/lit/ - Literature

>>22259149
>34
>The Anger of Achilles by Robert Graves
>PhD in Business studies
>human trafficking
>too much shitposting, not enough effort posting
>anonymity allows for discussing controversial issues without worrying about social status

>39
>Richard Ford The Sportswriter
>Hart Crane Complete Poems
>UOL
>freelance accounting for bars and restaurants
>bad faith and self pity
>the funnies

>>22259149
>age
29
>current book
Not reading anything atm
>last book you finished
Can't remember. Probably The Dinner by Herman Koch
>what do/did you study
Engineering
>how do you get money
I have a job
>what's wrong with this board
A bit too slow at times
>what's good about this board
Intelligent conversations and good humour.

>20
>Giacomo Casanova's memoir
>Hospitality. Learned nothing, at least it was short and I could start working by 17
>Am a butler
>Gay
>Effortposts, book recs

>age
41
>current book
The Long Way - Bernard Moitessier
>last book you finished
The Sheltering Sky
>what do/did you study
EE
>how do you get MONEY
Writing and occasional manual labor type things to keep life comfy
>what's wrong with this board
Everything
>what's good about this board
Everything

>>22259149
>24
>the world as will and representation
>the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason
>physics
>scholarship (master's)
>polposts, Gardner, guenon posts
>effortposts

>age
20
>current book
The Trial Kafka
>last book you finished
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
>what do/did you study
Architecture
>how do you get money
I don't
>what's wrong with this board
/pol/ leaks out into other boards and seeing the same books a million times
>what's good about this board
The friends we make along the way

>age
26
>current book
Swann's Way
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Sorrows of Young Werther
First Love
>last book you finished
Little Women
>what do/did you study
Pure mathematics and web development
>how do you get money
My rich aunt gives me an allowance
>what's wrong with this board
People constantly talking about books they didn't read and bring judgmental
>what's good about this board
Getting good recommendations and discussions sometimes

>>22259283
How do you make money by writing?

>23
>Plato's Sophist, Gogol's short stories, Descartes' Meditations, and hoping to (re)start Joyce's Portrait soon
>Plato's Theaetetus and Les Chants de Maldoror
>Classical Languages BA, looking to specialize in Classical Philosophy
>loans and scholarships, plan on getting any sort of job I can when I move to my new college in August
>motherfuckers who talk about books they haven't read, Guenon/Evolafags, and /pol/fags
>surprisingly stimulating Plato discourse every now and again and a few good laughs
>>22259403
How's Werther? I need to break into Goethe sooner than later
>>22259297
Is the Fourfold Root necessary to understand Schopenhauer's other work?
>>22259165
>Graves
Very nice, he's one of the comfiest authors I've ever read. Gotta read I, Claudius at some point

>>22259149
>age
34
>current book
Papillon
>last book finished
Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign
>BA in English than JD (law school degree in Burgerland)
>Document Review Attorney (it’s what lazy lawyers wind up doing. Not very lucrative but it pays the bills)
>not enough effort posting. Somebody makes an effort post and the thred dies without a response. Too much pol shit and bait threads.
>the impiety

>>22259466
>How's Werther? I need to break into Goethe sooner than later
I'm still at the very beginning so I don't have much to say about it other than that I enjoy Goethe's prose (or at least the translation I'm reading).

>Most people here are 30+
Suddenly I don't feel so old.

>>22259564
Probably lots are underaged underaged but they dont post in these threads because it’s a ban

>>22259149
>27
>Rush and Philosophy
>Nichmachaen Ethics by Aristotle and Chiosing to Feel: Virtue, Friendship, and Compassion for Friends by Diana Fritz Cates

>EE PhD
>Research Assistant
>Too much political/religious shitflinging by autsitics that I know for a fact don't read the source material, too much shitposting and not enougb effortposting
>Despite the above, this is a good place to discuss philosophy and religion when done in a non-inflammatory manner.

>age
22
>current book
Infinite jest
>last book you finished
The wasp factory
>what do/did you study
I'm a dropout hikki but I'm going back to school to study math
>how do you get money
I don't
>what's wrong with this board
It being hosted on 4chan
>what's good about this board
(Some) good recommendations

>>22259660
>It being hosted on 4chan
How is that a problem?

>>22259149
>>age
22
>>current book
moby dick
>>last book you finished
return to the whorl (gene wolfe)
>>what do/did you study
bachelor's in biz management
>>how do you get money
work for the library
>>what's wrong with this board
it's fine
>>what's good about this board
higher quality of discussion than many other boards (don't even look at /his/)

also holding my cat now. comfy. put that on my fbi sheet.

>>22259690
>don't even look at /his/
What's wrong with them?

>>22259700
/his/ is perhaps the worst sfw board on this site
if you really want to know, just open it. look. not a single quality post. almost nothing but religious shitflinging from a half-dozen or so resident schizophrenics.

>>22259149
>29
>The Golden Pavillon
>unemployed
>see above
>shitposting/tradlarpers/Peterson threads
>real schizos and effortposters with esoteric niche knowledge

>age
24
>current book
deciding
>last book
Mary by Nabokov
>what you studied
beeswax
>how do you get money
beeswax
>what's wrong with this board
philosophy, pic rel
>what's good about this board
the recs

>27
>Don Quixote / Sixty Stories
>The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
>English Literature
>I don't
>not enough genuine, thoughtful discussion outside of theology threads
>freedom to say what you want, but it's also a downside

>>22259149
>25
>Test prep textbook
>interrogating the real
>junior high teacher (social studies)
>job
>too many cormac mccarthy threads
>it's funny sometimes

>34
>Keats’ letters, I-Ching, Nijinsky’s diary
>The Rainbow by Lawrence
>don’t want to say
>the medical field
>the off topic and ulterior motive threads, the rampant tribalism, board is too fast and threads die too soon
>the interest for perceived more “high brow” books, the image board format

>>22259149
>>age
24
>>current book
dozens. favorite is probably necroepilogos
>>last book you finished
can't remember honestly. maybe the second-latest solo leveling
>>what do/did you study
computer science
>>how do you get money
work a programming job
>>what's wrong with this board
wouldn't know. i basically never use it. stopped by on a whim. most of my free time is spent reading
>>what's good about this board
see above. i guess i like the wg and sffg threads

>>22259149
31
The Left Hand of Darkness
Man Economy and State
Laws
Insurance litigation
Too small, too circlejerky, too edgy
Small, elitist, edgy

is /lit/ one of the oldest boards (on average)

>>22262184
Yes.

>31
>Man and his Symbols
>Sirens of Titan
>Chemistry
>Nuclear Radiation Safety
>I don't visit it enough
>4chan but books

>>22259149
>25
>Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
>The Way of Chuangzu
>Mechatronics
>NEET
>Not enough discussion on non-western lit
>People reads

>>22259149
>41
>Time And Free Will (although I’m reading many)
>Ancient Rhetoric
>N/A
>teacher at workshop for the disabled
>too many leftists, repetitive threads
>good discussions occasionally, especially on certain topics

>>22263996
Women can choose between many partners while men can't be picky or they'll be single forever, therefore it's only natural for them to have high standards.

>>22264069
yeah idc, hundreds of angry men with no sexual outlets will cause riots eventually, or worst case scenario, the state will be overthrown. a bunch of angry women will just turn the violence unto themselves. I'd rather have the latter.

>>22259149
22
The man in the high castle
Siddhartha
Computer science
Through uni social grant, but I'm going to start working since August
Too many shitposts
Despite the shitposts there's still comparatively many good, or dare I say high IQ, posts and threads

>>22264419
Yeah, any day now the incel revolution will happen….

>>22259149
>20
>Being and Nothingness
>Kyoko's house (I'm ESL)
>dairy pipe welding
>I sort pine seeds
>shitposts and politics
>effortposts