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3236487 No.3236487 [Reply] [Original]

what's your excuse for being on /lit/ instead of reading a book?

>> No.3236494

>implying i need to excuse myself for doing whatever i feel like

fascist

>> No.3236492

Pain in the lungs, can't focus

>> No.3236501

I've only read 1/4th one book this entire year. Doesn't stop me from discussing literature. In fact, I've only read about 4 books in my entire life.

>> No.3236507

i'm waiting for my waiting period to finish up so I can buy a gun and kill myself

>> No.3236511

>>3236507

Try drugs.

>> No.3236520

>>3236507

Don't kill yourself and the chances of a botched suicide attempt with a gun is very high.

>> No.3236529

>>3236507
buy heroin off the silk road and OD on it
really cozy way to go, and not nearly as macabre and just plain scary as a bullet/bullets to the brain

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>>3236501
>6501
>I've only read 1/4th one book this entire year. Do
yo nice 10\10 loling bro

>> No.3236537

>>3236529

Pulmonary edema is not cozy. Opiates are terrible for suicide.

>> No.3236547

>>3236507
Leap from a building, like an angel. Spread your wings, and smile as you descend to your destiny. Everyone will watch you fall from the windows of the building and clap and cheer, and trumpets will be roaring. Fly low.

>> No.3236551

>>3236537
you're completely unconscious once that starts happening though
just gotta make sure tries to 'save' you

>> No.3236555

>>3236551
nobody*

>> No.3236558

Just finished Les Mis, need a few hours

>> No.3236562

>>3236507
OD on Tylenol, highly effective

>> No.3236578

i wonder how many /lit/izens have killed themselves

>> No.3236587 [DELETED] 

>>3236551

Barbiturates are the best drug to off yourself with. They are harder to get since Benzodiazepines have replaced them. Benzo's are terrible for suicide, especially by themselves.

>> No.3236601

>>3236578
plenty
i remember hearing two in particular made a thing about how they were gonna do it together and posted their fav poems and stuff

that might just be a 4chan urban legend or something tho

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3236607

I'm putting off reading Billy Budd or something.

>> No.3236654

just finished watching a cool interview of Octavio Paz and I don't think Gene Wolfe would sit well with all of what I've just heard.

>> No.3236663

All I've got left on my To-Read is The Selfish Gene and somebody lent me The Golden Compass. The Selfish Gene is pretty interesting, but I needed a break. The Golden Compass I just keep staring at and wondering how much of a social faux pas it might be to just hand it back and either admit I didn't read past the first thirty pages or be sucked into a conversation about it where it's discovered I didn't read past the first thirty pages.

>> No.3236677

>>3236663

His Dark Materials is one of the best young adult series.

>> No.3236686

>>3236682
>1800 word

what is this, kindergarten? ffs...

>> No.3236682

procrastinating on my 1800 word research essay on lolita
<s>due tomorrow</s>

>> No.3236718

>>3236677
I don't mean this in some "I'm too good for it," way: I'm in my early 30s. I don't really want to read any YA fiction. It's probably not for me. I've read a bit into the story, and after doing that, I'm pretty sure it's not for me.

>> No.3236742

>>3236558
op here, can reconcile with this

>> No.3236758

>>3236501
>In fact, I've only read about 4 books in my entire life.
Go back to >>>/lit/

>> No.3236761

I never start a book on the same day I finish one

>> No.3236765

>>3236686
>thinking that length makes something advanced

>> No.3236773

>>3236761
weird, I often do. how come you don't?

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>>3236487
I have none.

Perhaps that I need to drrop the non-fiction and cycle in some real lit again. <s>I won't</s>

>> No.3236779

>>3236765
yeah because what's the difference in analytical depth between an 1800-word essay and a 300-page annotative book anyway?

>> No.3236781

I finished 18 books this week. Most of them were Dr Seuss books.

>> No.3236784

>>3236779

Some poems have more depth than entire books

>> No.3236786

>>3236784
notice I was talking specifically about analytical depth

>> No.3236879

>>3236777
Are you implying that you're only reading manuals?

>> No.3236909

I don't have the strength to lift my copy of infinite jest

>> No.3236948

>implying books are good
>implying reading is good
>implying I'm not blindly typing away
>implying I don't copy and paste every thread on /lit/ to make my next book "Discourse on Effete Autism"

>> No.3236966

I need to interact with other people sometimes and the internet is usually the closest I get other than buying something and not using the slef check-out or ordering it offline.
Strange times we live in.

>> No.3236988

Godel, Escher, Bach. Not in the mood to read it. Feeling tired.

>> No.3236992

this place keeps me in check. i have to figure out what the hell someones asking then what i want to say without the response going into the dolphins jogging unto plains misery up there you goons of gilded tiatn meat cheese soiree.
but thats not what you wanted to know.