/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13956268]

I am slowly losing interest in fiction. Is this a sign of maturity, or deterioration of artistic psyche?

[Anonymous No.13956271]

>>13956268
I don't know, and I don't really care.

[Anonymous No.13956272]

autism

[Anonymous No.13956280]

Well the bookstore called, and they're running out of you

[Anonymous No.13956283]

>>13956280
The bookstore called, and said that your recent purchases have gotten you placed on a watchlist.

[Anonymous No.13956287]

>>13956268
pls tell me who right is, coomer-senpai

[Anonymous No.13956292]

>>13956287
my mom desu

[Anonymous No.13956298]

>>13956287
just found it, it's 神谷 えりさ

>>13956292
you wish, bucko

[Anonymous No.13956684]

>>13956268
All jokes aside, you should go to a bookstore and browse the fiction section for a good hour. If you cannot find anything of interest, just drop the idea and move on.

[Anonymous No.13957093]

Some fiction is mature, some is immature, but judging by the picture choice, you're still a retarded teenager, so don't worry about maturing yet.

[Anonymous No.13957461]

>>13957093
What, you don't like women?

[Anonymous No.13958701]

Fiction is fiction, even if it moves you it's just some guy's opinion.
The best book is The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup btw

[Anonymous No.13958791]

>>13957461
jezebelposters are perennial midwits

but it probably means its time to move on to history/philosophy.

[Anonymous No.13958987]

>>13956268
ON its own it is a sign of nothing but that you are changing.

[Anonymous No.13959623]

>>13958701
Wot? Learning a programming language that will allow you to code products directly for the gain of some corporation or material gain. damn what a book.

[Anonymous No.13960029]

>>13956268
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[Anonymous No.13960103]

>>13956268
If you don't have an interest in fiction, that's okay. Let it be for a while. Do something else that might interest you. try something new, like cooking or something. Eventaully you'll get the urge to come back to it.

On another note, this is a strange picture. I hate the strawberries. It detracts from the whole picture. Almost trivializes it. But then I wonder if it was intentional? Perhaps it was, "Yeah we know where you're gonna look" or perhaps it was an intentional attempt to mar the beauty of the picture. Of course, perfection is unattainable; we can only approach it asymptotically. But once we are reasonably close to it, it's good enough. In other words, the strawberries are there because almost perfect is actually better than perfect.
The women don't feel real without the strawberries. It's the green. It could have been easily arranged so that the green parts could have been hidden or removed, but they were very intentionally kept there. But their presence lends (is this the word?) verisimilitude to this picture. Now it isn't a representation of women- something to admire in a crass and brutal manner. Now I look at their arms, their knees, the veins on their hands, how pink their nails look, their necks, the tilt of their head, how they've applied their make up, and made up their hair. I look at both of their expressions and it looks like something I might see in real life on the street: a woman at the bus stop smiling to herself for something amusing she remembered when she saw something across the street. This is in contrast to the other expression, which is far less gentle, but her eyes make me wonder what kind of life she leads. WIll she go back to an empty household? What will she eat? Will she cook for herself. Will she satisfy herself with nothing but a cup of instant ramen? Perhaps she still lives with family. Perhaps she has a younger or older sibling. What does she wear outside this stage? Perhaps she has a spouse or a child. What does she think about when she takes a shit but forgot her phone outside?

[Anonymous No.13960258]

lots of retarded replies in here. OP, just read non-fiction until you want to go back to fiction. this happens no biggie

[Anonymous No.13960292]

>>13956268
non-classic fiction blows but it can be fun, no more and no less

[Anonymous No.13960297]

>>13956268
What kind of fiction are you reading?

[Anonymous No.13961403]

This is actually a fair question, I used to never think I would feel this way but I definitely do now. Fiction just feels like a waste of time even though I know I would like it and get something out of it if I read fiction. I used to love fiction and get a lot out of it, read all the Classics and a lot of the canon of works for every country but now I just feel guilty and stupid for wasting time on it. I have so much to do in my life and fiction in reality doesn't do anything to help me improve. At least philosophy or political texts I can claim are mentally stimulating but most fiction is just meh. I started reading a fiction book the other day, read it for a couple hours, and I just put it down, I wasn't getting anything out of it.

[Anonymous No.13962323]

>>13956268
Well if you save pics like that and you believe those women are attractive, then that says it all.

[Anonymous No.13962332]

>>13956268
Just stick exclusively with philosophical fiction. Stuff like Hermann Hesse, Goethe, Mishima, Dostoevsky.

[Anonymous No.13962659]

>>13962332
This.
>>13961403
Have you tried skimming fiction? I highlight and take notes of dialogue/quotes that could improve my writing/speech. I also note down character traits that could improve my life, as well as plot segments that could be useful in communicating concepts.

I do mostly read non-fiction, but I fully believe that fiction has value in self-improvement too. (Then maybe later, you can get back to reading fiction purely for fun/escapism, when life sucks sometimes.)

[Anonymous No.13962669]

>>13956268
You're suffering from Coombrainer's depression.
I mean it.

[Anonymous No.13964052]

>>13960258
Yeah only pseuds force themselves to read dry non-fiction. Everyone longs for a nice story eventually.

[Anonymous No.13964246]

>>13956268
Congratulations OP on finally becoming a man. I hope you are not over 21 because that would mean you are arriving late to intellectual maturity.

[Anonymous No.13964249]

[Anonymous No.13964278]

>>13956268
If there is anything that this board and wider experience has taught me, it's that preferring nonfiction to fiction is peak midwit. You should probably spend less time here; it might be a negative influence.

[Anonymous No.13964296]

>>13964052
She's gorgeous...Now I'm depressed...