/lit/ - Literature

Sex: M
Age: 22
Location: Scotland (Currently in Fife)
Favourite books: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez, The Stranger - Camus
What you're reading right now: Machiavelli's The Prince (For college)
Last book you've read: Missing Kissinger: A Collection of Short Stories by Etgar Keret
Kind of people you would like to meet: People who like books, "pretentious" cinema and have similar tastes in music.

>>1203453
I've not been a huge propriator in the Screamo scene, especially since these days it basically means just bands who are trying to be like Thursday etc as opposed to bands like City of caterpillar.

>>1203459
It's not all depression pop, some upbeat pop too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_oDzAjfTc
anyway, I digress this is lit not /mu/

>>1203437
Scotland has always produced good music from Orange Juice, The Vasalines, Cocteau Twins, Boards of Canada, and Urusei Yatsura spring to mind.

>>1203349
Can you really put Palahniuk on the same level as Burgess?

>>1203341
Yeah, but I've been near inactive on the internet as a whole for the last few months.

>>1203287
There is a difference between my generation and current gen. I know 22 is still young, but to me youth is those between 15-18. I also use it in the sense to describe atypical ned/chavvy types. Not the everyday younger ones of society.

>>1203288
I like your style too. High five for super.

>>1203282
I found at community college no one actually reads the required reading for other subjects... or even makes an attempt. They think they can survive on the hand outs.

I'm 22 and got called a teachers pet by a guy straight out of high school because I bought a Dictionary of Sociology.

It's times like this I regret screwing around in high school.

http://www.last.fm/user/Haikukid

I just listen to music in general, but I also like silence. Still music is good for public transport when drowning out the youths with their loud annoying voices and shitty music from their phones.

>>1160039
No, I just buy them so my hipster friends come over and say "by golly you read Tolstoy and Camus?

But no seriously I've read most of them Sans One Hundred Years of Solitude in which I am reading now, Lolita and Ulysses (Both of which I plan to read after OHYOS)

I don't have a bookshelf, I just have storage shelf type things I bought that I dump all my books on beside my games. My taste in literature isn't that great anyway so it doesn't matter much.

>>1140443
Is there any board you don't ruin?

>>1121367
I don't know, possibly.

He Moggers, have you read this yet?

I haven't really come across this. In fact, the opposite, my Sociology tutor saw me reading Ulysses and proceeded to talk to me about it. If he passes me in the campus he will often say "so what you reading now?"

I also have friends who read, but they read pop-lit like Stephen King and Tom Clancy, and while they know what I read is a higher level they don't call me on it. They just ask what's it about and if I like it, pretty much same thing I ask about what their reading.

It may not be "high literature" but I'm currently reading Stephen Fry's - Making History and I must say I am thoroughly enjoying it.

On vinyl and there is nothing wrong with liking NMH, and anyone who actually uses the term hipster is just part of some other social sub-culture, probably NERD who doesn't get out much.

This thread is bad.

>>1099551
Fo' Sheezy

I'm not a huge reader. Also note: I picked up the Ayn Rand used, I keep meaning to hand them into the local charity bookstore.

Final note: I also have Sociology books for college, but they're not shown.

>>1099528
Man, you're so cooooool!

Seeing the wealth of praise for Murakami, and having had my creative writing teacher recommend this to me, I decided to give it a go.

600 arduous pages later, I want to know how this garbage got published. The prose is slow and tedious, like wading through set jelly. The plot keeps drawing coincidences and odd connections together, leading you to expect an explanation ... but it goes nowhere!!! Imagine watching Donnie Darko twenty times and that's how it feels: endless, self-indulgent surrealism that is strange for its own sake. i couldn't believe it threw in so much stuff about the war and lucid dreams, yet without any of it making sense!!

Absolute nonsense. Won't go near this author's work ever again.

(The other's were just complaints that it was different from his other works)