How many books do you read in a month?

>>24532716 (OP)
0

>>24532748
you're unemployed?

>>24532750
im a neet

>>24532753
so what do you do all day fellow neet?

>>24532716 (OP)
If you're unemployed, you should be writing books, not reading them

>>24532716 (OP)
If I am being honest with myself around about 50, but before people call bs I mostly read poetry, so really about 7000-9000 pages a month, which is fairly regular I think.

>>24532843
who are your favorite poets?

>>24532838
This is what I'm doing, but my self doubt (warranted or not) is making me strongly consider suicide by jumping off a bridge or just drinking alcohol daily until I'm dead.
Why does God hate me?
God gave me the ambition to be a great writer but none of the mental / emotional prerequisites for it.
I hate this world.
>>24532843
Who's ur favorite poet?
What do u think of Pessoa, Whitman, Ashbury, Hart Crane, Frank Stanford?
I like Whitman but he's kinda impossible for me to understand. He was one of the first poets to write about themselves and their own bodies, to my knowledge, but like he also writes about how he "is" other people, as if he's stealing their bodies. Like in The Sleepers, for instance. "I am the actor and the actress, the voter, the politician" etc. What does it mean??

>>24532852
At the moment or all time? That is a pretty big question. One of my favourites atm is Jack Skelley. He does the schizobabble right. /lit/ hates experimental poetry so I would probs deflect with Water Mirrors by Nicholas Powell. Overall, all-time without thinking about it too much, I like Dickinson, Joel Oppenheimer, Frank Stanford, David Berman, Adonis, Ed Atkins, John Ashbery and Beckett.

>>24532871
>David Berman
Based af
The Frank Stanford biography is coming out soon, I think. R u excited for it?

>>24532748
>>24532753
same.

>>24532836
he probably reads 5 pages then watches anime. don't ask me how I know.

>>24532871
Beckett as a poet is an interesting choice. I won't lie, his poetry filters me way more than his fiction. What is it about his poetry that you like?

>>24532867
>God gave me the ambition to be a great writer but none of the mental / emotional prerequisites for it.
You're overthinking it. Leave your phone at a distance from your bed and then cultivate a habit of writing as soon as you wake up. Your inhibitions will still be solidifying so you won't have to "get in the zone". Do one page a day one week then two pages the following week. Keep going until you are doing ten pages a day and then maintain it.
>Who's ur favorite poet?
Atm either Jon Fosse or Charles Simic
>What do u think of Pessoa, Whitman, Ashbury, Hart Crane, Frank Stanford?
Amazing, a little too esoteric for me; I love clarity, terrific, underrated, the GOAT
>Like in The Sleepers, for instance. "I am the actor and the actress, the voter, the politician" etc. What does it mean??
My interpretation was that he was comparing and contrasting agentic empathy (which you would use to inhabit the characters in your works) and instinctual (which would just be a reaction to something happening to somebody else) but with television comes the paradox of performative empathy in which we feel bad because we know that we are supposed to, and in this way we are all everyone while still remaining capable of only being ourselves. But idk I could be totally wrong

>>24532877
>R u excited for it?
Preordered! Also Lizzy Mercier-Descloux's poetry book Dissederata just got released. I don't have high hopes but she seems interesting enough to have couple of good line in there. Have you read Berman's Colonial Manuscript?

>>24532895
>I love clarity, terrific, underrated, the GOAT
wdym

>>24532886
>What is it about his poetry that you like?
Where Dickinson uses punctuation to enhance depth Beckett uses it to enhance comedy. I would compare Beckett's poems and later language experiments to something like The Velvet Underground. Somehow both erudite and anti-academic. Also VERY fun to read aloud.

>>24532908
That is just my brief opinion on every poet that you listed in order.

>>24532877
>The Frank Stanford biography is coming out soon
It's out! Mine should arrive soon

Honest to God, why should I get a job in a capitalist country knowing that I am well off. Legitimately what purpose does that serve me.

>>24532939
You shouldn't. None, unless you are researching.

>>24532939
i guess it can give you a purpose or whatever, if i were well off i wouldn't bother

>>24532867
>He was one of the first poets to write about themselves and their own bodies, to my knowledge, but like he also writes about how he "is" other people, as if he's stealing their bodies. Like in The Sleepers, for instance. "I am the actor and the actress, the voter, the politician" etc. What does it mean??
Cosmic consciousness.
Or, to use less of the New Age kook term (note though: “cosmic consciousness” was actually coined by the Canadian psychologist Richard Maurice Burke in his 1901 book, and he was massively inspired by Whitman in coming up with it and investigating the idea, funnily enough), it’s Whitman poetically taking on the consciousness of other people. Fits of extended empathy and inspiration, where he as if merges himself with whatever or whoever he’s talking about or observing, or switches to using them as the “I” of the poem’s speaker to suggest this inspiration, and also to be poetic voices for what Whitman found as distinctly and beautifully American.

TL;DR: it’s just meant to suggest ecstasy. Inspiration. An expanded state of consciousness and understanding and caring for others. A deep empathy with other people in the Americas, whom he wants to use the voices of to create this new American epic (or more like a rhapsody, maybe).

>>24532716 (OP)
me. 14 books so far this year. supposed to attend university though at the end of August, majoring in world history.

>>24532838
I already do

>>24532904
>Lizzy Mercier-Descloux's
I hate women so I try not to read them. Sorry
>Berman's Colonial Manuscript?
No sorry I just like his music
>>24532917
He not me. I'm me. He's someone else
I'm
>>24532867
>>24532877
And that's all
>>24532975
This is nice and good, but he did this back when America was all White and all right. If Whitman were alive today, would he empathize and sympathize with savage spics and negroids? I think not, but idk. But I mean like yeah Whitman didn't like slavery and was a nurse during the Civil War but like ... if only they would have known. Like did the Americans killed on D-Day die specifically cuz they wanted Mexican lesbians to convert their sons into daughters and corrupt their daughters into whores?
Idk
I'm sorry
>>24532939
>knowing that I am well off
Why r u well off? Where did u get your money from? What do u do with your free time?
>>24532912
I've only really read Beckett's plays but they're so good. Rockaby is one of my favorites. Makes me want to kill myself and live on. "Fuck life" and "More" ... this world is a curse
BTW do you guys like surrealism at all?

>>24533027
>I hate women so I try not to read them.
She is mostly a musician, but fair enough
>do you guys like surrealism at all?
ofc

>>24533037
What do you do for work? Do u have lots of money? Can you buy pic related for me pls?
How tall / handsome / old / muscular are you? Do you have gf? Are you Chad?
Do you take psychiatric meds? R u mentally ill? R u addicted to drugs or alcohol?
Thank you.

>>24533037
>What do you do for work
Write
>Do u have lots of money?
No
>Can you buy pic related for me pls?
Would if I could
>How tall / handsome / old / muscular are you?
5"10, somewhat, 34, decently
>Do you have gf?
Yes
>Are you Chad?
No
>Do you take psychiatric meds?
No
>R u mentally ill?
Yes
>R u addicted to drugs or alcohol?
Used to be but not anymore. I still have addictions though.

>>24532716 (OP)
Yes, been laid off for 1 month now. Read 4 books so far.

>>24532895
Wow someone actually giving good advice.

>>24533051
I hate u Chad. I hate u cuz u have a gf. I hate u so so so so so so so much
What r u addicted to
>>24533055
Yes this anon Is based and blessed
>>24532977
How tall r u
How Chad r u
How many girls do u plan on sleeping with
How handsome and muscular r u

>>24533027
/pol/tard moment

>>24533156
Shut up, poopooface

>>24532716 (OP)
You're probably reading some serious slop if you can digest a whole 100 pages in a single sitting

>>24533226
cope & seethe

I'm NEET and I read four hours everyday. AMA.

>>24533240
what books did you read last month?

>>24533238
Anon pls don't make me kill myself
Pls
Let me extend an olive branch
Do you like astronomy and whatnot??

>>24533240
Do you plan to commit suicide at a certain age?
I think I'd neck myself if my life is still shit at 40.

>>24533247
Trois contes, Letters from a Stoic, The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, La nausée.

Attached what I've read this year.

>>24533260
No. Work is evil, I love this life.

>>24533262
Nice. What did you think about Mystery Method? Good or bad?

>>24533267
I don't want to read all this. I've graduated college . I'll never have good opportunities to bag cute pussy again in my life. Why fucking bother??

>>24532836
study philosophy, then maths, then physics, then go to the gym.

But I'm terrible at all of it

>>24533267
true, all my friends who work 9-5 have remarkably shit taste in art

>>24533272
It's good but I don't really see myself using the Mystery Method, it's not just who I am; it would be like playing a character. I wonder how well it would work today, back when Mystery wrote it people didn't even have smartphones. If I was braver I would go out and try what I've learned...

>>24532716 (OP)
People are gonna chimp out, but I don't read anymore, only the fragments I look for using AI.

Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no. It's not what you imagine. I download everything written by Fuckwit load it into notebookLM or some other long context IA, and let it find what I'm looking for in Fuckwit's complete works (sometimes, I'm not even sure what I'm looking for myself)

>>24532871
>Ed Atkins, Beckett
very nice

>>24533473
sybau
>>24532716 (OP)
I read a book a week

>>24533881
>I read a book a week
You're very productive! Great job!

>>24533947
Tyvm :>