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Literary confession thread

>> No.6824821

I have never ever finished 1984. It's so absolutely dull.

>> No.6824825

Sometimes I still pee the bed

>> No.6824833

I can't stand Joyce. I don't say his prose is bad, but I can't read more than 30 pages of anything. I hate psychonarration, so Ulysses is just unreadable to me, and even Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man didn't sit well with me.

>> No.6824835

I don't read books as much as I read about reading books.

>> No.6824840

>>6824821
this is only a good thing

>> No.6824841

>>6824821
Me neither but I only tried to read it when I was like 15, got halfway through, forgot about it, and never really bothered continuing.

>> No.6824880

I used to tell qt pies that I was a writer before I was even into reading, they never asked to see or hear my writing, I just acted quirky and entertaining and could alpha swoop any girl I wanted.

Now that I admit the full merits of the written word and want to fashion soothing platitudes to warm the hearts of the world I've become too sadbrains and drop my spaghetti everywhere -- Sometimes the pain is too much to capture, others times it's great material.

>> No.6824886

I don't have the attention span for literature any more

>> No.6824902

>>6824821
Literally the easiest book to read ever. The prose is simple and straightforward. Took me like 6 hours.

You're just a pleb.

>> No.6824906

>>6824818
I tried to read The War of the Worlds , but I totally failed. It was supposed to like me, but it didn't

>> No.6824919

>>6824818

Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. I think his writing is incredibly skillfull

>> No.6824973

>>6824833
did you try novella The Dead?

>> No.6824982

I get a weird enjoyment from reading anti-semitic lit.

I love all of Celine, including the pamphlets, as well as Rebatet and Drieu La Rochelle.

inb4 >>>pol

>> No.6824992

gregor samsa is literally me

>> No.6824995

>>6824818
I've been reading so much Tolstoy that I'm afraid I'm emulating him in my writings.

>> No.6825036

>>6824902
>needing 6 hours for 1984
>not being able to read the whole thing while going two jobs on the bus to your dull job in a supermarket, janet and her nagging, high-pitched voice cheerily greeting you upon entrance

>> No.6825041

>>6825036
lmao I meant two stops

>> No.6825060

>>6824992
Do you have a special computer that you can operate with your awful wriggly bug feet?

>> No.6825061

>>6825036
I bet you like going jobs on the bus you slut.

>> No.6825082

>>6825061
I just job on the bus and go two jobs, job like they want me to

>> No.6825223

>>6824835
Me too. Reading is boring. Reading about reading is fun.

>> No.6825976

My favorite books are things like Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket.

I find "serious adult books" to be exceedingly dry and dull.

>> No.6825999

>>6825976
Same here, I love reading /lit/ topics though

>> No.6826025

I've been planning a series of novels since October 2011 and I'm only really now getting around to actually fucking writing

>> No.6826026

>>6825976
My favourite book is watching porn on the internet

>> No.6826028

>>6826025
at least you got into it, focus on that and try your best

>> No.6826032

>>6825976

I have never read any book recommended for adults except when required in high school and university (I am in grad school).

The most "Mature" book I've independantly read (and liked) was probably Frankenstein

>> No.6826285

>>6824818
I read Gravity's Rainbow and am convinced everyone just hypes it up here to sound like they're in some secret club. Its like /tv/ and Tarkovsky.

I even enjoyed what I read of Proust, but GR was just so boring to me after the 50th page. Its just the same thing over and over.

>> No.6826319

>>6824906
It's a horrible novel.
And so is Crying of Lot 49. The only thing that you can do with the content is jerk on the references that bring nothing outside of just referencing things.

>> No.6827118

I'm destined to become a renown writer

>> No.6827466

>>6824880
I do first paragraph even though I am actually into reading.
>>6827118
Author of Infinite Jest detected.

>> No.6827482

>>6825976
>>6825999
>>6824919
>>6825223
>>6824821
please get off my board. You faggots already have r/books, don't bring that shit here.

>> No.6827611

i like murakami

>> No.6827883

>>6824818
the Harry Potter books is too hard for me. j.k. is the most abstract artist around imo

>> No.6828118

I have very little interest in reading or literature. I read the bare minimum number of meme books and meme philosophy in order to write cogent shitposts on /lit/. I only browse this board to laugh at the memes and autism.

>> No.6828138

>>6824818
Only started reading books when I was 13. Spent ages 17-19 trying to be smart and reading more mature literature and philosophy work but I realized I'm too simple. I mainly read detective and alternate history novels, sometimes sci-fi and fantasy but I'm picky with the genre because most of it is a bit shit.

My pleb tastes annoys my English tutor to no end but she tries really hard to suppress it, she's a lovely lady.

>> No.6828140

I'm a mildly successful published author and I only read a couple of books a year.

>> No.6828142

>>6828138
>My pleb tastes annoys my English tutor to no end but she tries really hard to suppress it, she's a lovely lady.

kek

>> No.6828157

>>6828118
same

>> No.6828175

>>6824919
>I think his writing is incredibly skillful
now you are just lying.

>> No.6828182

>>6824818
/lit/ is probably the board i browse the most after /pol/, /int/, and /sci/ and I haven't read a single book and at least six years

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ps: normies not allowed

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I enjoyed pic related

>> No.6828196

I only started getting into literature by the time I was 18. Not that I didn't read books before, I have always read a lot if you compare me with the average person. I just went to a very liberal school that never made me read any lit books.

I'm very, very ironic, also. In the sense Kierkegaard talks about, I guess, and also very unintentionally. Can I use this chance to rant? Of course I can, nobody is going to read this: I've always been an outcast, not really because of being rejected but rather because I was always too... aware, I guess, to be completely, shamelessly part of any group. Because no group and no circle was perfect, none of them was excused from having its faults pointed out by the other groups, and since I didn't feel like I was part of them I could never brush off this criticism like they did. So from a very very young age I started looking for that which was objectively good, objectively good quality, that which would be perfect etc etc.

I have not to this day found such a thing (aesthetically, artistically, morally perfect) but the search led me to good lit and philosophy, mostly because I can see that the criticisms all come from sources that are either unreliable because of resentment (and consequent bias) or sheer misunderstanding. I don't know where to go from here now.

>> No.6828216

>>6828188
link pls

>> No.6828219

i paid for taipei

the only mccarthy ive read is the road

i'm entering senior year and i havent read a single one of my books to completion
i'm a literature major constantly on the dean's list

>> No.6828222

>>6828216
i've only got the kindle made by 'The Pancake Collective'

i got it off slsk

>> No.6828225

>>6828216
google it

>> No.6828228

I buy classics from used bookstores to display on my bookshelf so anyone visiting my house will see how well read I am. I never read them except when I'm constipated and need reading material.

I also read their wiki summary and sparknotes analysis so I can talk about it if someone ever suspects I've never read them.

>> No.6828230

>>6824833
Read Dubliners. The prose is very clear and simple

>> No.6828235

>>6824886
You can get it back if you work on it

>> No.6828244

>>6828228
There's nothing that isn't completely pathetic in that post

>> No.6828253

>>6828228
This must be a joke though

>> No.6828255

>>6828228
You are more /lit/ than /lit.

>> No.6828259

>>6824818
I read books that aren't in the /lit/ core

>> No.6828261

>>6828228
Tai Lopez detected.

>> No.6828267

>>6828259
You're supposed to.

>> No.6828269

>>6828228
>8/10 made me reply

lol, i have a friend i've long suspected does this, are you Regs from Los Angeles?

>> No.6828275

>>6824818
I am Tao Lin

>> No.6828281

I only write to get laid and I've never gotten laid

>> No.6828282

>>6824818
I shoplift from American Apparell

>> No.6828284

>>6828275
get the FUCK off this board u cheeky chink

>> No.6828288

It takes me a shamefully long time to read even the shortest of books because a single sentence can make me go off on multiple mental tangents and then I am unable to regain my focus. I'll try to force myself to at least finish the paragraph but at that point I am just glazing over the words with my eyes while thinking of a million other things so I decide to give up. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days to finally pick the book up again with a clear mind.

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>>6824818
I lost a smart girl I was nearly able to lay by telling her I burned her favourite novel, because I thought it intellectual poison. She never forgave me and I've not seen her since. What actually happened was I spilled my strawberry milkshake all over it when I was eating McDonalds, so I had to throw it in the bin, I just didn't want to tell her that.

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6828378

It saddens me that I'll never get to read books that only exist fictionally.

>> No.6828424

>>6828188
Nothing wrong with that anon, it just means you're a human being with feelings.

>> No.6828429

I can't finish Gravity's Rainbow.

>> No.6828431

>>6828378
Like your book?

>> No.6828434

>>6828429
Out

>> No.6828442

>>6828431
I don't write nor have any desire to write.

>> No.6828446

>>6824818
I think Australian literature is good.

>> No.6828448

My bookshelves are stacked with about 2 thousand dollars in books, but I haven't finished any of them because I only read ebooks.

>> No.6828450

>>6828378
>tfw you'll never read Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells

>> No.6828454

Despite the fact that I've never even tried to publish anything, I'm still convinced I could be a moderately successful novelist

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6828458

>>6828446
I think New Zealand literature is good

>> No.6828482

>>6828275
are those drugs are making you sleepy, toweling?

>> No.6828483

>>6824818
I have a bad habit of leaving books unfinished. I'll read most of it and stop ~20 pages from the end, for no apparent reason, and end up coming back to it months later (if ever).

>> No.6828486

>>6828313
who is she

>> No.6828487

>>6828486
coursemate

>> No.6828500

>>6828313
What book was it?

>> No.6828511

>>6828500
The Female Eunuch

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6828521

>>6828511

>> No.6828527

>>6828511
Disgusting.

>> No.6828540

>>6828521
>>6828527
I kid, it was The Aloe

>> No.6828548

>>6828540
what was so wrong that you shiggity burned it brother

>> No.6828550

I sometimes nonchalantly carry my book outside off my bag in hopes that someone will notice what I'm reading and be impressed

>> No.6828558

>>6828548
Didn't actually burn it, I threw it in the bin after spilling milkshake all over it and didn't want to look like a pleb who eats mcdonalds over novels

>> No.6828573

>>6828550
I automatically judge ppl who take books out of the comfort of their home. Anyone who reads in bars or libraries is a pretentious idiot

>> No.6828577

>>6828573
How do you read 100+ books a year, if you're not caring a book everywhere you go?

>> No.6828581

>>6828573
I read in libraries because noise distracts me and I live in a street full of students who party all the time, also my roommate and his gf fuck like rabbits, not the best reading environment tbh

>> No.6828585

I have a passage from Finnagans Wake tattooed on my back

>> No.6828622

>>6825976
>>6825999
>>6825223
I am the exact opposite. I only read classics or historically significant works, this can include modern books. Everything else feels so boring and worthless I feel I may as well just play videogames if the book is only there for entertainment.

>> No.6828624

>>6828573
Gotta read at work.

>> No.6828677

When I first started reading I had no idea where to start. Being Norwegian, I didn't have a lot of exposre to good literature in school, and starting with Hamsun in middleschool is no way to introduce a kid to the pleasure of reading. So I bought a bunch of different fantasy books, brand new from local book shops, ranging from 20 to 25 usd each, only to read A song of ice and fire, and never pick up a fantasy book again. Meaning I have at least two full shelves of unread fantasy books lying around, worth roughly 500 usd.

When I had just finished the ASoIaF series I was raving on about how well written etc they were to my friends. How they were probably going to make a movie out of them like LOTR (at least that I was sort of right on).

So much regret.

>> No.6828678

Catch-22 is my favorite book of all time.

Almost all post-modern fiction written in a conversational style is a poor imitation. Infinite Jest is just Catch-22, Ulysses, a thesaurus, and the DSM-IV blended together and then punched out into a novel.

>> No.6828692

>>6828581
>Being a beta to loud roommates

>> No.6828697

>>6828692
Well they do ask my permission as of recently, but I find that kinda weird

>> No.6828706

I've written over 400,000 words of Naruto fan fiction since 2006. My stuff has over two million hits.

>> No.6828709

The only good thing about education in my country is that you are required to read the most important novel in each era of both world and national literature. So compared to most western country even the most plebian persons are patrician in comparison.

>> No.6828711

>>6828573
The library is literally the most appropriate place to read, you fucking retard.

>>6828624
Reading at work is based AF.

>> No.6828716

>>6828697
Why so beta?

>> No.6828735

My writing is heavily inspired by music.

Without a good track putting an idea into my head I have absolutely zero creativity.

My works consist of scenes derived from songs strung together by shit.

>> No.6828745

>>6828716
What do I say, "no you can't have sex with your girlfriend because it disturbs my reading"?

>> No.6828746

I have a masters degree in English Literature and an undergraduate degree in Political Philosophy.

Not once during my university career did I read a book or text cover to cover. All I did was skim books, occasionally reading a chapter or two, and then go online and read sparknotes or something similar. I stopped buying textbooks for courses in my 2 year of undergrad.

Despite this, I would always be one of the most vocal students in group discussions. I know I probably said a lot of idiotic and plain wrong things, but no one really ever called me out on my shit.

Surprisingly enough I still got decent grades. This leads me to believe that either the education system is deeply broken or arts degrees are intentionally easy so they can corral all the idiots to hand over tuition fees in exchange for a (practically) worthless piece of paper.

>> No.6828754

>>6824906
I remember reading War of the Worlds when I was fairly young ,like third or fourth grade, becuase I liked the Tom Cruise movie. Never finished it because I threw up while reading one hot summer day at the pool while my brother was taking swimming lessons.

>> No.6828755

>>6828746
You one of those people we talk about when we talk about how all sorts of retards are going to college now. You've missed the point entirely, and you've wasted all that time you could have spent learning not learning.

>> No.6828769

>>6828746
It's broken, easy and you are an idiot because you spent 5 years trying to get a worthless paper.

>> No.6828773

>>6828706
What's sad is, this is probably the most successful writer on /lit/

>> No.6828787

>>6828235
this.
im getting back to it after about 4 years.
i felt like i couldnt concentrate anymore, but you can kind of train it again.

>> No.6828789

>>6828458
Any recommendations?

>> No.6828796

>>6828745
Yes? you fucking spineless beta holy shit

>> No.6828799

>>6824818
I still havent read the russians, yet I keep insisting that Brothers Karamazov, which I havent finished yet, is my favorite book of all time, and I insult people who dont like it, while trying to ape of the writing style by making very long, and indeed needlessly complicated sentences, that are a chore to read.

>> No.6828806

>>6828789
Katherine Mansfield
Frank Sargeson
R.H. Morrieson
Witi Ihimaera

Maurice Shadbolt is pretty good if you want something more modern

>> No.6828807

>>6828796
wow calm down no need to be rude

>> No.6828819

>>6828806
Thanks mate, I appreciate it.

>> No.6828842

>>6824818
I started reading literature because I thought it would get me laid

>> No.6828846

>>6828807
"No loud fucking when I'm trying to read, no loud fucking at all"

that's all you fucking beta, jesus christ why are pushovers so prevalent

>> No.6828851

>>6828846
>>6828807
Jesus just fuck already

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>>6828558
>Your lie cost you more than telling the truth would have

m8 what r u usin 4 brains?

>> No.6828996

I don't enjoy reading, I just read a chapter a day out of habit. It's a bit like gym, I don't enjoy doing it but I still do it because it's good for me

>> No.6829588

I automatically consider you a pleb if you read Pynchon

>> No.6829669

>>6828735
Would you elaborate with examples? Im genuinely interested, anon.

>> No.6830321

>>6824818
I find the Iliad really hard to read. I've never made it past the hundredth page of Fagle's translation without getting bored or simply letting it fall out of my mind

>> No.6830395

>>6828996
>not enjoying the gym

I bet you're some kind of cardiobunny

>> No.6830661

>>6828483
I do this with books at the start, but for the last 20 pages I don't get how you could do this.

>> No.6830706

I dont like poetry

I dont like David Foster Wallace nor I think he is a saint or a martyr or even someone with above average talent.

I like Kant

I dont like Sartre

I dont read anything new ever

>> No.6830742

>>6828235
And get the fuck off 4chan. This place does nothing for you attention span.

>> No.6830769

>>6828746
I get shits like you in the classes I teach and the seminars I lead. There are few greater pleasures than exposing you fuckers for the frauds you are. I know people trying to suck the tenured cock won't rock the boat, but, speaking as a piddling adjunct, I have nothing to lose. I love making you shites squirm in front of others. Assholes.

>> No.6830778

>>6824821
>mfw i read the whole thing when I was 13

>> No.6830782

I have been reading a children's fantasy novel series for the last two weeks

>> No.6830787

>>6824818
I dont read the preliminary study on most books.

>> No.6830882

>>6830782
I've been watching an anime series that I watched when I was a stupid kid in my weeb faggot phase for the past three days, shunning literature to do so

send help

>> No.6830893

>>6830706
These are all reasonable.

>> No.6830902

I'm convinced I'll be the next biggest writer in my country's history because all contemporary writers are shite and I can't imagine me being as bad.

>> No.6830919

>>6830902
If you're from Ireland, I'm gonna fuck you up nigga

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>>6830902
Haha are you that guy from the South American shithole? How does it feel to know that me being the best writer from my US state will matter more than anyone from your country every?

>> No.6830947

>>6830919
>>6830942
I'm from the Netherlands.

>> No.6830952

>>6824818
about a third of the books I buy I never finish, most of those I never even make it past chapter 5.

In the last two months I've wasted money on The Book of Jhereg, the Yiddish Policeman's Union, The Alchemyst, Alif the Unseen, and I think one more book

>> No.6830960

I have never bought a book outside a thrift store. I nearly exclusively use the library or borrow from friends.

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>>6830893
>I don't like poetry
>reasonable

>> No.6830969

>>6828196

You sound similar to me. I started getting more into Math and Physics because those things approximate the truth more readily, but I can totally see where you're coming from.

I'm also very ironic in the Kierkegaardian or I guess ultimately Socratic sense.

>> No.6831016

I forget names and characters in under a week.

>> No.6831041

>>6830952
>about a third of the books I buy I never finish
I do this too, I've devoted this year to clearing out my backlog.
I just finished a book a know for a certainty I purchased in 2003.
I know this because at the start of the year I listed the books in an excel speadsheet along with any information I could recall/glean from receipts in the pages and publication data.
Most are from 2007/8, when I had a bunch of disposable income, but right before I purchased an e-reader and began to pirate all my books.

>> No.6831068

>>6831041
geeze, that's a huge backlog. Unlike you though I don't think I intend to finish most of these books. I try to go back occasionally, but my interest wanes

>> No.6831083

>>6830947
So like 2% more relevant than a South American.

>> No.6831090

>>6828196

*eyeroll*

>>6830969

>Math and Physics because those things approximate the truth more readily

HEH

>> No.6831105

>>6828806
Janet Frame is good too

>> No.6831125

>>6828585

>text in a visual medium

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>>6828313

>> No.6832212

I feel like I've missed a lot of great books. I've never read Catcher In The Rye, Lord of the Flies, Grapes of Wrath, Tale of Two Cities, Old Yeller, none of that stuff.

Hell, I'm doing my absolute best to get through Moby Dick.

>> No.6832221

The main reason I come here is to read and contribute to elitist sentiments. I legitimately look down upon people who read for plot now.

>> No.6832258

>>6828118
>>6828157
absolutely pathetic

>> No.6832285

>>6832258
remember where you are boy

>> No.6832310

I'm a horrifically slow fiction reader (took me ~8 months to get through Lolita, reading on and off again), although I can churn through nonfiction like it's going out of style.
I judge the book tastes of others while my favorite author is Hemingway and I've read little outside of the "mainstream" classics.

>> No.6832313

>>6832221
lol

>> No.6832315

i hate pynchon
i hate hemmingway
i like steinbeck

>> No.6832322

>>6832221
>tfw you start feeling guilty about reading translated literature

>> No.6832341

>>6832285
fuck off and lurk

>> No.6832347

>>6832285
out

>> No.6832351

>>6832310
It took me "six months" to read Lolita, but I could've read it in a week.

>> No.6832384

>>6832322
this tbh

>> No.6832398

>>6824995

Is there anything wrong with that as long as you don't straight-up plagiarize?

>> No.6832425

>>6832322
Yeah, fuck /lit/. This wasn't even a worry to me until recently, and now I am constantly paranoid about how authentic any translated work I read will be.

>> No.6832616

>>6832425
It's actually a legitimate concern for certain situations, e.g. arsenokoitai in Paul's letters.

>> No.6834333

Every time I visit this sperglord-infested board of basament dweller cumshots whose main reason to read is to feel intellectually superior to any other normal person whose hobby may happen to be movies, series or vidyas, I need to lay down and reflect on why didn't hitler finish the job.

>>6827482
kill yourself.
>>6828157
>>6828118
Muh niggas.

>> No.6834402

>>6832398
I started using more long-winged sentences and my logic and synthesis got really better since then. I don't talk about the conspiracy of the evil historians though. I won't be plagiarizing then, I guess.

>> No.6834728

>>6828219
I majored in history and minored in English and I read very few of my books to completion. I was only on the dean's list twice though :/

>> No.6834774

I didn't start with the greeks. I started learning philosophy with utilitarian ethics. I understand this violates the zeitgeist of this board but I don't give a shit.

>> No.6834776

>>6824818
I think Pynchon is overrated and Gravity's Rainbow sucks. Obtuse for the sake of being obtuse

>> No.6834801

>>6834774
You mean geist not zeitgeist

>> No.6834829

>>6834801
I'm talking about the prevailing trend of "starting with the greeks" which I see as transitory. Geist is an intellectual inclination which doesn't have an aspect of time. But I can see it both ways, geist and zeitgeist in my opinion are equally correct.

>> No.6834884

I account for maybe 15 percent of Kolsti-posting and I'm not Kolsti

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>>6824818
I have had aggressive chest-beating sex with Tess Gerritsen.

>> No.6834920

>>6834896
What's wrong with her skin? She looks like she's made of lacquered wood.

>> No.6834933

>>6824821
>>6824825
>>6824833
>>6824835
>>6824840
>>6824841
>>6824880
>>6824886
>>6824886
>>6824902

this tbh XD

>> No.6834940

>>6834920
That's the smooth, slightly leathery skin of trantric passion, anon.
Actually you're a fucking idiot; have you not heard of camera makeup?

>> No.6834950

>>6834896
>>6834884
>>6834829
>>6834801
>>6834776
>>6834774
>>6834728
>>6834402
>>6834333
>>6832616

lmao this! !!

>> No.6834952

>>6834896
You wish. We all do.

>>6834920
When was the last time you saw a girl m8?

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>>6828573
>Anyone who reads in bars or libraries is a pretentious idiot
>libraries
?????

>> No.6834975

>>6834896
I've got a thing for older female novelists, if they're in ok shape and their hairs not grey they're just mad fuckable.

>> No.6835034

For years before I seriously got into reading I thought Ulysses was actually about the general Ulysses S Grant.

>> No.6835107

>>6828746
Why would you even go to college then?
I couldn't stomach myself if I made it through a literature course without reading the texts.

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>>6832322

>> No.6835119

>>6835034
GOAT president imo

>> No.6835146

>>6835034
me too

>> No.6835194

I can't write and be proud of my work since I always suspect there is something missing from my text that the other one has that I am too dumb to see.

>> No.6835202

>>6835194
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835207

>>6835202
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6835250

/lit/ is potentially great, although all the
autism surpasses normal thresholds for adequacy,
tired eyes I have all the time, struggling to read any sentence with more than 8 words in it,
everyone has superfluous opinions, not a single bit of
originality to be found, ever, and when I do found it
it seems I'm the only one who sees it,
and this mentality of mine, of the isolated mind,
multiplied by lots of other isolated minds, makes for the most
resentful kind of communication one could imagine and why am I formatting the text like this,
this place can make you an idiot, but it does have great potential. stand firm in the middle

>> No.6836313

I've never read anything written after 1990

>> No.6836326

>>6835250
Interesting as fuck

>> No.6836396

>>6825036
Fucking hell, are you me?

>> No.6837108

>>6826025
Same here, though I think I was starting mine about six months before you. Was massively overambitious for a first novel.
Finally having the skillset to at least write a half-baked first draft is so satisfying though.

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>Mfw writing shitty fantasy fiction to try and make money

>> No.6837454

>>6828313
ignatius! never expected to see you here.

>> No.6837465

I've never been here before

Do you guys even discuss books? I can see like three threads about actual literature and it's like

>Nineteen Eighty Four
>Brave New World
>Sci Fi General

What the fuck is this

>> No.6837468

>>6825036
the two singular universals in life are suffering and Janet, I am convinced

>> No.6837473

>>6826026
this tbQUITEh

>> No.6837479

>>6836313
Enrique Vila Matas

>> No.6837487

>>6824821
This

>want to do it soon
>don't want to be seen reading it
>I only really read on the train and between classes

I've got a scheme to steal my sister's iPad to do it. It's literally the only thing stopping me, I'm insecure about people thinking I'm a pleb

>> No.6837494

>>6837454
>>6837454
>Ignatius with a girl

if it was Ignatius it would probably be a 70 year old co-worker he lied and said was his gf

>> No.6837499

My favourite book is still unironically The Phantom Tollbooth

I dunno I've just never convinced myself that any of these so-called "classics" are any better

>> No.6837517

I'm actually a really good writer.

>> No.6837518
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6837518

Dune bores the shit out of me, Infinite Jest bores the shit out of me, and House of Leaves bores the shit out of me, needless to say I haven't finished them

My reading style is very hungry, If I get hooked on a story I'll just devour it and keep turning pages without contemplating what I read until after I've read the whole thing. I also very rarely reread books and end up looking at its wikipedia article after I've finished it to fill in what I didn't understand.

>> No.6837525

>>6837465
>Nineteen Eighty Four
>>Brave New World
>>Sci Fi General

>actual literature


You need to leave, you don't belong here. get out while you still can

>> No.6837572

>>6828755
Lol he thinks college is about learning and not just getting the stupid degree.

>> No.6837615

>>6837525
I think he's pointing out that those aren't actual literature

>/lit/ in charge of reading comprehension

>> No.6838121

>>6828711
I work as a part-time doorman. During these 8 hour shifts, my only forms of acceptable entertainment are my phone (which I cannot have out if there's a resident in the vicinity), my coworkers (most of whom are survivors of the Bosnian genocide and aren't great for conversation), and books. On a busy day, I'll have about 2 hours to read, but, on a slow day, I may only see one or two people, so I can read for almost the entire time.

Aside from the fact that reading is safer (I won't get in trouble if I'm seen reading, whereas I will be if I'm seen using "electronics"), my other alternatives are pretty dull. Maybe reading during work is based for some occupations, but I don't feel like that is the case, across the board.

>> No.6838191

>>6837517
heres your reply

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6838202

>>6824902
>Literally easiest book ever

I beg to differ.

>> No.6838207

>>6828746
I teach grade school. Can confirm, the educational system is shit.

Every year, it gets increasingly difficult to be a "good" teacher. We used to have freedom to educate our students as we felt best. Our students excelled (most of them) and we loved our jobs.

The issue, now, is in part due to the fact that there are some really shitty schools with some really shitty teachers and, because of them, the government has decided that education needs to be standardized on a national level.

In addition to this, we're increasingly forced to cater to exceptions and to the low-achievers. Parents complain that their child needs some sort of special considerations for their child because he or she has difficulty learning (we don't put these children in special education classrooms as much as we used to, so, now, these children are in regular classrooms and it slows everything down).

Don't get me wrong; there are some benefits and they're, mostly, well intentioned (some things have instituted solely for funding purposes, but that's a whole other issue). There are schools that WOULD be underperforming and teachers that would slack off if it they weren't being given clear cut standards as to what they needed to be doing. Also, inclusive classrooms (that is, having special needs students learning in regular classrooms) help to teach children to accept those with disabilities and it gives special needs students a chance to excel beyond where they would if they were placed in a classroom with children whose disabilities were far more severe and for whom the curriculum was developed, so that are never, really challenged.

Still, these standards demoralize and limit GOOD teachers and inclusive classrooms DO limit what can be accomplished, in some cases. That, in addition to all the testing that we're required to do (which requires us to "teach to the test) that is JUST for funding purposes results in a severely damaged educational system.

On one hand, we don't see as many children getting "left behind", anymore, and low performing children have more chances to get back on track. On the other hand, though, we don't have as many truly inspiring teachers, anymore. Education is gain equality, but at the cost of quality.

>> No.6838282

>>6828706
that's pathetically impressively pathetic

>> No.6838294

>>6824821
I enjoyed it a lot. It's hella easy. Orwell in general is like grade school tier.

I had fun going along for the ride, even if the message is pretty cliched now.

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>>6838202
/b/ did a full review on that book once...

>> No.6839053

>>6839038
reddit

>> No.6839073

I read Pynchon's novels in this order:
Gravity's Rainbow
V.
Mason & Dixon
The Crying of Lot 49
Against the Day

U mad lit?

>> No.6839074

I unironically write MLP fanfiction as a way to practice writing and get criticism and feedback from my peers so that I can take what I learn and one day write actual some actual literature.

I've already written a 75k word work, which I will freely admit is mediocre at best, and I'm currently writing something that will probably range somewhere between 30-40k words. I already have 28k words done for that particular project.

I fully intend to continue doing this, as I feel I've already improved a lot since I've started.

>> No.6839077

>>6839073
Very.

>> No.6839272

>>6828313
All you had to do was buy the same damn book to replace it

>> No.6839309

>>6839074
The people you take criticism from are unable to give valuable insight.

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6839334

I don't actually look down on anyone for being a literary pleb because reading anything is better than reading nothing.

>> No.6839369

>>6828288
E-gad! Is your existence also mine? Fret not, brother. Your burden is shared.

>> No.6839394

>>6828288
>a single sentence can make me go off on multiple mental tangents and then I am unable to regain my focus
lay off the weed

>> No.6839408

>>6839394
Everyone is like that, you degenerate pothead

>> No.6839434

>>6839334
Actually no, it isn't. Literary "value" is an idea , and we enjoy the idea. They enjoy what they read, and so do we. We're all the same, it's just that we're snobbish and they're vulgar.

>> No.6839774

>>6839309
Either way, it's good practice.

You know, better than nothing.

>> No.6839946

>>6839774
I wrote an MLP fanfiction for the hell of it on Halloween. It was fun. Didn't really get much critique from it, though not that I was looking for any

>> No.6840309

Tao Lin is sincerely my favourite author and I'm not even Tao Lin

>> No.6840319

There are books I'd love to burn

>> No.6840348

I despise most classics vehemently. Fiction (and art in general) is to be judged first and foremost on it's entertainment value, with philosophical and thematic substance being secondary but vital to a good book. Something that has the latter but lacks the former is missing the point of art altogether.

>> No.6840366

>>6834896
tell us about it, anon

>> No.6840388

I don't lift

>> No.6840406

So /lit/ really is full of faggots who don't read, or are they baiting?

>> No.6840448

>>6840406
both

>> No.6840455

I read young adult literature, even though /lit/ despises it.

>> No.6840485

>>6828577
By not going outside, dingus.

>> No.6840496

>>6824886

It's weird as fuck, because 2-3 months ago I was reading at least a book a week, 50 pages a day, and now I'm back to barely doing 10 pages and it takes 2-3 weeks to finish a pretty short book. It just ebbs and flows, m8.

>> No.6840576

>>6840366
We met up at her apartment after talking for a week. She gives good writing advice. A solid writer.

We had coffee and talked about medical thrillers for a bit, which went into discussions of portrayals of human anatomy in television. Then she took her clothes off.

She has a super-hairy kooch, goes all the way to her asshole.

She screams like bloody murder and uses her nails a LOT.

>> No.6841080

>>6840576
This is fake, but my hard-on isn't

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>>6838207
>tfw going to be teaching high school english in 3 years

I just want to better tha lives of students man

>> No.6841422

>>6828140
Get outta here John Green

>> No.6841530

>>6824818
I think Dan Brown's books are terrible.

>> No.6841540

>>6841080
for sure, Brother

>> No.6841619

>>6824818
I didn't like To Kill a Mockingbird.

>> No.6842021

>>6831016
We are friends now.

>> No.6842037

>>6828255
more /lit than /lit/ tbh

>> No.6842056

>>6828735
I want to create pieces of writing that give off the same feels as different genres or bands do.