/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18927551]

>What a stupid, fucking, idiotic country this was. All the young women drank water in such vast quantities that it was coming out of their ears, they thought it was "beneficial" and "healthy," but all it did was send the numbers of incontinent young people soaring. Children ate whole wheat pasta and whole wheat bread and all sorts of weird coarse-grained rice that their stomachs could not digest properly, but it didn't matter because it was "beneficial," it was "healthy," it was "wholesome." Oh, they were confusing food with the mind, they thought they could eat their way to being better human beings without understanding that food is one thing and the notions food evokes another.

Whoa... based...

[Anonymous No.18927572]

>>18927551
>they thought they could eat their way to being better human beings
You literally can do that though.

[Anonymous No.18927581]

>>18927572
How?

[Anonymous No.18927746]

>>18927551
>water bad
what the fuck am I supposed to drink when I'm out of wine?

[Anonymous No.18927759]

>>18927746
beer

[Anonymous No.18927761]

>>18927551
>stupid, fucking, idiotic countr
diction worthy of a charlotte flair promo.

[Anonymous No.18927766]

daily reminder to drink your water BUDDEH

[Anonymous No.18927785]

it doesn't take a Norwegian to know Sweden is a joke

[Anonymous No.18929100]

lol

[Anonymous No.18929112]

>>18927551
Never got into Knausgård but honestly II do kinda want to read his elaborate accounts of him masturbate as a teenager.

[Anonymous No.18929129]

>>18927746
I guess he's talking about the persistent "you gotta drink at least 8 glasses of water a day" myth that drives people to chug liquid all day long

[Anonymous No.18929386]

>>18929112
he didn’t masturbate as a teen, so he would always cum in his pants whenever he got with a lady. unironically great books

[Anonymous No.18929397]

>>18929112
>>18929386
But you get elaborate accounts of him shitting in the woods.

[Anonymous No.18929435]

>>18929386
Read his first book in My Struggle series and it's nothing special. Waste of time compared to great classical works. He's a nobody except a decent writer compared to what we have today (which doesn't say much at all)

[Anonymous No.18929444]

>>18929435
Isn't it sort of like reading an essay? As you say I'm sure it's good relatively speaking to people not reading the classics.

[Anonymous No.18929446]

>>18927581
If you eat a diet that includes a wide range of fruits and vegetables your brain will work better than someone who eats just carbs and meat.

[Anonymous No.18929450]

>>18929435
Let all that gas out of your ass, fucking nerd.

[Anonymous No.18929467]

I will force my children to eat steak and eggs

[Anonymous No.18929823]

>>18929444
>>18929435
Rachel Cusk is by far the superior writer of auto fiction.
I got bored with Knausgard after the gripping blow by blow account of him putting on his seatbelt

[Anonymous No.18929891]

>>18929823
Cusk is a woman

[Anonymous No.18930258]

>>18929823
>i got bored
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18930384]

>>18929823
those covers are fucking nice

[Anonymous No.18930694]

>>18930258
>why yes, I do enjoy reading a detailed description of every single cassette, and of the font and color of pen the contents are written in on the paper strip on the long side of each cassette, which the fifteen year old author had on his orange desk, next to the bed, in 1985

[Anonymous No.18930741]

Pseudcore.

[Anonymous No.18930770]

Why the fuck did I have to be born in the era where the graphomaniacs won because they were the only ones left?

[Anonymous No.18930833]

>>18927551
Europeans cannot imagine how bad it is in America. They chug coffee and soda all day every day, never touching the tap water or the drinking water. They literally can go on without drinking water for days!
And there I though Idiocracy was joking with future Americans watering their plants with soda and drinking it exclusively, reserving water only to flush the toilet, but they weren't.

[Anonymous No.18930868]

>>18929446
not by eating indigestible whole grains you can't - knaussgard is right here

[Anonymous No.18930873]

>>18929823
female hands typed this

[Anonymous No.18930887]

>>18929446
>Fruits
>Vegatables
Kek what are you? Living in the 90s? I can get all those nutrients and MORE from a 100% grass fed beef/organic chicken/fish diet. I eat nothing but dairy, meat, and rustic European boules and I'm in fantastic shape. What's your 1rm bench?

[Anonymous No.18930931]

>>18930887
I'm not the quoted anon, but you should eat some fresh fruit, I remember seeing an article about scurvy being a thing in college campuses.

[Anonymous No.18930942]

>>18930931
I eat bananas and berries occasionally but don't really fuck with tropical fruit. A Hyperborean doesn't need the diet of equatorial lotus eaters.

[Anonymous No.18930944]

>>18927746
LSD and sewage

[Anonymous No.18930948]

>>18930942
Are you high?

[Anonymous No.18930966]

>>18930948
of course

[Anonymous No.18931788]

>>18929823
Hello, Rachel. I know, I know, I'm just not reading it.

[Anonymous No.18931799]

>>18927551
what country?

[Anonymous No.18931813]

>>18929435
I don’t think you give a shit about current lit or classic lit if I’m being honest

[Anonymous No.18931819]

>>18931799
Common among most scandis I think

[Anonymous No.18931827]

>>18931799
>>18931819
Yeah he's just seething at middle-class health trends.

[Anonymous No.18931860]

>>18931827
seething about normies makes comfy lit desu

[Anonymous No.18931911]

>>18931799
Seething in Sweden

[Anonymous No.18931992]

>>18931819
>>18931827
>>18931911
quite rightly

[Anonymous No.18932128]

>>18929129
And what's wrong with that? Let me drink my water.

[Anonymous No.18932130]

>>18927746
Whatever hard liquer's left in the cabinet
>>18929446
Fuck you, all of Western Civilization was built on copious amounts of alcohol, cigarettes, and whatever was on the menu at the pub/bistro/diner
You min/maxing cleanliving shites telling youself you can comsume and buy your way out of hell is everything that is wrong with the world

[Anonymous No.18932161]

>>18929823
>woman
>good writer
pick one

[Anonymous No.18932286]

>>18932128
Nothing really, he's just seething because it's funny. It's literature.

[Anonymous No.18932382]

>>18927746
Learn to read.

[Anonymous No.18932407]

>>18927551
Water enjoys shall rise and annihilate you fucking dried up niggers. My brain is so fast that witthout a liter of hydration an hour they overheat. Yes, I am that smart. And so are my based gulperpilled bros.

[Anonymous No.18932724]

>>18929112
This is literally my first time ever exploring /lit/. was curious what you guys thought about Karl because like two minutes ago I went to my bookshelf and grabbed my struggle and started rereading. Imo, the first two books of my struggle are incredible. They are solid reflections on the mundaneness of life as a father, son and husband. First book is more about the meaningless of death; second is more about the meaningless of life. I tried getting into the third, but didn't get far. Second is probably my favorite of the two.

[Anonymous No.18932749]

>>18931860
yeah it does. i loved when he shit all over the parents he met at the party his kids went to

[Anonymous No.18932821]

Why do so many modern writers think its super deep to become excessively upset with some juvenile, perfunctory part of people's lives
>Oh...my God, did you just drink out of a P-L-A-S-T-I-C bottle?! Let me go on a long rant about the downfall of human spirit and the worship of plastic, about plastic that has become our love, about plastic seeping into the oceans, and into our souls, about the plastic of daily grudgery, and plastics that command us to sin! I have seized upon the hinges of apocapylse, saw it in the cold, ruthless glimmer of a plastic surface!

[Anonymous No.18932827]

>>18929467
you have to eat all the eggs

[Anonymous No.18932851]

>>18932821
seething water addict. don't forget to guzzle your hourly glass, freak.

[Anonymous No.18932861]

>>18931813
>don't give a shit about current lit
Correct. I heard Knausgaard might be an exception to the rule of a huge shit of postmodern sewage. I don't give a fuck about current lit cause it bad. Simple
>don't give a shit about classics
Wrong. They are classics for a reason and 8/10 of them are amazing reads, even the worst of them being far more enchanting and gripping than anything written today (and no I won't waste my time reading shit books that get prizes today just to compare them). I still have many classics to read so why waste my time with shit like Knausgaard when I can read Joyce?

[Anonymous No.18933166]

>>18927746
Raw meat has water. Besides that blood, raw milk, or vegetable juice!
https://youtu.be/SJIMFWOua9c

[Anonymous No.18933194]

>>18927581
Get vegan.

[Anonymous No.18933210]

>>18927551
When /badlit/ was still active we used to roas this pseud every day. Those were the good times.

[Anonymous No.18933271]

>>18932724
Knausgård is great. His prose is just so relaxing and engaging to read, I love it. A shame he can't write about anything but himself though. I've also read the two first of My Struggle and I've heard the third is about his studies in Bergen and picking up girls, looking forward to that.

[Anonymous No.18933479]

>>18933271
the third is about his childhood, getting beat up by his dad for losing a sock, putting his dick in a bottle, normal childhood memories. 4 is about his teen years trying to get some pussy and failing until he meets a fat danish girl at a festival

[Anonymous No.18933640]

>>18933210
That subreddit was pure kino. I remember there was some jewish bitch who called herself a joycean anarchist or something like that. She was a complete pseud, but she had great milkers.

[Anonymous No.18933709]

>>18932861
You sound like you don’t enjoy reading but you enjoy pretending you enjoy reading

[Anonymous No.18934014]

>>18932861
brainlet take.

[Anonymous No.18934053]

>>18927551
Based indeed. It's always hilarious when he roasts Sweden, which happens pretty frequently in volume 2.

>>18933210
Sounds like you were all pseuds.

[Anonymous No.18934065]

>>18933271
The Bergen studies is the fifth volume.

[Anonymous No.18934078]

>>18929823
She's wonderful. One of the best contemporary authors. Knausgaard is a fan of her works too.

[Anonymous No.18934166]

>>18934078
where to start with her?

[Anonymous No.18934169]

>>18929823
im interested, what am I in for and which book of those 3 should I start with?

[Anonymous No.18934172]

>>18930887
I miss the time when b8 was subtle. Fucking zoomies

[Anonymous No.18934194]

>>18934166
Read her Outline trilogy, starting with Outline.

[Anonymous No.18934372]

>>18927551
Pepsi is the answer

[Anonymous No.18935033]

>>18930966
Don't browse 4chan while high, smooth brain.

[Anonymous No.18935083]

I finished part 1 of volume 1 of My Struggle the other day. So far the best parts are his reflections on some topic, like death or parenthood or love, and the autobiographical segments range from good to bland. I've tried to figure out what the point to them is, and the most important one seems to be the relationship between his family.

[Anonymous No.18935099]

>>18935083
The project all makes sense in the end, but it's quite a commitment.

[Anonymous No.18935388]

>>18935099
Would you say it's worth going through them all? Volume 1 isn't bad but nothing amazing so far really

[Anonymous No.18935500]

>>18929823
Why would someone go out of his way to read "auto fiction" written by a w*man (but I repeat myself)?

[Anonymous No.18935536]

>>18934169
It's a trilogy. Outline is the first so start there.

[Anonymous No.18935557]

>>18929446
Even presuming you are correct about fruits and veg making your brain work better, that's not what he means.

If Hitler are fruits and vegetables, he would still be Hitler, just with great sleep and better shits.

He is saying "Healthy eating is not the cure for a troubled mind, you must find yourself."

[Anonymous No.18935645]

>>18927551
>The narrator of a novel has to be correct in every statement and opinion

[Anonymous No.18935660]

>>18935557
>diet doesn't have impact on your mood
If that's how you cope with your daily mcdonald's dinner's that's fine by me bro

[Anonymous No.18935686]

>>18932821
that sounds awesome, plastic needs to go. who writes like that and where can i read them?

[Anonymous No.18935879]

>>18929823
Nope, though every time I see those covers I do kind of want to give them a spin.

If you have to read a lady autofiction writer, there's always Sheila Heti.

[Anonymous No.18935888]

The part in the first volume where he describes his band's first performance and calls "Smoke On The Water" as "the height of idiocy" always cracks me the fuck up for some reason.

[Anonymous No.18935947]

>>18935557
I know /lit/ is allergic to all forms of materialism like a child desperately clinging to his belief in Santa Christ, but diet absolutely has a crucial impact on your health, hormonal balance, and brain function, which in turns obviously affects your intellectual and emotional states and overall outlook at life. You think someone suffering from chronic pain, IBS, constipation, brain fog etc wouldn't corrode into a worse person, and alleviating those things doesn't mend people into their better selves? Could a different diet make Hitler into a nice cool guy? We will never know, human anatomy is still largely a mystery. Hitler reportedly was a vegetarian. Maybe a big juicy burger was all that was needed to prevent the invasion of Poland

[Anonymous No.18935960]

>>18935888
I also liked the sort of bands his brother Yngve was into, like Talking Heads, The Chameleons, Eno/Byrne, etc.. The 80s was a great time for music

[Anonymous No.18936047]

>>18935947
>human anatomy is still largely a mystery
True but taste and smell has a trackrecord of conveying actually useful chemical information. Like a certain off putting odour of some opposite sex else can signal they are a far off relative and risk of inbreeding. So I think eating according to what a retarded column says and ignoring your instinct is possibly the worst thing you can do.

[Anonymous No.18936129]

>>18933210
/badlit/gang here. I wouldn't be surprised if most of us now post here since it's one of the few active lit forums around. Too bad about all the right wingers tho.

[Anonymous No.18936180]

>>18932128
Causes bladder, liver, and kidney problems longterm. You are overdrinking pointlessly, immediately pissing it out (i.e. your body doesn't need it), and leaving the minerals and god knows what else to build up in you.

You should drink when you feel thirsty. Pee is also a good metric, dark yellow and totally clear are both bad. A light yellow but not too light is ideal. The artificial habit you've made of always needing to be drinking something is not 'thirst' and is unhealthy. Listen to your body. I did the same thing, cultivating false thirst, but have reversed it, drinking much less water now.

You get more than enough water from food and other drinks. Only if you drink nothing else and eat dry food, or are exercising, or if it's very hot should you be drinking excess water (let alone such a huge amount). When you're sick too (including drunk) because you won't be consuming anything and your body will need it.