/lit/ - Literature

That's one gorgeous bookshelf, OP. I feel like I should get a 4chan AIM just to post in this thread.

OP here.

1. 22/F/Nebraska
2. Gravity's Rainbow
3. The King James Version Bible (I am not kidding, but I'm not "Christian" either)
4. Catch-22. It's the gayest shit I've read.
5. lol no one!
6. No, but I schlick over authors.
7. Does not apply!
8. AIM: catesdirtyhands, MSN on request

>18/Male/THIS IS ENGLAND!!!
>lol books.
>lol
>The Bible
>Thomas The Tank Engine
>I can write.
>Who the fuck is Chuck Palahniuk?
>MSN

26/M/Philadelphia
Reading: Infinite Jest (re-read), Finding Flow
Favorite: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Hate: Anything by Ayn Rand
Wish I was: Ford Prefect
Write: Yes. Working on a novel
Additional: Chuck Palahniuk is a one-trick pony.
AIM: AntiPopeRingo

>>1052561
Do it! Here is more, to entice you!

>>1052608
*fapfapfap*

12/m/phillipenes
goosebumps
goosebumps
hary botter lol its so hard
goosebumps
im riting now lol
lol
xXx_killa_asassin_xXx

>Currently reading: The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi- Junichiro Tanizaki
>Favorite book(s): Don Quixote, The Old Man and the Sea, The Silent Cry, Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Little Prince, The Wind in the Willows, Huck Finn, Spring Snow, Sanshiro, Siddhartha, Animal Farm, Anything Kafka...
>Book(s) you did not enjoy: The Fountainhead.
>Literary character you wish you were: Toad from the Wind in the Willows
>Do you write? Yes.
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content ("something interesting about yourself"; "how you're feeling"; "what you think about Chuck Palahniuk"): Never read anything by Palahniuk. I write music too. I'm into old shit and classical. That's about it.
>AIM/MSN/Skype: I have none of these.

>Currently reading: The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi- Junichiro Tanizaki
>Favorite book(s): Don Quixote, The Old Man and the Sea, The Silent Cry, Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Little Prince, The Wind in the Willows, Huck Finn, Spring Snow, Sanshiro, Siddhartha, Animal Farm, Anything Kafka...
>Book(s) you did not enjoy: The Fountainhead.
>Literary character you wish you were: Toad from the Wind in the Willows
>Do you write? Yes.
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content ("something interesting about yourself"; "how you're feeling"; "what you think about Chuck Palahniuk"): Never read anything by Palahniuk. I write music too. I'm into old shit and classical. That's about it.
>AIM/MSN/Skype: I have none of these.

1. Half-way through In Search of Lost Time.
2. Norwegian Wood.
3. n/a
4. Charles Swann
5. I'm gifted. Literary. Seriously. No. But really.
6. snowsnowsnows@hotmail.com

We really need to stop this.

>Currently reading:
The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi- Junichiro Tanizaki
>Favorite book(s):
Don Quixote, The Old Man and the Sea, The Silent Cry, Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Little Prince, The Wind in the Willows, Huck Finn, Spring Snow, Sanshiro, Siddhartha, Animal Farm, Anything Kafka...
>Book(s) you did not enjoy:
The Fountainhead.
>Literary character you wish you were:
Toad from the Wind in the Willows
>Do you write?
Yes.
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content ("something interesting about yourself"; "how you're feeling"; "what you think about Chuck Palahniuk"):
Never read anything by Palahniuk. I write music too. I'm into old shit and classical. That's about it.
>AIM/MSN/Skype:
I have none of these.

20/m/pa

Currently reading: The Wayward Bus

Favorite book(s): The Grapes of Wrath, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Les Miserables

Books I hate: The Eragon Series

Character: I'm most like Hamlet

I mostly write poetry


AIM: delta1echo7, Skype: tamesisshadow

>>1052664
like your fave books. enjoyed the wayward bus too. my dad always felt like the ex-military salesman to me.

>ASL (if necessary; be a boss and skip it)
20, male, an exotic land far, far away.
>Currently reading
2666 by Roberto Bolano.
>Favorite book(s)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, 1984 by George Orwell, Watership Down by Richard Adams.
>Book(s) you absolutely hate
Just like OP: Catch-22. I can't stand that.
>Literary character you wish you were
Johnny Truant? In that I wouldn't mind being skinny and creepy as fuck yet having as much pussy as I'd ever like.
>Do you write?
As a matter of fact, I happen to be a journalist and a professional author of smut.
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content ("something interesting about yourself"; "how you're feeling"; "what you think about Chuck Palahniuk")
I wear a hat. My hat is more famous than I am.
>AIM/MSN/Skype
AIM: ciarandohertywod
MSN: superanomalous@hotmail.com
Skype: brilliantparhelions

4chan: A Place For Friends

>>1052680
My bestfriends are from 4chan! THEY ARE VERY GOOD PEOPLE.

>you're goodnight

>>1052675
how are you liking 2666?

>>1052675
if you haven't seen it yet you MUST see the animated film. it's fairly old. it's true to the book and the animation is top notch.

>>1052687
I've just finished Book One. It's... slow, draggy, unique(?) but it has a peculiar effect on me. I want to know what's going on.

So far I've caught on that mirrors has some importance in the story. I'm liking the book, but I can only read it once every so often, when I can concentrate.

>>1052689
i'm a dummy. i was referring to watership down. anyways the old film really is a classic.

>>1052689
DUDE YES I HAVE

The book made me cry (I keep rabbits at home, they are very, very dear to me), the movie did it as well.

Well, the movie made me D: constantly, it's a fucking brutal world out there for rabbits. Trippy song after getting injured... rabbit fights to the death... Glorious film.

>21/m/England
>Nausea
>Hm, Either A handful of dust or Dubliners.
>Woman in black.
>None.
>Sparingly. A few screenplays, poems, short stories. Nothing serious.
> Coffee fuelled, smoke scented wanderlust driven fool.
>msn: wolf359alpha@hotmail.com

>>1052698
ha. yes. i was surprised at the blood in the movie although it's only in a few parts. to be a child and see bigwig come up and bite woundwort...that's some brutal shit.

17/F
Reading A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Jr.
Lots of favorites. Currently Primary Colors by Anonymous (actually be a journalist, Joe Klein).
Absolutely hated Brave New World
I want to be the Poet in Part 2 of Canticle for Leibowitz
I write, mostly diary/journal stuff and some stories I'm not gonna show to anyone
Palahniuk's okay, I liked Rant but not his other books.
MSN: sub.fuse@hotmail.ph

>>1052577
catch-22 was the gayest shit you've read? try reading more.

>>1052711
what didn't you like about brave new world?

>>1052691

Stick with it. It jumps around all over the place, book 2 makes little sense beyond a few literary references but is still important, book 3 is great, book 4 is insane and book 5 brings the whole thing together.

Just don't expect any kind of plot resolution, at all. It's fantastic.

Wasn't going to reply but OP's pic is orgasmic.

>20/F/Land of the Kangaroos
>No Thanks - EE Cummings
>Anything and everything by Joseph Conrad and Twilight stuff - yes they're in the same category
>Henry Bukowski. kidding. or not
>I type.
>I would fuck Palahniuk
>MSN

23/Male/France
Currently reading: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Favorite book(s): 1984, King Lear, The Ethics of Liberty
Book(s) you absolutely hate: Fantasy
Literary character you wish you were: I don't know
Do you write? No
Additional masturbatory self-promotional content: I'm studying English (University, about to start my third year)
MSN on request

>>1052713
I was turned off by the introduction.

>>1052717

Someone on 4chan reads Murray Rothbard? I need my psychiatrist.

>>1052718
that's too bad. i consider bnw to be essential high school/early college level lit. it's short and easy to read. give it a chance if you ever feel so inclined.

>>1052719
Why? Explain.

He's taken rationalism to an absurd extreme, but I'm OK with this.

83/M/NY
The Plague by Albert Camus
Pygmy
Lolita
Im terrible at it
i just told you what i think about chuck palahniuk
siddharthaderp

>>1052729
>83
>types derp.

twelve year old detected.

>>1052732

1. 20/M/São Paulo
2. Artemis Fowl
3. Pick a Discworld novel.
4. Twilight, Haruhi.
5. I already am.
6. Like a chipmunk on acid.
7. I'm so unlucky when it comes to publishing that once I asked a question (trolling) to PublishAmerica and they "rejected my book". True story. Once in a while, I manage to talk to famous people on social networks for no particular reason. I think that and "not sleeping" are my special skills.
8. synthetic.ryuno@msn.com

>>1052737

At least I hope so.

>>1052736
gah that pic reminds me of stagolee

>>1052740
Sorry, no.

>>1052740
Seems authentic to me.

>18/F/Philadelphia Area
>Lord of the Rings, Demian, Homestuck
>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, East of Eden, Cannery Row, Friday, The Prophet
>I try not to hate.
>I would be Captain Nemo, but only for a day or two.
>Yes.
>If I don't answer you promptly, it is only because I'm pretty busy today.
>AIM: lithophane robot

Polite sage for cancer.

>boss/boss/boss
>The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Ondaatje and then maybe some Nabokov or a UFO book
>Pale Fire, His Illegal Self, If on a winter's night a traveler..., The Plague, The Trial, Candide
>Wuthering Heights
>I think it'd be fun to be Leni.
>Yes, short stories mostly.
>I just made my morning cup o' tea. I'm cool with books, but talking about UFOs, tea and art is cool too.
>Let's just say hey first.

>>1052769
hey

>>1052771
Oh hey, that was fast.

>>1052774
yeah, i get that a lot

20/f/tx
Currently reading The Fellowship of the Ring
Big fan of The Wizard of Earthsea and a lot of fantasy. Shakespeare is fine too. My favorite is probably If on a winter's night a traveler.
I don't hate any books.
It'd be fairly uncomfortable being in a book, because I'd only ever do the actions portrayed in the book. For that reason I'd like to be Meursault from L'Etranger.
I write as little as possible.

My AIM is hochiminstrels

> 19/M/California
> East and West, by Harry Turtledove
> The Dresden Files
> The Stranger, by Camus. I just did not enjoy reading it. At all. Alas, anything by Toni Morrison.
> Sherlock Holmes. If only for shooting the Queen's name into the wall.
> Yes, I'm a paranormal writer.
> Absolutely bored today!
> AIM: netsujdude

>>1052796
EARTHSEA!
You made me nostalgia hard.

>>1052806
Hell yeah, Sparrowhawk

17, Male, Scotland.
Currently reading The Sign Of Four.
Favourite books: The Road, 1984, A Clockwork Orange
Have not yet read a book I absolutely hate.
Sherlock Holmes.
I don't write.
AIM: EruditeHipster

BUMP! Some good conversations here. Sup elitists?

Chatted with >>1052577 and >>1052675
and they're both extremely interesting conversationalists

Coming from /r9k/ I can't tell you how rare that is. Oh well kudos

>ASL
28/m/CA
>Currently reading
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra; The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai; La silla del aguila by Carlos Fuentes
>Favorite book(s)
La silla del aguila, Pedro Paramo, El llano en llamas, Cristobal nonato, Forbidden Colors, The Sound of Waves, The Sea of Fertility, The Confessions of a Mask, Dead Souls, Closely Watched Trains, Agape Agape, JR, The Master and Margarita, Envy, Mahogany, Como me hice monja, Don Quixote, Epepe, etc., etc.
>Book(s) you absolutely hate
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, or Tao Lin.
>Do you write?
Yes.
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content
I love classical music... a lot.
>AIM/MSN/Skype
AIM: herrproblembear

Why don't you copy and paste the OP so I don't have to scroll up and down to check what each line means?

I wouldn't want to talk to anyone other than

>>1052652
>>1052675
>>1052711
>>1052717
>>1053366

Well done guys. Everyone else doesn't have a brain.

>>1053366
you sound like my kind of bro.

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>>1053431
I thought this kind of thing was right up your alley...

>ASL
18/male/Scotland
>currently Reading
Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle
>Favorite book(s)
The Trial, Far From The Madding Crowd,
>Book(s) you absolutely hate
I probably wouldn't read any I hate. & more likely find them boring than hate. I suppose reading something like Atlas Shrugged in it's entirety would cause some anger.
>Literary character you wish you were
Me
>Do you write?
No
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content
I like Rock, Jazz & some Classical. I like technology.
>AIM/MSN/Skype
I'm not convinced to make one yet.

>>1053431
The irony is horrifying.

Bump for newfriends?

>aprita 231

>Currently reading
paradise lost
>Favorite book(s)
paradise lost
>Book(s) you absolutely hate
anything by johnathan saffron foer
>Literary character you wish you were
The narrator from Story of the Eye
>Do you write?
Yes.
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content ("something interesting about yourself"; "how you're feeling"; "what you think about Chuck Palahniuk")
Im into watersports
>AIM/MSN/Skype
will transmit if the interest is sufficient

>19, Male, Florida
>The Master & Margarita
>Favorite book(s): Invisible Man (the negro one!)
>I don't approve of Vonnegut
>Meursault
>Only for personal benefit, so I can sleep at night. I'm content to leave it at tumblr.
>I'm trying to read more, but distractions prove otherwise.
>I don't feel like I made this interesting enough to request contact information; I should probably work on that. I'll post something if you live in Florida however.

>>1053748
The premise of Paradise Lost is decent (although it's preachy/bigot as fuck) but the actual text is BORING

>>1053763
nah, only boring people think it is boring, i have to stop myself from crying everytime i read it. God is such a prick.

>>1053760
>Meursault

>>1053748
Would you be interested in some urinary sacrilege?

24/m/Spain
Buddha, Karen Armstrong
... The Trial, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Karamazov Brothers, Borges Fictions
Twiglight? More info: I didn't like Lolita
Maybe one of the main characters in Murakami novels?
I'm feeling lonely
BUMP

>>1053774
Personal joke, I simply couldn't pick one and it was a better answer than my first troll, "Tyler Durden".

I've never particularly identified with a character since middle school, when I read the sort of books where that's to be expected. I have favorite characters, sure, but none that I find myself wanting to be.

18 F IL
House of Leaves :|
Lolita, anything by Adam Rapp.
Well, Twilight. Also, 1984.
N/A
Yes
AIM: lawnndoe

>>1053785
Ha ha, good. Anyone who actually wants to be Meursault is missing the point. I just finished Camus' Sisyphus collection of essays. I actually enjoyed it more than The Stranger.

Anyways, yeah. That question was hard for me, too, since most of what I read has characters that end up worse off, and don't have that many admirable characteristics. I think the last character I really identified with was Pippi Longstocking, because she was ridiculed for being a ginger or something. I have no idea. I admire certain characters, like Adam Krug from Bend Sinister, but I wouldn't want to be him. As principled as he is, he's eventually broken.

>>1053778
always

>>1053813
As a redhead myself, I can sympathize, I suppose. I sort of skirt the line between ginger and what I consider myself though, and I'll cut anyone who argues otherwise.

You don't find any appeal in existentialism however?

>ASL
29/M/ Sunny Southern California (muggy as fuck!)

>Currently reading
Book 2 of Age of Misrule (it is quite meh)

>Favorite book(s)
Oooh, I hate this question but I'm going with American Gods today, could be different tomorrow.

>Book(s) you absolutely hate
The Children of Hurin. Ragequit and threw the fucker across the room.

>Literary character you wish you were
Harry Motherfucking Dresden (bring the hate fuckers)

>Do you write?
Yes, poorly and for my own enjoyment

>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content
I own a home and enjoy midpriced, yet highly recommended, red wines.

>AIM/MSN/Skype
Nope. But feel free to email me at joeshmoe11@live.com

>>1053827
Yeah, I only have certain aspects of the ginger, like freckles and the inability to tan. I don't have the Carrot Top hair, though. It's just kind of normal blonde hair with an orangeish tint to it.

I don't really see any appeal in the way Meursault goes through life. I hated how dispassionate he was as a character, but I like Camus' philosophy on living well despite the acknowledgment of the absurdity of living, working, creation, and so on. I'm definitely picking up his essays on rebellion soon, since that is an especially interesting topic to me.

22/Male/Phoenix
The Wizard Knight
Ender's Game, Lolita, The Godfather, The Count of Monte Cristo
The Scarlett Lette, To Kill a Mockingbird
Andrew Wiggins
A bit
Mechanical Engineering Student with a lot of hobbies
albertscoot@live.com

>>1052822
Ah, a fellow Scot that's actually younger than me!

What city?

>ASL
18/M/FL
>Currently reading
The master and margarita
The melancholy of resistance
>Favorite book(s)
1884, John dies at the end, house of leaves, The stranger, kafka by the shore, franz kafka
>Book(s) you absolutely hate
sci-fi books that aren't creative (just regular ideas and themes set in space)
>Literary character you wish you were
no clue
>Do you write?
not really.
>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content
kind of an artist.
>MSN
MIRROR.phone@yahoo.com

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>ASL
23 M TX
>Currently reading
Pale Blue Dot, Moby-Dick, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>Favorite Books
The Sound and The Fury, Blood Meridian, The Stranger, The Last Days of The Incas
>Books I hate
Cat's Cradle, Blindness
>Literary character I wish I was
I don't know.
>Do I write?
Not in the sense you are asking.
>Additional Info
I'm not a hipster.
>AIM/MSN/Skype
Nah, I just wanted to fill out this dumb survey.

>>1053998
meant 1984

>>1053998
>1884

That the prequel to 1984?

>ASL (if necessary; be a boss and skip it)
15 / F / NC

>Currently reading
all quiet on the western front

>Favorite book(s)
the brothers karamazov, tender is the night, the road, looking for alaska, nausea

>Book(s) you absolutely hate
oh dear

>Literary character you wish you were
sfdsgsdfs

>Do you write?
yes

>Additional masturbatory self-promotional content ("something interesting about yourself"; "how you're feeling"; "what you think about Chuck Palahniuk")
i have yet to read fight club.


>AIM/MSN/Skype
fuck off

>>1053856
I havent posted in this thread yet, but American Gods?
I love you. :)

1.17/M/N.Ireland
2.Trainspotting
3.just started reading again so I'd say trainspotting
4. none so far
5.can't think of anyone on the spot
6.screenplays, mostly unfinished
7.I'm a schizo
8. c.boylan@hotmail.co.uk