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>tfw you have discovered the power and joys of reading
>tfw your book choices are pleb


/lit/ feels thread

>> No.5085352

>>5085335
Reading what you enjoy is the whole point, regardless of what it is. The hardest part (for me at least) was finding what I truly did enjoy. Recently it's books about people using drugs, loving every minute of it.

>> No.5085353

>tfw can't enjoy anything that isn't history or politics, or philosophy within the context of the two

I don't even study these things so I feel like a huge fedora pseud

>> No.5085355

>>5085335
>tfw you have discovered the power and joys of lifting
>tfw your weights don't weigh much

That's just how you start out, anon. Keep at it.

>> No.5085357

>>5085353
Modern academics are pseuds too.

>> No.5085358

>>5085355
I'm actually a /fit/izen and finally down with getting mental gainz. You're gonna make it

>> No.5085361

>tfw you realise you love arts and the humanities when you're 28, stuck on an IT position and in debt

>> No.5085367

>>5085358
It's a fairly nasty disease that 4channers feel compelled to post their "main board", as if anyone cares.

>hey, /lit/, /mu/tant here

Totally immaterial.

>> No.5085369

What's the age limit for going to non-community college?

>> No.5085383

>>5085367
You're correct but still fuck you.

>> No.5085389

>>5085361

>tfw you were an English Literature and History double major as an undergrad and ended up in a soul-crushing and emasculating receptionist job because there are no jobs for humanities grads

grass is always greener, my nigga

>> No.5085392

>>5085367
Some people care, wiener. Not everyone's some fag that comes to 4chan to feel above every little thing the users do

>> No.5085409

>>5085367
WELL EXCUSE ME, PRINCESS

>> No.5085416

>>5085392
>>5085409
he's actually right

nothing worse than some faggot announcing he's from /v/

>> No.5085436

>>5085416
I announced I was from /fit/ but that's a respectable board. I like /v/ actually compared to /soc/ /b/ /r9k/ /x/

>> No.5085502
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5085502

I have no idea what to do with my life.
I'll finish school soon and I need to decide on something. Probably I will be able to fuck off for a year and spend a year abroad, but what then?
>What do you like anon?
I have no clue. Nothing I like or enjoy is, in any way, a viable career choice. I can't even go and write books because I'm German and my English is shit.

Everything is hard as fuck, I have no idea what to do or where to go and I don't have any time left.
Are there any books that can help me?

>> No.5085508

>>5085436
>/fit/
>a respectable board

I frequent /fit/. You are wrong.

>> No.5085535

>>5085502
If you're upset that your English is shit, move to England/US/Canada/Australia to improve it.

>> No.5085560

>>5085502
English is my first language and i am in the same position

>> No.5085564

>>5085502
>I have no idea what to do with my life.

Nor does anyone else. Once you realize that, most of your problems will dissolve overnight.

>> No.5085574

>finish reading a book
>want to talk about it
>none of my friends read
>/lit/ is incapable of literature discussion
>go read the book's wikipedia page, sparknotes, essays, and supplimentary material

Notes on Blood Meridian, you're like the intelligent friend I never had.

>> No.5085579

>binge drinking
>was reading old pomes like elenor
>fall asleep
>have a lucid dream where I'm watching myself sleep, in a dead, jet black room that is freezing cold and I'm just screaming at the top of my voice for help but not a murmur slips from my lips
>wake up
>not actually awake
>THEN I wake up

>> No.5085580

>>5085502
Write a German novel and if it's any good get it translated to English

>> No.5085584

>>5085502
I feel you bro.
I'm a fine arts student at my last year and i've lost my interest for my studies, have no idea of what to do next.
It's a shit feeling, i've alway been super passionate about something and now i don't give a fuck about the whole world in a nostalgic kind of way, i still remember the old, strong emotions.
I'm not sad or depressed, my life is pretty happy but overall absolutely empty.


Any book about this kind of existential crysis?

>> No.5085594

>>5085355
>lifting
>not some sport
Urban pleb detected.

>> No.5085604

>>5085502
Germany has one of the largest book markets.

>> No.5085951

>>5085594
I guessed OP was from /fit/ so I provided a fitting comparison.

Sports are for silly wage slaves by the way.

>> No.5085987

>dislike Joyce
>get called a pleb or hipster

>> No.5086583

> reading hunger games
> literary elitists hate it
> first book that's fiction that I've ever been really into

>> No.5086696

>>5085335
This is my life
>Have ideas for stories
>No discipline to sit down and actually put whats constantly in my head on paper
>Time drags on
>Occasionally get inspired after reading another persons work
>Never lasts and I bounce from momentary inspiration to momentary inspiration like a drug addict feverishly trying to keep a high
>All the while the motivation comes and fades and Ive still not added more to my work
>I am living the life of quiet desperation
>My life is a cliche'

>> No.5086725

>read Gravity's Rainbow
>constantly torn between burning through episode after episode and stopping and researching every minute detail and reference you don't understand
I had that problem with Ulysses too.

how does /lit/ handle the big tomes? or any book for that matter? do you attempt to understand every part of the work that you can, or just read it mostly-cold-turkey?

>> No.5086749

This whole board is made of people that read for the simple reason that they think it makes them smarter people. There is no joy to reading here. It is all for the goal of seeming "smarter".

>> No.5086788

>>5086749
Tits or gtfo

>> No.5086799

>>5086749
You're assuming they're is no joy in feeling smarter, here. That's wrong.

Checkmate atheist.

>> No.5086893

>>5086799
Well you are setting up yourself for making yourself feel bad because there will be someone much smarter than you.

>> No.5086949

>>5086725
You have to consider the fact that, to an extent, the difficulty of the prose is intentional, and the feeling of 'not getting' every line is part of the experience of reading the book.

When I was reading woolf I had in mind impressionist paintings - not every line is entirely understandable and it is the effect of the novel as a whole that is important

>> No.5086975

>>5086893
Well, there will always be someone much more anything than me. I'm not at the top of any category. So does that mean I ought not find joy in anything?

>> No.5087022

>tfw you finally understand Finnegans Wake
>tfw everyone is pleb, no one else understands it, not even your professors

>> No.5087052

>>5087022
you now understand my day to day existence.

>> No.5087065

I read because I enjoy reading and I also enjoy that im making myself more intelligent even if its fiction.

>> No.5087105

>want to be a science journalist
>not actually good

10,000 hours to become an expert? I better get writing.

>> No.5087126

>>5087022
I'm not really a fan of Joyce, though I've read a portion of his works excluding Finnegan's Wake. Mind expounding on your understanding? I've yet to see anyone provide an explanation in regards to this work. I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts.

>> No.5087154

>>5087022
Is that understanding something so complexly deep and thought out that Joyce would pat you on the back and then have a coded discussion with you about the shape of tits?

Or is it something reductionist ala "it's just a pun machine" or "you're not supposed to get it" or "he wrote it as a joke so he could make everyone try to interpret it and thus guarantee his immortality?"

>> No.5087169

>>5086893
>implying there is someone smarter than me

topkek well-payed 10/10

>> No.5087174

>>5086696
Why did you stole the secret of my life, anon ?

;_;

>> No.5087263

>>5087174
Im sorry Anon, I just wish I could into discipline

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5087342

>tfw you will never have a conversation about surrealism phase into caveman yelling
>tfw you will never have a conversation about surrealism
>tfw you will never have a conversation
>tfw you will never have
>tfw you will
>tfw you

>> No.5087355

>>5086696
This used to be me.

Then I sat down and binge-wrote 500,000 words in 3 months and now it's me again.

>> No.5087785

>>5087355
Is it your ego that writes, or is it your heart?

>> No.5087865

>>5085987
Neither, you're just closed minded.

>> No.5087937

>>5087126
it's good and if you don't like it then you're dumb

>> No.5087956

>>5085352
>Reading what you enjoy is the whole point
Not necessarily.

>> No.5087957

>>5085367
It makes sense though. Anyone who's been on any board for any period of time has had it shape them. They've joined the culture of that board in a way that most of us have never accepted the culture surrounding us in reality. But anyways, it does say something about them and the perspective they come from.

>> No.5087963

>>5085502
Pick something. Anything and get good at it. There is absolutely nothing worse on this planet than 9-5.

>> No.5087974

>>5085389
My gf is a humanities major. She is making 6k/month. Try harder, nig. I feel like most people's problem is bad social skills.

>> No.5088135

>>5087937
That doesn't answer my question...also, I haven't read it...

>> No.5089007

>>5085574
do you have skype?

>> No.5089027

>tfw recently havent felt like reading at all
My book is due at the library too ;_;

>> No.5089048

>>5087974
>woman
doesn't count

>> No.5089050

>>5085502
Be Wherter.

>> No.5089091

>tfw Sabato is dead and Coelo is still alive

This world became gay.

>> No.5089318

>>5086799
You're assuming i'm an atheist. That's wrong.

Checkmate,heretic.

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5089395

>>5085574
>>5085579
>>5087342
>>5089091
All these feels

>> No.5089407

>>5085502
>I can't even go and write books because I'm German and my English is shit.
Since when do books have to be written in English?

>> No.5091477

>>5085335
Still is better than not reading at all bro
Don't take the people here too serious, unless all your real friends are e/lit/ist

>> No.5091607

>>5085584
Why in the hell did you do Fine Art? I'm in art college too, but seriously, why 'Fine' art?

>> No.5091645

>>5085580
I read Inkheart recently, pretty bad, but then again I'm not 12.

>> No.5091912

>>5087963
what does 9-5 mean?

>> No.5091919

>>5091912
Working a day job.

>> No.5092030

>>5085502
>german
welfare for life. problem solved.

>> No.5092038

>>5085361
iktfb

>> No.5092040

>tfw I finally finished the hunger games
> it was extremely good and don't understand the negativity


The characters were fun and the violence was brutal as fuck for a mainstream book

>> No.5092052

>just bought a bunch of first editions of books I wanna read
>don't want to take them out of my house and risk ruining them
>have to read filler books in the meantime

Reading a book when you want to read another makes me feel bad

>> No.5092068

> finish a book
> no other book to read for the rest of the day

>> No.5092179

>>5085335

sauce on pic? He's sexy.

>> No.5092197

>>5085335
I'm still trying to discover it.

>> No.5092358

>>5091912
Means working from 9 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. Basically a very standard job.

>> No.5092365

If /lit/ knew what I read every day I would get made fun of.

>> No.5092416

>>5092365
haha look at this pleb faggot everyone

>> No.5092679

>>5085502
Same here man
But after hanging around for a year I'll probably go and become a doctor even though I know it'll be fucking hard
Don't know what I'll do this September, probably find a 4 hour job to have enough money to exist and learn/read/lift/music
I won't have internet access that's for sure, I have no self control

>> No.5092683

>>5091912
>what does 9-5 mean?

The true face of /lit/ is revealed.

>> No.5092730

>>5092683
The true face of not knowing the argot for a standard job?

Remember that not all posters are Burgers like you.

>> No.5092745

>>5092730
>Burgers
I get that you are trying to be offensive, but when you refer to United States citizens as "Burgers" you sound silly.

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5092771

>>5085367
/a/ here, wanted to say you are retarded.

>> No.5092783

>>5087154
Its purely mental masturbation. Joyce is good because it makes you think of prose in a different way. His books are, however, shit.

>> No.5092785

>>5092745
Why?

America has the highest number of people diagnosed with assburgers, and it's their national dish. It's like the french call the English Roast beef, and the English call them Frogs. If we refereed to a nation as the 'pizzas' you'd know we was talking about Italy, or Krauts and you'd know we meant German.

>> No.5092791

>>5092745

it's pretty easy to figure out what a clapper means too

>> No.5092798

>>5092785
Yeah, I understand where you're coming from, but it still sounds silly. Referring to any nation of people by the name of a food is silly.
And it's aspergers...

>> No.5092823

>>5092798
>Referring to any nation of people by the name of a food is silly
Why so? I don't see you taking issue with Krauts and Frogs. Many countries also have internal names for regions based on food: For example, Southern Italians refer to Northern Italians as 'Polenta eaters'. Burgers is a very apt name for people from the US.

>And it's aspergers...
I know, we're also making fun of the American miss-pronunciation with the term 'burgers'.

>> No.5093615

>>5092179
Bumping for this

>> No.5093618

>>5092197
Why are you here if you don't like reading?

>> No.5093932

>>5092745
Eh, I'm the guy whom you replied, not >>5092785 nor >>5092791

>implying I feel offended when someone calls me spic or cocalombiano on /sp/ or /int/
Every country has its stereotypes, sorry if I offended you. But I hope you got my point.

>> No.5093960

>>5093932
I wasn't offended, but took it that offense is intended with such a term. Maybe it's because I'm an American that I felt the need to address it, so maybe I'm unconsciously offended after all.
Also, I still think it's funny to refer to people by the names of foods. Would it be better to call Mexicans Tacos?

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5093990

>>5093618
Because prefers to shitpost rather than reading.

>> No.5094040

>>5093990
Well Because seems like a real asshole in that case

>> No.5094046

>>5085335
I, too, have large biceps when I put my fists under them.

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5094072

>>5085335
>Duke

>> No.5095475

>>5092683
Just fyi I have been working since I was legally able to and I never had that kind of schedule nor any of my friends, so, take it easy man.

>> No.5095532

>>5085436
>I like /v/

>> No.5095553

>>5095532
/v/ is funny
The people that come from there are younger and immature but at least they are funny. /tv/ is worse nowadays, /v/ is in the past

>> No.5095586

>>5092785
>>5092823
how you call dutch

>> No.5095593

>get gf
>she doesn't understand why I didn't read the whole harry potter series when I was a kid
>move out and roommate gives me the series
>read the whole thing in like 2 weeks
>discuss plot and characters and stuff
>she turns out to be a huge Draco fan and a massive fanfiction reader

Jesus christ, fangirls are ridiculous. She got mad at me over my dislike for her favorite character. It was like an internet argument IRL.

So now I'm just going to go back to reading stuff she has no interest in; its safer that way.

>> No.5095651

>really like a girl
>she studies English at university
>she's a feminist
>she's really likes the writing of Owen Jones and every attempt to playfully mock Jones is met with harsh rebuttal
>she's middle class and believes her self to be a member of the class struggle
>she says I am one of the bourgeoisie despite coming from a poorer background than her
>she believes Hemmmanlyway to be a closeted homosexual
>she has never heard of the Lord and Saviour David Foster Wallace
>she loves Joyce but has never read Finnegans Wake
>really hates Chaucer
>despises the Aeneid
>tfw no communist gf

>> No.5095654

>Oh anon what are you reading?
>I've never heard of that
every time

>> No.5095656

>>5095654
Same here. I've noticed that, generally, people who don't even read are far more apt to ask me what I'm reading.

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5095666

>>5095593
When you feel like wasting a few hours of your life you should read some popular fanfiction. It's hilariously bad, in that same way most erotica is. I even like to delude myself into thinking it made me become a better writer by demonstrating how no-one should ever write.

>> No.5095683

>>5095651
You should seriously hit on her. Passionate young women are going to be a bit cringey, just like passionate young men. Doesn't mean she won't morph into an awesome adult.

It's still better than being a dispassionate skeptical young person at least.

>> No.5095720

>>5095683
Don't worry anon, it was the plan all along, she is just a little too enthusiastic, however.

>> No.5095790

>>5091912
4

>> No.5095945

>>5095651
>>she's middle class and believes her self to be a member of the class struggle
She is, middle class doesn't exist. It's a nice piece of propaganda to make the proles feel worthwhile.

>> No.5096309

>>5093960
Yes, fucking Mexicans. What would you call a Colombian? A coffee? A coke?

I would like to know actually.

>> No.5096361

>>5095790
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

>> No.5096755

>>5085352
I love reading about drug use and altered states. Books about people suffering from mental disorders are interesting also; particularly the way in which they perceive and interpret reality.