>want to get into /lit/erature
>read nothing but classics and other big boy /lit/ for a long while
>they're well written, sure, but you aren't really having fun at all
>think you need a break for a bit and go back to reading the pleb /lit/ you enjoyed before
>realize that the prose is messy, the stories are filled with cliches, the characters are one dimensional, and there's no deep ideas at all
>have to go back to reading only /lit/erature
>tfw not even enjoying /lit/erature but you have to read it because everything else sucks in comparison now
Enjoy your stay
>>7994479
Read nonfictions that are well written maybe?
>>7994508
This. There's a ton of great memoirs and interviews out there.
>>7994522
Also I really think that one should have interests beyond literature, primarily that help you work up a little sweat and do some work that feels meaningful and connects you to reality.
I like gardening and I think most would be surprised about the literary qualities of some books (The Apple Grower, Phillips / Breed your own vegetable varieties / Deppe). When the author shows clear love for the subject and you can read his passion in the work, that is awesome. So I would not discard that.
>>7994479
Read foreign literature.
You won't be as judgemental because you don't dominate the language and might judge the absence of quality as a product of your own misunderstandings. But you can still have fun without thinking much.
It is the only way to filter enjoyment away from lack of quality.
>pic unrelated
>>7994479
There are plenty of classics that are enjoyable, light-ish reads and are still well written.
Shit i can see on my bookshelf from the other side of the room include Tom Sawyer, LOTR trilogy, Dracula, Lovecraft books, PKD books
>>7994565
that sounds really nice actually.
>>7994694
>that Hitler in a bowtie tipping his hat
>>7994479
You are now ready to become a big boy, welcome to non-fiction.
>>7994479
You're halfway through, the endgame is lifelong depression and possibly suicde.
>>7994508
Hell yeah, this. I discovered my fetish for well written history books and it has been nothing but joy for me.
>>7995294
i guess that's a perspective thing.
>>7995342
Any recs?
glad im not alone
>>7995428
history of the russian revolution trotsky
>>7994479
/lit/ now all
>think the for at bit to fun but filled the messy, need characters boy you deep /lit/erature a before
>realize /lit/erature
>tfw written, not and you even because go with a /lit/ that reading big else and really to well enjoyed sucks the long into get cliches, break to but you there's are are aren't sure, classics while
>they're ideas in back at to dimensional, back only having have /lit/erature
>read comparison pleb but
>want it nothing reading for stories enjoying you everything go and a one is all
>have no other to read the prose
Just read literary / stylized genre fiction. James Ellroy, William Gibson, Burroughs, fucking Pynchon. That shit is fun as fuck.
>>7995861
Fuck yeah.
Also Gene Wolfe, Samuel Delany, maybe some Eddison.
Watch Matrix, Robocop, one of those TV series that are popular right now, play FPS vidya, watch comedies in theaters, read funny books (Discworld and Gogol, for example)...
.>>7995220
Dracula is boring as fuck
>>7995977
No.
It's a good book.
I had that exact same experience OP. I should've read sci-fi , fantasy, and plebcrap as a youngster
>>7997424
What did you read as a youngster if not genre fic?
>>7994479
how about you exercise your fucking brain and instead of picking random shit off the shelf and trusting /lit/ on everything you read you go out and do research and look for lesser known authors and books who can find middle ground between fun and literary qualities.
Come back when you have found some then share them with the rest of us please, be a good litizen There is a massive MASSIVE sea of fucking books out there that /lit/ has for the most part no idea about.
