Thread 24610252

Give it to me straight: How do I make it /lit/-wise. I will harvest souls if I need to.


Just tell me what needs to be done.

>>24610252 (OP)
Find some chart threads in the archive or on the wiki, pick whatever sounds interesting, start reading, do that for several years, ignore anyone who tells you to "START WITH MUH GREEKS," abhor all plotslop

>>24610252 (OP)
No one wants to hear this, but you have to start reading LLM summaries of books. You can only read a few hundred books per year, but you can read thousands of LLM summaries. I've been doing this since ChatGPT came out and no one has figured it out yet. I can talk about any book and people think I'm a genius.

>>24610252 (OP)
What do you mean by making it?
You just want to be well read or do you want to write something and be published?

>>24610252 (OP)
Start with the fookin Greeks!

>>24610291
reading for vanity is the ethical equivalent of doing onlyfans, you should be ashamed

>>24610291
What is your point of doing this? Do you just want to appear sophisticated?
You probably didn't spent much time with each book and thus will probably forget it pretty quickly.

People will harvest souls instead of simply reading a book.

Read authors that you like. Think of people you’ve read who wrote in ways that made you take a step back and go “how the fuck is this possible.” Then try to research them, figure out what their inspirations were, and read THOSE guys. Then figure out who inspired them, and so on…

The chances are, you will find a ton of different authors that you find enjoyable and compelling to read, while also gaining a stronger sense of what exactly makes their writing work for you. Eventually, you may come to write in that style, engage with similar ideas, and emerge a much stronger writer than you were before.

The Greeks are important foundational knowledge, but you may find it difficult to take that on if you don’t have a direction. Read what you like, read what those authors liked, and you will carve out a path to greatness. Or obscurity like most people here

>>24610252 (OP)
Be born a woman. Have an aunt or uncle in the publishing business. Get a sob story to put your foot on the door. Make trashy fanfiction then just change the names of the characters when you get picked up.

Transition

>>24610291
not reading

>>24610291
This works because most people never reread and retain very little of the actual content of the book. This is why we’re still seeing great gatsby threads: people still feel the need to discuss themes from a book they haven’t touched since high school. Blind leading the blind.

>>24610291
Literally no one thinks you're a genius and you make no money

>>24610252 (OP)
>Iliad and Odyssey (Pope)
>Aeneid (Dryden)
>Metamorphoses (Golding)
>Bible (KJV)
>Divine Comedy (Longfellow)
>Paradise Lost

>>24610252 (OP)
You open a fucking book, and read it to the end you fucking idiot nigger faggot

>>24610291
Only Normie retards as soon as soon as you come across somebody who has studied a book seriously you're getting blown out of the water with questions about the nuances of his prose and symbolism

>>24610291
You might as well say you read every wiki for the top 50 pop artists played on the radio so you could talk to other people with a surface level interest as though you were actually interested

>>24610291
I bring up the abandoned house hookups in 1984 to catch people like you out.

>>24610563
>reading for ethics
ngmi

>>24610291
might as well let chatgpt live your life