/lit/ - Literature

I'm literally running away from my problems by moving to the other side of the country. I've ditched basically everything I ever knew. I have a lot of anxiety about this.

>>11222188
Read it back when I was 13 years old in a summer camp which I hated. While others were sitting around chattering or playing games, I was fucking sitting in the most remote corner of the area, reading this. Don't remember much, but still have it in my shelf.

I liked the mixture of the different topics that really add to this extreme dystopian atmosphere (the canibals, zombies 'n shit). I think it's the best fiction book I read so far.

I know the Cathedral has already equated preserving history with genocide of minorities but man that headline is brutal. I just want to be left alone and allowed to read. Equating racism and Harold Bloom is the least honest thing I've seen a journalist do in some time and that is saying quite a lot.

Another rainy night.

I'm now officially done with the school year. Going to head home for the summer tomorrow. Last year I was so excited for this, but this time around I just kind of feel empty. I know it's not going to be the same. None of my good friends will be there, they've all got exciting internships or whatever. I don't relate to my family nearly as much as I used to. My own room feels foreign after being away so long. My home doesn't feel like home anymore, but school doesn't feel like home either. I thought rootlessness was a meme, but I guess I'm living it now.

unironically would appreciate advice. I wasn't good at social activity to begin with, and am infinitely worse at it when your "friends" are randos you know for a couple months before you move again. I'm slowly becoming steppenwolf and I don't like it.

Is life really just one big meme?

Also, I just left the last class of my last literature course at college, probably my last ever. I know /lit/ tends to have a negative view of these classes, but my experience has been incredibly positive. I'm really emotional now, thinking that I'll never sit around and discuss books with people ever again. That part of my life is over. Fuck I don't want to grow up.

Pic related, it's me on this wretched rainy April afternoon.

>>11055551
I'm happy for you anon. Don't be afraid to try to advance your relationship with her.

I like the decemberists

>>10992072
>Humanity… All of my suffering on this world has been at the hands of humanity, particularly women. It has made me realize just how brutal and twisted humanity is as a species. All I ever wanted was to fit in and live a happy life amongst humanity, but I was cast out and rejected, forced to endure an existence of loneliness and insignificance, all because the females of the human species were incapable of seeing the value in me.

>>10952376
Blogposting update: Sadness has returned. It's cold and awful outside. I miss my old friends. I miss my crush. I miss life being simple and primarily revolving around social interaction. I don't care about the useless work I'm supposed to be doing. I want to hug someone.

>>10916381
>be me
>summer of '11, autistic times, 13 years old
>be in a shitty sports camp in the south of my Country
>everyone playing volley at the beach or chilling with friends in the free time we have
>I used to hide in some remote corner of the area
>spent every second I had to myself reading Metro 2033
>noregrets.pdf

It was literally the last fiction book I started to read before Video game addiction happened. Might finish it one day tho, after all these years.

>It's another long anon moans about a girl post
Trite, but it's the first time I'll have fully confessed this to anyone, anonymous or not. I just want to move on..

>be first year uni student
>incredibly alone and alienated, can't manage to make friends
>really angry and upset because I was just starting to have a real social group in high school, now I'm back to perma-alone mode
>going to drop out or kill myself before the end of the semester
>meet girl one weekend in a cafe, actually start a conversation somehow
>we really hit it off, talk, laugh, for a good while
>she's cute as fuck and we share some interests and enjoy similar humor
>exchange numbers before we leave
>she goes to uni a couple towns away, so we don't see each other much during the rest of the year
>text each other constantly though, it's what I look forward to most every day
>summer break comes, summon the courage to stop being autistic and make a move
>almost immediately before I do she mentions she has a boyfriend
>so upset I don't sleep for three days, on the verge of suicide
>____ myself and decide to fight for her
>spend a bunch more time with her over the summer, think I'm actually drawing her in
>but at the same time, realize she's not as great as I thought
>not as smart as I thought, not as inspired, really pretty basic
>the perfect girl I loved, the one I texted all day and joked about dosto with, doesn't exist
>no one can compare to this fantasy I created
>begin to plumb new depths of sadness with this realization
>girl and I are still nominally friends, but we haven't talked in months
>right back to being alone and alienated
>I'm like Gatsby but no one was kind enough to shoot me

How much of an idiot am I /lit/?

Hard to imagine that some people want to live forever when I don't even want to finish the week.

>ITT: poetry 101
Post the basics of poetry for us brainlets who only read prose/genre fiction. I want to see what the deal is with poetry.
List essential readings/collections.

>>10725860
>every post you are reborn
Or with every post you die

yeah I'd love to be in ancient Greece or Rome, seeing those great civilizations in their prime

I am rereading Stoner and right at the end of chapter 11 there is this piece about him just looking over the snow covered campus and for some reason I noticed this time just how well it is done.

I've started having serious paternal fantasies. I find myself dreaming and somewhat uncounsciously daydreaming about having a wife and a baby daughter. It often revolves around my wife and me taking care of the baby and me providing for the family.
For fucks sake I'm not even that old, I'm only 24, why do I have these urges?
What books should I read for this feel?

>articulate yourself as succinctly as possible
>dad tells you to stop being a dickhead

I'd give about 10 BT to jizz over Susan Sarandon's face

>>9824026
>tfw she looks just like this qt I used to know
>tfw haven't seen her in years

What do you want?

¿Debería leer o no?
Me aburro y hace un año que no leo. No recuerdo ni lo último que leí y que acabé.

>tfw /lit/'s been invaded by edgy fedora tipping teenagers
>tfw there will never be a good thread about literature ever again

All my joints hurt. My hands are sweaty and it's gross. I want to read to take my mind off it, but don't have to motivation to get off the computer. Tapering off suboxone sucks. I wish I'd bothered to retain some real friends instead of ditching them for people to get high with. Now I'm totally isolated and it sucks.

>Mom reads Opera's bookclub stuff
>Dad reads the occasional mafia book
>Sister doesn't read but she loves reality TV
>Grandmother is a readaholic but it is all normie stuff like Dan Brown