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/lit/ confessions Anonymous Mon Jul 31 02:32:46 2023 No.22323642 [Reply] [Original]

I’ll start.

I’ve never finished Lolita. I just read the happy parts in the first half, stop reading, and repeat from the beginning.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 02:40:20 2023 No.22323671 File: 74 KB, 1080x1082, 1635903224709.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I had gay incest wit my brother when I was like 13. I'm sti haunted by the regret and shame nearly a decade later. How do I cope, bros?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 02:42:06 2023 No.22323678 >>22323671 First you can explain how it happened

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 02:43:42 2023 No.22323681 >>22323678 just for context, no other reason at all, right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 02:45:15 2023 No.22323684 >>22323678 Idk, it just did. I don't even remember how.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 02:45:47 2023 No.22323686 >>22323671 you raped your little bro? yikes the only path to forgiveness is to dedicate yourself to your family, friends, and humanity. No more internet, you don’t deserve it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 02:50:25 2023 No.22323699 >>22323642 I comment on books I have never read. >t. /lit/

Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:03:52 2023 No.22323751

>>22323671
im no expert on child development, but from what i've read sexual exploration and curiosity at young ages is a lot more common than we admit to ourselves.
when i was around maybe 10, me and my friend did a 'let's touch peepees' thing once and kissed just to try it, and never happened again.
point is we grow out of it, and know it's wrong, and feel bad about it and keep it to ourselves, as you have done. i think it's more common than you think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:06:49 2023 No.22323762 >>22323699 You are a terrible person and a pseud if you do this

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:07:53 2023 No.22323764 >>22323684 Was your brother older or younger?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:11:22 2023 No.22323774 >>22323764 Younger

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:12:40 2023 No.22323776 I like to think I'm a good or above average author but my prose is actually complete shit and I can't even spell.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:14:45 2023 No.22323782 i haven't written anything except shitposts for the past 10 years

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:18:54 2023 No.22323793 >>22323774 That's fucked up. You were 13 it's not like you understood how wrong that is. Does your brother know about it? If no you should probably have that uncomfortable conversation or he may have mental issues and become a faggot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:20:09 2023 No.22323799 >>22323751 you're a repressed faggot, dude. I never did anything like this and it's not normal.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:21:47 2023 No.22323805 >>22323793 We've never spoken of it since. I hope take it to the grave if I can. Also, he's not gay, so don't worry on that front.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:22:58 2023 No.22323810 File: 7 KB, 225x225, download - 2023-07-27T211036.241.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22323642 I have such an Adhd addled brain, I haven't even finished my favorite book (Don Quixote)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:25:14 2023 No.22323821 >>22323805 Self hatred gets you no-where but depression and suicide. Instead be out for your brother, then you'll forgive yourself. It'll take time.

Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:25:58 2023 No.22323823
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My dad found a Kindle on the street and it still had someone's information on it when he gave it to me. I bought some books with the owner's debit card. I then felt bad and cleaned the data off the Kindle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:27:13 2023 No.22323831 >>22323823 You did the right thing anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:28:35 2023 No.22323838 >>22323831 I still have the kindle but just pirate my books now. I bought the books on the kindle like 8 years ago when I was like 12.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:29:38 2023 No.22323841 >>22323799 im happily married with children, and not sexually attracted to men whatsoever. projecting much?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:40:29 2023 No.22323885 I've not finished a single book this year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:43:56 2023 No.22323897 >>22323885 get to it

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 03:45:07 2023 No.22323899 >>22323897 I have some reads planned out for this month. If all goes well, I'll have read 4-5 books by the end of this month(August).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 05:50:08 2023 No.22324181 >>22323841 Lmaooooo, . Larp, such much?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 06:04:49 2023 No.22324211 I get easily aroused by amorous scenes in books and have trouble concentrating unless I've released the jizz. And it's not erotic books I'm talking about; but books such as The Master and Margarita and The Norwegian Woods.

Anonymous Mon Jul 31 06:20:52 2023 No.22324233

I am trying to get back into reading but it's hard for me.

I read occasionally up to middle school with stuff like 1984 and Perks of Being a Wallflower, but my attention span died somewhere and I just haven't been able to properly read a book outside of class. There have been some great reads from class like The Bluest Eye and Nickel and Dimed, but I cannot for the life of me pick up a book on my own volition.

I believe the problem is I always thought that I should only read what I OUGHT to read: the literary classics. I tried picking up Picture of Dorian Gray, Brave New World, Crime and Punishment, but at some point it felt like a slog. They were all very rich in ideas and prose but I didn't feel as invested as I ought to when reading.

Just yesterday, I decided to buy some books I've been meaning to read from B&E. Exquisite Corpse was among them and I was reading it on Internet Archive and it's been a while since I've felt so lost in the pages, when it didn't feel like reading words but getting drowned in this world within the pages. I decided to buy the physical copy and am trying to start reading it.

Yall can tease me however you like but I enjoy reading for the sake of reading, it feels much more fulfilling than reading long winded texts for validation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 06:27:09 2023 No.22324254 >>22324233 B&N*

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 06:28:11 2023 No.22324257 >>22323642 >I just read the happy parts in the first half Lolita is constructed in thirds.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 06:29:12 2023 No.22324261 >>22323751 Yeah happened to me too. I would suck off my uncle daily just out of the childlike curiosity every growing child has haha very common you know, incredibly natural. I still do now but it's only on weekdays when I'm visiting him hahah

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 06:32:10 2023 No.22324266 >>22323899 Bro you shouldn't need to plan this out. It must come from within or your mind will just be forced to read. You should pick up whatever book you actually feel like reading, not the one you selected a month ago to be read.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 06:33:54 2023 No.22324270 >>22323642 I actually got into debt buying books when I got my first credit card at 18.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 07:14:05 2023 No.22324362 >>22324266 I do have a feeling I'm gonna enjoy those works but if I don't, I don't push through. I don't mind dropping books which is why I have finished nothing for some time.

Schizo Cat Mon Jul 31 07:21:08 2023 No.22324379
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>>22324233
Why you look at that... h-h-he's reading for the heck of it. I never thought I see the day. Come closer, little one; let me see your face. Why, you're just a wee-lad. No bigger than an ant. And no braver. Much less brave in fact. This will have to do. How would you like to have sex with your ol' uncle cat?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 07:24:23 2023 No.22324386 >>22323642 Its like a 200 page book you pussy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 07:28:47 2023 No.22324395 >>22324261 try reading something

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 15:25:13 2023 No.22325319 >>22324379 yessir, unc :)

Anonymous Mon Jul 31 19:53:45 2023 No.22326179

>>22324233
if you'd like a nice, gentle introduction into the long-winded prose of the classics, you ought to pick up Brideshead Revisited. it's beautifully written and the most poignant pastiche of its time ever written, but the long passages with which Waugh loves to take you on journeys to Venice and Paris and Oxford always end where they begun, so you never get lost. the plot, for all its art, is simple: there are only four timeskips, and nobody pops their head in for a page in the first chapter only to become an essential figure in the thirtieth. you will not regret it, unless you are homophobic in which case you will immediately become a communist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 19:59:13 2023 No.22326201 >>22323642 I join bookshelf threads just to tell people that they're larpers for having clean-looking books even though I hardly ever read books myself. I don't even know why I'm on this board

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 20:06:00 2023 No.22326213 >>22323642 i masturbated to leviathan

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 20:25:17 2023 No.22326261 I wrote a young adult fantasy romance novel. Huge parts of it are constructed around my insecurities. I based the female lead off of past crushed. Some of the villains are named after and based on people I want to see humiliated and defeated

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 31 20:26:17 2023 No.22326267 >>22326261 Crushes, not crushed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 00:08:50 2023 No.22327141 File: 376 KB, 1000x1000, 231AF171-439B-436F-B3F2-A6FC79374055.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22326261 Unfathomably based

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 00:23:01 2023 No.22327187 >>22326261 Post it

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 00:27:48 2023 No.22327205 I deluded myself into thinking I was reading Tampa by nutting because I enjoy experimental lit but my motives were truthfully more lurid. I got off to that book several times. I wish I were that kid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 01:19:31 2023 No.22327374 I skipped every single poem in Don Quixote.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 1 01:20:54 2023 No.22327383 File: 42 KB, 900x900, squidward-dab-edi-alhamdulilah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I cited a book I didn't actually read anything more than the Wikipedia page of

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