/lit/ - Literature

>>5979622
You try to be a romantic but you fight your natural pessimism everyday

Wuthering Heights
In Cold Blood
Lolita
Nine Stories
The Importance of Being Earnest

>>5979643
That's pretty spot on.

>>5979643
a gay 16-22 year old qtpie bahbey
do you love kate bush yet?

>>5979622
The myth of Sisyphus
L'Estranger
The Idiot
Stoner
The lady and the little dog

>>5979689
im a 69 year old misogynist

>>5979689
do you wear sweaters do you have curly dark hair

>>5979701
a dude who resents women and hasn't moved beyond baby's first lite philo starter kit
i'm not familiar with the last story though

Catch-22
The Brothers Karamazov
Infinite Jest
Bleak House
A Confederacy of Dunces

>>5979622
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Les Miserables
The Little Prince
La tregua

WHAT DOES IT MEANS?

>>5979718
>>5979721

same for you two-->
>>5979716

same for most of lit

>>5979716
chekhov

>>5979718
a brother of an infinitely bleak dunce-22

>>5979721
trying to call a tregua with your miserable little criminal brother

do you guys know each other?

>>5979721
except you are nice bc little prince is <3

>>5979730
And let me guess, You're an insecure faggot who likes to pretend his some sort of Literary elitist on an anonymous image board by projecting his self-loathing criticisms as if they were others? Also, small peniz

>catch-22
>dune
>all the pretty horses
>lonesome dove
>American sniper

>>5979730
Please, sir, how do we reach your level?

East of Eden
Blood Meridian
Less Than Zero
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Stranger

>>5979733
Not that I know of. Most of my friends are idiots.

>>5979622
You are very impressionable to strangers on the internet

>>5979738
no penis
yes to the other stuff except i'm not pretending

i just get sick of seeing the same books again and again as though there was nothing else in all the world to read
>>5979744
i'm not 16
at least read gravity's rainbow or something
how is the stranger everyone's fav, i hardly remember it, why not kafka? or anything else?

>>5979760
Good point, I forgot about kafka.
The trial takes the place of the myth of Sisyphus seeing as how its an essay

>>5979733
What is that supposed to mean, Anon?. I am confused.

Know each other?, who are you talking abou!
>>5979730
I dont resent women, but you are right about the second part, I havn't been reading that long.
>>5979737
<3

>>5979754
Can you elaborate?

>>5979731
i googled it, but as said i'm not familiar enough to include that n my shitting on you

>>5979741

Southerner/Midwesterner.

>>5979747

Averse to risk.

speedboat
anna karenina
nw
ij
sound and the fury

>>5979788
How is Canticle? I've been really meaning to read it.

>>5979809
Why do you like Speedboat? Just curious, I've only read the first part so far.

Invisible Cities
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Don Quixote
The Alchemist
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

>>5979622
The Brothers Karamazov
The Count of Monte Cristo
Steppenwolf
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment

>>5979826
it's fun and funny and I like the rhythm and I connected with the way life is stupid and great and terrible and things just happen, not cause-effect (I liked pitch dark more, but I figured less people would recognize it)

Discipline and Punish
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Reason in History
The Stranger
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

Harry Potter (fanfic not books lol)
Twilight (same lol)
Divergent (books way better)
The fault in Our stars

>>5979835
You are the type of person who has few friends, but has intense, prolonged discussions about anything and everything with the friends you have. You don't quite understand the appeal of minimalism.

>>5979835
you are a shitty meme
>>5979839
you are an edgy teenager
>>5979832
you are a pseudo-intellectual
>>5979747
basically me

>>5979842
why even bother

>>5979845
I appreciate the effort but the truth is, although I love prolonged discussions, I have no friends to enjoy such talks. Having grown up in suburbia, minimalism makes more sense than anything else.

>>5979839
sjw

>>5979842
post-post-irony advocate

>>5979835
novel aficionado

>>5979832
novel aficionado

harmonium
the sickness unto death
naming and necessity
critique of judgement
word and object

>>5979852
>you are a shitty meme
What does that mean?

>>5979622
Lord of the Rings
Lolita
The N----- of the Narcissus
Guns, Germs and Steel (you just said "books")
The Silmarillion

>>5979863
number one double nigger

>>5979852
>>5979859
"edgy teenager" "sjw"
Don't sjw's hate anything edgy?

>>5979852
you are an edgy 20 year old

>>5979813

It's funny and sad. It's rewarding to figure out some of the mysteries in the book. It says a lot about our own history eg science and religion, the rise of nation states, the morality of suicide, the role of the church during the "so called Dark Ages"

I'm not a christian but I think Miller would have made a good christian apologist but evidently struggled in life. After ACfL he didn't write another book for twenty years. I think in 1979 a companion book came out an Miller killed himself right afterwards.

>>5979874
Correct. This is how I can identify edgy teenagers

>>5979869
only if it triggers some part of their rube goldbergian psychological mousetrap

>>5979865
Well, that was informative.

these thread remind me of when that anon q and a site came out and I made one kinda hoping to get mean asks from people I went to school with
but I never got a single one and felt left out

The Sound and the Fury
Miss Lonelyhearts
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Sirens of Titan

>>5979894
You're a white American who was odd during puberty.

Last Exit To Brooklyn
Ulysses
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Complete Stories of Kafka
The Plague

The hobbit
The fundation
The invisible man
Dracula
The voice and the fury

happy moscow - andrei platonov
brothers karamozov
sound of waves - yukio mishima
2666
ficciones

Gravity's Rainbow
The Dispossessed
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Midnight's Children
Pale Fire

Winesburg, Ohio
A Scanner Darkly
Dandelion Wine
Nausea
Brave New World

a school for fools
envy
old man and the sea
the silent cry
the created legend

>>5979936
>happy moscow - andrei platonov
you're the sort of person i'd take book recommendations from

>>5979946
You know you're alienated, but you find better purpose in it

Dune
Children of Dune
iRobot
Grendel
Ptolemy's Gate

>>5979950
You are terribly dissatisfied and anxious with how the world currently is

Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Les Misérables
The Gay Science
Gravity's Rainbow

Actually curious in the magic of Anon


pls respond[\spoiler]

>>5980032
Please tell me you are not actually gay. We have the same 3 books out of five.

>>5980035
I'm bisexual.

Wanna cuddle up and read a book together?

>>5980035

all of /lit/ is the same gay and/or virgin 19 year old with daddy and/or mommy issues

>>5979622
The Phantom Tollboth
Alien 3 Novelization
Weaveworld/The Hellbound Heart (tie)
The Martian Chronicles (yes, Bradbury)
A Clockwork Orange

>>5980007
I'll take it

>>5980052
I did get into Dostoevsky because of /lit/, so you might be on to something. I am 20 too, so that part was about right too. Not gay. How do you define "Dadddy/Mommy" Issues?, when you hate them or something like that?
>>5980048
N-No. S-sorry

>>5980052
I can't even call this projection because you're posting on /lit/ yourself. Glad you know yourself though, anon.

Dad is alright, he's accepted the fact you don't want to speak to him but you're always welcome.

>>5979622
White Noise
The Stranger
Notes from the Underground
Fight Club
Letters from a Stoic

Who am I, /lit/?
>inb4 still plebian

>>5980061
just riffing off of bros karm
I think it has to do with projecting your issues on other people, but these are like made up terms and usually used to make fun of 'sluts', but I don't mean it in that way
very roughly
mommy issues= hating women, esp female authority figures
daddy issues=hating authority figures, extra twist if dad was military/cop/some rich business man or whatever

>>5980070
They will call you plebian as long as you have Fight Club in there, m8

>>5979910
A romanticist who yearns for rebel and adventure

>>5980072
I have heard the term before, I just didn't know what people EXACTLY meant by it.

Where I live there is no such thing as "rich busieness man", Sluts are just sluts with broken families I guess.

>>5980073
beat me to it
>>5980032
>>5979946
>>5979936
chill/fine
>>5980066
only slightly projecting, but there is a lot of overlap in these lists

>>5980073
so then doesn't matter what I read i will be pleb as long I have fight club in it. that's shit

>>5980081
yes but also that's life. by the transitive property life is shit, checks out

>>5980081
You can save a thousand people in war and call you a hero, but suck one dick and they'll call you a faggot instead.

>>5980081
We are all the same person living different lives. You can't prove otherwise, can you?. You read Fight Club once and you don't even remember.

Hell, you even fapped to Michelle Trachtenbergs puffy nipples and you don't even remember it.

Do androids dream of electric sheep
Ham on rye
Revolutionary road
Fathers and sons
Fahrenheit 451

The Eternal Husband
Madame Bovary
The Cossacks
Mrs. Dalloway/Orlando
Don Quixote

Looking at it myself, there are a lot of losers in those books, and a lot of men getting humiliated by women, but I can't say I'm into that in real life.

>>5980108
i should have put orlando on mine

you're Romantic

>>5980097

>>5980099
brb googling her name

>>5980123
You won't find what you're looking for. For some men, it is too much, for others not enough. Which one are you, Anon?

Err let's see

To the Lighthouse
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Idiot
The Portrait of a Lady
Germinal

>>5980134
Not enough. She's a meh tier 4 me

Metamorphoses
Oddysey
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Social Construction of Reality by Berger and Luckman
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Naked Lunch
Steppenwolf
High Rise
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Trial

The Crossing
The Aleph
Pale Fire
Moby Dick
White Noise

House of Leaves
Gravity's Rainbow
Collected Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
The Stranger
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

>>5980731
>The Unbearable Lightness of Being

>>5979950
you think you're smarter than everyone else

>>5980032
you have respect for old people

>>5980104
you're a good person, and you hate anal sex

>>5980147
you don't smoke

>>5980152
you have a big penis

>>5980646
you smoke

>>5980684
suicide never crossed your mind

>>5980731
deep inside, you're very sensitive

letters to a young poet
the crying of lot 49
gravity's rainbow
taras bulba
faust

One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Cannery Row

>>5979721
You are a nice person. You're probably religious to an extent.

>>5979701
Edgy, and still hasn't moved from entry-level philosophy, but still thinks he knows a lot

>>5980032
You're not sure yourself what you think of certain things (like religion).

>>5980152
Puts an accent on "manly".

>>5980731
Thinks he's smarter than a lot of people around him.

Moby Dick
The Silmarillion
The Fairie Queene
Anabasis Alexandri
Neuromancer

Who am I, I wonder

>>5980804
>You're not sure yourself what you think

You'll never be a good writer.

>>5980808
Reddit-centric vidya babby.

Me:
Ham on Rye by Bukowski
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
1984 by George Orwell
Junky by William S Burroughs

>>5979622
Shibumi
Dangling man
Don Quixote
Midnight Children
King Lear

The Transylvania trilogy
In Search of Lost Time
Gormenghast
I Am A Cat
The Magic Mountain

>>5980853

You long for a quest

>>5980825

Freshman

>>5980804

College professor?

>>5980792
mindlessness has been an enormous boon as well as a radical set back, and you're not one to do away with nature's gifts despite how poorly they sometimes play out, so the unthinking will not likely desist any time soon.

>>5980804
well informed, poorly adjusted. Pleasant to be around, but painful to observe from a distance - though insightful, shockingly out of touch

>>5980808
A modern disgrace

>>5980825
depressed narcissist with a heightened sense of superiority over others perceptibly undermined by your own perception of yourself

the power and the glory, Greene
blood meridian, McCarthy
pale fire, Nabokov
stoner, Williams
tractatus logico philosophicus, Wittgenstein

Lanark
Lolita
Confederacy of Dunces
The Third Policeman
Gormenghast

Ayoade on Ayoade
Catch-22
The wretched
Clockwork Orange
Then either Lord of the flies or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

One hundred year of solitude
Book of the new sun
We,the drowned
The sun also rises
Brave new world

>>5980804
A pretty cool guy who actually likes reading books

>>5980868

You enjoy surrealist art and like the decadent movement. Extra points for Gormenghast my nigger.

>>5980876

You're part of the "I'm such a NERD XD" crowd.

>>5980881

Often you ponder where society is heading, very mistrusting of the government.

>>5980867

Philosophy student or teacher.

>>5980919
I'm part of no such crowd, I only got into reading in the last year and I thought it sensible to read the 'Classics' first

>>5980922

Ayoade on Ayoade was what led me to believe you were one of those people. I apologize though.

>>5980928
Ah that's alright it's amusing book probably the funniest I have read, but I haven't read many funny books.

>>5980922
Typical "I'm such a NERD XD" crowd rhetoric

>>5980932
It's interesting that you base your entire argument upon that premise, well done.

>>5980922
>I thought it sensible to read the 'Classics' first

Books like that aren't the real classics, though. Do you think books published within the last hundred years could already be considered classics? Get some Sophocles, bitch.

>>5980935
Hence why the word was in inverted comma's I knew you guys wouldn't consider them classics.

>>5980930

Ayoade's quite funny on panel shows and a decent director, I haven't checked out his Dostoyevsky film yet, mostly because I don't want to because Eisenberg is in it. Submarine wasn't bad either. I wonder how he'd do something by Camus?

>>5980867
Resentful creep.
>>5980868
Pervert. Probably a Scot.
>>5980876
Stuck in high school.
>>5980881
Neckbeard demographic.

>>5980867
>well informed, poorly adjusted. Pleasant to be around, but painful to observe from a distance - though insightful, shockingly out of touch
Wow, that's almost completely spot on.

>>5980881
>A pretty cool guy who actually likes reading books
Yep, although you could say "likes reading books" for most of the people in this thread.

>>5980941
Well I know he has a third film on his mind, apart from that I have no clue what it will be about. Though I guess The Stranger would be something that could be up his ally.

>>5980922
Herodotus, Homer, Virgil, Hesiod, Plutarch, Tacitus, Aurelius....and you thought it best to start with the "classic" Ayoade on Ayoade.

>>5980954
Well I shall take your recommendations on board, however I didn't want to get way in over my head too quickly. As for Ayoade on Ayoade I don't consider it a classic, I just enjoyed it.

>>5980867
You like to suck dicks

>>5980941
>Ayoade's quite funny on panel shows

He's no David Mitchell.

>>5980867
>mindlessness has been an enormous boon as well as a radical set back, and you're not one to do away with nature's gifts despite how poorly they sometimes play out, so the unthinking will not likely desist any time soon

no, but thanks

>>5980957
Herodotus' The Histories is place I started and I think it was a good recommendation because it's half interesting telling of Peloponnesian War followed by quickly by bullshit story about Egypt and Ants the size of badgers that eat gold in the desert. Not kidding.

The Grapes of Wrath
The Old Man and the Sea
The Stranger
Of Mice and Men
The Red Room

>>5980969
I may start with the Greeks I'm not too sure yet, I have a couple more kiddy books to read first.

The Day of the Locust
Nobodaddy's Kinder
Lolita
Pale Fire
Ficciones

>>5979781


not familiar with chekhov?


actual fuckin pleb
chekhov is entry-level russian short fiction

The Letter Killers Club
The Foundation Pit
I'm Not Stiller
Vineland
Ulysses

The Trial
Kafka On The Shore
Cats Cradle
Notes From The Underground
100 Years Of Solitude

Pale Fire
House of Leaves
Blood Meridian
Master and Margarita
If a Traveler on a Winter's Night

The Idiot
The Book of the New Sun
Hamlet
Essays and Aphorisms
The Setting Sun

>>5980052
>doesn't look at the books I read
>describes me
Are you a wizard, anon?

>>5981187
not familiar with that particular story! /lit/ is so persnickety n dumb

>>5981510
one of these things is not like the others
cast off the edgy teen you

>>5981195
chill and cool
is vineland your favorite pynchon or the first you've read or? (i've only read gr n lot)

>>5981518
aggressive mother issues! (su/on, hamlet, su/on)

The Good Soldier Švejk
At Swim-Two-Birds
Narziss and Goldmund
Tha Chairs (Ionesco's play)
One Hundred Years of Solitude

>>5980792
I actually used to smoke...but never had an addiction to smoking.

I am doing 10 because I am a massive faggot
Ficciones
Brothers Karamazov
Moby Dick
Blood Meridian
Pale Fire
The Illiad
The Hobbit
As I lay Dying
In Cold Blood
East of Eden

The Sun Also Rises
The Stranger
Slouching Toward's Bethlehem
Howl
Burmese Days

>>5980867
'11/'12 /lit/erati

>>5980804
Reads the New Yorker

>>5980792
Atheist with some sort of artist's quasi-spirituality.

>>5980731
Genre fiction lover mid-transition to experimentalist addict

>>5981195
The type of person who likes Vineland. (I don't know what type of person that is, either - it could be a really cool kind?)

>>5981508
Is really hung up on the vicissitudes of society - White Noise would be in your top ten, and you'd probably quote Zizek in political discussion.

>>5981510
Will soon have read so much clever metafiction that he'll become jaded and be forced to look for new pastures.

>>5980804
>You are a nice person. You're probably religious to an extent.

Well, I am kinda nice when I am not pissed, tired or depressed, so yeah. I am not religious at all.

>>5980148
I find her lovely for some reason.

>>5981697
didion is a ray of light in there
forget the beats, read kafka and more didion (play it as it lays for fiction, the white album for non)

same goes out to all 70% who put the stranger on your list

>>5981705
i have read kafka
i like the beats more
personal preference
i'm not going to pretend to like stuff that i don't enjoy

In Search of Lost Time
Parade's End
Snow Country
The Sound and the Fury
No One Writes Back

>>5981695
Believes in the "proper stuff" of literature. Fiercely masculine in thought but somewhat effeminate outwardly.

>>5980973
A true believer in man's ability to define himself.

>>5980825
Don't know what to say, but a Spot of Bother is a pretty good book. Ham on Rye/Junky/1984 suggests that you are overly cynical with a superiority complex while simultaneously loathing yourself as much as others around you. You need to grow up.

Mine:


The Trial
Lolita
Sons and Lovers
The Myth of Sisyphus
Infinite Jest

you're all
cunts

>>5981728
You are currently awaiting trail on charges of having sex with your under-age son, while pondering the absurdity of existence. You also like tennis

>>5981755

>trail

*Trial

Nightwood
The Death of Virgil
In Search of Lost Time
Infinite Jest
The Tunnel (Gass, not Sabato)

>>5981660
>aggressive mother issues! (su/on, hamlet, su/on)

Frighteningly accurate/10

Thanks Freud.

Greg Egan - Permutation City
Suarez - FreedomTM
Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Kafka - Short stories

>>5981879
cool patient n cute
>>5981715
u too prob

>>5981899
Recently stopped doing drugs. Good for you.

Venus in Furs
120 Days of Sodom
Hamlet
Phenomenology of Spirit
Ecce Homo

Anna Karenina
Steppenwolf
Ars Amatoria
Crime and Punishment
Love in the Time of Cholera

This Side of Paradise
House of Leaves
Invisible Cities
Catch-22
The Trial

>>5981961
Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris

I don't read.

>>5981987
The Last Honest Man on /lit/

1984
A Clockwork Orange
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
Animal Farm

War and Peace
Macbeth
The Iliad
Crime and Punishment
Villon's Testament and Lais

>>5981932
you pretty cool

>>5980973
a true man

>>5980867
a literal autistic faggot

>>5980825
you are become meme

>>5980804
get that dumas genre fiction shit out of there and you pretty cool

>>5980731
pretty cool guy imo

>>5981997
underageb&

>>5982012
Keeps 101 great works to read before you die on his bedside table

>>5979622
>Norwegian Wood

A pleb

Darkness At Noon
Under The Volcano
The Trial
I, Claudius
The Divine Comedy

2666
The Sirens of Titan
Babbitt
The Subterraneans
Journey to the End of the Night

>>5981518
Whose Essays and Aphorisms?

>>5982064
Google search is telling me Schopenhauer

The King in Yellow
Blood Meridian
Faust
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
1984

>>5979622
Dune 4
Dune 5
Dune 6
Dune 1
Dune 3

The Street of Crocodiles
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Garden, Ashes
Sixty Stories
A Voice Through a Cloud

We
The Satanic Verses
Solaris
The Plague
The three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

tristram shandy
tlotiat
old man and the sea
don quixote
gilgamesh

>calling people edgy as if being edgy is a bad thing
you some kind if fucking normie?

At the mountains if madness
The war of the worlds
The hobbit
The rats in the walls
The Colour out of space

Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Wise Blood
House of Leaves
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Bring on the judgement.

>>5982551
A neckbeard; not bright but chill.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Crime and Punishment
All the King's Men
Confessions of a Mask
Nabokov's The Gift

In no particular order.

1) Infinite Jest
2) Freedom
3) Stoner
4) The Metamorphosis
5) The Picture of Dorian Gray

>>5982642
whiteboi

>>5979701
>L'Estranger
>The Idiot
why do you write one title in its original language and not the other?

The Lady with the Dog
Gravity's Rainbow
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Collected Fictions of Borges

Sorry but I guess I don't have the intuition to see personallitys behind these lists. Though paradoxically I attribute my list to aspects of my personality.

Captcha: forma nyispa

~~~> >>5981728 <~~~
Validate me

Huckleberry Finn
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Road
The Wars
Snow Falling on Cedars

MarijuanAmerica One mans quest to understand Americas dysfunctional love affair with weed by Alfred Ryan Nerz

Witch Piss by Sam Pink

Looking For Alaska by John Green

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiiasen

Play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin to bleed a bit by Bukowski

>>5982251
like, 15 yo teen boy version of edgy

anna karenina
madame bovary
hamlet
little, big
paradise lost

>>5981660

favorite pynchon

v was also good, along with slow learner

The Sun Also Rises
Stoner
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Book of Disquiet

Since you didn't specify novels...

>>5982196

the first real plen

Crime and Punishment
Notes from Underground
Great Expectations
A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man
Abel's Island

>>5983241
i also like tao lin by tai pei

The Aleph (Borges)
Les Essais (Montaigne)
Savage Detectives (Bolano)
Blood Meridian (McCarthy)
The Iliad (Homer)

Foundation Trilogy
Brave New World
The Hive
The Anarchist Banker (Pessoa)
Metamorphoses

r8 plz

>>5983304
>The Iliad
Good

>>5983346
The Hive from José Cela, I mean.

The Aleph (J. L. Borges)
On the Art of Poetry (Aristotle)
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
1984 (George Orwell)
The Kreutzer Sonata (Leo Tolstoy)

>>5983304
Are you latin american?

Anna Karenina
Catch 22
Blood Meridian
East of Eden
In Dubious Battle

>>5982934
Decent list until The Road, have no idea how anyone liked that book.

you seem chill otherwise, maybe indecisive?

Crime and Punishment
The Possessed
The Tunnel
The Outsider
One Hundred Years of Solitude