/Lit/erary confessions thread. Confess your sins and repent,

>>9164887
I prefer prose to poetry so much so that I can't enjoy the latter much at all. I read Shakespeare and feel nothing.

I enjoy YA and LNs

I have a younger brother who says he is desperate to become an author. Part of me respects him because he must have some determination behind him: he's only 19 and he's already written short stories, poems and I believe a full-length novel too. I try to help him out by reading his work and recommending books to him that might help him develop as well as appeal to him. However...

> his work is full of typos, over-use of hyphens, semi-colons and grammatical errors (sometimes he connects independent clauses together with a string of hyphens because he says he likes long sentences that will make his book bigger)
> He always asks for long novels because "I want them to look nice on my shelf" and he admits he's never likely to read them. I get him short works like The Trial or The Double but even then he doesn't want to read anything too often
> he sees any piece of constructive feedback as a criticism of his personal worth ("You wouldn't say that if you didn't think I was shitty, why would you tell me that???!" etc). He's even criticised and whined about his teachers being mean because they give him feedback notes when he gets a paper marked.
> He e-mailed local agents nagging them to sign him up and they all ignored him, then he wonders why nobody returns his emails.
> he submitted a short story entry to a competition last year and he says "i'm still waiting for my prize" even though he clearly didn't win.
> He says he wants to write an epic, long fantasy series full with illustrations, maps and made-up languages but spends 10 minutes making his characters.
> He says he's the best writer of his age and that when the publisher prints a photo of him on the sleeve of his book he wants to wear a Zorro mask so nobody knows who he is.
> His work is full of cliches such as "white as snow" and "dark as night"
> after he's read a book he bins it saying "why do I need to read it again, I know what the twist is"

Is this just an age thing? Will he grow out of this, /lit/?

>>9164887

I prefer reading non-fiction

>>9164920
>19
> He says he's the best writer of his age and that when the publisher prints a photo of him on the sleeve of his book he wants to wear a Zorro mask so nobody knows who he is.

Sorry to ask anon but is your brother an autismo? He sounds like he needs heavy hits of reality to help ground him so my main advice will just be there for him during his inevitable existential crisis desu.

>>9164933
I honestly don't know if he has autism or not, but I've thought about this before. He really struggles to recognise when he's pissed someone off or upset them, often saying when it has been highlighted for him that he doesn't mean to be like that, yet he never changes his attitude, saying "that's just who I am, I can't help it." I told him that's more acceptable when you're an independent woman who don't need no man, but when he's 19 and often complains about things, I think (or at least hope) it's just because he's at that age. I don't know, man. It can be pretty damn frustrating having to deal with him.

>>9164967
Him not recognizing and/or not caring if he's upset someone is a pretty strong sign of it. You also said he takes constructive criticism perosnally despite having been explained why that's not true, I used to have similar problems and I always suspected I was a bit of a sperg. Idk anon I would just try and encourage objective introspection as much as possible, however you might do that. There's a good chance that reality will kick his ass and he'll learn on his own which is kind of scary because I feel like Western men are becoming much less resilient and stoic at a rapid rate. He may not handle it well so just be prepared for that.

I don't take anyone who posts anime pictures seriously.

>>9165002
I feel like I'm preparing for that eventually. He constantly thinks that what he's being taught at home - how to behave in the wider world - won't be necessary because "nobody's punched me for what I have to say yet."

Partially, and somewhat selfishly, I'm glad I'm not like that myself, but it does worry me when my younger brother just doesn't click with many of the social conventions just because he doesn't realise how to behave. I'd suspect he'd be a NEET or something if he doesn't mature eventually.

>>9164887
Here's my confession: I'm 19 and I've hardly read anything. Not that I brag about being a reader in real life, nor do I ever really participate in /lit/ threads because I know I'll just muddy the waters. I spend more time browsing /lit/ and reading Wikipedia articles, quotes pages and cartoons that summarize literature than I do reading anything for real.

I've only entered this slight infatuation with "philosophy" because I found what I was previously doing with my life (music) to be unfulfilling. In my real life, I've been trying to leave my comfort zone more, and refrain from doing things just because I want to do them, and it's been alright so far. I used to try to talk about philosophy with my friends but it got embarrassing because I always knew I hardly understood anything, and I could just say stupid BS to my friends to keep the conversation going but we were just babbling. So now I try to avoid talking about philosophy, but it still pains me when people say things that just seem like they might not be true, or when I can tell I'm lying to myself...

>>9164920
I'm 19 and I'm not even half as retarded as your brother, and I'm pretty retarded.
I think he might be legit autistic.
A least he has writen more than me, so theres that, try to look an the full half of the glass. Maybe, if you get him on meds, he will get better and may have a chance to be a good writer desu

>>9165064
You are literally, LITERALLY, me, but I do read and have read a decent amount of novels, short stories and poetry the last 8 months, but I always feel like I could be reading more, why am I even here ffs.
Anyways good luck, even plebier version of me, go read something.

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> wish to pick up a book, a collection of essays on post-war Japanese cinema written from varying perspectives, mainly for a dissertation
> it's out of print and it's not in the university library, the book had a limited print
> get told by uni librarian they believe a copy may be available at the city library
> go there in the afternoon
> it's an old, run-down building, the entrance to the building isn't very clear - end up having to climb through the window
> music from Deus Ex plays in the overhead speakers loudly, find wooden crates in the corner and questionable stains
> very few books, the few books there have creased covers plastered with graffiti protected by laminated plastic
> the shelf of non-fiction and reference books consists solely of MONSTER BOOK OF MONSTERS
> "lucky dip" trash can full of shitty books on "sale" for 10 dollars
> looking around the bare shelves
> see computers and a library database, try searching for the book I want but it's not here
> overhear the sound of a homeless woman masturbating in front of a webcam by a computer a few rows ahead of me, she smelt of unwashed penis
> rush to tell the librarian of this disgusting behaviour
> end up getting lost, start crying
> begin to fart loudly
> the librarian pops out of nowhere (she's Viola Davis) wearing a bib, she says she'll call the police if i don't stop farting out racial slurs
> i tell her of the masturbating woman and she throws up all down her bib
> she takes off her shoe and starts hitting me
> tell her i'm sorry
> Cormac McCarthy starts pointing and laughing at me
> he hands me a pamphlet reading "Print is dead" and when I look up he was gone

Now I'm not allowed back there for life.

>>9165119
> consists solely of MONSTER BOOK OF MONSTERS

I spat out my juice you fuck

>>9164920
>Is this an age thing?
Nope. He's just stupid.

I use audiobooks. Fight me.

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>>9165158
Pleb!

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I exclusively read edgy literature and don't give a fuck about the classics, philosophy or any of that other bullshit

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>>9164887

I genuinely do enjoy reading, but like all my other interests or things in my life it's put in second place to my internet addiction. I'll read for at least an hour every day for about a week or so, until I find something new on the internet that captures my interest and I'll be unable to keep up my dedication to reading.
It's made worse by the fact I bought some books I am interested in reading for their historical merit, for example a collection of some Icelandic sagas, rather than purely reading enjoyment, and although I don't enjoy reading them much I'm too stubborn to just quit and read something else so I end up not reading anything at all.

I only read to seem more interesting in the eyes of others

>>9165242
Feel you mate.
>>9165252
Ugh.

>>9165242
Turn off your computer for a week, dude. It helps. Unless if you work from home/need to work with a computer on a daily basis, it shouldn't be too much of an issue. Or schedule your day more efficiently, like set aside 3 hours for reading (not necessarily altogether, but maybe an hour in the morning, an hour at midday and an hour at evening). It worked for myself when all I was doing was using the internet. Maybe find a quiet spot outside of the house, without any phones or tablets, and read? I'm tempted to find a park bench in the Summer and use that to get myself out more.

>>9165179
you sound like the annoying fat trenchcoat wearer at college who would play yugioh on his own in the stairwell near the fire exit so nobody would notice him

I read asstons of genre lit/sagas/history to help me with my editing, as most of the work I get is genre lit. I'm finding that authors don't do their due diligence. Want to sound like Tolkien? Fucking read the material that inspired him throughout the course of his life. Read the source material. Go to the root. If I never have to give feedback on a "my protag is a teenager who has no discernible personality but he can BEND TIME" plotline, it will be too soon.

Also, if you want to write a book, just fucking do it. Sit down, break down your day/responsibilities, plan out time to do the fucking work. If you really want to do it, you won't care if that means waking up 30 minutes earlier every day. Don't jack yourself off over the idea of writing a book. Also, absolutely no resting on your laurels. You will be completely fucking forgotten in no time.

I totally missed the point of this thread but whatever.

>>9164887
I learned philosophy almost exclusively from secondary sources.

>>9164920
19? that sounds like 15...

I read Eleanor Cameron's The Court of the Stone Children at least every other year because that's the book that got me reading, at 10! It's still wonderful..

I read a lot to hide how fucking stupid I am.

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>>9166231
Me too.

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>>9166250
I really do this, I'm not memeing, to hide the fact that I'm actually very stupid

>can't deduce for shit.
>can't do any sort of maths.
>can't learn a language.
>can't understand/fathom/imagine abstract concepts be it math related or philosophy related.
>can't express my thoughts verbally or by writing so that they'd make sense
etc. list goes on.

I would most likely fail a block test if I did it, JfC I'm absolute giga retard it's so fucking demoralizing to be this fucking stupid.

>>9166273
:(

I read compulsively to hide my crippling depression.

>favorite author committed ritual suicide
>visit his grave each year and weep
>have a set of his works on my desk
>hide covers with whimsical book covers to avoid questions
>remind myself every day i can't die yet because someone needs to leave flowers for him
>honestly just too chicken shit to follow in his footsteps
>i'm utterly disgusting and i hate myself

>>9166273
And you're a stupid wojakposter too. It all correlates nicely.

>>9165064
Sounds you like you need to read some philosophy

i couldn't finish Elementary Particles because the gross ass sex scenes made me have wet dreams

ugh

>>9164887
I wrote really shit poems that preached loads of shit and linked it all over social media when i did not know what i was talking about. I also wrote in a journal where i talked about 'philosophy' like a complete retard, a pseudo intellectual drug addict with no grounding in reality. Moreover i had no interest in actually producing good work, just coming across like i was some genius for wanting to write shit.

When I sobered up and I try to forget i wrote that stuff / put that stuff behind me because it wasnt a good time at all for me in life but it echoes in the back of my mind as if i've inflicted a brutal wound on the art itself through my selfishness and arrogance. If only i could ask for Athena's forgiveness.

Man... so many people thought i was such a fucking joke. for good reason. loads of people fucking despised me just for putting out some gibberish online. Others who also went to creative writing classes compared what they learnt with the shit i was writing and joked that i had no idea what i was on about. 'Art? yea right.'
In retrospect its sort of ridiculous. But there will always be that wish that i have never done it and just work harder without seeking everyones approval.

But hindsight is 20/20.

>>9166231
Same.

>>9164920
write a book about him

i make pdfs of my books with discreet errors.

>change a random character's name
>re-arrange paragraphs
>remove an entire page of the book

I wear girls panties, make-up and perfume whilst prancing round my apartment saying things like "I'm a special princess", "make way for my vagina", "I'm delicious, just so voluptuous and sssssssensual", "have you heard about me? Well you should've because I'm fabulous!" etc to get in the right mindset before I write female characters.

I'm a guy by the way.

>>9167170
why

>>9164887
my favorite writer is DFW but that's probably because I haven't read much else

>>9164887
I#m writing a paper about a novel i haven't read yet (and probably won't). It's due to Friday. But this does not hold me back to feel highest praise for my ideas and ironically my mind is mostly occupied with thoughts of divinity and feeling as the special snowflake, the hot white shining light at the department among all the gray sheens. I get the most satisfaction of this fantasy when i picture my self as despite of my creative superiority a still humble member among the others, as a caring and upright primus inter pares. In my every day life I consider myself as immune against narcissism and daydream about how I would renounce every praise while emphasize on the qualities of my fellow peers, which are more or less not existent as such, just a bunch of people I gt to know superficially. Eventhough I am depictably willing to self monitor my inner stream of motvation and fantasy: How could I oversea that the very fantasy, the very fact that it is an issue in my mind, of not being narcissim is narcissism at its purest. A Narcissism that cannot be lived out and thats why I moprh it into the opposite. And the worst of all that is, that it made me procrostinate from actual writing the paper, I made my 'Luftschloss' by reading stuff and explicitly searching for obscure and unconverntional bridges of thought. Writing, no FANTASIZING in my head. What a fool am I ?

>>9167153
Would read

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I am, what you call it, AFFECTED by books, but never has a book changed my life in any meaningful or epochal way.

Seldom are actual tears shed over books either, but I often exclaim or motion as the characters do, physically laugh when I find something funny, or grieve and strive for the sake of the characters at the least bit of hardship or misfortune. But beyond the empathetic qualities for fiction, and even for philosophy, I never adhere to any lessons I've learned or apply any knowledge I've gained despite being able to directly quote from a few. I experience a certain catharsis after finishing a novel of magnitude and am at awe over my own achievement, but it never progresses any further than that. Years ago I finished Portrait by Joyce and was stunned after I completed it, believing it would significantly alter my way of looking at things. And I have changed since then without a doubt, but it's certainly not over anything I've read (at least not consciously, but I'm no psychologist). I wouldn't go so far as to say it was me who changed myself, but I will go so far as to say it was. It was a gradual change in mindset, not something that happens because of one or two books, leading me to the conclusion people who claim a single book has changed their life is likely not because of the merit of the book itself but the context it's read in, which probably seems like a lot of common sense, but even then I'm doubtful of their advertised effect. And the worst thing is, I know of the power of books through my empathetic reaction towards them rivaled not even close by other visual mediums. My logic isn't the most sound, but it's how I see things at this impasse

tl;dr I can't read

I've never read a book in my life

I like poetry and theatre though

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>>9167223

>I#m writing a paper about a novel i haven't read yet (and probably won't). It's due to Friday.

Entirety of high school for me lel, never had any interesting books to pick from. One time I bullshitted my way through a presentation on a book I'd only read some synopses for, and the teacher praised mine as being one of the best.

>>9164887
I respond to art on an emotional as well as an intellectual level. What is wrong with me, /lit/?

I've been posting here for six plus years and only started reading maybe a year or two ago and around 100 books.

>>9167608
you arent autistic enough
maybe you should get some more vaccinations

>>9167599
so is then to read the full novel as prerequisite for understanding just a meme ? or does it make literary criticism a joke?

>>9167223
>>9167599
Isn't it funny how well public education prepares one for the lies, deceits, and manipulations one must put up with to be successful in the workforce? Seems to me Devos got a pretty cush job.

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>>9164887
I sometimes enjoy edgy and/or pretentious fanfiction.

>>9166805
Who is that author?

>>9164887
I don't give a shit about books. I just talk about anime and fan fiction here.

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>>9168474
What's your favourite anime fan-fiction base? Mine's slayers

>>9166805
Mishima?

I seem to have convinced several people that I'm some kind of tragic literary genius just through posturing and giving the right impression, but I've actually read very little and written even less

>>9164920
no this isn't an age thing. i was pretty retarded when i was 19 (like 2 years ago) but not this retarded.

>>9164887
I'm afraid I like being perceived as a reader more than I actually like reading. I often wonder if I would be happier focusing on a different hobby instead.

>>9168713
Well done.

Most of the books I read bore me. And I still finish them, because they're classics.

For example, right now I'm 30% through Nausea and the title describes well my reading experience.

What should I do?

>>9168890
Throw it to the trash and go read some shit that you like. Life is too short.

>>9164887
I haven't read a book in a few months but I'm going to read some Raymond Chandler stories now.

>>9164887

I buy books faster than i read them. I can't stop it. I buy like 2 o 3 books per month and i finish 1 so i always have more books to read than books finished.

>>9168732
the best way to avoid this is not having any well-read friends :(

welders and landscapers dont give a fuck if you understand ulysses

>>9164887
I enjoy reading fan fiction.

>>9164887
I believe late 19th century British children's literature is one of the greatest achievements of humankind.

I don't put self help books I've read on my Goodreads profile

>>9164920

> He says he's the best writer of his age and that when the publisher prints a photo of him on the sleeve of his book he wants to wear a Zorro mask so nobody knows who he is.

Can't believe people fell for this.

>>9170398

This is a good sign, since you realize that self-help books are for faggots and are an embarrassment to anyone over the age of 14. All you need to do now is to develop the self-respect needed to never read a self-help book again.

>>9164887
i got into reading literature via my little pony fanfiction

>from colourful ponies to the greeks in 5 autistic steps

All my "hobbies" are just various ways of consumption.
>books
>music
>you name it
I wish I could do something creative for once but I'm too stupid.

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>>9164920
>Throws away books after reading

>>9170570
You have to put in the effort

>>9167599
Once did the same only knowing the names of 3appearing characters, knowing it plays in a mine falls under the definition of what we learned was "romanticism".

天使のたまご

>>9167223
Even Eco recognized it's a perfectly good level of analysis, strictly speaking there's no need to read the material you're discussing.

>>9168697
I don't read fan fics, bro. I pretend to be developing one.

I'm in my mid 20s yet I have read very few (good fiction) books for my age, I think.
I've been reading way too much trash since I turned 21 or 22, can't remember.
I still read every day, almost all the time.
But I read stupid shit like manga, comic books, LNs, VNs, etc. And I do feel the impact of it, I do feel more stupid, or I reflect back and realize I've just put enough hours to read in search of lost time but instead I used that time to read really dumb shit.
Whenever I read a good book, I am marveled again and remember how much in love I was/am with good writing, but I keep coming back to eating fast food basically.

Also, since my group of friends and family tends to not read at all (other than my parents), there's not much I get recommended, so lately all I've read is basically /lit/ recommendations (which have been mostly great, thanks /lit/).

>back in senior year of high school
>no one I meet is interested in anything beyond reading YA lit
>finally meet girl who has interest in writing
>encourage girl who says she wants to become an author
>later learn her idea of "writing" is fantasy furry RPing with a ftm tranny and writing "gory" descriptions that would only disturb a 12 year-old
>her prose, especially diction, is muddled and obtuse
>continue to encourage her
>she is currently attending uni for an English degree
Who was in the wrong here?

>>9171086
VNs are the pinnacle of art desu

>>9171088
You if you haven't fucked her yet, bonus wrong points if you actually have 'faith' in her.

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Does anyone here like entry level stuff? Or have any old fondness for them?

Pulp fiction is underrated and Robert Howard is my favourite fantasy author

>>9164887
I'm not proud of this but I'm 25 and haven't read any novels of any kind since I left highschool. My last year of high school was enlish lit AP and I feel that it pretty much destroyed my love of reading forced to read 1 different book every 2 weeks chosen by the teacher no pleasure reading at all.
will I ever fall in love with reading again?

>>9171112
Entry level stuff is great. Harry Potter was a little after my time and I didn't read it until later, but I can see how it got so popular.

I grew up on the Redwall books, and I still reread one or two every now and then for the nostalgia.

>>9171611
If you're anything like me, it's not the force-reading that ruins reading for pleasure, it's learning to read critically. Taking writing and criticism classes in college absolutely destroyed my leisure reading. It's impossible to enjoy something when you spend all your time looking at the language, the literary devices, the plot structure, the characterizations and character arcs, and the other hundred fifty things we learn to look at.
It actually ruined movies for me too, if I'm honest.

>>9164887
I don't like reading sequels or later installments in series. I've been too disappointed too many times in the past, so when I like a book I very rarely read anything else in the same setting by the same author.

>>9171611
this is what i told myself until i realized i just sparknoted 90% of the books anyways

i was just too dumb at the time for my appreciation of the works to overtake the lack of instant gratification they gave me. i was still fiending for the dopamine hits of genrefic. i grew out of it during college.

>>9171726
knowing anything about philosophy or social science and knowing anything about movies in tandem ruins virtually every movie. movies are overwhelmingly fucking garbage and im extremely selective with what ill watch.

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>>9164887
I watch anime and I like it
It's taken me 2 months to get 3/4 of the way through War & Peace

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I read often but never real retain anything I've read. Sometimes i just feel like Im wasting my time but i feel much better after a reading session.

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>>9171726

>>9172134
nah I critically read and did a good job imo in the class. But I think you make a good point about being addicted to select genres.

>>9171726
I feel like I can put all that aside and turn my brain off as it were. I really think the sheer volume of what I had to read just burned me out. I was really disappointed with my class to be honest I expected Shakespear, Poe, Twain, Wild, and Eliot. Instead she only focused on 20th century american authors.

>>9166273
>can't express my thoughts verbally or by writing so that they'd make sense
This is me. I hate it. It's like, every time I try to articulate a thought it feels like I'm trying to transcribe a dream. It's especially frustrating when it comes to discussing things like politics which atm is pretty much the other thing I'm interested in.

>>9164887
I have to stop myself from putting parentheticals in my parentheticals because I'm too lazy to actually organize my thoughts (Resisting the urge even in this post).

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>>9165119
I want you to write my wedding vows.

>>9164887
I buy books with furrys on the covers. I hope to someday dedicate a bookcase to this.

>>9167192
M e G u s t a

>>9166920
Hopefully I'll get there. Right now I'm just working on improving my self-discipline.

I haven't finished more than half the books I own

>>9171726
I wish I could have that kind of perspective, know any good books on critical analysis?

>>9165280
A reasonable assumption, but not at all correct.

Blood Meridian annoyed me so much I had to stop reading it.

Hire a fucking editor

>>9172674
John Crow Ransom, Marx, Louis Althusser, Levi Strauss, Bruno Bettelheim, that sort of thing.

For a good guide on how not to write, watch Red Letter Media's reviews for the Star Wars prequels. They're rather informative if you can get past the nerdy subject matter and rape jokes.

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don't sink or swim

https://youtu.be/BU7CH92At9o

my brain isn't big enough for heidegger

>>9164897
both are fucking pretentious garbage honestly

>>9172989
i got about halfway through and there started to be way too much spanish and i don't speak spanish and wasnt into the book enough to even run it through a translator. so i moved on

>>9172989
>>9173344
:(
I read it in Spanish. So, in my case, instead of translating the Spanish minority they translated the English majority of the book.

>>9167153
This

>>9164920
school him on ego if you care enough, people grow out of things, if you try hard enough you might let him make something of himself who cares anyway

>>9167999
About cartoon horses?

>>9167170
I like you anon. Hail Eris!

I have read probably less than ten classical works of fiction. I have claimed that I read other books to others, some which I have only read parts of or have not even the slightest clue what they are about. I do this in real life.

>>9173985
The ABSOLUTE MADMAN.

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>>9165119

>>9167153
He's the inspiration for what I'm writing now, actually. Not necessarily a book but a screenplay. Not likely to get it made but you have to start somewhere I suppose.

>>9173843
I've tried. He doesn't quite understand that what he says a lot of the times is unreasonable and arrogant. If I tell him one of his actions was insensitive and inappropriate (most recent example, he threw a tantrum because he cooked dinner and, as I was putting away the dirty plates into the dishwasher, I calmly asked where he put the rest of a teaspoon set. I told him his tantrum, his unpleasant attitude over such a small question was petulant, immature and inappropriate, which he shrugged off with a sarcastic apology. It's times like that where I feel like hitting him but I know that wouldn't do any good either).

>>9171112
I don't mind Harry Potter and the Dark Materials Trilogy. I don't snub my nose up at genre fiction either, even though I do appreciate this work isn't on the same standard as my favourites from Dostoevsky or Gogol.

>>9174205
A sensitive opinion :O
Is this a dream

>>9174234
nice guys exist sometimes :^)

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I use facebook and smuggle /lit/ memes.

also I've seen lots of you cancerous shits on facebook on fucking neo-liberal cesspits (no less) particularly on unfunny '[insert liberal cult personality here] meme stash' groups you confess your sins and repent I've done my part

My Facebook and Goodreads accounts are linked so whenever I read a book or want to read a book it posts on my Facebook. Not necessarily doing this for social media egoism, but out of interest to see if anyone else is wanting to / has read the books I plan on reading. I would love an in-depth discussion on literature with someone I know personally but the closest I got was with my university lecturers.

>>9165119
>> Cormac McCarthy starts pointing and laughing at me
>> he hands me a pamphlet reading "Print is dead" and when I look up he was gone

8/10

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>>9164920
> "why do I need to read it again, I know what the twist is"

I lie about having read the last 2 harry potter books so that normalfags stop nagging mr to do so. I just watched the movies.

>>9166231
>>9166250
>>9166273
I feel you, anons.

I'm incredibly stupid and very unattractive. I'm also too dumb to deal with people so I do not have anything going for me. Being stupid, awkward and ugly and knowing sucks so much.

I read to escape my crippling self-hatred, to fill the hole inside of me and to have another lazy excuse to postpone my suicide.

And I read YA and awful, shallow thrillers and horror novels from time to time.

>>9171112
Harry Potter is the shit for improving and learning new languages. I've read those books many times as a kid so I know them by heart and they're quite easy to digest - which is great if you want to get a feel for the language or learn new vocabulary.
And the books are super comfy.

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>>9174382
Stay strong. Maybe one of us gets a good life despite all of this. In the meanwhile, more reading..

>>9164887
I pretty much only read books that have movie adaptions and 9 times out of 10 see the movie first than read the book

>>9172256
>>9166273
no need to feel bad at failing to be rationalist. be empiricist, meditate, meaning pay attention to sensations through the five senses for one hour

>>9166805
Are you japanese?

>>9174739
You didn't catch that bit about having difficulties with abstract concepts of any kind?

>>9173322
>admits to not being able to understand heidegger
>says 'both' prose and poetry are pretentious garbage

ultra pleb confirmed

>>9171112
I still don't understand why Harry didn't go for Luna, the best girl.

>>9164887
I've never read a book more than once.

>>9164909
>LNs
Lego Novels?

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>>9167192
>"make way for my vagina"

>>9175086
isn't that bill nye the science guy

I write Harry Potter fan fiction. And erotica.
I have yet to combine the two, but I fear I may weaken one day and do so.

i like songs of fire and ice

My favorite book was written by the guy who wrote the "Kneel before Zod!" line in Superman II.

I like existential and Christian philosophy/theology, but can't stop being a degenerate. I quit masturbating/watching porn like a month ago, but now I have ridiculous dreams. Last night I dreamed a qt3.14 from church gave me an over the pants rub down and woke up with my pajamas drenched in cum. Not really literary, but whatever

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>>9175682
>I like existential and Christian philosophy/theology but can't stop being a degenerate

I kill people for a living.

>>9175735
How and why, exactly?

>>9166273
>can't express my thoughts verbally or by writing so that they'd make sense

Yep, that's me.

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>>9164920
> He says he's the best writer of his age and that when the publisher prints a photo of him on the sleeve of his book he wants to wear a Zorro mask so nobody knows who he is.

I've been reading da Greeks for a year now and still don't get wtf's so great about them

>>9173891
What do you think I am, some kind of sub-human?

I like to accumulate books more than actually reading them.

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Even thought it's more or less for early middle schoolers or so, I still read the Secret Series because I think it's not overly childish and is still good overall, in a general sense.

>>9176069
I know this feel

>>9175137
>Has science gone too far?

>>9166805
>hide covers with whimsical book covers to avoid questions

what kind of book covers, anon?

>>9175137
He's a different kind of science guy, a Silicon Valley engineer.

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tl;dring this

>Be writing a novel, but only get to developing the characters
>Taking your time with it but that's fine, you're in no rush
>You tell this idea to a friend
>Said friend is in High school still but they're nice to talk to
>Friend wants to also write the novel
>Be dumb as hell and happily oblige
>Months later
>Friend completely fucked up your characters, plot, etc
>Added literal fucking Dracula in the story
>Added a knock off Dracula that looks exactly like the first (pale skin, white streak in hair) and make him gay with the main character
>The story you have put your heart and soul into is now being used as yaoi fodder

How do I get this to stop like what the fuck. I remember being that age but Jesus Christ almost all their ideas are straight up garbage and either too angsty, or unrealistic as hell even for fiction. They're a great artist though and draw the characters all the time which I do appreciate but apart from that its been really shitty putting up with their shenanigans.

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>>9177255
To add on. Also apologies for typos I just came home after a long shift.

>Try to recommend them things to read, usually being vampire related since that's what they seem into
>Shit like the original Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Cirque du freak. Basic entry level shit.
>They get offended that I even suggest that they read more
Oh yeah, forgot the best part
>They're very talented at art and like to draw one of my characters very often
>They post their art on Deviantart and Tumblr and have a moderately good sized fanbase
>Their followers really enjoy said character and so he's already known as this edge lord type character when that's really, really not how I wrote him out to be
>They occasionally claim ownership over some of my characters which I don't know how to feel about

I'm an adult working a blue collared job I don't need this shit what the fuck

I hate reading and writing so much it makes me angry to even think about it.

The only reason I'm here is that r9k just makes me feel even worse

>>9164887
At first glance, i thought it was a shark.

>>9177634
lol

...

Get out

>>9176069
Everybody does.

>>9175682
>I like existential and Christian philosophy/theology, but can't stop being a degenerate. I quit masturbating/watching porn like a month ago, but now I have ridiculous dreams. Last night I dreamed a qt3.14 from church gave me an over the pants rub down and woke up with my pajamas drenched in cum. Not really literary, but whatever

YEs the way to stop fapping is not by stopping to fap, nor even by willing to stop fapping, but it is by getting dispassionate towards fapping, which is done by seeing that there is nothing good about fapping, which is done by willing to stop being unhappy and seeing that, there is no control over the arousing nor over the body and, since fapping is seen as bringing pleasure, fapping has displeasure tied to it and the object of the fap (which is seen as positive) has negative features, typically the whore you fap to is imagined as having a bad character and physically ugly, like imagining her bones, imagining her with stinky hair, with acne and so on.

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This is my favorite series of books.

>>9175054
I think he meant light novels. They're basically manga.

>>9177255
how does something this awful happen in the first place who the hell do you even associate with i didn't even believe humanity could get this autistic

>>9164920
nay yea your brothers a major cunt, lad wew

I listen to so much Future that when I read aloud I need to gargle it like I'm drinking cough syrup on autotune. It's actually a lot of fun.