/lit/ - Literature

you don't need to read anything

why the fuck would you waste your 20s reading books instead of having fun and getting laid?

go out and buy some drugs or something, dude. who cares about dumbass literature?

just read Sade

>>12214999
fuck whores and go places instead of reading.

>>12215016

I mean, it's not like I'm not going to have fun. I enjoy drugs as much as the next guy. Sex is nice. I like reading. I turn to books for entertainment, solace, escape, a cold plunge into reality, a good sex scene, a stupid dick joke, all that shit. Any recs?

>>12214999
nice angelic trips. you get a reply.

you should read your diary desu. seriously, write your thoughts down. then a few years from now go back and read them. it will give you perspective, that stuff you need right now. what are your interests. "what books do i need to read" is a huge category.

just throwing it out there: Dostoevsky's the idiot.

>>12215016
>instead of having fun and getting laid?
I plan on working 60 hours a week until I'm 25 and then retiring
I don't have time to have fun outside of my home

>>12215035
>I plan on working 60 hours a week until I'm 25 and then retiring
I've got bad news for you bud

>>12215031
Diary's a good rec. I've kept notebooks since high school. I suppose I oughta write in them more often. Right now I get through one every few months.

Interests?
I don't know, anon. I feel like I haven't experienced enough (or read enough) to really know what my interests are -- and I don't want to exclude anything because it doesn't fit what I think are my interests now. You feel?

I guess I'm asking for literally anything. I'm passingly familiar with most standard /lit/ fare, but I haven't read a good 2/3rds of what's discussed here. Like Dostoevsky. I haven't read anything by him. Thanks for the rec.

What's the best reading order for him? I've heard Underground > C&P > Brothers > Idiot/Possessed/Demons ?

>>12215030
Don't be this lighthearted

>>12215035
>I plan on working 60 hours a week until I'm 25 and then retiring

>>12215063
I've only ever read The Idiot. It was great. I was a very late bloomer and identified quite a bit with Myshkin. I think it's important for any young person to read, if they haven't figured out people yet (by that I mean just formed a concrete opinion that is unlikely to change).

>>12215035

>>12214999
>just turned 20
>post spongebob

>mfw spongebob is older than some anons here who shall remain nameless

>>12215259
Hey, Spongebob's the shit. What's that CS Lewis quote about childish things? Let me like what I like.

>>12215171
Noted anon, thx

>>12215035
Don't worry anon, when reality hits we'll all still be here for you

>>12215035
*laughs while crying*

>>12215035
FUCKING KEK YOU"LL STILL BE HERE BROWSING THIS SITE WASTING TIME AND SQUANDERING YOUR LIFE ON VIDEO GAMES, WHEN YOU"RE 40 WISHING YOU WERE SOMETHING BETTER REFLECTING WHAT YOU DID WRONG.

t. from a 9-5 wage cuck

>>12215029
>dude just be a materialist bro
>if you dont like materialism you're a fag bro
>yeah let's listen to what the materialist has to say his notions of failure are probably very fine tuned and nuanced
Sex is for animals.

>>12215269
;)

i'm sure there are no >16 yr olds here since they all get stuck on the red boards

>>12214999
You were in middle school the last time this board was good

>>12215467
You are an animal, no matter how much you kick or scream you are not. Kind of reminds me of trannies and fat bitches calling themselves beautiful.

>>12215031
I always hated writing diaries, they're a chore. Writing as part of a hobby is so much more fun, why would I write about banal personal problems so I can cringe at them later in life?

>>12215467
kill fuck die, bro

>>12215513
you are neglecting the possibility that you will not cringe at them later in life but rather they will help put your later life, which may have come to a difficult pass if you're reading old diaries, into a proper perspective.

>>12215527
Really though? I almost never read my old diaries. I think of them as a release valve. Something to keep my mind from scratching itself raw. I never sit down to read my old diaries, unless I wrote a grocery list or a set of reminders.

>>12215035
Son, you are 70 years late to do that

>>12215035
KEK I thought the same thing when I was 20, and I'm turning 43.

>>12215016
>>12215029

>>12215035
excellent bait

anything by Buddha

>>12217549
>>12217549
what is the name of the man in the top right panel?

>just turned 20
>my life is over and my youth is gone
what happened

>>12217900
oh sweet summer child, wait until your late twenties

>>12217908
no ty I'm going to be 20 forever

>>12217894
random orthodox priest

>>12217929
got a video link, buddy?

>>12215030
Some comical but still (relatively) highbrow books are:
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy

>>12217936
video link to what?

>>12215016
Bait
>Implying you can't do both

>>12215016
lole ime heer 4 a gud t4m3 not a l0ng time xDxD

>>12215030
If light entertainment is all you want from your reading, you should turn to r/books, not a board dedicated to literature.

>>12215476
and he was likely on it during that period

>>12217936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-p1DmddP_I

>>12217549
Ill tell you why but you might not like it.

does life get better in mid or late twenties? or is it all downhill from here?

>>12217894
I have never enjoyed living in this world man from the famous meme.

>>12216854
the fuck are you doing on 4chan elderfag

>>12215035
>he fell for the FIRE meme

>>12214999
starting strength
the iliad

>>12217950
You can't.
>For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also. [22] The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome. [23] But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be!
>No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. [25] Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

>>12219867
That's entirely up to you. If you waste your 20s masturbating and playing video games, then no, it won't get better.

>>12214999
Life doesn't really work in the stages you seem to be implying.

>>12215016
absolutely disgusting

>>12215016
An orgasm lasts a minute at most, and the feeling cannot be recalled. If you have to give anything for an orgasm then its not worth it.

>>12215016
Having fun and getting laid is way harder than reading books though. I just want to ease the pain

>>12215016
The most fun I've ever had during the first two decades of my life has been during those times I've spent with literature, paintings, and classical music. I've never enjoyed sex or drugs more than reading Romantic-era poetry or philosophical essays. I don't believe it will be any different from here on.

>>12215069
This. Strive for depth.

>>12221341
so you're just coping? i guess you don't really belong here

>>12221409
>i guess you don't really belong here
But this is 4chan, the most cope place on the internet

>>12219867
I've yet to experience my late twenties but my life became bloody amazing once I hit 20.

>>12217549
>Why?
Out of hedonism, he just said so. Maybe he's angry because you're not understanding him.

>>12215035
>I plan on working 60 hours a week until I'm 25 and then retiring
You plan on working twenty hours more than regular people but retire forty years earlier?

>>12219867
It can. Even if you're likely to end up miserable and poor, you at least have some control over where you're going. Whether or not that control brings good things is partially up to you.

>>12215035
You'll end up bitter, angry, and lonely. Oh wait you're on 4chan, you already are.

>>12219867
Things will get better if you're willing to put in the time to make them better

I'm 24 and while things still suck, I see a way forward. If you just do nothing but "pray for change" things just won't get better either way. Once you are in your 20s, you at least have the freedom to try

absolutely shit thread
t. 20yo

>>12215467
>sex is for animals
Animals only have sex to procreate. Only humans are able to enjoy it and do it for fun.
If you dislike sex you are not human

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