if this is iq, you should definitely stop reading. books are only going to put bad ideas in your head and your head is already full of them m8.

It makes me much happier

Try reading different stuff

>>7960279
Any recs senpai?

I could do with a fat dose of optimism to be honest.

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>it's a Kant tries to put philosophy on firmer footing and ends up mind-breaking literally every subsequent philosopher with his labyrinthine ossified system of philosophy episode

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>>7956909
>it's a Zizek tries to explain Hegel but ends up discussing the ideological significance of Jacques-Alain Miller telling jokes about masturbating in Macedonia while sitting on the toilet watching Rear Window episode

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>it's a "revolution" episode

How do you manage to do it, /lit/?

You're thinking about it wrong

Read what you want, look up what you can't understand or want to understand, infer the rest.

This is how you learn. You don't need to have read literally everything that influenced or is referenced by a piece of literature.

>>7948385
>You don't need to have read literally everything that influenced or is referenced by a piece of literature
but it is more enjoyable if you do

but yeah, context doesn't matter if it's a good piece of art

>>7957093
Just report and hide.

>>7957084

Harry Potter is not literature. Go to reddit if you want to talk about poorly-written children's stories.

Who cares what "Just Kidding" Rowling has to say or write?

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>>7956954
because teenagers love him

Hint: It has nothing to do with teenagers

>>7956954
He probably ate his vegetables

Is Urth of the New Sun worth 16 bucks? I know it serves more to answer questions left by the original story, but the reviews in amazon make me doubt a bit, even if i shouldn't trust them much.

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>>7952258
First for shilling list

>>7952283
>no Anita Blake the Vampire Slayer
First one is a classic.

Later ones not so much

>>7959954
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Either Ulysses or a collection of poetry so I can know them by heart and use that knowledge to attain pu$$y.

Your mamas titties while she bouncing on my dick

>>7958834
Don't rudepost in my thread please.

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>>7958826
I'm reading Burmese Days by Orwell. I also recently read Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia. AMA

Failed patrician, I haven't liked his stuff since Kafka on the Shore

Read two of his books, both were shit.

>>7957804

Stopped Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore both halfway through. I rarely put down books and flat out don't finish them.

I'm gonna say pleb. Of the Japanese authors I've read, he is easily at the bottom of the list (the others being Akutagawa, Dazai, Soseki, and Ishiguro- if you count him).

Stirner

>>7950689
That's it?

>>7950759
Stirner

>>7938772
Dialogue is unrealistic. Baby line is bad. The simulated accent is jarring. Vapid main character interior dialogue that takes too many words to show too little of character. Still better than most here, keep trying, youll get it soon it looks like.

>>7938772
>>7938792
Also dont ever start with muh routine. Show some action thats actually relevant to the story

>>7938772
>stained with such prominent grease
WTF?

None. Even a few weeks of using that board will imprint it's horrible worldview into your mind.

You're doomed to be that same bitter virgin forever.

Literally all of them. Combine reading with travel and someday soon you may even be a passable human.

Mindfulness in Plain English - Bhante Gunaratanna

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>>7945452

I suck at grammar.

>>7945456
>Grammar
Really? THAT is your concern? That's really fixable anon.

The things that aren't fixable are talent and creativity. I imagine most people give up because they don't put in the effort to churn out something good or just aren't creative enough to write something worth reading.

Grammar doesn't sound something that you should give up over imo.

>>7945452
I've given up on life m8, pulling the plug tonight

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Don Quixote - Man thinks he's a knight and fucks up sheep/windmills.

>>7940542
>muh nymphets
>>7940717
>muh chivalry

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On the Road -- Young writer drops everything and goes traveling with artsy friends.

>>7952340
Certain things are self evident. I think there I am. I intuitively know suffering is bad because the evidence is the phenomenological experience of it. And from such truths you build upon it.

Yes, everything is just bullshit. Bullshit on bullshit on bullshit.

And now what? This line of thinking doesn't lead anywhere, it's a dead end. And if your thoughts can't go anywhere further, they'll take a few steps back and go into a new direction. (That's what happened to me, at least, when I felt like you.)

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Stop beating around the bush and accept Christ.