/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20377482]

Why do we only namedrop books here and never discuss the ideas explored in them and their merits? For example, a lot of people namedrop Houellebecq, yet no one ever discusses the ideas in his books besides vague allusions to muh incels.

[Anonymous No.20377491]

Because most of us have better things to do than read books. Personally, I'm here just to learn the names and core ideas so I can impress art hoes. They don't read either.

[Anonymous No.20377492]

>>20377482
Because you don’t read them. Anonymous shitposters have taken another board

[Anonymous No.20377501]

>>20377491
women owe me sex and because they dont give it to me they are all whores

[Anonymous No.20377507]

>>20377501
Lift weights, stop shaking and drooling when you talk to them, you'll get laid eventually I promise. Girls are easy af now.

[Anonymous No.20377508]

there is effortposters, but every time you see wall of text your eyes roll back and you scroll to the next one-liner

[Anonymous No.20377515]

>>20377507
>Girls are easy af now.

[Anonymous No.20377516]

I would guess that the odds of two people who have read and want to discuss the same book meeting in a given thread are fairly low.

There are a lot of books out there and it doesn't make sense to expect that everyone has read the same ones you have.

[Anonymous No.20377541]

>>20377507
Don't even have to lift to get laid, just go out to parties and concerts and shit and talk normally, if you aren't an utterly disgusting slob you'll get laid

[Anonymous No.20377564]

>>20377541
>just go out to parties and concerts
That's the hardest part. How can you bear the music of this age?
And what about their uninteresting interests?

[Anonymous No.20377581]

>>20377482
because lit is not for literature discussion. it is a containment board for religion baiting.

[Anonymous No.20377594]

>>20377482
>ideas

[Anonymous No.20377598]

>>20377491
>why dosnt lit ever cover the CORE IDEAS AND CONCEPTS covered in literature
>I dont read
>I only come here for the CORE IDEAS AND CONCEPTS to be spoon fed to me

[Anonymous No.20377608]

>>20377482
People on /lit/ don't actually read books, go to /his/ if you actually want to discuss literature, especially philosophy.

[Anonymous No.20377610]

>>20377482
because rapeape

[Anonymous No.20377611]

>>20377564
>How can you bear the music of this age?
I can bear it by telling myself it is a means to an end for pussy + a fuck load of alcohol. you clearly dont want it that bad if this is your barrier to entry.

[Anonymous No.20377683]

>>20377611
>+ a fuck load of alcohol
That's what I thought, if you're drunk enough you don't care that much about music or the people surrounding you.
Alcohol makes the quotidian horror of company more bearable.
It lessens the pain of the thorns.
The other hedgehogs are too close,
but you don't feel it anymore.

>you clearly dont want it that bad if this is your barrier to entry.
I just think they are entertaining for about 20 minutes, and nothing more.
And for this, there another ways.

[Anonymous No.20377699]

>>20377683
*are

[Anonymous No.20377726]

>>20377507
>>20377541
I don't like talking about my interests (whenver I do I go full sperg). Should I just make shit up or what?

[Anonymous No.20377731]

>>20377608
>go to /his/ if you actually want to discuss literature, especially philosophy.
Holy kek. People on /his/ just skim Wikipedia and YouTube.

[Anonymous No.20377735]

>>20377482
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
You think I would actually come here to discuss books? I discuss books with my friends and family.
This is just a place to shitpost while I’m on the pot.

[Anonymous No.20377739]

>>20377726
>whenver I do I go full sperg
that's the problem

>Should I just make shit up or what?
don't do that

Best thing to do is ask them about their interests and keep asking questions, girls love to talk about themselves.
Out of curiosity, what are your interests anon?

[Anonymous No.20377744]

>>20377731
You're right, but I've had much better discussions on Plato (pbuh) and his works on /his/ than on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.20377820]

>>20377744
>You're right, but I've had much better discussions on Plato (pbuh) and his works on /his/ than on /lit/.
Prove it, faggot.

[Anonymous No.20377919]

>>20377482
Phoneposting prompted while away from linrary without the book on pdf a few clicks away or physically in my hands. 4chan is an imageboard made excellent by desktop users. There is no barrier to entry or quality control.

[Anonymous No.20377922]

>>20377491
should i tell women summaries of slightly obscure topics i've skimmed britannica articles on?
is telling them about averroism and aquinas going to make them think i am autistic or interesting?

[Anonymous No.20377926]

>>20377482
Is this a reference to my thread where I complained that people only discuss names but almost never ideas? I'm glad to see this problem is getting more attention.

[Anonymous No.20377932]

>>20377744
>Plato (pbuh)
based

[Anonymous No.20378270]

>>20377683
>I just think they are entertaining for about 20 minutes, and nothing more.
And for this, there another ways.
long winded and odd way of saying I was right about you not wanting it that bad. Its also fair, Im not one to think that pussy is the end all be all but there is a kind of thrill of the hunt resulting in sexual gratification that hits people differently based on there temperament.

[Anonymous No.20378412]

>>20377482
probably because no body knows how to better critique literature than the hated trans writer peter hitchens

[Anonymous No.20378426]

>>20377482
Because no one in /lit/ reads.

[Anonymous No.20378437]

>>20377482
Because we don't actually read the books in question.

I completely stopped effort posting ages ago because no one reads them and instead replies to the same derivative meme and bait and coom and pol bullshit day in and day out.

[Anonymous No.20378442]

There's a discord, and no I won't link it

[Anonymous No.20378445]

Why has the quality of this board declined so much? It used to be full of interesting discussions and you could here and there find genuinely well-read and intelligent posters to engage with. Nowadays it's just zoomers who don't read posturing anonymously ad infinitum. I've had better luck finding good discussions on pl*bbit during the last few months than on this forsaken wasteland.

[Anonymous No.20378451]

>>20377482
Because we don’t read them. I’ve never read any book in my life.

[Dago No.20378457]

>>20377482
Let’s talk about the counter initiation

[Anonymous No.20378473]

>>20378445
google rapeape

[Anonymous No.20378487]

>>20378445
Because no one reads, and the few that do read don't want to be on /lit/ in the first place.

[Anonymous No.20378580]

>>20378442
The discord is shit and no one there even reads.

[Anonymous No.20378598]

Because reading is gay

[Anonymous No.20379251]

2.7 gpa autists obsessed with memorizing book lists and wiki articles. none of you retards have read a fraction of the books commonly namedropped here. you're just circlejerking to impress other manboys, which is kinda gay in the end.

[Anonymous No.20379262]

This is a zoomer board, oldheads. Get with the times.

[Anonymous No.20379268]

>>20377482
Not everyone can effortpost. I’d rather have people try though, or just express their opinions with elaboration instead of the usual one liners

[Anonymous No.20379359]

>>20378580
yeah the discord is dead. its almost like the people that want better discussion cant actually come up with any unless their hands are held. I think it just needs to be accepted that none of us are as smart as we think we are, good quality posts are going to be rare because good quality anything is rare so why should posts be any different, and that anyone who cant stand it doesnt have to. Those who can stand it should find their own neche in it to avoid being bombarded with shit and do their best not to add to the manure pile (whatever that means to them).

[Anonymous No.20379889]

>>20379268
We don't need any more bloviating pseuds posting essays on topics they just searched up on wikipedia

[Anonymous No.20379890]

>>20379251
>none of you retards have read a fraction of the books commonly namedropped here.
Yeah, that's why you have anons saying people here don't read.

[Anonymous No.20379892]

>>20379359
Have you tried doing psychedelics to fire off a spark of creativity in your brain?

[Anonymous No.20379896]

>>20379889
That would be a step up from this shithole, honestly

[Anonymous No.20380142]

>>20377482
Peepeemawmaw

[Anonymous No.20380598]

>>20379892
Im pretty sure using chemicals to make yourself more creative is the cause of most of the shitty posts on lit. any way the problem probably only about 30% creativity. the rest is actually knowing enough to go in depth about literature, the level at which you actually give a shit (which I guaranty is less than what you think right now), and where you fall on the spectrum between impotents and go getter (for lack of a better word). I think people dont realize how much work goes into consistently making quality even if it is just a post on the internet).

[Anonymous No.20380630]

>>20377491
gay

[Anonymous No.20380696]

>>20377482
Stephens cranes open boat to me while being short was impactful. On how chaotic yet beautiful life can be. The death of the
oiler was unexpected yet these are words that have been said in many tragedies.

[Anonymous No.20381116]

>>20380598
Nonsense, you just need to apply the classical guide to making good content on the internet that everyone was required to read and take a test on. You have read the material and passed didn't you anon?

[Anonymous No.20381128]

>>20381116
oh shit no, you got a link friendo?

[Anonymous No.20381375]

>>20381128
Yeah but you need to use Netscape to view it, you DO still have an original copy of Netscape right?

[Anonymous No.20381414]

>>20379890
Because its true?

[Anonymous No.20381553]

>>20381375
ah shit bro no I dont. I may be able to emulate it through boonty box though.

[Anonymous No.20382860]

>>20377508
That's just you.

[Anonymous No.20384042]

>>20377482
just look at whats namedropped. Lit almost exclusively talks about works that are read in at least one highschool around the world and virtually never talks about anything that isn't mentioned enough to be read in a highschool.

This proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that this board exists to validate bitches who want to be praised for reading "difficult" authors, and has basically no one who reads "difficult" works just because they like them. If they did read works because they liked them then youd expect to see difficult authors that are completley unknown mentioned just as much as the more popular ones. But instead you basically never see unknown yet difficult authors mentioned, because no one would be able to validate the mentioners greatness.
fucking vanity amirite??