/lit/ - Literature

Location: Boston, MA
Age: 18
Gender: M
Currently Reading: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Favourite book/s: Catch-22, The Rum Diary
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anybody. I are ronery.
Any additional information: Bring drugs.

Age: 19
Gender: m
Currently Reading: godel escher bach
Favourite book/s: moby dick, ulysses, fante's books
Any additional information: im a math major

Location: Victoria, BC
Age: 23
Gender: M
Currently Reading: Nothing - studying for last exam.
Favourite book/s: Very eclectic taste - almost anything
Type of person you're interested in meeting: No hipsters / people that suck
Any additional information: Drugs are always good.

>>1371462

If there is no one 23 and older that replies to this board, I`m fucking leaving forever

>>1371476
I'll bite; I am 24.
M
Gravity's Rainbow
Hemingway

>>1371476
please do

so who is going to be the first to proclaim those sacred words, "sausage festival"

>>1371493
Girls don`t want to meet up with the idiot creeps on here.

I include myself in there, yes.
We`d meet up to hang out and all the guys would crowd around the one or two girls, trying to argue about their shitty taste in books, to win the girl over and hopefully get laid. To lay their unused penis into a fully-function real organ of love.

You fucking creeps.

>>1371502
man you just got it it all figured out, and at age 23! wow, im impressed

really, i am

Location: Cape Cod
Age: 21
Gender: F
Currently Reading: Textbooks
Favourite book/s: Titus Groan, Lud-in-the-Mist, The Name of the Wind, and Pride and Prejudice (Oh, Mr. Darcy~)
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone that isn't rude. People who like curly hair.
Any additional information: I can't wait for The Wise Man's Fear next year!

>>1371510

Austen.
>.<

>>1371502
i'm celibate, self-aware enough to know the limit of taste & am not attracted to ugly girls, physically or mentally.

*u mad?

>>1371518
you sound like a fuckin bore
hanging out with you would be like hanging out with the pope when Fitzgerald is hosting a raging party

Location: Aberdeen, UK
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Currently Reading: Solaris
Favourite book/s: I'm partial to the works of Kafka and Oscar Wilde
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone :)

>>1371527
if i come to the UK, i'ma find youuu.

Age: 17
Gender: M
Currently Reading: Steven Englund's biography on Napoleon, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford, Dubliners by James Joyce, and Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks.
Favorite book(s): The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev

>>1371534
Eh, thanks. Any particular reason?

>>1371524
oh wait i didnt see the
>I include myself in there, yes.
now i feel embarrassed for counting myself amongst the baited. whateverz.

im not boring you just need drugs & alcohol to have fun unlike me & u jelly.

>>1371535
I'm so yung and col i read 5 books at onece XD!!

>>1371544
sounds like you're jealous. im reading 9 books atm

huh waw

>>1371544
A teacher lent me the biography on Napoleon. It's expensive, so I want to finish it and return it to him soon. I'm jumping throughout Dubliners as I read The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Seeing Voices and The Undercover Economist are pretty broken up, so they lend themselves nicely to periodic reading.

>>1371551
How do you spread your attention? Also, how do you make sure you finish everything in a timely fashion? I imagine myself constantly plowing through the easy/interesting ones and never coming back to the books that require a bit more attention.

>>1371539
You sound like you'd make my heart tingle

Location: Norn Iron
Age: 22
Gender: M for MALEVOLENT PHANTOM
Currently Reading: Olympos - Dan Simmons
Favourite book/s: Forever War - Joe Haldeman, The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien, Puckoon - Spike Milligan, & c.
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Yourself.

>>1371527

Your trip reminded me of "Sing It Back". I've not heard that song in actual YEARS. Good times.

>>1371572
I've never actually listened to the band, I took it from A Clockwork Orange.

>>1371574
Whoops, forgot to trip.

>>1371567
Why thank you, I'm sure I would.
Have you answered the survey?

>>1371574

Also a good option.

>>1371582
What survey?

Location: Glasgow, UK
Age: 18
Gender: M
Currently Reading: Return of the Native, pretty boring at times but probs better than Madding Crowd.
Favorite book(s): The Trial, Amerika, Ada or Ador, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights.
Type of person you're interested in meeting: People that don't hate on my style on here.
Any additional information: I'm nicer irl than i am on here.

>>1371589
The thread survey thing...

>>1371597
OH. Yeah.

But now I will disappear into the mist and you will have no idea which one I am or if we could've been perfect together.

doooodDOooODOOodooDOoodo

>>1371601
>>1371597

I am neither of these people but I am now irritated beyond belief.

I HATE MYSTERIES.

THIS WILL KEEP ME AWAKE TONIGHT.

Australia
18
Male
French Lieutenant's Woman
The Glass Bead Game (Majister Ludi)
Someone attractive
I'm a pretty cool guy

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Age: 23
Gender:
Currently Reading: Jude the Obscure (I've had it since high school, never read it.)
Favourite book/s: Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Chill dudes.
Any additional information: I'm fat.

>>1371607
Haha, I say that >>1371601 should just give in and tell us :)

>mfw i'm the only glasgowfag here all the time & all the rest hate me/want to punch me if they see me irl

Can everyone just skip all the boring shit and post the following information from now on:

City: Calgary, AB
Gender: M
Age: 22
Weight: 217lbs
Height: 6'0"

>>1371510

I've had a big collection of Gormenghast sitting on my shelf for like a year. Never got much farther than the end of Titus Groan. Liked what I read but...eh. Is the rest worth it?

Rereading Underworld by Don Delillo again. Greatest American novel ever, imo.

>>1371630
I'm Aberdeen, I was surprised to find another Scot on here.

>>1371631
>>You must be looking for R9K

Quite a few scotsmen in this thread.
Maybe 2 isn't that many, but in /lit/, well that is interesting.

Location: London UK
Age: 19
Gender: M
Currently Reading: The Selfish Gene
Favourite book/s: Lolita, 1984
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Not particularly interested in meeting anyone to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd be able to cope.
Any additional information: I'm one of those super cool kids in a band, only I'm not cool and the band is shit.

>>1371642

I'm from Northern Ireland. It's always just me.

>>1371647

Yeah, I'm not particularly interested in meeting you either. You sound like a huge faggot.

BAD NEWS

YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE ALONE

... 8D

>>1371651
I can say at the very least that my posts aren't misleading.

>>1371652
I live with my girlfriend, who I'm set to marry in the next few years. She's as big a lit nerd as me and hates feminism. She cooks and cleans, too.

>>1371647
there's like 14 or more by the glasgow meetup guy's count.

>>1371642
are you still snowed-in up there :D

one of my old friends who's like 20 stays in a farm up there.

>>1371656

"internet you don't even know my girlfriend is so hawt, we have sex, liek, four times A DAY"

>>1371657
What, you guys have meet ups? I never knew about that.

As for snow, there was a load of it a few weeks ago, just got rid of it and now it's back. Sigh.

>>1371656
Any woman who actively works against having the same rights as men is a deranged lunatic faggot.

>>1371673
Feminism =/= equality.

Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Age:17
Gender: Female
Currently Reading: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Favourite book/s: To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, Metamorphosis by Kafka
Type of person you're interested in meeting: People that don't cheat on you or betray your trust.....
Any additional information: I don't go for nights out in Glasgow in case I see my old group of friends. But I generally wouldn't mind hanging out apart from that but not large crowds :-)

I am just zis guy, y'know?

inb4 that tybrax son of a bitch

>>1371681
Uh... that's exactly what feminism is about.

>>1371681
The general definition of 'feminism' is about believing in the equality of women.


However, these days, every fucking thing that happens is against women or minorities or someone is getting sidelined that isn't a white male because fuckkkkk

WHY MUST THE MAJORITY ADHERE TO THE MINORITY

>>1371686
>>>/stormfront/

>>1371652

>8D

no problem, better than living with someone that types like a retarded

>>1371684
Location: ----, Ireland
Age: 20-24
Gender: M
Currently Reading: boring contemporary white/male apologist novels/textbooks for class
Favourite book/s: The ones which hold texts
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Someone to bully irl
Any additional information: I fap to elves (pic-related)

hey d&e post a pic so i can include it next time ;)

Location: NYC
Age: 22
Gender:
Currently Reading: The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Favourite book/s: The French Lieutenant's Woman, Master and Margarita
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Person who won't start a 'Who's read more classics who who' pissing match.

>ctrl + f: Gender: female
>none in Canada
>decide to troll ctrl + effers
>paste Gender: female tons

Gender: Female
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>>1371696

>white male apologists
that was a nice touch thaibricks you should be proud

>>1371683
>>1371683
you should meet up with ty

>location
New Jersey

>Age:
Under

>Gender:
Male

>Currently reading:
True Grit by Charles Portis

>Favourite book/s:
Treasure Island, Lord of the Rings, the Neverending Story, Harry Potter

>Type of person you're interested in meeting:
A dragon.

>additional info:
I just started a thread here about female protagonists, post in it D:<

Location: United of Kingdom of Kingston Iceland
Age: 19
Gender: One small step for Man
Currently Reading: To Kill A Mockingbird
Favourite book/s: Karlogy/Happyslapped By A Jellyfish
Type of person you're interested in meeting: I'm not
Any additional information: Fuck you and.. fuck her too.

>>1371704
I'm interested in meeting anyone :)

Location: Peterborough/Liverpool - Uni.
Age: 22
Gender: M
Currently Reading: The Handmaid's Tale
Favourite book/s: Wilde, Woolf, Waugh, The Modernists.
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Interesting people.

>>1371657
Actually we're up to 22 now! a surprisingly large amount of Scottish people like /lit/ it would seem.

Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Currently Reading: The Plague by Albert Camus
Favourite book/s: Don Quixote by Cervantes
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone! I enjoy meeting new people and having interesting discussions.
Any additional information: I am the guy who has been hosting the Glasgow meet ups for the last couple months, We've had quite a good turn out too!

My email/msn is Arodnap@hotmail.co.uk should any of you wish to get in touch.

>>1371733
have you seen that ginger guy recently? does he still want to kill/harm me or was he kidding :|

>>1371704
Is he a tripfag on this board?

>>1371753
i'll let him come to you

>>1371748
Nope, and you're getting them confused, the ginger guy was the first person to come to the meet ups, he doesn't really care about you one way or the other as far as I know. The guy who hates you just randomly saw us when you showed up at the meet up and said in a thread that he wished he had hit you.

I have to say that in general most of the people who have came to the meet ups didn't mind you at all, there was even one girl who was disappointed you didn't show up for it. She thinks your rather sad and wants to give you a hug and cheer you up.

>>1371683
You should come to one of the Glasgow meet ups if you haven't already, the guy said the next one is soon.

>>1371733
God-dude! when is the next lit-meet up going to be? I've been looking forward to it since the last one! you are oddly easy to talk to.

aaaa i feel kind of bad for assuming that now and for mixing them up.

i should probably start smoking weed or something.

>>1371699
Location: Ontario
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Currently Reading: Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
Favourite Books: The French Lieutenant's Woman, Jude the Obscure, Pudd'nhead Wilson, The Sound and the Fury (I really like American Literature)
Type of person you are interested in meeting: Anyone who can carry on a good conversation and anyone who prefers to stay in to read instead of going to the bars.

>>1371771
Do you still stay in and fuck?

What's your weight in pounds?

If anyone in Toronto area wants to get high gimme a ding.

>>1371797

Haha! Currently, no...

And I weigh 115lbs.

>>1371768
Awww don't beat yourself up about it they were both posting anonymously and at the same time so it would have been easy to confuse one's messages for another's.

>>1371813
Would you be interested in fucking?
Got some pictures?

>>1371820
No. Does that line usually work on women?

How about you post your picture first?

>>1371829
>ask d&e to post pics

>ohboyherewego.jpg

>>1371829
Only if you promise you're not the girl holding the orange peels in that other thread.

>>1371832
d&e isnt from canada & that isn't his trip.

get with it anon.

>>1371765
I'm thinking this Wednesday, I'm trying to think of a warm place to meet at though as I don't want to spend 3 hours sitting in front of the GoMA in this weather, any ideas?

>>1371683
You should come to the meet up! it's in Glasgow and a good time is always had by all.

Hell even Ty had fun when he came.

At least I think he did.

>>1371834

I promise I am not the girl holding orange peels. Don't post your picture, it will upset someone else. >>1371832
And to be honest, I'm a coward and won't send/post my pictures, either.

>>1371852
We will never be together.... :(

>>1371851
no i did but i might not have seemed it because i felt guilty for boring you & really nervous. but i did talk more than i usually do because you're a really good conversationalist which was good :)

Location: New Zealand
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Currently Reading: Kafka on the Shore; Year of the Flood
Favourite Books: Great Gatsby, Pale Fire, Atonement
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Wait, this is serious? All right then, a person I can discuss books with in a hipsterish setting. Gaudy.

Location: Texas
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Currently Reading: Nine Stories by JD Salinger, Five Women Who Loved Love by Ihara Saikaku, The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick
Favourite book/s: The Last Unicorn, A Clockwork Orange, The Master of Go, Hitchhiker's Guide
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone who loves books and will talk with me about them! :D Especially if you're into world literature.

>>1371863
oh Jesus, the things I want to do to you...

i thought you died tybrax.

>>1371869
im just so tricky to work out. you should ask brownbear.

>>1371858
D'awww thanks Ty!
And I've told you I wasn't bored at all! you were a little nervous about meeting a stranger from the internet but you were very pleasant to talk to!
I'm just glad I didn't bore you with my chatter.

Location: San Francisco, CA
Age: 22
Gender: M
Currently Reading: Don Quixote, Absalom, Absalom!
Favourite book/s: Catch-22, Brothers Karamazov
Type of person you're interested in meeting: non-fucktards
Any additional information: (favorite quote) "My cat's breath smells like catfood." - Ralph Wiggum

>>1371863
Where in Texas?

Location: Austin/San Antonio area.
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Currently reading: Footfall by Niven/Pournelle, A People's History of the United States
Favorite books: Jurgen: A Comedy Of Justice, Hitchhiker's Guide, Book of Skulls, Invisible Man
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Someone who can carry on a conversation and doesn't take themselves too seriously.

>>1371876
My dude. Where in San Francisco are you at?

>>1371888
I'm up in east Texas (Tyler), so we're about 5 hours away.

>>1371908
on the peninsula actually, in millbrae. you live around these parts?

>>1371918
Yeah, I grew up in San Francisco (Sunset District) and I'm back in town while college is on break (20 yr old male here)

Age: 17
Gender: F
Currently Reading: (About to start) The Uses of Enchantment
Favorite books: David Copperfield, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Pillars of the Earth, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Hobbit, Dune, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Neverending Story, The Things They Carried, IT
Type of person: I'm too shy to want to meet anyone, really...

Location: Central Connecticut
Age:19
Gender:Male
Currently Reading: Slaughter House 5
Favourite book/s: The Magician(Maugham), Don Quixote, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Choke
Type of person you're interested in meeting:Anyone
Any additional information: I play bass and I'm going to start college next year after a break.

>>1371925
nice bro, I just graduated and have been traveling around, but I just took the LSAT and I'm probably going to be here for a while. Where are you going to school?

>>1371974
University of Chicago. It's cool, but it's nice to be back, you know what I mean?

>>1371798
I'm in toronto

>>1371978
yeah I feel you man, at the end of my travels I was kinda done, and just wanted to wash in my own shower, sleep in my own bed, and shit in my own toilet. Not too happy about this rain though, apparently girls melt in the rain and none go out. =/

Location: Atlanta, GA
Age: 21
Gender: M
Currently Reading: Not sure yet, suggestions?
Favourite book/s: Breakfast Of Champions, Naked Lunch, Choke, anything by Ray Bradbury or Franz Kafka
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone interested in talking about Gravity's Rainbow or Naked Lunch. I'm not sure what I think about these novels, so I'd like to chat with someone about it.
Any additional information: Only around until mid January.

Location: Norway
Age: 18
Gender: M
Currently Reading: The Diary of a Young Girl
Favourite book/s: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Hunger, Jonas.

Location: Manchester, England
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Currently Reading: The God Delusion/ Metamorphosis and other stories
Favourite book/s: Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust, Harold Pinter - The Homecoming
Type of person you're interested in meeting: anyone and everyone!
Any additional information: everyone from /lit/ is invited to this chatroom we set up, http://tinychat DOT com/litclub

Sweden
yes
yes
yes
yes

Location: British Columbia, Canada
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Currently Reading: Europe's backyard war: The Balkan war
Favourite book/s: Enders game/ God Emperor of dune/ the night land
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Bookish, conscientious types
Any additional information: /lit/ is the only board I trust with contact info anymore. I'm really not interested in dealing with drug users

>>1372068
\Location: British Columbia, Canada, Vernon
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Currently Reading: The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, soon to be Heart of Darkness(college)
Favourite book/s: Dune. History stuff, mostly.The Conquest of Gaul
Type of person you're interested in meeting: People to talk about literature to, and people who can reccomend me amazing lit in turn
Any additional information: eh

Location: Amherst, MA
Age: 21
Gender: M
Currently Reading: [Gargantua, Pantagruel, Les essais], [Northanger Abbey, Belinda, Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend], [Philippics II]
Favourite book/s: A Confederacy of Dunces
Type of person you're interested in meeting: language or literature major, undergraduate, male
Any additional information:

Location: South Texas
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Currently Reading: Nothing, at the moment.
Favourite book/s: Anything by Vonnegut.
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone, I guess. As long as you aren't super pretentious/elitist when it comes to literature, it's all good.
Any additional information: herp

>>1372093
Bah, I'm on Vancouver island

>>1372139

I'm moving to Vancouver in the summer.

>implying you will still be there.

Location: Canada
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Currently Reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, Drake's Comprehensive compendium of Dragonology
Favourite book/s: If I typed all of them I would run out of space.
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone who is not interested in a sexual relationship.

Location: Pensacola Florida
Age: 20
Gender: M
Currently Reading: Various Wikileaks Cables, The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis
Favourite book/s: Don Quixote, Heart of a Dog
Type of person you're interested in meeting: no linguist majors, they really are the worst
Any additional information: Political Science major

>>1372180

I am, oddly enough, trying to find a platonic relationship. Strictly platonic.

>⌘+F
>Kentucky
>Nothing

Location: Kentucky, US

Age: 21

Gender: F

Currently Reading: The Beautiful and the Damned, Essays by George Orwell, UHGTTG, and Outlander (hehe)

Favourite book/s: The Jungle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Brave New World

Type of person you're interested in meeting: someone to talk about trashy historical fiction with (think Phillipa Gregory), someone to talk about dystopian novels with, and maybe even someone to read along with

Any additional information: I have a bad habit of buying too many books, and therefore have a completely filled shelf full of books I've yet to read..Also, none of my friends read for leisure, so it'd be nice to meet someone who does :)

>>1372185
Really? Post e-mail.

Location: Long Island
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Currently Reading: Mein Kampf
Favorite book/s: Tolkien's
Type of person you are interested in meeting: none
Any additional information: This is my first visit to /lit/. This thread was at the top of page 0

>>1371771

relocate to Manitoba and marry me, ok?

>>1372192

harveyvdarski@gmail.com

I will require you to somehow verify that you're you. No meetups with suprise guys.

Actually I wouldn't care but it would defeat the purpose of having a platonic relationship with a girl.

>>1372211
added you on msn.

>>1372235

Huh, that email doesn't have an msn account. Send me a message, and I'll send you one that does. I have three emails.

Location: San Diego, California
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Currently Reading: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Favourite book: The Stranger by Albert Camus
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Anyone, really, as long as they don't smoke cigarettes
Any additional information: I love strong black coffee

>>1372248

message as in email

>>1372248
Fair enough. E-mail sent.

>>1371572

Ah a fellow Northern Irelander!

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Age: 22
Gender: M
Currently Reading: Bleak House by Dickens & Wagner on Music and Drama
Favourite book/s: Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, 19th century Russian literature in general. 19th century German philosophy. For fun I like the Flashman novels and the novels of Irvine Welsh.
Type of person you're interested in meeting: I doubt there is anyone from my country...
Any additional information: Nope!

>>1372206

I would love to move to Manitoba. I just have to finish library school first. I'm a big nerd and I love "prairie realism" in literature and ever since I got into that, I've wanted to move to Manitoba or Saskatchewan for a little while. How is the job market, especially for a librarian/information professional?

Marriage...we'll have to discuss that a little more!

Location: Charlotte, NC
Age:24
Gender:m
Currently Reading:The Philokalia & Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms
Favourite book/s:I dislike everything
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Sincere Absurdists
Any additional information:

>Location:
Ontario
>Age:
20
>Gender:
Male
>Currently Reading:
The Baroque Cycle
>Favourite book/s:
Infinite Jest, Red Mars
>Type of person you're interested in meeting:
Bitches who want to fuck and/or regular people who want to talk.
>Any additional information:
I am more attractive, more intelligent, and generally more awesome than everyone else in this thread.

>>1371866
let me guess: talk about books with her?-.-

>>1372879

more like
>talk about boobs with her

am I right or am I right?

Hey, other Norn irishy people
>>1372736
Forever War and The Third Policeman are among my favourites too. Haven't read any Simmons but i've heard good things

>>1371572
Sweet, I quite like Irvine Welsh myself.

Are either of you guys Dain? Either way, try and get to Cornucopia in the Queens SU in January, plenty of very booky people around, you'll fit right in.

Location: Belfast, NI
Age: 28
Gender:m
Currently Reading:Bug Jack Baron by Norman Spinrad
Favourite book/s: Watchmen, The Dispossessed, Flat Earth News, The Shock Doctrine
Type of person you're interested in meeting: Down for whoever.
Any additional information: Drugs are always good