/lit/ - Literature

I enjoy fiction

When I was younger I pretended to like Harry Potter to talk to retarded liberal girls

I bit someones nose off

>>15151419
I never finished In Search of Lost Time. I only read Swann's Way.

>>15151419
I don't read

>>15151532
When I was younger I liked Harry Potter

>>15151419
I enjoyed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

>>15151419
i do that too. i also just hate reading doorstoppers because the commitment is too much

>>15151572
same desu. swann's way was amazing but within a budding grove didn't grab me. now i've forgotten pretty much everything and would have to start from the beginning.

>>15151419
i call myself a marxist but have never read a marx book in full, and have never read capital

>>15151419
There was a semi cute (for bongs 10/10) lit girl in high who was into me , but i rejected her since not enough cuteness to cope with noone liking her. Didnt want to lose social points and she was reading books every chance she got like a lit autist.
Perhaps i would have acted differently but past is locked in past.

I deleted my goodreads account because I don't want people I know irl knowing what I'm reading

>>15151419
once in awhile I'll buy a book but then not read it

I find Christianity impossible to believe in after researching the historicity and problems with the process of Jewish theology turning into Christian theology.

I still believe there is some kind of deity, and that the ethics and moral that Jesus preached is truly accurate. However, isn't it all already said by greek philosophers such as Plato? I guess Nietzsche was right saying that Christianity is just neoplatonism for the masses.

>>15151738
That’s okay. Theory is useful for those that seek that kind of understanding of the economy, but I think for the majority of people, simply understanding the dynamics of class relationships is enough; and it doesn’t take any book learning to understand it.

I'm learning hebrew even though I'm a goy

I was Catholic raised, stopped believing in God. Somehow my favorite works of fiction are by Catholics or Christiams, like Gene Wolfe, Chesterton, C&P, The Young Pope, Silence, etc. I envy their faith but I just can't believe it myself. Frankly, the Bible has some nice stories and teachings, Catholic aesthetics are extremely good, but everything else is absolutely retarded.

Am I being a hypocrite? Can I actually theist when I could never believe in a doctrine, in praying or in any form of contact with a higher plane? It's the kind of shit that keeps me up at night.

>>15152261
Because u fell for meme for the masses spirituality without any legit practice, try this https://www2.uned.es/dpto-hdi/History%20of%20Non-dual%20Meditation%20Methods.pdf

You have to reach a point where no belief is required where there is no doubt no effort.

I skimread or speedread boring parts.
I spend more time on 4chan than i do reading

>>15152234
why?

I didn't really care for The Stranger

>>15152234
What are your favorite resources for Hebrew?

>>15151724
You don't really need to restart. Proust is not exactly plot heavy and if something is important he will remention it many many times.

>>15151745
You stupid bitch, you had one chance to have the /lit/ gf we all want. You could've made it for us. This hurts me anon, it truly does.

>>15152261
great works of art are usually the product of powerful beliefs

>>15151419
I'm actually just a liberal

I still struggle with faith in God— both trusting in his will and his existence.

>>15154092
so long as tripfags exist that's all the proof that god surely does not

>>15153317
I developed an interest in jewish mysticism and the haredi community in general, also in the philosophy produced during and after the holocaust (Primo Levi, Jean Amery etc) whether the holocaust is a hoax or not I don't really care desu it's still an interesting topic, the industralization of death etc.

>>15153840
I'm pretty new so hebrewpod and Plimseur work for me so far. I hope I can sign up for actual lessons once this covid shit is over.

>>15154008
I know anon i lacked clarity in that point of life, but i hope best for her and now i would resonate with more higher consciousness wholesome gf above the petty ego dealings

>>15154008
As of writing this, I am sitting in the sun looking at my cutie gf sipping on a negroni while reading Borges. She will swallow my cum later.

I made it, and I am here to tell you all that IT IS WORTH IT.

Keep fighting

>>15152413
>I spend more time on 4chan than i do reading
Literally everybody else here does that.

>>15151738
People who call themselves Marxists don't usually read anything. They just "like the idea".

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>>15152234
cringe

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>>15154092
based

>>15151745
you FOOL you've doomed us all...

When I was reading mainly fiction, I opted to read the Russian translations of most of the English works of fiction that I had read, because, in conjunction with the translations being excellent in themselves, I found it to be the prosaically superior language relative to the otherwise aesthetically subpar prose, albeit in its original language; generally, excepting particular English writers/authors, and texts, I prefer to read fiction in Russian.

>>15155167
If i could go back in time i would change that but im still not that particularly into lit girls unless they are into metaphysics/spirituality. There is something truly special when inner beauty is awaken a sort of energy field of love that transcends usual romantic love, that lights your inner candle so you both can burn brightly,truly feeling alive.

>>15151419
I know English better than my first language

I masturbate to femdom porn

>>15151419
I actually know very little about most of the philosophy books and writers i say ive read and say im into

>>15151419
I have grown pretty skilled at discussing books I haven't read as if I had deep insights about them. Sometimes I even manage to fool people who actually have read the book. But the uncanny thing is how I can only do it with a book I've had on my mind for a long time. As if I could become better informed about a book simply by thinking about it, but without having read it. Maybe O'm some kind of retard-psychic.

I haven't written in 3 weeks.

>>15155674
The /lit/est sin of them all.

I sometimes pretend to have read a book in order to get people to talk about it and let me know if it is something I would like or not

>>15155667
I've done that. Feelsbadman.
I read a couple John Green novels and didn't think they were as horrible as /lit/ says.

i strongly believe in astrology and read a lot of books about it

I don't know what the fuck "prose" means I just read books and never bothered looking it up but everyone here always talks about it

>>15155754
Explain yourself. This isn't a confession, it's an admission of mental illness or falling for complete lies.

>>15151419
DELETE GOODREADS NOW

I'm a leftist but I love reading Houellebecq. I even read him in the original French.

Sanderson is fun

I am not a religious person but I read religious texts so I can shitpost as a religious believer. Right now I have honed my craft to pass as a Swedenborgian, Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic, Sunni Muslim, and Pure Land Buddhist.
What I really like doing is making up scripture verses and posting them in the middle of a debate, after quoting correctly for awhile. I will either switch around verses (cite them incorrectly) or just make them up to sound reasonably like KJV prose.
I have yet to be called out for any of these.
I don't know quite why I get enjoyment out of this, but I do.

I've been having strange dreams about the end of the world occurring this month. I have had these dreams for around six months now. I know it's very irrational but I can't shake the feeling. This pandemic and market collapse only seem to confirm my fears.

>>15156124
based

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>>15151426
I haven't read an actual fiction book in at least 7 years. However, I have read over 400 pieces of fanfiction during that time, which I respect more than regular fiction because it doesn't pretend that it's not shit.

>>15155640
Yeah, me too.

I read

>>15151419
I ordered a bunch of Russian lit classics for my birthday but still haven't gotten around to it. The only thing I'm motivated to read are about Holocaust revisionism and race realism. I've turned my wife, step-brother, and best friend into antisemites. One night I got really drunk with my stepdad and couldn't take it anymore so I started talking about the JQ and he "wow, just wow"d me for 3 hours. I want to appreciate art and feel something when I read again, but my brain is crippled with autism.

I bought a stack of books almost a year ago. I have read only half of them.

>>15158779
take your time bro. most people i know that are into reading have a sizeable "to-read" pile. im pretty bad for this too, my problem is buying cheap secondhand books that i'm only kind of interested in

>>15155640
And whats your first language? You must have spent a real long time in internet (if you need english for work or smth)

>>15151419
Ruined my nocum streak with some sissy hypno and I've only been reading ~50 pages a day

>>15160518
>50 pages a day
>only

I enjoy teen lit/ young adult novels best of all. I'm a Boomer.

>>15155811
idk if you're joking but prose is any writing that's not poetry.

>>15151419
I've been collecting as much porno as I can for years and I keep wanting to delete it all but I can't

>>15160552
How fucking slow does /lit/ read? If I'm reading very dense nonfiction 50 might be a struggle but is still generally manageable, and with anything else it's easy. Especially easy if you sit down to read more than once per day. But I forgot /lit/ doesn't read

>>15161658
I’m a screen addicted Cumbrian and I have no problems reading 2 books per week. My conclusion is just that; people here simply choose not to read.

>>15162079
*cumbrain
As much as I like Wordsworth, i am not a Cumbrian

>>15152113
I own a hundred books and I’ve read maybe five of them. I read so much more productively on my ereader than I do on paper.

>>15152186
Dumb dumb

Ok so sorry if this is the wrong section, Im looking for 2 books (kinda) that I cant find anywhere

1- "A story for you" by Satoshi Hase, all I can find is its french version "cette histoire est pour toi " but not translated to english (if it even exist a translation)

2-The Story of the three kindoms but not any version, I was reading one that was separated into several pdf (like 6 or 7) that had a bunch of pictures of dinasty warrior characters when they appeared in the book so it was easier to recognize who is who, but i can only find the first 3 parts, not the rest

>>15162362
Fuck i posted this in a thread instead of making a new one, sorry for being a brainlet ;__;

>>15161658
I read non-fiction much faster than I can read fiction. I like to take it slow and imagine ever scene

>>15156124
>Swedenborg
I could picture him becoming flavor of the month one of these days

>>15154860
Shut up. I don’t want to hear your success that only remind me of my failings. Kill yourself and hope I never have to hear of your success in escaping this hell, for it will only cause me to further writhe with envy.

I told the girl I am dating that I learned Russian for her.

I learned it to read Dostoevsky and Lenin

>>15158173
>this is the guy who calls you a kike lover on 4chan
Not too surprised t.b.h

>>15151419
i went to a catholic school until 14, before high school, and they compelled us to confess. during the last year, when i ceased believing in god, at the confessions i said to the priest the most heineous sins, like
> i was havig sex with other boys
> i ate my own shit
> i joined satanic rituals
> etc
at the end he found out i was lying and i got expelled.

For some reason over the past few years, I have had an issue just getting a reading session started. Once I start reading, I'll sit there for at least an hour or 2 and really enjoy myself.

Not sure if this is a factor of a potential Hulu/porn/4chan addiction or if I'm just overthinking it and need to structure my day out a little more formally and set aside a specific time for reading.

I do play it off as if I read a lot, but I don't overdo it on the bullshitting. Also...

>i liked name of the wind a lot

THERE, I FUCKING SAID IT!!! Hope you enjoyed my leddit spacing.

>>15164314
I find I read more when I'm working even though I have less free time for this reason. Structure is immensely useful sometimes.

>>15159813
thx for the advice, bro

>>15151419
whenever I read anything in a /crit/ thread, I cannot help but feel I easily outrank each and everyone of you scrubs. yet, I don't know if I'd best all here IRL, since of course no one posts one's best stuff, right.

Im actually depressed in non meme way

>>15156124
You ought to pick up fundamentalist Baptist. That would be something refreshing on /lit/.

>>15164322
Interesting. Since I've been furloughed I've been doing lots of work on my house and property, and just can't seem to consistently sit down and read for an hour or two. I have plenty of time. Instead I'll sit and watch Bob's Burgers or some other mindless shit.

I did just set up an office off of my library that was filled with shit. It's very spartan now and has no room for distraction. I think I'll try and self-enforce a no cell phone policy and just use it strictly for reading or journaling. We'll see. It's a step in the right direction at least.

>>15161658
This, I could read 100 pages of Dosto before I go to bed in the evening, or a whole novella in a weekend afternoon. If you have trouble reading a large volume you simply have focus issues. Very few people (at least here) are actually bad at reading; either you're distracted or your mind is elsewhere.

>>15164322
Absolutely the same here. I've been off work for 4 weeks now thanks to corona-chan and, while I've read a fair amount, certainly little more than I could have had I been working my normal 9 hours per day.

A harsh breakup threw me into clinical depression, I was so ashamed of myself for being depressed about that, that it made things even worse. Stopped reading, drawing, playing videogames, I was just sleeping like 14 hours a day. Decided to not take meds and could overcome through gestalt therapy. Sometimes I fall into anhedonia but overall I'm feeling fine.

>>15164567
>gestalt therapy.
What did you do there?

>>15154196
this website has fucked with your mind. the holocaust is extremely real, there are a lot of pictures and interrelated first-hand accounts. People literally make up evidence here and parrot the same three talking points

>>15164569
What I felt was that the psychologist somehow unlocked my thought blocks by putting things into perspective.

I just talked lots and was as honest as I could, and all my presumptions, incongruences, fallacies, and outright lies, were sent back to me. Or something like that.

To say something very simple, I felt that my self-image shattered because this girl said that I was pretty much an horrible person, incapable of thinking about others or having the slightest empathy, among many things that all my life I feared someone feeling about me -in this case, the person I cared about the most.

The psychologist simply said: has anyone ever said those things to you? Do your friends, family, coworkers, teachers, anyone, feel like this about you?

The answer was no.

That was a knot of many.

>>15153426
That's because it's shit. read the plague.

>>15155689
I did this on a senior paper on the themes of frankenstien. I got an A just by bullshitting my way through with what I'd heard in passing. felt good.
>>15155674
Same. I'm slowly getting better, but I've been saying I love aristotle for like three years now, and I've never finished a single book by him. I'm currently half way through the categories.
>>15155754
stop
>>15155811
It's just normal writing. What I'm writing right now is prose.
>>15156124
This is chad. I'm catholic, but if we don't know our shit mock us. Take screenshots of the good ones with explanations of the bullshit for us plebs occasionally.
>>15158173
Maybe take a break dude. Focus on something else for a month or two and then come back to the jew stuff.
>>15164087
Based.
>>15164110
That is fucked, but the priest shouldn't have told anyone. There should have been no way for anyone other then the priest to know those things. I'm sorry the priest broke the seal.
>>15164314
That's rough dude. Maybe try someone with easy prose like name of the wind. Fight club, the sea wolf, or maybe something like father elijah.

>>15165815
So did it work in the end?

>>15164418
I'll pray for you anon.

>>15166397
Thank you.

>>15164314
>Not sure if this is a factor of a potential Hulu/porn/4chan addiction
If you're anything like me, it is.

>>15166393
Yes. I could identify most of the things that made me feel bad, put into perspective, and either solve some issues, or at least not feel overwhelmed anymore.

That's what I felt after all. Powerless, weak, pathetic, ashamed, overwhelmed, that things surely would be even worse in the future.

I think there are some things about oneself, that one simply is not able to see. Or at least, not when one is sad as fuck and unable of functioning properly. For this, a psychologist is great help.

>>15166489
I agree. I really should go to therapist as i cant other perspective aside my own wallowing in sadness.

I have about a week to write 15 pages paper on the christian platonism in the writings on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and I haven't even started reading or planned it. I am scared that it will be too hard for me and I will fail it. But you know what now lit? I'm leaving and I'm going to read the book. Fuck shitposting and quarantine induced hedonism. Fuck Twitter screenshots, fuck bait threads, fuck niggers, fuck faggots, fuck jannies and fuck trannies. Expect me in the week in a thread about writings of Pseudodionysius Areopagite.

>>15166472
Let us pray this isn't the case.

>>15164457
I read fiction very slowly, I try to realize the scene in my head as fully and life like as possible and I read dialog as I think it would be spoken. I can blaze through a lot of nonfiction. It took me a week to read the stranger at 3 hours a day.

>>15166549
That would be great. Looking forward too it.

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>>15154196
I'm a /pol/tard and even I know the holocaust is real. The most irritating thing on that board. That's saying something too.