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For much of my life I've rejected what I saw as the empty careerism of my peers. While my friends and classmates were padding their resumes to gain admission into the finest universities and to attain the most prestigious jobs, I chose to dedicate my time to art and intellectualism. I felt that life was best spent trying to understand and appreciate mankind's greatest ideas and its most powerful expressions. While my classmates labored away at internships, I read Pynchon and Kafka; while my friends studied for the bar exam and medical school, I independently studied history and philosophy; instead of thinking long and hard about my career path, I listened to Zappa and Stravinsky, and watched art films; etc.
However, now that this is all said and done, I lol at my friends, many of whom are making tangible accomplishments in their field, and I look at myself, still working part-time at a grocery store, living with mom and dad, and I feel so unaccomplished. I don't necessarily regret the life I've chosen; I still firmly believe that art and ideas have furnished my life in significant, if ineffable, ways. I just want to feel like I'm doing something, that I'm making a contribution. But I don't know what to do, what to contribute.
Are there any literary works that explore similar ideas, that may aid me or someone in a similar situation?
You dun goofed Anon. I'm the guy constantly posting academia-media-publishing industrial complex. /lit/ is their lackies.
All they will tell you to do is to buy more books, read read read. You want to go outside to experience the human condition first hand? No, read! Read everything they tell you to!
>>8218125
Well what would you recommend? Reading is all I know, it seems to me.
>>8218101
>I just want to feel like I'm doing something
you don't think you'd be feeling the same thing if you were exploiting the labor of the proletariat for a nicer watch?
>Are there any literary works that explore similar ideas, that may aid me or someone in a similar situation?
oblomov
Where do I go from him?
The coffin
There's nowhere to go, he's the endgame of literature
here
my diary desu
neuromancer? Poe's the man that was used up?
Does it need to be sci fi, or just like a really well paced action blockbuster?
hey one of my best friends is stuck in a desk job for a month
he asked me for book recommendations but all i can recommend is depressing stuff. can you help my bro pass the time! what is some good summer reading
Is this an invasion?
Are we being invaded by shitposting summer /b/tards?
>>8217992
sure! your intellect is in danger
sticky
>>>/wsr/
lurkmoar
suicide
any order
the ma and the territory was really good but atomised isn't half as inspired. should i go on to read Whatever or leave it there?
Read Submission.
It's greatnon-fiction
>>8217944
Atomised is much better than the Map and The Territory IMO. If you didn't like it then you probably will also dislike Whatever
>>8217948
i don't care about meme politics, i don't know if i can trust your judgment based on how good he is or isn't.
Is this lit kino?
more like shit peeno
lord of the rings is just the kalevala for white people
what is kino
Hey /lit/ I have a completed chapbook of poetry sitting on my computer. I know it is basically impossible to get something like this published or to make even a dollar off it, so I was wondering what the best way to release it for free online is. If possible, I'm looking for a place that will make it so that strangers might actually read it in addition to my friends. Do any of you have any experience with this? I don't care about money or fame or anything or I wouldn't be writing poetry, I just want it out there.
tl;dr Any info on a place to electronically release a chapbook of poetry for free?
>>8217648
>chapbook
I've seen this fucking word popping up non-stop since reading Luke's introduction to Faust.
Hahaha his face is a butts
>>8217648
Post some here, we'll read them.
>150 wpm reading speed
>lower comprehension than speed readers
>can't even get myself to read a whole chapter in one sitting
>keep finding books that sound interesting but i'll realistically never actually read
please help me
>>8217638
I read a lot slower than you (due to ocd) and I can't remember the last time I read more than 15 pages in a sitting. But I cope with it. And I still love reading and discovering new books.
Just deal with it, dude. If reading slowly is your biggest problem, you're a lucky guy.
You're not skipping over punctuation are you, anon?
I was like that until I started paying attention to punctuation and not just glancing over it.
>>8217638
Look for key information. Unless you are reading for prose, in which case just go along for the ride, ask yourself what the author's point is, and try to focus on only the important aspects. You can get caught up analyzing sentences and even phrases, which it sounds like you are, to the detriment of the overall message.
Basically, go into a book with a purpose. Use highlighting to remember key points and use Wikipedia to get condensed versions of the information you are reading if you're reading non-fiction.
If you're talking about reading fiction, start with young adult books and work your way up. A lot of them are better than people here give them credit for and are more streamlined and forthright.
Find a flaw. Pro tip:you can't.
His beard is shit
>>8217615
Your life is shit
>>8217624
True
who here /sherlockholmes/?
currently reading pic related, read study in scarlet, sign of the four, and the Adventures.
what should i read next? memoirs, return, hound of the baskervilles, valley of fear, his last bow, and case-book
Sherlock thread y'all
>>8217521
Hound of the Baskervilles is the best Sherlock Holmes work
>>8218069
/thread
>>8218069
It's Sign of the Four tbch.
Can you recommend me some good Stephen King books, /int/?
>>8217464
Misery, Gunslinger Pt. 1. Different Seasons, and IT are top tier. Pet Semetary and Shining honorable mention,
>>8217464
The Green Mile
The Stand
The Mist
no, for obvious reasons
>it get's good 200 pages in
mason and dixon wasn't good until the last transit.
Middlemarch's first section kind of sucks in comparison, Dorothea at least.
>its like borges, but...
Anyone here want to talk about how amazing this book is?
Its good, im glad p/v came out with their superb translation so that now we monoglots can hear what dostoxjevski actually sounded like.
>>8217456
killed the tread in a single post
thanks
>>8217456
What's this you're talking about now?
Ok, /lit/. Recently I've had little sex drive.
Recommend me some good books about sex.
>>8217404
Mr Vénus, Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn, basically everything Jean Genet wrote.
The works of Max et al
OP here
I forgot to add that I'm exclusively attracted to children, so any recommendations should take that into account.
Hi I am an author and am looking for questions for my new book. I am looking to do a question and answer book where I will give answers to questions from the public. They could perhaps be science based although don't feel limited by this as I am open to anything and can be as complex as you wish. I will answer the most interesting questions in my book. Also I am willing to do research in to the questions so I can attempt to provide the best answer possible. Feel free to respond to this or email me at [email protected] with questions. Thank you in advance.
Nobody cares you fat cunt, this board is for memes, not discussion of literature.
Has every idea already been thought?
Can't really ask questions about something I don't know. Give a synopsis or something.
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