/lit/ - Literature

>>15295904
I too like reading! How cool is that!

>>15217252
this
he's just a normal trying trying to make his way in this absurd world

I don't know, man. Dust fills the air, you can smell the smoke, it's an oily smell, but somehow it's all so far away. Here we stand, among the panicking crowd, but can you tell me what they're on about? There is something frighteningly abstract about watching concrete (as in cement) buildings burn and break. There are thousands like them and while this one ejects its human load, 10 or 20 or 100 more rise elsewhere, in distant cities that look and feel exactly like this one: empty and unreal. Is that why they're screaming? Maybe they didn't see it before, from the inside, dissected, but now it hits them hard. There's no hidden meaning, no beauty, no green grass below the asphalt. Tear them down, but the colorful world of yesteryear won't magically appear behind them. It's been ground up and made into grey cubes. The reality of this city, that we spread around the globe, is concrete hell.

>start a book
>20% through get bored and start another book
>20% through get bored and start another book
I have like 50 of these 20%-ers now. Help.