Hey /lit?. I used to read constantly. 70 books a year or so on average. But for the last several months I've been starting books and stopping. Nothing is speaking to me anymore. I feel like I've read everything I'll like already. Can you help me with some recs.
My favorite writers are: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Knut Hamsun, Yukio Mishima, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arthur Rimbaud, and Fernando Pessoa.
My *least* favorite writers are: Kafka, Beckett, Joyce, Proust, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Rand, Whitman, Melville, and Tao Lin.
Luke Rodriguez
Yo, Google "writers similar to [your favorites]." There are plenty of choices. Or maybe it's time to explore different media.
Ethan Anderson
Re-read what you liked
Dominic Watson
this
Benjamin Rivera
No.
Wyatt Lopez
Why?
Austin Gray
I have a photographic memory. Re-visiting books would be arbitrary for someone who can go through the whole book in his head at any time.
Nathaniel Adams
Try working on more active hobbies (see: not media consumption), or start a new hobby if need be. Come back to reading later. You can plumb the very bottom of your hobby trying to recapture your initial fascination, or you can do something else and forget it. It's not a big deal... it's just words anyways.
Camden Bell
There is no bigger pseud than Bloom.
Jordan Foster
Wouldn't be arbitrary, user. You should use your photographic memory on a dictionary.
There's more to books than remembering plot points and characters names. Did you not care for the flow of the text, clever turns of phrase, immersing yourself in the world, or any other number of approaches?
If not, then .
Andrew Green
Nigga, this is a literature board.
Brody Martinez
Start with the Greeks.
Adrian Smith
I didn't start with them but I have read them all.
Daniel Rivera
Precisely. Sometimes people get tired or bored of reading for a period of time. Instead of trying to recapture something by smashing your head into a wall, many people would be better off exploring their lives.
Nathaniel Reyes
FUCKING SAUCE
Zachary Bell
it sounds like it's time for you to enter that phase of reading where you try to find hidden gems from obscure countries
Carson Jenkins
Do you have any recommendations?
Jace Nelson
Schwanzus Longus by Biggus Dickus from Norway
Nathaniel Hall
Hey, cmon.
Jacob Cruz
You will assume I am just trolling. so its almost not worth typing this.
But if you are serious, and can put past your expectations regarding.
Ayn rand
Charles Baker
Read some quick genre fiction. I like crime myself, stuff like Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford, Jim Thompson etc when I'm in a reading rut since those books take only a few hours to read and are really fun.
Jack Robinson
>Wittgenstein as "writer"
Noah Powell
I listed her as a least favorite author.
Liam Roberts
I read Leonard and Willeford in HS. They're fine but I'm not that big on them
Kevin Bailey
Yeah, he wrote. You must be retarded.
Michael Morgan
There's a difference between writing and being a "writer". It is you who must be retarded, I said wisely.
Grayson Edwards
>someone who writes isn't a writer
David Moore
No there's not. You have such a weak mind it's not even funny. Learn the difference between connotation and denotation.
Daniel Richardson
OP try Kafka again. I didn't like him at first, then I gave him another shot after not reading at all for like a year and he's my favorite write now.
Colton James
>there's no difference >here's the difference
If you think writing this post makes me equally a "writer" as Hemingway who is equal to Wittgenstein.
Benjamin Brooks
>Cool I just read this writer, time to read an inferior writer that tries to do the same thing
Awful advice
Julian Reed
>people who write aren't writers Do you consider yourself a walker, a person who walks?
Angel Jenkins
but you actually typed that post checkmate
Isaiah Edwards
Would you consider someone 300lbs who walks to their car as much of a "walker" as someone who's traversed every continent on foot? If you can answer yes, congratulations "you got me".
Robert Powell
have you read salinger?
also why do you dislike chekov?
Gavin Flores
>he's missed the whole Wittgensteinian nature of our conversation sad
Noah Bennett
What point do you think you have made?
Zachary Mitchell
I'll recommend if you give sauce
Angel Thompson
I have a good few names in mind that you'd probably really like, but I'm not going to tell you them.