/lit/ - Literature

>>6158279
Yet another age thread. Jesus christ.

20.
Vonnegut. He's really the only author I've read enough to call my favorite.
Maybe Ray Bradbury.

>>6158279
25,
and i want to say tolstoy but he's the next post down. dickens?

>>6158284
god, 20 and you haven't outgrown vonnegut?

19

Sappho
Virginia Woolf
Emily Brontë
Marcel Proust
Homer
Thucydides

2486

Aeschylus

What's wrong with Vonnegut? I'm kind of burnt out on him right now but Cat's Cradle and Mother Night are my favorite novels of all time.

>>6158292
he is a very poor writer. i cringe, he is so cliche. the themes of his work are poignant only to the very young, or those of minimal life experience. his writing style is basic, which is even more disappointing considering how much education and training was available to him. harrison bergeron, perhaps his most highly acclaimed short story is like reading through porridge. his novels, like slaughterhouse five, are even more tedious and hackneyed.
In short, he fucking sucks the most grandiose of donkey dicks

20

Borges
Joyce
Gemmell
Shelley

23

Cortázar
Asimov
Wells

Didn't read enough of other authors to call them "favourites" but so far Dostoyevski is getting there.

23
Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Ovid, Shakespeare, Browne, Spenser, Burton, Gibbon, Nietzsche

>>6158279
19
Kafka
Joyce
Proust

23

Jung
Edward Edinger
Umberto Eco
Valery Briusov
Evgheni Zamyatin
Lovecraft
Oswald Wirth

20

Hemingway
PKD
Huxley

>>6158279
25

La Fontaine
Racine
Mallarmé
Pope
Gogol

34

Poe
King
Koontz
Barker

:^)

28

hemingway
borges
chesterton
kafka

17 forever 24
Borges-kun
Marquez-san
Joyce-nii
Dosto-chan
PKD-sama
Delillo-tan
Asimov sensei

I haven't read that much for my age as you can see, still lots of stuff to catch up.

>>6158279
20
Gene Wolfe
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
C. S. Lewis
Plato
Kierkegaard
Philip K Penis
Lermontov
Dante

>>6158330
noice

21


Cioran
Rimbaud
Lautréamont
Shakespeare

>>6158959
You my kind of nigga.

>>6158985
t-thx
if you read these, do you read them translated or in french?

>>6158929
>diminutives with Borges and Dostoyevsky
>honorific with Asimov and PKD
3/10 I responded

>>6158959

>Cioran
>Rimbaud
>Lautréamont

This is cringe-worthy levels of edge.

>>6158996
are you the Mallarmé fan?

>>6158291
Kek

>>6158307
Oh give it a rest, he's enjoyable.

>>6158996
Yeah, and it's even worse to call Rimbaud edgy.

>>6158307
fuck off

>>6158989
First read them in translation, when my french finally was good enough, I read them in french.

>age
I will be the first baby born in the year 3000
>favorite writer
wore the bandana

>>6158994
I didn't think of the weight of the honorifics while writing it, otherwise I'd use formal ones for my favorites and use diminutives for authors I really like but wouldn't name as favorites.

>>6159017
wow that's brave, I hope poetry isn't too difficult. where are you from?

>>6159007

Don't read the post out of context you wounded fangirl. It's the fact that he's listed Rimbaud, Cioran, and Lautréamont all in his top writers. It's crawling in my skin tier.

Might as well throw Ligotti in there as well all you stereotypical edgekids always do.

26
Borges, Nabokov, PKD

>>6159031
I could have posted some more that are of a completely different vein, it wouldn't change the works of these three and the way they've moved me. I guess it has to do with this terrible winter mood and I have no idea why you would care ! O guess it's just that you reacted like the complete douche you are.

>>6159007

>and it's even worse to call Rimbaud edgy

he is edgy you sorry sack of denial. literally his entire life was edgy as well. lol listen to yourself.

>>6158999
hmm not him but I'm the one who mentioned Mallarmé
Problem?

>>6159045

>O guess it's just that you reacted like the complete douche you are.

It's a corny teenlord list that you chose to post in a lame survey thread. You'll survive.

>Your age

TWENTYFOUR YEARS.

>Your favourite writers

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:


NONFICTION:

AYN RAND.

HERAKLITUS.

JOSÉ VASCONCELOS.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL.


FICTION:

AYN RAND.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

22

Patricia Highsmith

She was such a cutie.

>>6159028
In the beginning, poetry was admittedly quite a piece of work. I'm from Germany, how about you, Anon-kun?

24
bukowski

pleb and proud

>>6159108
disgusting

18
Bernard Cornwell

20

Raymond Carver
Tao Lin
Franz Kafka
Richard Brautigan
Sylvia Plath

>>6158279
19

tfw no favs for some time now cause I'm obsessed with how subjective everything is

>22

Beckett
Joyce
Marquez
Nabokov
TS Eliot
Kafka
DFW

22

Milton
George Elliot
Dostoevsky
Dante
Shakespeare

19

Maurice Merleau-ponty
Alfred North Whitehead
Wittgenstein

If we're talking strictly fiction...
Lewis Carroll
Kafka
Dostoevsky

19

Wittgenstein
Stirner
Dick
Grimwood
Asimov

Twenty years

Hardy
Zola
Dickens
Gogol
Dostoevsky
Turgenev
Lelville
Joyce

>pleb after pleb after pleb of english undergrads

>>6159325
>not listing your own favourites
Coward.

>>6159098
>DFW
>Rand
>Salinger

Why even post on /lit/

>>6159327
25

Theroux
Sukenick
Sorrentino
Durrell
Malamud
Schmidt

>>6158279
25
Erdrich
Steinbeck
Antrim
Gorky
Didion

21

steinbeck, woolf, kerouac, joyce, garcia- marquez, orwell

>>6159351

Serious dude detected

23

Swift
Gaddis
Calvino
Pynchon

16

John Green

>>6158959
Great eye my friend, I love the unusual combination

Do you write?

>>6159145
So.. Artaud?

>>6159145
That just means you're an indecisive, special snowflake pussy.

>>6158367
>>6158929
>>6158950
>>6158959
>>6159156
>>6159192
>>6159212
>>6159355
>>6159357

This is one of my first times on /lit and i am amazed. I didn't think 4chan could have such great taste

I am 31

Other than the ones mentioned above:

Gombrowicz
Felisberto Hernádez

Bernard Marie Koltés
Federico García Lorca

Odysséas Elýtis
Antonio Porchia

George Steiner
Francois Jullien

>>6158279
20
Alain Damasio, Thomas More, George Orwell, Andrzej Sapkowski.

>>6158279
20
Milan Kundera
Vonnegut
H.P. Lovecraft

There the only ones I've really read enough of to call my favorite authors. Poets would be a different story for me. And I'm also reading Moby Dick right now and its incredibly fascinating albeit a little dense but not too much to where it feels over my head. I've only really become a good /lit/ reader in the past couple of years, before that I couldn't find the time nor the care to read books for pleasure.

>>6158279
22
Nabokov
Hemingway
Kafka
Lovecraft

25
poe and kafka

28

Gene Wolfe
Jorge Luis Borges
Herman Melville
Ralph Ellison
William Shakespeare

Fifteen; Hume ('An Enquiry'...), Joyce ('The Portrait'...), Faulkner ('The Sound and the Fury'), Woolf ('To the Lighthouse'), and Cervantes ('Don Quixote').

18

Steinbeck
Camus
Joyce

26

Nietzsche
Heidegger
Orwell
Nabokov
Proust

Michel Tournier
I'm fucking suprised anyone mentioned him yet.
Wait... no one ever mentions him. Why?

>>6159607
>Heidegger
gtfo xD do you really understand his bubble?

>>6159350
(S)he is an attention whoring trip fag who posts all caps on every post to try and become memeified. Just ignore and maybe they'll go away.

Delillo
Pynchon
Gaddis
Woolf
PKD

22

Joan Didion
Hemingway
Ted Hughes
Camus
Annie Dillard
Orwell (his journalistic works are on point, Burmese Days is great as well)
Susan Orlean
Berryman
Ginsberg

28

Plato
P.B. Shelley
Spenser
Shakespeare
Orwell

>>6158279
20
Cormac McCarthy
Herman Melville
John Keats

>>6159607
>Heidegger
>Orwell
kek

>>6159377
I try to
Thank you

>>6159383
this

>>6158279

28

Jonathan Raban
Jeffrey Eugenides
Saul Bellow
Cormac McCarthy

17

Hegel

23
Joyce
Kafka
Shelley
Schmidt
Shakespeare
Trakl
Borges
Homer
Faulkner
Hölderlin
Melville
Musil
Cheever
Sophocles

>>6160003
>tfw when John E Woods STILL hasn't finished Bottom's Dream

>>6160012
my nigga

19

Hunter S. Thompson
Will Self
Anthony Burgess
Orwell
Wilde

Poets:
John Betjetman
John Claire
W H Auden
Shelly
Yeats

25, no favourite writers.

>>6159229
>muh red
>an actual meme
>not bad
>literally who
>autism

Hahaha yeah you're definitely 19

>>6160050
you're not a nice person

>>6159706
>Waaaahhh the CIA cares that I'm 22 xP

Anyway do you like Jonathan Swift? Gonna prioritize woolf due to your post.

>>6160055
And you're a wee widdle newdyke shittershattered rimjob giving kike-nigger from a website you should go back to.

>>6160074
you kinda give off a violent schizophrenic vibe
at the very least you're severely mentally unstable

>>6159404


To call it taste is to ameliorate what it really; intellectual elitism.

19

no favorites as I read a little of everything, and never read enough of a single author to consider them a "favorite."

23

Spenser
Shelley
James
Woolf

>>6158279
18

Salinger

>>6159404
why'd you ruin it with your post buddy

>>6158289
would you mail me marcus proust?

19
bataille, proust, dazai, ryukishi07

>>6161587
>Spenser
>Shelley
Will you be my bff?

>>6161650
>marcus proust
shure

>>6159369
Very cool. You're a poster who knows what he likes.

Or is really fixated on a certain type of writing.

24

Kafka
Beckett
Pynchon

20
Gogol
Goethe
Tanizaki
Celine
Neechee

>>6158279

24

Calvino

Kazuo Ishiguro

Borges

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

24

Dante
John Williams
Flannery O'Connor
Georges Perec

26

I honestly don't know. I've got 8 books by Philip K Dick on my bookshelf but I haven't read him in a few years or thought about his work much. I loved Stoner by John Williams but only got halfway through Augustus before getting distracted. I loved Kafka at one point but I never really think of him or his work these days.

I guess I would say Dostoevsky since I still think about his work a lot. Catcher in the Rye was my favorite book as a teen and the last book my brother was reading before he died but I'm afraid to read it again since it might have lost its magic for me after 13 years.

I adored the Cyberiad by Lem but have found 3 of his other books I've tried to be just okay. I don't have the patience for Thomas Pynchon or David Foster Wallace anymore although I enjoyed reading them.

I guess being a little depressed and working a new job has changed me to the point where I can't pick favorites anymore. I just read whatever holds my interest which is very difficult lately. If something doesn't affect me within 50 pages I'm not willing to work and see it to the end in faith that it'll get better anymore.

So yeah. Dostoevsky I guess.

33

Robert H Heinlein / Piers Anthony

Philip K Dick / Robert Anton Wilson

David Foster Wallace / Thomas Pynchon

Carlton Mellick III

I'm pure garbage tier baby

23

Shakespeare
Dickinson
Woolf
McCarthy
Pynchon
DeLillo
Melville
kafka

29

Ken Liu
Kij Johnson
Yoon Ha Lee

Ray Bradbury
Franz Kafka
Lord Dunsany

And to be cool, I guess I need a philosopher, so Sartre, but it's for Nausea, because fuck non-fiction, life isn't long enough.

>>6162498
>Piers Anthony
Not Jack Vance?
How about P.J Farmer?

>>6162527

Mostly because Behold a Pale Horse impacted young me more than any book, as well as Xanth. Xanth is goofy as fuck, Anthony went full creepy old pervert in his old years, but the book about death weighing souls and existential plight while fighting Satan with the Batman arsenal was... that always stuck with me.

Even if Pratchett's Mort was better writing.

18
Either Dumas or Dostoevsky
Need to read Nabokov and Vonnegut though

24
Balzac
Couperus
Yates
Broch

>>6163427

Which Yates, you dutch fuck?

23

F. Dostojewski
A. Camus
A. C. Clarke

>>6158279
21

Dostoevsky
Joseph Conrad

29

Murakami
Bender
Coupland
Marquez

Why does /lit/ have so many shit b-tier threads like this?

Aren't you guys supposed to be smart?

24

Nakobov
Proust
Huysmans
Céline

25

Gene Wolfe
John Crowley
Borges
Neal Gaiman
Kafka
Chesterton
Grant Morrisson
Saint-Exupery

Why is lit so old?

I'm also 23

>>6158279
18

Sartre
Voltaire
Borges
Dostoevsky
Murakami
Lovecraft
DFW (haven't read Infinite Jest, just his short stories)
Umberto Eco
Poe
Nabokov
Tolstoy (also just the short stories)
Mervyn Peake

off the top of my head

>>6163757
>mervyn peake

my nigga

18

DFW
Nabokov
McCarthy
Faulkner
Steinbeck
Hemingway
Shakespeare
Coleridge
TS Eliot
Melville
Goethe

>>6163816
>Goethe
Fucking 10/10. Loved Faust to pieces. What of his do you enjoy?

16

rhe infinet rriver

>>6159419
>28
>Gene Wolfe
Holy shit the autism.

21
Joyce
Borges
Nietzsche
Woolf
Dostoevsky
Pynchon
Faulkner
Kafka
Shakespeare
Eco
Beckett
Proust

Nabokov is growing on me, but not quite there yet.

18
Camus
Dostoevsky
Bulgakov

>>6163846
try harder m8

>>6158279
Jk Rowlings, Stephanie Myeer, Suzanne Collins, Chuck Polonick

>>6164040
what's try hard about my favs

19
Bob Dylan

>>6161666
Sure thing, anon-kun :3

18

william gaddis, georges perec, marguerite young, gertrude stein, louis zukofsky, frank stanford

Rimbaud
Stendhal
Vernes
Baudelaire
Joyce
Schopenhauer
Nietzches

Guys, what are you thinking of Rimbaud ?

>>6162498
>>Carlton Mellick III

Another Bizarro lover! I don't care what anyone says, this weird shit is what got me into reading.

31

tolstoy, krasznahorkai, tolkein, woolf, calvino

>>6163727
Old? If anything it's young! Look at all the 18-21 yr olds posting, only a couple of people in this thread is over age 30.

>>6164540
one anon recommended his biography by graham robb and it is pretty good so far. written well and seemingly well researched

>>6164629
*are

>>6161637
>>6160093

How can you read so much and feel so little?

>>6158279
18, James Joyce and Richard Raynor

>>6164540
La Comédie de la Soif is probably one of the greatest poem of the XXth

>your age
20
>your favourite writers
Kafka, Borges, Dostoevsky
>authors I've only read a one work each by but are almost certain to become favorites
Mishima, Joyce, Marquez

22

Bulgakov
King
Chaucer
Kafka

20
Yukio Mishima, Stefan Burnett

27

w.g. sebald
robinson jeffers
walt whitman
william blake
laszlo krasznahorkai
james joyce
pablo neruda
e.e cummings
william carlos williams

>>6164461

>william gaddis
>louis zukofsky
>frank stanford

nice taste m8.

26
James Joyce
Homer
Dante
Byron

Reminder no matter what age you are, your favorite writer should be yourself.

>>6158279
17

Favorite writes? Don't know, I don't remember author names and I already read and write too much to read books right now. I just went to 3 hours of college because I'm behind on my credits, which is a real ironic shame. Jerry Cleaver is a funny guy though.

>>6166238
Bro-tier.

>>6158279
mfw i see all these 18yo namedropping and they think we don't notice

>>6158284
>Not leaving Vonnegut in early high school where he belongs

Read more

>>6163493
Common misconception.

25
Amanda McKittrick Ros
Russell Brand
Mark O’Connell
Ayn Rand
V.C. Andrews
Augustine Burroughs
Tupac
Kerouac
Geoffrey Chaucer
Barbara Cartland
Jeffrey Archer
Will Self
Harry Stephen Keeler
EL James
L. Ron Hubbard
Dan Brown
Glenn Beck
Barack Obama
Adolf Hitler (only ironically)
Dean Koontz
Tom Clancy
J. K. Rowling
Pope Innocent III
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Theodore Dreiser
Owen Wister
Upton Sinclair
Kenji Siratori

Many are underrated and have fantastic prose. But by and large it is an objective fact that this list is the list that ends all the lists.

>>6167568
I agree

>>6158312
vased

>>6167568

I agree with everything except Kerouac and Brand

>>6158332
add borges and best taste in thread

>>6167604

>Proust

top effete pleb

>>6158279
Only 2 votes on Gene Wolfe. How? Why?

>>6158279
16

kafka, gide, beckett, goethe, celine, turgenev, flaubert

19

Mishima

21

cervantes rabelais proust gaddis gogol

25

borges
andrey platonov
dostoevsky
balzac
mishima

26

Heraclitus
Heidegger
Nietzsche
Levinas
Sophocles

Novels can suck a dick

>>6158279
18
murakami

>>6170510
you sound insufferable
heidegger a shit

>>6170550

Heidegger both a shit and damn important.

Shame he was a complete autist really

20

Ginsberg
Steve Roggenbuck
Murakami
Piers Anthony i know i know i know i know i know i know i know
Walt Whitman
Miranda July
Woolf
e e cummings

>>6170574

Heidegger isn't important lol. Dude doesn't even have a single important sentence.

>>6171111

>Steve Roggenbuck

well you're only 20 so i get it but still... why..

>>6171111

>STEVE ROGGENBUCK

omfg

25

Thomas Pynchon
Tao Lin

>>6171125
>implying Tao Lin is better than Roggenbuck

>>6171136

you probably jumped off the tao lin because you're an SJW piece of shit

niggerbuck never writes anything profound. Like, i hate myself for saying, but he memes in "poetry form", whatever that is, and is a 100% product of the internet and nothing special.

NO ONE will remember him probably pretty soon.

>>6171145

>you're an SJW piece of shit
>niggerbuck

he's only 20. you have half a decade on him and you come across as younger than he is. what is the matter with you lol seriously.

>>6171154

niggerbuck is really funny. you have to admit.

also,

>isn't an SJW

>must be young and childish

fuck off

>>6171166

>>isn't an SJW
>>must be young and childish

>fuck off

lol it has nothing to with sjws you are half a decade older than him and you literally can't stop tripping over your own angst

why are you like this

>>6171362

mostly boredom

>>6159785
I just received in the post yesterday a book by Nescio and he is now one of my favorite authors

The Freeloader and Little Titans are amazing short stories for any intelligent and creative person at age 19-20

23
Steven Erikson
Glen Cook
Thomas Pynchon
Roald Dahl
Borges
Patrick Rothfuss

>>6158279
27

Edgar Allan Poe
H. P. Lovecraft
Ambrose Bierce
Julio Cortazar
Horacio Quiroga
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
Franz Kafka
Lin Yutang

24
Dan Brown
John Grisham
Michael Crichton

30
King
Atwood
Snyder

not one mention of palahniuk
Thank you. Thank you, /lit/!
I was worried for a second.

>>6158279
19

Nietzsche
Akiko
Plath

19
Stendhal, Jack London and Bocaccio.

>>6159617
Because no one knows about "Le roi des Aulnes"
Maybe because it isn't you really try, when you are young... I first discovered this book by my brother when i was 22 or so. Also, french.

>>6164169
>>6174629
You forgot that lit/ is illiterate.

>>6174913
*something

22

Richard Adams
Mervyn Peake
Chaucer

20
Dickens, Donne, Hayek

>>6158279
23

Robert Louis Stevenson
Michael Crichton
J.R.R. Tolkien

26
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Michel Tournier
Anne Hébert
Gergart Hauptmann

26

Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Douglas Coupland, Alan Dershowitz, John Kenneth Galbraith.

>>6167568
You like both Glenn Beck and Russell Brand? What? Is there another Glenn Beck floating around somewhere?

>>6176094
Glenn Beck is Russell Brand's dad.

>>6171120
really, my age is probably one of the largest factors for why I like roggenbuck so much. I might continue to love or grow to hate his work in the future, but I'm alright with being young and caught up in art people may find silly

20

Byron
Tennyson
Milton
Wilde
Neruda

24

Kafka
Pessoa
Nelson Rodrigues
Felisberto Hernandéz
Borges
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Dostoevsky
Hamsun
Céline
Cioran
Kierkegaard
Walser
Unamuno
Octavio Paz
Trakl
Bukowski
Fante

>>6176333
>Bukowski

not subtle enough/10

24
Hemingway

>>6171111

dose well baited quads

22

favorite writers (meaning here the authors whose names come to mind when trying to remember every work that impressed me because of the strength of its writing)

kierkegaard
marx
nietzsche
freud
malinowski
crapanzano
debord
foucault
shakespeare
charlotte perkins gilman
dfw

>>6158279

>22

Paul Bowles
Macarthy
Stephen Baxter
Thomas Pynchon

19, turn 20 next month
>PKD
>Joyce
>Kerouac
>Klosterman
>Nietzsche
>Murakami
>Alinsky

>>6176486
>implying

20

Hesse
Remarque
Eco
Camus
Sartre

I would tentatively mention Murakami for the charm of Norwegian Wood, nothing else of note so far.

>>6159098
>Koz appreciates Jerry
>mfw

why aren't you my boyfriend yet

18

Kafka
Flaubert
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Dostoevsky
Proust
O'Casey
Rilke
Lorca
Keats
Rimbaud
Burns
E. Brontë
Austen
James
Blake
Coleridge
Fitzgerald

23

>favorite people who produce books i like
terkel, eco, raw, hugo, mishma, laing, burroughs, goodman, jung, crowley, hall, frye, mcluhan, turgenev, boll, reich, storr, maugham, mumford

>favorite writers
joyce, salinger, ishguro, melville, knowles, anderson, traven, miller

20

Benjamin Field
Les Twins
Danielewski
Fiasco
Grae
my dead gay faggot dad
no1 else who posts here lmao

Borges seems to be like, where should I start with him ?

ITT teenagers vomit 15 authors they've never read/can't understand

>>6177259
H-how did you know!? D:

30

António Lobo Antunes
Mijaíl Bulgákov
Charles Dickens
Cormac McCarthy
William Faulkner
Joseph Heller
Raul Brandao
Kenzaburo Oé

>>6177240
The Aleph, then Ficciones.

If you can get any out-of-print translations by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, your reading experience will be even more amazing.

/lit/ is either a lot older than other boards like /mu/ and /sci/ or there's a lot of people lying about their age. Which do you think it is?

>>6177299
thanks, but I'm French (about the translation)

18

I haven't really read enough to have a favorite.

>>6177344
this

>>6158279

22

It's hard to say, because most of the time I only read 1-2 books by any given author...but here's a few that I really liked, given those 1-2 books

Borges
Flaubert
Musil
Stanislaw Lem
Maybe Asimov or Clarke....

>>6177299

I read his selected poetry and The Labyrinth, should I go for next between Ficciones and Aleph?

Turned 23 three weeks ago

D. H. Lawrence
Anton Chekhov
James Salter
William Burroughs
Steven Millhauser
Annie Proulx
Robertson Davies
Stendhal

22

Jonathan Franzen seduces me back to his books more than anyone else.

15
Faulkner
Eliot
Yeats
Bogan
Fitzgerald
Bukowski
Vonnegut

>>6158279
>18

Mervyn Peake, Cao Xueqin, Marcel Schwob, Robert Aickman and Louis Ferdinand Celine.

27

Bernhard
Euripides
Bellow
Mishima