/lit/ - Literature

cookbooks

You better not reply you fucking faggot.

You fucking better not do it.

Don't act like I can't see you, pussy. Just move on. Fucking move on and post somewhere else. Not here. For fuck's sake, anywhere but here.

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>>2744950

moar liek COCKbooks amirite???

Whatever is popular.

My girlfriend is into Kafka, Pynchon, Faulkner, and T.S. Eliot

There are definitely more girls reading schlock/genre style fiction out there than men. Men looking for that kind of entertainment typically don't go to books.

But when it comes to actual literature, about the same thing as men. Chicks love Jane Austen!! .. but I'm pretty sure that's mostly because it's a "thing" that Chicks Love Jane Austen. Once they break out of that mold and become ~intellectuals~, they seem to read just about the same shit, maybe with a higher value on character-driven fiction from my anecdotal experience. I'd say they're more likely to pursue a Lit degree than a Philosophy degree.

But for questions like that you have to read stuff like this:
http://www.onfiction.ca/2011/02/actor-and-observed-man-and-woman.html
and wonder how much of it is due to women's expectations and image of themselves.

The girl im involved with like Thoreau, Flaubert, Chekhov, and Proust. She speaks French.

>>2745007
Your hand has awesome taste.

>>2745151

Good one.

>>2744945

I have met interesting women who are into Milan Kundera and John Irving. I have met many boring women into YA lit.

>>2745017
good good shit good

all those english bitches who wrote about high society.

She said she liked Shakespeare. She wrote Poesque short stories that read like pay by the word Victorian pieces. I didn't manage to hit it.

i read anna karenina. i figured it's hugely popular so any intelligent girl is like to name it as their favourite at which point i could go 'really? MEE TOOO!! what a coincidence. we should get coffee, i'd love to talk about more.


so far, no luck.

My girlfriend's favourite author is Agatha Christie - lots of women I know love murder mysteries. Apart from that she likes most stuff, I'd say I've read more classic novels than her but I'm far more pretentious than her.

>>2745248

You are probably better off reading harry potter or twilight...or the chicken soup for the soul. dumb girls need love too and there are so many of them

de beauvoir
eyre
austen
plath
woolf
henry james

>>2745281
id rather be alone.

Satires and Adventure books.
Or do lesbians not count?

>>2745266
Oh my god, yes! What is with that? They shit murder mysteries over here!

>>2745325
>what are you going to do to my pussy tonight anon?

>>2745331
Nothing. I'm terrified you're going to unfold your birdarms and fly me to feed me to your chicks.

I am a girl and I read nothing of the sort.

>YA?

Pfftt. Please.

It depends. Lots of bitches are into really shitty genre fiction, but some are interested in heavier stuff. Right now I'm in the middle of reading Bataille's novella "My Mother", Watt's "Nature, Man, and Woman", and whatever stuff by Fante, Bukowski and Burroughs I can get my hands on.

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Yes master.

my girlfriend is a cockroach

my mom seems to like any and all popular literature written before 1870.

>>2745413
No. Nooooope.

>>2745413

Got news for you. She is a man and her name is Gregor.

I'm going through a phase of darker Japanese fiction, but a good few of my mates buy stereotypical 'holiday books', the likes of Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You) and all the terrible drivel that films like The Notebook are based on.

>>2745427
are you at least an 8/10?

>>2745449
Eh...I'm not really a fair judge. Why?

>>2745464
c-can i k-k-kiss you?

>>2745466
STRANGER DANGER

>>2745519
you fucking whore you do what th efuck i tell you because im a MAN you fucking stupid slut bitch

>>2745427
btw I'm a girl

>>2745522
Fuck off away from my post you creep, I wrote that, now shoo.

>>2745521
Oh 4chan, never change.

Surrealism, experimental books, contemporary stuff, novellas, and really short short stories lately for me.

The lady friends I have who read mostly stick to the canon books - a lot love Faulkner, Dickinson, Kahlil Gibran. I have one who is really into Eastern European/Balkan literature too.

Yeah, my mom loves Agatha Christie. She's read everything she wrote multiple time, although nowadays she's mostly into nonfiction.

My sister reads almost exclusively YA despite almost 24 and older than me. She decided to pick up A Tale of Two Cities and it took her several months. My favorite author is Pynchon so she's now decided to read Gravity's Rainbow, but it's been a month and she's 4 pages in.

Tl;DR: 2deep4myfamily

I mostly read philosophy (essays, novels), plays, "classics", history texts.

I can't into contemporary non-fiction, it's awful.

>>2745574

Linda, presentame una de tus amigas.

Woops
This >>2745585 was meant for her >>2745547

>>2745590
Haha, sure. They're all just regular English majors though. I think that's the norm for them to enjoy those authors.

>tfw when too big for a girl to hold you

>>2745574
source of that picture?

my most literary ex-girlfriend in my brief history of having girlfriends was an asian history and studio art major who read nothing but comic books and george eliot. hth.

>>2745623
It's cornell library

>>2745623

Andrew Dickson White Library

she liked the gothic, macabre comedy and romantic depictions of victorian england
come to think of it, i miss her a lot
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