post em
>Read book
>Its good
>you don't actually want to read that book, you just want to tell people you have read it
>>7733599
lol fucking faggot
>start reading book
>see something that you want to look up to get more context
>spend rest of time on the internet
>get book as gift
>it's a book you have wanted to read forever
>can't get into it
>>7733607
I know that feel
>reading
>look up something I read about on the computer
>see some ad or article with a sexy/suggestive pic on it, get turned on
>fap
>unable to do anything else for most of the day but smoke weed and play videogames
>>7733587
>Finally feel connected with the main character.
>You're reading The Overcoat.
>want to be a writer
>work on novel, thinking its pretty good so far
>not doing it for fame or recognition but occasionally have visions of grandeur
>walk into bookstore
>see literally thousands of books that I'll never read by authors I've never heard of
>these are the ones who were successful
>realise that even if I do get published I'll probably end up in that purgatory of mediocrity
haha fuck
>>7733587
>reading a book
>at a really good bit
>roomate comes in dressed as Billy Shakes
>whatho, sirrah!
>he strips off your comfy pajama pants
>starts suckling the dingus
>vague mumblings come from him, sounds like 12th Night quotes
>as you blow your load he whips out a toothbrush shank
>stabs you repeatedly in the abdomen
>die
>never got to finish the good bit
>tfw get to buy lots of new books with my tax return
>>7733587
>tfw studying premed and with school, the clubs and volunteering needed to get into medical school I don't have enough time to seriously read anymore
>>7733658
if you're going into med you won't be able to read so get used to it
>>7733630
I know that feel senpai.
Whats' her name /lit/?
Feeling are for the uncultured and unfree.
>>7733659
I plan on going into a branch of it that allows one to do most of the work on-hours and does not require much work done when not at work or on the weekends.
>>7733666
>her
>implying
>tfw years of playing video games and browsing the internet watching inane viral videos has dulled your mind, preventing it from thinking deeply about real works of literature and most forms of art in general
>tfw no gf
>>7733621
lel
>>7733688
Lmao
>>7733607
are you me?
>>7733688
I was the same way for a while but getting into psychedelics helped me reorganize my thoughts and how I spent my time so that I spent less time on dull stuff and was able to focus on and enjoy literature more
would recommend
>tfw no rough diamond bf who I can introduce to the wonders of art and culture
>>7733715
is your bf a cultured stud? can i have him?
>The review on goodreads is criticizing a book for being "too white"
>>7733727
It weird to see meme-tier stereotypes of SJWs like that leak into real-life.
>>7733666
Megan Boyle
;_;
>tfw no small but close group of friends to discuss literature with
>tfw too poor to go to college for anything that isn't going to make a lot of money
;_;
>>7733628
this tbqh fampai
>tfw posted a long greentext on /lit/ asking for advice about a qt3.14 I was intending to ask out
>tfw most people called me autistic and said it was a bad idea
>chose a STEM course
>>7733805
Were you the guy with the love note?
>no time to read for pleasure
>because uni courses require other books
>>7733917
Yes, but that was a while ago. I posted in another thread that just died like a day ago.
>>7733927
>Yes, but that was a while ago. I posted in another thread that just died like a day ago.
how did that love note pan out
>want to express my opinions but don't know how to start andhow to continue
>it wouldn't be published anyway unless i get famous by writing a fiction or poetry first
>>7733666
Paola Chávez
>>7733924
i know this feel. terrible. and it's just normative rambling of old academicians. Or worse, people like Platon and Aristoteles.
>spend most of my money on books
>diet consists of rice, bread, pieces of chicken breast, bread and water.
>a character gets in an awkward situation/act weirdly
>it reminds me a similar episode that happened to me
>die in shame
>>7733937
I obviously didn't hand it to her, which was a good idea. But I'm still besotted by her despite the fact she essentially beat me the fuck out last Friday.
>read part of book
>it's good
>never pick it up again
>>7733924
Just read one book for fun, you can't be so busy that you can't read 30-50 more pages a day
>>7733951
Lol no diverse nutrients? Lemme know when enough hair falls out for you to be bald
>Can't vividly remember anything before 2010
How, I'm 18 and a half
>>7733980
I missed the other thread. Repeat your greentext.
>>7734005
Well some fruits too.
>>7733951
I unironically eat the same thing every day.
1. packet of prawn cocktail crisps
1 cheese and tomato pastry
1 cheese and tomato ready-made pasta pot
1 bag of maltesers
1 apple
I am literally THIS close to ending it all.
>Went to shitty community college for girl
>Smart enough that I could of went to uni
>Girlfriend doesn't have enough money for uni
>Two weeks in she cheats and leaves me for a jazz player
>"I never asked you to follow me."
Anything similar happen to you bros?
>>7734024
who would ironically eat the same thing every day
>>7734026
>could of
>>7734024
Are you a skeltal
>>7734021
Thanks
>>7734032
No, my body has pretty much lost the ability to distribute wieght effectively so I'm a mixture of skelly and skinnyfat.
>>7734038
Dude that sounds bad, you should seek a doctor and a psychiatrist or something
She's moving far away with her abusive husband. I'm not sure anymore that the things that are actually supposed to happen in life really do happen, and that some things are fucked up and wrong and they are not supposed to be that way, regardless of any philosophy or belief. That there is actually *wrong* in this universe and that bad things aren't part of a rich tapestry of beauty that is leading towards harmony. But what the hell do I know. I just know that someone like her should not be living in the desert with someone like that. Boot stomping endlessly on the face, I guess.
>Read books full of detailed descriptions of amazing locations
>Live in small, boring town full of people who think i'm too old to be studying and reading books
"I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London"
>>7734046
I heard London is full of Pakis, no offense.
>>7734041
It's too late for objective intervention. Every day I think about suicide and every day I laugh a little to myself at how inevitable it is that I will end my own life. I am so detached from life that I am beyond apathy at this point. Whether it started out as weakness or shyness or sensitivity it has now become a calm, impassionate desire to die prevented only by a lingering urge to respect my dull, animal will to persist.
>>7734051
Why did you wander off from /pol/?
>>7734057
Do you really want to die with your cause of death being 'death by cheese and tomato pastry'?
>>7734060
Not him but I live in London and it's just as wank as anywhere else if you're not completely invested in Life (TM).
>>7734060
I'm not from /pol/, it's just that the guy I replied to might be creating some fantastical location in his head that does not exist. Or do you think that when he referred to London as 'mighty' he was thinking about Indian restaurants, obnoxious football fans and loud traffic noise?
>>7734071
Compared to the drulleny of a small suburban existence, yes.
t. someone who moved
>tfw hold my own hand in bed as if I'm holding hands with her
>tfw circle my thumb on the back of the other hand as if it's her
>tfw rub my foot up and down my calf as if it's her
>tfw run my fingers up and down and through my chest hair as if it's her doing it
>tfw whisper to myself in a feminine voice and reply in a deep whisper complaining jokingly to "her" that I'm tired and need to sleep
>tfw lie in bed and pretend she is lying with her face towards mine and smiling at me
>tfw fold up my bathrobe and place it between legs as if it's her leg
>tfw kiss empty air pretending I'm kissing her
>tfw lie on my back and hold my arm out and then folded at a ninety degree angle to pretend I'm holding her who's lying against me
>tfw go through each board on 4chan pretending I'm giving a tour to her and providing a humorous little summary about each one
>tfw watching home videos on my laptop of my family and me as a kid and pretending she is sitting beside me saying "awww" and smiling and asking who the different people are
>tfw walking home alone and pretending she's walking beside me and think up lengthy dialogue and occasionally laugh at something she or I said in the imagined dialogue
>tfw imagine meeting her family and having them like me
>tfw imagine her meeting my family for the first time and us sleeping and talking quietly in my room at home
>tfw imagine her and my mom preparing coffee after dinner and watching her laugh at something my mom says
>tfw imagine making her mom laugh and making her father a little annoyed when she and her mother tell him that he's probably boring me and that I probably want to get to bed after the long journey
>tfw developing several lengthy scenarios involving me and my qt crush and replaying them mentally each night while adding minor details and more dialogue and making them a little longer each day
>>7734074
You have to be 18 or over to post
>>7734081
Wew, I guess I was milking from a stone.
tfw laying on the floor, staring at the ceiling, not wanting to do anything
maybe at least i'll write some poetry in the evening
>>7733924
>want to sit in comfy chair and read something actually important to my research
>instead have to prep for a nerve-wracking phone call with a professor
>then have to catch up on missed class readings
>tomorrow have to work
>tomorrow night have to catch up on missed class readings
>the next day have to work and catch up on missed class readings
>all weekend doing next week's class readings
>next week starting class project on something i don't care about
>>7733690
This. The universal feel which has fueled the greatest works of art throughout history
>>7733587
>tfw as alienated as a cross of Bernardo Soares and Gregor Samsa
>tfw chastising myself for being so full of myself
>tfw this only furthers my solipsistic self-involvement
My life is literally an extended vignette from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.
>>7734024
swap that apple for a banana to feel more energised.
You can do it, I believe in you!
>when you want to read but the computer holds you back
>>7733666
Clarice H
>>7734146
Is that the reason why only male authors are outstanding? Because women can't feel >tfw no bf ?
>>7734057
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdGMjSPDjR8
>>7734182
Would that mean dykes are the superior kind of womeme writer?
>>7734172
Nothing holds you back but yourself.
>tfw no alt lit gf
>>7734193
No, because they still can't feel >tfw no gf like us. Dick is cheap, pussy is expensive.
>>7734207
Uhm, asshole, who are you to tell me my computer does not have arms he can push me back in my chair with? Insensitive bastard.
>>7734134
it could be worse anon
also if you push through now and are a success in the future you will be better off and more able to have leisurely reading time
Anyone else only fucked up after they became adult-aged persons and have their lives in complete disarray?
This is the prime example of a cuck thread for cucked up Humanishits cuckbois. How dumb can one be to actually pay for a piece of paper that tells the world that you're a dumb guy who paid for a piece of paper that tells the wolrd that you've mastered a fucking hobby and paid big money for it? And for what? To work as an enlightened McDonald's clerk? Holy cow, it's delusions of grandeur mixed with plain stupidity, you jests!
Hah, I'm so glad I've dodged that shit and went straight into STEM and now I'm a fully fulfilled man with a great job and peer respect and US$ 120k in my paycheck.
I'll live a good life at you're expense.
>>7733682
Source?
Planning on doing pre dental and something like that sounds nice
>>7734253
>>7734253
I'm 19 years old.
I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.
I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.
I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.
I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.
Both my parents are alive and in good health.
I have no regrets.
I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.
I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.
I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.
I will live a good life at your expense.
>>7734222
I KNOW THAT SHE WLL LIVE FOREVER
SHE WON'T EVER DIEEEEE
>>7733624
Hope the things will turn better for you bro, don't give up.
>>7733666
Anne Frank
>>7734478
Second.
>>7733690
>File
"no"
>>7734080
that's actually a pasta. quite a good one too.
>>7734222
2. who is this woman
2. nice camille pagilla
2. nice digits
>>7734283
>the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.
This line always gets me, and I cannot put my finger on why
I found out that my gf had sex with a black guy (before we met). I never considered myself a racist but this bugs me more than I thought it would
>>7734560
Has she commented about his penis?
>>7734184
>>7734560
Why should it?
>>7733587
>tfw people around you are being noise as fuck so you go online instead of reading while constantly wishing you could read and feeling guilty for wasting time
>>7734576
She said it was too big to fit so she just sucked him off at first.
>open book
>author is american
>deep sigh
>close book
>>7734328
THE ONLY GIRL I EVER LOOOOVED
WAS BORN WITH ROSES IN HER EEEEEEYES
BUT THEN THEY BURIED HER ALIVE
>>7734609
Damn, do you manage to make her cum without any problem?
>>7734182
Undoubtedly
>>7734841
Yes. She says I'm the only one in recent memory that has been able, or even tried, to make her cum. I guess Chad's don't care if they're fuckbuddy feels good... Who would have thought?
Somehow this makes me feel like even more of a beta cuck.
Sometimes I feel like poetry is the only thing keeping me alive.
>>7734006
I'm like that too i think it's because i never had a memory worth keeping before i was 12 so i just forgot it all
I don't get poetry at all. Especially free verse.
>>7734230
that's because there's nothing to fuck up when you're not an adult
Is it creepy and autistic to ask a girl out on a date if you've never properly spoken before?
>>7735160
>>7733666
Annie B
>>7734024
>be married
>cook a pepperoni digiorno frozen pizza every night
>put parmesan cheese, caesar dressing, salt, and frank's hot sauce on it
>eat half around midnight
>don't eat again until the other half after I get home from classes
>did this for three months
>so afraid of dying
>leave wife
>fuck eight new women in three months
>drink every day
>chain smoke all night
>make friends
>fall in love for real at last
>it all falls apart
>tfw no wife at least
>>7733620
>get book I have always wanted as a gift
>i have wanted to read it for literally so long it pains me to know once I finish it I will never be able to read it for the first time again
>i am literally scared to open it now
>>7735301
What happened that you let your life come to that point my friend?
>Decent but unspectacular writer
>Will never produce anything of real literary value
>Could become published by lowering standards (e.g. writing genre fiction), but would never forgive self
Must be 99% of us 2bh.
>>7735301
Wtf
How old are you
>>7735334
I was afraid of being alone. It turns out that there's something worse than that.
>>7733688
stop doing these things then.your mind will rebound.
homo
through sixty six and seven
they fought the congo war
WITH THEIR FINGERS ON THEIR TRIGGERS
KNEE DEEP IN GORE
for days and nights they battled
the bantu to their knees
they killed to earn their living
and to help out the congolese
ROOOOOOOLAND THE THOMPSON GUNNER
ROOOOOOOOOOOOLAND THE THOMPSON GUNNER
his comrades fought beside him
van owen and the rest
but of all the thompson gunners
roland was the best
so the CIA decided
they wanted roland dead
THAT SON OF A BITCH VAN OWEN
BLEW OFF
ROLAND'S
HEAD
ROOOOLAND THE HEADLESS THOMPSON GUNNER
NOOOOOOORWAY'S BRAAVEST SON
YOU CAN STILL
SEE HIS
HEADLESS BODY
STALKIN THROUGH THE NIGHT
IN THE MUZZLE FLASH
OF ROLAND'S THOMPSON GUN
IN THE MUZZLE
FLASH
OF
ROLANDS
THOMPSON GUN
>tfw feet hurt from walking 20 miles in flip flops/barefooted
>tfw she was too busy with schoolwork to come to full moon seance
>tfw favorite reading lamp keeps burning out my light bulbs
roland searched the continent
for the man who done him in
HE FOUND HIM IN MOMBASA!
IN A BAR ROOM DRINKIN' GIN
roland aimed his thompson gun
he didn't say a word!
BUT HE BLEW VAN OWEN'S BODY
FROM THERE TO JOHANNESBURG
ROLANDTHEHEADLESSTHOMPSONGUNNER
ROLAND THE HEADLESS THOMPSON GUNNER
RO-LAND THE HEADLESS THOMPSON GUNNER
(TALKIN' ABOUT THE MAN)
ROLAND THE HEADLESS THOMPSON GUNNER
the eternal thompson gunner
still wanderin' through the night!
NOW IT'S TEN YEARS LATER, BUT HE STILL KEEPS UP THE FIGHT
IN IRELAND
IN LEBANON
IN PALESTINE AND
BERKELEEEEYYYYYYYY
PATTY HEARST
HEARD THE VERSE
OF ROLAND'S
THOMPSON GUN
AND
BOUGHT ITTT
>read on pdf
>tfw you work in a large library system and attended a discussion to plan for upcoming book-tie in events
>reading certain books was required for the training
>read all the books, one of which was a dreadfully boring family saga
>1/3 of people who attended didn't read all of the books
>my branch isn't even going to do anything related to these events
test
>>7733666
>Gorgeous 10/10
>She's engaged
>Is very attracted to me
Why is the world cruel like this? What do I do?
WHY?
>At work
>Working with bosses girlfriend
>jokingly insult each other throughout the day
>she comes up with "you look like someone who listens to Beethoven"
>mfw
>I still don't know what she meant
>work at small independent bookstore
>I'm the cashier so I spend most of my time dosing off or looking up books for old grandma types
>read a little when the place is dead
>short blonde qt with blue eyes like the sea after a storm comes in
>instantly struck with her beauty, not in a lustrous way, but that of awe
>she gets some old used books by some shitty fiction authors and brings them up to me to purchase
>she looks at me and smiles
>my spaghetti instantly flings out of my pocket
>give her the books with almost lightning haste so I don't melt with her glare
>she blushes and before she leaves she says that she likes my necklace
>my necklace is some Buddhist shit that I wear ironically
>"t-thanks g-goodbye now"
>she leaves and I flee to the bathroom to gather myself
> I feel like I have been struck with some sort of archaic love that inhabits only the works of ancient myths and Latin literature
>take a massive shit that clogs the toilet
>blame it on the autistic box smasher Greg who works below
>continue my boring life and think about her time to time
>she starts coming in everyweak to buy cheap ass used books
>that same smile
>that same run to the bathroom and take a massive shit
>still won't start a conversation with her
>Greg still getting all the blame for my massive shits after I am met with her presence
What course should I take next?
>>7735993
>Palestine
You mean Israel
>>7736272
Leave Greg alone
>>7736272
I hope Greg smashes you like a box
>>7736238
cuck the fiance
Is there a single board that doesn't have these shitty tfw no gf blogshit threads
>>7736306
It's just not right. Oh well, what else could I expect from people who visit and regularly post on this website.
>>7733666
Charlotte
>>7736316
Indeed, however you must understand that Greg is already viewed as a disgusting weirdo, me blaming him will not decrease his social standing within the workplace any lower because it is already at rock bottom. By blaming him, I am reducing the suffering that I would take and making it so that only 1 person instead of 2 is viewed with disgust.
Greg also ate the Panini my mother made me when I first got the job and put it in the fridge.
>>7733666
Larissa.
>>7736337
She won't ever like you. You post frogs on a edgy ironic image board and in the literature section specifically. She most likely has an Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook and spends her days getting social gratification every time she posts a selfie. She is most likely getting nailed by a man who has not the slightest care for intellectual pursuits.
>>7736304
He seems like a cool dude, I don't want to cuck him. Or maybe I do. Who knows. It'd be fucked up.
>>7736363
Do it already.
>>7736272
I almost didn't believe this until you mentioned the stuff about Greg and the necklace, and now it's hilarious to me.
Just give her a recommendation for a book based on what she picks out next time. I hope everything goes well for you, Anon
>>7736377
Thanks friend
I'll try
>>7734046
The full quote is splendid:
"I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is."
I'll never forget when I moved out of my Podunk hometown and settled in the city. The sheer realization on that first day that there are actually things to do and see is enthralling.
>>7736348
>stating facts
>implying i dont know this
>implying i havent accepted it through the written word
>>7736257
Beethoven is kind of a meme. Not to say he's bad or anything, he's just the entry-tier, go-to guy for people listening to classical music for the first time, and who now feel themselves to be very cultured and patrician. Kind of like how Alex in A Clockwork Orange loves the 9th. I think this is the idea she was trying to invoke. The guy who's new and doesn't really know anything, but doesn't let his ignorance get in the way of feeling superior to everyone, because he once listened to "Emperor" or "Eroica" on YouTube.
>>7734864
I don't get the cuck/orgasm connection. If big dicks are desirable because they make the girl cum, and the dick is too big to make her cum, how is it desirable?
>>7736272
...what's a box smasher?
Also, great greentext anon.
>>7736602
Thanks
Well it's somone who smashes boxes en mass and puts them into the recycling
>>7734560
that's not a /lit/ feel kouhai
>>7734967
it's one of those lines that is supposed to exude confidence but actually reveal deep insecurities. very common in pasta.
>>7736272
>t-thanks
>tuh-thanks
I hate you stupid fuckers.
>>7736320
nice board
also they have >tfw no threads from time to time but they're all ironic, i.e. generalized and archetypal.
>>7733599
>you don't actually want to read that book, you just don't want to have to admit you haven't read it
Oh wait am I the only one on topic
>>7736272
Why don't you just unclog the toilet?
Then poor Greg no longer has to suffer for your shame.
>>7733630
man, I hate it ebry tiem it habens
>>7733682
If you're not doing research then you'll get at that point eventually and be able to have enough free time to read a bit more.
>>7733690
>tfw when you depend on someone else to feel
Is there anything better than Camus existentially? Nietzsche? Are they the best we got? No reasons make me want to continue.
>>7736808
>Is there anything better than Camus existentially?
Is there anything worse than Camus existentially?
>>7736272
ask her to join your book club, if you're lucky enough she'll be a social inept, just as you, and agree solely based on the hope of getting some human interaction. From then ask her out to discuss some lit and stop being a faggot for once in your life and actually do something with her. Get your shit together or be a fag the rest of yer tiem.
>>7736811
What are your suggestions then? Or are you just spookin me?
>>7736815
>book club
Do you prefer the company of men?
>>7736238
Some of us have real problems you fucker
>>7736839
i-i-i actually do.
>>7736829
Kierkegaard and Heidegger.
>>7736839
it doesn't exist, just an excuse to get her to agree to anon asking her to do something together.
>>7733666
L O R E T T A
O
R
E
T
T
A
>>7733666
bukowski
>>7736396
>muh crowds
>muh "sights"
Absolutely disgusting.
>>7733666
Anna K.
>>7736568
The funny thing is how much of Beethoven never gets mentioned. Everyone knows symphonies 5&9, but 6&8 are also great, and his string quartets and piano sonatas are fucking amazing. Check out sonata 23 if you're not familiar with it; it blew my socks off.
I feel plebby because I'm still working through all of Beethoven, but I find some solace in the fact that I'm going into him further than most people do.
>>7733666
Mira Gonzalez
>want to read {x,y,...,z} books
>assigned {a,b,...c} books instead
>tfw reread a chapter again slowly because brain is retarded
Who college drop out here?
>>7737026
A college dropout can always go back to school. A graduate can never ungraduate.
>>7737031
>ywn ungraduate
>>7737011
If you're interested in his sonatas, check out the course available on them at Coursera.
>>7736865
I have real problems too, faggot, believe me. It's not exactly the kind of shit you can make a neat little green text out of. Because they're real problems.
>>7733688
me too Memes steal you capacity to appreciate the world, everything you see is categorized into meme folders in your brain turning you into a living meme machine which only goal is to get more meme
>>7734609
>2016
>getting retroactively cucked
kill yourself now
>>7733666
Jemima
>>7737188
electric aunt jemima
Come on and slam, if you wanna
oh nevermind
I had a dream last night and it had a book in it
It was roughly the same format and size as Infinite Jest, but instead of clouds or a title the cover consisted of the exploding world trade center and Goku from Dragon Ball Z on the bottom right.
Sadly I don't remember what exactly it was about, but I do recall that it was mostly gibberish and garbage, but that I really enjoyed a romantic sub-plot and wished the author had followed up on that.
The dream was very long and weird and it went some places
Another time I had a dream where I was hugging a girl a lot and we were reading Shakespeare, waking up made me feel really bad.
>>7736568
>Beethoven is kind of a meme. Not to say he's bad or anything, he's just the entry-tier, go-to guy for people listening to classical music for the first time, and who now feel themselves to be very cultured and patrician.
This is what plebs actually believe.
>>7734057
Life is shit dude. Hope you feel better when you kill yourself.
>>7736337
> posting static image of a dancing pepe
>>7737303
pic related - my beethoven autism
>>7733666
Veronica...
>>7734146
Are there any articles / books that cover this theory?
A-asking for a friend
>>7737265
>>7737303
I'm not sure what's wrong with what I said? I'm not criticising Beethoven, I'm just saying that he is "the guy" for people who are new to classical. Kind of like how someone new to literature would hold Shakespeare as "the guy" to appreciate if you want to appreciate literature. That's obviously not a reflection on either Shakespeare or Beethoven, nor on their authentic appreciators. It's a reflection on a particular type of person who wants to appear to be cultured and sophisticated, in spite of having relatively limited knowledge or experience. "Namedropping" those two works were just an attempt to emulate that person.
>>7737011
Classical music has no place in the current zeitgeist is why
>>7737319
My Twisted World
by Elliot Roger
>>7737322
Do you call shakeapeare a meme? The word carries connotations of dismissiveness
>>7737327
Mein gott. Pure ideology!
>>7733599
I have this problem except I have no one to tell.
>>7737371
You have /lit/ :^)
>>7736272
>some Buddhist shit that I wear ironically
>>7733587
>None of my friends read. Nobody in real life to discuss books with
>Hoping to move to Vancouver from the UK in the next 3 years and I'll have to either pay to ship my 500 and something books, or leave them behind
>have a girlfriend, but oh boy does she like talking. Can't read unless in complete silence with no distractions. Frightened I'll never be able to read if we move in together
>There aren't going to be any more Bas Lag books
>Books that are out of print from the 80s and are so expensive
>People telling you to read classics just because they're classics and not because they're good
>Fight club was actually better as a movie
>Kevin Anderson ruined Dune
>Didn't read Eragon as a young teenager. Read it last year and it was a pile of shit because I got old
>>7733666
None.
>>7737423
Boy oh boy you are such a massive pleb I hope this post is a joke
>>7733666
STELLA
STELLAAAA-AAA
>>7737435
Why?
>>7737314
damn son, how much space does it take
>>7734257
Psychiatry
>>7733621
degenerate desu senpai
>>7737314
Nice.
>>7737423
Why on earth would you read Eragon last year. How old are you? Even when I read it as a kid I could tell it sucked and was a ripoff
>>7734026
>Cucked by jazz player
Bloody good feeling to be one, all the hipster girls drinking their wines and teas always surround us after our gig
>>7734026
>Smart enough that I could of
nah
Sleep now read a sci fi novel tomorrow hopefully i can do it
https://youtu.be/ZXsQAXx_ao0
>>7733659
This. I got my masters in biochemistry and have read/written so many lab reports I find it hard to immerse myself in anything literary anymore. Don't fall for the STEM meme.
>>7734046
I see things in the opposite way; I was born and raised just outside of a big city, and after living there for 22 years, I craved the simplicity of the country. Moved to Vermont and live in a wooded area near a private pond, best decision of my life.
>>7734675
I LOOOVE YOOOU JESUS CHIIIIIIIIIIIIISST
JESUS CHRIST I LOOVE YOOU YES I DOOOOOOO
>tfw you keep looking for and reading obscure minor classics instead of reading the big classics like dosto, dickens, austen, etc.
>>7737670
Post picture of pond.
>tfw you come across a detail in a novel that is so perfect that you get mad that you didn't come up with it
I read a story recently that had a character who worked in a rosary bead factory. Damn.
>>7737845
What's damn about it?
>>7737692
yo i did that for like ~2 years (granted i had an ok-ish exposure to the big canon classics before then) and then i went back and filled in the big gaps. it was a fun experience, not a bad feel overall. 8/10, would feel again.
>>7734222
cute
>>7737848
I think it's very evocative. Something as personal as spiritual as rosary beads being mass-produced in a dirty old noisy factory. There's a pleasing absurdity to it.
>>7733587
tfw can't feel feels from books anymore
I'm reading Platonov, and there's some good shit here but it's not clicking at all. I feel nothing.
>>7737869
oh yeah, i see your point now. I thought the emphasis was on that the character was workig in a rosary bead factory.
>>7733666
That's the problem anon I have no one that i want to be with and it makes me feel so lonely
> tfw doing PhD in English
> tfw writing dissertation on favourite poets
> tfw designing a course to teach in the autumn
> tfw getting paid for this shit
>>7737026
mfw
>Have to watch RSC productions of Shakespeare before I read them otherwise I don't know how to imagine the characters
>RSC will never do an Edward II production
>I will probably never see a Chekhov play
Also, aside from moving your eyes left to right and turning the pages, is there a distinctive process to reading that involves a strategic comparison between discourse and narrative? Is that how you come to understand a text as a socially situated construct?
>>7738387
>>Have to watch RSC productions of Shakespeare before I read them otherwise I don't know how to imagine the characters
>the only people around you who read read exclusively YA
>they think it's the greatest literature ever written
>>7737914
Don't you have a lot of debts senpai?
>>7738480
Plenty, on the face of it, but I've been living below my means on a scholarship and have been putting most of it away in high-interest savings and gics. When it comes time to pay it back, there's a cap on how much is paid back from each year, so a bunch of it will be kept as a grant.
Probably more debt than I'd like, but I really don't know just now how much it all is.
>>7733666
Marie. I think of her each day. I'm sure she doesn't think about me at all. Sure, I'm fucking a new girl too, but she's found somebody. I just found a body. Fucking kill me.
>>7733666
Magdalena. She became paranoid that I had cheated on her and began going through my phone and facebook conversations, looking for evidence, so I ended things with her. Nearly four years later, I still think of her, still message her when drunk. She never replies.
>tfw the word iamb isn't iambic
>>7733666
Anais
She was French and she shattered my heart. Nothing has filled the void and I'm so lonely.
>tfw no goth gf
>>7733666
It changes all the time. Right now it's Ally, before it was Sarah, then Maria, And Catherine.
I fall in love with every girl who is nice to me and I want to die for it.
