/Lit/erary confessions thread. The only thread where it is acceptable

Cormac McCarthy is good, no matter what corncob memers say otherwise. Blood Meridian and Suttree should be considered as american classics.

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>taking my break at work
>I work at a supermarket
>manager is a young female qt, only like 27 years old, I am 27 as well
>she is in the break room reading a book
>take a look to see what the book is
>it is some fucking Twilight book or something
>want to make a conversation with her about the book
>I am not a good conversationalist
>ask her what she is reading she tells me the book is Twilight
>actually manage to have a nice discussion with her, make a joke about Twilight basically being an erotic novel and she laughs
>get really excited that we may have a connection now
>decide it would be funny to make a joke
>if I buy an actual erotic novel and read it at the same time as her, she will see and find it funny
>buy an erotic novel about Werewolves
>take it to work
>wait until she is having her break and reading
>go and get the erotic novel I bought from my locker and sit next to her
>when I sit down and start reading she looks over and pulls a face like 'wtf is that'
>she looks disgusted
>start to realise maybe this wasn't funny
>try to joke my way out of it
>'haha, howwllllllllll I want wolf dick'
>she tells me to please take my break somewhere else
>I go and sit in the toilet cubicle reading the book for some reason
>tfw she has treated me very badly ever since I did this shit

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Desires-Wolfman-Complete-Werewolf-Collection/dp/1624930409/

This was the book btw

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>>9686967
I like yuri fanfiction desu

>>9686979
Why an erotica book and not just a YA novel?

>>9686979
>> dat cover

seriously Anon?

>>9686975
how is this even controversial

i only know one language

I dog-ear my pages if I want the exact location of my chapter or paragraph I was on.

I don't mind if the spines crease on my books. I don't intentionally do it but it's not the end of the world either. Most of my editions are cheap enough to be purchased again if it really damages the book.

I'm that guy who's in the queue before you at the local book sales at the library or the secondhand shop who managed to pilfer all the cool classics and fun niche subject books into a hefty large pile. I'll buy them all and all that'll be left is the shitty ghostwritten autobiographies of people still alive, celebrity "memoirs", kid's school text books and whatever other shit is left behind.

Sometimes books just aren't as good as the films. It's a bad example but The Martian with Matt Damon made for an enjoyable dumb blockbuster whereas the book was insufferable. Kubrick's films are often better than the books too. Ken Loach's adaptation of Kes is better than the book but I can't help but laugh every fucking time when the kid swings that dead bird around in his living room.

>>9686991
You'd be surprised, most threads focusing on McCarthy or one of his books tends to get flooded with shitposters.

>>9686981
I don't care for fanfiction but anything yuri-related gets a pass from me. Grills being romantic with other grills is only a good thing.

>>9686992
learning another language is a meme unless if you want to move to that country, become a translator, interpreter or write in another language.

>>9686995
Shinning movie is far superior (artistically, entertainingly) to the book.

>>9686979
A pasta is born.

Been reading a lot of SF lately. Even though it's been more or less classics so far (Roadside Picnic, Solaris), some have felt quite genre fiction tier already (Hyperion, Long Sun, Short Sun) and I guess those were still quite engaging. Reading for the plot! I'm a bit afraid I'll end up reading nothing but SF anymore, because it's just so much fun.

Another kind of book I've read a few of lately is the kinda low-life drug-related thing... Taipei, Blue Lines on Transparent Skin. I'm not sure whether there's a whole lot of literary merit to them. I guess I was mostly entertained by the protagonist's drug/depression antics? As with SF, it feels like I could go on and on reading this stuff sometimes.

Also I like Murakami.

>>9686979
Pretty nice senpai.

>>9687008
as a reader and a writer i find language very attractive. i don't rly need any other reason. i'm just lazy.

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>>9687002
I don't know how much of a dirty weeb you are but Kindred Spirits on the Roof might interest you

I've tried to read Infinite Jest 3 times and never made it past 100 pages. I've given up completely now.

>>9687008
Don't studies tend to show changes in the brain, possibly improved brain elasticity?

Since my degree I've found that I no longer have any patience at all for fiction. I've been trying to re-acclimate myself to the process once again, but it's slow going and this surprises me.

I just recently started reading the Greeks, after I had read Pynchon and Joyce.

>>9687012
Science fiction is quite addictive. Some very engaging concepts and narratives on offer, but I tend to feel the characters are often lacking. I do enjoy it but I do also feel like I find it less engaging sometimes than I a would a big door stopper like Don Quixote or something

>>9687044
Same. Once I've delved further into the literary canon I will spend some time re-reading Pynchon and Joyce.

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I prefer to watch Stargate SG1 than read any book.

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I epically busted my nuts twice on ontologikewl and now she does nothing for me.
She is the cutest on her 4chan video.

i haven't read any of the meme trilogy

>>9686979
Really nice pasta

>>9687064
I don't understand the appeal for that trashy show. Why the hell are you here and not on /tv/ anyway?

>>9687072

not literature, i wish that /lit/ didn't cum in their pants every time some girl runs a booktuber channel, it's fucking embarrassing

this shit wouldn't happen if you guys went outside from time to time and actually met girls in the real world

>>9687064
Literally the definition of faggot.

>>9687093
LARPing as a normie isn't any better friend.

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you think she is a clitoridian or vaginal kind of girl?

>>9686995
I know a bitch who folds entire pages down the middle as a way to know on which page she's on. She says she doesn't give a fuck because she only does it to library books.

Makes me cry.

>>9687135
protip: you were the bitch in this blog spot

>>9687128
Armed with the knowledge from Thinking Fast and Slow, I would say clitoridian

Sometimes I read YA but I always find that I only like the idea of reading a fluffy story with two-dimensional characters because they always end up annoying me.

i bought atleast 25 books off the lit chart 2016 2015 just because im new to literature and there was a "chart"

>>9686967
I have read the entire Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles and I enjoyed almost every page.

I have a whole shelf of Stephen King.

>>9686967
I read the Harry Potter series and I enjoyed it.

>>9687031
Only if you begin learning it before, like, age 4

Learning a language as an adult or even a teenager is like memorizing a third-world country's list of mayors, or committing the Bible to memory. It's technically exercising your brain but in a weak, non-applicable way. Better to learn advanced statistics, biology, history, etc. Learning another language is just an obstacle and waste of your time. You'll never "get" a novel written in French if you started learning French at 23, just like 4chan users will never "get" talking to women once they start trying at 23. The real communication is lost no matter how hard you "study". You can't overcome the power of innate language which can only be picked up in childhood.

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>>9686967
I read reactionary literature.

I don't read books. I only discuss books.

>>9687255
>dude learning just STOPS in your mid-20s
no

things like language and learning to score are harder because they're complex disciplines with lots of interplay between the brain and the body. these things are easier to pick up as a kid but not impossible as an adult.

>>9687285
I didn't fucking say people can't learn languages in their 20s, that's obviously not true. People do it all the time.

I said learning a language in your 20s does NOT give you the same "brain elasticity" boost that learning it in infancy does. This is just basic public information, it's not even controversial. Becoming bilingual as an adult has a totally different brain effect from becoming bilingual when you're a toddler. You can absolutely do it but the "boost" isn't there and you're never *really* learning it the way you learn a native language. Obviously you can still learn it.

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>>9687201
every Gary I've known has been a gigantic faggot

>>9687209
I loved IT but I meh'd at The shining, should I give King another chance?

>>9687201
i do the same stuff im a discrete hypebeast because i dont know how to make decisions or where to even start when it comes to look for new books

>>9686967
I've enjoyed almost every Stephen King book I've read, and I enjoy his writing style. His books are entertaining and he has some good ideas, even if he isn't always great at executing them (especially endings, which I think is his biggest weakpoint [The Stand])

>>9687304
that's just because you have it as a filter on your grindr search

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I can't read papers or articles published by European humanities departments any more even from my native country because of how inferior it is, we should be embarrassed about how far behind the Anglosphere in philosophy and literary theory we are.

>>9687318
Yeah but don't read the Shining. That's a ponderous tome even for King. I'd save that for if you're a pretty big King fan.

Read the first Gunslinger, which is very short, and some older stuff like The Running Man.

>>9687303
Saying you can never *really* learn it is tantamount to saying that you cannot learn it. If you can learn it, you can learn it; don't set up unnecessary and annoying qualifications

>>9686967
I like the Aeneid better than the Odyssey because I'm a Rome-aboo and Dante fan.

I left this place for a long time and now that I'm back and see it's more reddity and shittier than ever I actively try to push it over the edge and make it /tv/2.0

I'm doing a doctorate thesis in English Literature while writing anonymously yaoi fanfics about Korean manhwas.

>>9686967
It's very hard for me to read. I can read page and then I have to pause for 5-10 minutes to shitpost on chan.

I wish I could find a girl to talk about literature and flirt.

>>9686967
I honestly think fanfiction can be on level with real fiction at times.

i have readed like 20 philosophers
15 just says nonsense or trivial shit
4 are asholes and i would never agree with them in anything
the other one is fucking Ayn Rand
i allways considered myself a leftiest

i hate this shit

>>9687381
not a bad thing to be, anon

pizza people are very good at ancient literature

>>9687201
Well, that's what the charts are there for I suppose.

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If I have free will, I must admit I have free will, so I do not have free will.

If I do not have free will, it is not possible to have the idea of free will without having free will, I have the idea of free will, so I must have free will.

I masturbate to incest hentai, futanari hentai, hotdogging and thighjobs.

I have clothed foot fetish and flats give me the biggest boner.

I won't fuck non-virgins.

I read to impress girls and because I think I'm productive - I don't enjoy reading.

>>9687557
hmm, maybe you discovered that the right is the side with the better arguments. It's ok to feel confused.

But seriously, what fucking philosophers did you read?

>>9687581
He read ancient or medieval philosophy and wasn't able to go around the non-cognitive language and faulty premises that surround the wonderful things.

>>9687072
OBJECTIVE RANKING:
bottom-right, bottom-left, top-right, >>>>>>>>>>>huge gap>>>>>>>>>> top-left

>>9687581
Kant
Nietzsche
Plato
Heidegger
Sartre
Seneca
Adorno
Marx
Habermas
Derrida
Descartes
Hegel
Mark Rowlands(this one is pretty awsome tho)
Feyerabend
Aristotle
San Agustin
Schopenhauer
Montaigne
Foucault

Ok, they are not so bad, but they are mostly unintelligible and unfounded

>>9686967
My only goal in writing is to write a successful fantasy isekai web novel.

Not a book or trilogy, just a fun mobile phone web novel that's highly derivitive.

>>9687341
Found a gary

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>>9687612
(You)

Most of the books I read are YA novels

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>>9687576
>hotdogging

I write basic aabb rhyme scheme lyrics to simple 4/4 chord progressions in my room and then cry because they all sound like the same shitty song.

>>9687631
this kekistan shit is embarrassing

I like Neil Gaiman in small doses.

>>9686992
Duolingo is an easy and accessible way to learn the basics of another language. Going through French ATM and then i'm gonna try my hand at German, which is meant to be very easy if English is your native language.

>>9686995
> but I can't help but laugh every fucking time when the kid swings that dead bird around in his living room.

desu i know this feel

People who don't read because "I don't have the time" yet they post inane things on Facebook are full of shit.

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>>9687201
use the 2017 chart instead

I am wreaking absolute havoc desu and I don't really want to, but I'm doing it for the sake of someone and something that matters more to me than my own life. As if it were some precious thing to me. As if I'd give up the one chance I have at bringing the truth to light, for what? For what? There's no reason to.

I like paperbacks better than hardbacks.

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Sometimes while reading I do ridiculous vocal noises to wake myself up more, sometimes I start singing and rapping the prose from the book and sometimes it works to the point that i wish i was recording it at the time.

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>>9687201
use this first, then you can use the other one.

>>9687821
>The Bible in third.

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>>9687695

>>9687666
All songs in the key of C or G too, right?

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>>9686967
Not so much a plebeian confession, but I'm the only one among my friends who reads at all. Worst of all is that if I recommend anything, a book, game, TV-series, anything, it's completely ignored. Every. God. Damn. Time. It's a unique pain, really.

>>9687576
gonna make it

>>9687354
Thanks for the recs my man

>>9687879
ive read over half of the books in that infographic...

am i a pseud??

>>9687612
If you don't think Kant, Heidegger, Marx or Aristotle are beasts, maybe philosophy is not for you.

>>9687821
that's a known fake from discord chatters

>>9687825
Tell me more anon

>>9687975
everybody should have read at least half of those

>>9687879
bnw, 1984, aild, bk are the only worthwhile books

>>9688155

Well, for starters, paperback is much more flexible. You can take them anywhere.

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I actually find reading very difficult. I might have dyslexia. But I will, sometimes find in a book something that goes beyond reading and the form is just the obstacle to get to the soul of the author. Then I suddenly become a scholar, chewing every sentence, page by page, word by word, letting no allusion or depressing word get past without fully comprehending. I will return to it again and again. I will just as passionately chuck a book out the window, and the whole universe of literature, if I don't find this in what I am reading.

And yet, having confessed this, I still feel like a greater scholar not in spite of but because of this way of being. Fuck you

>>9688196
kys

Plato was a NAMBLA promoting faggot

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>>9687918
me too anon. Listened to Frank Ocean with my friend and when Crack Rock came on he turned it off cause it was gay just talking about his dick. fast forward to a party like a year years later and all that he played was Frank and ask "Frank ocean is really good do you like him?" I just said yeah... and thats just one example, feels bad man

Analytic metaphysics is my favorite branch of philosophy

>>9687303
I'm a neuroscientist, and you are retarded. There is no age limit for brain plasticity you pretentious moron.

>>9687918
rec me something, senpai

>>9688386
read Quine, apostate

>>9686979
What the fuck is your problem?

>>9687695
That's the point. It was always satire to trick the normies into being retards.

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Ulysses is some retarded ass shit. The writer was an edgy faggot and so is everyone who analyses it. Basically the book equivalent of this piece of shit photo.

>>9687072
I wish I could find someone to look at me the way her right eye looks at the left.

>>9688527
what's it like being this dumb

>>9688550
Stunning retort(d), broseph. I'm gonna read Ulysses from cover to cover so I can be as sagacious as you!

>>9686979
Shoulda gone "AWOOOOOOOOOO WERWOLVES OF YER PANTIES!"

>>9688492
Quine made it possible my man. He was a reluctant platonist after all

>>9688550
>implying ulysses isn't some shitty meme for pseudo intellectuals

>>9687918
We've all been there, my man. Normies just don't engage with something in the same way, it's all more casual. I envy it sometimes

I masturbated to Joyce's love letters.

>>9688245
Hey fuck you too, go fuck yourself

>>9688375
Wtf crack rock is one of his best songs too

I've spent the last year smoking pot everyday and the only books I've read have been textbooks for class. I quit smoking last week and just cracked open King Lear yesterday, if that counts for anything.

boimp

Up until last year, I dog-eared my pages in such a way that the corner of the page folded all the way down (or up, if I was more than halfway through the page) and pointed at the word I had left off on.

I have at least 15 Stephen King books and all of the Harry Potter books. I also have some Dan Brown
In my defense, I was into that when I was 9-12

Oh, also. I used to steal books from my school. Stole at least ten from there

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i skim read all novels unless they have experimental modernist prose

I like genre fiction
Especially spy stories

>>9688591
AWOOOOOO Sweet home alabama

>>9686967
i dont read, i only like the idea of reading

I like reading children's novels because they help me remember things from my childhood I can't myself due to my shitty weird memory.

i go to bookstores and walk around holding books that girls would know of/like and pretend im looking and/or interested in books when in reality im just hoping that one of them will eventually strike up a conversation about the book in my hand and how it's 'really good' and then i'd say something like 'oh yeah?' and then i'd propose to her and she'd say yes

this has yet to happen but im sure if i up the amount of visits i make to bookstores the odds of it happening will increase exponentially

i dont even read desu i just come here so i know what to pick up and walk around the store with

I read shitty to semi-shitty YA fiction and reimagine them as if they were quality films; think about how I would direct them, etc.

I only started reading because I felt intellectually insecure after dropping college

>>9687416
I think that's beautiful.

>nearly all of my bookshelf is LN / manga, by that I mean about two thirds of it.
>the only physical copies I have are from high school and other shitty literature classes, haven't bought a real book since I was 18
>I have a copy of Nacho Libre on DVD next to actual books
>still haven't finished Infinite Jest

I'm scared.

I use audiobooks where possible and think they are the future of /lit/

>>9687255
>innate language
kek

t. Linguist

>>9686967

I've read very few works considered to be classic literature. Most of the things that I have read are very modern. I just haven't gotten around to checking many works that are older or classic yet.

i read most of what i read for the sign value/cultural capital/academic phallus points

I mostly read books from the Canon. :(

hunter x hunter is literature

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>>9687255
>Better to learn advanced statistics, biology, history, etc.
>Learning another language is just an obstacle and waste of your time.
>You'll never "get" a novel written in French if you started learning French at 23, just like 4chan users will never "get" talking to women once they start trying at 23.
who pissed in your breakfast, little boy

>>9688400
does knowing more languages as a child mean you can learn them easier as an adult? is any of the shit about different languages making you think differently true?

I listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks constantly. I've probably listened to all seven books at least twice so far this year.

I wrote a My Little Pony fanfic.
A fallout crossover to be precise.

>>9690444
you didnt write fallout equestria did you

dont ask me why i know this exists

>>9690451

No i didn't. I wrote a fanfic of a fanfic.

> how do you know, litlet?

>>9686967
spinozas ethics is a fucking slog so i just read summery s other people write

I don't remember anything I read.

>>9690430
Assuming there aren't common links between the languages spoken and the language being learned, speaking multiple languages gives you no advantages in learning a new one besides perhaps that you might have a more refined process having been through it before.

there is a difference between language acquisition and learning. you acquire your native language in a process which only happens as a child. this is why a native english speaker can intuitively apply complex or inconsistent rules when a non-native speaker struggles. there is little to no evidence that learning or acquiring multiple languages rewires the brain or increases IQ.

>>9690468
Do you remember what breakfast you eat every day?

>>9690469
>you acquire your native language in a process which only happens as a child
when does this end, at what age?

>there is little to no evidence that learning or acquiring multiple languages rewires the brain or increases IQ.
so kids who know/are learning more than 1 language don't have any real benefit aside from knowing/learning more than 1 language?

>>9690472
I don't eat breakfast. I also don't read books for that matter. I only come here to discuss philosophy because every other board is full of 85 IQ morons. 4chan is dead and I want to non ironically kill every single Redditor on earth who posts here for ruining my home.

>>9690476
based

>>9690475
>when does this end, at what age?
it's hard to say precisely. it will decline as the child gets older, but by early adolescence it should be more or less the same as an adult.

>so kids who know/are learning more than 1 language don't have any real benefit aside from knowing/learning more than 1 language?
yep

>>9690483
do you know if there's any benefit then in terms of learning a language as an adult if you know 2+ from childhood? mainly thinking in terms of physical stuff, like mouth muscles or whatever, pronunciation etc.

I read most of Orson Scott Card's books in highschool.
I read lots of fan fiction when I need a mental break.

>Watch Hamlet movie
>Watch Odyssey
>Start Ulysses

>>9686979
So this is what it's like to be autistic.

>>9688953
Hope you like King Lear, anon. Pardon the pun but it is very sobering.

>>9689953
I do this too.

>>9689987
For some reason I had a stealing phase when I was about 5 years old and I specifically remember stealing stationary from my school like boxes of staples, push-pins and some of those metal pieces attached by a piece of green string (whatever they're called) to keep documents together through punched holes. My mother found boxes of this stuff in my bedroom and wondered what the hell I had it all for.

>>9690166
Genuinely a good idea, anon. YA fiction is a large market and even larger are its film adaptations. You come across a Hunger Games or a Twilight and you could rake it in. Consider going into screenwriting sometime and try adapting some YA fiction. Submit to fantasy/sci-fi screenwriting competitions. See if anything gets picked up.

>>9690795
Lel. Which Hamlet and which Odyssey?

>>9690365
Maybe try really short classics like novellas or short stories, that way you can dip your toe into whatever everyone else is talking about while also not taking much effort on your part. Of Mice and Men, The Stranger/The Outsider (depending on where you live the book's title differs), Rashomon, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, The Double, Heart of Darkness, etc. All very short and don't require much effort to enjoy/read.

>>9690432
Stephen Fry makes those books worth listening to, anon.

>>9690795
kek, you're a cheeky little cunt

Penguin editions are total garbage.

>weeks before birthday
>give my mother hints that I'd like to read Dubliners
>say it's my birthday so she can afford to buy me a good edition and not a cheap paperback
>spend the nest few weeks talking about how magnificent an author Joyce is
>Birthday
>mother shows me a present in the shape of a nice hardcover book
>feel good about this, proud of my mother for the first time in my life
>as soon as she hands me the book, all that goes away
>feel under the wrappings a shitty floopy paperback
>open it and see it's a fucking Penguin edition
>sternly tell mother that Everyman editions are the books that are aesthetically beautiful and long lasting
>she keeps telling me that my present is a centennial edition and that the artwork looks pretty, as if that makes it better
>tell her this Penguin piece of shit will fall apart after only a few rereadings
>demonstrate my point by opening and closing the poorly made Penguin edition just a few times
>it rips apart really easily and turns into a pathetic pile of paper on the floor
>tfw she won't buy me the Everyman version because I've been acting bad

She told me I could have just made an exchange if I didn't "destroy" the book I had, but I don't want another poor reader to suffer.

>>9687128
You are so beautiful, Ontologicool. I hope you're reading this.

I am sorry.

>>9691408
i would do to her the things that killer mike and gangsta boo say on that track love again on run the jewels 2, btw it's v. nsfw and a little rude but make me feel good every time

>>9691402
weak bait

>>9691330
I stole like you , and still did until 25. It is pathetic and I do not even use all this office stuff.
I also stole legos from the store. I was caught once and I had to fill a form acknowledging I stole some little car with my dad next to me.

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>>9686979

>>9691436

>mein negro musik ay ay

shut the fuck up and return to plebbit you kike

I think Douglas Adams' books are really funny at times.

>buy books
>want to read them
>oh look! A reply to my post, let me go answer back!
>end up replying to 5 more threads
This shithole will be the end of me
Who else /distracted/?

>>9691798
Yeah DNA's books are quite funny except the fact that DNA himself is an insufferable asshole.

>>9691335
Thanks. I've recently been considering weather I want to focus more on English/Lit or Film in my future endeavors. Screenwriting really appeals to me, I'd really like to explore that more. I appreciate the suggestion, anon.

>>9687576
>I don't enjoy reading.
Literally me. I just read on the bus hoping that a qt3.14 ask me what i am reading. Get home and feel warm inside that some random girl talked to me for other reason than work.
>incest hentai, futanari hentai, hotdogging and thighjobs.
Yes
>I have clothed foot fetish and flats give me the biggest boner.
Well, 2 out of 3.

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>never ever admit to not having read something
>read summaries before even starting a book
>cum in library books

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>>9691342
Ulysses 1954 and pic related

I find Biblical studies and Theology far superior to Philosophy, It's fucking incredible how well structured their field is and the quality of output is fucking amazing; a group of 20 scholars will slave away for a decade and a half on a 3000 page study bible that analyses every other word, provides multi denominational commentary, detailed maps, charts and footnotes etc.

And then sells it for $30.

>>9687821
imagine a new reader blind buying this top ten to "get into reading"

>>9690258
Scared of what, anon?

>>9687821
Fuck off with your fake ass chart retard

>>9691953
>read summaries before even starting a book
Why would you do that?

>>9691700
Hey its cool if you like to chug dick dude its 2019 but im ol school i like that pussaaaay if u kno what i mean

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Whilst some are a bit crap (The Illiad one sucks hard) I actually love many of the modernised covers at Rock Paper Books and would buy them if not for the price. Pic related.

>>9692430
U r a fagit

>>9692568
Seems like a good list to start with even if it is fake

>>9692872
Haha that looks fucking gay my dude

>>9691700
Literal fucking pleb. That song gives me the guiltiest hard-on every time I hear it.

>>9692888
The thread's called confessions for a reason, heh. Not really sure why I like them if I'm honest, perhaps it's because I read a lot of comics as a teenager.

I knew it was embarrassing though, as I actually found them through a bad covers thread on here.

>>9691949
Don't worry about the third. It's only me in the whole world, not even definable.

>>9686979
Wow those socks are bad

>>9688400
how does plasticity improve with learning another language specifically? Or don't you know and just wanted to call anon a moron (totally called for)

t. clinical psychology student

>>9690153
You're going to have to start the talking Anon

I read Infinite Jest before reading Hamlet

>>9688527
what's up with this photo

Yesterday my mom let me cum inside for the first time.

>>9687821
stop spreading that trash

>>9688527
actually that picture is pretty cool

>>9691349
That's how I feel. It's just so fucking comfy. Fry recently did a huge collection of Sherlock Holmes and it's fucking fantastic.

>>9692875
If you have better recs drop them.

>>9687341
OH MAN

>>9694163
> anon asks for which version of Hamlet you watched
> you post Macbeth

I think there needs to be a /lit/ test to make sure you're worthy enough to come and discuss literature and not just shitpost. If you fail the test, you're re-directed to /r/books. If you pass it, you're allowed to talk about books with people who actually read them.

I don't know what the criteria would be specifically, but maybe a quiz on the influence of the Greeks on literature today or questions based on the last book the anon supposedly read.

I just can't believe we share this board with people who don't read yet here we are, these fuckers come from reddit and infect our board.

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>>9686967
I once devoured books.
But since I got a PC in late 2004. I haven't read more than 4 books for pleasure a year on average.
I used to devour video games too

>>9694712
i would support this intensely. no context to the questions, but drop them out like 1. a) to what extent is the judge the embodiment of evil? or something like that.

maybe even trip up plebs by saying Why would anybody read fiction?

If you say "for the story" then you're kicked all the way back to the CBBC bitesize front page for english GCSE

>>9692430
>thinks he watched hamlet and odyssey
>actually watched macbeth and ulysses
I think you have larger issues.

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>>9694712
yes a few liberal men have faith in some standardized test to avoid dealing with people they do not like, otherwise they become upset.

>>9694712
They're plenty of places like this on the internet, and they receive about 3 posts a week, two of them in the introductions subforum.

>>9694712
clearly good intentions but in practice the board would die and unlike something like what.cd which makes you do a test, there's nothing here on /lit/ that offers anything for free other than shitflinging. maybe you just need a hobby that has a more active community elsewhere.

>>9694777
Nearly nobody got into WCD through the test, 99% of people on the website were invited by their friends, and it isn't like the community was healthy either, it was a giant meat grinder with over 10% of the population being replaced every month and the TM forums being 99% discussion about babby's first weed.

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>>9686967
I'm a shit reader, but I consider myself at least above average in terms of vocabulary and writing ability.

So, shitty reader... I've only read a book or two for fun, and now I simply listen to audio books when I want to engage literature. I want to engage the story and its concepts, not take fucking hours upon hours just to get through it.

T. Slow reader

>>9686995

Hey my dude, I also show up to every book sale and buy everything even slightly interesting. I have a real tendency to overspend at those things.

The master and margarita is possibly the single most over rated book I have ever read.

>>9694831
i actually think we don't talk about this book enough on here

>>9694956

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it. I was thoroughly unimpressed, but perhaps I wasn't reading closely enough.

>>9694815
>>9686995
How early do you guys need to turn up to these book sales to make sure you can pick up all the cool stuff?

>>9694992

Not that early. Most people buy like 1 or 2 things when they go to one, and most people aren't interested in classics and stuff.

My grandad is a real cunt at those sales actually, he shows up and buys books by the boxload, doesn't even look what's in them half the time. filters through the crap later. I think he has a library of like 10000 or more books now, with a whole room dedicated to anything even remotely worth reading. It's a shame his house is so fucking damp or it would be amazing.

>>9695017
that's a bit of a shame, anon. hope he is aware enough to just keep them in the driest spots of the house. had to deal with a damp spot in my room recently where all my books were and although none of them were damaged apart from a few spatterings, it's always a worry.

>>9694992
If it was me I'd arrive in the morning and see what's the best on offer. If nothing is in there that I would have on my mental wishlist, I'd pick up the next best things, maybe stuff I've heard positive things about or something focusing on a subject I'm interested in actively or casually.

My main source of literature is downloading "free book" apps onto my phone and then casually reading what they offer. I have Aesop's Fables, Moby Dick, Lovecraft, Poe, The Iliad, The Bible, Art of War, some Plato all available on my phone. Beats paying out £3-£10 for each of them physically.

>>9695024

He is with the ones that are worth anything. The man's an antiques collector first and foremost so he knows how to look after his shit. It's the vast reserves of crap that are lying around the rest of his house that suffer really.

>>9695038
It really doesn't

>>9686979
These fucking reviews tho.
>I'm a huge fan of paranormal erotic romance and so I didn't hesitate to grab this anthology of erotic stories by Julianne Reyer. Let me begin by saying that I am SO glad that I did! First of all, this is a full collection of paranormal erotic stories so you aren't just getting one story but a complete bundle of naughty werewolf erotic romance shorts. Second, every story is very well written with a solid plot and oh-so hot (if you are a fan of feverishly hot sex scenes you will be VERY satisfied with these stories!).

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>>9695038
> reading
> on a phone

It's like you really must hate high quality anythings.

>>9695089
Amazon reviews for weird shit like that opens a whole new world. At that point, it's like we, the people of /lit/, are the true normies.

>>9695093

maybe he has a yotaphone with eink display

>>9687349
You're just shit at looking for the good stuff.

>>9695149
Actually It's perfectly normal, we're on /lit/ so I'm assuming humanities. Europe is producing next to zero academic cultural produce right now, they've stripped their humanities departments to the bare-bones.

For example nearly all groundbreaking and interesting Philosophy research is happening in America or Britain, while /lit/ masturbates about Zizek academic philosophy is masturbating to Brandom and McDowell.

Or you can think of it like this: The United States has more citations and published papers than all of Europe combined.

>>9695187
Yeah but nobody gives the first iota of a shit about the humanities outside of other people in the same subfield of the humanities.

>>9695197
So... exactly like every other field?

>>9695197
>>9695187

By this I don't mean to sound hostile, but to say that it is not in a particularly good place in america either, with the commodifiation of universities making humanities research less and less lucrative year by year. You're practically commiting career suicide to enter grad school in the humanities right now.

>>9695202
Yeah nobody gives a shit about all those new drugs and vaccines :^)

>>9695207
>Yeah nobody gives a shit about all those new drugs and vaccines :^)
The Guardian has published its 19th article this month about how they've finally cured cancer, for real this time. So I guess your right.

>>9695211

It's sad, but scientific discoveries make for good clickbait.

>>9695207
>with the commodifiation of universities making humanities research less and less lucrative year by year.

It's actually way way more complicated than "muh capitalism reee commodification" which is only a tiny part of it.

Most of the decline in humanities funding is due to endowments being mismanaged and publicly-funded projects being extremely disappointing in both quality and implementation.

I have been going through a phase where it is hard for me to read. It used to be so easy, I could get through a hundred pages a day no problem. I only work part time, my obligations are few, but ive just been consuming entertainment non stop, in the form of browsing 4chan and trying to get laid off of tinder, and constantly working out only in hopes that someone will love me. It is disgusting, I know that in the grand scheme of things, being an autistic kissless virgin doesn't matter, but I literally let the fact that I have never entered my penis into a vagina halt my literary studies. I haven't read a book in over a month, If I do read I maybe read 5 pages of something. I write a bit, but I mostly just poor out my retarded thoughts into a journal, just to look at how fucking boring and pathetic I am in hopes that it would motivate me to change. I finally felt a change in myself last night, and I was able to read a bit before bed, and now I am getting more excited for uni, and I think I will change my major from compE to spanish Lit, just because I have a scholarship so it wont cost anything to waste 4 years on a liberal arts degree. It is weird, I feel like I am just now pulling out of a sporadic phase of retardation. I had no deep thoughts, all I would do is think about going out with my friends till 3 AM, trying to look cool, and I would text with grills and gay guys nonstop trying to find someone who would love me. I want to go back to the /lit/ lifestyle, but I feel ashamed of how off track I let myself get in the past few months. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? I'm sorry for the blogpost.

>>9695268
dude it cant honestly be that hard to get pussy on tinder

>>9695268
Everybody read this post to this music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN1B-tUpgs

>>9695224
Reminder the NEH spends over $1M/yr on the Popular Romance Project, a fucking blog written by YA authors.

>>9695285

Jesus christ, no wonder the humanities are dying.

>>9686967
I am an avid reader of fiction, classics mostly, sometimes SF and rarely Fantasy. I used to consume a lot of electronic media because of my hunger for escapism (maladaptive daydreamer). Got bored after aprox 10 years and started doing the same thing with fiction. I sometimes finish a book in a day and go right to the next one. I feel guilty that I don't take more time to enjoy the prose.
But I also read nonfiction (currently going through a introduction in sociology textbook), which I don't rush at all and always research online concepts I don't understand.

Pepe and all of his rare variations aren't funny and you're not cool.

>>9695292
Throw "Women Make Movies" in google, they recieve hundreds of thousands of dollars each and every year from both NEH and NEA to produce pornography.

>>9695280
I get a lot of matches, I have gone out on a few dates, but i can't even bring myself to hold their hand. I worked out for a year, I got the teenage girl dream body, abs, chest, good lats, etc, but social interaction is extremely hard for me. I can't connect with people, I haven't been able to for years. That is what started my /lit/ habits, because I was isolated throughout school, but I finally let my isolation get to me, so I did all the physical things I could to change it. I don't know if it possible to change my personality though, so I understand now that I really need to get used to isolation and just devote myself to studies, instead of use my studies as a form of escapism.

>>9695350

You should just have a pretend personality that you use to interact with people so that you can have the benefits without actually connecting

>>9693046
It was the most expensive photo ever sold. I think it was 60 MIL or someshit.

>>9694726
How old are you

I imagine this would all be a lot funnier if you didn't have to admit that you did actually kiss and fuck me. I also have proof, oddly enough, I just held on to it.

>>9696157
what book is this?