/lit/ - Literature

Why are reading lists pushed as a good idea?
>extreme pressure and anxiety of an unfinished project
>individual books are read only so you can tick a box, not out of interest or enjoyment
>reading those books as fast as possible means you barely get any meaning out of them
Making lists unironically ruined my love of literature

>one shot at this life thing
>born into thermodynamic slavery to evolve the demiurge

Books for this feel?

>>17681042
it just never ends does it. what other horrors are we ignorant of

Reality is you are in an infinite black abyss filled with fire and storms beyond imagining. History is filled with untold suffering and the future looks even bleaker. Everyone is awful. Everyone is miserable. The human body is a disgusting prison and all life feeds off others. You will never be a woman and all religions are bullshit stories to control the weak minded. Even if there was a god he wouldn't answer your prayers because you are already in hell. There was nothing before your existence and there will be nothing after. You'll live in agony and die without answers

>haven't browsed /lit/ for a while
>come back
>Bloom and McCarthy are dead

I've gone from reading at least 30-40 pages a day as a rule to barely being able to read 5 a day and not reading at all on a lot of days. Gone from reading 60 books last year including Don Quixote and Infinite Jest (each taking me a month) to not even having read 25 books so far this year. I've also only seen two films in the past six months and haven't continued watching Dekalog for more than that. Fuck I even have trouble finding time to watch anime or play vidya so it's not like that's where all of that energy's gone. Haven't listened to or played music for ages either. The only thing I'm consistently doing is watching Twin Peaks but that's cause it's with my mum and it's only a few episodes left. But it's so hard to make myself do anything, even when I'm not doing the fuckload of work I have.

Books that will give me depression?

The Irish boomer lady in the apartment across from mine is ruining my life via the book club she and I started a few months ago. She's some sort of Hegelian witch who is obsessed with the philological deconstruction of existence and Miguel Serrano, whose work Adolf Hitler, el Último Avatãra I severely regret ever having read at this point.

When she suggested we start a book club I thought sure why not, I'm an autistic incel NEET so if anything it'd be good practice being around a woman. She had me read a bunch of Hermeticism stuff and Jung right off the bat. The fifth book was a straight up textbook on formal logic because she said it was essential I learn it. Every night I didn't study it I'd have bouts of sleep paralysis which hasn't happened to me since high school.

Her expositions on the texts are plangently hypnotic and yet bewilderingly lucid. After we read Der logische Aufbau der Welt by Carnap she ran through a proof of reincarnation based purely on Carnap's text and a few footnotes from Goethe, which ought to be impossible, but I couldn't find a single flaw in it.

I went in just wanting to discuss Dostoevsky with someone who I presumed had a shared interest in literature and instead I got exams on Serrano's theory of Hyberboreans asexually reproducing from plasmic emanations, Klagesian analyses of Geist as deranged cosmological assassin of the Soul, Capital as all-consuming ontotheological vortex of God-in-antithesis, and hour-long deconstructions of five-minute Sam Harris clips that she makes me watch.

Now she wants me to shell out $90 of my NEETbux to buy Ferdinand Ulrich's Homo Abyssus and I'm thinking about just buying a rope instead. But at this point, after all I've experienced, I'm not sure death will be enough to escape her.

I hate books. I hate them.

What are some books to read after the end of a relationship?

>>16353546
Sorry, I just want something that is easily applicable to real world and actually *works*

Books with a socially inept character?

>be a neet since I graduated last May
>got really bored and was hating it going into August
>finally get a job and I utterly hate it
Why does existence have to be like this?

My boss is a dickhead. Maybe I’d feel better if I knew I could actually quit but
1. That would piss off my dad and risk me getting kicked out
2. I literally have no other job options at the moment

I fully recommend any lurking teen anons not to go to college. I did the cs meme and it’s all fucking bullshit. Honestly go into army, you’ll just sit around a base for a few years and then get tons of benefits, it’s easy as fuck now that there are women in it.

Or at least go into tradeschool or something. Unless there’s something you’re actually passionate or really good skilled in that you would further yourself in by going to college don’t do it.

If you don’t know what you want to do, you’re more then likely going to do what I did and just pick a major that you think will benefit you economically. Don’t do this.

1. You’re gonna be utterly bored by the topic of your career and hate working every day of your life

2. There’s a decent chance you will see no economic benefit and the system/society/Hollywood/etc just memed you into a bullshit career.

If you just want money become a plumber. You just need to do some training, it’s hard work but not hard to understand, there’s guaranteed money out of it. Everyone needs plumbers even during a pandemic or depression.

Plus if you finally realize what you want to do with your life you can still turn around and do it if you’re a plumber. Not so much if you/your parents spent 100s if thousands of dollars on your bullshit degree.

>tl;dr
Don’t go to college.
I honestly wish I majored in history now. I’d have as many job prospects as I do now and I actually would’ve enjoyed the subject I studied.

>>16245491
I tried doing this on 4chan one time freshman year. Made a thread on /int/, a Hungarian replied and said he would if I bought a steam game. We argued for about 30 minutes about whether I would buy the steam game first or he would write the essay first. I gave in and bought him a $40 steam game. He said he was doing it the first 30 minutes after but then stopped replying. Never heard back from him after. I had to scramble and do the essay on my own, turned it in 2 hours late and asked if it was alright to turn in because my internet wasn’t working, the teacher thankfully accepted it.

My recommendation is just write the paper. If you’re a bit under the word punt that won’t take off that many points, and if you’re only a few hours late, unless the professor is very strict, it’ll normally get accepted.

Also never in your life trust a Hungarian.

>>16213153
Same except I graduated college this May. My dad has been pretty understanding so far that because of the pandemic it’s hard to get a job but I know his patience will run out eventually and then I don’t know what I’m gonna do.

I have a job interview later today that im getting anxious over. Last job interview I had my nose started spouting blood in the middle of it and it was a zoom face call.

College sucked but I wish I could mentally travel back in time and do it again rather then enter the job market.

Redoing highschool would be even cooler.

Hey God could I wake up tomorrow and it be the first day of 8th grade pretty please?

>Books for this feel?

>used to have massive crush on girl from highschool that I never talked to
>recently accidentally ran into her and had a conversation in public
>all the old feelings now back
>cant get images of her face out of my head
Any books for this please?

What're some books that explore the effects of growing up without a father, /lit/?

>>16128969
Dude, I was just recommending a fucking novel, as OP requested. I haven't seen the anime. God, you people are so fucking insufferable. I swear I can feel my brain cells dying whenever I engage with people like yourself. Posts such as yours are a net loss to /lit/ and only serve to obscure discussion. Go back to /b/, where I assume they appreciate this kind of deliberate retardation a little bit more.

>>16124311
>Im just tired of retards
have you tried suicide?

> penis

>>16112982
>Of course the modern vulgarities originate from him, but he was clearly part of a tradition, if a better and more respected one

ugh literally no one cares about any of those dudes just shut the fuck up man

What book will help me build up the courage to kill myself?

I know

>>15558751
beautiful