/lit/ - Literature

>>10065208
>Probably gonna power my way through all four books the next couple weekends.
Oh sweet lawdy. Pic related is what you're gonna look like in the next couple weekends.

>>10002528
>tfw you couldn't save Nastasya Filipovna

Ontologicool.

>>9778000
>tfw you did all this and still don't understand the greeks

NO! Just wait until Peterson responds, he will BTFO this post-modern marxist!

>>9637603
>tfw OP realizes no one reads his ratings

>>9623857
>>9623805
Ikr

>try to read a book
>after only a few paragraphs, realize I lost focus on what I was reading and didn't take it in
>reread what I just read
>don't understand the words/allegories
>look them up
>while doing this, go on /lit/, shitpost about books I haven't read
>fantasize about being a writer
>try to write something, give up as soon as I open Word
>go back to reading
>after every page check the /lit/ threads to read new responses
>check my phone in the hope that someone has messaged me
>no one has
>after 2 hours I've read 15 pages
>realize I've forgotten it all

>>9573490
>>9573514
>this book is too hard for me
>I self insert when I read so I need my fav characters to live through
>i just can't enjoy a story being told
Kys-ves

>reading fantasy novel
>male fairy elves come looking for virgin maidens to dick
>no fantasy book ever had female elves looking for male virgins to fuck
Just end me now. Not even fantasy girls want kissless male virgins. Why even live?

>try to read a book
>after only a few paragraphs, realize I lost focus on what I was reading and didn't take it in
>reread what I just read
>don't understand the words/allegories
>look them up
>while doing this, go on /lit/, shitpost about books I haven't read
>fantasize about being a writer
>try to write something, give up as soon as I open Word
>go back to reading
>after every page check the /lit/ threads to read new responses
>check my phone in the hope that someone has messaged me
>no one has
>after 2 hours I've read 15 pages
>realize I've forgotten it all

>local bookstore started charging a virgin tax on every purchase

>try to read a book
>after only a few paragraphs, realize I lost focus on what I was reading and didn't take it in
>reread what I just read
>don't understand the words/allegories
>look them up
>go on /lit/, shitpost about books I haven't read
>fantasize about being a writer
>try to write something, give up as soon as I open Word
>go back to reading
>after every page check the /lit/ threads to read new responses
>check my phone in the hope that someone has messaged me
>no one has
>after 2 hours I've read 15 pages
>realize I've forgotten it all

>>9515963
Michel "Continuous detailed sex descriptions and glorofication of sex" Houellebecq is not my writer.

>>9438719
>tfw i'll never be 17 again

The medieval dream is more real than the modern reality.

The Middle Ages did not care about giving everybody an equal position, but did care about giving everybody a position.

>Try to write a novel
>Discover I have developed OCD for perfect justified text because of working in graphic design and am unable to write otherwise

HOW THE FUCK DO I INTO POETRY, /LIT/ARDS?!

I WAS WATCHING ZERKALO JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO AND I JUST CAN'T, IT'S SO HARD TO REACH A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS WHERE YOU GET TO FEEL THINGS IN SOME STRANGE METAPHYSICAL FORM INSTEAD OF THINKING ABOUT THEM LOGICALLY, PLEASE HELP ME IN BECOMING A PRETENTIOUS CONTINENTAL CUNT

>>8436225
I had a some what strained relationship with my father as a teenager. As a result he taught me very little.

I once asked a coworker to show me how to use something and he says "Didn't your dad fucking teach you that?"

>my soul when

>buy an antique book
>the price is on a sticker instead of being pencilled in
>REMOVING THE STICKER RIPS THE PAGE

>>8394128
Fuck you man, you are bringing back things that are causing me physical pain.
I am cringing so hard that the muscles in my face and ass hurt.
Please don't do this to me.

>tfw nothing in your life has pointed you towards anything resembling the /lit/ life: no good education or /lit/erary careers or /lit/ friends and family
>only thing you've got is you're book nerd who writes shitty short stories no one cares about

>>8213184
I don't know how I feel.

Better than me