/lit/ - Literature

most girls that read books are fking hunched over mongoloids

>>16925181
Same happens to me, everytime I meet a girl they read YA.
I just met a boy, on the other hand, who is into classical literature, but we live too far away...

>>16925181
>meet girl
>she tells me she enjoys reading
>conversation naturally moves to current reads
>she mentions she's currently reading Plutarch and Basho
why has OP such a shit taste in women?

nobody reads books these days

>>16925181
This is some stale pasta or she's in a malleable age if she reads a 10 year old book series.

>>16925197
Based

>>16925181
>recommend female co-worker 'Hero of our Time' because in my experience girls like it
>she gets offended that Bela is traded for a horse and drops the book
People are fucking brainlets these days. I try to refrain from judgement but this is fucking beyond the pale

Girls do read more than men but the problem is that they read absolute trash.

I've learnt that I should just appreciate that a woman reads, and not concern myself too much about what she reads (within reason)

>>16925181
AFRICAN AMERICAN MICROPENIS

>>16925182
This.
Women who read often just want to be loved, OP. Can you blame them for trying to relive their disappointing youth and its fleeting romance through the scribblings of Wine Aunts?

>>16925181
Most men read fantasy or thrillers.
Most women also read thrillers.
meanwhile, you don't read at all.

>>16925470
God, especially out here. I don't know what it is, but Germanic countries are absolutely bugfuck about krimis. They have billboard advertisements about books called THE BASEMENT with taglines like HE HUNTS GIRLS AND HES HUNTING AGAIN or some shit. It's crazy.

>>16925498
Sounds pretty based

>>16925502
It would be if I had any interest whatsoever in krimis. I don't like the genre at all.

OP is confused cause he hasn't read Twilight of the Idols

>>16925181
>meet guy
>find out he enjoys reading
>ask him what his favorite books are
>he says shit like Infinite Jest and Ulysses that he doesn't actually even like but just uses to look intelligent, nihilistic, with a wicked sense of humor
why are incels always like this

>>16925181
when i was 16, i knew a dumbfuck who was boasting that he was reading hunger games, how embarrassing, the fact he was reading a book aimed at teenage girls makes it more laughable

>>16925648
Well, what do you like to read then?

>>16925290
>meet guy who says he likes reading, >translations snob
>recommend east of Eden because of those Chinese motherfuckers going all Library of Alexandria on translations of the Bible
>he gets offended by Kate and stops talking to all women, drops the book, never reads how goddamn based Lee is
He doesn't earn enough to be afraid of Kate. He's monolingual too. No saving some people.

>>16925922
i can do you one better, i knew a guy who read twilight at school

>>16925969
https://youtu.be/QT13kk8HDDo

>>16925181
>meet girl i used to be friends with
>see a copy of milk and honey by rupi kaur on her coffee table
>don't mention it
>too autistic to say anything at all
>never see her again
why are women always like this

>>16925191
mfw no lit e-bf..

>be me, 13 yrs old
>bring in montaigne (no idea what the hell he was, just picked up one of my dad's books to read)
>qt 3.14 english teacher goes up to me and smiles, says she did her dissertation on him
>"uhhhhh yeah i like how he updates stoicism to his times" or some pseud bullshit
>gives me full marks for my tests rest of year
and that's how i ended up studying neoplatonism

>be me in highschool
>a group os classmates consisting of 2 males 3 females brag about reading a lot
>date qt girl from that group
>visit her
>bookshelf filled with hunger games, twilight, divergent, shadow hunters, I am number 4, etc
>ask if her male friends read the same stuff, she says yes
>pepelaugh.jpg
>tell her I think it's garbage, change the subject, normal conversation
>fucked her
>broke up
>years later, she has the same group of friends
>none of them even tried anything with her

Man wtf are those guys doing? I understand they were simping for coochie back then, but it's been like 5 years and it's still the same

>>16925181
they read for fun instead of reading to trade intellectually masturbatory talking points with people about the same five novels for the rest of time

>>16925191
>>16926037
sad

>>16925181
use the /women/ board next time

>>16925181
What are your favorite books, Mr Erudite?

>>16925181
>girl
>she
>her

>>16930282
>Meet tranny
> obviously high iq, well versed in classical literature, theory and philosophy
>still feel a deep instinctive repulsion to to what i cannnot help but see as anything but a subhuman monster freak

>meet girl during summer vacation
>hang out with her friends
>she’s extremely cute
>talk about how we love Gabriel García Márquez and how 100 years of solitude is amazing
>we start holding hands whenever we’re alone
>invites me to her birthday party
>we’re pretty much summer loving each other by now, not even trying to hide it in front of her friends anymore
>stay late at her party, her father drives me to where I was staying during vacation
>when I get out of the car she gets out as well
>walks me to the door and kisses me (hadnt kissed her because I was like 17 and very slow at this shit back then)
>last day of vacation go to her place without telling her, somehow she knew I’d come
>go to local park and kiss below a tree’s shadow, talk about Marquez and The Great Gatsby
>go back home and fall off little by little
>only times we’ve talked again were when Garcia Márquez died and when she asked for book recommendations on Instagram
>tell her War and Peace is great
That was a great first kiss.
Sometimes I miss being a stupid teen.

>>16925181
>meet girl
>reads bestsellers list and dabbles in classics
>recommend some /lit/ stuff
>no longer human and beckett's plays
>she likes them
>starts reading more lessthanmainstream lit

it works fellas, instead of turning up your nose at someone who's tastes don't exactly align with yours, recommend them something you like, try it.

>>16925181
This thread is proof we’ve been overrun with newfags, no one who’s been here more than 6 months would have the patience for this thread. Just enjoy the hobby of reading, you probably didn’t give a fuck about reading a little while ago I can assure you.

>>16930368
they'll never catch up with me

>>16930377
How does one avoid intellectual materialism?

>>16930420
step 1: stop being straight

>>16930420
Thing is when people are shallow about a hobby they use it like fashion. They “wear” the music they listen to, the books they read, as if they’re much more interesting/better because of it. In truth you’re only very insecure about yourself so you need this thing to mask it by being pompous about your hobbies. When you get deeper into your interests hopefully you will realize how time consuming and stupid it is to police other people’s tastes and grow beyond that to just enjoy it and genuinely let other people enjoy it as well.

>>16930352
First kiss is at the alter heathen shit

>>16930445
I mean have you tried bringing up nietzsche or any western philosopher for that matter around your local lgbtqia leftist cattle? In no time you will see their little stupid cowlike eyes light up in panic. Soon enough they will start with the usual subhuman bleating "wasnt he sexist? Arent you being dangerously eurocentric? Why read books by dead white men when you could have been streaming the latest diverse and inclusive workplace comedies at netflix hulu and disneygo? Didnt you know reading is ableist towards people who are too retarded to read? Have you been taking your SSRIs and HRT? it is very important that you take the medication dr goldstein prescribed otherwise we will have to report you to corporate for mandatory sensitivity training".

>>16930487
I don't know a single member of the lgbtqia cattle because here in Italy it's a fairly new phenomenon. I have no idea what these nutcases think like either because I've been friendless since I moved out and a shut in since the pandemic started.

>>16925197
Fuck I would get filtered. I only read Americans.

>>16930352
Never happened to me when I was a teen. Most of my teenagehood and early adult life was not romantic.

>>16930352
C'est un beau souvenir.

>27
>Haven't even had a real female friend, let alone have had a girlfriend yet

Is it too late for me?

>>16925181
>why are women always like this
They aren't. The women you talk to are just the feminine equivalent of the dudes who read shit like 12 Rules for Life, Rich Dad Poor Dad and, generally, shit self-help, masculinity and millionaire mindset """books""". Regardless of gender, being /lit/ is something reserved for an exclusive few.

>>16925648
I cba about infinite jest but Ulysses is genuinely riveting. Idk why this board hates on it so much. Then again, I’m rereading doestovsky and nabakov rn so maybe I just have shit taste

>>16931109
All women are vapid whores.

>>16931118
If you say so.

You're supposed to initiate them into the real shit, dummy.

>>16925181
I'd take YA over pic related.

A girl said she was reading it, that it was "really good". I knew it looked trash from the synopsis, but I needed to know how bad it would be. Found a digital copy. It's a retelling of the Odyssey fron Penelope's perspective. First 5 chapters are just

>men are rapists
>gods are rapists
>men suck
>boys suck
>also me, Penelope, I actually wasn't faithful haha
>haha in your face homer, in your face odysseus

The writing reads like something for highschoolers, but wine aunts would lap this shit up. It's like a seething feminist got fed up with the odyssey and thought she could write anything remotely close to it, it's like doing the middle finger and thinking you've won the argument. I hate that my autism will compel me to finish it.

>>16928918
You don't find trading masturbatory talking points fun?

>>16927137
based and wholesome

>>16931205
So what could she actually do in that story? Pretend to knit a quilt for 20 years?

>>16925197
Where does one find people like this?

>>16930481
Phew, I was kind of sweating there, realising once again how I missed out on a normal childhood, but thanks to this reminder I can type "based" and feel better again

>>16931248
Kek, it's not very long. It talks about her relationship with Odysseus, and it talks about the characters from a feminist perspective. Of course Helen is somewhat an antagonist because the becky that wrote this hates that Helen gets all the attention for being pretty, but I don't actually wabt that attention myself of course. "Why is it that really beautiful people think everyone else in the world exists merely for their amusement". The language could actually be understood by a primary schooler, not that I'd recommend this smut to even a child.

The only good thing I'm getting from this book is a boost in self esteem about my own writing ability lol

>>16930352
>start fucking her dad
>no condom
>no lube

>>16931011
Yeah

better than not reading at all, you dipshit. take this as an opportunity to educate her

>>16925922
In his defense, there is an insanely small number of YA books for boys since most boys go through their reading is lame phase in high school.

>>16931011
yup

>>16931375
>>16931473

At what age was it too late?

>>16931515
Soft 18. Hard 22. If you haven't lost your virginity by the time you should be out of college, everyone will consider you pathetic even if you do lose it at some point.

>>16931542
And what if I just lie and say I lost my virginity at 16?

>>16931567
You can't do that anon it will tear down the whole system and society will crumble away to nothing

>>16931567
They'll know.

>>16931590
No they won't. There's no such thing as a Virginity mark on your forehead that gets washed off when you get your dick wet.

>>16925182
unfortunately this is really fucking accurate.

>>16931542
>>16931567
The key is to lie and just say you've had a few hookups or something. It's not wrong to lie to women about this.

>>16925181
Most men literally don't read any fiction whatsoever. And the non-fiction they read is often shit. Funnily enough, I had a friend in high school who was a large normie football guy and he got really into Hunger Games saying it was the only book he read that he liked. He read the whole series.

Also it really annoys me that we are supposed to read "diverse authors" which amounts to crappy YA novels written by black women, instead of actual literature from foreign countries. I get no points for reading 20th century Japanese authors. It's all a big cartel for propping up these shit books read exclusively by lonely 27 year old women who like reading about teenagers having sex.

>>16931412
I read quite a few YA books for boys, here are some I liked:

CHERUB series
Tales of the Otori (arguably YA)
Feed

>>16931542
>He lost his virginity just because he cared what other people would think if he didn't
>His life is still unmemorable and will be forgotten soon after
>Unironic virgins like Isaac Newton will be remembered for milennia

I know how you feel, Anon. I once had a similar experience to this. A co-worker told me that she enjoyed reading, so I told her about the writers I was reading at the time - I was mentioning writers like Nietzsche and Jung. When I asked her what her favorite books were, she told me that her favorite book, as a child, was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and then proceeded to list some YA novels - all of which had been adapted to film. Looking back upon that conversation, I now notice a red-flag that I had missed at the time: she said that she enjoyed "reading books", instead of saying that she enjoyed "literature". This distinction is key: the former implies consuming a particular medium, and the later implies appreciating an artistic tradition.

where can we find literature femboys

>>16925589
All of Nietzsche's quotes about women would be called misogynistic but I remember someone here posting a story that he was the only professor at Basel who voted in favor of a accepting a female student or something. Why'd he do that?

>>16930333
Nice trips but you could have roleplayed Brideshead Revisited with the tranny as both the pagan Flytes.

>>16925181
Hunger Games actually is based. I would like to watch the movie at some point.

>>16930333
the only thing necessary for redemption is a nice pair of feminine feet

>>16931682
Nietzsche and Schopenhauer actually love women. They're viewed as misogynistic because
>they think the majority of people are fucking shit (readers only pay attention to this about women)
>they think the few women who are not shit are less shit than the men who are not shit (readers ignore this entirely)
The problem is their readers, like the great mass of humanity, are shit who want excuses why "humanity is shit" does not apply to them.

>meet book
>find out i enjoy reading
>meet book
>meet book
>meet book
>meet book
>meet book ad nauseam
>drop out of in-person high school for accelerated online school because mentally ill loser
>no friends
>meet /lit/
>post book
>post book
>recommend book
>meet book
>meet book
>recommend book
>go to college to meet book
>meet book
>meet book
>meet book
>become grown
>go to graduate school to meet book (mistake)
>meet book
>meet book
>meet book
>write paper
>write essay
>become ancient
>meet book
>meet book
>meet book
>meet book
>one day write book?
what the fuck is “girl?” i hope never to meet one of those.

>>16931704
>nonfiction anon doesn't mark the dead of /his/ threads on /lit/ in his timeline
Disappoint

>>16931719
so true

>>16931719
based

>>16931011
nah.

>he wants a "female intellectual" gf, as if her female brain is capable of producing any worthwhile or valuable insight into anything
>he wants a woman as his equal at all

>>16931334
just walk upstairs, that's where i found mine

>>16928769
seems like you came across a group of genuine friends breh. i'm sorry no one love s u that way

>>16931602
there is, it's called limpdick syndrome and it affects soon-to-be-ex-virgins every day

>>16932893
fuck it should I just go gay then?

>>16931698
it might help their general image if /b/ fags and robot9000s stopped jizzing about that essay on women and pushing it outside their containment boards

>>16925498
>Sebastian Fitzek
Can't see his name anymore. And the book are garbage.

>>16925181
Remember lads
>Men test ideas
>Women test men
Now stop being a bunch of retarded spergs asking questions that have obvious answers.

>>16925323
Sensible post ? On my forchanel ?

>>16932931
Yes. Take the gaypill. Start with the traps.

>>16926013
>>16930368
>>16930450
>>16932893
These posts are your answer. We don't need intellectually equal gf's. We need non-stupid ones which are fun, caring and honest.

Most /lit women are extremely postmodernist feminists as well, so it's almost impossible.

>>16933189
>Take the gaypill.
The scientific name is 'truvada'.

>>16931719
based

>>16931657
>CHERUB series
This makes you based. Just what the doctor ordered for teenage boys.

>>16931205
>It's a retelling of the Odyssey fron Penelope's perspective. First 5 chapters are just
>>men are rapists
>>gods are rapists
off-topic but does anyone know if circe is like this? i assumed circe was like this when everyone was reading it but never bothered to confirm/disconfirm my prejudices, thx in advance

>>16930450
You just described the phenomenon of growing up or at the very least, maturing.

>>16933189
where do i find a literary bi bf

>>16934493
On /lit/

>>16931011
No, but take good care of yourself first and keep having respect for yourself when getting closer to a girl

>>16925323
why? how does reading in and on itself a plus?

>>16934542
because that's all you could possibly get lmao
better learn to appreciate it

>>16925935
hunger games. duh

>>16925969
was he trying to score chicks?

>>16934564
why wouldn't I appreciate a girl with any other kind of hobby then? I'd rather date a chick who is illiterate but likes cooking/hiking/whatnot than a reader who just reads trash

I know one, just one girl who reads actual literature extensively. Le Guin is her favourite author, though she's read plenty of other genuine literature like Sartre and Flannery O'Connor along with all the usual women authors like the Bronte's. I'm hopelessly in love with her too, though we usually just chat about relatively benign things. Oh well.

>>16930368
b..b...but how will i act superior if they read the same stuff as me?

>>16925181
>why are women always like this
>Assuming you know all women on the basis of one uncultured swine

>>16925969
Based

>>16934614
talk about it to her more

>>16925181
Didn't happen
>>16925182
Facts

>wanting an intelligent woman

>>16930487
Shitposting masturbatory fantasies about owning strawman caricatured lefties isn't going to convince anyone of your reactionary agenda, it's only going to convince people that you live a sad repressed life, wasted by seething about a group you never interact with in real life, but seek out online, because you're just as addicted to being outraged as they are

>>16933287
I like that the author is an ugly British man and wrote a book series about a teenage Aryan superchad fucking and partying constantly and no one finds the large amount of teenage sex in his books weird. based.

>>16931213
I do but it's a paradoxically low kind of fun, when you examine it it's really not much better than saying "I like thing" and hearing back "I do/don't like thing", the reasons are generally just fluff

>>16931011
get a hobby and pursue groups based around it
if that doesn't work after a few months pursue another hobby
you'll find women in places you wouldn't expect, like tabletop games

>>16931334
locked in my basement

>>16932939
Kek, that's like expecting a man whose job relies on not seeing the obvious problem to see the obvious problem. That essay on women- I assume you mean Schopenhauer- was written because Schopenhauer was appalled at the expansion of prostitution. He directly calls out London's problem at the time and says it's a sign of male weakness and lack of development that they cannot see they should be marrying women instead of renting them. Ironically, most of the men who cite that essay to demonstrate women as weaker, would never choose to rent a house above buying it, and will also never see the essay is about prostitution and the decay of marriage like they are being paid not to see it.

>>16925648
>hmmm now what if I switched it around haha arent you dumb :)

>>16935904
Yeah, that's pretty much a good summary of what drew so many teens into the series lol.
In many ways it was like a less faggy and more rough version of popular UK teen dramas like Skins
it turns out brits almost as much as their continental counterparts don't really care that much about putting tons of sex in teen media

>>16925181
Women aren't supposed to be intellectual they're supposed to bake me cookies

>>16932931
>intellectual
Why not accept that a relationship between a man and a woman is unequal, and that's a good thing because they directly benefit from the contrast?

>>16931011
>>Haven't even had a real female friend
You should be grateful.

>meet up with cute girl from high school
>she's happily married
Why are women always like this

>>16934493
that's me bro

>>16932921
Damn

Women read Stephen King if they want to be intellectual. Saw one walking past me intently not looking at me pretending to read while walking which isn't difficult considering she's reading the script to a feature film with extra goofs and gafs for the greatest goyboys out there.

Women are mental children and the ones that aren't are severely autistic.