/lit/ - Literature

25
NEET
Call of the Crocodile
The Greeks
Fine

Pretty old
busy
4chan
O livro do 4chan
Ambivalent

>>20512041
Oldest here
About ready to walk
The next one
Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitarily Walker
Better than most you kids

Bump for interest

>>20512041
22
NEET
American Psycho
Crime and Punishment
Not bad

>27
>commercial real estate analyst
>heart of darkness
>master and margarita
>dry spell timer is like 16 months, getting on dating apps soon

33
Commercial airline
Goin' Up and Lookin' Down
A Court of Silver Flames
Wings

>>20512041
19
Military
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
Doing better than usual

>>20512041
21
Student
Either/Or
At the Existentialist Café
Depressed

28
Schizo
Memoirs of Hadrian
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Schizo

>20
>Unemployed (travelling)
>The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
>Blood Meridian
>Feeling fantastic

22
grad student
white noise
motorman
so/so

>>20512041
27
Co-owner of a [xxxx] manufacturing company
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
The Plague - Camus
Terribly

>31
>Liquor Consultant
>Ulysses by James Joyce
>The Sweetshop Owner by Graham Swift
>Sick as a dog with covid

>>20512041
>26
>writer
>The Master and Margarita
>The Rape of the Mind (Meerloo)
>shoot me

>>20512041
21
NEET
White noise
An essay collection by lester bangs
Best I've been for over a year. Not suicidal at all.

>>20512041
28
Random wagie job that pays 17/hr
Don Quixote
In The Buddha’s Words and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Waiting to hear if I pass an FBI background check for a job I’ve been offered, hoping that I don’t get denied my best shot at fixing my life because of some dumb online jokes

>18
>Student
>War and Peace
>Full of resentfulness

>>20512041

>20
>student at Uni
>James Joyce - Ulysses
>Hamsun - Pan; Salinger - Catcher In The Rye (re-read)
>I genuinely can't tell. There's something with me, but I can't understand how I wanna change, which direction to take, which path I should follow. I'm thinking of changing things around me, my surroundings: it is only natural to grow out of relationships and contexts, even when they you've found yourself in them for so long, they feel like they're part of your very identity, at this point; but that's exactly the problem: you think they are so pivital, so important, so essential to you, you are afraid of leaving them behind, putting an end to them, move on. And that's the predicament I find myself in. It is only natural for you to change and alienate people around you, for you've changed and they won't be able to recognize you. But what if I'm chaning for the worse? Or maybe, by trying to stay true to my "former self" in order to preserve those thing and people so important to me, I will stagnate and, eventually, change for the worse anyway. I don't want to think about it too much, too.

>>20512041
27
NEET
Silmarillion
Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins. I've also been reading a lot of secondary lit and I think I now have a much better understanding of inscape & instress
Fine

>>20513602
fuck, this shit is full of typos.

>>20512041
40
unemployed
Concept of the political
Menace of the Herd
Decent, roommate's mom died and the house is a mess but decent. Also its my birthday.

30
Barista
The Recognitions
Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories
1 Year Sober Today !

>>20512041
18
student (near future neet)
too hard to pick desu
republic-plato
pic related

>>20513645
congratulations, anon!

>>20513644
happy birthday anon, sorry for your loss

>28
>at a museum
>Faust
>Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod
>I have found hope, made plans, and need conviction.

>>20513663
Thanks, Fren

26
NEET, but starting work next week again after forced hospitalisation
crime and punishment
currently reading the bell jar after putting it off for a long time, really frustrating piece of work
getting better

>>20512766
How old. I'm 40..

>age
22
>occupation
Civil Servant
>current read
The Western Esoteric Traditions by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
>how you're holding up
better than u

>>20513817
>the bell jar
Great book. Not sure I see how it's frustrating at all desu.

>>20512041
35
Quit my “successful” but boring and stupid job at Forbes last week; currently unemployed
Lolita
The Discomfort of Evening
I’m doing well, uncommonly for me

>>20513644
Happy birthday bro

>>20512041
31
Custodian/janitor
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Recently continued The Draco Tavern and started A Wizard of Earthsea
I'd probably be better off dead. Nothing good ever happens to me... things are blatantly obvious to me that things will never truly improve in my life ever again.

>>20514128
Do you do it for free?

>>20514220
No. Not a "moderator" an actual, irl cleaner of shit and fuck no I don't do it for free.

>>20512041
There was no internet when I was in high school.
I am unemployed but I have resources.
The Hunter, Richard Stark
Slave Girls On A Death Moon (as I write it)
I'm completely hung up on this small element of my novel and can't figure out where and how to work it in, and it's slowly driving me crazy.

26
I repair welding equipment.
The Third Policeman
Mere Christianity
Getting married in October, so I'm glad about that.

26
imagine working
Frankenstein
Amusing Ourselves to Death
the end draws nearer

>>20512041
21

Telecomms student, next semester and next year's laboral practice are my last, then I get my technical degree, thinking of doing 2 more years to become a full engineer.

One hundred years of solitude.

Nicomachean Ethics

I'm doing fine so far but feel on the verge of a psychotic episode. For years I've ignored feelings of dread thinking they'd just go away at some point but now it's pretty much a usual thing. The good part is this doesn't distract me from my regular life, I usually dedicate one day to indulging in my emotions and then they're flattened out for a week or so and go back to my normal life. Lifting, working, studying.

>>20513644
Happy birthday boomy. Hope you live many more.

>>20513645
Congrats.

>>20512041
>22
>unemployed (trying to join military)
>Heart of Darkness (changes a lot)
>A Wild Sheep Chase, Contentment and Suffering
>Generally anxious but okay

>>20512041
19
NEET
The Iliad
Beowulf
Feeling pretty whitepilled overall, my future is looking not as barren anymore.

30 year old boomer
cybersecurity
It's a toss up between Madame Bovary, and Brat'ya Karamazovy
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Solider, The Legend
Filled with unfathomable nihilism/doomerism and cynical self-satisfaction about how right I am about the world as all my biggest predictions come to fruition

>26
>I hate working, so I try everything in my power to avoid it and just live off any inheritance I come across
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Warlock by Oakley Hall
>okay

>39
>house hubby
>The Fuck-Up
>this gay ass thread
>P.good

112
Underwater welder
Garfield comics
4chan
My great-grandson just had his bar mitzvah

>21
>tomorrow's the last exam for my psychology degree, gonna get a master's after that
>Might is Right
>Manusmriti
>I've been pretty lonely recently since college is over and I have nothing to do

>>20514657
>>my psychology degree, gonna get a master's after that
Lol
>I earned a degree in Embarrassing Pseudoscience from the University of Thinking, nice to meet you
May as well be chasing a potions degree from Hogwarts. Congratulations on your accomplishments.

>>20512041
>22
>uni student
>farewell to arms
>runaway horses by Mishima
>been better, been worse

>>20514680
look man the target demographic for therapists is always rich young whores and I wanna rip off and push them towards suicide, as many as I can. Also its literally free money, you just pretend to listen, do an inkblot test here and there and then send them to a psychiatrist for ssris.

>>20512041
>age
26
>occupation
Wfh data admin
>favorite book
Ham on Rye
>current read
The Stranger
>how you're holding up
Eh I'm okay. Sort of conflicted about whether to stop being such a recluse and go out more but I'm too comfy how I am.

>>20514703
>is going for it because it's bullshit, to exploit that fact
Fuck. My face is lousy with egg. I'm scrambled and poached, both. Apologies. I'll stfu now.

>>20514703
>and I wanna rip off and push them towards suicide

>>20514729
Hhaha lmaaaoooooooo the chuds won't like this one!

>>20514703
Stunning lack of self-awareness

>>20512041
25
NEET
Call of the Crocodile
The Greeks
Fine

26
Phd student
The Man without qualities
Group portrait with lady
I feel blessed

25
NEET
Call of the Crocodile
The Greeks
Fine

>>20513602
don’t know why this spoke to me so much but I really enjoyed reading your post anon. Change and uncertainty are essential parts of life. Especially if you’re 20. Go live, wrong choices and regrets are just as necessary and useful in life as ‘right’ choices.

>>20512041
20
I work in a lingerie shop
Gormenghast
Our Lady in Darkness
you tell me

>>20515277
Oh and
25
Getting my law degree
Great Expectations
Just finished Brideshead Revisited, will be starting Ring of Bright Water
Doing pretty good actually

32
Bioinformatician
Siddhartha
American Affairs
Great

4
Unemployed
Thomas the Tank Engine
Go the F*ck to Sleep
Vomit

>age
29
>occupation
Law schools grad studying for the bar but realizing now that I don’t want to practice law
>favorite book
Man without Qualities
>current read
Bar prep materials and a collection of James Merrill poems
>how you're holding up
Fine, not sure if I should abandon the bar exam since I graduated debt free.

>>20515353
b&

>>20512041
29
NEET/SBO, but past codemonkey and future one if the business downturn continues
I don’t know. Maybe The Master and Margarita.
The Witcher (audio)books.
Better than yesterday, not as well as tomorrow.
>>20513644
RIP, happy birthday.

>>20512041
17 and a few months
nurse school
the setting sun
the hobbit (unironically)
horribly

>>20515967
b&

>>20515967
b8 or retard?

31
CAD Draftsman
Introduction to the studies of Hinduism
Revolt against the modern world
JUST

>21 (about to be 22 this week)
>college student/library inventory
>Very hard question, so here's my top 4 in no order: Vergil's Aeneid, Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell, St. Augustine's Confrssions, and Shestov's All Things Are Possible
>Plato's Timaeus and Gogol's Dead Souls
>I'm doing well, just a bit bored
>>20515192
>The Greeks
Who in particular?
>>20514560
Based Iliad reader

24
Electrical engineer
The Bible
On the shortness of life, and a couple of others that I haven't touched in a few weeks
I'm very busy recently but that's a good thing. Ive recently found a spurt of energy to fix things in our lives that I don't like, so I've been organizing, repairing our cars, etc.

>>20512044
>>20514968
>>20515192
based

29
Civil servant
Notes from the Underground
You know

>>20513644
happy birthday :)

>>20512041
>age
28
>occupation
I work but i'm not saying what it is
>favorite book
Joy Ride
>current read
Meditations
>how you're holding up
Strong

>>20512041
>26
>Disabled Liberal Arts Student
>Beware of Pity
>Guns of August
>Content but not happy

25
Nondescript office job (remote, which is nice). Actually this thread has me pondering the extent to which my job defines me– I’m leaning towards not very much since I do it for money, but maybe I ought to pursue something I have real passion for?
Shadow of the Torturer/Book of the New Sun
The Warrior Prophet
Thriving

>>20512041
22

Currently on medschool

I do not have a favorite book, but I, in a sentimental way, it may be either The Death Of Ivan Ilyich or, specially, Stoner, which is the only book who ever made me cry (I am not even sure if I really cried, but, if not, it was close).

The Idiot

I was never as disciplined with my daily routine as I am being this year and it feels like it is a change that will last more than just these past few months. For that, I am grateful and proud. Nevertheless, I am sad and frustrated due to my relationship with my girlfriend. I am complicated/a bit fucked up when it comes to emotions... I am weak, afraid of commitment, afraid of hurting her, afraid of, as of now, not loving her anymore... afraid to leave her, a good woman... The worst is that I've left and hurt her in the past due to pretty much the same things... we reconciled and I do not have the nerve to do it again.

32
lab tech
I hate this stupid question
Commentaries on the Gallic War (between novels atm, this is an old standby)
okay

>>20512041
>age
19
>occupation
"Senior Production Assistant" for a small company (mainly my job is to do busy work and help my boss put out fires)
>favorite book
Picrel
>current read
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
>how you're holding up
Not fantastic. I feel like I'm in a very transitory period of my life and while I'm not as viscerally depressed as I used to be I'm still not content. I started taking antidepressants again, which at least helps me to be a little more functional during the day.
>inb4 (((antidepressants)))

>>20517497
If it's your own neuroticism getting to you then maybe work on fixing that, see a therapist or something, but if you really don't love your girlfriend, remember that you're getting further from the dock every day you don't cut the line. It's not sustainable.

>>20517424
>maybe I ought to pursue something I have real passion for?
Depends on how content you are with your current job. Some people can compartmentalize a shit or mediocre job from the rest of their life, and some will feel unfulfilled unless they're doing something they enjoy (or at least don't hate). I get the vibe that you're in the former camp but maybe I'm wrong.

>>20514128
I'm routing for you, anon. I think any rut like that isn't truly material. Solace can be found if you make an honest effort to audit yourself (which almost always takes the help of others) to find the problems you need to mitigate and the blisses you need to follow.

I know it isn't the cool redpilled thing to do, but a psychiatrist could be a very helpful step if you can afford it.

>>20514128
if you have a spare 5-10k open a brokerage account and buy PLTR and hold it until 2030. Best of luck to you. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is excellent you have great taste btw

>>20512041
>24
>soulless tech job
>idk
>redburn - melville
>Hate my empty hollow life. I barely have the willpower to get up in the AM. Oh and also tfw no gf

It's been a while since I've seen one of these threads. I'll update my Excel sheet.

>>20517629
>buy PLTR

a true retard

>>20512041
21
Infantryman
Gospel of John
Thomas Mann's Joseph And His Brothers
I am very concerned about whether I ought to get out and go to school or if the impending economic downturn has made another contract worth it.

25
NEET
Call of the Crocodile
The Greeks
Fine

>>20517733
As is the rest of /litl.

>>20512041
30
I run an alternative schoo
Siddhartha
Re-reading Red Pine's translation of the Heart Sutra
Once I month I go through a mini breakdown. I'm looking for a change of pace/another job so I can finally have some peace.

23
Language teacher
Notes from Underground
Permutation City
bretty gud :DDD

>>20513857
Are you that anon who turned 40 recently?

more data plz

>>20518499
can i make 30 posts pretending to be different people?

18
finished high school
Molloy
Empirisme et subjectivité
i don't think i'm ever going to make it

>>20518515
Of course you can, I'll never know.
These threads are still the best way to have an idea of the demographics of /lit/ posters.
Fake/meme posts are sometimes easy to tell though. Like all those 25 years old NEET enjoyers of Call of the Crocodile.