/lit/ - Literature

oh those? well, no not yet. yeah i know it's a lot. no i just bought these too. no not yet. i'll read them. i'm working on reading all of them.

Single moms man. C-could you imagine.

does anyone get scared advancing to the next chapter of his graded reader

i was almost sight reading for a minute

>author spent time in French Algeria

Every single day I regret the hours and hours I will never get back, spent consooming chinese cartoons that in retrospect have the depth and artistic sensibilities of young adult schlock and video games, from the ages of 9 to 20. Now I'm paying for it by struggling to read any work of fiction and non-fiction, can't give my attention to old arthouse movies and am super awkward and withdrawn around peers, especially women.

>>20278417
Eng. native speaker here. 24/25 cause I chose I'd rather you would explain to her why we can't go.. Don't know how to feel about this honestly.

>>19391030
>no rational reason

>I'm the oldest person in this thread who's also real

>>19266764
F
Rapture seemed like a midwit centrist but he had a good heart, that's not common and it's worth more than intelectual prowess.
He shouldn't have died, we needed him.

>>19191833
>leftoid constantly brings up his obsessions even though nobody was talking about left-right

>>19178306
>doesn't realize that he is not arguing with another person on the internet but his own preconceived notions
>cannot justify the seething rage at two greentexted words

>>19177997
invest your meagre earnings in cryptocurrency faggot

>My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and
>is persistent. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably
>at Harvard) if they ever did exist. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in
>common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem
>I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though,
>hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am
>blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity. Is
>evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp and I
>do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact I want my pain to be inflicted on
>others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this – and I have, countless
>times, in just about every act I've committed – and coming face-to-face with these
>truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new
>understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell
>you any of this. This confession has meant nothing ….

>>17975111
>these people who get paid to love me love me so much!

>>17609928
lol i never thought about it that people can just get their friend to stage a pic. It sucks trusting people and taking things at face value

>finish crime and punishment
>conclusion is basically 'yeah ok raskolnikov did some shit and was a weirdo but at the end of the day he has a gf so its all cool'

so is not having a gf really worse than murdering two people? is that what i'm supposed to get out of the 700+ page long novel?

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>>16502245
>More lit-related, if you want to scare yourself away from apathy, look up Heni-Frédéric Amiel. Dude was so terrified to live his life that he basically never did, never dared anything. He did however write about this non-ending plight in a 17000 pages long memoire that lists all the missed opportunities of his life.
Can’t relate haha

>>16493352
>Turks are caucasian

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>>16092784
>how in the hell
>implying I dont fucking love this as a militaryfag

Anyone have any suggestions for someone having issues retaining information? I can barely remember the contents of a book even after having just read it.

Is there any way to mention Ulysses, or even James Joyce in general, without coming off as some try-hard? Any time I mention him or his books in real life it's met with "oh lah-de-dah" or a similar kind of defensiveness, no matter the tone in which I present it.