/lit/ - Literature

>n-nooooooo but religion is obscurantism
>only retards believes in a fairy tale

>>15582877

I fell for the P&V meme AGAIN

>tfw everyone makes fun of me for liking Ligotti

I think he's really good.

>tfw only 115 iq

>>15273583

I started with Bertrand Russell

I am sorry, guys. I can't take it anymore. I tried. I went 4 and a half months without masturbating, even the holiday season. But I can't take it anymore, feels like I'm going insane. Also there's this asshole who keeps posting NSFW images on /lit/, fuck you, you degenerate, stop doing that. Either way, I am trying to control myself but I'm loosing it. I might end up masturbating today. Again, I am really sincerely sorry, I tried my best.

My basement dwelling lifestyle has retarded my vocabulary.

Any free books/sites/apps that will help me use words correctly, and structure sentence correctly? .. Should I have used the word Properly instead of Correctly?

How do some people manage to die feeling happy, content and fulfilled?

Books by or about people who did this, or for people who want to do this?

>>13621894

>book starts to talk about a Netflix show
>have to stop reading and watch the Netflix show so you know all the references

"I can't stop pissing and shitting in my pants." ~ Me, 2019

>tfw just want to read Geronimo Stilton books, but I first have to read through the entire western canon (plus secondary sources) or else everyone will laugh at me for being a pleb and say I can't truly understand Stilton's work

Why do I have to start with the Greeks just to read kids adventure books?

>>13481138
The Divine Comedy

>>13331215

>write commercial stuff because thought it would be easy to write and sell
>still get rejected by every serious publishing house

>>13143333
>I guess add in being weak willed, naïve, vain, too agreeable, too nice, ditzy, unassertive, self absorbed, masochistic, overly self conscious, constantly visibly nervous and all this as a male raised by an overbearing mother and a completely passive father.

>tfw library shut down interlibrary loan system due to budget cuts

How do I write conversations between my characters when I never engage in conversation irl.

>>12623054

>20 pages to go
>say, fuck it, and start skimming
>reach ending
>don't understand it
>have to go back and read everything slowly

Who snail speed reader here? I have an entire backlog of books I want to get through as soon as possible but I'm stuck on one long ass 400 page book going at 1 page per 10 min pace.

It's not really that I read slow but it's like my mind goes off doing it's own thing and I gotta bring back focus every 5 seconds to understand what I reading or I just get lost and stare at my monitor as the clock ticks by. Any tips to remedy this?

i never knew any of my grandparents

and only one of my parents

>>12359137
>tfw I went from being someone who was there because he wanted to wake up and stop being a fraud to being somebody who was so anxious to impress the congregation with how devoted and active I was that I volunteered to help take the collection, and never missed one study group the whole time, and was on two different committees for coordinating fund-raising for the new aquarial altar and deciding exactly what kind of equipment and fish would be used for the crossbeam. Plus often being the one in the front row whose voice in the responses was loudest and who waved both hands in the air the most enthusiastically to show that the Spirit had entered me, and speaking in tongues — mostly consisting of d ’s and g’s—except not really, of course, because in fact I was really just pretending to speak in tongues because all the parishioners around me were speaking in tongues and had the Spirit, and so in a kind of fever of excitement I was able to hoodwink even myself into thinking that I really had the Spirit moving through me and was speaking in tongues when in reality I was just shouting ‘Dugga muggle ergle dergle’ over and over. (In other words, so anxious to see myself as truly born-again that I actually convinced myself that the tongues’ babble was real language and somehow less false than plain English at expressing the feeling of the Holy Spirit rolling like a juggernaut right through me.) This went on for about four months. Not to mention falling over backward whenever Pastor Steve came down the row popping people and popped me in the forehead with the heel of his hand, but falling over backward on purpose, not genuinely being struck down by the Spirit like the other people on either side of me (one of whom actually fainted and had to be brought around with salts). It was only when I was walking out to the parking lot one night after Wednesday Night Praise that I suddenly experienced a flash of self-awareness or clarity or whatever in which I suddenly stopped conning myself and realized that I’d been a fraud all these months in the church, too, and was really only saying and doing these things because all the real parishioners were doing them and I wanted everyone to think I was sincere

>>12340480
rolling for an end to celibacy, followed by a few weeks of bliss then ending it all because she dumps me

>>12271260
I've memorized lots of Psalms and other scripture in the Authorized Version.

I managed to impress a couple of old ladies once who proceeded to ask me why I'm not married yet and also told me that it is about time I should be having children. JUST

>>12226598
>i've worked for 21 years and can't even get a gf

m... my diary. desu. :(