Confess your lit sins

[Anonymous No.19143803]

We are all anonymous here

>I only buy women writers so girls don’t comment that I only have men on my shelves

[Anonymous No.19143806]

>>19143803
i read because i don't have friends

[Anonymous No.19143810]

I hate all of you but only because I assume you hate me back

[Anonymous No.19143829]

>>19143803
Books are the only thing that I have and now I'm coming to realise that I hate myself for that

[Anonymous No.19143851]

>>19143803
I ate my own poops to see if it was bad as de Sade said it was.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19143864]

>>19143810
Well I care about all your well-being
No matter how crazy or misanthropic or nasty you get. I assume the worst is always a bluff

[Anonymous No.19143866]

[Anonymous No.19143877]

I am saving money for plastic surgery to look like Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.19143880]

>>19143851
Based

[Anonymous No.19143881]

>>19143851
Was it?

[Anonymous No.19143882]

>>19143851
Was it?

[Anonymous No.19143884]

>>19143864
Those cats are carrying toxoplasmosis, stay away.

[Anonymous No.19143885]

>>19143803
I have spent ~5 years “spicing up” and editing Lolita

[Anonymous No.19143886]

>>19143877
anon, that's Teddy Roosevelt...

[Anonymous No.19143890]

>>19143803
Halfway through War and Peace. Decided to take a break and read The Monk for spooky month

[Anonymous No.19143916]

>>19143803
I've been filtered by I Am a Cat

[Anonymous No.19143922]

>>19143916
I, too, dropped this. It just felt childish

[Anonymous No.19143923]

>>19143803
i don't know what 'being filtered means'

[The Spirit of Man No.19143927]

>>19143803
I often put books down once I feel as though I get the core gist of their argument, and maybe read a summary on some website to confirm my hunch, then never read the rest. Thats what I did with Heidegger's Being and Time. I mainly read philosophy; the reason I do this and have no qualms about it, is because philosophers are generally atrocious writers and babbling retards who take 5000 pages to present a 10 page argument.

[Anonymous No.19143941]

Only reason I started reading Dune was because the girl I love likes it very much and recommended it to me. I dislike novels, but I went ahead and bought the first book.
I liked it a lot, and bought the second book. She stopped talking to me unexpectedly and quite suddenly, and now I feel unmotivated to continue since the books are a direct reminder of her. I've kept on reading the 2nd book, but I feel sad I don't have her to talk about the books anymore.
I guess my 'sin' is being a sad cunt.

[Anonymous No.19143974]

>>19143923
It means that you are unable to finish a book and thereby is not intellectual/smart enough to read it. It's just a bunch of idiocy

[Anonymous No.19143979]

>>19143803
I wrote poetry for almost a decade before I properly learned how meter works. thousands of poems written in total meme rhythm lel

[Anonymous No.19143980]

>>19143803
The only motivation I have for reading books which aren't sci-fi and science is to BTFO people on this site.

[Anonymous No.19143984]

>>19143803
I have no "lit sins", I read only the King James Bible.

[Anonymous No.19143985]

>>19143979
Well, it's not wasted

[Anonymous No.19144031]

>>19143974
oh

[Anonymous No.19144245]

>>19143803
Read and enjoy fanfiction as much as real literature.

[ahsorrythatdbetoomuchforanybod(...) No.19144253]

>plottwist
no women ever came

[herelookattheansweronthetatonm(...) No.19144272]

wow goy

[Anonymous No.19144278]

>>19143803
I fapped to Stephen King's It

[Anonymous No.19144286]

>>19143803
I use to think Richard Laymon was a top caliber author

[Anonymous No.19144290]

>>19144278
the underaged gangbang?

[Anonymous No.19144299]

>>19143885
Wtf. Post excerpts

[Anonymous No.19144310]

I fucked a girl who idolises Rumi Kapoor. Twice.

[Anonymous No.19144315]

>>19143984
autism: the image

[Anonymous No.19144330]

>>19143803
I reread the first three Halo books every year.

Ever more shamefully, the second book is my favorite.

[Anonymous No.19144395]

>>19143941
my first crush introduced me to anime and now i can't stand the sound of japanese after she ghosted me suddenly

[Anonymous No.19144508]

I hate fiction and I don't get poetry

[Anonymous No.19144518]

I have listened to a single audiobook of Schopenhauer's essays over 20 times

[Anonymous No.19144526]

I don't like reading good books because I feel bad for those who failed to write one.

[Anonymous No.19144538]

>>19144508
>I hate fiction
That's not a sin. That's just you being a fucking carbon copy that thinks he's a unique bastard for parroting what everyone else thinks is popular.

[Anonymous No.19144735]

>>19143941
:(

[Anonymous No.19144759]

>>19143803
I have not read a book beyond a couple of pages in about a month or two, the last one I finished being American Psycho.

[Anonymous No.19144768]

>>19143803
i don't even read that much anymore

[Anonymous No.19144823]

>>19143974
Filtered

[Anonymous No.19144847]

>>19143923
>i don't know what 'being filtered means'
filtered

[Anonymous No.19145039]

I bought an 800 page book and will read it to have something to talk about to the girl I'm infatuated with wew.

[Anonymous No.19145063]

>>19144847
filtered from obvious joke

[Anonymous No.19145082]

>>19143803
When I was a kid (read: under 15) I would read almost a book each day, equal parts YA literature, Survival/Bush Life novels (Louis L'Amour, Will Hobbs) and, for some reason, middle aged man thrillers (Clive Cussler, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy, etc).

However since highschool (6+ years ago), I've easily read less than 50 books of my own free will. Maybe less.

[Anonymous No.19145205]

>>19143803
I hide all the women authors when I bring girls over instead, hoping they will comment on it and bring attention to the fact so I can then denigrate them.

[Anonymouṡ No.19145223]

>>19143803
>I only buy women writers so girls don’t comment that I only have men on my shelves
Surely *stealing* women writers would have the same effect, only better, because you would not be throwing hard-earned $$ into the collective female maw. Also, isn't this post a humblebrag? You're saying your shelves are seen by girls.

>>19143877
>I am saving money for plastic surgery to look like Nietzsche
Isn't it just enough to grow a magnificent mustache?

>>19143885
>I have spent ~5 years “spicing up” and editing Lolita
No veiled boasting please. Actually though that's a cute idea. What other classics could do with a bit of spicing up? Let's put in all the stuff Jane Austen should have.

>>19143923
>i don't know what 'being filtered means'
"Filtered" is one of the most annoying words on /lit/. It means "you were filtered by this work" — i.e. you didn't "get" it, and hence you are filtered out as unworthy. No-one who says "filtered" has ever read a book. It's unlikely any of them can read.

[Anonymous No.19145252]

>>19143803
When I got a book and realised it's written by a woman, I immediately removed it from my machine.

I read philosophy and theology to find a way to reach a 2d girl I'm in love with.

[Anonymous No.19145262]

My shelves contain almost 0 (zero) books written by females, I may have a copy of Agatha Christie laying somewhere I'm not sure.
However, several women have seen my shelves, and none of them had anything to say about the lack of female writters, perhaps they are too smart to ask this type of question

[Anonymous No.19145266]

>>19143803
I “read” almost exclusive audiobooks:
>Torrents and librivox in my (poor) early 20s
>Overdrive and Libby in my late 20s, (when i felt bad about pirating)
>Now I can afford audible, so i burn through ~50 titles a year

And yes, /lit/, I tell people I READ THEM.
Come at me.

[Anonymouṡ No.19145275]

>>19143927
>I often put books down once I feel as though I get the core gist of their argument,
Yeah, I do this with fiction a lot too. I guess what's going to happen and stop. My opinion is, if the ending is different from what I imagined, it isn't as good anyway and I would have been wasting my time.
>philosophers are generally atrocious writers and babbling retards who take 5000 pages to present a 10 page argument
Can't argue with this. Most works of non-fiction are bloated, even written by intelligent people who give the impression of not wanting to waste time. (Antifragile, for example, should have been about half as long as it was.)

>>19143941
>>19144395
One of the worst things about a serious breakup is that all the stuff you did together is now associated indissolubly with the other person in your mind. If anyone has a solution to this let's hear it.

>>19143980
>The only motivation I have for reading books which aren't sci-fi and science is to BTFO people on this site.
Sins can be the catalyst for good things. Greed, envy, lust, pride — they've motivated many writers.

You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attendance on my old age.
It was not so when I was young:
What else have I to spur me into song?
— W.B.Yeats

>>19145082
>When I was a kid (read: under 15) I would read almost a book each day
>However since highschool (6+ years ago), I've easily read less than 50 books of my own free will.
We're a lot more receptive when young. Samuel Johnson said he read practically everything before age 18 and almost nothing after. (That's why it's so bad that public schools waste children's time so much.)

[Anonymous No.19145283]

Barring a few John Muir books and half a dozen Plato dialogues, I have read nothing but fiction in the past 3 years

[Anonymous No.19145297]

>>19143923
>>19143974
>>19145223
>filtered
It's not just about not being able to finish a book, but not to understand what you read or come to a very surface level interpretation. It's a real thing. It usually happens when anons read books that are beyond their capabilities for whatever reason. This is also why charts exist, because starting at the end will filter you, and you either give up or think you read nonsense because you didn't understand it.
I've been filtered many times but usually when I come back after some time or having done more reading on the subject, it clicks.

[Anonymous No.19145301]

>>19143803
god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me god hates me

[Anonymous No.19145310]

>>19143803

I read to be perceived as smart and so I can put others down when they try to sound intelligent by corecting them.

[Anonymous No.19145314]

>>19143923
Filtered

[Anonymouṡ No.19145320]

>>19143803
The first three that come to mind:

>BRONZE
I'm very bad at ignoring trolls. I constantly get drawn into pointless arguments on /lit/ by people I'm more-or-less certain are just here to waste my time and their own.

>SILVER
I start lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of books and don't finish them.

>GOLD
Even though she's 100% wrong about everything (and probably not a she) I can't help but like Butterfly.

[Anonymous No.19145331]

>most of what I read is erotic fiction

[Anonymous No.19145334]

>>19145301
I hate the antichrist.

[Anonymous No.19145336]

>>19143864
Mamma (hugs)

[Anonymous No.19145348]

>>19143864
Mamma? (attempts to hug)

[Anonymous No.19145351]

>>19143979
show us

[Anonymous No.19145441]

i am a homosexual

[Anonymous No.19145486]

>>19145223
Filtered

[Anonymous No.19145588]

>>19143806
same

[Anonymous No.19145623]

>>19145320
>like Butters
How? She's literally just the typical 'intellectual' women; there's absolutely nothing to her beyond her base surface-level takes.

[Anonymous No.19145649]

>>19143803
I wish I had started browsing /biz/ and /fit/ instead of /lit/ in the mid 2010's. Attaining what those boards have given me sooner would have been wonderful. Getting away from this particular board quicker would have been perhaps even better.
/fit/ made me happy and healthy. /biz/ made me earn a lot of money, and more importantly, realize that I am smart and capable enough that wageslavery will never be the only option.

/lit/ on the other hand is mostly /r9k/ that pretends to read, and I have given this board much more than it has ever given me. Some of the philosophy discussions used to be okay, but lately, I don't participate, because the takes and exegesises are literally copy-pastes of my own previous posts.

[Anonymouṡ No.19145656]

>>19145623
She perseveres. She's like a busker who gets up there and sings and everyone throws cabbages but she just comes right back the next day and sings the same song again.

Plus she has some sort of coherent world-view. As I said, it's 100% incorrect in every particular, but at least she has it. If only there were some way to flip her 180 degrees, she would be perfect.

[Anonymous No.19145700]

>>19143803

Why would you let left-wing women into your house?

[Anonymous No.19145710]

>>19143851
well?

[Anonymous No.19145730]

>>19145656
The real Butterfly is long gone, this is just the last of several impostors

[Anonymous No.19145743]

>>19144290
Several times as a child, teen and adult.

[Anonymous No.19145753]

>>19145266
Have you tried the unbeatable combo of following along as they read to you? Or is it too much to focus on at one time

[Anonymous No.19145793]

>>19145753
Have you tried the chad combo of reading your university textbooks while listening to pulp sci fi?

[Anonymous No.19145827]

>>19145753
I do this frequently for fiction so that I can read faster. Is this a common thing?

[Anonymous No.19145846]

>>19145320
>I start lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of books and don't finish them.
I have this same issue. I collect books, read them a few chapters and before long, some books will catch my interest and I'll get the books read them briefly and continue. Browsing /lit/ and other book forums has make me a promiscuous reader. Easy access to books on the internet has made it worse.

[Anonymous No.19145916]

>>19143803
I don't have any morals, not even for things I like

[Anonymous No.19145970]

>>19143803
my /lit/ sins are the following
>read 70% of war and peace in 4 days because I was procrastinating and putting off real work. This was in 2019. I still haven't finished it and can't get back to it.
>bought Crime and punishment with my own money. Still haven't started it (i read 200 pages on my kindle) because I didn't have a pretty looking bookmark
>read the Odyssey in French
>Read Plato's symposium and loved it, but somehow couldn't find my way to read the republic
>is really a pleb, but I wrap my plebian midwit intellect in so many opinions I've gathered online that I seem semi well-read
>Was considered a kid "prodigy" at 8 because I started reading long ass Arabic novels while my peers were still eating up the fairy tale for kids shlock
>in reality was in love with ONE(1) fictional author and just spent most of my childhood and young adulthood reading and re-reading his bibliopgraphy
>found a copy of arabian nights in my dad's library when I was 7. Got beat up by dad for reading it (i had reached the BLACKED section at that point)

[Anonymous No.19146001]

>>19143803
I could've learned to read in like 3 European languages with the time I've wasted on porn and trash media

[Anonymous No.19146008]

>>19143803
Stupid it's the quality of the work not the gender do you like the story or not it the question

[Anonymous No.19146018]

>>19143803
Are there any good women writers? I have around 500 books and I guess only 5 of them were written by women

[Anonymous No.19146023]

>>19143941
Anon...

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19146065]

>>19145623
Sorry if I come off as some sort of “”intellectual””. I don’t see myself as such. But if that’s surface level, why do so few of you understand it?

>>19145656
Like you. Hey, glad you like me, but I’m pretty near right about everything I commit to.

>>19145730
The me of ten years ago is kinda gone, yeah. We all change over time, hopefully improving as we go.

[Anonymous No.19146101]

>>19143803
I've stolen books from countless classrooms from when I was a kid all the way to the end of high school. I always had it in my mind that I'd return them after I read them, but they sit unread and neglected on my bookshelf to this day. Feels bad to know that I probably deprived others of these good books, and that they ended up cold and dead along with the rest of the furniture.

[Anonymous No.19146134]

I read to be perceived as smart and so I can put others down when they try to sound intelligent by corecting them.

[Anonymous No.19146177]

>>19143803
I ask difficult questions to religioncucks on /lit/, read books of mystics then use my knowledge of theology and mysticism to cure the mental sufferings and consoomerism plagued minds of my friends and family by preaching them the Majesty and warmth of God, the ephemeral nature of materialism, evil nature of the fall/original sin, need for community, need for compassion, cutting the expectation of happiness due to the nature of fall and eternal love of God which mogs death and worldly sufferings. They feel really happy after and closer to God after talking with me. They don't know yet that I am an atheist and extremely psychotic and suicidal and I think that religion is a cope from death and suffering. This world is brutal place if I am giving them Divine copes which comforts their hearts then who the fuck cares? I do feel extremely guilty sometimes because I deeply resent them secretly yet I still love them.

[Anonymous No.19146191]

I started reading women writers because I am into femdom. I don't read because of feminism or anything gay like that but because a want a goth girl to sit on my face.

[Anonymous No.19146213]

Everyone thinks of me as a well read person who must read a hundred books a year. Reality is that I haven't read more than 10 books in a year since 2015. And yet I make fun of Waldun and /lit/ for not reading. I'm so ashamed.

[Anonymous No.19146234]

I bought some books and put them on my shelf.
I will never read them.

[Anonymous No.19146241]

>>19146191
Based

[Anonymous No.19146287]

i haven't read any book since around 2015 except for some college international law shit but it's more of a text than a book

[Anonymous No.19146292]

>>19143803
Realized how much harder it is to sell a book than it is to write one :(

[Anonymous No.19146326]

>>19146177
God loves you a lot. Keep on, you will see Him

[Anonymous No.19146331]

>>19146177
and you could be some Dostoievski's hero

[Anonymous No.19147244]

>>19145649
Stocks, I'm guessing? How can I get started. I've never been on /biz/

[Anonymous No.19147250]

cum genius likes cunny
i am confessing on his behalf

[Anonymous No.19147259]

>>19143803
For the last four books I started on I only finished a few chapters before letting it fall collect dust somewhere between the living room and bedroom

[Anonymous No.19147358]

>>19143864
you dont care about anything but attention

[Anonymous No.19147570]

>>19146177
Try going go a daily Mass sometime, they aren't very long. You never know.

[Anonymous No.19147584]

>>19143803
I don't understand poetry

[Anonymous No.19147881]

>>19146065
You're an arrogant, self-centered old hag and wrong about everything.

[Anonymous No.19147925]

i would read books below my standard if it has cute clergymen. i am dangerously obsessed.

[Anonymous No.19147945]

>>19143803
Fagles makes a way more readable translation than Lattimore.

I respect Lattimore's academic integrity, but I read Lattimore's Iliad and Fagles' Odyssey and I enjoyed the latter so much more.

[Anonymous No.19148827]

I've stolen so many books I lost count years ago
Don't feel particularly bad about it, but a sin's a sin lol so forgive me, Father

[Anonymous No.19148847]

>>19143803
i am living dante's "la vita nuova"
almost exactly

[Anonymous No.19148860]

>>19147925
is that zack snyder

[Anonymous No.19148867]

>>19144330
are... are they good?

[Anonymous No.19148900]

>>19148847
>dante's "la vita nuova"
the fuck is that

[Anonymous No.19148923]

>>19148867
I don't know if I can divorce my enjoyment for them from my nostalgia of reading them and playing the games as a child, but I think they still hold up. The first book seems to have a reputation of being pretty good military science-fiction.

[Anonymous No.19149413]

I wrote a thinly disguised power fantasy. The female lead is a petite, 100 pound 18 year old who can still beat the shit out of guys twice her age/size. The male lead is an idealized version of myself who, despite being a brave, handsome knight, is still awkward/shy around girls. The female lead finds that endearing and gradually develops a crush on him as the story continues. I like to vicariously experience romance through media.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19149665]

>>19147358
>>19147881
You don’t know the first thing about me

[Anonymous No.19150096]

>>19145223
Imagine being filtered by the very concept of filtering itself.

[Anon1 No.19150181]

>>19145205
Well done, sir.

[Anonymous No.19150479]

>>19145223
Holy fucking filtered

[Anonymous No.19150525]

>>19143886
Based

[Anonymous No.19150674]

>>19143803
I read when I'm not in the mindset for it to be worthwhile

[Anonymous No.19150823]

If an attractive person recommends me a book I will finish it 100% of the time

[Anonymous No.19151022]

>>19148860
it's Benedict's friend.

[Anonymous No.19151370]

>>19143803
I finish one out of 4 books I start

[Anonymous No.19151373]

>>19151370
because you're unmotivated / filtered or genuinely decide the book isnt worth it? the latter is a really good skill. out of 100+ books i read a year (schizoneet), i'd say i drop 5-7, and there would be 1-3 books that I've read but regretted finishing.
somehow the sheer seething of having wasted your time and letting a shit book occupy your kindspace is very acrid.

[Anonymous No.19151394]

>>19151373
It's none of the reasons you mentioned. It's actually the opposite: I find so many books interesting that before I finish one I have an overwhelming urge to start another.[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.19151403]

>>19151394
why would you drop an interesting book? seems like an attention deficit issue. you can read several at a time (one fiction one nonfiction, one novel one poetry collection, one serious one silly, etc, different types so they dont intermingle).
it's much harder to come and reread a dropped book later than to just read through it

[Anonymous No.19151415]

>>19151403
>seems like an attention deficit issue
It is.

I do sometimes come back to them though.

[Anonymous No.19151419]

>>19143803
I killed a guy with my bare hands so that I would know how to describe it in a book I was planned at the time.
Not a larp, I planned it in such a way that it would look like self defense + temporary insanity. Got out with nothing. Didn't even write the damn book.

[Anonymous No.19151570]

I have tried to read Crime and Punishment three times, in different translations, but every time I get filtered by Raskolnikov's ceaseless rants. I really, really would love to appreciate the reverence towards Dostoevsky, but I just don't have the patience for it...

[Anonymouṡ No.19151607]

>>19151570
>Raskolnikov's ceaseless rants
All the best writers rant. (Some in their own voices, some through their characters.) Think of Lear on the heath, or Satan shaking his fist at God, or Humbert Humbert saying goodbye to L, or Ahab going down with Moby Dick.

You show me a writer who never rants and I'll show you a mewling, puling, lilylivered pantywaist.

[Anonymous No.19151612]

>>19149665
Your eggs are drying up and you keep coming back here like a battered housewife because it's the only attention you get in your life.

[Anonymous No.19151643]

>>19143803

I read to be perceived as smart and so I can put others down when they try to sound intelligent by corecting them.

[Anonymous No.19151650]

>>19151643
>corecting
anon, i...

[Anonymous No.19151682]

>>19151650

I have been found.

[Anonymous No.19151687]

>>19143881
>>19143882
>>19145710
I'm not telling you. Try it yourself.