/lit/ - Literature

I stopped hanging out with my friends, and spent all my time understanding every word Pine-cone has ever

In little to no way at all.

>>4208485

Pro mid-sentence cut-off here. This guys knows his postmodernism.

I developed a misanthropic perspective that effectively ruined my life. Also received a recommendation here for the best book I have read (Stoner).

>>4208493
What exactly is it about /lit/ that relates to misanthropy? just curious

>>4208504
The fact that it is a board on 4chan.

>>4208506
When i think of misanthropy and human alienation i think of /b/ though. Are all boards on 4chan rooted in the same mentality as /b/?

>>4208504
I'd like to think it's because we're more intelligent than the people we're forced to associate with in our real lives, but more likely it's because we've been ostracized for various social deficiencies and we harbor subsequent resentment.

Deep&Edgy taught me how to think.

I would kick the shit ouf that faggot. I can't believe someone can brag so much shit with that taste.
/lit/ has changed my way to write, mainly just for nanowrimo. Also i've developed a better taste for fiction in english. You bastards read only in your language, let's hope you guys get out of that isolated anglophone world soon.

Also i'm still an anarchist, i'm not changing my mind with your poor arguments.

>>4208538
how new are you? that guy posts here

it hasn't really
i've read a couple books recommend on here though

>>4208548
I'm here since the begginning, i don't post so much here, it's too slow

>>4208538

Says he has good taste, yet he's ready to kick the shit out of somebody over a picture.

>>4208564
I didn't say that. He has a poor and dated taste.

No hipster is ever going to change my life.

>>4208538
are people really thick enough to miss the irony in that photo

he's making a harold bloom face ffs

>>4208526
lmoa now that's just depressing

i started reading again.i stopped reading sci-fi.discovered Hesse and got into Dostoyevski.existencial crisis threads made me realize my lifes is pointless and theres nothing bad about it.
not much.

>>4208526
onionring taught ME how to think.

>>4208571

I was talking about you. You fucking retard. You said that YOU have good taste, yet you are fucking retarded enough to want to kick the shit out of him for it. In reality I bet you wouldn't and/or couldn't kick the shit out of anyone.

I've stopped reading.

What are the two books after les mis, and also I hope to god the guy in OP's pic is being sarcastic.

>>4208513
Honestly, yes. Except on occasion, and it does pain me to say this, meaningful discourse does happen elsewhere. However no poster on /b/ is out to impress anyone, and that's something that constantly detracts from this site. All these "edgy" people thinking they have some sort of acerbic wit or unrecognized intellect come here, when in reality they're seeking approval, and they just want to get to know they're dads better, maybe see their dogs.

>>4208586
I didn't say that, learn to read. I said that thanks to /lit/ i know more about literature in english, you stupid cunt. I guess that's your friend or something that you got so butthurt about it.

It's given me some recommendations, that's all. I can't imagine anybody getting more than that from this board.

>>4208575
Most people would end up having an existential crisis anyway. I had one when I was like 6, I just rolled around on the couch while my dad was outside, and I cried for hours realizing every holiday, friend, and waking moment would pass and my atonal life may just end arbitrarily. I don't think I've killed anything since.

And that's why Nietzche is babby's first philosopher

>>4208614
What does Nietzsche have to do with existential crises?

>>4208588
Orange one is Republic

>>4208599

You are fucking incredible I will fucking quote you.

>I would kick the shit ouf that faggot
>can brag so much shit with that taste
>i've developed a better taste

you LITERALLY did say all that. I don't understand how this can be so difficult for you.

>>4208618

Nothing.

>>4208622
>I can't believe someone can brag so much shit with that taste.
>someone can brag
>someone

>period

>/lit/ has changed my way to write, mainly just for nanowrimo. Also i've developed a better taste for fiction in english.
>Also i've developed a better taste for fiction in english.
>Paragraph about OP's thread

Learn to read bro

And i would kick his ass, i'm not denying that

>>4208622
You're really bad at getting your point across. Work on sentence structure a bit. A better start to the conversation would have been:

So, you claim you have good taste in literature and yet you are idiotic enough to want to punch a man because of a picture.

Not sure how those two are even remotely mutually exclusive, but I thought I'd help.

I went from not giving a shit about Marxism to absolutely despising it and all its proponents.

That's about it really. Kind of a repetitive board imo

>>4208631

Okay, well at first you did deny that 'bro'. You said you didn't know what I was talking about at all. And you are saying you have better taste than him and I was saying that I doubt you have any kind of taste whatsoever because you want to kick someones ass over a picture. Get fucked. Also I don't know this guy at all.

>>4208633
Take out the word "yet", and there'd be your problem. You're a pompous moron.

>>4208633

Are you kidding me? How can anyone not understand what I was trying to say? It's in bad taste to want to kick someones ass over a picture and me saying

>says he has good taste, yet he's ready to kick someones ass over a picture

^Should definitely have gotten the point across if you weren't a fucking retard

It convinced me to adopt lit as my second major (behind education) and now I get so much pussy

>>4208622
this guy is getting trelled hard and it's very entertaining. i mean, no offense intended here but you'd have to actually be autistic, right?

>>4208682

He's not trolling you fucking idiot, read the convo.

>>4208686
very clever but you'll have to do better than that ruseman

I write more.

>>4208633
Actually bro he got his point across just fine if you passed elementary school grammar. Remember, I'm not saying you, yourself, failed elementary school grammar, just that IF you failed than yes, there could be a lot of room for confusion.

If.

I started visiting /lit/ a few days ago and it made me seriously consider to read a bunch of classics. I used to dismiss literature as useless, but now I'm afraid that I might be missing out something important out of plain ignorance.
I hope that one day I will be able to create something myself and share my thoughts and imagination with people around the world, but first I have to see what others have to say.

/sci/ on the other hand made me appreciate science, math and rational thinking itself. It gave me a push in the right direction and made me realize that we just have to continously endure frustation, failure and the shame of asking for help if we really wan't to achieve something. Reality is multifaceted and unforgivable, you can't expect it to bend down to wishful thinking. Confront yourself, say 'fuck it' and start climbing, or don't.

4chan itself made me realize how hard people, even or especially autists, try to fit in, and how that puts artifical boundaries on us by making us do and say things that don't do justice to our real selves. I used to say that I don't care about what others think about me, but I was lying to myself. Even when I'm writing or just thinking, I'm subconsciously restricting myself because of that.

Basically, that's how /lit/ and the other boards changed my life.
It's still shit, but it doesn't feel like it.

I've learned about silly shit authors did; I see them in a different light; authors I have never read too, like Joyce.

>>4208641
forgot picture

>>4208588
The first one under Les Mis is Ulysses

I know this because I've got the same copy, it's £1.99 new off Amazon and pretty ugly

>How has /lit/ changed your life in any way since you've discovered it?

I got to know the man in picture.

>>4208468
Well, before /lit/, I really thought I liked books and reading. Now I know that I'm far to pleb and I'm just a monkey imitating human thought.

I've become more interested in anglophone literature.

And I know more about books I've never read.

>>4208468
hahahahahha this is a good pic to hang on my son's wall, so that he never ends up like this ugly piece of shit

I learned that a majority of people who consider themselves literary are big fans of middle brow garbage and genre fiction

>>4209325
Everything he said is correct

>>4209249
>I used to dismiss literature as useless

Please leave, I HATE your kind. It is okay for one to not care for literature, but to actually go and take that extra step and dislike it or spurn it makes me so angry.

You are actually defending retards when you do something of this sort.

Leave.