/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19863246]

>Try starting a discord book club
>Open it up to /soc/ since that's the only board you can advertise on
>Every single person who joins talks about literally everything but books
>Try to get people focused on some sort of literature related discussion
>"Lmao, this nigga reads!"

Damn, this Book Club shit is harder than I thought it'd be

[Anonymous No.19863255]

>>19863246
Why did you make this thread?

[Anonymous No.19863256]

>>19863246
>discord
>advertise on 4chan
here are your problems

[Anonymous No.19863260]

>>19863255
To see if any of yall have had similar book club woes

[Anonymous No.19863263]

>>19863256
I feel like this problem applies to literally anywhere I could advertise

>disord
>advertise on Reddit
>Here are your problems

[Anonymous No.19863292]

>>19863246
I had this problem and I solved it by becoming a homosexual and sucking cock regularly. You should definitely try it.

[Anonymous No.19864033]

>>19863246
I've never understood the point of book clubs. I can't imagine anything more gay than sitting in a circle with other fags and saying to each other "REMEMBER WHEN?"

[Anonymous No.19864652]

Lmao, this nigga reads!

[Anonymous No.19864737]

>>19864033
>>19864652
Kekking out loud rn

[Anonymous No.19864741]

>>19863246
What books were you planning on discussing?

[Anonymous No.19864764]

>>19864737
no youre not

[Anonymous No.19864979]

>>19863246
Just join the goodreads /lit/ club

[Anonymous No.19865002]

>>19863263
You have a better chance at reasonable discussion on reddit

[Anonymous No.19865008]

>>19864033
The idea of a book club is to discuss the themes and ideas. They don't really work if you're just reading terrible book bin trash or the members of the club are too stupid to read beyond the surface of a book, and most book clubs posess both traits, thus devolving into "REMEMBER WHEN?" circlejerks.
So if you want to start a book club you need to do some serious vetting.

[Anonymous No.19865021]

>>19863246
Real book clubs are all made up of women discussing YA.

No one reads anymore.

[Anonymous No.19866266]

>>19864979
>goodreads
I have some self-respect, sir

[Anonymous No.19866281]

>>19865002
absolutely, even if you get reddit takes, it's infinitely preferable to fucking /soc/ sending dick pics

[Anonymous No.19866283]

>>19864741
Hey, sorry, fell asleep and didn't realize the thread was up. For now there's no formal book-we-are-reading since the numbers are so low, we just discuss what we're each individually reading. As numbers go up, we might start a rotation.

[Anonymous No.19866294]

>>19863246
krtek#8053
add me

[Anonymous No.19866303]

>>19863246
lmao only at miller grove

[Anonymous No.19866328]

>>19863246
>discord
>soc
>reddit
>anime picture

turn 18 already

[Anonymous No.19866336]

>>19866328
>4chan

[Anonymous No.19866342]

>>19863246
You need to be very selective. To be a functional member, the requirements are to already be a profilic reader, and to recognize and dissect ideas and themes.
Someone who doesn't read for fun won't be able to keep up. Even someone who reads a little every day will end up taking more than one month discussing a book, by the time there's a meeting, they'll have forgottten most of it.
Someone who's not a deep thinker, or who doesn't connect emotionally with the stories, will not have much to contribute to discussions. Having one or two people like that is fine, as you can prod them them for guttural reactions, and get to watch them live analizing the book, and themselves.

[Anonymous No.19866346]

>>19866328
the fact alone that OP thought he'd get any serious book discussions out of /soc/ is telling enough of his age

[Anonymous No.19866351]

>>19863246
There is a pretty good /lit/ discord already with numerous reading clubs though. Not gonna share the invite, you can easily find it in the archive, if you can't even do that then you shouldn't be there anyway.

[Anonymous No.19866365]

>>19866328
>>anime picture
Where do you think you are?

[Anonymous No.19866708]

>discord
Spotted the problem. Just use IRC.

[Anonymous No.19867414]

I was told /lit/ would be reading Wuthering Heights together this month but nobody mentions it :(

[Anonymous No.19867423]

>>19867414
Why the fuck would we read absolute garbage together?

[Anonymous No.19867679]

>>19867423
because it's fun

[Anonymous No.19867692]

>>19866708
Any good irc suggestions for reading or history or anything along these lines?? I miss using that shit so much

[Anonymous No.19868568]

>>19866365
not your site anymore weeb boi

[Anonymous No.19868639]

>>19866351
Invitations are expired, nigger.

[Anonymous No.19868665]

>>19866351
Lying faggot

[Anonymous No.19869098]

>>19866351

The /it/cord is full of shitty brainlets that don't read. Every imageboard discord is much worse than any single board itself. Mentally ill freaks compulsively spamming gibberish and posting porn and gore. Fuck off

[Anonymous No.19870225]

>>19865008
Absolutely true, if you want to become even more based focus a month or so into discussing a single book, chapter by chapter. I made a commented read of Dante's inferno with two close friends and I have to say it works.

>>19867414
There was also a short story reading club that even had a calendar and shit, yet I don't know what happened to them.

[Anonymous No.19870306]

>voluntarily using shitcord
you deserve it, go outside and touch grass. Now.

[Anonymous No.19870358]

Someone make a new discord, so we can talk about books, but only cool books that I like. You'll be #1, because I don't have time to run a discord all day, but I'll be your #2 guy and help lay down the law. For example, Rule 1: You have to be sexy and badass to join our discord server

[Anonymous No.19870474]

>>19866266
>implying shitcord is better

[Anonymous No.19871226]

>>19870358
Why don’t you just find a husband already?

[Anonymous No.19871232]

>>19863246
You deserve this for being an animeposter.

[Anonymous No.19872754]

>>19871232
anime site

[Anonymous No.19872763]

>you'll never discuss books with your bros
>the only (online) friend you have doesn't even read
what's the point?

[Anonymous No.19872784]

>muh discord b-bad

[Anonymous No.19874331]

>>19872763
To continue on even in the face of even in the face of despair

[Anonymous No.19874540]

>>19863246
Just ban them for offtopic

[Anonymous No.19875633]

>>19864979
It sucks. They read trite genre shit.

[Anonymous No.19875964]

>using discord

[Anonymous No.19877081]

>>19875633
And what would your rather read?

[Anonymous No.19877090]

>>19866281
if you just get cookie cutter reddit takes whats even the point?

[Anonymous No.19877101]

>>19868568
keep telling yourself that

[Anonymous No.19877106]

>>19866336
>the internet

[Anonymous No.19877109]

>>19870358
you seem like a guy who knows how to get. shit. done.

[Anonymous No.19877255]

>>19877081
Pic related desu

[Anonymous No.19877846]

>>19877255
…is this gay? Most gay erotica says so on the cover

[Anonymous No.19877851]

>>19877846
Geez anon, is the shirtless ripped muscle man erotica gay or not? I just can't tell!

[Anonymous No.19879086]

>>19877846
Why? You into butt-loving? You wanna read about butt-lovibg? Fucking QUEER

[Anonymous No.19879090]

>discord
>/soc/
>obviously a tranny
>off topic garbage thread
May you burn in hell, OP.

[Anonymous No.19879672]

I'm going to let you in on a secret, anon.

If you can't discourse internally about a book then you're a pseud.

[Anonymous No.19879780]

>>19879672
>discourse internally

[Anonymous No.19879786]

I've had decent luck browsing Instagram for literature girls and joining their Discord

[Anonymous No.19879816]

>>19879786
What exactly are you doing there? Can you give more info?

[Anonymous No.19879844]

>>19879816
Searching hashtags like books or literature, browsing till I see a post that interests me, checking their profile for a linktree or direct link to discord

[Anonymous No.19879847]

>>19879786
drop the link

[Anonymous No.19879876]

>>19879844
But why girls specifically then?

[Anonymous No.19879880]

>>19879876
I want to talk about books with girls. I guess that was irrelevant though.

[Anonymous No.19879883]

>>19879880
>I want to talk about books with girls
Why

[Anonymous No.19879886]

>>19879876
Is this your first experience with men? If there are any spaces with women open to us at least some of us are going to get coomerbrain and try to impose ourselves on them.

[Anonymous No.19879905]

>>19879886
I'm a man, but what tf are you trying to achieve? I get that it's an irrational behaviour but you are typing shit to people that could be in Hungary for all you know.

[Anonymous No.19879929]

>>19879905
Men all have simp and coomer energy. Get 100 men together and 80 will be relatively normal guys who can keep their simp and coomer potential in check because of years of socialization and being generally decent people. Another 10 will be autistic or poorly socialized and thus have a shaky understanding of boundaries and appropriateness. The remaining 10 will be full blown freaks.

He's trying to achieve talking to girls. It's the same thing as when a girl joins a video game server and every guy goes "haha omg its a gurl" because women are inherently interesting and notable to men because men are horny. Most of the guys will stop there and only embarrass themselves slightly, but a few will always end up adding the girl and harassing her after that either out of deperation or horniness or insanity.

[Anonymous No.19879975]

Just use neo-/lit/, silly. We're starting 100 Years of Solitude tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.19880047]

>>19879975
I'm reading cien anos right now. What is neo-lit?

[Anonymous No.19880060]

>>19863246
>discord intellectuals

[Anonymous No.19880092]

>>19880047
A silly /lit/ book club.

[Anonymous No.19880204]

>>19879929
I am literally trying to socialize with women because I have never had female friends in my life (up until recently) and I wanted to become a well-adjusted human being who doesn't navigate normal, platonic interactions in extremely different ways, depending on the other person's sex.
I'm attracted to 1 of them, sure, but I'm also bisexual and have thought about fucking some male friends. So basically, yes you're right, but I'm working on it.

[Anonymous No.19880235]

>>19880204
That seems like an alright motivation if you can really keep it in your pants

Not even for moral reasons but to avoid developing bad habits like being a creep, or otherwise humiliating yourself by being "that guy"

[Anonymous No.19880391]

>>19879975
You guys struggle with Moby? Yeah, uh, I’ll pass…

[Anonymous No.19880399]

>>19880047
>anos
Anon...

[Anonymous No.19880648]

>>19880092
do y'all have a discord or something?

[Anonymous No.19880698]

>>19879929
I'm gay

[Anonymous No.19880719]

>>19879975

Yo inv me to this shit I actually read and I do not smoke weed

[Anonymous No.19881762]

>>19880719
invite me too lmao

[Anonymous No.19881928]

>>19880391
It was a joke because most of what we'd read before was 300 pages or less.
>>19880719
>>19880648
>>19881762
Here's an invite to the goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/group/invite/1145736-neo--lit?invite_token=OTMxMzc5MTMtNjkxMy00YTYxLWFkYzMtOTQ2NDUyMmMzM2Uz&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copypastegroup. You can find the discord on there if you want to join. Some people prefer to lurk solely in the goodreads to have easy access to a large pool of /lit/ users from whom they find new things to read.

[Anonymous No.19882315]

>>19863246
Reading is kind of a me thing. I do it by myself in a quiet comfy place when I'm relaxing. I don't seek out conversations about books with other people and don't see a reason to. /lit/ scratches that itch.