/lit/ - Literature

>>745627
But what's the point of remembering each and every book you've heard about and decided you want to read it? It's going to be too many of them anyway. Unless you can somehow afford bringing home and stacking piles of books every week or so (not to mention actually reading them), there's no way you can keep up with that list. It's just going to continue growing, leaving you 500 novels behind. Not to mention the fact, that when in two years you arrive at position 299, you may not remember why the hell have you written this title down, where have you heard about it and what's supposed to be so awesome about it. You may be into completely different stuff already.
I guess it may work for people who want to read books in some particular order. Not sure why would want that anyway. Reading for classes maybe? To-buy lists sound quite reasonable to me too, at least when you're a poor student like me and you think ten times before you spend money on something you can read for free, borrowing it from library or downloading a pdf.
But writing down every single position you've read about or someone recommended you, just in case it may actually happen that you'll have an opportunity AND time to read it? I guess that counting them and sharing your numbers with friends can give you some hipster cred, but otherwise you care about shit like that it's just pointless. There are already enough lists created, all dem /lit/ essentials, various top 50 and top 500 you can find around the Internet. Just grab that novel lying next to you that you haven't finished yet, and then one of the others which are already on your shelf, waiting there for quite some time.

>>745644
Yeah, it's pretty much the same like fapping to your '500 and growing' list. I wouldn't call it a curse, I think you just prefer the feeling of 'oh I'm such a litfag, I'd read this and that, and so many more' than actually reading, slacker C:

/x/ is that way ->

>>745125

67 to read on my shelves: 25 of them are from library, the others are mine. Got some unpacked at my parents' too, but haven't counted them. About 20-30 I guess.
Of course, it's not like it's too many yet, right? There's nothing wrong about buying some more next week? Right?? .______.
Also, writing down to-read lists made of books you don't have yet is pretty lame imho. I think you're just wasting your time, making them and then going emo every time you look at them. I just keep about 20 that I'm going to buy next time when I have some money, but can't be bothered to write the titles down. In library I just grab everything available, both books I've heard about before and ones that just seem interesting.

>>727702
Yeah, why? I prefer the feet guy.

>>714986
Sir, you're pretty awesome.

>>711409
LIES

It's awesome.

>Patrząc na zrodzony moją
>wolą bezkresny żywy potok
>końskich pysków i ludzkich twarzy,
>mknący donikąd po szkarłatnym
>o zachodzie stepie, często pytam siebie:
>gdzie jestem Ja w tym potoku?

It didn't. I was doing stuff then came back to reply to someone. It was like on the first-third page. I typed a post and clicked submit, and 4chan said that the thread doesn't exist. Must have been deleted.

A girl who looks like a tomboyish lesbian and spends her time playing WoW and SC, reading Vonnegut, lurking /b/ (???) and listening to Yngwie Malmsteen.
Her boyfriend, all-kinds-of metal expert, pro at everything he does, which includes playing a guitar, dpsing as a rogue, translating from English for a publishing company and pouring vodka into my throat.

The Good Soldier Švejk.

I'd post my e-mail, but I realised I can't think of anything interesting to write about myself. Anyway, I love the comforting feeling of 'I'm just like everyone else' and 'it wouldn't work anyway'.

Out of the sudden, post related.

It was that time when I was still leaving my house once in a while. I used to read books in one of the local bookstores. It wasn't well supplied, but it was the only one without staff bitching about me usually not buying anything, but spending hours inside anyway. One day a man who I think was the owner gave me a small piece of paper with a website address on it. 'We've opened a site where you can order books, some of which we don't keep on the shelves, and then pick them up here in a couple of days', he said. I was like "Whoa awesum', since I live in a small town and omg internets.
I registered, and a week later I ordered Baudrillard, some kind of an indie poetry collection and a medieval history textbook. Two days passed and I went to pick them up. The poster announcing that the website is open had been hanging on the door for some time then. As soon as I entered, the shop assistant, a young woman, went all like 'OH GOOD AFTERNOON HERE ARE YOUR BOOKS, they've delivered them today's morning! <3'. How did they know? I hadn't say anything and I still don't have an idea how did they connect me with my order. It's not like I'm announcing my name, surname and e-mail address when I enter the shop. Quite creepy.

>>696885
>>696890
Not the anon from before, and I liked you without socks too, but <3.

>>661263
This. Absolutely awesome.

>>660089
>implying that Jews were the only people killed in death camps, and it was enough not to look like one to get away with your life

This is /lit/, not /homework/. And this is not even about writing something, but drawing.
You should go to /ic/ instead, and folks there will explain you this is call commissioning someone, and will ask how much will you pay for drawing that comic.

>>658097
>>659090

Also, the fantasy list under 'urban fantasy' mentions the following:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce
Tea With the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carrol

How about this?

>>658656

>>658406
>>658408
Is this kinky bisexual Irish king of /lit/ again?
:3