Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1152. page

>>9475314
I dunno, I haven't read it. Wanna buy it for me?

>>9475342

I want to but I can't. I'm sorry anon.

>>9475342
I'll buy it for you, drop an email

>movies no longer keep my attention
>videogames no longer keep my attention
>porn no longer excites me
And thus, books became my escapism go-to

I used to skip school and had nothing to do in the time so I ended up reading. Quite ironical.

Like a year ago, used to go on /mu/ a lot and drifted here somehow

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Made me happier.

It's made me more eager to learn. That insatiable appetite for knowledge is a great feeling.

>>9474996
This

and changed me from a depressed and bitter science loving atheist to a more content and realistic theist/realist

>>9474972
Maybe after a long time. During that whole period you will be a pretentious psued until you settle into your intellectual peak.

My advice: Don't try to only read the most difficult books purely for the sake of having done it. You can do that occasionally, and you will learn, but you get so much more out of good practice and working at your competitive level than mindlessly reading words for 800 pages.

How much do you read now?

>>9474972

Brian gains are even harder to achieve than muscle gains.

Reading will make you smarter but only after like 40 years of dedicated reading, and even then there's a 90% chance that you'll just turn into a pseud

>>9475201

Also if you decide to embark on the /lit/ life yet you remain monolingual, then you are automatically relegated to perpetual pseudhood

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>it's lamp

stopped reading right there, fuck off

It's his best

>>9474837
definitely. I feel like Tolkien was a legitimate literary genius, not just a world-building genius, holding back his power level and forsaking his path to greatness for the sake of bringing joy to millions of people. The man invented entire languages, for christ sakes.

>>9474833
I've never read any Tolkein, because I've always disliked genre fiction, and particularly fantasy. Where should I start with him?

>>9474811
bit empty in here

Honor Harrington series
Old Man War series

>>9474811

Show me what you look like

Trelby

LaTeX

If you use Chrome amazon have an extension 'Amazon Storywriter' it's pretty good/free

>>9474766
>I don't like to read all that much. I mean I do, but not really.

You're sure to go far in technical writing with such lucidity as this.

>>9474775
Or I could just call you a moron for thinking that I would attempt to expose anymore than a fragment on this forum.

>>9474787
If you want to call me a moron nobody is stopping you. I think there are too many qualifications, doubts, and contradictions in your speech. Well, do you like to read or not? We're still not clear on this simple matter. A good writer is also a good reader.

>>9474753
is this your first one? If not where should we start?

>>9474910
De Rerum Natura is the perfect intro for proceeding with romans

This is one of my favorite books. Surprised it isn't discussed here more often. So far I've only read the Oxford Classics AD Melville translation which is good for the most part, but I think I'm going to like the Everyman's Library Allen Mandelbaum translation more. Of all my research those are the only 2 being worth reading because the other translations have either inexcusable errors (one of them has a rap battle with literal nignog slang) or are lame prose translations (which would suffice if you're into that).

Slam Poetry is not popular on this board. I haven't listened to much, but from what I have listened to it has sounded mostly formulaic, and more about the delivery than the poem itself. Many of them would not stand alone as written word.

>>9474736
This
>>9474708
Anyways, Saul Williams back in the 90's is the only person I've ever seen do anything interesting or compelling with shout-at-you poetry

>>9474708
Danez Smith is pretty good.

Steve Roggenbuck is technically slam tho he's p hilarious.

>>9474690
Bump

This is a literature board.

>>9475145
I'm sorry, I wasn't aware literature and humor were mutually exclusive. My bad. I was sure that a board dedicated to the art of the written word had some people with a sense of humor, but apparently I'm a big ole dingus. Thanks for pointing out this is a /lit/erature board, for I wasn't well aware of that fact.

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>>9474619

What I really want to know if food can be literature

>>9474619
It's about the lyrics being poetry, anon.

>>9474619
yes. see the works of Steven Scher.

>>9474518

>Is this what poetry is about?

For you.

>>9474518
you need to live more, anon.

>>9474518

Like with most poetry you don't have to worry about what it's about. You just have to enjoy the way the words sound.

>>9474468
I shitpost until I'm so tired, literally on the brink of sleep. I mean a 3 or 4 day shitposting binge. I mean twenty+ hours a day (currently unemployed, piss bottles) I mean fingers on the keys always. I developed enough dexterity in feet to feed myself small items...mostly walnuts due to high fat count and cal count which keeps me alive. When I feel myself on the brink of sleep I walk to a kitchen table to an empty piece of paper and my pencil and I begin. Because I cannot really think straight a single word or two comes to mind and I put it down on the paper. That is the title. Then I kind of space out and think about nothing in particular very deeply because my sleep deprivation doesn't really allow me the presence of mind to end the thought. This goes on for some time but I cannot really tell how much because I'm too tired to read the clock. Excellent and strange word combinations come to mind but the problem is these combinations always include a repeat of one of two words so only one of the combinations can really be used. Before I can write it down I feel the urge to see if anyone responded to my last shit post. The glow of the screen hurts my eyes and I close them for a second only to find I've awoken 9 hours later fully rested and only able to form the most cliche and useless expressions.

go to the library -- major library nearest to you, and look at the books with pictures in them. The adult ones I mean. yeah, there you go.