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>dostoyevsky
>not doijstoivskii

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>>8714700

>>8714700
That's a pretty weird way to spell Dōstœyeffskey

>>8714644
I do'nt enjoy music.

>>8714656
>do'nt
What did he mean by this?

>>8714644
i never listen to music while i read. if i were to id listen to ambient stuff. just read the book

>>8714620
Find a good reading spot with no distractions and cozy environment

Read novellas to get into the habit of reading to completion

Read what you want to read, not what we tell you to read. The inertia of interest will pull you through a book but the interest of seeming smart will turn anything into a slog. Reading pulpy trash still exercises the brain for reading

Read short story collections

Have page goals or chapter goals and do your best to meet them consistently

Don't read like a dozen books simultaneously

Get accustomed to physical books before getting an e-book. They're better for memory and tracking progress

Read before bed

>>8714633

Thanks for the novella tip, had not thought of that before.

I'm definitely not reading "what you tell me to read", and I view reading as a very private activity.

My favorite stuff as of late has been Slaughterhouse Five, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Crow Road, and the short stories of Ian McEwan. Might you possibly have any recommendations of works that might help build up the habit of reading consistently given these?

This is basically reaffirming my suspiscion that reading must be treated as a hobby if taken at all seriosuly. It's so irritating how there's so much interesting shit to do, but so little time. Really appreciate the suggestions.

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Enid Blyton's work is pretty good if you have a short attention span. "Shadow the Sheep Dog" contains moments of true emotion.

>>8714594
>Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace
Because there's very little, if any, financial incentive in poetry.

>for me its a tie
>Gass slightly edging out
DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN LOOK AT THE DRIVEL YOU WRITE HOLY FUCK

>>8714712
haha you said "edging" *spews milk out of nose*

>>8714484
Babbys first disillusionment with the modern world

>It’s such a usurpation to call this mass of foreigners we live among a “society” that
even the sociologists have lately been thinking of giving up the concept, one that for
a century has been their big bread-winner. Now they’re starting to prefer using the
metaphor “network” to describe the manner in which these cybernetic requests
connect to each other, the way that the weak interactions known by the names
“workmate,” “contact,” “buddy,” “relations,” or “adventure” are knotted together. Just
the same, it happens that these networks get distilled into a milieu, where nothing
is shared but codes, and nothing is at stake besides the incessant reconstruction of
an identity.
It’d be a waste of time to detail all that’s dying in existing social relations. It’s said
that the family is back in, that couples are returning to the scene. But the family
that’s returned is not the same family that went away. Its return is nothing but a
deepening of the reigning separation; it just serves to fool people and it becomes
itself through that deception. Everyone can bear witness to the doses of sadness
that the family reunions ladle out from one year to the next: the forced smiles, that
embarrassment at seeing everyone fake it in vain, the feeling that there’s a corpse
lying there on the table, and that everyone’s acting like it’s nothing. From flirting to
divorce, from living together to getting back together, everyone feels the inanity of
the sad family nucleus, but the majority seem to feel that it would be even sadder to
give it up. The family is no longer so much the asphyxiation of the maternal
stranglehold or the patriarchy of cookies in your face, but the infantile abandonment
to a fleecy dependency where everything is known, to a moment of carelessness in
a world that no one can deny is crumbling, a world where “becoming independent” is
a euphemism for “finding a boss to work for.” They’d like to use biological familiarity
as an excuse to corrode any slightly destructive determination we might have about
us, on the pretext that they watched us grow up; to make us resign ourselves to
growing out of everything, like we grew out of our childlike seriousness. We must
save ourselves from this corrosion.
The couple is like the final echelon in the great social debacle. It’s the oasis in the
middle of the human desert. In it we seek all the divine tokens of the “intimate,”
everything that’s so obviously gone from contemporary social relations: warmth,
simplicity, truth, a life without theatrics or spectators. But once the euphoria of love passes, “intimacy” loses its priestly office: it too is a social invention, it speaks the
language of women’s magazines and of psychology, and it is just as nauseatingly
armored with strategies as all the rest. There’s no more truth there than there is
anywhere else; there too lies and the laws of foreignness dominate.

>>8714496
cont.
>And when
luckily some truth is found there, it brings up a division that deranges the very form
of the couple itself. What makes people love each other is also what makes them
friendly and ruins the utopia of autism for two.

I can't find anything on google, please help, /lit/.

>>8714483
Mein Kampf isn't fascist; it's national socialist.

>implying you understand mk

go read nietzsche in a fascist way.

haha those wrestlers are posing like a religious painting haha

>>8714223
Yeah pic unrelated, looking for anons thoughts on Don Dellilo

>>8714280
should've used a Delilo pic.

>>8714138
>thinking /lit/ reads memeakami

has no one read this?

Read Dance Dance Dance, it's loosely related to this and I liked it a lot more.

Then get done with Murakami cause he basically writes the same book time and again

Says right by his shoe, a satirical depiction of Bloom.

>>8713924
it really shows how publishers dont even read or understand their books. the way they sold it was shit as well.

>>8713924
Quirrel?

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>>8713915
Here is your template. We won't judge you...kek.

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>>8713915
Are you out your fucking mind boyo

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>>8713915
Have have to balls to point this out

Water to keep me from sleeping, coffee because I like it. Can't drink alcohol because of allergy, so I just get stoned most of the time.

Drink: Litrosas of Sagres
Read: /luso/

>>8713851
No, drinking is degenerate

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woah...

>>8713813
Less time than it took me to realize that you're a newfag

my diarrhea, f.a.m?

>>8713778
I don't think I'll have time to read during my shifts in the guard tower

>>8713791
Lmao

>>8713791
>>8713798
HAHAHAH trump is going to mass genocide Spanish, LGBT, African Americans, Jews and Islamic people! ITS SO FUNNY!

Man I remember watching this guy years ago.

>>8713593
>not ''is he, dare I say it, our guy''

>The Stranger
>Top three
>Infinite Jest
>Number one
/lit/ personified, definitely.

>>8713590
it wasnt me :^)

Maybe if they self published somewhere online. But I think that if you had any amount of success and were actually published then it'd eventually come out since obviously your publishers would know who you were.

>>8713646
>since obviously your publishers would know who you were.
Is that necessarily always the case?