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>realising I've read all of my collection's favourite books to death, 5 or more times, and new books I've bought recently have mostly been boring

>> No.2828743

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve._Super

>> No.2828747

>drop out after 2 yrs college
>go all kerouac on everyones ass for a year
>come back and join the army
>kicked out after a year for doing cocaine

thats where im at.

>> No.2828750

i felt that once and it was awful.

now i realize it was because i hadnt look enough for new good stuff. there is ALWAYS more. if you think otherwise you are doing it wrong

>> No.2828756

>>2828750

I basically know this, but how do I know which will be the great novels? I mean, they account for maybe 1 in 30 of the books I own.

>> No.2828766

>tfw your sister finds your pee bottles

>> No.2828771

>>2828766
>>>/3/

>> No.2828773

>thinking about something else while reading and having to go back 30 pages

>> No.2828777

I'm the only one who every goes outside anymore,
it looks like the apocalypse happened out there,
empty streets and sidewalks,
and there are too many cars, where did they all come from?

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2828778

>that feel when you get swarmed by moths every night when you read in bed
>that feel when if you closed the window, it would get too stuffy and mess with your perfect complexion
>that feel when you know you are going to read in bed tonight
>that feel when you know the moths are coming

>> No.2828780

posting in a sunhawk thrad

>> No.2828783

>>2828777

Enjoy globalization and consumerism

>> No.2828785

>>2828778
make a pillow fort and sleep in that

>> No.2828787

>>2828778
Moths are adorable, with their bark-like wings and feathery antennae, how do you not consider them your friends?

>> No.2828788

>>2828778
Chuclked joyfully. tanks anonamoose

>> No.2828791

dude i have like a fuckstack of unread books next to my bed, but 80% of them dont interest me

>> No.2828806

>>2828756
I remember you saying you wanted to read The Recognitions. I'm just starting it now. We should read it together, baby.

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>>2828778
#swag

>> No.2828812

>>2828783
But it's not okay!
Seriously there are way too many cars!
and everybody stays in their car, at their job, or in their house.
In front of a screen the entire time (I realize I am in front of a scree right now but trust me I am usually not).

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2828825

>Tfw compelled to finish every book you start
>Tfw stuck on a bad book for a whole month

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2828827

>tfw you haven't read anything new in months, you just spend all of your time in /lit/ debating the shit you had already read.

>> No.2828829

>tfw you read a lot but can't show your intelligence through speaking

>> No.2828834

>>2828829
Do stimulants.

>> No.2828835

>>2828829
are you me? I feel like i have a bunch of ideas in my head but there is a disconnect between my brain and my mouth. I suck at verbally explaining shit.

I like writing because you can take time to get the right word to accurately convey your intent.

>> No.2828838

>>2828812
>>2828812

I know this feel
Go to a major city
New York is ideal
There are people out and about
The large cities are still vibrant, still human
The suburbs have ousted culture
And its dwellers are scared of the world
But the city, you will find solace there

>> No.2828839

>tfw you never read as much as you did as a child

>> No.2828841

>>2828835
get out more often

>> No.2828854

>reading an essay about TS Eliot on a long bus journey with my friend
>author makes a joke about Eliot and I burst out laughing
>"What's so funny?"
>that feel when he doesn't know who TS Eliot is and the entire thing would seem completely boring
>"Oh it's just this..."

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2828862

>tfw no patrician gf

>> No.2828885

>tfw you browse 4chan too much that you have developed adhd when it comes to reading
>tfw writers block

>> No.2828894

>>2828838
I would rather live alone in the forest,
maybe with one other person,
and with a library,
and lab ware.

>> No.2828922

>>2828835
I have this too bros. My psychologist figured out I had a disconnect years ago.
150 iq on the inside, a total jackass on the outside

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>>2828862
I know that feel

>> No.2828961

>>2828747
>go full Kerouac after I graduate high school
>friends come along for a cross-country trip but leave after I decide to drive through Mexico
>I go alone
>hitchhike and travel down to Tierra Del Fuego
>bum around and work as a fisherman for a while
>return home two years since the day I left to cross the country
>everyone except my family and close friends thought I had died
>currently going to college
>still have intense wanderlust
>going to Europe next year, probably won't come home for a year or more; working on my Greek citizenship so I'm going to be there for at least six months for military service

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2828969

>tfw haven't left the house in three months now
>tfw afraid you'll die much sooner than you expect

>> No.2828974

>>2828969
>three months

Casual.

>> No.2828996

>>2828961
Where did you work as a fisherman?

mfw I did the same thing, only after finishing college. Working right now as a fisherman in Norway. Hungariar citizenship btw

feels nelson goodman dude, very nelson goodman

>> No.2829009

>>2828969
>three months now

Babby's first seclusion

>> No.2829014

>>2829009

keep your eyes open for babby's first shoot-out at the movies

>> No.2829017

>Fall in love with best friend
>On holiday with friends
>Confess love to her
>She breaks my heart
>Make drunken attempt on own life
>Get home from holiday
>Feel dead inside
>Don't leave bed for three weeks

>> No.2829018

>>2828996
is it really that easy to just go to foreign countries and be a fisherman?
If i was an american and wanted to go adventure in europe, what could i do to get money while there?

>> No.2829029

>>2828812
>and everybody stays in their car

not sure if this is what you're talking about exactly, but at the community college where i work part-time, i've noticed in the parking lot that a lot of people wait inside their cars.

but i guess that one doesn't get into CC by repeatedly injecting oneself into possibly uncomfortable social situations in preparation for what will undoubtedtly prove a useful & sometimes necessary life skill for getting ahead.

>> No.2829031

>>2828996
Puerto Williams on Isla Navarino. It's a little town in Tierra Del Fuego.

My grandmother is a Greek immigrant, so I'm guaranteed Greek citizenship. I might spend some time with her brother in their little village on Evia, probably will try my hand at sheepherding. I plan to work as a journalist once I get all of this out of my system, and maybe I can write a book about my experiences.

>> No.2829033

>>2829029
Most people don't want to befriend others at CC because they're ashamed of being there.

The thought process is

>Ugh I don't want to network with these losers

not realizing that they're losers themselves

>> No.2829035

>>2829018
Living/working in Europe is hard without EU citizenship. South America, especially rural areas like Tierra Del Fuego or anywhere near the Andes, is easymode for work. Also, latina chicks.

>> No.2829039

>>2828996
Where in Norway? Do you work on a Norwegian boat?

>> No.2829042

>>2829033
i acknowledge im a loser, but at CC i feel like everyone else is a hopeless loser. Like the people there don't have the mental facilities to not be losers.

>> No.2829048

>>2829035
As a British citizen, how easy would it be for me to galavant around Europe doing whatever?

>> No.2829050

>>2829018
>>2829018
um... I'm american but got hungarian citizenship as well, so...
Shitty jobs you can find anywhere, just gotta be willing to let go of all the comforts at home. Lived in Italy for some months without having health insurance, I got really sick, in bed for a week, couldnt go to the doctors, just stuck it out. Havent bought any clothes in over a year, save shoes, which wear out fast.
Right now in Norway I'm living in a shitty hotel room sharing the kitchen with hundreds - literally - of polish, latvian, lithuanian and other scum-of-the-earth drunks. Doesnt bother me at all, but I know I have dropped down a few steps in the social ladder. My workmates are said eastern european drunks and some african refugees.

Back home, my brother is a succesful engineer who bought his first apartment at the age of 25 and is about to get married. Family wonders when I'll get my shit together. I hope to never do it.

>> No.2829056

>>2829048
Probably pretty easy. I'm not yet an EU citizen, so I don't know the ins and outs, but it can't be different from doing that as a citizen of any other country. The EU is like the US. The countries are practically states that you can pass between so long as you have citizenship.

The only hard thing for a non EU citizen is the 90 day visa.

>> No.2829063

>>2829050
My social circle is all people going to Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, people training to be Doctors, Lawyers and studying economics. I don't think I would cope well with dropping down the social ladder.

>> No.2829060

>>2829048
depends on how much of a man you are. Legally, you can work anywhere in Europe, no hassles there. And you got english, so you're pretty much made.

>> No.2829061

>>2829050
Does it bother you that Norwegian fishermen make way, way, way more than you, fishing in the same waters?

>> No.2829059

>>2829050
living the good life, my friend.

Do you share your bread and beer with the other poor and salt of the earth?

>> No.2829068

>>2829060
>Depends on how much of a man you are
W-what does that mean? Will I get murdered by bald Polish men with axes If I'm not much of a man?

>> No.2829071

>>2829068
He's probably conflating his masculinity with the desire to inflict pain and suffering upon onesself.

The lifestyle he's describing is not unlike the lifestyle enjoyed by europoors 200 years ago.

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>>2828829

>> No.2829084

>>2829059 me again
right now I'm eating bread, cheese and ham I got dumpster-diving last night with this lithuanian chick I was hoping to bang. She showed up to our first date - 11pm by the dumpsters - with her boyfriend.


>>2829050
no need to share my bread, we're in Norway, everyone makes a shit ton of money. The only reason people don't eat/I dumpster-dive is to make even more money.

>>2829039
Live way up north in the Region of Nordland, inside the arctic circle. Not on a boat right now but looking into it, I'm in a factory that takes the fish from the boats and processes it. Last week I wore the same clothes 5 days straight, only showered once. No matter what I do I stink of fish, so why bother?

Life is good, bitches

>> No.2829097

>>2829063
not the Magyar-American you were responding to, but it sounds as though you might better enjoy short stints—durations lasting up to a month—in poorfag travel mode, if that lifestyle interests you. check out the 'Thumbs Up' documentary series, which is about a guy who goes on hitchiking/trainhopping adventures where he is essentially a bumb for a few weeks at a time, before resuming his lifestyle as a successful artist with actual work obligations & whatnot. backpack through Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, & Ukraine for a few weeks, pretending to be a penniless foreigner, before checking in for your reservation at a 5-star for your last couple nights in Budapest, before flying out (just to use Hungary as an example).

>> No.2829098

>>2829061
Does it bother you that I work 40 hours a week, no pressures, no responsabilities, get to save over 2k euro a month and pretty much spent the last year just travelling around europe?

>> No.2829110

What are you reading, anon?
>that feel when the person asking is obviously just making small-talk and doesn't really care
>that feel when now forced to explain it
>that feel when they'll assume that this one book is an exemplar of your main reading preferences, even if you're trying out a new genre or author
>that feel when trying to explain it without sounding excessively pretentious, aloof, or nerdy
>that feel when stopped reading in front of anyone you know, due to this

>> No.2829119

>>2829068
Not saying you're gonna be murdered, just saying that life aint easy as a foreigner/vagabond.

I came to Norway, found a job after 3 days of being here, but had to spend 2 weeks living in a tent simply because there weren't any rooms anywhere. Found a room for 1 month, and they are kicking me out by the end of this month. I was gonna go back to my tent, but luckily a friend is leaving so she gave me her room.

>> No.2829126

>tfw I still havent got a caring and cute girlfriend

Kinda old, but still a feel.

>> No.2829159

>>2829098
Does it bother you that I work a student summer job that's 37,5 hours a week, no pressures or responsibilities, get to save 3100 euros a month, doing no work at all and listening to audio books, and we live in the same country?

>> No.2829162

>>2829110
>tfw I know all these feels

>> No.2829197

>>2829159
why, yes it does, bro, yes it does.

So this whole thing turned into a dick-contest. All I was saying is, drop everything, go full-on Kerouac and travel anywhere you want to, just be ready to lose some of the comforts you had back home.

>> No.2829204

>>2829197
My bad, that wasn't my intention. If you're ever in Oslo, let me buy you a baguette.