/lit/ - Literature

You must have a very big brain up there

Why didn't you ask me for a hug then?!

>>16290196
Either read something different or take a break.

>>16290196
Same, but it's also made me realize the importance of power and of being able to kill and silence the repulsive other. In a way I'm inspired to do things on this earthly realm precisely because it's the only one I'll know and I hate so very much of it.

>>16290196
You did it wrong.

>>16290196
Sounds like too much nonfiction. Fiction revitalizes.

>>16290221
>Fiction revitalizes.
>cant relate to 99% of protags

>>16290196
Well, reading has benefited me immensily, I polished my vocabulary, and improved my comprehension of other languages and cultures, to be fair, I also find reading fiction to be very entertaining, it's like i'm a passenger that for a small period of time travels through worlds beyond wonder, experiencing the possibilites of human and inhuman existence.

>>16290241
Protagonists are not for you to self-insert, rather, you are a canvas of their imprints

>>16290265
So why would i read about people which are completely different from me? I dont gain anything by doing that.

>>16290306
You will gain empathy if you stick with it.

>>16290306
You gain an insight on how other people might operate. You could contrast their opinions and actions to your own. You maintain a dialogue with some writer, but most importantly, you maintain a dialogue with yourself.

>>16290328
Okay that makes sense. However i'd much rather read about self-insert as its much more relevant to me than for example some womanizer or a woman.

>>16290196
Reading radicalized me and then I radicalized my friends.

>>16290376
everyone self-inserts anon, don't feel ashamed because of that. 99% protagonists are designed to be identifiable with the target audience.

>>16290196
same bruh, but at the same time I'm more functional than before

>>16290475
Thats the thing - i want to relate with protagonist yet i cant because the vast majority of them are much better than me.

>>16290309
ha yes the great vaginification of men

thanks

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>>16290196
You're reading the wrong bookerinos

>>16290196

weird not reading has done the same to me
actually so did reading
yep weird

>>16290554
books, just like any other medium really, are not designed for social rejects and shut-ins. if you don't engage with people most likely you won't even understand our empathise with the characters in the book.

>>16290306
You have nothing to gain from looking into a mirror and everything to gain from reading about people completely different from yourself.
If you want to "gain" something then read about people you are not.

>>16290196
Because you whatever garbage others throw at you under the guise of "the canon" or "the classics".

>>16290988
But i read books for example because i cant experience love. Therefore it gives me an idea how it might look like.

>>16290196
speak for yourself negrito
I was much more depressed when I was watching anime and netflix series, now that I read books that help me make sense of world, society and mind (fiction and non fiction both), I feel much more comfortable, and even excited towards living