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What language are you trying to learn anon? How's it coming along?

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What genres do you think will emerge in the 21st Century? What is our great movement? Where will literature go?

The flourish of genre fiction is a dead end and will lead us nowhere. If anything, it may encourage wider readership but not a deeper readership as books by writers such as James Patterson and J. K. Rowling continue to dominate the market.

The truth is that most people don't read very deeply, and there is little education to point them towards greater literature. With all the talk about Post-Modernism in the universities, would we see a decline of interest in the Western Canon by the public in favour of multi-cultural literature regardless of aesthetic merit?

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is outdoor reading suitable?

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If you have read and enjoyed a book by one of the authors mentioned in the topmost paragraph, you must post in this thread.

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Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

I think we all need to man up and admit that money, youth, videogames, and good looks are as good as it gets. But not everyone gets.

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>Currently reading

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What should I read to stop disdaining everyone and everything? I am a hopeless misanthropist, and am stuck in an ever descending spiral of perpetually seeing the worst in people and hating them and myself in the process. I feel that I am able to empathize with people, but the way that they act makes me hate them nonetheless, and my hating makes me hate myself. I already have a therapist, which isn't helping, and I have also been laid many times, so you don't have to say this. I would prefer if we talk about literature that can solve these problems, that can restore a sense of love for people and optimism in the world. No Christian lit please.

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Is there anyone who's written about the all-encompassing state of nostalgia our culture seems to be mired in at the moment?

By this I mean not only its mainstream manifestation in the form of endless movie re-boots, sequels and re-makes, top 40 EDM remixes of older more memorable songs by Biggie Smalls or Toto or A-ha, but also its underground counterpart, vaporwave/future funk and Kickstarter spiritual successors to old game franchises such as Mighty No. 9, Obduction, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Just curious if any authors or lecturers have something to say about it.

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The Brothers Karamazov
Spoilers all over the place.

Yeah I just finished it and I don't feel like I have any actual complaints.

The part about Dmitri doing everything bad in a haze of excitement. I have a hard part telling right, wrong, real, false apart.
-Well just a way to tell the story.

The judicial system is pretty much a cruel joke on humanity, not right but not wrong.

Because of the author being "in" on the story I accept the missing of hyper realism I got from crime and punishment ( translations into Swedish by Staffan Dahl ) that I missed from this one.

Basically I don't really have any complaints that don't come down to god or my preference in writing literature.

In the end I feel like I have read an awesome piece of literature and just want to share it with the world.

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This is essentially a cry for help.

I am very close to ending my life, and I'm really just looking for any books written by somebody who had their entire idealogical system and Will-To-Live collapse but who found a reason to live anyway.

Please no Camus, absurdism and the Sisyphus metaphor doesn't cut it.

Please no religious texts.

I think I've hit bottom and it seems more real than ever.

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Is the best way I can describe my character and image.

When I was young, my parents were very particular about me and my siblings reading lots of books. There were some great stories there but what I took moreso from the experience was the language which has become deeply embedded in my psyche. Ever since, I've had excellent skills in articulation both verbal and written but I often don't understand what I'm talking about at all. Example A, I'm absolutely dogshit at maths and science and just barely passed them in high school. I work as a marketing manager for steel frame systems precisely because my communication skills are good but through all of my career I don't have the slightest idea how any of the products I sell work.

Long story short, I use big words because they make me sound smart and I'm actually not very intelligent.

Anyone have a similar story?

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are you studying their scripture?

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'That's enough shitting in public for one day.'

THE END

This is how I'm ending my book. What do you think?