Veeky Forumserary confessions thread. Confess your sins, filthy plebs

I started with the greeks

Everytime I read a book I write an essay on it in hopes that I might make a YouTube channel where I can teach people literature and philosophy on a neutral standpoint while making the funny hahas. I have not made a single video yet.

I often read for fun

>I don't like pineapple on my book
>I don't wait 15 minutes after reading before swimming
>when I use the book to clean my ears you better believe I am stuffing it in the ear canal
>the best book I've ever had was spiteful
>I don't believe in book but I still ask it for mercy

i did not

>have only read 3 Shakespeare plays
>havent read a full work of any philosopher ever

Who here only pretends to have read 1984?

I couldn't finish Catch-22. It was such a grind just to make it the 100 pages I did manage.

me too

I avoid books by female writers although I freely admit they are equal if not better than men.

is that one of the girls from this is england

only know her from the movie "Green Room"

Imogen poots, that pic is from Green Room

me too, I do not understand what the fuss is all about...
My strong conviction is that there are no more than a dozen books of fiction which are worth their time... Also I find the plots of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and ALL of the greek plays to be rather primitive...

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPPP

After years of fairly consistent reading and a great interest of philosophy I’ve now pretty much lost all faith in it as a method for understanding my own life. Instead I’m slowly learning to stop asking broad metaphysical or existential questions and instead just trying to live as well and as simply as possible. I find pithy aphorisms more enlightening now than more serious philosophical works that I’ve read in the past and I’m more inspired by a stranger’s tiny, but genuine, act of kindness than a a great work of literature that I’ve read like Faust or something.

Not really confessions, I know. Just a bit of disillusionment.

I exclusively read on e readers

Have you published them on porn sites?

You should do it user! I believe in you :)

you monster

Make the videos for yourself, as a creative outlet, as an external goal and something to feel proud of upon completing. Don't worry if people watch them or not

The problem is I don’t know shit about making videos. Don’t know how to edit at all

Learn as you go alone, nobody starts out as an expert.

I want poots to jump up and down on my chest with a pair of steel toecapped boots and kick me in my manhood repeatedly while laughing, spitting in my face and calling me a worthless excuse of a man, telling me I don't deserve to have a working cock and balls and I'm an insult to the human race.
Then I would like for her to smoke an entire pack of cigs and make me choke on her heavenly second hand smoke while she occasionally flicks her ashes into either my mouth, eyes or down my urethra. Whenever I flinch or try to move to avoid the ashes she'll kick me again and tell me if I don't stay still she'll break one of my fingers, once she finishes each cigarette she shoves the still smoking butts down my urethra and once she can't fit anymore in my tiny peehole she tells me to open wide and swallow them.
When the tears are running down my face she'll tell me I should have never been born and kiss my cheek before jumping up and crushing my nose with the bottom of her boot, she'll continue to jump on my head till I'm dead.
Absolutely sublime.

I enjoy reading but forget most of it. Very little "sticks" in my mind.

Funny thing about youtube is that there is billions of hours of video on it where people show you how to edit videos.

you might be into sarah kane
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ZjplLullc

I hated Faulkern's As I Lay Dying. They should have buried the body where she died, not tried crossing a river where a bridge was out, risking lives and killing horses. I thought they were all morons and think the story would have been improved if all but the semi smart son had drowned.

I'm the guy who dog-ears all your library books.

I hate philosophy books

become an ironic unironic audiobook guy
and we'll laff (at the book, not at you)

Amen.

I was going to go for the trurationalathiest vibe, but actually be informative and less opinionated
> I'll make controversial jokes, like only addressing Jim in my analysis of huckleberry fin as nigger Jim, changing every pronoun I can to it
youtu.be/vZQJFbrqjUY

I don't know exactly when but it was around 150-200 pages in when I got sucked in. It'll set in if you give it time. One of the few books I got legitimately obsessed with

OBSESSED

i spend more time lurking and shitposting on Veeky Forums than reading

Please do this, even if you feel that you don't have the talent for it, just do it anyways and someone will like it. I have legit been looking for someone like this for a long time because it just seems like such an untapped market. I would do it myself if I had the time/energy.

It is so easy, you might as well stop fibbing and just get around to it.

Thank you very much.

I chain smoke when I read. All my books smell faintly like cigs

also, I determine whether I'm gonna read a book by first smelling it's pages

What smells are you sniffing for, my man?

fuck if I know, just smelling for "character" I guess. If it smells like paper, I like it. If it smells like chemicals or otherwise gross I don't like it.

>never read faulkner
>never read any Russian other than Notes from the Underground
>never read Melville
>never read The Greeks outside of Homer
and in general there's so much on my bookshelf that I haven't even opened

Since about 2012 I've picked up the habit of stealing 1 or 2 books from houses I visit for the first time.

extremely niggerish behavior, stealing from stores and schools, doctors offices is fine; stealing from people you know is despicable nigger subhuman behavior someone should fucking knock you out if you ever get caught you disgusting parasite. giving thieves a bad name, i spit on your whole genetic lineage and your soul faggot

>standing on a pedestal of morality while being shamelessly racist

I keep reading trash Warhammer books instead of actually good literature. The hours I have spent reading about junk that is below shit like GRRM could have been better spent reading history or philosophy or good literature. I have been doing this for about a year whilst my books on my bookshelf get dusty (been reading the Warhammer stuff on torrentee epubs).

It's complete garbage. Even their best writer (Dan Abnett, supposedly) is complete trash. I can't stop, though. I'll say this now and start reading quality again but in a week or two I will return to shit. Help.

Since I have a disposition towards psychological and philosophical knowledge, I feel obliged to read the actual source material for the foundations of those trains of thought. Unfortunately, my attention span struggles to keep concentrated on such texts because the syntax is complex, and dense with abstraction. It seems that my ability to focus has atrophied from so many masturbatory activities.

I bought a volume that contains all of Plato's essential dialogues. I wound up crawling through the first small fraction of the book and abandoning it because my attention is diverted away from processing all of the complex ideas so easily. I haven't attempted to pick it back up in a long while.

I have, however, managed to finish some Freud and some Jung recently. I'm trying to sharpen my willpower to keep consistent with my activities and my focus on them, which I manage to work simultaneously when I read and write. I was never a good student. These symptoms I described are only one of the many heads of my laziness.

I buy several books every month. I can't stop. But I haven't read most of what I have collected so far.

I didn't like Heart of Darkness until the last 10-15 pages.

>I've watched Equilibrium, fuck Fahrenheit 451
This was probably a good call

I've been stuck on a chapter of Journey to the End of the Night for weeks. I really like it but my motivation is dead right now

death on the installment plan sucked, it's sort of funny but gets old, journey is probably the same

Journey changes setting enough to keep it interesting and I like the humor in it, It just doesn't keep me immersed like other books.

I keep dream journals that are progressively becoming more perverted; rape, bondage, bloodletting, tentacles, etc. I've continued writing them for the sole purpose of going back in time, sending them to Freud, then watching him have a brain aneurysm

>I am the pinnacle of morality
>Theft is fine as long as you don't steal from your house
>Also I'm a homophobic, racist brainlet.

lmao

I agree

Giacomo G.?

mincing castrati whores

>they were all morons
that's the point

Do it, I need more video essay channels to subscribe to but most of them focus on film or paintings.

I think you posted in one of these threads before mentioning only a dozen books of fiction are worth their time.

Please user, which dozen books are worthy? Genuinely interested, we'll probably disagree but that's cool either way

I would also do that but I speak like an angry, retarded and caffeinated tradie

hey thanks dude now i know good parts to stop at

t. another dog-earing user

Gross

Please look after yourself more, you don't have to smoke and it can get expensive too

It's never too late, dude.

I have a bunch of books I haven't read yet (russians, americans, greeks, ancients, po-mo, sci-fi, japanese, philosophy, etc), but as long as you're making some form of progress you'll get there eventually.

The tough situation is that there are so many great books that we sort of want to take a bundle from different regions but then we're spoilt for choice. I struggle to find the next book I want to read because of this.

As a black user, I can say that I don't steal nor do I have "extremely niggerish behavior," you cretin.

No need to be insecure blackfella, stealing and home invasions certainly seem to be african pastimes

thats ok, it's not for everyone m8

the beats are shit

My parents must own close to 1500-2000 books and my aunt has about 500 or so.
I'm waiting for them 3 to die to inherit all that shit and prune the fuck out of the collection (the Gore Vidals, Agatha Christie's, Susan Sontag's or Doris Lessing's -I always mix them up).

David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) and Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings) are two of the best contemporary writers out there and will go down as classic writers if they keep their writing standards high.

I'd legitimately like to see your channel, as someone who uploads recordings I do of books on YouTube myself.

Even if you don't do anything with them, I think writing essays like that is very good for the brain. Nothing to confess here, my son.

I've read probably less than a fourth of the books I own.

And rather than reading them, I keep renting new ones from the library instead (mostly fear of missing context, i.e. the Greeks)

Also I haven't read anything in the past three days because I'm too busy with work.

Disgusting

same, usually keep buying books that I want to read but rarely have time to finish books longer than 300 pages

George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London would work really well as a tongue-in-cheek animated film similar to Persepolis, similar to when Marjane is couch hopping and sleeping in the streets.

i love BDSM

Beautiful
Dogs
Surrounding
Me

I've got a Sucy body pillow.

Sucy is my waifu, where can I find a Sucy body pillow

All I want is a qt who wants to share quiet reading time with me.

> tfw no qt doggo to play fetch with

Essential
>Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
>The New Testament
Highly recommended
>Luo Guanzhong: Romance of the Three Kingdoms
>William Shakespeare: Hamlet
>Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Personal favourite
>Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

a dozen is 12

Nice choices though. Gonna read Anna Karenina some time this year.

Do it pls

In the hope that it will make my writing better, I think as if I was writing a novel
Ex: the sun beamed down on me, disgustingly florescent. It was as if I was being interrogated by the planet, forcing me to confess to sin I have not committed
This is what I thought on the train

Something something but it made you

Dostoevsky is boring turgid banal shit.

I am hesitating to start moby dick because Bartleby was New Yorker magazine tier soy nonsense.

All those lolsorandumb postmodern authors have nothing to say. Including Pynchon and DFW

I own a collection of 100+ books in german and don't even know how to read german. Out of the other books I own, I've read less than half and I prefer reading shit I borrow from the library.

Moby Dick is alright. I'm making decent headway through it t the moment. There's a shitload about whaling in the middle, but there's also a lot of subtext there to keep you interested. The problem is that I suck at picking up on subtext.

I do this too, only
>Sun beamed down on me
>Interrogated by the planet
The sun is not part of the planet, user.