/lit/ - Literature

>>19516157
I watch vtubers.

>>19516161
>>19516157
I fukt ur 2hu, n ur 2hu was Emmy Bronté.

I haven't read a book since high school. I just come here to debate politics.

I study German language and literature in uni but I secretly prefer Anglo and French literature.

I barely read and, in fact, I would even say that I don't read. I just sort of glean things from wikipedia, youtube, and 4chan(nel), along with an occasional skim of some book.

90% or more of what I read is genre fiction and I enjoy way more than any of the classics, philosophy, etc

i am aliterate

>>19516172
90% of /lit/ right here

I sometimes imagine characters in books as anime characters. I picture them having upturned noses, big eyes, brightly colored hair, that sort of thing. This is particularly pronounced when I read19th Century Literature.

>>19516157
I just like buying books. I have an entire shelf filled with them but I've only ever skimmed through a couple

>>19516161
Operative word is watch. Not watched. This means you intend to continue in your sin, and in point of fact, have no intention of repentance hence your confession is null and void for want of true sorrow and a firm purpose of amendment. Moreover, by your insincere confession, you have committed a larger sin, sacrilege. Vtubing is without merit, and exploring it is precisely why St. Thomas viewed curiosity as a vice. The images represented by it are phantasms that incite lust and the topics are mundane, sinful, drawl nonsense. You think you've done nothing serious, and come to "confess" in a literature board as if the offense here is the lowbrowlity of the medium, but it's much worse. What you have done is so infinitely wicked in the eyes of God. Imagine bestowing a creature with a rational mind and intellect, sending his own Son to die on the gibbet of the cross as a means of his love to overcome its fallen nature, only to squander life it on what? A man pretending to be a woman on a cartoon. It is disgusting and deserving of torment not for a day but forever and ever, provided this is what your heart was really after. As long as you chose inferior goods like these over the greatest one, you will rightfully meet a miserable eternity. Absolution has been denied. May God have mercy on your soul.

I'm too much of a midwit to truly understand what the fuck most Borges stories are about

>>19516240
Dumb cathtrad larper posting on a site full of idlers, blasphemers, gluttons, and asocial losers who would never lift a finger to help their fellow man. If you are devout leave forever your hypocrisy and unwarranted pride are intolerable

>>19516284
They shouldn't be focused on helping fellow man. That is pride. They should be singularly focused on saving their own soul.

>>19516302
I recommend reading the New Testament

>>19516157
I haven't read 1984

>>19516219
lit has to have the lowest IQ and least productive posters

>>19516157
>audiobooks

I skip the difficult parts when reading philosophy

>>19516157
I don't actually read, I only come here for the memes.

i just read a few goodreads reviews and pretend i dont even bother with wikipedia anymore

>>19516307
The Pharisees were called hypocrites for doing external good yet harboring within uncharitable thoughts. Christ himself said that no man is good. The fundamental ethos of the New Testament is that God through graces is responsible for all that is good, which means that it is solely God that helps man. It is the interior disposition and love of God and uniformity with His will that perfects all things. Saying that you do anything is the most prideful thing there is no matter how good of an act it is, as it is motivated from self-love and self interest. Quite literally, as Christ said in the Gospel of John, "without me you can do nothing".

There is this old /lit/ post I remember and found in a warosu search.
>There was once a donkey which was tied. It was one day loosed by the disciples and brought to Christ. He then rode this donkey into Jerusalem whereupon arriving, there was no shortage of applause, flowers, wreaths and other ornaments to be found. In the midst of all this, do you know what was going through that donkeys mind? "I did this."
This is you.

>>19516167
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>>19516329
Do you people ever feel ashamed of yourselves? How do you feel, knowing you come to a board and actively lower its quality?

>>19516157
I got filtered by Henry James

>>19516157
Visual novels are genuinely my favorite medium and form of fiction, and I have literally spent over one thousand hours of my lifetime reading them, and I've only started reading them 2 years ago.

>>19516157
I pretended to enjoy the Twilight books when I was 13 to impress girls

Hunger Games trilogy is the first series I've finished

>>19516335
why would you read when there are better alternatives like gaming and porn? do you have no money? do you have a low sex drive? why cant you be normal and just do fun stuff instead of pretending a nose in a book does jack shit.

I’ve been lurking on this board for 10 years and yet still whenever I post any sort of interpretation I get called a pseud.
I realize myself when writing those posts that they sound 95% like reddit (which I have actually never frequented), but I just don’t know how to help it.
Possibly this is all because my active English usage has mostly been in IT jobs with collegues who would get offended very easily.

>>19516335
i read a book one and i realize everyone just pretending reading anyhow so i feel good

>>19516347
Reqs? I'm currently reading You and Me and Her

>>19516363
"be normal and do fun stuff" leads to you killing yourself at 45 because you realize you've gotten old and you have no vibrant inner life.

>>19516366

keep coping pseud

>>19516157
The last philosophers I have actually read are Nietzsche, Cioran and Rand.

>>19516225
I buy books with every intention of reading them but have only actually read one or two cover to cover. I have probably 150 or 200 unread books on my shelves.

>>19516366
>IT jobs with collegues who would get offended very easily
I'm starting an IT job next year. I fear for the worst but I hope my experience differs

>>19516302
>They should be singularly focused on saving their own soul.
incredible - to think this man truly believes he is christian

>>19516387
t. thinks donating to charity, doing missions, and volunteering makes him a 'good' person
You're the one who isn't Christian.

>>19516372
Fate/Stay Night if you want urban fantasy
Tsukihime if you want urban fantasy with vampires
Steins;Gate if you want sci-fi
Higurashi and Umineko if you want supernatural mystery
House of Fata Morgana if want gothic supernatural mystery
Saya No Uta if you want lovecraftian horror
And finally, Doki Doki Literature Club if you want a romance story that's just like You, Me and Her/Totono

I just skim through most of books. I have to look up analysis, otherwise I miss so much information. I remember text interpretation being the hardest thing to do in HS because I wouldnt understand the question. Maybe there's something wrong with me.

>>19516363
>why would you read when there are better alternatives like gaming and porn?

I buy books from Amazon and I like Haruki Murakami.

>>19516347
I would read them if they weren't long as fuck. Also translation suck.

>>19516157
I haven't read anything for 4 weeks. I have been watching anime. How do I wash away my sins.

>>19516391
I never claimed to be christian and i don't do those things
I suggest you reread the part that says "Faith without works is dead" if you want to be christian though

I actively contribute to the decline of the board.

>>19516484
based

>>19516157
i am a mad fan of the greco roman world and love the history and myths. i still havent read the iliad and odysee though. i am ashamed.

I hardly ever read the last chapters in a non-fiction book and I always skip the introduction.

I never read a philosophy book. Jostein Gardner (literally books for children) is the best I can do in my adult life.

Reading is cool but getting pussy is the most important thing in the world. Most of the world's problems stem from men who can't get enough pussy. They can't get any pussy, so they write fucked up shit.

>>19516745
Bruh that shit you just wrote... it's fucked up.

>>19516225
>>19516382
Post shelves

>>19516674
just read them they are not even that long

>>19516157
I use almost all of my free time to read, but I'm a painfully slow reader (it took me 3 weeks to read Ulysses, and I wasn't even working full-time).

>>19516793
>took me a month to finish the trial
You're doing fine lad

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>>19516312
these

>>19516222
this is somehow the worst in this thread. to watch bad anime is one thing but to actively infect other works of literature with your fetishized japanese pinup girls because thats all you know is disgraceful. try enriching your aesthetic register a bit, go look at some Rembrandt or Vermeer or Millet paintings and really carefully look at the faces, like at least 2mins per painting.

>>19516779
i just keep putting then off. i have so muvh to do and read.

>>19516157
I've read Hunger Games and did not mind it.

>>19516429
Low confidence. Just stop looking up to what others think and try and form an opinion--it does not matter how infantile it might appear at first, you'll learn.

I really liked The Fountainhead and Bronze Age Mindset. I think they're both good, well written books.

>>19516157
I dont use my buttplug while reading

>>19516157
I have no clue what I am doing.

>>19516157
1. I spent my formative years reading Lee Child, Dan Brown and R.A. Salvatore
2. I wrote an autofiction novel but it wasn't good enough to be published after a single draft so I gave up on it
3. I don't understand poetry
4. I masturbated to Venus in Furs in middle school
5. I've written sentences with up to two semicolons in them.

>>19516157
I jerk off in children’s books at the library

>>19517037
So basically I'm still a child? That explains a lot of things and mainly being lost in life (and myself). I look an external influence to help me to form an internal opinion because I feel like an empty person. I'll use your advice.

>>19516157
I legitimately think I'm too stupid to read philosophy. If I don't have a narrative to follow my brain nearly refuses to retain the information on the pages. Might explain why I was so bad in school, too.

>>19516415
not him but is there a like a website that can keep track of visual novels you read and finished?

>>19517163
you are probably just a dopamine-fried zoomer. i doubt anybody is so fucked up they genuinely can't improve this condition (unless they have literal dyslexia or something).

>>19516157
i dont actually read, I just want people to think I'm smart so I come here to memorize opinions on "smart" books and then I repeat them verbatim to impress people irl

>>19516240
I’m glad the mods shut down your general, you dumb cathtrad larper.

>>19516463
read

>>19517172
not him but vndb.org

>>19517163
Read The Shallows and learn about brain plasticity. Build up your mental framework so you can do the things you want to do.
Though it's probably that you're not interested in philosophy and are only reading it because you are telling yourself it's good or relevant to your interests. Read the shit you want to read, don't tell yourself what is good or bad before you have even opened it.

>>19516157
>>19516167
This but only the first part not the second part

>>19517232
What to read though? I'm too dumb to get philosophy. Attention span is mostly dead so I lose interest even reading 100-150 page books. I just bombard myself with Anime these days.

>>19517153
Don't worry, many people are doomed to never even question or think on why they feel as empty as they do. To do so, is a good first step. Godspeed, anon.

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>>19517291
i was like you
you need to wean yourself off anything that can be consumed easily like movies, tv shows and anime
start slow - just tell yourself you're only going to read something pathetic like 20 pages a day.
trust me, eventually you get a momentum going and now i can read whole 300+ page novels in a day. your brain is unbelievable adaptable and plastic, it's not like muscular development where it takes months and years to adapt to a new workload.
and regarding what to read, you can start with something non fiction and connected to your interests, so perhaps the early history of animation if you're really into anime, then slowly branch out. ultimately only you can decide what your gateway drug is, then you can get into what's "popular"

>>19517303
I'll try this. Thanks anon.

>>19517301
What's this about?

>>19516161
Ina is my favorite one of the group.

>>19517314
It's about a peregrine falcon.

>>19516838
Real people are hideous. The average person on the street is hideous. The average person depicted in a painting is bland at best, if the artist was charitable. The most beautiful person in the world can't compare to a 2D drawing with simple, clean lines and colours, exactly because the latter is a product of a cultured sense of aesthetics intended precisely to please, interest, and intrigue the viewer, while the former is a product of unthinking biological crudity and, if you're lucky, a slight, tasteful veneer that washes off with a wet dishcloth.

You change nothing about the written character in this way—their thoughts don't change; their personalities don't change. The only thing that changes is they become worthwhile to "look" at, with the mind's eye. All books should have covers illustrated by Japanese anime artists.

>>19516157
I have read Twilight.

>>19516335
I feel like I'm pissing in an ocean of piss. /lit/ and /fit/ were the only two boards that weren't absolute shit-smeared cesspools like the rest of this site, but /fit/'s been getting spammed by Jewish shillbots recently, and I've come to realise I don't actually care about books that much. I'm trying to memorise Crowley's entire Liber AL, but uni's been treating me like shit, so I don't have much motivation, and that's where my relationship with literature ends.
Although I feel like reading Lovecraft again someday. Or this old classy sci-fi from a fellow countryman named J. M. Troska. Maybe I'll even give shit like Dostoyevsky a try a few years down the line.

I only read fiction. Any philosophy not wrapped in a made up story is not a philosophy worth learning. Myths and legends are in our blood people, stop trying to be robots.

>>19517303
t. Neet but a well read one

I skimmed through the catalog of ships in the Iliad. I then looked up online takes to see what the deal was. I then internally compared it to when musicians go “HOW ARE YOU DOIN NEW YORK/SAO PAOLO/KIEV/TOKYO/etc” in concerts.
I feel like my peasant mind debases homer
I also have fully fallen for the “start with le greks” meme but i dont think i have it in me to read plato/socrates/thucydides. I think im just gonna go to herodotus and sophocles and other drama after im done with homer.

>>19517438
>I feel like my peasant mind debases homer
Homer is no better than those musicians anon
The reason you're supposed to start with the greeks is to kill your heroes.

I only read philosophy. Any philosophy not wrapped in an abstract prose is not a philosophy worth learning. Individual thought is in our blood people, stop trying to be robots.

>>19517475
>Individual thought is in our blood
Cringe and delusion pilled

I read a ton of new age, new thought, self-help stuff. I may write a book on it one day

I only read poetry. Any idea not wrapped in borderline incomprehensible rambling is not an idea worth learning. Insanity is in our blood people, stop trying to be robots.

>>19517491
The use of words to make up our thoughts found in myths and legends is through the flowing of our blood. The faster the flow, the more organic the thought becomes.

>>19517530

I only read nonfiction. Any knowledge not wrapped in citations is knowledge not worth learning. Truth and learning is in our blood people, stop trying to be robots.

>>19517465
Not sure I agree with that. Homer is better at writing than, say, Riot and I dont think thats an upopular take. I also don’t think you start to “kill your heroes” but to read the tales and wisdom that’s been around and endured in the human spirit for thousands of years and to appreciate the foundations of Western Civ (which is where most people hearing “start with the greeks” live)

I only "read" picture books. Any thought not conveyable through an image is not worth thinking. We dont think with letters, visual representation is in our blood people, we're not robots.

I finished one book this year and that was 1984.

I plan to read at least one a month starting now.

>>19516344
nigga are you me? i've tried reading portrait of a lady like three times and always drop midway. i can see the appeal of the guy but sometimes it just gets too weird for me.

>>19517356
my friend, might I kindly suggest that you go out and touch grass

>write a novel
>don't exactly make a self insert, but use a lot of my anxieties/insecurities to try and make the characters more realistic
>the main male character is kind of spineless, can't stand up for himself even when he's being shit on, can't talk to women at all, holds on to a crush for 5+ years and only gains the confidence to ask her out at the end of the story
>send it to a beta reader on fiverr for critique
>she totally rips it apart, tells me the main guy is unrealistically pathetic, also a creepy/obsessive weirdo for harboring a crush for years
>get so enraged I send her a mini-rant telling her she bruised my ego and made me feel like shit
>she blocked me afterwards
Not my proudest moment, but I'm almost done with my 2nd draft. For a while, I considered dropping it forever.
In addition, I'd say my biggest inspiration when writing is Star Wars. The movies/books helped me a lot with dialogue, tone, and emotional depth.

>>19516157
I think branderson sanderson's stormlight archive series is super entertaining

>>19517658
Not him but James is way too stiff and turgid. I like some of his shorter work though. James’ novels are stuffy, tedious, impenetrable and pretentious. I tried hard to like him, but I’m at peace with my opinion. In b4 “filtered!!”

>>19517766
Sure, but it is way too long with mostly filler. The fattymormon really should get a new editor

>>19516157
I want a femdom girlfriend so bad.

>>19517729
Whiny characters in fiction are almost as annoying as whiny faggots IRL. A story whose protagonist constantly makes you cringe is painful to read, even if it's realistic. So scale it back maybe?

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>>19516168
Why?

>>19516429
You miss so much information because you skim

>>19517112
Why?

i've spent a month on this nonfiction booka and i'm only half way done haha

>>19516429
>I just skim through most of books. I have to look up analysis

These two comments are intertwined, even if you think they're not.

>>19516157
One time I acted like I had read Stirner when I didn't. I think that's about it.

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>>19518089
I phrased that wrong. I meant to say that I feel like my reading is just like skimming through the pages as I miss any non surface level themes.

>>19517729
That sounds alright

I read Sick Bastards and I consider myself a Catholic yet have been not into confession since this Covid thing started. Forgive me

Also books like Sick Bastards recommendation. Its like eating gas station food. You know its bad but its honestly bad.

>>19517475
Fiction is an abstract way of expressing the true and honest philosophy of a man and human psyche. Pure philosophical books are more warped and dishonest by default. There is even less chance to interpret in the way they were intended to than fiction allows.

>>19518230
BASED
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THIS MAN IS BASED
Jokes aside this is a really good point. Look at how many people misunderstand nietzche vs how many people misunderstand cs lewis. It's fucking night and day.

>>19518230
Sorry I have no idea what you just said since it wasn't expressed in a myth-like fashion.

>>19518301
clearly

>>19518308
Perhaps it could be possible for you to wrap your meaning in a story so that I can understand the meaning of what you're trying to convey.

I only pretended to read Les Miserables to pass 10th grade

>>19518311
Breaking new: smartass anon learns about parables

My mother is addicted to pulp-erotica. There are thousands of wolf-men sex vampire hunter paperbacks around my house.
>>19518351
please dont call me that

>>19518367
>My mother is addicted to pulp-erotica. There are thousands of wolf-men sex vampire hunter paperbacks around my house.
Honor killing is the only solution anon.

>>19518311
You handle in such absolutes, anon. Sad!

>>19518053
Why do i study german or why do i prefer french and anglo lit?

>>19518367
>My mother is addicted to pulp-erotica. There are thousands of wolf-men sex vampire hunter paperbacks around my house.
Honor incest is the only solution anon.

>>19516387
>>19516476
>i'm not a christian so let me tell you about christianity, its about being a nice person and stuff.

>>19518511
Unironically yes. Your religion is not rocket science friend.
>durr old testament
Not christian, by definition. Cope.

>>19518477
former

>>19518537
ly Chucks

>>19517729
There's two tricks to this, add some self deprecating humor into it to show you don't take yourself too seriously or ham it up all the way so that your protagonist is so pathetic people cant help but laugh. Otto from The Recognitions was a good example of the latter.

>>19518537
Love languages and lingustics
Good job opportunities where I live
Wanted to learn more about Germany and Switzerland (but FUCK Austria)

>>19516157
I read YA slice of life novels in between actually respectable ones.

>>19517438
I skipped the catalogue of ships in Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid. Years ago I skimmed through all the generations text in Leviticus and Numbers as well

>>19516335
Mars is best girl

>>19517314
It’s the journal of a biologist who tracked one bird everywhere it went for several months. The writing itself is beautiful, and you can feel the narrator experiencing a sort of spiritual growth as he develops a deeper and deeper connection with the bird. 9/10, almost perfect.

I keep autistic bibliographies of non fiction works I've read or will consult.

>>19516157
Half the books I 'read' are audiobooks. I don't really regret it. It allows me to hear stories while I'm painting.

>>19519223
picked up
any more like it?

>>19518301
perfectly countered

One time I had a wet dream with Emily Bronte.

I dont read fiction
I think its stupid and a waste of time

>>19516157
I confess to drawing this apu for /bant/ sometime from 2017 to 2018

>>19517003
Faggot how can you interpret half of the Ancient world when They reference the Iliad in every text ?? Even fuckin Historical texts reference Homer what a fucking loser you are

>>19516793
>it took me 3 weeks to read Ulysses
uh... that's not long, considering the book

>>19517178
>unless they have literal dyslexia
even this can be overcome, i know someone with a phd in philosophy who has dyslexia

>>19516161
Kiara is the most /lit/ of the entire group.

>>19517172
Text file

>>19516222
Checked also based

>>19519248
How is that a sin

>>19516415
>and I've only started reading them 2 years ago
Your recs really show that, yeah...
Here are some real recs for you and >>19516372
Kokou no Hito if you want to see how a paint by numbers sports manga can become one of the deepest meditations on antisocial personality disorder once the writer dies and the artist takes over.
Planetes if you want the expanse but without dogshit characters
Alice in Neverland if you want one of the best coming of age stories humanity has ever produced
Everything by Satoshi Mizukami. He's like if cs lewis and tolkien fucked a chink and she somehow gave birth to an asian blend of the two men. Pic related is not only visually stunning, it's narratively devastating.

>>19517530
based schizo

>>19516157
i skipped all of the french in lolita

>>19516222
i'll admit i do this too

>>19516302
sauce?

>>19517729
your fault for letting a foid read it

>>19516157
I never return library books

>>19516157
I listen to audiobooks.

>>19516157
Every time I open my document, I say "maybe I'll check /lit/ to inspire me" and go there for an hour
It never works and it is also what I am doing right now

I don't read. I come to /lit/ to make pol, race and women hate bait threads

>>19521200
>"maybe I'll check /lit/ to inspire me"
What even makes you think that this stinkhole can inspire you?

>>19521188
Based and actually paying attention pilled. Anyone who can't actively digest an audiobook is sporting an underdeveloped brain.

>>19520648
Forgive me if I’m wrong but it appears that literally none of your recommendations are visual novels.

>>19521209
Shitposts inspire me. I think they are unironically a good outlet for your creativity

>>19516157
I stopped reading platos republic after around page 20 and I've yet to continue

>>19516157
I don't read and I only come here to insult you overread faggots

I've spent the whole year trying to read gravity's Rainbow and I'm only on page 167. I haven't read any other books this year literally

>>19516157
I read Hogg. What is it about blatant reveling in the profane that makes it so boring?

>>19521770
Asuka isn't Mexican you disgusting FAGGOT

>>19521770
Basado publicado de Asuka

This thread proofs that most people don't read books on this board. For anybody who does and don't want to stop reading, don't get into anime medium. Your mind can't go back to 3D.

>>19521859
*proves

>>19516161
Put your spirit to rest, last man

The only fiction I read is children's books. Pinocchio, Little House, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Sarah Plain and Tall are some I've read in the last couple of months.

>>19516157
I've started writing horror short stories (in hopes of a publication accepting them) and depraved erotic fanfiction at the same time. My horror shorts have all been rejected with zero feedback (which is typical—I know—but still hurtful) whereas my erotica about Harry Potter and Persona has been very successful on AO3.

>>19522058
There's nothing wrong with watching vtubers.

>>19517178
I have real bad dyslexia to the point where it takes me x5 longer to write something because of how often I have to go over spelling/grammar and reading is even worse. But there are super easy ways around the latter such as text to speech programs which is how I manage to browse the internet where everything is written in text and how I "read" or passed college courses.

Point being, no dyslexia won't hinder your understand of texts if you bypass the written format.
t. took me 8minutes to write this post and I had to re-type the captcha once.

>>19516157
I read <10 novels this year and that's even after I've gotten better at it this years.

>>19520648
>Alice in Neverland
There's nothing on google it doesn't exist you fucking nigger

>>19516161

>>19516157
I have an addiction to Folio Society.

I love the idea of reading my backlog but every time I sit down to read i just feel like I'm getting nothing done. At least in video games I can see progress being made.

>>19516453
>I would read them if they weren't long as fuck.
Which ones do you consider to be long? How many hours is "too long"?
I've already spend hundreds of hours on visual novels, so visual novels being lengthy is no problem for me.

>>19517172
As this anon said >>19517237
Try VNDB.org
It's the visual novel equivalent of goodreads, though the difference it goes more in depth about the content visual novels by using tags, which is the best way to find visual novels that matches your tastes desu.

>>19520648
>>and I've only started reading them 2 years ago
>Your recs really show that, yeah...
It shows because they're popular? I mean, it's inevitable for something good to be popular.
>Here are some real recs for you
>Proceeds to recommend manga
I mean thanks for the manga recs but that's not what that anon asked.
>Alice in Neverland
I can't seem to find info about it, just musicals.

>>19517729
Don't use random beta readers. Either pay for professional editing or send it to a bunch of people you know who read. Never take their word as law, only an opinion that can be just as wrong as your own. Be open to advice but think about it from a third party viewpoint, not as the author.
Sounds like that person is not your target audience and probably has a blog where they rant about creepy and sexist characters in books she reads.

I only listen to audiobooks. I haven't read a book with my eyes in a decade, and when I did that it took me a year to do.

>>19522640
>by using tags
I really wish there was a book database with good tags. All the recommendation lists always give the same ten books.

>>19522633
That's because the reward of reading is farther away. Video games trick your brain into seeking the smallest and fastest reward. But its also the least satisfying. You need to rewire your brain to not seek immediate gratification.

>>19518528
The Old Testament was not referenced once. The New Testament isn't "be nice bro". In point of fact, interior actions matter more in the NT, so it reinforces all of my points more so than all other scripture combined.

I "read" a majority of audiobook

>>19516157
I read and enjoy reading light novels, especially if they're raunchy and cheesy. Sometimes the cringe is like a jumpstart to do something with my life that's less retarded than what I'm reading. Sometimes I get genuinely invested if it's interesting. I'm a big fan of some series.

>>19516157
I pay 5-15% more for my books so i can get them from the same publisher because i really like their covers. Pic related

>>19516157
I, converse to the anon above me, am a huge prose snob and have been since I was young. I can't stand anything that is poorly written and need everything described adequately and for the pace to be quick enough to maintain interest. It also needs to try and feel unique in some way, whether through the story or delivery, or it doesn't feel it's worth my time.
I read 50+ books a year but drop most within the first two chapters because they are poorly written. I usually only finish ~8 books a year.
Yet despite that affliction, I hoard hundreds of GB of light novels and shitty romance/genre fiction that I know I'll never be able to get myself to read. I pray one day I'll have a life-altering experience and realize that o n e key to open the ability to enjoy the 98% of books that my autism prevents me from reading. I know it won't happen, but I read such good things about a book or series and it forms a strong image in my head, or I'll watch the anime and want more, and yet I open the book and I can't even make it to the third page because it's so horribly written.

>>19516157
I've read compressed versions of mythology

>>19521226
You not wrong, I am wrong. I have no excuses. I literally forgot VN games existed. Please forgive me.

>>19521859
>reading
>3d

>>19522640
see >>19523745
I completely failed to read your original post. I saw visual novel and my brain thought graphic novel. I sincerely apologize.

>>19522640
Oh also, I think it's called alice in borderland now. I hate when fan translators come up with good names and then officials TNs shit all over it.

>>19516347
This was me. It's now five years later and I have a very positive mental image of them, but haven't played one in over a year. Unless you are into slice of life moege and charage, which make up 90% of VNs, the medium quickly exhausts itself and you're left waiting for another plotge that tries to have real substance to it.

>>19523389
They're equivalent to YA novels, sometimes you just need to 'turn off' your brain. I read books with anime aesthetic and was able to read a lot more than I used to and retain more information.

>>19516157
I read Japanese Light novels just to see how the author desperately tries to spin perhaps the most trope filled literary space ever into something new, they often fail and that is in its own way entertaining.

>>19518511
I did two years of seminar before i suddenly lost all faith through an event that isn't relevant to this conversation, so i think i know christianity and the bible pretty well.

"Faith without works is dead" : how do you reconcile that literal quote from the gospel with your worldview. You are filled with the very pride you claim to denounce if you not only believe that your way is the way to the Lord, but in addition believe it is the only way. Here's another one for you : "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing"

I skimmed through the part of Ulysses where he emulated very old English because I couldn't understand a thing

>>19516157
I skip pages if I'm bored with where it's going :(

>>19516157
I'm a bookbinder and have sold multiple fake copies of joseph mcelroy's women and men for top dollar to people i meet in literary online communities

>>19516157
Not my sin, but my LTE is IP block and I wonder what other anons did to get it block? Don't usually use LTE to post, but on the occasion that I did, it was banned due to some /biz/ or /v/ bullshit.

>>19516240
haha anim gorl go squee

I haven't bought a book in 5 years and I don't own any physical books. Everything I've read is just a scan I didn't pay a dime for

>>19516222
I haven't done this, but goddamn if I'm not about to start now.
>Dostoevsky novels in anime artstyle
FUCK YES

>>19516161
that's not a literary sin anon

>>19516161
the pink one is cute

I skip pages more frequently than I’d like to admit.

>>19516161
Gura a cute. But Ina is /lit/

>>19517356
I couldn't agree less.

>>19516157
I read to understand and learn. I don't read because I enjoy it all that much.

>>19516157
I despise reading philosophy but I think I like the torture of having to sit and read it for hours at a time. I also think fiction should be abolished.

>>19517130
>I've written sentences with up to two semicolons in them.
what the fuck. Just make them separate

>>19517303
>i can read whole 300+ page novels in a day
how fast do you read? For me it takes 20 minutes per 10 pages, so I would have to sacrifice 10 hours.

>>19517729
>she
found your problem mate

>>19516157
I hate Dosto. He is unreadable for me. Each page is pure cringe.

>>19516484
Good

>>19517356
The whole anime girl thing perplexes me a bit. I understand(in an academic way) liking anime itself for escapist purposes, but people actually spend a lot of effort making art of anime girls and presumably masturbate to the images. Twitter is full of these images of lewdly drawn anime girls and they're just a cartoon with no detail and really colorful eyes. How is that either beautiful or sexually appealing? Pic related is what I mean dont ban me for it jannies

I am not an anti anime guy either, anime posters dont bother me, I just dont get it.

>>19526514
>they're just a cartoon with no detail and really colorful eyes. How is that either beautiful or sexually appealing?
Same way someone finds fatties attractive, or a pedo finds kids attractive, or that one guy who fucks his car finds it attractive. Preferences are learned.
Da gays have tried suppressing this knowledge. Sexuality is, in fact, a choice. It's just that most people don't make an active choice and think their lack of initiative means it's impossible to take it.

I use Markdown to write my manuscripts.

>>19526540
Well fat people signal lots of resources and children can be pretty if not attractive, so both those make more sense. An anime girl is not pretty, it is barely more well drawn than a stick figure

>>19526557
It's not as simple as signaling. You still have to train the brain to physiologically react, that's more than simple "good, bad" subconscious reasoning.
No but sure you go ahead and ignore the other two examples that make your contention irrelevant...

>>19526514
True aesthetic refinement in the contemporary era is achieved by the rigorous exclusion of polluting elements, rather than mere fineness of technique. Not to say that the latter is totally unnecessary—but nowadays it comes entirely too cheaply. Any camera in any phone in any pocket on the street can replicate the exact landscape of pores and wrinkles on a person's face to a level of detail surpassing the brush of any artist, and in a fraction of the time. What is rare, and therefore valuable, is rather a lack of the ugliness which pervades so much of the present world, and in particular the overwhelming majority of its women.

Notice that art from Japanese artists stands yet apart from that of non-Japanese artists purportedly drawing in the same "style". That is because in the former there is observed a fastidious adherence to the conventions of the genre, lending it the reassuring weight of tradition—a tradition which has primarily abjured the things that are truly detestable about the real female organism. When looking at anime art one is therefore left free to project one's own desires, knowing that they are in fact reciprocated if only in the imagination: absent is the thought that some loathsome creature lurks beneath the simulacrum, with its petty thoughts—petty and spiteful and always shallow, bent on whorish approval-seeking. The anime girl is a species apart, free from the twin polluting pools of female nature and modern society. She has not posed willingly in her undergarments for the sake of male attention, because she is not real. She will not age out of her beauty or grow fat or adopt self-debasing fashions, because she is not real. She does not hold noxious political convictions or an inflated sense of self-worth, because she is not real.

And, in frank, the fact that she is not real is not so grave a price as you might think. Compare her to the sea of "women" which may pass your eye on any given day in any given place on the internet. In every case you have the exact same chance for a physical meeting or a substantial conversation: absolutely none. To you they may as well not exist—except that in their private lives they are invested with "rights" and are able to vote, hold property, consume, excrete, et cetera. In that respect they are really worse than non-existent. It would be better if they did not exist—but they do, only in this insubstantial way; and once again the anime girl proves superior.

>>19527223 >>19526514
Once you have taken the animepill, you will understand the real value of women. Having seen simulacra beyond the power of any female self-marketing, you will not easily overestimate their worth; knowing the pain of being in love with a simulacrum, neither will you easily underestimate it. You will be able to deal with them evenly, to your own advantage rather than to theirs. Best of all you are given respite from the constant disgust, which you must feel in these times if you have any sensitivity. You will ask your question rather of polluted things, of the things you hate: "How is that either beautiful or sexually appealing?" And you will know: "It isn't."

>>19526738
The example of the car? That's not really a thing. Pedos and fatty chasers are things, anime girls are clearly a thing too

>>19527229
>that thing that explains my question with an answer i don't like? doesn't exist bruv
truly, you are a seeker of truth
the human brain is capable of serializing anything, since sexual response is at the end of the day just another physiological reaction and is thus subject to being overridden by our hilarious monke brain.

>>19516157
I own forty of Stephen King's novels.

>>19527265
Mark? That you?

>>19527255
It doesnt happen enough for me to care about it, its just wires getting crossed. There isn't a big subculture of guys jerking off to cars

>>19527302
>its just wires getting crossed
Mr. Mcfly, table for one?

>>19527305
You're not getting my point here, the anime thing is too large to just be some accident of wires getting crossed that happens to a few people, it is a particular phenomenon which needs explaining

>>19527310
>too large to just be some accident of wires
Why, what exactly makes you think large groups of people are immune to foolishness.

>>19527319
Because it would just be a bunch of random stuff, one guy attracted to idk a flower or the sun, whatever. The guy above went quite into depth about why he is obsessed with anime girls

>>19527326
>Because it would just be a bunch of random stuff
You fundamentally misunderstand what "crossed wires' is. And you seem to have completely fucking ignored every one of my god damn posts.
The guy above was in line with my fucking explanation. Why are you trying so hard to deny such a simple truth.
>the human brain is capable of serializing anything, since sexual response is at the end of the day just another physiological reaction and is thus subject to being overridden by our hilarious monke brain.
Where here is implied "a bunch of random stuff". And consider too that nothing exists in a vacuum, again I have to ask what the fuck makes you think this phenomenon would not be subject to the rest of the human condition. As this would obviously lead to the reality you see today. Groups of people who have learned to find something attractive.

I read Meditations on the Tarot before the Bible and before finishing the Greeks.

>>19527339
Why are you so mad about me asking what in particular people find hot about anime girls kek. Crossed wires cannot answer this because it has to be specific to the anime girls, not something that could apply to anything.

>>19527359
I'm mad that you have been answered some six fucking times not, and instead of either accepting the explanation or challenging it. You completely fucking ignore it.
>not something that could apply to anything.
WHY
WHAT BASIS DO YOU HAVE TO ASSUME THIS
What makes anime girls different from any other fucking thing, you absolute imbecile.

>>19527326 >>19527339
Obviously usage plays into it. Usage plays into every parameter of attraction. But there are reasons why usage towards anime girls is commoner than usage towards floor tiles or the Sun. I have elucidated them.

You took the time to read my post. Do me the courtesy of replying to me.

>>19527362
What makes them different is that many people are attracted to them whereas many people are not attracted to just any thing

>>19516157
I try to convince myself into enjoying reading so that by the time I'm an old fuck, my brain won't be jello.
also I've read more novels for pleasure in the broken understanding of my target foreign language than I have read in my native (english)

>>19527368
naivety it is, then

>>19527366
He is utterly incapable of processing dynamic social structures

>>19527377
This isn't an answer as to what they find sexually appealing about them

>>19516157
I haven’t read 90% of the books on my shelf and I keep buying more. I can’t even tell you the ending, or the characters, of my “favorite” book. I can’t retain anything anymore.

>>19527389
Because it's irrelevant. Why they find them attractive is what you want to know. Because each individual will have their own "what".

>>19527366
It was an interesting and well written post. The main thing I took from it was that the lack of detail allows you to project what you like onto them while maintaining a distance from the complicated ugliness of reality.

Forest for the trees head ass

>>19527403
I think there are probably patterns. Like you brought up pedos, who are obsessed with innocence and cuteness and prettiness and so on. It's not just different for every pedo, there are trends.

>>19516222
Read this and imagine it with anime style characters. Thank me an hour later.

>>19516334
You have such a malformed conception of what Catholicism is you fucking dunce.
>my only focus is saving my own soul
Ok, neat.
>screw everyone else, I got mine.
Get a legitimate confessor and spiritual director, arrogant faggot. A good one. From a traditional order.

>>19516366
I’m incapable of differentiating midwit from high IQ.

>>19517083
The fact that BAP is clearly well educated and chooses to write like a retard in parts is hilarious to me.

>>19516222
Read this and imagine it with anime style characters. Thank me an hour later.

I found a cute ginger milf booktuber

>>19527457
Please share

>>19527527

>>19516157
i only "read" audio books

>>19516157
I have dozens of Word documents full of ideas for plots, characters, titles, phrases, dialogue, scenes, but I haven't actually started writing anything yet besides some poems and an unfinished novella. I'm 25 years old, and time's ticking.

>>19527457
>>19527535
PLEASE BRO PLEASE THATS MY NUMBER ONE FETISH I NEED IT NIGGA

Occasionally I reread Harry Potter for nostalgia. The writing hurts but pretending to be seven again reading them for the first time by my GameBoy plug in light under my sheets makes up for it.

>>19527598
>harry potter
>nostalgia
this post hurt to read

>>19516157
I largely do not care for epic poems

>>19527600
They're pretty old at this point. I remember 9/11, am almost 30, and have a daughter. But the books were still being written when I was a kid.

>>19527616
>30
>books were still being written when I was a kid.
>pretty old

>>19527623
It's been 20 years bro.

>>19527623
I cannot imagine a person over 30 years old using frog reaction images. Especially in a condescending way. Please tell me you're speaking from an objective viewpoint and not a personal one.

>>19528791
I cannot imagine a person nearing 30 years old re-reading Harry Potter. Especially when referencing 9/11. Please tell me you're speaking from an satirical viewpoint and not a personal one.

>>19516157
I bailed a third into Aristotle's Metaphysics when i realized that i didn't get even a single sentence up to that point.

>>19516793
3 weeks is totally fine. Reading verse is always a bit slower than prose, at least for me.

>>19528791
>I cannot imagine a person over 30 years old using frog reaction images. Especially in a condescending way. Please tell me you're speaking from an objective viewpoint and not a personal one.

>>19528854
How long did it take your two get that far?

>>19528854
How long did it take you to get that far?

>>19528889
>>19528896
Been a while, probably a week or something?

>>19529473
Getting that far into the Metaphysics should have taken you a month or two. Sounds as though you were just walking through it like it's a regular book that was written by an author for an audience. Aristotle's surviving works are not like that, and you have to actively fight them to get something intelligible out of them.

I read genre fiction, and can't imagine why people here look down on it.

>>19529518
I do know the history behind Aristotle's surviving work. It never occurred to me that you're supposed to treat it like a textbook for a college course but it makes perfect sense. I might give it another shot, thanks.

>>19517163
Nah philosophy books in general are exceedingly dry and boring regardless of your IQ. It's why the best contemporary philosophers, if they have the talent, use humor to make their points.

I have read +1000 pages of annual reports of public companies just this year

It took me a week to read Works and Days.

>>19521810
>>19521827
la dualidad del hombre..

>>19527437
>resorts to insulting and name calling
>doesn't have an argument aside from a straw man
>fails to elaborate any of his other statements eyes.
Begin with taking the splinter out of your own eye.

>>19529571
wdym, how many hours of total reading did it take?