/lit/ - Literature

>>16017629
I found a based guy talking about anna karenina once (his only video on literature I should add). But aside from that, it's all garbage.

>>16017629
Don’t talk about /ourgirl/ like that, anon

>>16017629
Community is dead and PaperBackDreams is just the typical "not like the other girls" high school girl. She knows exatly what she's doing to thirsty online losers, and she's exploiting that advantage.
If you want real discussion, just look up old interviews with the authors. Anything before 1980 is great.
Don't give these attention whores what they want. It's all about being liked by the masses. And unfortunetly, the masses are illiterate.

>>16017675

>>16017629
The question is why do you search for such stuff on Youtube even to begin with? Like what need compels you weaklings to need some booktuber to look up to? Look at public lectures or something, find a cool professor but hang away that idol searching garbage on a platform like shitty youtube. The search is meaningless when the video posters are looking for recognition and drunken fame. Few sane intellectuals would constantly publish for a minimal crowd of meme thirsty sluts enjoying it only in a very elitistic way. It's not economical or socially wise in our society, if you want to have nice future, which I think most of us want (like Quin or another example Moot) then openly flirting with 4chan and political incorrectness will most likely hurt you carrier wise. Few can afford this connection without feeling the need to cave in to normative standards, and they are few I could imagine and fewer that would cater to Your special target group. The result is that the remaining booktubers are pop-consumers making safe bucks and a safe following of sane go-happy people. Boundry safety.
I know that many of us are lonely sad sots but we do not need to bow down into a pile of shit like that to feel happiness of connection in our little shit circle, your intellect knows better, right? Go read a fucking book. I can't really offer an alternative then to get some friends, but even that I can't really say from experience. We are doomed to wallow in self-scarring cynicism. Avoid shit like Youtube, how can you not see how cringe it all is? Bad lighted bedrooms of teenagers making inferior reviews but I guess you need that human nearness, huh. It's fast food for your brain and you know it. What do you do? Search for more when you should abstain and find a healthier goal or search.
Take a fucking hike dopamine fiends to the mountain of self accomplishment over on fit or climb another one. Do not stay lurching in your cave dwellings when you know what you think is "based"

I will end this with γνωθι σεαυτον, you can do better /lit/.

>>16017629
I want her to piss in my mouth

>>16017629
I don't know who this girl is and I don't care (though I'll admit she's rather cute), but I will say that of all the things modern people dump time into, the most pointless by far is YouTube. If you're going to cut anything out of your life, it should be that. The modern person who sits around watching YouTubers is basically the 21st century equivalent of people in the 1980s and 1990s who did nothing but sit around watching talkshows on local TV all day. It doesn't matter who the YouTuber is or what the channel is about, there is nothing they have to say that is worth giving them time and attention. Read books instead of watching booktubers. If you're going to use your computer for anything, try to find a creative hobby and do that instead of just mindlessly consuming garbage entertainment.

>>16017830
Damn, they’re nice

>reads books only to watch later a video about them

KYS

>>16018044
I only stared reading books a few weeks ago and whenever I finish one I want to hear other people's thoughts on it. I just chuck the title into Youtube because I am a pleb and that it was I would do when I finished an interesting film and wanted to engage with it a bit more.
How do I find professors or academics worth listening to or reading? If I search for lectures on Youtube I often come up dry, and if I search scholarly articles there's often way too many.
Help me.

>>16017830
these are gross

>>16018285
Golly.

>>16018166
>Exposure to other ideas = bad ?
Short snobbed nose goblin you are

>>16018187
It depends largely on what book it is. Is it a classic or by a famous writer (like a debater or philosopher) wikipedia usually have an article about it which in turn links to other useful articles (mostly) or just typing the title in a search engine usually gives me some hits. If the book has a foreword or afterword it might have some tips like a bibliography, though it can be a bit heavy for every book to go that way. Search on the author on youtube and you might find a lecture.

Some genres like fantasy and YA has such a bloated market and from my experience with at least fantasy and sci-fi they tend to be in some sort of bubble of critique and reviewing each other, rarely with input from the larger sphere of the bigger debate society, which write on all things from the Iliad to Murakami if we talk fiction.

Also, learn how to search with key words not grammatical questions. It's good to learn about other opinons (sapere aude! to continue the kantian cosplay) it's just that one needs to be aware on what medium one is searching on and complaining about. Youtube was not made for literature reviews as the goal, but there are great videos on it no doubt.

And keep reading friend!

>>16018409
Here's your book reviewer slave >>16018285