/lit/ - Literature

sorry, but when did /lit/ become your myspace?

>18
>male
>UK
>white british
>at uni
>published novelist
>irreligious
>bitterly left wing
>15
>3
>Nabokov
>Borges
>Heaney
>Shakespeare
>Locke
>By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
>Much Ado About Nothing
>Hamlet
>only the holy trinity of /lit/ /fit/ and /hm/
>none
>music > literature > art > rest

>your age
20
>sex
m
>country
us
>race/ethnicity
moms german dad's lebanese
>current employment/education status
in school
>/lit/-related ambitions
get published
>religious views
atheist
>political views
left
>age you lost your virginity
lol
>number of people you have had sex with
lol
>favourite novelist
tolstoy
>favourite short story author
chekhov
>favourite poet
either ts eliot or plath
>favourite playwright
chekhov
>favourite philosopher
plato
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
thus spoke zarathustra
>last book you read
and quiet flows the don
>book you are currently reading
the don flows home to the sea
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
>other literature-related sites you use
n/a
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest
music

>>6224373
I feel like we could be friends

>>6224394
ok

19

Male

Italian

Independent game director

I am learning Japanese and Classical Greek and I hope to read a full book in one of those languages soon.

Don't really know.

Mostly conservative

lol

lol

Dostoevsky

Kafka

John Donne

Ibsen

Haven't read much of philosophy yet.

uh, Herodotus' Histories was a pain to get through, but it wasn't difficult.

Last book I read was the Anabasis by Xenophon.

Currently reading Elements by Euclid and the Last Days of Socrates by Plato.

/v/, /vg/, /m/

None

Art, film and vidya.

>18
>male
>Turkey
>Caucasian
>Finishing high school, waiting for college acceptance letters
>Want to get an honorable mention in one writing contest
>Muslim, Sunni/Hanefi
>Indifferent
>Still on the path to wizardhood
>0
>Frank Herbert
>H.P. Lovecraft
>Don't read a lot of poetry, but Orhan Veli is alright
>Having only reluctantly read Shakespeare, N/A
>Aristotle, played a key role in the coming-about of science as we know it
>The Muqaddimah, very heavy and region-specific, but does have some good broadly-applicable sociological insights
>The Dark Tower I
>The Dark Tower II
>/a/, /tg/, /u/
>None
>Animu, mango, tabletop RPG, a bit of vidya, programming

>19
>Male
>USA
>White
>1st year of undergrad
>Publish a short story or some shit I don't know I want to be a lawyer
>Catholic
>Income inequality is a problem, sort of that, not much else
>18
>4
>Steinbeck
>Salinger
>None
>Eugene O'Niel
>Jesus
>The Sound and the Fury
>Inherent Vice
>The Day of the Locust
>/tv/ to prowse, /o/ to browse, /biz/ to troll
>none
>music and film

didn't answer the shit tier sex questions

>your age
19
>sex
female
>country
canada
>race/ethnicity
white, scottish/russian
>current employment/education status
20 hours/week in sales, full time university student
>/lit/-related ambitions
publish historical nonfiction
>religious views
atheist
>political views
some clusterfuck of republicanism, nationalism, and a splash of socialism
>favourite novelist
umberto eco or thomas carlyle
>favourite short story author
borges or tolstoy
>favourite poet
shelley
>favourite playwright
goethe
>favourite philosopher
sartre
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
what constitutes a "difficult book"?
>last book you read
ferdydurke by witold gombrowicz
>book you are currently reading
hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world by murakami
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
none
>other literature-related sites you use
none
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
huge fan of opera, mildly interested in art

>>6224468
favourite opera
>inb4 german opera

>>6224308
>>your age
20
>>sex
20
>>country
US
>>race/ethnicity
White Anglo-Saxon
>>current employment/education status
Part-time in law firm/ full time bachelors in business
>>/lit/-related ambitions
get published
>>religious views
protestant
>>political views
undecided
>>age you lost your virginity
dating pure christian girl since beginning of high school
>>number of people you have had sex with
>implying
>>favourite novelist
Dostoevsky
>>favourite short story author
Lovecraft
>>favourite poet
Virgil
>>favourite playwright
Prest
>>favourite philosopher
Marcus Aurelius
>>most difficult book you have ever read in full
44 Sermons by John Wesley
>>last book you read
reread Crime and Punishment
>>book you are currently reading
rereading The Brothers Karamazov
>>other boards on 4chan you frequent
sometimes /fit/
>>other literature-related sites you use
I don't know of any besides here and goodreads
>>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
music; played piano for 11 years

>>6224473
mitridate eupatore, if i had to choose

>>6224468

Of course you didn't. You're a girl so you don't have to worry about nonsense things like age you lost your virginity, because all you'd have to do is give a smile to some horny guy and you'd get laid. And then you can complain some about white angry guys ruining this world.

>>6224475
>>6224468
>>6224458
>>6224446
>>6224373
>>>/r9k/

>>6224483
what did the world do to you to make you so hypersensitive

>>6224308
20
male
slav
student
none
catholic
catholic
kek
kek
gene wolfe
poe
dante
shaekspeare
plato
don't have one for that
idea of christian society by elliot
wisdom of the west by russel
rarely /mu/
goodreads
have an interest in music and sometimes vidya

I thought the idea of adult virgins was just something made up for films like that steve carrell movie lmao get a life losers

>>6224484
but I just have to wait until marriage man its no big deal

>>6224484
i didn't answer the sex part because it was irrelevant, not because i'm a bitter virgin

>>6224514
it's a fucking survey every question is irrelevant

>>6224505
hahahaha
the idea that an all powerful master of the universe would care who you sleep with is ridiculous

>>6224492
what sort of music do you like?

>>6224518
irrelevant to a /lit/ survey, i thought

interesting how many people are so seemingly passionate about my sex life

>>6224308
>your age
25
>sex
male
>country
Canadian, born in the UK
>race/ethnicity
1/8th boer, mischling
>current employment/education status
wrapping up my undergrad
>/lit/-related ambitions
read a lot, make some new friends who read a lot too.
>religious views
atheist
>political views
left
>age you lost your virginity
13
>number of people you have had sex with
13
>favourite novelist
probably McCarthy if I can only pick one.
>favourite short story author
probably Richard Yates
>favourite poet
probably Heinrich Heine
>favourite playwright
Edward Albee, don't read many plays.
>favourite philosopher
easily Wittgenstein
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Maybe something by Kant
>last book you read
The Corrections (meh)
>book you are currently reading
Cosmopolis
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
none
>other literature-related sites you use
none
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
I play drums professionally

>>6224468
Because of this I'm *only* gonna answer the god-tier sex questions

>age you lost your virginity
21, to a hooker. Could have lost it at 16 to a qt p2t my age but aspergers. I hate you pieces of shit who lost their's at 15.

>number of people you have had sex with
5 or so. None particularly qt

welcome to /soc/

>your age
27
>sex
m
>country
usa
>race/ethnicity
white (like Irish/English/German/Dutch...white)
>current employment/education status
work in entertainment industry, write freelance a few places, tutor for a little more money
>/lit/-related ambitions
publish a novel and get a screenplay produced
>religious views
Catholic for the rituals and culture, not the spirituality
>political views
I have some sympathy for anarchist/libertarian socialist viewpoints but functionally a left-Keynesian liberal, proponent of basic income
>age you lost your virginity
20 I think
>number of people you have had sex with
6 unless I'm forgetting someone
>favourite novelist
Pynchon or Nabokov
>favourite short story author
Kafka
>favourite poet
Wallace Stevens
>favourite playwright
Michael Frayn, or Shakespeare if that's not cheating
>favourite philosopher
Kant, Hume, Popper and Kierkegaard are probably the only ones who have had a real permanent effect on me. no strong feeling about a favorite of those
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Ulysses was a lot harder than Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest
>last book you read
Heart of Darkness
>book you are currently reading
War and Peace (trying to catch up on classics I've missed, doing Paradise Lost and Moby-Dick sometime soon this year)
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/tv/ infrequently, it's pretty bad
>other literature-related sites you use
Goodreads
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
mediA my friend. definitely film, definitely music (though not making anymore), not really to any of the rest. more interested in board games/traditional games than videogames

>Our system thinks your post is spam
I think your system is Cointelpro.
http://pastebin.com/ctaKXsLR

>>6224538

if i had an interesting story of losing my virginity perhaps i'd have answered, i was just a sappy 16 year old, did it on valentine's day and everything

what's it like having sex compared to an unpaid girl

>18
>male
>USA USA USA
>white boy
>college, no job
>just started writing my book again after scrapping what I had
>none, but belief creates reality etc
>left-leaning libertarian I guess
>REEEEEEEEEE
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Neil Gaiman
>not much into short stories
>not much into poetry either, but Cummings is cool
>good ol Shakes
>do I seem smart to you?
>no clue, though probably not anything all that hard
>American Gods
>The Graveyard Book
>/vg/, /tv/
>none
>vidya, film, opera though I haven't been to one in some months

>>6224521
But to that second circle of sad hell,
Where ‘mid the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw
Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell
Their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips I saw,
Pale were the lips I kiss’d, and fair the form
I floated with, about that melancholy storm.

>>6224550
sex with a hooker ** i mistyped

>your age
22
>sex
Male
>country
USA
>race/ethnicity
White
>current employment/education status
Hotel clerk
>/lit/-related ambitions
None
>religious views
Life
>political views
distraction and masturbation
>age you lost your virginity
18
>number of people you have had sex with
5 or 6
>favorite novelist
None
>favorite short story author
None
>favorite poet
None
>favorite playwright
None
>favorite philosopher
I
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
The Jungle
>last book you read
The Eagle's Gift
>book you are currently reading
None
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/int/, /pol/, /b/, /x/,
>other literature-related sites you use
None
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
Anything beautiful, all things immense

>>6224523
Used to be mostly into metal (the shitty kind), but than I grew up. Now it's mostly progressive and/or experimental stuff, some shoegaze. Isis, Swans, Black Sabbath, Mastodon, Neurosis, Have a Nice Life, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Strokes, Electric Wizard. Something like that.

>>6224559
>anything beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mx1108NGpc

>>6224552
>using literature to justify incoherent beliefs

>>6224308
>>your age
23
>>sex
Female
>>country
london
>>race/ethnicity
white
>>current employment/education status
working as a bartender
>>/lit/-related ambitions
getting a stable bf
>>religious views
christian
>>political views
marxist
>>age you lost your virginity
15
>>number of people you have had sex with
20 or 30 i don't remember
>>favourite novelist
kafka
>>favourite short story author
chekhov
>>favourite poet
rimbaud
>>favourite playwright
ibsen
>>favourite philosopher
marx
>>most difficult book you have ever read in full
the sound and the fury, obviously
>>last book you read
ficciones
>>book you are currently reading
1984 (i didn't read it before)
>>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/fa/, /mu/, /gif/, /an/
>>other literature-related sites you use
none
>>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
all of them

>>6224551
obvious pleb, read more

>>6224572
I'm trying

>>6224571
>getting a stable bf
>20 or 30
>sound and the fury

b8 or pleb

>>6224577
why are you reading a children's book?

>>6224571
Try not having sex so much with random dudes, that helps finding a stable bf.

>>6224571
well meme'd my friend

>>6224581
There's nothing wrong with children's books if they're well-written. Don't be pretentious.

>>6224569
what justifies your incoherent and most likely intolerable fedoracore beliefs anon?

>>6224587
they have no value for adults because they are simplistic and never strive for aesthetic beauty simply good plots and morals.

>>6224587
his dark materials is the only children's book i still read occasionally, it's a fun, fast read in a pinch and it's nicely written

>>6224592
I don't need to justify the lack of belief :)

>>6224595
>2015
>liking affective fiction

lit pls

I should have claimed to be female, would have gotten many replys.

>>6224595
And? It's entertaining and someone bought me a copy. Not everything has to be deep philosophy.

>>6224609
>imblying

>>6224550
That's an interesting story. I think if I *had*lost mine at 16 it would have been pretty bad. Probably wouldn't have even gotten it up out of nervousness. You?

What girl isn't paid amirite fellas. But no, the girl more often knows what she's doing but it's hard to escape the knowledge that she gets absolutely no enjoyment out of it. Boss-tier is when you're so good and the girl likes you so much she wants to see you for free.

>>6224609
frankly based on your taste in books you have right to form any opinion on literature

>>6224354

>music>literature

Get out.

>>6224595
The little prince bro. My sister showed me it and I think lots of adults could benefit from reading

>>6224625
i was certainly bad at it, but i have the luxury of being female and not having a lot of things to do to be considered "good in bed" so i just sort of went with it. i think i said "was that sex?" at the end because he could barely get it in and it was mostly just me trying to be sexy while in pain, so that was something.

>the knowledge that she gets absolutely no enjoyment out of it

that's the part i was wondering about, actually. it must be an odd feeling. more like masturbation than sex, even, not in the "prostitutes aren't people" sense but rather "i'm doing this solely for my own pleasure, no give/take". not that there's anything wrong with that, that's what sex work is most of the time i imagine

>>6224633
>fun is bad and you can't argue with me because you like fun

You're the kind of person who ruins art

>>6224641
i read that in my high school french class (le petit prince, that is)! did not expect the heaviness of the ending at all. what a great book, though!

>>6224646
the person whose favourite author is neil gaiman is accusing someone else of ruining art
smh anon smh

>>6224579
>>6224582
>>6224584

;_;

>>6224653
they're just bitter virgins

>>6224633
as much as eliteist this may be, it's actually true

>tfw you are 21 and it feels like you are getting too old to be hanging out here

>>6224662
Thanks, Tabitha Dickinson.

>>6224661
I'm not bitter in terms of my virginity at all.
>>6224653
Seriously, try taking it slow. If a guy is stable and likes you for things other than your pussy he will bare with you for at lest 3-4 months, if he really likes you as long as you like.

>>6224664
fuck off grandpa

>>6224308
>your age
29
>sex
M
>country
Irish
>race/ethnicity
White Irish
>current employment/education status
MA student
>/lit/-related ambitions
Historian
>religious views
None
>political views
Socialist-libertarianism
>age you lost your virginity
18
>number of people you have had sex with
5
>favourite novelist
Flann O'Brien
>favourite short story author
Kafka
>favourite poet
Yeats, Coleridge, Larkin, Donne and Heaney.
>favourite playwright
Shakespeare
>favourite philosopher
Marx
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Ulysses
>last book you read
Various poli sci classics.
>book you are currently reading
Various poli sci classics.
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/lit/ and that's about it.
>other literature-related sites you use
The New York Review of Books, Poetryfoundation.org,
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
I write music. I am mainly interested in history and political theory. I studied English lit at one point. I have too much usless knowledge about cinema, which I'm not proud of. Yeah, videogames from time-to-time, but I always think I could spend my time better.

>someone claims to be a grill
>immediately raged at by angry virgins
>literally nobody says "ay qt wanna go out and talk about books"

Never change, /r9k/

>>6224683
we are germany, austria and france away, otherwise I'd have already asked her out.

>>6224458
>>Turkey
>>Caucasian
KEK

How old is too old for /lit/?

Also, what's the youngest anyone has started browsing/posting here?

>>6224696
The better question is how young is too young for /lit/

If we could get a containment board for these edgy youngsters, this place would be a lot better.

>age
indeterminate
>sex
m
>country
ameristan
>race/ethnicity
asian
>current employment/education status
underemployed, bachelor in english with a writing emphasis
>/lit/-related ambitions
become a fiction writer
>religious views
mystic
>political views
left
>age you lost your virginity
22
>number of people you have had sex with
i'm a prude. i have turned down more people than i've had sex with. even i find it kinda weird
>favourite novelist
i do not have a single favorite
Lloyd Alexander
Nicola Griffith
Jeff Noon
Matt Ruff
>favourite short story author
roger zelazny
>favourite poet
dylan thomas
>favourite playwright
beckett
>favourite philosopher
lao tzu
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
absalom absalom. it's not that difficult but it was tough because i had to shotgun it in two days for a class because >procrastination and his long loopy style definitely had an impact on my sleep deprived psyche
>last book you read
Dealing With Dragons, a very fun YA book
>book you are currently reading
Gamer Girl (thanks /lit/), City of a Thousand Dolls (it is badly written), How Fiction Works
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/hr/, /b/ if i'm really bored, /o/
>other literature-related sites you use
goodreads
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
i'm interested in all mediums but i play a little vidya and i would like to pick up guitar again

>>6224696
17 is the youngest I've seen.

>>6224696
I've been here since 2010
I'm 18

>>6224643
When was the first time you remember enjoying sex and what age were you? Did you see the guy changed after that experience? Did you or the relationship change? I think it's such a myth but I wanna verify

I think it also depends on the guy. I asked the escort that ended up liking me what her worst experience with a client has been and the guys she was telling me about were pretty awful. They def just use girls. I can't enjoy sex if the girl isn't enjoying it as much or more than I am it's just not good for me. It's selfish in its own way.

>18
>f
>USA
>slavic
>almost done with highschool
>"ambitions" lol
>"religion" lol
>"politics" lol
>virgin
>guess how many
>thomas harris
>
>poetry sucks. (shakespeare)
>n/a


>your age
18
>sex
f
>country
USA
>race/ethnicity
slavic (BG)
>current employment/education status
starting uni soon
>/lit/-related ambitions
"ambitions" lol
>religious views
"religion" lol
>political views
"politics" lol
>age you lost your virginity
virgin
>number of people you have had sex with
guess how many
>favourite novelist
thomas harris
>favourite short story author
no interest in short stories...andy weir?
>favourite poet
no interest in poetry (shakespeare if i had to chose at gunpoint)
>favourite playwright
(shakespeare again)
>favourite philosopher
n/a. took a philosophy class. they are all high as fuck.
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
loosely interpreting 'difficult' and 'book'. anatomy textbook.
>last book you read
the divine comedy
>book you are currently reading
red dragon
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
pol, adv, b
>other literature-related sites you use
goodreads, issuu, and does fanfiction count?
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc)
you have interest in
might start going to /mu/

>your age
21.
>sex
M.
>country
Colombia.
>race/ethnicity
Mestizo.
>current employment/education status
Tutor/undergrad student.
>/lit/-related ambitions
Publish something.
>religious views
None.
>political views
Power gives way to corruption regardless of ideology; AKA none.
>age you lost your virginity
20.
>number of people you have had sex with
1 and a half (yes, half a person).
>favourite novelist
Gotta say Pynchon, at the moment.
>favourite short story author
Can't decide.
>favourite poet
Can't decide.
>favourite playwright
Can't decide.
>favourite philosopher
Can't decide.
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Ulysses.
>last book you read
Not exactly a book but that one preface Proust wrote for Ruskin.
>book you are currently reading
V.
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
I no longer frequent any other board. Not even this.
>other literature-related sites you use
None.
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
Art and music.

>>6224707
>i'm a prude. i have turned down more people than i've had sex with. even i find it kinda weird
Don't worry. Me too.
I always prefer a wank to regrettable sex. I have zero interest in casual sex -- I actually once got out of a cab on the way back to a girl's place. We were making out, and I just decided "nah..." and left.

It's about quality, not quantity. It's not even pickiness. I'm just bored by casual sex. I crave a palpable connection to the person too much.

>your age
18

>sex
female

>country
US, but from Uruguay

>race/ethnicity
Hispanic

>current employment/education status
I JUST FUCKING OVERSLEPT AN INTERVIEW FOR AN AMAZING JOB I HAD IN THE BAG FUCK ME

>/lit/-related ambitions
write a book

>religious views
Mormon

>political views
Liberal

>age you lost your virginity
no sex till marriage

>favourite novelist
Mr. Vonnegut

>favourite short story author
Poe

>favourite poet
my friend's beautiful work :3c

>favourite playwright
not interested in plays

>favourite philosopher
me

>most difficult book you have ever read in full
hitchhiker's guide

>last book you read
hitchhiker's guide

>book you are currently reading
Dune

>other boards on 4chan you frequent
I barely frequent this one

>other literature-related sites you use
bookdigits, goodreads

>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
not enough for it to matter

>>6224724
oops i meant to erase the first greentext shit, sorry about that

>>6224713
>I've been here since 2010
>I'm 18
This explains a lot.

>18
>M
>U.S.A.
>White
>Freshman in college
>non-religious
>idk, maybe libertarian?
>14
>3
>Faulkner or Nabokov
>Flannery O'Connor
>Keats
>no idea..Shakespeare or Beckett
>maybe Kierkegaard
>Sound and the Fury
>Grendel by John Gardner
>nothing atm, planning on reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man soon
>/b/, /r9k/
>none
>I love music and I love to sing, but I'm not as into it technically as literature.

>>6224731
>yfw I created several lit memes

>your age
25
>sex
Female
>country
USA
>race/ethnicity
White
>current employment/education status
Employed and in graduate school.
>/lit/-related ambitions

>religious views
Soto Zen Buddhist
>political views
Libertarian
>age you lost your virginity
19
>number of people you have had sex with
1
>favourite novelists
Yasunari Kawabata, Richard Brautigan, Tove Jansson
>favourite short story authors
Kenji Miyazawa, Pu Songling, Bruno Schulz
>favourite poets
Ryokan, Piet Hein, Oliverio Girondo
>favourite playwrights
>favourite philosophers
Dogen, Bachelard, Montaigne
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
The Modern Fable by Nishiwaki Junzaburo.
>last book you read
Face at the Bottom of the Well by Hagiwara Sakutaro
>book you are currently reading
A Japanese Menagerie: Animal Pictures by Kawanabe Kyosai
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/r9k/, /ck/, /diy/
>other literature-related sites you use
I don't know if this is only for forums, but I use a lot. Worldcat, LibGen, Bibliotik, Project Gutenberg, LibraryThing, Goodreads, podcasts like In Our Time, History of Philosophy, Partially Examined, various CFP sites, Academia.edu, Aozora Bunko, CiNii, Project Muse, ProQuest Dissertations, JSTOR, Asymptote, Entropy, various publisher blogs.
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
Film and art are the other two I'm most into.

>>6224736
And you did it this of actually reading, probably.

I'm sure you can submit your memes for your Uni classes.

>>6224653
>country
>London
not a memefriend, okay

JAMAL THE MUDSLIME :DDDDDDDDDD

>>6224742
Computer must've frozen while typing.
I forgot the word "instead"

>>6224722
i started enjoying sex after having it at least a few times a week for a few months. i figured out how to angle myself to make things feel good for me and be an active participant despite generally being on the more submissive side in bed. i'm not sure that the guy/me/our relationship changed, save for us both enjoying sex more, i guess. i know that he (still with him) felt a little self conscious that i was just having sex for his sake, and i've definitely noticed that he feels freer to just enjoy himself and not worry that he's hurting or boring me. outside of the bedroom, however, nothing changed that i noticed.

i'm with you on your second point; i'd hate to have sex with someone and have them not enjoy it. it's what makes it so fun for me. i'm an inherent people pleaser, especially when "people" is someone i love. your response was quite interesting, thank you for elaborating! i've always been curious about sex workers.

>>6224707
>indeterminate
>mystic

i'm intrigued, could you elaborate? i've got a strong academic interest in mysticism.

>>6224740
fuckin weeaboo

I generally hate these threads but I am extremely bored at the moment so what the hell.

>your age
25
>sex
I don't identify as any sex but you would call me male
>country
USA
>race/ethnicity
Don't identify as anything here either, but you'd say I'm half Hispanic, half caucasian
>current employment/education status
Unemployed with a J.D.
>/lit/-related ambitions
Read as much as possible, get published posthumously
>religious views
Nonreligious. I've recently become very interested in the Baha'i faith, though
>political views
Apathetic
>age you lost your virginity
18
>number of people you have had sex with
3
>favourite novelist
Don't play favorites, just to say someone I'll say Steinbeck
>favourite short story author
Poe
>favourite poet
Don't read enough poetry to say
>favourite playwright
Tennessee Williams
>favourite philosopher
Bishop Berkeley or Heraclitus
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
I dunno. Some philosophical text I suppose
>last book you read
Kafka's Amerika
>book you are currently reading
Huxley's Devils of Loudon, among others
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
None with regularity. Sometimes /mu/, /sp/, /diy/
>other literature-related sites you use
None really, unless you count etymonline
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
Music hardcore, passing interest in visual arts and film

>>6224729
>I JUST FUCKING OVERSLEPT AN INTERVIEW FOR AN AMAZING JOB I HAD IN THE BAG FUCK ME
Typical browns. Always sleeping on the job. Jk brown master race reporting in

>>6224740
Forgot ambitions. Finishing my lit PhD, part time as an adjunct, the rest of income as an editor. Maybe I'd like to open up another translation-based publishing house. I have very elaborate plans for my personal library.

>>6224750
Yeah.

>>6224755
I'm actually white. Most Uruguayans are. Hispanics can be of any race. There are black, brown, white Hispanics.

I just didn't feel like specifying because jeez /lit/ is so white.

>>6224743

i didn't wanted to say my real country

>Age
22
>Sex
Male
>Country
USA
>Race
White
>Employment/School
Finishing up my last term of undergrad, soon to cry over grad school applications
>/lit/ ambitions
Become an editor
>Religious Views
I have no idea
>Political views
Left
>Age you lost your virginity
I am pure, chaste, and honest, thank you
>Number of people
See above
>Favorite Novelist
John Updike
>Favorite Short Story author
Aimee Bender (used to be Junot Díaz, but This is How You Lose Her sucked)
>Favorite Poet
Yeats
>Favorite Playwright
Eugène Ionesco
>Favorite Philosopher
Foucault
>Most Difficult Book
Probably not what you meant, but I punish myself by reading bad YA and the most painful to get through was Alex Sanchez's Boyfriends with Girlfriends. A lot of the book focuses on this honest-to-god weeaboo and her growing lesbian attraction to her Japanese friend. I kid you not, the Japanese girl sees the other girl's love of Naruto and yaoi as "appreciation for her culture."
>Last Book You Read
Ubik
>Book You're Currently Reading
White Teeth
>Other boards
/vp/ and occasionally /a/
>Other literature sites
Goodreads
>Other media
All really, but primarily vidja and music. As for the latter I'm part of the community choir that performs with our state's orchestra. We did Carmina Burana last fall.

>>6224308

>22

>m

>usa

>caucasian-- italian/irish

>employed

>what? lol

>complex but boils down to infantilism (w/r/t the *spectacle* of religion) and a spinozism/reichian view of god/Nature

>revolutionary

>18

>3

>heller probably

>gilman

>milton

>chekov

>deleuze

>lacan's second seminar

>the function of the orgasm

>society of the spectacle, infinite jest, economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844, jokes and their relation to the unconscious, lacan's 10th seminar

>/b/, /gif/, /h/, /d/

>n/a

>interested in any medium

>your age
22
>sex
Male.
>country
Scotland
>race/ethnicity
White.
>current employment/education status
Student.
>/lit/-related ambitions
None.
>religious views
Nothing substantial. I don't know and neither does anyone else, so why waste energy debating it or devoting yourself to something someone has literally pulled out their ass. I'll see when I die (or not, in which case it doesn't matter).
>political views
None.
>age you lost your virginity
17
>number of people you have had sex with
3
>favourite novelist
I have no idea, I tend not to really pay attention to the author and more the text itself.
>favourite short story author
See above.
>favourite poet
See above.
>favourite playwright
N/A
>favourite philosopher
N/A
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Ulysses.
>last book you read
Caliban's War.
>book you are currently reading
Abaddon's Gate.
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/an/ck/fit/tv/g/
>other literature-related sites you use
Goodreads. I've got long distance reading friends, it makes it easier to share what we've read.
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
Music. A little video games (far less than when I was younger, they bore me to tears now for the most part). Occasionally film, though as with video games, not a lot these days.

>>6224764
Fuck I just explained to someone the difference between latino/Hispanic/Mexican too.

Anyway, your lazy ho ass is gonna languish in poverty if you don't get it together. Did you call with an excuse?

>>6224774
>I kid you not, the Japanese girl sees the other girl's love of Naruto and yaoi as "appreciation for her culture."

HAHAHA I'm going to read this book. Is it published?

Also what usually warrants a punishment?

>your age
27
>sex
m
>country
UK
>race/ethnicity
white
>current employment/education status
forklift driver for an art gallery
>/lit/-related ambitions
earn a living from my publishing company
>religious views
atheist
>political views
left, will vote labour 2015
>age you lost your virginity
16
>number of people you have had sex with
~15
>favourite novelist
joyce, flaubert, DFW, kazuo ishiguro, ben lerner (atm), paul auster, mark leyner ...
>favourite short story author
lydia davis, donald barthelme, carver
>favourite poet
michael dickman (atm), ashbery
>favourite playwright
harold pinter
>favourite philosopher
wittgenstein
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
ulysses
>last book you read
ben lerner - 10:04
>book you are currently reading
chloe aridjis - asunder
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/b/, /r9k/, /s/
>other literature-related sites you use
can't think
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
fashion, music, visual arts, film, design

>>6224764
URUGUAY IS WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE

>>6224724
Ay qt wanna go out and talk about books

>>6224308
>>your age
21
>>sex
M
>>country
America
>>race/ethnicity
White (Irish/Italian/French/Dutch)
>>current employment/education status
In community college, work as a baker
>>/lit/-related ambitions
Publish a collection of poetry/short stories
>>religious views
Catholic
>>political views
Mostly conservative, some libertarian
>>age you lost your virginity
17
>>number of people you have had sex with
9
>>favourite novelist
Hemingway
>>favourite short story author
Checkov
>>favourite poet
Frost
>>favourite playwright
Shakespeare
>>favourite philosopher
Kierkegaard
>>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Tropic of Cancer
>>last book you read
Collection of Checkov stories
>>book you are currently reading
Men Without Women
>>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/fit/ /mu/ sometimes /r9k/ for kex
>>other literature-related sites you use
Goodreads
>>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
Painting, printmaking, film, play drums

I'm kinda pleb

>>6224780
I did. It wasn't very well-received.

Oh well. I still live with my dad and he's willing to pay for stuff. And I already have a job as a hostess so this would've just been a second (better) job.

>>6224774
>>6224784

i punish myself by reading books of literary merit that i hate rather than genuinely shit books. i know i'm never going to read the sound and the fury of my own free will, so i grind 50 pages out whenever i do something stupid. interesting to see the book punishments of others

>>6224793
yes?

>>6224799
yes

>>6224308
19
male
US of A
Jewish/Irish
unemployed/student
I just like reading, maybe one day I'll write a book
agnostic/atheist
classical liberal, but I am pretty open to different ideas
hopefully this year :(
0
Asimov
HP lovecraft
too many to decide
Shakespeare
Nietzsche
I think some bore of a book on racism in the 19th century, forgot the title
The exploding suns: secrets of the supernovas
human, all too human (3rd time)
/pol/ (sometimes), /vg/, /tv/
science, art (impressionism), and philosophy

>tfw all the virgins itt call themselves "Left"

i highly, highly doubt it. your sex-economy wouldn't allow for that. despite identity politics, you're probably a reactionary (and not a revolutionary) to your very core.

>>6224308
19
M
Poland
White / polish mountaneer
uni
catholic
centrist
>
>
Williams / Witkiewicz
Borges
Mickiewicz / Frost
Shakespeare
Kant
probably "Finnegans Wake", I don't really regret
"History of Philosophy" by Tatarkiewicz
"Life A User's Manual" by Perec
/mu/ very rarely
none
Music as a pianist and a listener, art and film to some extent

>>6224821

or maybe the only people who give so much of a shit about their virginity that it is meant to overshadow their political views are the kinds of people who use terms like "sex-economy" unironically

>>6224813
D A N G

What did I fucking say /lit/ just don't go virgin rage on them and you can land a Slavic girl

Ey girl let's discuss our relative plebness

>>6224806
Ya dun goofed

>>6224818
>Jewish
I'm so sorry about your inherited condition

>>6224818
have you claimed your birthright yet?

>>6224784
It is a serious book that was seriously published. http://www.amazon.com/Boyfriends-Girlfriends-Alex-Sanchez/dp/1416937757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425504825&sr=8-1&keywords=boyfriends+with+girlfriends Sanchez is fairly well received in YA. This should say things about the market.

In general I do it when say something stupid in public. I rectify it by reading something stupid since that's what I deserve. Plus it makes me feel less stupid about what I did since these are people who have their stupidity inscribed for all time. Here's a poorly photographed excerpt of what I was talking about.

>>6224840
I'm not Slavic, I'm Uruguayan as was pretty obvious in my reply.

You're too pleb for me.

>>6224824
Slavic friend where will you be this summer?

>>6224848
No, but I am visiting Israel soon though.

I've never felt the need to make Aliyah

>>6224850
why not read something smart to rectify your stupidity instead? something you wouldn't usually read. or maybe do some math problems on khan academy. non-constructive punishment seems just that... non-constructive

I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MYSELF


ME
E

>>6224857
Who the hell is responding to who anymore

Also
>Vonnegut
>not pleb
You're not fooling me

>>6224866
S T I R N E R
T
I
R
N
E
R

>>6224850
I kind of feel like that's unhealthy and that you're filled with a lot of self-hatred.

>>6224871
So it goes.

>18
>M
>Canada
>White
>Finishing high school, waiting for uni acceptance
>Agnostic
>Libertarian [socialist]
>n/a
>n/a
>Either James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon
>James Joyce
>Major pleb in this area, but so far Samuel Taylor Coleridge is pretty cool
>Samuel Beckett
>Have yet to actually read any philosophical texts, but so far Schopenhauer seems like my dude
>Sound and the Fury
>Sound and the Fury
>plan on starting catch 22 once i stop shitposting
>/tv/ /r9k/
>goodreads (for the database only, and even that is kind of a mess)
>Film and Music

>>6224446
How far along in Japanese are you? There are a lot of children's/intermediate level books in Japanese at Aozora Bunko that you could look into. Authors like Ogawa Mimei 小川 未明 and Miyazawa Kenji 宮沢 賢治 might be good for you to check out.

>>6224885
I find it rather interesting that everyone outside the US who call themselves "libertarians" are really just socialists, because they understand the original meaning of the term.

do you ever meet amerifats and throw them off by saying "oh I'm a libertarian, my favorite author is marx"?

>>6224864
>>6224884
I know... I actually stopped doing it some months ago (went to the loony bin and kind of realized I had a bunch of unhealthy habits) so I haven't done that in a while and don't intend to anymore. Been trying to read books that value me as a reader lately and it's been improving my mood a lot.

>>6224308
>20
>M
>Italy
>Caucasian
>University student
>Publishing at least a novel in the next sixty years
>I don't care
>Something like pantheism, too long to explain
>18
>1
>Dostoevsky
>Pirandello
>T.S. Eliot or Holderlin, dunno
>Shakespeare
>Heidegger
>Zeit und Geist
>The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Sacks
>I'm re-reading Dostoevsky's Idiot
>/int/, /mu/, /a/, /s4s/
>None
>Pretty much all of them

>>6224861
Warsaw

>>6224595
>he hasn't read "the wind in the willows"

>>6224903
Was hoping you'd be a little farther down south.

>>6224897
i'm glad you're doing better now. were you diagnosed with anything?

>>6224907
I occasionaly go to Kraków to visit a friend of mine. I'm a mountaneer by heritage, but born in Warsaw

>>6224912
extreme autism

>your age
21
>sex
m
>country
Argentina
>race/ethnicity
a bit German, a bit Italian, a lot southern French
>current employment/education status
Part-time proofreader; student of linguistics
>/lit/-related ambitions
hoard money to the critical mass point I can live off its interest, then move to the countryside and study literature peacefully
>religious views
Atheist
>political views
I don't like labels
>age you lost your virginity
20
>number of people you have had sex with
4
>favourite novelist
Eca de Queiroz
>favourite short story author
Chekhov
>favourite poet
B. Palacios, although Ascasubi is a close match
>favourite playwright
Shaw and Ibsen
>favourite philosopher
Kant
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Cassirer's substance and function
>last book you read
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
>book you are currently reading
Lord Jim - Conrad
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
>other literature-related sites you use
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
music

>>6224923
>>country
>Argentina
>>race/ethnicity
>a bit German

:^)

>>6224308
>>your age
26
>>sex
male
>>country
USA
>>race/ethnicity
white
>>current employment/education status
unemployed, college dropout
>>/lit/-related ambitions
novelist and poet. i am a better writer than most of you.
>>religious views
independent
>>political views
anarchist
>>age you lost your virginity
17
>>number of people you have had sex with
3
>>favourite novelist
as of yet, nobody has written what needs to be written in the novel form
>>favourite short story author
borges
>>favourite poet
celan
>>favourite playwright
shakespeare
>>favourite philosopher
lacan
>>most difficult book you have ever read in full
nobodaddy's children, although it wasn't terribly difficult
>>last book you read
where angels fear to tread by em forster
>>book you are currently reading
iphigenia in tauris by goethe
>>other boards on 4chan you frequent
none, i barely come here. the internet isn't good for you and anonymous posting is a shitty model for most forms of discussion
>>other literature-related sites you use
lol. get off the internet.
>>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
i'm a musician and filmmaker, attempted painter (tho i suck at painting)

>>6224923
Ayyy, an Argentinian. As close to a peer I'll have in /lit/

>>6224932
Argentinians and Uruguayans are mostly of European descent, you ignoramus

>your age
18
>sex
Yes please
(Male)
>country
America
>race/ethnicity
White
>current employment/education status
High school senior
>/lit/-related ambitions
Next Pinecone
>political views
Anarchist communist
>age you lost your virginity
Lol
>number of people you have had sex with
Lol
>favourite novelist
Joyce
>favourite short story author
Don't read enough short stories
>favourite poet
Eliot
>favourite playwright
Wilde
>favourite philosopher
Kierkegaard
>most difficult book you have ever read in full
Ulysses
>last book you read
Hamlet
>book you are currently reading
War and peace
>other boards on 4chan you frequent
/mu/, /fa/
>other literature-related sites you use
/r/literature
>other mediums (art, music, film, vidya, etc) you have interest in
Music, film, vidya, animu

>>6224918
Ok I was hoping you'd go like 3 countries more down south.

>>6224940
>dropout
>"independent"
>anarchist
>I am better writer than most of you
>self-proclaimed musician and filmmaker


well, dear fellas, this is what happens when your mommy tells you you're special and you should do whatever you want...

>inb4 you sound like Cameron Carpenter

>>6224912
At the time a depressive episode but I'm on bipolar meds. Just got a new psychiatrist and he wants to wait a little more to formally diagnose me which I'm fine with.

>>6224962
This anon has it

>>6224952

the joke went over your head

>>6224974
OH is the joke that he's an escaped Nazi war criminal?

>>6224978
yes

>>6224978

descended from one but yeah!