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14234279 No.14234279 [Reply] [Original]

>remember back in my teenage days reading fantasy novels until 1AM because i was so excited
>nowadays can't even read for 20 minutes without dropping it because of boredom and going on the internet/start masturbating and read at jarringly low speed
Anyone else knows this feel

>> No.14234288

>>14234279

are you reading comfy fantasy novels again or are you trying to read tryhard philosophy books for /lit/ points?

>> No.14234291

>>14234288
The latter. I moved on exclusively to classic literature now.

>> No.14234295

You have nobody to blame for your lack of self control. Get a grip while you still can. Literature can be that grip, since it's a distraction of itself, but a distraction towards a better way.

>> No.14234315

>>14234279
Burnt out dopamine receptors resultant of internet sddiction makes shit feel boring. Happens to all of us. The trick is self control

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14235005

Fuck the police I'm hijacking this thread

Recommend me an exciting, catchy fantasy novel that I can read while I take a shit or before I go to sleep like OP. One can't read academical all the fucking time

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14235014

>>14234279
Remember.

>> No.14235036

>>14234315
Not really. You just reward the wrong behavior and don’t place enough of an emphasis on how important it is to read and that reading is more beneficial than other things

>> No.14235041

>>14234279
Are you me?

>> No.14235056

>>14235014
This is too red a pill for me to swallow. I’m a man-whore.

>> No.14235113

>>14235014
Wb Joyce, Nabokov, Melville, and Proust

>> No.14235176

>>14235113
See how Proust never actually lived to completely finish and edit his seminal work. The only reason he was able to get so far was because he was basically bedridden and shut himself in his room for the last years of his life with only the occasional dinner party or visit to the brothel to fuck boipucci or something

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14235202

>>14234279
FINED SOMETHING ELSE TO DO
Get off the internet. Go make friends.

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14235222

>>14235005
Jack Vance?

>> No.14235637

>>14235005
If you want to read while you shit I'd recommend the short story anthology "Stories of your life and others" it's cozy but straddles the line between fantasy and sci-fi.

>> No.14235648

>>14235014
Prove that none of those men jacked it every now and then.

>> No.14235664

>>14235648
Even if they didn't, they must've had regular nocturnal emissions every couple days, at least in their 20s and 30s. You just can't cheat nature.

>> No.14235676

>>14235222
1v1 me irl you sour BITCH

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14235684

>>14235202
>FIND*

>>14235676
How’m sour?

>> No.14235688

Smartphones and the internet changed your brain. This is actually a pretty common trend, and a worrying one. The ghost of McLuhan is haunting us all.

>> No.14235698

>>14235222
>>14235637
Cheers bitches

>> No.14235720

>>14234291
You genuinely don't like what you're reading, you're only doing it to be acknowledged by others who haven't read the classics either.

>> No.14235727

>>14235202
Take your own advice

>> No.14235757

>>14234279
Do you has job? Maybe you're busy and tired like me.
As a stopgap measure, try audiobooks. Learn new things, while doing the same old commute. And all the chores your parents used to do for you.

>> No.14235776

>>14235113
>Nabokov
Wasn't a cumbrain.

>> No.14235790

>>14235776
Have you even read Ada?

>> No.14235823

>>14235014
This is salty af. Yes, writers are nerds, nerds dont get laid as much as your average person does. Many great writers did though. Tolstoy was a man-whore until he got enough of it and started resenting that way of living, still having the ability to charm and fuck bitches