/lit/ - Literature

>>19510404
>Althouse / Turnquist / Bracciano
>3 of the foremost significant HVAC specialists collaborating within a single text

>>17299897
Those stories are so weird.
It's like cosmic horror mixed with religion.
Is this in the Quran ?

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>turning solipsistic
>doubting reality
>thinking everyone may be NPCs
>reality is just a big sophisticated and convincing ruse to test me or something
Which books will pull me out of this hole?

>>15360508
Nice

>>13541183
I didn’t even know he was sick...

What’s the next big movement in writing at large? I’ve been really sick lately and reading the Beats. It seems to me to be a wildly good time to move and shake the canon a little bit. How can young people (and young poets) stop shitty slam poetry and gay YA novels from defining the zoomer oeuvre?

>>13000970

How do we deal with this world of all-pervading Entertainment that DFW articulated in Infinite Jest?

It seems that, perhaps for the first time in history, a conscious effort must be made to not be entertained. We are all being drawn into constant, passive obsession as our relationship with pleasure has become misshapen. We no longer see pleasure as dangerous, now boredom is dangerous. Meditation, more than ever, seems to be becoming a necessity. The need to make an active choice, to move under your own power, rather than to be sucked into this icy, numbing whirlpool of ENTERTAINMENT. Should we be actively looking for ways to be bored?

>>11364577
22 books

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>>11339249
holy fuck put me in the screenshot

>>11208402
Give me a number so that I know whether to chuckle at you because it's cute that tykes like you think these things or so that I can feel sorry for a 30 year old narcissist's dead and dilapidated brain.

>>10873901
>reads Nietzsche, isn't filled with inspiration and passion for life
Anon, I...

>>10498997
>read Jerusalem Delivered at 20
this power level has potential.

>>10376860
> If obesity was bad for you why are so many people fat?

>>10304266
Jesus christ, thanks

>>10296191
jesus christ

>>10296197
>tfw you remember most of these threads because you're on here every day.
Sad desu

I'm done with life. I work a boring 9-5 job. And when i'm not working i'm alone in my room with my cat. I'm only 24 and I feel like if this is all life has to offer I don't even want to try. Are there any books that will get me excited about life(even if it ultimately doesn't end well)? Or maybe one where I can at least relate to the protagonist? I wanna live vicariously through the protagonist - doesn't matter if it has a happy ending or not as long as there are brief moments of happiness or joy throughout.

Last novel I read was Stoner and I really enjoyed it.

>>10006750
>Tommy and Gerry = British and German soldiers
>constant portrayal of German antagonizing the long suffering Anglo
>created by a Jewish company during wwII
>sitting on the tracks, lost in their respective train of thought
>it will surely be their last
What did they mean by this

What is /lit/s opinion on speed reading?
Can you speed read?
What technique do you use?
Is dit worth it or all just bs?

>>9894774
That's a nice photo anon!
>plebspotters
It amazes me that people can actually read this. I tried once and that Welsh dialect is such a fucking chore to read.

>>9722633
>My main goal in writing is to write stories based off old European prose poems, such as the odyssey, aurthurian texts, and viking sagas.

are you...are you me?

>>9683837
That's actually pretty good