/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8748829]

Have you ever actually read a book /lit/? Be honest

[Anonymous No.8748832]

>>8748829
No I'm quite happy to admit I haven't

[Anonymous No.8748834]

Woops, wrong picture

[Anonymous No.8748835]

I read like signs and labels a lot

[Anonymous No.8748837]

Maybe.


For middle school.
I'm lying I read the cliffnotes

[Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo No.8748840]

>>8748829

[Anonymous No.8748841]

>>8748829
No.
I've never read a book in my life, but I pretend I do because otherwise I have nothing to cling onto.
A couple of times I have tried to read books, but every single time I try, I fall asleep after 5 pages.
I don't know what to do. I am ready to end this life. The only thing I have books.
And even that is fake.

[Anonymous No.8748857]

I generally read the first quarter of a book or so, get bored, look up the synopsis in wikipedia, and pretrend to everyone that I read it

[Anonymous No.8748877]

Riddle me this /lit/. Whats the point in reading an entire book, when I can just read a synopsis and a few analyses and get the point?

[Anonymous No.8748924]

Rate pence's bookshelf /lit/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJzeIzgj2I

[Anonymous No.8748934]

>>8748829
About 50 or so.

[Anonymous No.8749004]

I think I saw a book once.

[Anonymous No.8749059]

>>8748924
Absolute pleb. Tom Clancy. Conservative masturbation. Self-help. Commercialized religion. Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.8749069]

>>8748829
n-no...

[Anonymous No.8749090]

>>8748924
cs lewis and "the conscience of a conservative" are both perfeclty fine, but I fucking love that we have a vice president elect who puts the hunt for red october on his special "books of great consequence to me" shelf

almost everything in his office could be found at either cracker barrell or the indianapolis airport hudson news

[Anonymous No.8749097]

>>8748829

[Anonymous No.8749105]

>>8748829
Yes.

[Anonymous No.8749106]

I'm a proud non-reader

[Anonymous No.8749107]

>>8748924

I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time. Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he’s less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak. Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.) And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Alex?

[Anonymous No.8749117]

>>8748924
Let's not awkwardly tiptoe around the real issue here:

Does Pence write a diary (desu)?

[Anonymous No.8749133]

>>8749107
I love this guy

[Anonymous No.8749217]

>>8749107
>and I never did bother to check all the footnotes.

[Anonymous No.8749354]

>not writing your master's thesis on Eliot's use of water imagery.

[Anonymous No.8749358]

>>8749354
i would love to read that.

[Anonymous No.8749370]

>>8749358
I'd post it, but sadly, it was written ages ago, just before fucking Painted Shadow came out and blew up our understanding of Eliot's first marriage all to hell. Some of my main theories were bullshit, based on incomplete and faulty data, so the final result is wrong (and my writing was pretty weak back then). It was mostly on Ash-Wednesday, too. Still, had a blast writing it.

[Anonymous No.8749436]

>>8748877
DELET THIS

[Anonymous No.8749444]

>>8748877
You can't actually do that with Ulysses.

Well, technically you can read an explanation rather than the book, but the explanation would probably be longer.

[Anonymous No.8749452]

>>8749117
No one keeps a diary you stupid bitch.

[Anonymous No.8749455]

>>8748829
I went to a book once
Through the magic of books

[Anonymous No.8749478]

>>8748841
Serious question: is it possible to do that? Falling asleep while reading? I need a cool method to do it

[Anonymous No.8749479]

>>8748829
No. I can't even write.

[Anonymous No.8749480]

>>8748832
I love the way you write sentences.

[Anonymous No.8749484]

>>8748840
?

[Anonymous No.8749499]

>>8749484
seek >>>/pol/ and you shall find

[Anonymous No.8749505]

>when you realize you've only ever read codices, but never read an actual book

[Anonymous No.8749548]

>>8749484
The meme is that he gets "zaps the gay away" because he supports electro-shock therapy to cure homosexuality.
>Mike "Zap the Fruit Into a Vegetable" Pence
>Mike "You Like It In the Rear End? Then This Dial is Going Up To Ten" Pence

etc.

[Anonymous No.8749631]

>>8748829
A book? No.

I'VE READ HUNDREDS.

[Anonymous No.8750339]

>>8749370
thanks, bud.

[Anonymous No.8750469]

>>8748924
Pence seems like a cool guy I would hang out with him