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21780216 No.21780216 [Reply] [Original]

How do you guys deal with the loneliness of reading books? As much as I love reading, it's extremely frustrating to be so interested in it when no one you know cares. Your desire to share it with people or express it in some way just keeps building up, but no matter who you tell, no one gives a shit. All your friends talk about is anime, video games, current events. If a book ever comes up in conversation, it will be "Oh yeah they made us read that in school, it sucked!".

To care about literature is to be perpetually disappointed and frustrated. Feeling a great sense of communion with people who lived centuries ago, but at the same time feeling more estranged than ever by the people surrounding you now

>> No.21780220

>>21780216
>All your friends talk about is anime
get friends that aren't faggot manchildren

>> No.21780224

>>21780216
What have you been reading lately, anon? Do you have a goodreads?

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>>21780216
I make my mom listen to me talk about what I'm reading.

>> No.21780240

>>21780220
Where do you find /lit/ friends?

>>21780224
Fernand Braudel, Huysmans, Cristopher Marlowe, Hume
No goodreads, sorry. Do people actually find friends there?

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>>21780216
You can talk bout books you have read, even with people who didt read them. Just extrapolate themes from your books to real world problems.
>>21780234
Actually based.

>> No.21780301

>>21780262
>You can talk bout books you have read, even with people who didt read them. Just extrapolate themes from your books to real world problems.
Maybe this has worked for you, but it fails every time for me. The average person really can't give less of a shit about anything humanities related.

>> No.21780313

>>21780240
I get my social fill by watching booktubers. 99.999999% are shit who read only YA or scifi fantasy. But there's a handful that read classic and contemporary litfic. It's cozy if they have monthly book updates. Most of them are homosexual men, if that bothers you. Or British.

>> No.21780328

>>21780313
I guess some have discords that might be good
Can't imagine there are that many though...

>> No.21780338

>>21780328
Books aren't really a social hobby. It's better to read indepdently and channel what you gain from it to other hobbies. Like dnd, writing, analyzing franchises,etc.

>> No.21780339

>>21780301
>The average person really can't give less of a shit about anything humanities related.
What? Are your friend 150kg-mathematicians or something?
All normies are interested in politics and relations and things like that.
You can extrapolate a lot themes from Homer for example. If you are visiting your friends, you can talk about how important it was for the ancient Greeks be hospitable. It was important to give your guests foods and drinks, even if you have never seen them before...
Just tell people stuff from your books, if you do it right, people may even think you are a smart and interesting guy.

>> No.21780342

>>21780234
This but with all my friends and family
If you're going to make me listen to the ins and outs of miniature painting for an hour, I have every right to talk about something I like that may not interest you

>> No.21780348

>>21780339
Normies are interested in politics only on a surface level. To them it's like a sports team. As soon as you break their illusion that all of politics can be simplified into a few viewpoints where one is obviously correct, they shut down and accuse you of misleading them or something just for trying to have a dialectic. To normies politics is really no different from religion, it's just a target for blind faith. You can try and lead them to water but they won't drink, trust me.

>> No.21780352

>>21780313
I've tried out a dozen booktubers or so and they've all, without exception, been terrible. Maybe there are some decent ones out there but they're hiding well.

Most of them, annoyingly, do little to no preliminary work. They say things like "OK, I'm going to review The Hound Of The Baskervilles, which is a novel about Sherlock Holmes. Mostly Sherlock Holmes is in short stories. This might be the only novel with him. Not sure, there might be other novels. Like, DO SOME RESEARCH AND KNOW YOUR DAMN SUBJECT.

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What's worst of all, I used to think reading was a bullshit waste of time too, it took me years to get to a point where I understood the value of it, and realize how important it is, but even though it feels so obvious and true to me now it's impossible to convince others that this stuff even matters, to them it's just ancient history who cares lul. But I can't fault them for it because I was in that same position for years until recently. It's like a gap you can't bridge

>> No.21780383

>>21780352
Most casual readers don't do preliminary work. Sounds like you're looking for actual lectures and critique essays. In which case you're better off subscribing to a literary magazine or academic papers from a literary college.