/lit/ - Literature

>>20846024
here is mine: >>20846017

I've only read 5 books in my lifetime. I'm 22 years old.

This still isn’t lit related

>>20846024
I gave up on Moby Dick in chapter 50-something. That book is mind-numbing.

I read the same books repeatedly yet always fail to remember the plot or internalise the key concepts.

>>20846024
I don't enjoy Dostoevsky and it's for the pettiest reasons. I picked up Crime & Punishment and couldn't get past all the character names sounding the same.

>>20846024
I hate people that make these confession threads especially. on lit

>>20846024
If there's something authors want me to "take away" from their books, then they're full of themselves.
I just like The Great Gatsby because it's a fun adventure. Sometimes I think Jay will make it in the end.
Otherwise, seriously, what's the big moral thousand years of studying essay? What could possibly be taught? Don't sell alcohol during the prohibition? Check, got it. I don't think that will be an issue.

>>20846024
I've got a lot so bear with me, priest.

I dropped For Whom the Bell Tolls because it was boring.
I think The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's only good novel.
I became pretentious after reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but became humble again after Ulysses.
I've started and failed to finish the Divine Comedy several times because I can't get into it without a lot of footnotes explaining the historical context since my first read of the story had a lot of those footnotes for me.
I think authors who don't focus on their prose are intentionally gimping their writing.
I didn't start with the Greeks.
Sometimes after I finish a book I'll roleplay my favorite scenes around my house.

I only read science fiction and books about history

I've tried to read contemporary or 20th century literature and I just can't do it. I was homeschooled until 14 so I never read typical American school shit like To Kill a Mockingbird or Lord of the Flies.

>>20846333
>This is Dmitri, also appearing as mitka mitenka mitoshka dimitenko mitanka misha mishonka mishka and mitiushka
why are russians like this?

>>20847443
lol

>>20846024
I read

>>20846024
I prefer talking about books to reading them.
I will give strong opinions on writers i havent read a single line of.

>>20847466
My grandparents spent their first date arguing over the meaning of Moby-Dick. It was only years later when they both realized that neither of them had ever read the book.

>>20847481
A decades later here you are on /lit/. Maybe there's a genetic component to pseudery.

>>20847301
Last one is based.

>I only read science fiction, fantasy, romance, stuff that is easy to digest. It helps me escape from my horrendous anxiety.
>despite that I have most people at my job convinced I am well read since I can reference stuff i had to read for college
>I loved the LOTR movies but hated reading the books. I got about 100 pages into fellowship of the ring before dropping it. I couldn't stand the constant diversions, songs, genealogies, etc.
>I used Cliff Notes to get through most of what I was assigned to read in high school and college english and philosophy courses. I got As in almost all of them.
>I wrote a sixty thousand word fantasy novel. The only person to read the whole thing is my grandmother, who loved it. It was mostly inspired by Star Wars and various sci-fi and fantasy movies/shows I've watched over the years.

>>20846024
I didn't read all the footnotes in Infinite Jest.

>>20847417
I have a hard time with contemporary lit because as soon as a brand name or whatever is dropped it takes me right out of the story. I picture things too vividly so if they say "I was drinking a Coke" my brain goes YOU BETTER PICTURE THAT FUCKING COKE BOTTLE LIKE ITS A SITCOM PRODUCT PLACEMENT"

I alternate between the audiobook and the physical book of a novel so I can get through it quicker.

>>20846024
I used Sadlers lectures to get through Pascals Pensees

I once wrote a 20 page complaint against a teacher for assigning us "A Modest Proposal" citing that "satire wasn't funny" being the main thesis when I was in high school instead of writing a book report. This was over 20 years ago, though.

I've gotten 20-40 pages into The Stranger at least five times now and dropped it each time. I've read a handful of 1000+ page novels, but I can't find myself to finish this stupid little 100 page book. It's just so fucking drab and boring.

>>20847726
Yeah...

I never read the epilogue of Brothers Karamazov but i don’t really care

>>20846024
I enjoy black citadel campy warhammer books and have read every Ciaphas Cain book, from when I was in high school. They're fun.

>>20847466
>>20847481
>>20847604
That explains a lot.

>>20846024
I read 80% of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations before putting it down when I realized two things:
None of the ideas described in the writings are actionable to anyone outside of a wealthy and privileged social strata
Marcus is writing from a position of such immense wealth and power that it's conceivable he, if he chose, could be free of all inconveniences.
The work is understandably influential, and it's got some merit, but besides the ancient context it's written in, It's pretty much the same as the modern quacks telling an urban poor their life situation will drastically improve if they make their bed in the morning.

I read only Moby Dick and Blood Meridian out of must-read /lit/ classics and I'm not interested in anything else because the rest of these charts seem boring, I don't care about love stories or some dude's sad miserable life even if described in quirky way or generally books with women in them

>>20847604
I'm breaking the cycle; I actually read Moby-Dick.

Despite my French/Italian being at an acceptable level for reading works written in those languages, I almost always end up reading translations because I hate how slowly I read in languages which aren't English.
Poetry is exception, in large part because I was inspired to learn Italian after reading the commedia in English and deciding that wasn't enough.

>>20849084
>I actually read Moby-Dick.
And that's why you won't get ladies and pass your genes like your chad-grandpa.
You fucked up, anon.

>>20846024
After writing every day for a bit over two months, I lost track of time and didn’t write yesterday.
I have the sneaking suspicion that I’m not going to get the streak going again.

>>20849133
>I was inspired to learn Italian after reading the commedia in English and deciding that wasn't enough.
Now, this anon is for real!
Never leave this place, homie.

>>20846024
reading philosophy is only for retards who can't think. this isn't a confession, it's just a fact.

I'm reading a camp camp fanfic right now.

>>20846024
I've had sex with a woman. Can I still be part of the club guys?

>>20848304
tell us what grade you got on it, schools even 20 years ago would at least give kids an A for effort

>>20847746
meant for >>20850223

>>20846054
If you don’t find Ishmael to be amusing you’ll never make it

>>20846070
Take notes

>>20846024
Very close to drop V.
Made the mistake of reading Gravity's Rainbow first and now V. feels like a not very interesting read. Plus, sister got me Faust as a gift.

>>20847727
I do this too. Why can I not seem to convince myself that this isn’t wrong anon?

>>20848304
I always found it weird that people were taking life advice from a fucking emperor.
People like that haven’t experienced enough of life to think anything of it.
One of the most often-repeated passages is just him whining about not wanting to get out of bed. The level of luxury for laziness to be your main problem in life is insane in terms of comparison with all human lives in history.

>>20847712
>sixty thousand word fantasy novel
Based, by the way if you’re looking to get into Tolkien you might have more fun with The Hobbit or The Silmarillion. I think the movies negatively affected my own enjoyment of them but I those works felt more new.

>>20846024
I hate Joyce, Pynchon, Tolstoy, and DFW

>>20850275
I think it's why I revile Jordan Peterson so much. Beyond his nasily voice and all his dogmatic tripe the worst is him telling people to clean their room and wash their balls like he's the second Marcus. Where he was an emperor and may have been so far above the peasantry his meditations may have seemed like sound advice, or maybe advice directed at the aristocracy, JP operates with no such framing. He truly believes some poor neckbeard or wagie cleaning their balls every day isn't common sense but something that will suddenly turn around all life prospects. Then he uses the same videos to shill his crap to the same masses.

>>20850708
Femanon?

>>20850736
At times

>>20850215
GTFO sexhaver!

>>20850236
I know

I started reading philosophy with Nietzsche

>>20850708
If we're going there, I hate Fisher, Zizek, Butler, F. Bacon, Russell, Voltaire, etc

>>20846024
I’m a book sniffer

>>20848210
That's the entire purpose of the first half of the book. It's written in factual, short sentences to illustrate his anomie/lack of emotion. Read all of it, it only takes a few hours.
>>20849551
When I end a streak I begin anew by just writing one or two words. It helps.
>>20850265
V > GR
>>20851239
Nothing wrong with that. If it gathered your attention and interest, it was worthwhile. My first philosophy book was Also Sprach Zarathustra. I would never have continued on with philosophy if I started with Plato or Kant.

>>20847726

Same for me. I have heard people advise you should do this kind of explicit referencing because it is “grounding” for the reader but fuck them Ill never do it. I hate it.

>>20851753
Why would I want to ground the reader?
I want the reader tripping balls.

>>20846024
I'm writing a self-insert isekai story, but using the local myths and legends of my country. It'll probably feel like a jap work since that's my primary frame of reference, but there's nothing I can do about that.

>>20850215
>with a woman

>>20850734
Aurelius was out of touch; Peterson is just kind of stupid.

>>20847301
I didn’t like For Whomst The Bell Tolls until the last page, and it was kind of a begrudged “I had no idea how he was going to land this thing and I guess that was pretty satisfying” sort of thing

>>20850215
>had sex with a woman
>still posts apu pics
it didn't count, you're still a virgin at heart

The Crossing is significantly better than Blood Meridian, and the first ~150 pages are McCarthy’s best work. The Road is at least equally as good, if not better, than Blood Meridian, but faux intellectuals hate that it’s A. mainstream and B. post-apocalyptic genre fiction, despite westerns being a similarly standard and worn out template.

Steinbeck is the great American author over Faulkner, Hemingway, etc.

DeLillo is a hack

A Confederacy of Dunces is better written and more profound than any Pynchon

The Dead is one of the bottom tier stories of Dubliners

>>20852962
>The Dead is one of the bottom tier stories of Dubliners
I half disagree with you but half agree. This is the weirdest shit. A Little Cloud and Araby hit the closest for me, especially the former, and I fondly remember Ivy Day despite not liking it that much at the time. I think I couldn't appreciate it.

>>20847443
dmitri's only nickname is literally just (v)razumikhin you brainlet

>>20853004
The strength of Dubliners was in the brevity of the vignettes, I’m open to reading it again but The Dead didn’t do much for me. There are numerous passages in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man which, in complete isolation, are much better as well.

i got into philosophy because i wanted to read Nietzsche, thankfully i learned about Schopenhauer and he become my reason to read all major philosophers before him

>>20846024
I collect book and then don't red them because they look nice on my shelf. Classics are my favorite to hoard, but any the interest me will do

>>20846333
LMAO if there is one thing that could be griped about dosto, its that he is very unimagiative with his names. He usually has several characters who's names resemble his own

>>20850275
>One of the most often-repeated passages is just him whining about not wanting to get out of bed. The level of luxury for laziness to be your main problem in life is insane in terms of comparison with all human lives in history.
Most of us live in similar luxury thanks to modern technology. Hikimoris and NEETs experience basically the same problem, and they're commonplace in even the lower classes now.

>>20852962
>The Crossing is significantly better than Blood Meridian, and the first ~150 pages are McCarthy’s best work
I don't know if its better, but it certainly is McCarthy's most beautiful work

>The Road is at least equally as good, if not better, than Blood Meridian, but faux intellectuals hate that it’s A. mainstream and B. post-apocalyptic genre fiction, despite westerns being a similarly standard and worn out template.
I will concede that The Road is at least as good, although I don't think anybody doesn't like it because it can be considered genre fiction.

>Steinbeck is the great American author over Faulkner, Hemingway, etc.
Faulkner and Hemingway are both better than Steinbeck (although he's pretty good too) and the great American author is Melville hands down

>A Confederacy of Dunces is better written and more profound than any Pynchon
I haven't read either so I can't comment on this.

>The Dead is one of the bottom tier stories of Dubliners
Nah, its perhaps not as far above the rest as everybody says it is but it's definitely one of the best stories in there

>Didn't read a lot of American's writers mostly because I hate how this country do the cover of the books
>Skip the foreword when it is not written by the author, It's always funny when a fucker use complicated words to express theirs views on a book they didn't create like a useless gatekeeper

>>20850734
Peterson teaches the things parents are meant to teach. It's not meant for everyone. You've at least had a half-decent childhood if you don't find him useful.