>tfw insecure in your taste in books and overall literary

>>9152198
ok. ok. wow. just... ok. you are a fucking faggot

>>9152225
This.

>tfw you realize talent is not something you learn
Why can't I even come up with a plot ffs
I wanted to write a novel about a war journalist who has a mentally ill son who ends up being a criminal but I realized I just can't handle something like that
I dont know anything about war or being in a war zone or being a criminal or paternal love
And I just can't write without using stream of consciousness, which I dont really want to use
Just fuck my shit up I will stick to write pop songs, bros

>>9152198
Then read more, including secondary sources.

>>9152292
get filtered cuck

>>9152198
kys pleb

>>9152198
How can you be insecure in your taste of something? You like something or you don't, why would you like that you like something, or not like that you like something?

I'm not trying to be mean but I think you just enjoy the feeling of being ass-raped by your own head.

To be honest, if anybody tells me I have poor taste and I can't beat them up I just belittle them publicly.

Yes, beating people up is my first option; it's more ethical and less hurtful in the long term.

>>9152817
He just has no confidence so he doesn't know if he likes what should be liked

>>9152256
walk in nature, my man

it may seem too simplistic, but it's the best advice you'll ever get

>>9152826
Why would you care?

>>9152256
You may not be able to acquire talent but you can learn about war. Have you done any research?

>>9152198
you need to grow some balls or stop trolling

>>9152198
I can relate. I often wonder if I'm even "getting" what the authors say, or if I'm missing something that I'm supossed to be aware of, and other such things. It's dreadful really.

>>9152829
>should be liked
>should
There's the problem, right there. Should is a nasty little fucker.

>>9152869
Yes but you'll always have an image of what intelligent people like and if what you like doesn't match this image you will have confidence issue

>>9152850
I think that if you don't get what the author says it's not your fault but the author's fault. Unless you're stupid

>>9152921

how do you know which one is right?

>>9152921
Well, at first glance I might not; but what if I think about it, still don't get it, and thereafter read secondary literature explaining it all? It's all interpretation I guess.. but still. The difficulty of grasping an author's oeuvre/placing him or her in a particular era of literature makes me feel like a complete dunce. Unsure why.

>>9152841
No, please reccomend

>>9152921
Really? I mean for the most part the reason why people don't understand the author is because they lack the proper context to do so (whether it's vocab, historical references, etc.) That's not the authors fault

>>9152916
>Yes but you'll always have an image of what intelligent people like
>always
Nah. One of the few things I like about this place is how much it encourages me to break these images. My life experience confirms it too. Most people are fucking idiots. Especially intelligent people. Present compaby included.

>>9152817
This. Being unapologetic about what you like is the only way to live (inb4 what if I like killing people). If you're unhappy about what you read, you can work your way up to what you want to read. Your tastes and interests will change and evolve. The real world is not 4chan. Nobody is going to make fun of you for enjoying certain books. People will make fun of you for being a pussy tho, so work on that.

>>9152198
Don't try to quantify your taste. Don't make lists or charts or anything like that, you'll just drive yourself mad. Building an identity for yourself is painful and not very fruitful. Check out some /mu/ chart threads to see how fruitful a process it is. This are people trying to establish an identity for themselves via taste, and the result is usually boring or an imitation. Don't observe what you love, DO what you love. :^) Peace out senpaitachi

>>9152256
i was taking a shower and came up with a scene of a man at a diner smoking a cigarette, and his hesitation at responding to the welcone of the waitress caused her some concern, she asked what was wrong and he reveals he had been waiting for her to ask for thirty years, i spent time imagining her face, showing wrinkles of both tears and smiles, the old man's peppered moustache, the ribbon of smoke drifting into oblivion, then i thought it'd be cool if he had telekinetic powers he shows her by coalescing the smoke with pressure he exerts on the air, while explaining that he feels a hand like appendage, then drifting to a story about the day his wife died those thirty years ago, as the woman's face contorts from wonder into horror. then i got out of the shower and read about that VX poison shit. so my suggestion, read the news and take a shower.

>>9152198
If you even post here, your tastes are probably better than majority of others in the world. Hell, even that sci-fi general probably has better taste than most people out there. Just don't sweat it man, feel free to be yourself. Don't bother with matching lists of taste, and just enjoy what you're enjoying right now.

>>9153148
I actually always get all hypomanic when showering and thats when most ideas (that are shit anyways) come to me

>>9153234
shame that yours are shit, i end up liking mine a lot.

>>9152198

How many books have you read? I used to have this problem where everything book was "good" but some books later I knew what I liked in a book what was bad and just ok and what I really liked and favored.

Read more reread some too.

>>9152921
Sometimes you need author's context. That's your homework.

>>9152943
Always go for first. Always.

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OP here, this is an example of why i feel this way.

these are my fav thinkers after 10 years of study. and yet these are all ive been able to really enjoy;

>>9153239
stop showing off and write your shitty book

>>9153288

>bottom right

i'm on to your games, muppet.

>>9153330
i just write short stories, anon, no book until 36 y.o.