/lit/ - Literature

You should be water boarded

>>15798291
>Implying browsing 4chan is better

>I MUST POST A WOJACK

with this mentality i have successfully consoomed nearly everything there is to know about the greeks and the romans

>>15798291
Threads like this are good motivation for me to read more so I don’t have to see this and so I can make higher quality threads myself

dumb wojack poster

>>15798291
>why yes, the only book I own is a copy of Finnegans Wake I found in a dumpster

Do these people ever grow up?
Idk if it's because I've gotten older or what but it's really hard for me to find a fiction book I like. Kinda the same with movies and tv, I like documentaries but can't stand anything else unless it's to deconstruct the propaganda. Same with music

>>15798511
>I like documentaries but can't stand anything else unless it's to deconstruct the propaganda.
Sounds like a teenager.

>>15798518
Is that why everyone goes to see the new Avengers movies every few months? To analyze the propaganda?

>>15798511
>>15798539
Fiction's really broad. If you're unable to enjoy any fiction I think that's a sign that there's something wrong with you. The fact that the Avengers is the first thing you think of supports this.

>>15798565
not him but I agree, there's fiction out there that's thought provoking, and although I do despise the blatant shameless propaganda push on media, if the first book that comes to mind when you think fiction is Harry Potter or Divergent you probably need to read more. Try Kafka, Nabokov, Hemingway... heck even King or Lovecraft if you must.

>>15798291
Masterfully crafted bait.

>>15798291
Back to your containment MCU thread on /co/.

>>15798511
Getting old and jaded isn't the same as maturing. In fact, these processes are opposite of each other.

>>15798291
Every single day I understand basedjak posters more and more. What causes this?

>>15798291
Where's your mask?

>>15798609
>heck even King or Lovecraft if you must.
Pleb books in a pleb genre.

>>15798291
>I MUST CONSOOM MORE DYSTOPIAN NOVELS!
Only thing here that is definitively 100% soi.

>>15798511
>it's really hard for me to find a fiction book I like
You're probably looking in the wrong places. There is enough classical persian poetry to keep you reading for decades, not counting the time it takes to learn the language. That's one example, the same applies several times over to Chinese literature, Hindu literature, Turkish literature, and each of the 25 past centuries of Western literature. Try a few obscure or ancient works and see what you like, then focus on it.

>>15798291
Pleb.

>>15798291
Then fuck off to /sci/ bugman

>>15798291
>criticizes fiction
>posts fiction

MUST CONSOOM MORE PHILOSOPHY. MUST READ HUME TO READ KANT TO READ SCHOPENHAUER AND THEN HEGEL! MUST CONSOOOOOM FREUD AND LACAN AND DELEUZE AND HEIDEGGER! MUST UNDERSTAND THE WORRRRRLLLLDDDD AAAHHHH

>>15798947
This tbqh. Just read the Greeks and Guenon.

Is reading poetry + nonfiction the best combination?

>>15798947
>implying they do
the only thing they're consooming is the wikipedia entry articles, no one can tell you haven't actually read Hegel if no one has read him either

>>15798858
thats why i mentioned them last, I've read them for the same reason I wasted time with Rowling or Tolkien, to know what the fuck everyone else is talking about. I do agree they're pleb tier, but not to be mixed on the same pit as Dune or Twilight.

>>15798947
Yes.

>>15799036
There is no best combination, only the combination that bring you joy, enlightenment, rare memories, consolation and steadfastness against adversity.

>>15799105
So what you're saying is that the unconventional pursue of dopamine is the primest road?

>>15798291
Why yes, I only download public domain books off of Project Gutenberg to avoid participating in the capitalist system.

>>15799122
Not that anon but absolutely.
If you're not an academic and don't enjoy some philosophical or literary text then there is no point in reading it.

>>15799181
W- so... Hedonism is really the ultimate philosophy? ... hold me.

>>15798291
You're looking for a boyfriend... I see that.

>>15799122
Reading could probably provide some serotonine also, but that's not all of it. Enlightenment might mean painful realization and better honesty towards yourself. It's not entirely hedonistic, but it's individual centered, in a sense.