/lit/ - Literature

>>17191113
built for BBC

portrait of the artist

>>17191113
Theban trilogy.

>>17191113
american psycho

>>17191123
Same

>>17191113
Hank the Cowdog

Don Quixote
But now I'm not really in love with anything unless I'm high on opiates or opioids

>>17191113
The Iliad. Still my favorite book
>>17191117
mutt's law

>>17191113
The loner

Seeing that fucking guy make that horse go mad actually made me feel resentment for once. It was unique to say the least. Before this book, I could have easily binge read anything in short amounts of time. This is the only one who made me stop reading halfway through things for the first time.

>>17191113
Animal Farm and Lolita both played a role.

As a child. I was obsessed with Jack and the Beanstalk.

>>17191113
In highschool I was in love with a teacher that looked like this that taught AP euro history. Damn. It really has been 12 years since then.

>>17191117
I too believe she was born to work for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

>>17191113
The Day Of The Jackal

>>17191279
She's been waiting for you all this time, anon

>>17191113
Jude the Obscure

Thank you, Mom.

>>17191151
Based

https://youtu.be/6M4_Ommfvv0

>>17191113
Fantômas

The book that got me reading for the first time was the life and times of Scrooge McDuck
A comic book admittedly but it a really good one
The book that made me a pompous asshole was Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being

>>17191333
I ran into her a few years ago with her south american boyfriend. She didn't age very well. :(

>>17191113
the wind in the willows

The Stranger when i was 12

>>17191113
Honestly, I'm at the point where falling in love with random women that look attractive (like the one in your post) is kinda retarded. I need more than that to truly fall in love like realizing she has the same or similar life goals and interests as me. But for me, it's the Song of Songs and Love and Responsibility.

Childhood: idk I just gravitated to books and was good at reading for my age. I stopped reading in highschool
Adulthood: crime and punishment

>>17191559
jeez do you have to bring up your weird misfit social disorders in every thread anon

>>17191113
Yes, but they're not in English.

>>17191117
This woman exclusively dates white guys with beards and short hair

The count of montecristo

>>17191576
If anything, it's weird to fall in love with some random woman you see on the Internet or IRL without knowing anything about her other than that she's attractive. At least get to know her before you fall head over heels for her.

Embarrassingly enough it was Naomi by that one Nip

>>17191117
zoomers' law

>>17191113
I think is was one of Terry Pratchett's many books, can't remember which one.

>>17191117
based

>>17191113
The Idiot

>>17191589
Her last eight boyfriends have all been black.

>>17191113
I can't focus on your post. Too busy looking at her feet

>>17191113
Joan of arc kiddie version. Poor girl :_(

>>17191915
Yeah, now compare our two statements and consider which is based in reality

>>17191113
I've always enjoyed reading, so probably the Very Hungry Caterpillar. As a teen, probably some early Steinbeck.

>>17191113
Vian's L'ecume des jours was what really sparked it for me though i was already pretty hooked on lit before that, but it gave me a different view on what a book could be.

Jules Verne as a kid and Umberto Eco as a teenager

The earliest books I remember really loving were Diana Wynne Jones (probably Howl's Moving Castle or Dark Lord of Derkholm or something) and Catch-22. I like comedy books but I rarely find anything good. Most books billed as funny are terrible.

I read books before that too, but I don't remember particularly loving any of them. I just enjoyed reading in general.

But, Harry Potter isn't literature.

>>17191113
Probably this or Hatchet

The hound of the baskervilles when I was 12 or 13

Literature or /lit/?
An old history book. Even then I valued the nonfiction more than the fiction I was reading. But I was reading junky sf&f.
I was reading Thomas Paine when I first came to /lit/

>>17191356
Oh holy shit, you just reminded me of nostalgia that's been buried for ages.

Watership Down. Someone gave it to me thinking it was a cutesy book for kids about talking bunnies. Jesus Christ it was disturbing and wonderful.

Stardust by Gaiman

It made me cry for some reason, and not because it was bad or anything. The ending just really fucks me up.

the belgariad

>>17191113
Some Vonnegut short stories piqued my interest and then soon after Portrait of the Artist solidified my love for literature, way back in high school

Posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas / Epitaph of a Small Winner (different names for the same book, I think it depends on the editor/translator)

Before this I would only read mandatory books from school/work.

This mf is telling his story after death, and he plays with you. I learned not to trust first person narrators, but also to love the style. I know that a bunch of books came after with the same concept, but this one might be the best execution of it.

“TO THE WORM that first gnawed at the cold flesh of my cadaver I dedicate as a fond remembrance these posthumous memoirs,”

The Master and Margarita

>>17191113
I remember reading artemis fowl in kindergarten

Foundation trilogy in college

>>17191113
The Hobbit was a very important book for me growing up. I was given this absolutely beautiful hardback copy with a case for my Year 6 leaver's gift.

>>17191113
Crime and Punishment

This is the first story I remember getting especially attached to.

>>17191113
Narnia. My dad used to read to me from it every night before bed as a child.

>>17191113
Redwall series

Mossflower

>>17191113
The Count of Monte Cristo, I think I was 13 when I read it

>>17191356
Based thot of mom

>>17191113
Satantango got me on my first stretch of heavy reading when I was in my early teens

>>17191947
>consider which is based in reality
Mine, obviously.

the spire - william golding
catch 22
slaughterhouse five
catcher in the rye

one of those. i read them all around the same time. the first one was a book for class, the others my teacher loaned me personally.

>>17194060
>Mine, obviously

>>17194084
>wojack posting

>>17194108
Green posting

>>17191559
Why the fuck are you talking about love? Nobody is falling in love with the OP girl, they want to have sex with her. Any man who mixes his sexual desire with his primitive desire for a mommy/MPDG waifu gf to solve all his problems might as well just start watching sissy hypno and get it over with. That's a one way ticket to being a complete faggot.

Women are barely tolerable as companions and they're fun to fuck. Sometimes a rare person meets one actually worth loving passionately. Either way, they raise your kids. That's the whole story on them.

>>17194084
It's amazing how fast this soijack greentexting response thing died out, in hindsight I had some actual anxiety that it would lower 4chan discourse to a new level of shit but even 4chan seems to reject "hehe this is what u look like XD" as a valid post structure.

>>17194149
Women are incredible to be close to, you're just mad they’re hard to keep. Hookup sex is awful by the way

I hate reading i really have to force my self to do it. I enjoy it though but i'm retarded sadly!

>>17194162
is this the same person who posted Built for BBC in a thread about literature?

>>17194193
No, I don't really get that thing.

>>17194179
What? They're not hard to keep, they're far easier to get initially than they are to keep. Women's biggest weakness is that for all their difficulty of acquisition, if they slip up and in a moment of weakness end up dating a loser, they'll stick with him for fucking years while he does shit that would have been an immediate red flag/dealbreaker in the early dating phases. They attach too easily.

Hookup sex is awful, I said women are fun to fuck. Eating candy is also fun but not the meaning of life and often mediocre or bad for you. Just because you see someone saying something that isn't glowing positive about women, don't be so quick to rush to their defense. You're seeing strawmen.

>>17194228
>they're far easier to get initially than they are to keep.
shit I said opposite of what I meant. Women are harder to get than to keep. Women will stay with a loser but have high standards initially. Still not that high these days, more skewed.

>>17193475
that's nice.

The Phantom Tollbooth in 4th Grade, first real book I ever read, it was followed up with Hatchet, which solidified the hold on me for reading. Been an avid reader ever since.

>>17191113
Yes, some retarded fantasy book about Mages and Dragons written in Spanish. Sometimes I wish I could get as invested into reading as I was when I was like 10

>>17194685
Here

>>17191559
alpha was a qt anon patrician taste

>>17191559
>I'm at the point where falling in love with random women that look attractive (like the one in your post) is kinda retarded
It’s called being out of the habit of romance

Can't remember earliest books well but I liked the Famous five desu

>>17191113
As a kid, robert cormier and all his books about youths and school and death and weird sex. After that read a lot of s. king. Then found this place and read infinite jest and a few of the other lit core memes.

>>17191113
Percy Jackson

>>17192173
Since the thread is kinda dead and I'm not around here much. Why do people get so mad at you?

>>17194077
a therapist i saw twice reommended galapagos by vonnegut. I had read slaugherhouse years before but kinda forgot he wrote other shit and really enjoyed it

>>17191232

Kafka on the Shore, Murakami is a pretty good entryway into a more serious reader's journey.

>>17191113
The Myth of Sisyphus

she is so cute, so clearly inexperienced and childlike and vulnerable in that, and yet inherently motherly as a teacher, and in her fertility Goddess form

>>17194994
Did you get into the Greeks through him?

>>17191356
>>17192203
>>17193772
I wouldn't be here if my mom had not fostered a love of reading in me.

>>17193619
Based Redwall chad

>>17191113

one hundred years of solitude

I was really into science fiction throughout middle school but it was reading Norwegian Wood at 15 or 16 that really sparked my love of literature and desire to expand my horizons beyond genre lit.

>>17194977
mutt´s law

>>17195044
The first one was the best.

Dangerous Dan

This right here. I must have read it at least a dozen times. The sequels sucked tho cause all the characters from the first book died. Fucking insane book tho, so many poop jokes.

>>17194228
it’s the exact opposite. You sound dumb

>>17191113

Fictional was Das Kapital

Sorry, everyone has the right to be dumb once in lifetime

Ender's Game

>>17194926
This or that or a combination.
I have a name, messes with their self imposed taboo.
I am a woman, a lesbian, an anarchist, an atheist, and I don’t think transgenderism is a real thing.
They have problems and I guess my trying to help is useless.

>>17192438

Brás Cubas, giant from Assis, my favorite too

>>17195248
Share your experiences then. Just don't waste my time with some bullshit about how anyone can get laid thanks to dating apps. There is actual data showing that women are hyperselective on those.

I've had four long term relationships and I was a terrible boyfriend to all of them but they stuck around forever. Women are dumb.

unironically... The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
It was the first book that really opened my eyes to how much I didn't know and the joy of discovery. Regardless of what you think of his hypothesis, it's excellence in combing through ancient history is fascinating, especially as a whippersnapper...it was my first exposure to Greek epics and ancient history in general. It's the book that kicked off my journey of being interested in things in general.

>>17194926
She never posts anything on topic or contributes to discussion, she is only interested in "being seen as" her persona (which is totally uninteresting), so every post she has is dripping with "Yes, I've arrived, everyone make way! It's what you've all been waiting for!" But she has the shallowest interest in books so she never says anything, she just drops oblique recommendations like she'll go into a thread about patriotism in poetry and recommend some pop psych book about coming to terms with grief she read this year and say "stop mourning for a country you never had. people are not countries."

She combines being totally boring bland and noncontributing with being stuckup and self-obsessed, in a way that is truly impenetrable to criticism.

She also knows that any thread she enters devolves into a discussion of her and with her because everyone hates her. She doesn't do anything to dissuade this and routinely kills threads by making 75% of the replies replies to her about her boring life or ironic waifu shitposting directed at her. She will kill honest to goodness good threads with this. She also sometimes post drunk or something because she gets sloppy and saucy and is clearly using the hate she gets as a form of parasocializing. Above all though it's the contentlessness combined with the smugness. She has never made a good post, maybe ever. All of her posts subtly are about her, about being seen posting them. She sucks.

>>17195415
I deny the charges.
> pop psych
You must mean that one about making friends. I post that for the intermittent threads where the OP is lost and lonely. Better than recing him Goonan or Schopenhauer or telling him to kys.
You’re probably the one telling him to kys

>>17195415
>>17195373
Thanks for the two sides buddies. Now don't fullfill the prophecy of derailing the thread

>>17191113
Anything by Bukowsky in my early years

thats a good question. i read crime and punishment when i was young and that really interested me.
but come to think of it, Lemony snickets series of unfortunate events was earlier. it was incredible to read when i was a boy. this image brings up so many feelings. i knew the lemony snicket stuff was made up but a part of me believed it was real. or wanted to anyways.

>>17191113
The works of Lemony Snicket.

>>17191113
Strangulation Romanticist

>>17191113
She’s come undone, literally my fucking life of self-loathing and destruction

>>17196411
>i knew the lemony snicket stuff was made up but a part of me believed it was real. or wanted to anyways.
same dude. That series was a really wild ride.

Cirque du Freak is another 13 book series that comes to mind. Binged that shit in middle school and found it to be very agreeable

>>17191117
He's right, you know.

>>17191113
the Lord of the Rings