/lit/ - Literature

OP is a faggot ask me stuff instead, I'll rek that nerdling

any more? I might have sixty minutes left in me

>>6091091
I was really stubborn in school and didn't read more than a book a year or so outside of class until someone recommended me Lolita in 9th grade. Then I went through the whole Fitzgerald, Brave New World, Dorian Gray, 'catching up' phase and then I found a grill in high school I could take a lot of english classes with and by the time I was moving out for college I had a couple shoeboxes of books I was content to read through. Then it all just grew.

I'm 21 now and I work jobs for three months at a time, stop showing up, and study humanities and journalism part-time usually. I just want to write creative nonfiction.

>>6091044
I answered that wrong because I'm, well, you know.

yes, reading recs is good but you can always be like 'sry I wanna read [insert whatever book here] first' in case you don't want to read something. then you choose something else better from their shelf later

>>6091045
as for metaphysics, it would do to find an introductory text on the subject and then just pick and choose. there are only like eight questions to answer in metaphysics, really. if I were about to study a bunch from that field, I'd probably start with shit regarded for its literary content and prose style

but a self-acknowledging introductory text, for sure. always a good idea.

>>6091044
selecting worthwhile passages to read aloud is such a good skill in a relationship

>>6091045
you dont need to read the iliad, you don't need to read the odyssey, you don't need to read them in a certain order either. but they're waiting for you the rest of your life and it's worth a stab

i want to read the iliad, the aeneid and kind of also the odyssey when my late 19th-early 20th century phase ends, but not because of anything /lit/ told me to do

>>6091020
read a bunch of michael chabon books and talk about private east coast universities you know produced a lot of good authors

maybe develope a nuanced opinion about a two-state solution in gaza

>>6091018
the marquis de sade? he invented consentual sadism

>>6090996
leave your house sometimes
find social circles you feel comfortable in

repeat forever

>>6091001
five syllables out of nowhere, for no questionable reason -- things like that

>>6091007
you should consider also reading nonfiction about things that aren't war

>>6090994
Fear and Loathing is a dystopian novel about drugs. The FBI convention is basically Hunter's own worst nightmare.

>>6090987
>do you know the exact meaning of the word
>does it fit
>will it negatively affect the meter of your sentence

three questions to ask oneself

>>6090983
Edith is GOAT

if you're familar with translated verse, I'd suggest the Iliad. The Histories is kind of a nightstand book and Republic requires a lot of focus

>>6090977
try composing in pen so you can't too easily get ahead of yourself

it's a lot of fun if you're okay with only writing three paragraphs at a time

>>6090958
if you're from a STEM field or majored in econ or poly-sci, it's probably a good thing to read? I mostly don't read about the economy, and I can't explain what happened in '09

>>6090950
I don't do cocaine, and I don't think it will help you compose a work. But you might have some good coke ideas which you can use later, I don't know how that works, really. It seems sort of uphill but that's an uninformed opinion

>>6090942
literature will distract you from everything you've ever believed to be 'important' to you once you love it

but really, literary love is internalizing your readings and improving your character appreciably in the physical world

>>6090940
today, my girlfriend's landlady gave me a cutting from a pot plant she grew so idk, that mostly

i am currently rolling something

>>6090923
or just go to Maine and then read King

>>6090916
probably, but you can always read in a quiet coffee shop. it's not pretentious

>>6090906
idk I'm just being sincere

>>6090909
danke

>>6090897
I have a friend (a grill) who swears by The Tommyknockers but tbh I haven't heard much about King since high school. not that that should discourage you

>>6090889
I read Romeo and Juliet first as a volatile teenager and I was genuinely worried that my girlfriend would commit sudoku while I was reading it. I didn't finish it in that attempt

The Dead by Joyce made me tear up. Dr. Seuss has done it before. The Grapes of Wrath did it, too

>>6090883
for the 20th century, easily done

the new world killed it last century, even straya

>>6090873
I wanna read it. Apparently most of the humor survives quite well centuries later, and you know I have love for adventure