/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2735058]

Literary feels thread

>tfw exactly halfway through a book
>tfw you hear the 'thud' of an ordered book falling through your letterbox
>tfw one of your ordered books has a free bookmark

[Anonymous No.2735062]

>tfw your reading a paragraph but your mind trails off and you get a stiffy

[Anonymous No.2735068]

>>tfw one of your ordered books has a free bookmark

THE HAPPINESS IS OVERWHELMING

[Anonymous No.2735070]

>>2735062

>that feel

[Anonymous No.2735072]

>tfw you've gone half way down the page while daydreaming about something else.

[Anonymous No.2735077]

>that feel when there's a song written out in the book and you make up your own tune and sing it

[Anonymous No.2735082]

>>2735072
I get this quite often, sometimes it takes several pages to realise

[Anonymous No.2735089]

>reading naked lunch
>family in the room oblivous to literature
>boner from underage boys being raped while they are executed, shitting themselves in the process.
>that feel

[Anonymous No.2735095]

>tfw you finish the book and realise the next day that you can't even remember what it was about because you weren't paying attention

[Anonymous No.2735097]

>>2735072

I always just thought I was a bad reader

[Anonymous No.2735101]

>>2735097
bad reader! bad reader!!!

[Anonymous No.2735107]

>free bookmark

It's frankly pathetic how happy this makes me

[Anonymous No.2735112]

>that feel when you read a beautiful/brilliant line, sentence or paragraph

>that feel when you feel the book becoming one of your favourites

>that feel when completing a long book

[Anonymous No.2735119]

>>2735068
>>2735107

I don't even get you guys. I don't use bookmarks, I just go to the last familiar page. If I reread something, it's because I didn't absorb it the first time.

Bookmarks are totally pleb.

[Anonymous No.2735128]

I always lose bookmarks or they get fucked up or whatever. I just dog-ear books or if it is a particularly fancy book (generally hardback / old books / etc) I'll just use whatever I have at hand, generally a piece of toiletpaper or scrap of a bill or something.

[Anonymous No.2735132]

>>2735128
>dogearing books
>filling books with toilet paper
I feel unwell suddenly.

[Anonymous No.2735135]

Bookmarks are for the elite. I have very specific bookmarks based on the genre and mood. Many hand crafted and from different parts of the world. They help me channel the correct energy into the book to create more ultimate experiences.

Folding pages, remembering page numbers, using business cards is all pleb action.

[Anonymous No.2735148]

>that feel when you read an idea or a thought that you thought only you had

[Anonymous No.2735153]

>>2735148
welcome to literature/philosophy

where you'll discover just HOW mediocre you really are.

[Anonymous No.2735164]

>>2735128
>Bookmarks get fucked up when used.
>Fucks up books instead.

[Anonymous No.2735171]

dat feel, typically on the second or third page of a terry pratchett book, when every word you read is new, but every step you take gets you closer to the end...

[Anonymous No.2735172]

>>2735135
I just use postcards of paintings I like or feel suit the book's theme.

Sometimes I use a card from my old deck of tarot, if it seems relevant some way to the book.

[Anonymous No.2735175]

>>2735128
>generally a piece of toiletpaper
I do this

[Anonymous No.2735180]

>>2735148
"Fucker, now I can't write about it anymore."

[Anonymous No.2735188]

>>2735175

This makes me want to shit.

[Anonymous No.2735190]

>>2735180
You could do some observational comedy.

[Anonymous No.2735198]

>>2735164
I don't really think dog-ears fuck up the book, as I said I mostly dog-ear my cheap shitty paperbacks, nothing of value is lost, and I can look back on those dog-ears with love. It's interesting to see if a book has been a drag, it will have dog-ears on every 20 pages, but if it is a good book, maybe there is only 1 or 2.

Bookmarks just feel so lifeless to me, I mean they do the job, but what I use as a bookmark doesn't make me feel or think any differently about the book I am reading, maybe I am just too unsentimental.

[Anonymous No.2735208]

>>2735198
>Bookmarks just feel so lifeless to me
Living things can be bookmarks too.

[Anonymous No.2735221]

>>2735208
I use bacon. I feel it achieves an effective balance between life and the lifeless.

Also pigs are cooler than dogs.

[Anonymous No.2735237]

Never thought you guys had such love for bookmarks.

Now I'm using a 1 Real bill that I found on the back of a drawer a week ago, but before the bill I used to use receipts or movie tickets. Lately I've been thinking about buying a white and a yellow cardboard and make a Finn and Jake bookmark.

[Anonymous No.2735250]

>>2735221
>>2735208

That is not a dog.

[Anonymous No.2735253]

I use playing cards for bookmarks, I have two shitty packs that have been serving this purpose for years although I lose bookmarks so often that they are starting to run thin.

[Anonymous No.2735257]

>>2735208
>>2735058
>reading paper books
>not having an e-book

[Anonymous No.2735260]

>>2735221
Would you put bacon in the Talmud?

[Anonymous No.2735268]

>>2735260

I use my old nazi paraphernalia for bookmarking when i read the talmud

[Anonymous No.2735270]

>>2735260
No. But I do put bacon in the Qur'an regularly.

[Anonymous No.2735272]

I use a nice blue ribbon my mother gave me. Came with a pewter dragon head but it slides off too easily, so it's on one of my shelves.

[Anonymous No.2735278]

>>2735260

[Anonymous No.2735317]

>tfw you read a line or paragraph that is so beautiful you feel that you must remember it, so you decide to underline it in pencil and make a note of the page number at the front of the book, but decide that you'll just finish reading the rest of this chapter before you go to get one, then you carry on reading and forget about it
>tfw when you realise you must have done this with at least fifty books

[Anonymous No.2735331]

>>2735198
I have bookmarks with memories. An empty Kool-Aid packet, a paper band from a £1000 bundle of £20 notes, a cardboard tag from a bottle of expensive whiskey...

[Anonymous No.2735345]

>>2735331
i use my friend's penis

[Anonymous No.2735354]

>>2735317
I always carry around a pen and a thin pocket notebook with me. Also, I usually go around with a book in tow, so whenever I find a passage I like I underline it or make a note of it.

>that feeling when your notebook is running out of pages
>that feeling when you can look back on pages spanning months of random thoug

[Anonymous No.2735357]

>tfw /lit/ can barely make 10 or 15 posts without derailing OP's thread completely

[Anonymous No.2735368]

>>2735357
Are you in the right thread?

[Anonymous No.2735392]

>>2735058
>bookmark

I used to use those, but they would fall out. Now I use a piece of yarn as one.

[Anonymous No.2735395]

>>2735089

[Anonymous No.2735412]

> tfw you read a lovely sentence in a book and instantly text it to your friend, and she completely understands and appreciates it.

[Anonymous No.2735425]

>tfw home alone so you stand up and orate a passage as if you're in the royal shakespeare company

[Anonymous No.2735427]

>>2735412
>being friends with girls
>honestly, I really hope you don't actually do that

[Anonymous No.2735428]

>>2735425
RSC are more about interpretation than oration.

[Anonymous No.2735433]

>>2735428
it doesn't matter. I was just trying to explain how I like to give dramatic readings of my favourite passages but your autism keeps getting in the way.

[Anonymous No.2735435]

>>2735427
I am a girl, so I really don't see why.
Unless you assumed I'm a guy who's only listening to a girl's constant bitching and whining.

[Anonymous No.2735437]

>tfw after reading a chapter you pretend you're teaching a class on it

[Anonymous No.2735440]

>>2735435
>YES, I AM A GIRL!!! WHO LIKES TO READ. NO I WON'T READ WITH YOU LOL I ONLY READ ON PRIVATE SERVERS... DON'T PM ME ASKING FOR PICTURES OF MY BOOKS BECAUSE I WON'T GIVE THEM TO YOU.

[Anonymous No.2735442]

>>2735435
>not texting a beautiful sentence to boys you like

[Anonymous No.2735445]

>>2735433
Oh look, more melodramatic posturing.

[Anonymous No.2735447]

>>2735440
it's not attentionwhoring if she was only correcting a false assumption. gees, you paranoid or what?

[Anonymous No.2735448]

>>2735445
I deliberately avoid doing it in company. What is your problem?

[Anonymous No.2735450]

>>2735447
So where are the pictures of her books?

[Anonymous No.2735453]

>tfw footnotes are actually directly beneath the text and not at the end of the book

[Anonymous No.2735454]

>>2735450
how would that be relevant?

[Anonymous No.2735457]

>>2735440
>>2735442
>>2735447
>>2735450
welp

[Anonymous No.2735458]

>>2735450
Ew, I hope that's a hardcover and she washed that afterwards.

[Anonymous No.2735459]

>>2735448
Your menstruation is my problem.

[Anonymous No.2735460]

>>2735459
I'm not the girl. that was a different conversation.

[Anonymous No.2735462]

>>2735442

guaranteed insta-boner

[Anonymous No.2735463]

>>2735460
If you're not a girl, then I'd like to know what's causing your PMS.

[Anonymous No.2735464]

>>2735460
it's too late. that doesn't even matter anymore. it's done.

[Anonymous No.2735471]

>>2735368
You were saying?

[Anonymous No.2735472]

I didn't read the thread but I heard there was a girl ITT?

[Anonymous No.2735473]

>>2735463
you're the one overreacting to to my monologues

[Anonymous No.2735476]

>>2735473
Vagina monologues?

[Anonymous No.2735481]

>tfw a book actually has an effect on you

[Anonymous No.2735485]

>>2735481

Reception studies have shown that most people usually read books to confirm what they already know/believe. A book changing you is not impossible but statistically out of the question. It's persuasive rhetoric to say so.

[Anonymous No.2735488]

>>2735481
>tfw when it doesn't and it's a 'classic' so you're probably stupid

[Anonymous No.2735489]

>>2735485
>Reception studies

Who?

[Anonymous No.2735490]

>>2735485
Mostly unrelated to everything I said, but interesting none the less.

[Anonymous No.2735492]

>>2735440
Jesus Christ you guys are retarded.

[Anonymous No.2735494]

>Smelling a new book
>Smelling an old book

[Anonymous No.2735504]

>rereading a paragraph several times because you don't "get" it

[Anonymous No.2735510]

>Smelling a girl while she reads a book

[Anonymous No.2735514]

>not writing in the last page of the book all the page numbers of pages that had interesting ideas or paragraphs and then writing a sentence explaining why you did that right next to them

I can pick up any book I own, go to the last page and have all the notes and interesting spots and quotes without damaging or writing on any other part of the book.

[Anonymous No.2735517]

>>2735345
>>2735494
>>2735510

>Wanking a friend off in the forest while a female smells a new or used book

[Anonymous No.2735525]

>>2735494
obligatory

[Anonymous No.2735526]

>tfw not enjoying a book but reading it so you can brag you read it

[Anonymous No.2735527]

>bookmark falls out of book

[Anonymous No.2735531]

>tfw girls mirin you for reading in public places

[Anonymous No.2735532]

>trying to convince your gf shakespeare is awful because you hate her and she only casually like him anyway

[Anonymous No.2735533]

A soon to be feel
>tfw actually finishing a book for the first time since school about 8 years ago

[Anonymous No.2735538]

>tfw you annotate a subtle allusion in a text then on the next page the allusion is made explicit
>tfw you reach a new chapter or poem whose epigraph is in a language other than the text's and you understand it
>tfw you find someone who's reading the same book as you

[Anonymous No.2735539]

>that feel when reaching a level of understanding and expertise in your field where you are no longer just a neophyte or student, but legitimately grappling with complex concepts, and understanding/appreciating them fully

[Anonymous No.2735543]

>tfw girlfriend asks you to read to her in bed
>tfw she falls asleep but you carry on reading to her anyway

[Anonymous No.2735553]

>dfw you have to stop reading to youtube a song referenced in the book.

[Anonymous No.2735570]

>tfw you interpret everything you read in terms of your political perspective


get on my level, plebs

[Anonymous No.2735576]

>tfw you interpret everything through a lens that assumes every character is homosexual

[Anonymous No.2735580]

>>2735570
This is sad, i hope you can enjoy the world and put your political quarrels behind you. It will prevent you from being happy.

[Anonymous No.2735582]

>tfw you are reading a passage on the shitter and get so involved you realize you have been sitting there without wiping your ass for over 30 minutes.

[Anonymous No.2735584]

Bookmarks:

Use a deck of cards. Different card for each book.

tfw you use all 52 and the jokers in less than six months.

[Anonymous No.2735596]

>>2735584
Real nigga, real bitch, purple swag, that trill shit
Them candy cars, I'm coming down, that paint drip, I still tip
That pimp shit, she ain't plan to fuck, I pick her up, I still hit
That's swag, bitch

[Sunhawk !M9PhF5nIzs No.2735598]

that face when lololololol

[Anonymous No.2735616]

>>2735598
that feel when, lel

[Anonymous No.2735623]

>>2735570
you sound like one awful person. just let me tell that probably every single one of your acquaintances secretly loathes you.

[Anonymous No.2735626]

>>2735582
>tfw your poopy hardens and it hurts when you wipe your bum

[Anonymous No.2735660]

>>2735626
r u my poop brother?

[Anonymous No.2735669]

>tfw you're reading Twilight

[Anonymous No.2735672]

>tfw everything you want is at the library for free
>tfw pleb friends buy books

[Anonymous No.2735676]

>>2735553

>That feel when listening to a song referenced by the main character with cancer in a book, who wanted it played on her funeral
>That feel when you think and reflect about the book everytime you hear the song


>That feel when finishing a book and closing it for the first time without a bookmark

>That feel when trying to stop thinking about something while reading but you end up thinking about it anyway

>That feel when characters become a part of you for a few days after you finish reading a book

[Anonymous No.2735730]

>>2735582
>that feel when shitting and reading and leaning forward with elbows on thighs for so long you your legs fall asleep

[Anonymous No.2735756]

>>2735730

How does that even work? I don't understand people who need to take reading material to the bathroom. Get in, shit for a minute, and get out. What kind of shit do you have that you would need to spend time reading?

[Anonymous No.2735763]

>tfw you go to uni and can't read on the loo because of shitty student accommodation bathrooms
>>2735756
The bathroom is the one place in the house where you have guaranteed solitude, I'm guessing you grew up without an annoying sibling

[Anonymous No.2735768]

>>2735763

Ya, you're right. I was the annoying sibling.

[Anonymous No.2735796]

>not reading your video game manuals on the toilet before playing it for the first time

[Anonymous No.2735798]

>>2735756

I normally read while shitting because I'm already reading and then have to take a shit.

I certainly don't need reading material while shitting, I'm perfectly content for a few minutes just brewing in my own scent.

I normally take two shits a day. One around 10AM and another at about 8PM at which point I'm nose deep in a book.

>inb4 how do you shit so regularly
I attribute this to my raw vegan diet

[Anonymous No.2735806]

>>2735796
There haven't been good manuals in years, it's a real shame

[Anonymous No.2735808]

>>2735756
Clearly you've never bulked or done GOMAD. I shit for 5 minutes and wipe my ass for 15. Sometimes I keep on reading because I'm scared how much shit is between my cheeks that needs wiping.

[Anonymous No.2736357]

>>2735453
>tfw a book has endnotes instead of footnotes
>tfw occasionally interesting additional information, but mostly just citations
>tfw you interrupt your reading to flip to the endnotes just to read "Ibid"

[Anonymous No.2736369]

>>2736357
>"Ibid"

>tfw when it makes you think of toads

[Anonymous No.2736378]

>>2735806
Catherine manual was good. Pity about the game.

[Anonymous No.2736386]

>>2736357
>tfw when you go to read a footnote despite it being something you definitely already know, just to be sure

>tfw you read a good amount of your current text instead of just reading /lit/

[Anonymous No.2736443]

>>2735437
Holy fucking fuck. You do this?
I know there's a lot of "I thought I was the only one"-type feels, but... Well, I thought I was the only one.
I do that whenever I'm taking in some new concept. If I'm alone, I walk around and talk with hand gestures and everything.

I have never felt closer to an anon than I felt this day.

[Anonymous No.2736450]

>tfw you read an epic event in the book done by your favorite character and you go all "BRO THAT WAS EPIC FUCKING HIGH-FIVE ME"

[Anonymous No.2736452]

>>2736443
If I can puncture that even further, I do it too. I remember it coming up here before. Quite a large amount of people said they did it.

[Anonymous No.2736459]

>>2736452
I'm relatively new to /lit/, so I suppose it makes sense that I wouldn't know of this.
And yet... Now I feel like a feel whore.

[Anonymous No.2736464]

>>2736443
>>2735437
Holy fuck I'm not either of you but I fucking do this to holy fucking shit today is a great day let's start a fucking university or something

[Anonymous No.2736479]

>>2736443

It's not that weird. I do that about pretty much everything. Especially chapters in books or books as a whole. It would be funny to see footage of me I my room from when I was reading Lolita.

[Anonymous No.2736480]

>>2735476

Oh snap--

[Anonymous No.2736759]

>>2735576
Christ, why does this happen? Am I just trying accept my homosexuality?

[Anonymous No.2736779]

>>2736759
I just do it because it makes subtext more fun

[Anonymous No.2737214]

>That feel when reading a book from a library and there's smart/insightful marginalia from previous readers.

OTOH

>That feel when people underline library books.

Jesus Christ, people. That book isn't yours to desecrate.

[Anonymous No.2737224]

>>2735058

that's actually a picture of Queen Victoria when she was a princess.