/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18310110]

> ___ broke me
> I read ___ and it ate my heart
> Just finished reading ___ and I am at a loss for words

Have people always described books in this manner, or is this some new dark zoomer academia trend? Is it a good thing that people are reading Tolstoy and similar authors "for the aesthetic" or will it be detrimental to the literature world in the long run?

[Anonymous No.18310169]

>>18310110
I would bust on her face

[Anonymous No.18310182]

>>18310110
That's a great question. You'll get reeeee though from the virgins. They love and praise the pic girl even though she's stupid and hasn't read shit.

[Anonymous No.18310197]

>>18310169

I too would bust into poetry at the sight of her beautiful face.

[Blarty Hongo !H0lVGXJNm6 No.18310201]

>>18310110
I also dislike the casual use of "broke me."

[Anonymous No.18310210]

>>18310110
People don't describe books like that. Women describe books like that. Women aren't human.

[Anonymous No.18310229]

>>18310169
>I would bust on her face
Stupid incel you're a disgrace for manhood. You abhorrent maggot. Man the fuck up and do what you have to do.

[Anonymous No.18310234]

>>18310210
Is there anything more soi than being a misogynist? I could literally hear your giant pink man-tits jiggling as you typed this out.

[Anonymous No.18310256]

>>18310210
>People don't describe books like that. Women describe books like that. Women aren't human.
How old are you?

[Anonymous No.18310276]

>>18310210
Based.

[Anonymous No.18310278]

It keeps happening!

[Anonymous No.18310282]

>>18310110
Maybe I'm retarded but I find it so hard to talk to people about art
Like talking about music "oh, yeah I liked that song, too" ... silence
Or talking about painting "yeah I also liked that painting" you get the idea
It's probably because I'm autistic and retarded but still
Idk if I can even think about books on my own
>>18310210
>Women aren't human.
Based and this
But yeah idk how to talk about books and all the off topic threads on lit make me feel like no one can
Also when Anthony fantano does his "music reviews" he sounds like a fag
Maybe you just can't talk about art at all idk

[Anonymous No.18310351]

>>18310278
>It keeps happening!
lol

[Anonymous No.18310352]

>>18310278
Lmao
>>18310210
Hey where’s the other guy?

[Anonymous No.18310365]

>>18310110
I think you could find some precedent for this sort of nattering in Longinus's 1st century treatise Peri Hypsous (On the Sublime). In it he writes of poetry and rhetoric that, in overpowering the will and agency of the reader/audience, enacts a sort of violence. I'm not saying that a housewife's sentimental response to a touching novel is at all the thing, but the language that is used to describe the experience is similar.

So yes, in a sense, people have described books in this manner for quite a long time.

>Is it a good thing that people are reading Tolstoy and similar authors "for the aesthetic" or will it be detrimental to the literature world in the long run?

This seems very much like an un-self-conscious description of /lit.

I imagine people have been reading "for the aesthetic" for as long as books/reading and fashion have overlapped, which is at least 18th century. Books + consumer capitalism = people aspiring for an appearance when they read and having opportunity to do so.

But who cares? If someone stumbles into a fucking good book because of shallow reasons, but reads it and gets some pleasure from the read, who could possibly object?

[Anonymous No.18310376]

>>18310110
Sure, plenty of people read as a form of immediate emotional disclosure or fetish - "I want things which break me" signifies both.
>>18310365
They enjoy it in the wrong way & for the wrong reasons

[Anonymous No.18310427]

>>18310282
>I find it so hard to talk to people about art
Maybe if you read more you'd have a larger vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.18310443]

>>18310376
>They enjoy it in the wrong way & for the wrong reasons
I'll bet you're a hit at parties.
>wojack in the corner meme "they don't know"

[Anonymous No.18310453]

>>18310427
>Maybe if you read more you'd have a larger vocabulary.
It's not about vocabulary you stupid shit. You stupid fucking cunt. It's about learning to understand and express what you feel.

[Anonymous No.18310455]

>>18310282
>But yeah idk
It's just you who can't talk. BUT LIYK UMM YEAH HAHA IKD LOL

[Anonymous No.18310462]

>>18310229
Chill

[Anonymous No.18310488]

>>18310462
>Chill
FUCK YOU!!!!!!11

[Anonymous No.18310542]

>>18310427
My vocabulary is almost 29,000 words I think. Like 28500 or so
>>18310453
Idk if there is anything to express. Idk anon sorry.
>>18310455
Well can you talk to me about a book so I may learn how to do it?

[Anonymous No.18310548]

>>18310542
>Idk if there is anything to express. Idk anon sorry.
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.18310554]

>>18310210
I'll bet you're allergic to pollen too

[Anonymous No.18310561]

>>18310169
i wanna send her money while she calls me a good loser

[Anonymous No.18310571]

>>18310443
That's right

[Anonymous No.18310586]

“X broke me” is pre zoomer slang. I first heard that my first year in college in 2012

[Anonymous No.18310595]

>>18310234
Misogyny is literally the most high IQ belief. I have a 140 IQ and identify politically is a Misogyno-Fascist

[Anonymous No.18310671]

>>18310586
>“X broke me” is pre zoomer slang. I first heard that my first year in college in 2012
What is zoomer?

[Anonymous No.18310704]

>>18310110
..........

[Anonymous No.18310724]

>>18310671
people born after 1998

[Anonymous No.18310732]

>>18310110
I love Emmie!

[Anonymous No.18310761]

>>18310229
I have to bust on her face

[Anonymous No.18310798]

>>18310110
emmie is cute shut up stop making fun of her

[Anonymous No.18310803]

>>18310704
?

[Anonymous No.18311032]

>>18310169
>her

[Anonymous No.18311052]

>>18310110
No better or worse than 'CRINGE' or 'BASED' or 'Red/Blue/Blackpilled' desu senpai.

[Anonymous No.18311102]

>>18310595
You forgot to add the part where it says you're a stupid fucking insecure retarded pseud who thinks a number justifies your miserable pathetic little existence

[Anonymous No.18311132]

>>18311102
Holy seething cope!

[Anonymous No.18311179]

>>18311052
yeah

[Anonymous No.18311232]

>>18310278
Kek

[Anonymous No.18311366]

>>18311052
stunning and brave

[Anonymous No.18311389]

>>18310110
It's about having an entertainment channel on social media. Same reason horror game streamers overreact, they get more views.

[Anonymous No.18311395]

>>18310169
Just finished reading this sentence and I'm at a loss for words

[Anonymous No.18311596]

>THIS BOOK BROKE ME

Shut up shut the fuck up you fucking idiot

[Anonymous No.18311633]

>>18310229
Shut up or I will bust on your face

[Anonymous No.18311644]

>>18310110
How would it be detrimental? Majority of people do stuff for appearances, and it rarely harms the thing in itself. Unless you care about how the thing appears to someone else.

[Anonymous No.18312340]

>>18310110
desu i think out of all the popular book youtubers she's probably the most well read. reads quite a wide range of books

[Anonymous No.18312346]

>>18311052
facts

[Anonymous No.18312406]

>>18312340
Well read and widely read are different
She's widely read

[Anonymous No.18312479]

>>18310169
get in line

[Anonymous No.18312635]

>>18310110
Cute

[Anonymous No.18313154]

>>18310229
>do what you have to do
Bust on her face?

[Anonymous No.18313230]

Yes
I've seen old women say that before in reviews.

[Anonymous No.18313401]

>>18310282
>Maybe I'm retarded but I find it so hard to talk to people about art
>Like talking about music "oh, yeah I liked that song, too" ... silence
I can empathize. Some people just either don't want to, or can't, explain why they like something beyond that it made their tummy feel a little fuzzy. Which is fine, if you're cognizant of that fact. Ive only one friend who can offer any level of depth to the art pieces they like.

How about this anon, you tell me your favorite painting and why, and ill tell you mine.

[Anonymous No.18313447]

>>18310110
You're allowed to have an emotional reaction to what you read. It's another thing to express that reaction in a cliched way.

[Anonymous No.18313478]

>>18313447
Yeah everyone doesn't have to have some analysis of the themes or the prose just be glad they're actually reading.

[Anonymous No.18313520]

>>18310110
What the fuck is "Dark Academia"?

[Anonymous No.18313559]

>>18310182
Have you Seen her goodreads or any of her videos? She spends most of her time reading, often classics. She has surely read more than you, both in quantity and quality.

[Anonymous No.18314012]

>>18313401
I think my favorite painting is combing the hair by degas
I'm not sure why. Maybe it's the color that I like
I forget if I've had an emotional reaction to a painting though
I think I was afraid when I first saw Peter Paul rubens' two saytrs, but I don't remember seeing a painting and feeling strong positive emotions

[Anonymous No.18314016]

>>18310229
Bust her face up?

[Anonymous No.18314059]

>>18310110
What's her OnlyFans?

[Anonymous No.18314072]

>>18310169
let's tag team her

[Anonymous No.18314084]

>dark academia

[Anonymous No.18314115]

>>18313559
Damn. She's ready 40+ books already this year, including some Gogol, Voltaire, and Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.18314177]

>>18313520
an aesthetic that is roughly autumnal prep.

[Anonymous No.18314183]

>>18311052
No, it's worse because you can use 'cringe' and 'based' normally in a sentence while 'x broke me' is a stock phrase used in a vacuum and solely for internet points

[Anonymous No.18314187]

>>18310169
>after a lengthy discussion of Dark Academia she pulls you into a bathroom stall and pulls your pants down
Wat do?

[Anonymous No.18314186]

>>18314183
The car crash broke me arm!

[Anonymous No.18314192]

>>18310110
Harold Bloom and others like him say that exposure to shitty book permanently cripples someone's taste but I wouldn't know. The first books I can remember reading are fucking Captain Underpants and Harry Potter back in 3rd grade. Harry Potter was certainly a bad influence on me (the lame main character serves to champion timidity- horrible thing for young boys to admire) but it also sucked me in and I never really stopped after. Percy Jackson was a bit better. I'd read all these old adventure stories like Tom Sawyer, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas etc. and was always interested in the source material. That was always what worked for me: If I enjoy something, I try to read whatever it is the author liked. And I think most people either don't do this at all or they get filtered because they don't have the imagination or powers of extrapolation to relate at all to a text that took place decades or centuries ago. I think most people can never be much interested in literature no matter what. Even during the late 1800s when so much fantastic literature was produced, great thinkers thought the world was coming to an end and 99% of the things people consumed were garbage. The other bad influences on me were Calvin and Hobbes (pretentiousness) and Catch-22, which I read in 6th grade and enjoyed so much I read it 5 times that year. Problem is I don't think kids should be exposed to most recent or even 20th century literature because the theme that 'everything is just bullshit lol' is so common but it's not something a kid should believe. Plato said the reason kids aren't taught philosophy is because they end up believing nothing and for a while I was the same way. If I had a kid I'd make them read the Double Helix and other sciency books, as well as history stuff. The only thing that can motivate >90% of boys to enjoy reading is a sense of reverence for history and some inspiring deeds of heroism from them. I was fortunate in this regard- mom told me stories of the Austrians fought off the Turks, or how their flag came from a man drenched in blood after a battle taking his belt off. Uncle told me old civil war and revolutionary war stories. But the thing about going to the source is the most important thing and I think having a lot of history rattling around my head taught me instinctively you could always mine the past for inspiration, and most were too unaware to realize the idea wasn't yours. Best example is in middle school I'd read Mark Prindle's hilarious autistic music blog -> find out he ripped Lester Bangs -> find out he ripped Hunter Thompson -> find out he ripped Henry Miller (but also liked Donleavy which was a boring dead end, it happens) -> find out he ripped Celine. Which was like discovering a massive jigsaw puzzle piece to all 20th century writing and was like Catch-22 with far more literary value and inspiration. And nobody on earth knows about people like him anymore. Don't remember how I discovered Dosto but read it at 16 etc

[Anonymous No.18314193]

>>18314187
Let her give me a blowie, obviously.

[Anonymous No.18314198]

>>18310278
This book will break you

[Anonymous No.18314239]

>>18314186
lol
>>18314187
let her eat me out (im female)

[Anonymous No.18314286]

>>18314239
>(im female)
YWNBAW. You will never pass, stop trying.

[Anonymous No.18314299]

>couple of years ago
>following a small time booktuber
>demure, soft spoken, bookish college girl with glasses
>pretty much my dream girl
>establish rapport with her on her channel and recommend her books
>one day while drunk and horny I donate $1200 to her paypal
>tell her I'm rich and there's more if she sends me a vid of her fingering herself
>she sends me a 4 min video
>says she's shy and never done something like this before because she never had a bf
>she's not shaved so I believe her
>i feel instant regret and disgust with myself after masturbating to it
>unsubscribe from her, delete all my comments on her channel, and ghost her
>push video on a flash drive and hide it away in my closet but don't have the will power to delete it

I now know what raskolnikov felt like /tv/
Am I damned?

[Anonymous No.18314311]

>>18314299
>Am I damned?
You're still breathing so you can repent. You'll never be free of it if you don't delete the vid tho. It's the only way.

[Anonymous No.18314315]

>>18314299
>girl with glasses
Shit taste.

[Anonymous No.18314317]

>>18314311
That's the problem. I just can't do that. I still take it out on a rainy day to make use of.

[Anonymous No.18314322]

>>18310110
Just finished reading introduction to the study of hindu doctrines and I am at a loss for words

[Anonymous No.18314326]

>>18314299
>>18314317
>a 4 min video
Post it, faggot.

[Anonymous No.18314330]

>>18314317
I don't know what to tell ya bud, there's good odds you're damned if you can't kick the coom. Go destroy the video right now, while you've still got enough sense to feel shame. Once that's gone, you'll just be a husk of a man. Do it while you still have the integrity.

[Anonymous No.18314345]

>>18314286
yikes who hurt you

[Anonymous No.18314347]

>>18314299
This board is sick. Why do you guys corrupt and desecrate everything you touch? Your incel coomer lust is polluting the psychosphere

[Anonymous No.18314371]

>>18314347
>That pic
No fucking way.

[Anonymous No.18314376]

>>18310110
I think it became a trend after that one "This album BROKE ME" video was made about Everywhere at the End of Time

[Anonymous No.18314379]

>>18314347
That bitch was always a whore. She couldn't cut it as a youtuber so she defaulted to the only thing women are actually good for: using her body to get attention from men. Typical whore behavior. Why act like she got "corrupted"?

[Anonymous No.18314389]

>>18314347
>>18314299
>college girl

Huh? Are you face blind? This chick looks like she's in her mid 30's

[Anonymous No.18314397]

>>18314389
I don't think they are referring to the same girl, Anon.

[Anonymous No.18314398]

>>18314379
Ok, explain paperbackdream's onlyfans then.

>inb4 she's a whore too
Every female looks like a whore when you're an incel virgin.

[Anonymous No.18314405]

>>18314183
>you can use 'cringe' and 'based' normally in a sentence

[Anonymous No.18314483]

>>18314347
Link?

[Anonymous No.18314484]

>>18314398
Imagine paying for this shit kek

[Anonymous No.18314488]

>>18314299
False & Undeniably Homosexual

[Anonymous No.18314551]

>>18310282
I don't know why you specifically struggle to talk about art, but I love talking about art whether it be music, books, etc. but I still sometimes have to force myself to push past some self-conscious anxiety when I do, because you are actually being emotionally vulnerable when you really discuss your reaction to art in depth, and plus it can be difficult to not sound like a self-important pretentious faggot when discussing or creating art. As my good friend Francis Ford Coppola discusses here starting at 0:59 seconds in:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LFTQcwgq4CY

[Anonymous No.18314570]

>>18314084
Literally what the fuck is this dark academia meme? Is it literally just reading fucking normal classic books? Nuke the fucking world if that's what it's referring to

[Anonymous No.18314585]

>>18310110
I just came to this bitch's video. What have I become?

[Anonymous No.18314629]

>>18310595
You sound really gay