/lit/ - Literature

"This Is Going to Sound Weird, But I Can't Actually Remember The Name Of It" was a masterwork OP

My name is Kolf and my favorite work is The Power of Now.

She was referencing Beckett you troglodyte.

My name is Josh and my favorite work is The Bible

>hey my name's John and I'm more into philosophical books such as The Alchemist and 1984

>"Hi my name is Shaniqua and I don't read books" xD
>Whole class laughs

"My name is Dave[1] and my favorite book is the Secret."

[1][a]Short for David
[a] Annotations to be read: "Annotation 1, Annotation 2 etc."

My name is Imogen Poots, and I'm the only thing England has ever done right--that's not a book title, just a statement of fact.

Hello, names don't matter and having a favorite book is an indication of your limited frame of mind

with a rare care i stare at your hair when a bear tears and says yeah i don't use quotation marks because i am a bear and because i would have to renounce my ursine qualities

'sup my name's Josh and I like books

>>2836928

We jest, but the quality of the man's work is infinite.

>>2836961

Hello, the better way to state this is that:
Names are arbitrary and it's impossible for me to have a favorite as I'm constantly in flux.

>>2836961
that hit the sweet spot

>Sup, my name is Chad and books are for nerds
>Whole class applauds

>>2837003
Is her last name seriously "Poots?" It sounds like someone's trying to be delicate when they say she farts a lot.

My name is Jenny and my favorite book is The Hunger Games.

>>2837080
>mfw I got practically ostracized by saying that The Hunger Games is a rip-off of Battle Royale.

My name's Ashley and my favorite books are HP and Twilight XD

>>2837086

it isn't

>>2837086
>opinions

My name is Donglass and my favorite author is Murakami

Hi! My name is Jessica-san. My favorite book is a manga called Inuyasha. It's really old, but still good!

This makes me feel bad. Normally I look down on people with all you other /lit/ hipster fags but I can't even remember half the books I've read so I'm no better.

>>2836999
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/02/02/david_foster_wallace_s_favorite_books_the_sum_of_all_
fears_the_stand_and_red_dragon_.html

>>2837117

Those are just his psuedo anti-postmodern choices. Later on in the article he lists his actual (good) taste

>>2837111

If you can't remember the name of your favorite book you've most likely got Alzheimer's, or you're just stupid.

>>2837062

Yes, that's her real name, and she's MY snowflake. MINE!

>>2837127
>>2837127
>>2837127
what were they ive never seen them listed

>>2837157

>OK. Historically the stuff that’s sort of rung my cherries: Socrates’ funeral oration, the poetry of John Donne, the poetry of Richard Crashaw, every once in a while Shakespeare, although not all that often, Keats’ shorter stuff, Schopenhauer, Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on Method, Kant’s Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic, although the translations are all terrible, William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Hemingway—particularly the ital stuff in In Our Time, where you just go oomph!, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt, Cynthia Ozick—the stories, especially one called “Levitations,” about 25 percent of the time Pynchon. Donald Barthelme, especially a story called “The Balloon,” which is the first story I ever read that made me want to be a writer, Tobias Wolff, Raymond Carver’s best stuff — the really famous stuff. Steinbeck when he’s not beating his drum, 35 percent of Stephen Crane, Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby.

"Hello, my name is Nawirum-ili and my favourite book is not to be named lest He-Who-Takes-Bones is unleashed upon the world of living"

My name is Silas and my favourite book is Second Encyclopaedia of Tlön.

My name is Tao Lin. My favorite book is Tao Lin.

>>2837161
> about 25 percent of the time Pynchon

Aww, this was when he was trying to escape Pynchon's specter..