/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13543907]

>finally stopped trying to comprehend super complex philosophy/politics books
>finally stopped slogging through boring old outdated "classics"
>started to read just what I want to read for entertainment purposes
>mfw happier than I've ever been in life

You say Plato, I say Paulo Coelho
You say Kafka, I say King
You say Dostoevsky, I say Dan Brown
You say Hegel, I say Harry Potter
You say The Bible, I say Fuck Off!

Life is too short to read what you don't like. Everyone here complains about being depressed and hating everything, and you obviously aren't finding answers in your precious /lit/core books, so you really need to chill and enjoy a nice story, simply told, with likable characters.

[Anonymous No.13543912]

>>13543907
Good on you, OP.

[Anonymous No.13543927]

based plato is incelcore anyway it's gutter trash

[Anonymous No.13543936]

>>13543907
based and mediocrepilled

[Anonymous No.13543938]

NOOOOOOOOO PICK UP YOUR BERGSON RIGHT NOW!
YOU ARE OUR CREATION!

[Anonymous No.13543939]

>>13543907
Pretty based. It's important to be honest with yourself whether or not you like/understand the book you're reading. /lit/ is full of dishonest people like that, and look how they turned out.

[Anonymous No.13543945]

>>13543907
Another self-filtered pleb.

[Anonymous No.13543964]

>>13543945
If you really cared about reading "important" literature you wouldn't post on here, simple as. Either commit to your craft or fuck off, this board is for casuals and NPCs only

[Anonymous No.13543969]

>>13543907

Based and bluepilled

[Anonymous No.13543974]

>>13543907
In awe of this gnosis....

[Anonymous No.13544001]

>>13543939
/lit/‘s attitude is that having read a book once is all you need to understand it as long as you write masturbatory hot garbage in your spare time

[Anonymous No.13544105]

>>13543907
Based.
In the grand scheme of things, shit some old guy wrote hundreds of years ago has no more merit to it than something a child would write today. Both are produced by a human, shaped by a human, and are therefore both equal in worth as far as the universe is concerned.

[Anonymous No.13544107]

>>13543907
Congratulations OP.
It's all escapism, so why not escape to somewhere that makes you happy?

[Anonymous No.13544110]

I agree with this but you don’t know what you’re going to like until you read it.

[Anonymous No.13544206]

>>13544105
lmao retarded chimp

[Anonymous No.13544233]

>>13544206
Yes, that's right, we're all monkeys. So it would be meaningless to prefer the inarticulate hoots and yowls of a long dead monkey over a living one, no?

[Anonymous No.13544237]

You should read because it’s good for you, no because you enjoy it. Enjoyment is probably the worst justification for doing anything.

[Anonymous No.13544243]

>>13544233
nah

[Anonymous No.13544244]

>>13543907
This is the final redpill

[Anonymous No.13544251]

>>13544243
t. Monkey

[Anonymous No.13544252]

>>13543907
fuck off normalcattle. your kind has ruined beauty.

[Anonymous No.13544269]

This is what you should be doing any way. People who read the classics often are reading the bits that are porn, not because they're pretentious assholes who think books are accessories to a facebook profile. Reading the classics for entertainment purposes is why the upper classes kept everything in Greek because it stopped the lower classes from learning things about foreign dancing girls and how to perform surgery on yourself.
>tfw first account of penguins was in ancient Greek because the biologist who saw them thought "can't put necrophiliac homosex in English the tabloids will be all over it"

[Anonymous No.13544283]

>reads deleuze once

[Anonymous No.13544298]

>>13543907
based. enjoying life is just as important as trying to better yourself.

[Anonymous No.13544304]

>>13543964
>if you really cared about X you would be an extremist
Woah.

[Anonymous No.13544322]

>>13544304
/lit/ is a huge detriment to the good ideas in novels. if you think your books were so important you wouldn't sully their names by posting about them on here.

[Anonymous No.13544361]

>>13544105
Yeah but you aren't the universe, you're random jackass shitposting on basket weaving Malayalam board

[Anonymous No.13544402]

>>13543907
nobody forced you dick head

[Anonymous No.13544417]

>>13543907
What a cutie. Still I happen to find those things that scared you away just as entertaining as any pulp book.

[JN !!vXXhA/qzhjm No.13544435]

>>13543907
This is the secret to finding good books

Two exceptions: you may find a bad writer who knows something you want to learn, and you may pick up a boring book later in life and find it suddenly more accessible.

[Anonymous No.13545442]

>>13543907
don't let go of philosophy, but you have made a good decision with fiction. fiction should be read only as entertainment

[Anonymous No.13545472]

>>13545442
Philosophy is the most useless genre of literature, 90% of "dude read the greeks lmao" is outdated and unnecessary information, philosophy is generally for people who like to ask the meaning of the word meaning and be congratulated for being so deep, when in truth most if not all philosophy is not based off of hard data but the author's interpretation of the world.

[GOD No.13545473]

>>13543907
If you are simple you will have these problems.

[Anonymous No.13545479]

>>13543907
Why not read both?

[Anonymous No.13545481]

>>13543907
People actually have a hard time reading Dostoevsky?

[Anonymous No.13545484]

>>13545472
pseud. read more philosophy

[Anonymous No.13545645]

>>13543907
I'm going to get there one day OP

[Anonymous No.13545675]

>>13544105

[Anonymous No.13545690]

>>13544251
His post is as valuable as yours, for both of you are monkeys. Thus, you insulting his post is ridiculous, as you could never produce anything better or worse.

[Anonymous No.13545699]

>>13543907
>implying you can't read both
I read both LNs and "serious" literature and their point of origin doesn't influence my enjoyment of the work as much as does the execution of the book itself.

[Anonymous No.13545740]

>>13543907
>finally stopped trying to comprehend adult books
>went back to dr. seuss and blue's clues
>happier than i've ever been
t. literally op

[Anonymous No.13545743]

>>13545472
jesus fucking denton read a book idiot, your philosophy is even more cringe than op

[Anonymous No.13545903]

>>13545743
haha get it
denton doesn't believe in christ
haha get it

[Anonymous No.13545931]

>>13545743
>>13545484
>The pseud recoils as he strikes you
Keep self-congratulating yourself on your supposed intelligence, I'm sure parmenides and heraclitus have really helped you in every day life. You're the type of autists that only read to appear intelligent, yikes

[Anonymous No.13545944]

>>13543907
>finding answers in your precious /lit/core books
reading is for finding more questions, not answers, ass hat

[Anonymous No.13545954]

>>13545472
the absolute state of this world

[Anonymous No.13545967]

>>13543907
>life is to short to read what you don’t like.

Agreed brother! But I like philosophy so I’ll be keeping that. I can’t really get behind Harry Potter but if you can, more power to you. You beautiful lit beast.

[Anonymous No.13545973]

slide thread

[Anonymous No.13545979]

>>13544237
Nah man. Because someone else told me to is way worse than because I enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.13545986]

Shit, just because you read for entertainment doesn't mean you need to have such an abysmally low taste.

[Anonymous No.13545994]

>>13545944

mmkay, and how's that working out for you?

[Anonymous No.13546009]

>>13544105
the reddest pill of all

[Anonymous No.13546231]

>>13543938
Have you considered picking up another language? You can be introduced to new philosophical concepts by learning a language and reading even simple entertainment material of a culture distant from your own. It's the best of both worlds, you get to read interesting things and develop intellectually at the same time.

[Anonymous No.13546238]

>>13543907
I was gonna make fun of your obvious bait but I honestly feel great for not reading Ulysses, fuck /lit/ for riding Joyces dick that much, Dubliners is mediocre compared to Chekhov.

[Anonymous No.13546240]

>>13544105
Lol?

[Anonymous No.13546265]

>>13546231
I feel tempted to learn Japanese, but I'm too intimidated to try.

[Anonymous No.13546277]

>>13545931
>>13545472
The absolute state
Even the older centuries blurred the lines, poster has not escaped the spectacle no matter how well they can operate within it.

[Anonymous No.13546360]

>>13546265
It's not easy, but anyone that has a japanese entertainment habit to begin with is in a good position to learn. I'd say anyone like that should bare minimum learn kana and basic grammar, as with those you'll start filling in things like definitions intuitively just by reading subtitles. I've done almost no dedicated study and eventually found myself reading things in japanese just because I could and wanted to.

[Anonymous No.13546378]

>>13545484
>pseud
I'm by no means a pseudo-intellectual. My novel is nearing completion and the three chapters I sent out to prospective agents were received with great enthusiasm. After a brief contest between three competing agents I signed with one who immediately found a large publishers to sign my book, despite my informing him that I still have a few chapters to go. As you can imagine this has made my mommy very proud indeed, and any anxiety she might have otherwise experienced for allowing her little cherub to live with her for so long as been relieved and her decision vindicated. It's very entertaining indeed to see so many people on this board discussing their literary ambitions while simultaneously defending the demands made on us all by a corrupt and callous economic system. Having chosen to opt out of such a dystopian existence, my work has benefited from the amount of time I have been able to spend researching, writing and editing what will no-doubt be among next year's most recommended literary achievements. And what's more I have achieved this all at (what will be described as) the "tender age" of 24. I see no reason to sacrifice my existence for the sake of those who see only monetary value and the opportunity for personal gain in this world.

[Anonymous No.13546383]

>>13544237
You really should read for entertainment or gratification. I can't imagine reading things I'm not interested in just to simply say "I've read it"

[Anonymous No.13546559]

>>13543907
Thanks. Now please leave. This place doesn't need anymore brainlets or midwits solely concerned with their own enjoyment, and nothing else in life. Escapism is an acceptable and necessary part of the human mind, but wallowing in nothing else but it and work is a waste of the bets part of yourself.

>It is for you then, when you realize this, to look to the faculties you possess, and considering them to say, 'Zeus, send me what trial Thou wilt; for I have endowments and resources, given me by Thee, to bring myself honour through what befalls.' Nay, instead, you sit trembling for fear of what may happen, or lamenting, mourning, and groaning for what does happen, and then you reproach the gods. What else but impiety indeed can attend upon so ignoble a spirit as yours?
>And yet God not only gave us these faculties, which will enable us to bear all the issue of events without being humiliated or broken down by it, but, as became a good king and a true father, He gave us this gift free from all let or hindrance or compulsion—nay, He put it wholly in our hands, not even leaving Himself any power to let or hinder us.
>Yet possessing these powers in freedom for your own you refuse to use them and will not realize what gifts you have received and from whose hand, but you sit mourning and grieving, some of you blinded to the giver Himself and refusing to recognize your benefactor, and some from meanness of spirit turning to reproaches and complaints against God. Yet I will show you that you have resources and endowment to fit you for a noble and courageous spirit: show me, if you can, what endowments you have for complaining and reproach.

Epictetus, The Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 6

[Anonymous No.13546568]

>>13543907
Imagine this. I actually enjoy reading Plato, Kafka, Dostoevsky, and the Bible.

[Anonymous No.13546617]

>>13546559
most cringe post of 2019

[Anonymous No.13546620]

>>13544105
Based and humanismpilled