry if I’m incoherent, I’m really lightheaded

[Anonymous No.16301102]

>>16292675
I got brutally filtered by Hegel

[Anonymous No.16301164]

>>16293014
no, but all women are dogs