Literary Confession Thread

Americans mistaking shoddy translation for literary complexity and depth.

nah my gf is Russian, Dostoevsky is for plebs

I don't actually know how to read

Since I started my new job, I haven’t had much time for paper books, so I listen to audiobooks while driving and working. When I discuss the books, I pretend like I read the physical book instead of listened to the audiobook.

I also used to average about 1 book per day, but I’m lucky to finish 2 a week now.

I’m super ashamed of this.

I read on average 10 pages a day

>I've read more in English than in my mother tongue. As a result I struggle less when writing prose in English. My writing is kill by globalism.

>I diss most contemporary writers even though I have read less than 5 books released in the past 20 years.

>I talk about writing as my passion. I LARP as Kafka: "I am literature." I keep telling people that I'd devote myself to writing and nothing else if it was possible. Truth is, it's just a hobby.

>I always say I don't like writing poems. I do but I suck at keeping meter. It takes days to finish a poem. I don't like working so much for so few words, even though I enjoy the process.

>I had a part-time job in high-school that paid more than most full-time jobs in my country. Instead of saving up I lived the literary life meme for months.

>Sometimes I fear the only value I have in the eyes of others is the mystery of knowledge and sophistication I might or might not have. I fear that I might find out that I lack both of its ever tested.

>I love it when others call me eccentric

>I am depressed and I make it worse on purpose a few times a year to serve as inspiration. I timed it wrong once and real issues came up. I attempted suicide by hanging then but the belt came loose.

All in all I'm a self aware meme.

your girlfriend may be Russian, but she isnt very smart. Do you really think her analysis supercedes Nietzche's

1) I've read less than 1 book per year of life since my birth.

2) I think almost all modern poetry is irrelevant and boring.

3) I haven't read a single work of Shakespeare.

4) I think reading is boring because I have an internet addiction.

5) I find writing to the best of my ability feels like shitting glass.

I love A Song of Ice and Fire

Nietzsche and Stoicism can coexist in the form of bettering yourself as a human being

Free will does NOT exist, for how could one be free of his choices if everything leading up to that choice is what decides that choice? Even right now if I decided to deliberate for a moment, and then get up and drive to another city, I would be doing so as a result of a thought process that was only conjured up by everything that has been shown to me in the past.

The Taming of the Shrew is proof enough that Shakespeare is a genius, and along those lines: Comedies > Tragedies

All of Schopenhauer's essays are amazing.

You should have at MINIMUM a couple consecutive hours a day where you're not reading.

you sound like me a couple years ago--literally with the Melville and the East of Eden. Though I finished Moby Dick, I knew halfway it was the greatest.

fucking insufferable.

>self aware

LOL. I guess you're right, since there's a difference between being self aware and doing something about it.

read Shakespeare and stop playing video games--your writing will improve immensely