Who else /fitlit/ here?

meant to greentext.

I appreciate your input. I'm enjoying it. I have immense respect for you either way.

the way i see it, comparing it to lifting makes it seem like something that requires work or skill. reading is just something you do.

>kafka on the shore is far superior

this is Veeky Forums, after all

Shit, now you have made me feel bad about myself for greentexting you.

>Haruki Murakami
Please b a hipster grill

Nobody compared it to lifting.

>reading is just something you do.
not an argument. By that logic, so is running, or working, (and even lifting)

Also maybe challenge yourself with more difficult books? As I said before, reading has measurable benefit to memory, vocabulary, critical thinking skills, etc.

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Sorry bro
>slim fit bi guy tho ;)

That's a shame
>unless you want to wear a pair of panties for me ;)

lol I have before, but only with girls

I can be the girl
no homo of course

>almost 1000 pages
Nigga you think I'm gonna read that shit?

>taking advice from an illegal con artist
>literal manlet
>cokehead

what is there to reap benefit from but to learn how to be a shady piece of shit who nobody will like genuinely?

no homo man. just two guys helping relieve sexual frustration to increase gains. its like spotting for a lift.

it's not like you have a deadline

I started reading IT. It's pretty good.

I could read five 200 page non-fiction books and improve my life so much more. So, no thanks.

>implying body and mind are separate
KEK. Brainlets I swear...

considering the fact that you probably mean some self help or nu-masculinty books by jack donovan...

>lifting
>started my first novel
Feels kinda good

reading is like playing a sport
learning a language is more like working out

all are forms of sublimation. reading and working out are also frequently part of more elaborate human mating behavior. some lift to impress chicks, some read james joyce for the same reason

Read about what young men not long ago had to go through and then try thinking your life is difficult.

I never understood why people think fiction or non-fiction is superior to the other. They both have their benefits.

Might be me but when I got into the habit of reading 30 minutes in the morning instead of scrolling youtube Veeky Forums >reddit I would feel a lot calmer

Overrated? Pretty sure it's not that highly rated compared to his other works

Currently reading wind up bird

I started reading every/every other night and my mind is always much clearer, and I feel I can communicate ideas much more easily. I don't have to struggle as much to form a sentence for exactly what I'm trying to say. The sentences just pop into my head fully articulated.
It's time I usually would've spent on Veeky Forums anyway so thats probably good.

No wonder these guys kept getting wrecked by the huns.

Meditations by Aurelius
>112 pages

The Prince by Machiavelli
>88 pages

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
>68 pages

Communist Manifesto by Marx
>96 pages

The Law by Bastiat
>78 pages

Common Sense by Paine
>68 pages

The Undiscovered Self by Jung
>128 pages

You could read all these and have 362 pages left over for actual books that will improve your life, and these are just the ones right next to me in my book case so I'm sure there are even better alternatives out there. But keep reading fiction you faggot. Maybe you'll recommend the Great Gatsby like every high school girl does next.

>reading fiction
I bet you wear jeans too

Autism

>Stacy: Hey user, what do you think of the new guy?
>user: He was alright at first, but then I found out he reads fiction and wears jeans, so I don't really like him
>Stacy: uh..... okay.... later user...

That depends on what you read. Try reading Ulysses, even though it's a shitty book, see if you can comprehend it from 1st try all by yourself...

>Communist Manifesto by Marx
pages
Why would you read that drivel?

To know the enemy? Why else?

>baby's first non-fic

It's an example you stupid nigger.

Nobody is Marxist tho.

no On the Origin of Species
fucking plebs

Last third of the final 1Q84 book here, way better than the 2nd

sure it is, pleb

I want some good erotic poetry/literature to up my sexting game. Which is apparently exemplary and a new angle I need to pursue.

Veeky Forums won't respond. Anyone have any good recommendations?

50 shades. not that its any good, but apparently that's what gets normie girls wet.

This is weird.

wtf I love globalists now

Whatcha reading /fitlit/? I just finished Lolita and Humbert did nothing wrong.

I felt for the pedo meme and was quite disappointed for the lack of explicitness in the novel.

Both are equally good, but none of them deserve a Nobel.

Anything written by Marquis de Sade, really. If you're looking for something more contemporary then Bukowski, but in my opinion he's highly overrated as a writer. Specially by wannabe-erudites.

Veeky Forums is the worst board on this website

Hard-boiled Wonderland is the patrician choice.

IQ84 was weak. Kafka on the Shore and his Sheep Chase series were fantastic.

Kafka on the Shore was the only of his experimental, magical realism-ish works that was throughout the entire novel properly executed. 1Q84 is just a fucking mess and the ending is way too off-putting.

If you're a teenage girl.

I'm reading this and it's hard, at least for my retard brain.
I can breeze through Musashi (which I'm also currently reading) pages like nothing, but this takes me ages.

I've been reading pic related which some user on Veeky Forums recommended me. It's super comfy and it's been helping me get through my anxiety.

I have also picked up Mishima and have been going through the classics.

how to be /fitlit/ when you're a brainlet?
I tried reading thus spoke zarahustra and i even liked the first 50 pages but after that i just cant man this shits so tedious

>can't even do the "BABBY's first" meme right yet he expects anons to take him seriously
Okay, lad kek.

But please, humor us with some recommendations. Let me guess, based black man Sowell, right?

Don't go into Neechee blindly, you should have a good background on philosophy before you start him.
I'll say pick up some of the classics and go over some of the starter books on Veeky Forums charts.

McCarthy is weak as fuck. Read Pynchon or Faulkner if you want dense.

dont start on Nietzsche

>murakami
>worth reading

pick one.

fuck the japanese vonnegut. fuck vonnegut as well.

As they say, start with the Greeks.

Just read a basic history of philosophy book.

>reads aurelius' diary
>still this mad
lmao, brainlets when will they learn

ye boy, audiobooks whilst liftang erry day. once i finish the brothers karamozov ill have read all my dostoyevsky

What?

>TFW No one appreciates the comfyness of DANCE DANCE DANCE

Yet, I keep getting (You)'s and still no recommendations.

Going through Secretary Mattis' reading list now. Pretty good stuff on there, to be honest.

Dance dance dance is a forgettable book. I honestly remember reading it but I forgot what it was about. I wouldn't say it's either bad or good, but nothing memorable.

>If you're a teenage girl.

If you knew what teenage girls liked, you wouldn’t be on Veeky Forums.

It's so fucking worth it. Definitely harder to read than his more recent novels.

not everyone on here is a virgin

This is undisputable.

I like McCarthy a lot
but that book is a
steaming pile
of dogshit

Reading Decline Of The West atm, good stuff

I don't like reading because I can't visualise anything it's just words on a page, but oatmeal read to engage my mind, reading 10-15 minutes a day literally increased my physical response time. I do karate(yeah I don't give a shit if you think it's shit) and after picking up reading I was noticeably better whilst sparing.
TV is just cheap pleasure box no more engaging than drugs which just give you your release for nothing

An all time fav of mine. It was hard at first but in the end so worth it. How much do you bench? I pushed 275 for the first time today.

that kitten probably got high as fuck. still wrong though

What's the most pretentious book you've read recently? The more obscure the better.

In a society where a growing number of the population cannot pay attention to something unless shit is jumping at them every other minute, reading literature is pretty impressive.

meditation is a better exerciser of the mind

This. Actually the best post i've seen on Veeky Forums in a few years. Vonnegut is a god damned hack, all his books are disgusting, he's in love with himself so much he can't even write about the god damned Dresden bombing without cumming in his own ass. Fuck him.

Try Norwegian Wood

Shitty edgelord. Anaïs Nin is pretty good.

I've always felt like level of engagement is what really matters. If I kick back to watch something I really try and think about it so it's not just a passive exercise. I get that reading engages you in the same way inherently though.

>murakami

are you a 19 year old arts/psychology major in university?

Is that supposed to be a poem? It flows better in my head if "is a" is its own line. It's more punctual.

>punctual
Punctuated?

I read murakami and I'm a 19 year old
math and chem major at an ivy thank you

I have not yet read Lolita but I love Pale Fire by Nabakov.
Currently reading pic related.

Except the entire militant "left" right now.

/pol/ buzzwords like "cultural Marxism" don't mean Marxism as in what Marx wrote.

mein neger

Have you read James Joyce's letters to Nora?