Literary confessions thread/times you've been called out for being a pleb thread.
Be honest, anons. We're faaaaaamily here.
i can't think
i can't write
i have no discernible talent.
>>7691012
- I dog-ear my own books to the sentence/paragraph I left off from so I know exactly where to pick up my progress from.
- I think Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby adaptation is the most accurate to the noveland even think it better than the original novel. DiCaprio as Gatsby just makes sense.
- I don't really bother looking for the best translations, I just know that I should stay away from whatever Wordsworth use.
>>7691012
i can't read anymore without amphetamines.
if i take amphetamines, i lose my affection for my loved ones, but i find an ultimate joy in literature.
i have chosen my loved ones over art, and i feel sometimes that i have made the wrong choice, and have squandered an alternate destiny.
No matter how many times some elitists will call me pleb for it, I read and enjoy Murakami.
I enjoy Kerouac and Burroughs. Ginsberg is trash though.
I hardly ever remember the plot and characters from the books that I read because I'm literally autistic.
I've got like 6 McCarthy novels
>>7691036
Amphetamines help you concentrate. Adderall is an amphetamine.
>>7691039
>>7691043
These are OK.
>>7691042
Take notes on each chapter and learn to get used to summarising what's happened. It helps quite a bit actually and eventually you'll be able to remember the book without needing notes.
Although if you're interested in writing, you should probably take note of what is effective to you in each book you read anyway.
>>7691043
Cormac McCarthy is the best living American author today so that's mighty fine work, son.
>>7691036
no, i become a fucking laser. i can chew through books, and i can assume their writing style with ease, i took a couple iq tests around the time i was still on amphetamines, and off of them, and my iq changed 25 points.
>>7691051
Maybe I should do that. Thanks, anon!
I want the Big Dave memesters to go back to school so we can all talk about how we enjoy books again.
> walk into the local "hip" book store
> it's full of people, try navigating my way around them, never liked big crowds
> find the classics section of the shop, it's an empty shelf with five copies of mary shelley's frankenstein and a copy of The Great Gatsby with a big sticker reading "back 2 school" on its cover
> have a quick look around the shop but it's mainly cookbooks, maps, YA fiction, iTunes gift cards, crosley record players, and Wii games
> there's a coffee bar that's really busy in the corner of the shop, some big sofas to sit on, look really comfy
> begin to sit down, woman from the coffee bar tells me the seats are only for customers and that if I didn't order a coffee that she'd shout really loudly in my ears
> "s-s-sorry, i'll have a coffee, please"
> she shouts at me for not getting in line
> people in the line begin turning their heads in my direction, girls are laughing at me and the guys are checking their privilege
> I can feel myself about to throw up as the coffee bar worker blows on a rape whistle and gets her mace
> my stand up from the sofa is followed by applause, prompting me to go back to the empty classics section of the store, hiding behind the shelves hoping nobody saw me
> pick up Frankenstein, begin reading to try calm myself
> some of the girls from the coffee bar follow me, pointing and laughing "he's right here looking at school books!"
> I throw up into a copy of Frankenstein
> my pants fall to the floor and I can't stop farting
> I clench my buttcheeks to stop the farts but then my irritable bowl syndrome begins and I can't stop the farts and I'm sure some speckles of shit float down
> the girls screaming and blowing their rape whistles
> a tall negroid prince carries me out of the store over his shoulder and puts a hex on me
> as I'm carried out of the store, placed on the pavement outside, some charity volunteer hands me a copy of The Communist Manifesto
>>7691198
I ignored the greeks because i don't give a shit about a bunch of gay dudes fucking minotaurs and talking about what is life is life real and how life is life
>>7691012
My books per year ratio is lower than 2.
>>7691260
What are you even doing here if you don't read enough to even discuss literature?
>>7691271
I spend my time discussing on boards, forums and reading news. I enjoy it.
>>7691285
Fair enough, I guess. Don't you think conversations are a bit one-sided though on a literature board if you don't really keep up with literature? I mean, fair enough with reading at your own pace with whatever you're comfortable with, but still…
>>7691198
Motherfucker, this made me spit out my milk
I loved Inferno and Purgatorio was interesting but I rarely understood a word in Paradiso.
Pls no bully...
I don't know how to read.
>>7691336
Actually nothing wrong with this, anon. Divine Comedy is pretty challenging at times and Paradiso is probably when the poem becomes the most abstract and metaphysical.
I did two or three art projects based on Dante's Inferno during college, but only read the Wikipedia article.I still haven't read it.
I buy multiple editions of the same book because I like to have a good collection of good book covers.
I hate Joyce, Pynchon, and McCarthy. I hate their overly stylized prose. I hate how lazy they are. I hate how making a book purposely complex, without adding anything thematically is considered "good"
>>7691198
>>7691387
low quality b8
>>7691387
Hey, what authors do you like?
>>7691336
It's meant to be like that, different levels of interpretation and different styles. Paradiso goes beyond the Dolce Stil Novo.
>>7691036
lmfao have you ever taken amphetamines?
>>7691260
lmao I'm even lower. literally don't know the last book I read cover to cover. it's been years
>>7691012
the only time i get called a pleb on here is when i accidentally show my Lacanian power level.
>>7691506
Camus.
>>7691030
PKD is that you?
>>7691801
yes.
The Name of the Wind is one my favourite books
>>7691781charlatan
>>7691012
I voiced my fondness of the Lord of the Rings.
>>7691198
bretty gud 8/10
I hate Harry Potter sage.
i see no distinction between literary and genre fiction
>>7691198
5.5/10
>>7691198
>it's an empty shelf with five copies of mary shelley's frankenstein and a copy of The Great Gatsby with a big sticker reading "back 2 school" on its cover
>have a quick look around the shop but it's mainly cookbooks, maps, YA fiction, iTunes gift cards, crosley record players, and Wii games
>some of the girls from the coffee bar follow me, pointing and laughing "he's right here looking at school books!"
>I throw up into a copy of Frankenstein
8/10, ending was a bit weak
>>7691198
> I can't stop farting
i know this feel
>>7691727
No, I don't need to take anything to focus/relax.
I'm a meme poster and I will never leave. I don't even read.
I've heard of Lao Tzu and Sun Tzu thanks to Epic Rap Battle of History.
The best writers in English are/were old white men, but I will only talk about disabled trans-POC flavour-of-the-month authors to impress girls. I haven't read any of them but it is incredibly easy to pretend to have read them and I can avoid having to say anything in-depth by Checking My Privilegeâ„¢ out loud instead of involving yourself in the conversation, which impresses them more.
>>7693756
But why would you ever want to sustain any sort of relationship with those types of people?
I've discovered most of my favorite authors thanks to /lit/.
I don't really understand Nietzsche when I read him. I notice that my profound, personal understanding of his writings conflicts with scholar's interpretations.
I'm having a hard time understanding The Crying of the lot 49
>>7691012
coffeeface was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
I think James Joyce is a drunk crazy man who purposefully wrote senseless books so autists would try and dissect whatever he was talking about.
>>7693741
Disgusting.I really do enjoy that video, though.
>>7693855
Don't speed-read it. You can't blast through it like a thriller or fantasy novel.
>>7693855
what's so hard to understand, it's just lots of cryingIL
>>7693873
> Dubliners
> senseless
Dubliners is actually a very conventional collection of short stories focusing on the people of Dublin. If you don't find that easily accessible at all, maybe you're just an idiot (I'm assuming you haven't already read Dubliners since you hold the opinion on Joyce that's in your post).
>>7691016
You'll fit in just fine.
>>7691043
i think all of us mccarthy fans might want to start an AA-style group or something
>>7691230
how does it feel to be someone with a level of mental activity one step from braindead?
>>7693765
>sustain a relationship
Not my goal
>>7693976
Is it really worth the effort of keeping up with that garbage and discussing it with these people just for the sake of getting laid?
>>7693995
some people are just desperate and want to get PC to crush that puss
>>7694642
I want to say I can't imagine being that desperate for it, but to be fair I've had it coming in constantly for free since middle school, so maybe I wouldn't know
>>7691030
Why not take them once a week, once every two weeks or even once a month?
Surely you take a day out just to be by yourself and read, right?
I think William S Burroughs and James Joyce are to the same standard of writing and I suspect James Joyce was probably drunk when writing a certain chapter of Portrait. You know which one.
Ryu Murakami is a much more interesting writer than Haruki Murakami.
Not starting with the Greeks is forgivable but never reading the Russians should be punishable.
I used to get frustrated with people who said "that book sounds cool but I wish they'd make a movie out of it" when talking about books that would be impossible to adapt into a film like Finnegans Wake.
I bought most of Dostoevsky's works when I was 14-16 but only started reading his work properly when I was 22. I tried reading Crime and Punishment at 15 and it just bored me.
it's OK to enjoy Harry Potter but it's not OK to say you enjoy reading because you've read Harry Potter.
>>7694656
i hear fatties are very appreciative of it and make you feel like a king but then they probably get cheeto dust on yo balls too so idk desu family
>>7694663
Joyce was a true wordsmith with a wide appreciation for the western canon.
Burroughs hated women, homosexuals and wanted to fuck guns up the butt. He wrote junky gay sex and then cut up all his books, pulling words out of a hat and structuring his book around that.
Not to completely dismiss Burroughs but he's not comparable to Joyce at all.
>>7694669
I've had one regretful, relatively brief relationship with one of these. Kind of true, but not at all worth it. But then again she also happened to be psychotic, so I might just be remembering things as being bad for the wrong reasons.
>>7691198
Saved.
>>7694694
Thank you, kind anon. Saved for later.
>>7691198
> a tall negroid prince carries me out of the store over his shoulder and puts a hex on me
I've read this story about 5 times already and this line always catches me off guard. u a ickle cheeky cunt, m8.
>>7694663
>I used to get frustrated with people who said "that book sounds cool but I wish they'd make a movie out of it" when talking about books that would be impossible to adapt into a film like Finnegans Wake.
I still get mad. Also I get mad when any book I like gets made into a movie.
Also I want to read a book a whole lot less if there is a movie version of it.
>>7691198
I own pretty much every Pynchon novel and I haven't read a single one of them.
>>7694663
>I suspect James Joyce was probably drunk when writing a certain chapter of Portrait. You know which one.
Out with it mate
>>7691198
Fucking kek
>>7695091
Step on it, bucko.
>>7694663
This is more of a compliment to Burroughs than it is an insult to Joyce.
I find myself thinking too much about which book I'll read next while reading the current book.
>>7691781
I'm curious but HOW do you understand Lacan?
Otherwise I read hard books cover to cover and when I didn't understand, I claim I did anyway. The challenge has made it easier to read harder and harder books though and I don't have to lie as much recently
>>7693756
Wow. This is all around terrible.
Although I agree with white men writing better. Why old though?
on a separate note
Russian writers > the rest of the world
White Europeans are Superior to the rest of the world,
we all pretend otherwise because we don't what to associate ourselves with all the idiots who are proud racists.
I didn't finish Catch-22 because it was overdue at the library.
>>7693741
Actually, most of the historical figures I already knew but Skrillex is probably the only one who I had never heard about before hand.
I just started coming to /lit/ because I realized the only books I've read since the young adult books I read as a teen are Of Mice And Men and Slaughterhouse 5.
I'm interested in the classics, of course, but I'd also like to get into philosophy
Last year I only read 4 books.
>>7695678
start with the greeks
>>7695635
You're the only decent bloke here, mate
>>7695311
there we go
i also find myself distracted by thinking abouut what my "opinion" of the book is. How am I going to think about it once it's finished, and what I'll tell people.
>Express interest in writing hard sci-fi
>"Gee, hard like who?"
>Brainfart on hard sci-fi authors I'd actually read
I wanted to learn Japanese too understand anime/light novels etc.
Was too much trouble so I learned Spanish.
Now I binge watch telenovelas.
Mi Gorda Bella is my favourite.
>>7691387
>hating McCarthy
I actually feel real rage inside me right now.
>>7691387
>McCarthy
>overstylised prose
nigger what? If anything I'd say he's pretty blunt.
>>7693845
>I notice that my profound, personal understanding of his writings conflicts with scholar's interpretations.
>Nietzsche
This is a clever bait, but still bait.
>>7696482
Same here, family member with a masters in English lit was talking to me about college and asked me what books I've read so far that have influenced me.
"... ... Um well I haven't read much of the classics but stuff like Philip K Dick, Robert Heinlein, you know."
>>7697152
This, family
The passage in The Road when you realize what the degenerates were cooking over the fire was just about as blunt and bitterly aware as can be, that it tore me apart.
>>7697171
I read and enjoyed Starship Troopers by Heinlein, but my friends tell his other books are trash. Would you recommend anything?
>>7697179
Yeah, I haven't read the road but I've nearly finished Blood Meridian and I love the bluntness, I feel like it does a great job of driving home the whole masculine savagery thing.
>>7697152
>>7697179
the road is much different from blood meridian, which is where the op probably got his idea that mccarthy is overly stylized.
tbqf even if op was thinking of the road that book is also highly stylized. its highly minimal. dropping quotation marks is a huge step for the sake of style. same goes for favoring short sentences, and the like. flowery prose that is heavy on adjectives is just as stylized as prose that cuts out all adjectives.
I can't get past the first 20 pages of Crime and Punishment, it's too boring.
>>7697204
fair enough.
I just really like The Road.
>>7691198
You forgot the spaghetti.
6/10
You tried.
not /lit/ related but still painful
>go to nyc, go to museums
>go back, talk with family person who knows about art
>we talk, i show them photos of some klimt
>i say 'he's my favourite painter'
>'mine too anon, he's great, did you know where is the kiss?'
>'i don't know, i guess most of his important paintings must be in germany'
>'mmm anon, do you know klimt is from austria right?'
>'oh yeah.. yeah.. there, really?'
>pleb husband of family person who knows nothing about art says 'yeah, klimt is austrian anon'
>blush
The fuckers embarrassed me, i didn't remember where he was from, big fucking deal, i still loved klimt
I'm really slow at reading.
All the books I buy are used.
I think that Aristotle is really boring and I prefer Plato.
I don't like reading in English and I have never finished a book in English.
I read because it makes me feel like I'm not alone and it makes me forget my life for a moment.
I liked when /lit/ was the sole board for philosophy.
>>7697308
>I liked when /lit/ was the sole board for philosophy.
Me too anon, me too.
>>7697268
>>7697268
I mean, a lot of his paintings were in germany, due to the nazis annexing austria and the subsequent art "looting". I dont know how many are still there but I'd say a fair amount...
pic related, one of three paintings by klimpt destroyed when the US firebombed a german baron's estate. It only exists as a bw photo of the painting
I only read analyses of philosophies (the Greeks, etc) instead of the actual text.
I think that Fahrenheit 451 is utter shite.
>>7693741
Only God forgives
>>7691230
i thought it was the queen fell in love with a bull and she had this fake female bull made up to climb inside and get fucked by it and then gave birth to the minotaur
>>7697374
That's terrible. It's slightly less terrible if you are reading ancient commentaries though (Sextus, Plutarch, Aetius).
>>7691506
Harry pooter
>>7691039
Same.
>>7691039
I like all three
>>7698266
>that pic
People don't go out dressed like that when it's not Halloween, right? Please tell me people don't just go to fucking Costco or Tesco's or whatever fucking "co" you want dressed like the fucking driver
If my concerns are valid, those are some off-the-charts autism levels
>>7691198
Was good but you triggered me by pretending social justice warriors are commies
>>7691012
I read something like 900 WPM. I have classes and a job though, so I don't read as many books as I should.
Despite that, I will sit down and read a 120,000 word smutty fanfiction in one evening, even when I have actual stuff to do.
>>7698268
>>7691230
>>7691230
homer is based, but the philosophers are all queers
I've read more manga than books on my kindle. I think manga on the kindle is really neato
>>7691012
i think erotica novels written by women are fascinating, an interesting glimpse into what turns them on, and also they arouse a reaction from us on a very basic level. there's a sort of compelling power in reading something that's meant to turn you on. i am impressed when a woman can write a very sexy scene. there's something a lot more honest about this type of writing than a lot of "high brow" writers
>>7691336
If you read the Longfellow translation, I'm amazed you even made it past the first verse.
I've been frequenting a book club (sort of, no one is required to read anything, we just comment on whatever we're reading) that's frequented mostly by plebs and faggot weeb teenagers discussing YA.
The only reason I keep coming is because whenever I start talking about anything with any sort of passion, my friend's gf gives me a "I'd suck your dick right now" look, and she catters to my innocent-but-nasty fetishes way more than my gf.
Today, I was talking to one of the non-plebs who frequent there about Stephen Dedalus' name and I actually caught her looking at my dick, which gave me a stiffie.
>>7699111
You dont sound like a very insightful person tripmaster
>>7695635hello, brother
>>7695091
Get to it, matey. Crying of Lot 49 is his easiest due to its length; Mason & Dixon is his best; GR is one of his most challenging. Overall, prepare to grind your teeth to dust.
>>7695678
Check the Wiki in the sticky, anon.
>>7691198
>>7691198Heyyyy, that's pretty gooood.
I read on average 1-2 books a month and it usually takes me about an hour to read 10 pages of a book.
>>7700075GLASSES GLASSES
I took Modest Mouse's recommendation of Bukowski seriously and now I'm gay.
From 14 until I was 21, I used to read exclusively weird fiction and gothic horror, and I would often say that I only enjoyed reading darker reading material. Looking back, I realise that's pretty ignorantbut I'll always have a softer spot in my heart for that stuff since it was, after all, what got me into reading more frequently in the first place
>>7695617
>Why old though?
because he's an idiot, he meant that they are old/dead (and thus remembered as old) when he reads them/their work had time to be consumed and appreciated
>>7691012
The Song of Ice and Fire series got me back into reading a few years back. Now I'm in bed with Nietzsche.
I like to remember depressive, sad, apathetic, or whatever moody quotes I come across so I can later use them on my social media so I can convey how much I hurt.
>>7699036
Wow I didnt even know you could get manga on a kindle. Can I do it with the classic or do I need the upgraded versions? If the classic $79 version works then thanks anon its time to dl all of berserk and throw it on there
>>7691036
Thanks for letting us trust you just so you could take out your sexual frustration on everyone. Thanks a lot.
>>7696988
My fat beauty?
i love the better japanese light novels. i'm learning japanese to read narita and nisio
>>7702611
His post makes sense, anon. Ryu Murakami has a lot of grotesque violence that meshes with sexuality in his works whereas Haruki Murakami is pretty middle-of-the-road and bland work, but not without its merit.
>>7702486
At least something got you back into reading, anon, that's something. It's better than those that never read or those that read exclusively YA.
>>7691024
Dude I don't get all the hate for that movie either.
>>7697308
Buying used books is the best way to go. Why wouldn't I buy the $2 copy of the Trial from the church book fair?
One time an old man came up to me completely at random and started bragging about how he went to yale and spoke 6 languages. I told him that I didn't graduate high school and that I failed to learn the one language I ever tried to study. That was a fun encounter.
>>7699111
She's not attracted to your knowledge or passion of lit, but rather your confidence to speak about it. Tear that shit up, anon.
>>7704261
you're actually recommending him to fuck his friends girlfriend?
>>7691198
7/10
Worth reposting
>>7691012
I cant fucking chew my way through ulysses
>>7704453
That's fine, anon. A lot of people struggle with it, and if you've not read Dubliners, Portrait, the essential Greeks, Dante, the Bible and almost the whole of the Western canon, it's going to be tough. It's a daunting task altogether.
I started reading The Pale King and I'm getting hopelessly lost inside myself getting distracted and my mind is wandering while moving my eyes across the lines but actually thinking about something else and having to reread it constantly.
Ulysses is one of my favorite books but there are chapters that I just skim through every time
>>7704759
If it's a strain, just read something else and come back to it another time. I've found myself feeling similarly and I don't get much enjoyment out of a book nor can I appreciate what the book offers when I'm in that state.
Read something simpler or refresh yourself by taking a little break from reading.
>>7691198
it took me 7 months to read gravity's rainbow which is especially rediculous given i read 150 pages in the first three days (50 pages each day)
>>7691012
I currently have 5 books started.
