/lit/ - Literature

>>17784024
>This place is not making you happy. You are not having fun. You are not gathering stories to tell, learning, or growing as a person. Instead you chuckle every thirty minutes and are occasionally spurred to masturbation by libidinal posts or pictures. You are addicted to readily available information and pressure-free social interaction. This place is slowly poisoning you with misogyny, narcissism, a false dichotomy surrounding normalfags, and insecurity.

>there are books out there right now that you would enjoy 10x more than your current favorite book but you will never find them

What are some books about the strange sense of isolation and alienation that comes from living in a modern, major metropolitan city?

>>13664811
>If you're so intelligent, why can't you get a girlfriend?
Because most of them are thots like your pic: a malnourished simpleton bored by everything. I'd rather be alone.

>>12409376
>>12409612
oh didnt see non-fiction

>>10842354
uh... no, uhh. i gotta go.

>>10433070
>paying retail
>shopping a limited retail inventory aimed at the plebs

>>10384192
>sift through <100 view videos
>find a beautiful 19 yr old reviewing Crime and Punishment
>Over the course of 9 minutes imagine our life together, how she was interested enough to actually care about my literary obsession
>the video ends with her smiling and saying her boyfriend recommended her the book
>tfw when she already is in the relationship I pictured
>tfw I check the date and the video is six years old

>>10271437
>"End of the 1980s" section
>music-fetishizing psycho quotes a Morrissey B-side from 1988

>OP freaks the FUCK out

brb cant live on this earth anymore putting my own head in a toilet

I have a dumb question. Everyone's saying that I should start with the Greeks, and they force that meme over and over to the point that I don't even know why I should. Is it genuinely helpful to me as a reader and potential writer that I read something that old?

I'm more interested in the 'why' and 'how'.