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hey /lit/. I checked the archive and looked for my problem, and I hope this isn't something that gets posted TOO frequently. really don't mean to be "that guy."
I'm 21 years old and haven't finished a book in my life. I always hear "find something you like", but shit mang, I've tried reading books that sound appealing many times.
found out I have adult ADHD a few months ago, so that was obviously part of the problem, but I still get a weird loneliness when I try to read, like everyone else is out living life while I'm sitting inside doing nothing (I play games and stuff, but don't get the same feeling).
just wondering if anyone else has had the same problem, or if there's a certain book that really grabbed you, or something. I don't know. I feel as if I'm fairly smart/have a pretty broad vocabulary, so I don't think it's difficulty of reading. maybe reading something "popular" would make me feel less of this loneliness. any recommendations?
any and all advice is appreciated, brothers. let me know if I should take this to /adv/. not tryna step on any toes.
How are you dealing with the ADHD now?
Do you think reading has a meaning to you?
Maybe you could try to join or a book club, or even just read the same book at the same time with a friend?
I sometimes feel lonely reading books if I have nobody to discuss them with.
>>7980489
I'm on adderall and have a therapist for the depression/adhd stuff.
Meaning? I'm not sure. I feel like there's a lot of knowledge and great stories that I could be experiencing. I'm looking to improve my life in a lot of ways at the moment (quitting porn, exercising, meditating, etc.), and reading just seems like a great habit to pick up. seems like a thing "successful" people do. I see myself as ignorant/childish for not reading.
Though I do agree that starting with the greeks is good advice. Everything else seems to only be relevant to americans and american students or those who wish to study american culture (such as english).
There's barely any discussion about anything else but great american masterpieces, and a few others that also considered masterpieces largely by americans and studied in the american environment.
And verily I say onto you, while there's little discussion outside american-relevant literature, there's no thread in the whole board that tries to discuss anything else but subjects that are of american interest.
Let's speak frank here, should foreigners (I don't mean le canada foreigners, but like, eastern european, african, asian foreigners) even bother with this board if they aren't interested in american subjects of interest? I am well read and even so I feel out of place here. There are so many authors that nobody on this site ever heard about, and I just find myself absently browsing the /sffg/ thread and barely anything else.
le blog over.
I wouldn't say it is strictly American, but lit is Western centric. Face it, the best literature created has came from the west. It's not just English though, there is plenty of discussion on Russian, German, French and even Greek literature. But its an English speaking board so i don't know what you'd expect.
>>7980445
The United States is intellectually, economically, politically, and culturally the most powerful and important country on the planet right now. If /lit/ wasn't constantly discussing American culture then it would be outright ignorant of us. Whether you're a privileged civus Americanus or an imperialized country, it is every intellectual's duty to study the United States and form a personal framework around this nation, be it positive or negative.
>>7980564
This, Neil Degrasse Tyson and Sam Harris are the greatest minds to have ever lived
Its not fair bros
this was supossed to be the meme book of this year!
I'm sorry but that doesn't sound like a meme book
are there any books of analytic philosophy that explicitly deal with Hegel's thought?
Ideally someone American. thx.
analytic philosophy was basically a reaction against Hegel. Do you mean someone who reacted to him even if they flipped around what Hegel originally said?
>>7980432
wikipedia seems to imply that analytic interest in Hegel has increased in the last decade.
I'm mostly wondering why wikipedia would say that. Is that edit just totally wrong?
Robert Brandom and John McDowell.
what books do you wish /lit would actually read so we could have a conversation about them ?
>city of god - paulo lins
>the once and future king -T.H. white
>vurt - jeff noon
Infinite Jest
>>7980404
I've read that one. what would you like to discuss
Gödel escher bach By Douglas Hofstadter
The hypersphere by anon
how do you guys concentrate while reading? I used to be able to get engrossed in a book....
cute pic
>>7980357
thank
>>7980320
Read the book. If you think about something else stop thinking about that thing and read the book.
Hope that helps
Do you think he's ever used the word "cuck"?
Might have. He was plenty mad when that pal of his gave an interview.
>>7980263
He sets several major events in Gravity's Rainbow at a place called Cuxhaven with the intent of making a pun, so pretty much.
Did stoner rape edith? I didn't think it was rape when I was reading through it, just consummation.
>>7980247
are you autistic? of course not. there just wasn't any love involved in the lovemaking.
>>7980247
It is impossible to rape ones wife habibi.
>>7980247
If you go by the feminist definition of rape, just existing as a fucking white male is proof that he's a rapist.
What do you think of audio books?
Do you use them?
Never tried them but don't outright hate them
>>7980191
/lit/ approved: non-fiction when working out or traveling
pleb approved: replacing the reading of literature with audible
>>7980206
this
They are probably nice for some books, it depends on the style
How do we stop the anti-POMO menace?
pic related may be our best bet—his new novel? he said will be the end of all literature as we know it.
Postmodernism has been dead since 1996, OP.
>>7980153
But Endless Fun was thru & through POMO...
Mason & Dixon was unleashed in 1997.
You are the problem, fuckface.
>>7980150
>Magic Mountain.jpg
What are your thoughts on this lit? Did anyone love it or hate it, and if so why? I'm in the process of reading it right now and while I think that there is a lot of interesting content it is presented in a very unengaging way.
Piggyback question, somewhat related.
Has anyone read Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and did you like it?
Bump.
Shit. Emerson is superior by far.
>>7980173
Could you elaborate as to why you think it's shit and why I should read Emerson instead?
Would you consider yourself a good writer? A good world builder?
Man, Wolf's Rain was such a mess.
>>7980093
It had bad pacing.
>>7980096
Something something promised land something something world restart. That was the plot, right? If there was ever a show that should've killed off boring characters early, this was the one.
>Pic related: Derrida, Foucault, Kant and Marx.
>>7980079
>>>/r/communism
>>7980091
Go on...complete your muddled point.
>>7980091
>Dear 88-Year Old
Cultivate younger friends. Otherwise, yours will all die off. Sincerely, 91-years old.
Is it just me or does MC Ride from Death Grips look like Shel Silverstein?
Wait a minute, I think its just that every dark skinned bald guy with a beard looks that way
nvrmnd
Okay
Hey guys. First post ever on /lit/. Just finished "Stoner" and wanted to know what you geniuses thought of it.
>>7979952
Grey.
my thoughts on it havent changed since the last stoner thread about 6 minutes ago
>>7979975
Yea but I didn't read the last one since I didn't want the book spoiled. Just give me a quick run down of what it was about on a deeper level
