My goal is to create a statistical sample graph about /lit/ using information gathered from the following. Lofty, I know. A/S/L: Education/Field: Employment/Salary: Liked these 3 books: Hated these 3 books: Favorite Author: Least Favorite Author: Genres: What you use as a bookmark:

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Anonymous Mon May 10 00:42:14 2010 No.651373 [Reply] [Original]

My goal is to create a statistical sample graph about /lit/ using information gathered from the following. Lofty, I know.

A/S/L:
Education/Field:
Employment/Salary:
Liked these 3 books:
Hated these 3 books:
Favorite Author:
Least Favorite Author:
Genres:
What you use as a bookmark:

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 00:44:14 2010 No.651389 Let's not do this. /r9k/ is already gay enough with all the camwhoring and meetups and post yourself threads. Let's not ruin other boards with that too.

Anonymous Mon May 10 00:54:14 2010 No.651434

A/S/L: 38/ M/ /US (Michigan)

Education/Field: BA Humanities, Cal 1994

Employment/Salary: currently Factory Technician / 30K :(

Liked these 3 books: Don Quixote, Tao Te Ching, ASOIAF series

Hated these 3 books: Atlas Shrugged (trolled into reading), Steppenwolf, Earthsea series

Favorite Author: Palahniuk

Least Favorite Author: Immanuel Kant

Genres: Satire, Philosophy, Biography

What you use as a bookmark: I cut the cardboard backing of old notepads usually,

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 00:54:14 2010 No.651436 but its in the name of science!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 00:56:14 2010 No.651443 Isn't it kind of useless if you don't define it better? As in, are you going by country for location or more specific?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 00:57:14 2010 No.651449 >>651436 >in the name of science >on /lit/

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:02:14 2010 No.651469

A/S/L: 18/M/US (Tennessee)
Education/Field: High School Student
Employment/Salary: None
Liked these 3 books: To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse-Five, Ender's Game
Hated these 3 books: Jack & Jill, Maximum Ride, Tommyland
Favorite Author: Shakespeare
Least Favorite Author: Ann Coulter
Genres: Classics, Science-fiction
What you use as a bookmark: A bookmark

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:06:14 2010 No.651485

If you don't want to participate, thats fine. It deviates the sample significantly though. This isn't a hook up thread, but if done right, we can know that those who tell us that Chaucer is a faggot are mostly 18 year old boys living in Chicago working at Dairy Queen versus universally accepting everyone as a profound literary critic.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:06:14 2010 No.651490
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A/S/L: 19/M/USofA
Education/Field: In University, Electrical Engineering
Employment/Salary: Part time at Target
Liked these 3 books: The Little Prince, The Idiot, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (by Poe)
Hated these 3 books: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Pride & Prejudice, Great Expectations
Favorite Author: Philip K. Dick or Cormac McCarthy
Least Favorite Author: Jane Austen
Genres: Anything really
What you use as a bookmark: Old newspaper clipping

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:07:14 2010 No.651493 ITT: /lit/ is exposed as 5 men from the midwest who really really hate reading assignments in AP English.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:08:14 2010 No.651495

A/S/L: 22/m/usa

>Education/Field:
Meh

>Employment/Salary:
Meh

>Liked these 3 books:
Ulysses
The Master and Margarita
Paradise Lost

>Hated these 3 books:
Lord of the Rings
Great Expectations
Stranger in a Strange Land

>Favorite Author:
Joyce

>Least Favorite Author:
Tolkien

>Genres:
Anything but fantasy.

>What you use as a bookmark:
I think I've recently used the receipt for the past few books.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:09:14 2010 No.651505 >>651389 yes, lets claim anonymity while preaching our superiority in any other thread

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:09:53 2010 No.651506 [DELETED]

14/F/California
Student, my weekly allowance :3
Liked: Harry Potter, The Shining, LoTR
Hate: 1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies
Favorite Author: JK Rowling
Least favorite author: Orwell
Genres: Fantasy, romance, horror
What you use as a bookmark: I don't lol ^^

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:10:14 2010 No.651511

A/S/L: 18/m/washington state
Education/Field: computer science at a liberal arts college
Employment/Salary: implying I have a job
Liked these 3 books: Godel Escher Bach, Nausea, Spring Snow
Hated these three books: shit by Palahniuk
Least Favorite Author: Palahniuk. I know everybody hates him but seriously. I read 3 books and they all sucked.
Genres: Japanese lit, Classic Sci Fi, postmodern (lol not a genre)
What you use as a bookmark: receipts.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:11:14 2010 No.651513

20/m/SoCal

Freshman college, focusing on academic draughtsmanship and painting (mostly outside of school; I'm largely self-taught)

N/A. The world will not appreciate me because I prioritize on learning and improving my areas of interests rather than slaving for external rewards.

ASoIaF series, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Silmarillion

Couldn't sit through A Means to an End . The Giver. I don't really hate books that much since I read mostly about dragons and I like dragons.

I like Tolkien for his legendarium.

N/A

Fantasy. Romanticism.

A piece of paper. It starts out as a folded paper, but I gnaw at it while reading. The edges become damp and they gradually tear until I have more pieces of paper.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:12:14 2010 No.651519 >>651434 >BA >38 What happened?

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:13:14 2010 No.651523

A/S/L: 23/m/740 Ohio
Education/Field: BA, music theory
Employment/Salary: IT, $10/hr
Liked these 3 books: Ada or Ardor, 100 Years of Solitude, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Hated these 3 books: Dickens, Tennyson, Bukowski
Favorite Author: T.S. Eliot
Least Favorite Author: Plath
Genres: this is where I lol, you call me a snob, and I ask you what decent genre fiction has been written
What you use as a bookmark: anything available

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:13:14 2010 No.651524 >>651506 Reported.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:15:14 2010 No.651529 >>651524 +1 kill da cancer motherfuckers DOOOOOOOOOOOOK NUKUUUMMMM

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:16:14 2010 No.651540

>>651519
Father died when I was working on an MA. Was working in a "dot com" when the bottom fell out and ended up with no money. Asked my mother for money to finish my MA and found that she had lost dad's insurance money in poor investments. Started paying for my apartment and moms house and bills. She dies a year later and credit card companies claim all of her life insurance. Wandered the States for a few years and ended up in a factory.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:17:14 2010 No.651544

Ahh, fuck I don't know why I can't not do these fucking things.

A/S/L: 19/M/USA
Education/Field: In college, English major
Employment/Salary: Grocery store, $7.70/hr
Liked these 3 books: Stoner (John Williams), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer), The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor [Derp])
Hated these 3 books: Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko), Dreamcatcher (Stephen King), The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Gene Wolfe)
Favorite Author: Richard Bachman
Least Favorite Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Genres: Horror, Experimental, Post-Apocalyptic
What you use as a bookmark: I dog-ear the pages

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:18:14 2010 No.651551 >>651513 >legendarium Did you just make that shit up? Christ Almighty... >>651523 This man has good taste.

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Anonymous Mon May 10 01:18:14 2010 No.651553

A/S/L:18/M/Australia
Education/Field: Uni/Psychology
Employment/Salary: Student, Shit all
Liked these 3 books: Picture of Dorian Grey, American Gods, The Books Thief (House of Leaves gets honourable mention.
Hated these 3 books: Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, aaand, Twilight I guess. I dunno, I usually don't read books I don't enjoy.
Favorite Author: Neil Gaiman
Least Favorite Author: Emily Bronte
Genres: Pretty much whatever.
What you use as a bookmark: Playing cards

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:19:14 2010 No.651556 >>651524 I see your troll detector is off.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:19:14 2010 No.651557 >>651551 Thank you, kind Anon. Would you believe I have no friends? Well one, he lives in another state.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:19:14 2010 No.651559 Excluding the obvious troll in >>651506, so far we are all males of the Lady Gaga generation except the old man with parental issues.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:20:14 2010 No.651561 >>651551 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_legendarium

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:22:14 2010 No.651579 >>651434 I always cringe at the "employment/salary" question thinking everyone will judge me as a shitheel for making so little until I see you, at 38, making dimestore money with a degree from Cal. No offense, man, but thanks for being honest at least.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:23:14 2010 No.651580 File: 40 KB, 509x385, everything_went_better_than_expected.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>651556 I see my report was a success.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:23:14 2010 No.651582 >>651561 >The phrase Tolkien's legendarium is used in the literary discipline of Tolkien studies to refer to the part of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy fiction being concerned with his Elven legends. Did I mention I hate Tolkien? Good.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:24:14 2010 No.651584 >>651469 Hmm Ann Coulter. Good call. I don't care for fairy tales either.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:24:14 2010 No.651585 >>651559 >Lady Gaga generation You make it sound like a good thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:25:14 2010 No.651590 >>651559 >parental issues >mortality He's in good company.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:25:14 2010 No.651591 >>651553 Quick question to the Aussie: what literature was required reading for you?

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:27:14 2010 No.651597

God so many teens, I feel I need to balance it out...

A/S/L: 27/M/California

Education/Field: B.A. English Minor Creative Writing; Currently MFA Poetry primary, Fiction Secondary

Employment/Salary: Saved enough money to go to school without having a job (it's a tight squeeze, but scholarships help). Previous job, Comic Book Store Manager $10 an hour

Liked these 3 books: The Spring of My Life, Kobayashi Issa; Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad; Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata

Hated these 3 books: Catch 22, Joseph Heller; No-No Boy, John Okuda; The Narrow Road to the Interior, Kimiko Hahn (note: KIMIKO HAHN, not Basho)

Favorite Author: Kobayashi Issa

Least Favorite Author: Jane Austen

Genres: Detective Fiction, Literary Fiction/Poetry, Deep Imagism, Imagism, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Neoformalism

What you use as a bookmark: I buy a thing that has post-its on a clear plastic thing. I use the post-its to mark pages or sentences I like. When I'm out of post-its the clear plastic part is the size of a regular bookmark -- so I use that.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:27:14 2010 No.651600

A/S/L: 18/F/Wisconsin
Education/Field: Institute of Art.
Employment/Salary: I sell handmade goods for extra money.
Liked these 3 books: Lord of The Rings, The Stranger, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Hated these 3 books: Complete Shakespeare, We the Living, and Pride & Prejudice.
Favorite Author: Tolkien.
Least Favorite Author: Ayn Rand
Genres: Philosophy, Hark Adventure.
What you use as a bookmark: Scrap cardboard.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:27:14 2010 No.651602 >>651585 I was hoping you realized it was a slight. 38yo "grunge era" gen X factory workin book readin nowhere goin anon here. I want my tombstone to read "He was OK, but I liked Palahniuk better".

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:29:14 2010 No.651605 >>651600 what goods?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:30:14 2010 No.651607 >>651591 Last year of school? Wuthering Heights obviously, Frankenstein, a heap of Coleridege poems, Northanger Abbey, Skrzynecki poems (fuck that guy) and Hamlet. I think that's it, plus movies and shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:30:14 2010 No.651612 >>651605 I sew clothes and stuffed animals, make journals, screen prints, and sell my own art occasionally.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:32:14 2010 No.651622

>>651607
good info, thanks. I've noticed a lot of American schools ask people to read Grapes of Wrath, Call of the Wild (which by the way, if you are reading for pleasure is fucking excellent), My Antonia, and The Good Earth. I was wondering what Aussie lit they had you read.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:33:14 2010 No.651625 >>651622 >The Good Earth OH GOD THE MEMORIES OF WANG LUNG

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:33:14 2010 No.651626

17/f/midwest
drop out
n/a
picture of dorian gray, ada or ardor, east of eden
LoTR, anything dan simmons, wuthering heights
Maybe Nabokov or Balano, undecided until I read more.
dan simmons
fiction
I just make the effort to remember the page number or chapter name.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:33:14 2010 No.651629 >>651544 USA=Wisconsin, btw. Didn't know how specific location was supposed to be.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:34:14 2010 No.651631 I refuse to take part of this survey.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:35:14 2010 No.651633 >>651626 I report every underage post I see, but I'll let you go because you like Ada.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:35:14 2010 No.651636 >>651622 American here. I read the Stranger, No Exit, Crime and Punishment, Catch 22 and Death of a Salesman at my school. It really depends on where you live.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:36:14 2010 No.651637

I will do one for my ex, who I knows frequents this board and she is a whore

A/S/L: 30 / f / USA (Midwest)
Education/Field: none
Employment/Salary: none
Liked these 3 books: does not read--wathces movies and comments
Hated these 3 books: does not read watches movies and comments
Favorite Author: Harry Potter
Least Favorite Author: Anyone who forces you to provide oxygen to brain cells
Genres: Harry Potter
What you use as a bookmark: The currency of my ex

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:36:14 2010 No.651638 >>651633 I reported her in your stead.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:36:14 2010 No.651640 >>651629 Where in Wisconsin, if you'd be so kind?

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:36:14 2010 No.651641

>>651622
I did extention english, and in it studied Romanticism, which is why there's so many English authors. Even then, most of the standard reading was by the brits, although we did Blade Runner as a complimentary text to Frankenstein. Skrzynecki's Australian, but spends most of his time bitching about the fact, so we don't get to read any good Australian stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:37:14 2010 No.651642 >>651637 >wathches You two deserve each other.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:37:14 2010 No.651647 >>651637 If she doesn't read, what's she doing here?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:37:14 2010 No.651648 File: 200 KB, 600x784, Summer-Kemp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>651637 Is she Summer Kemp?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:37:14 2010 No.651649 >>651641 >Blade Runner as a complimentary text >Blade Runner wtfamIreading.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:38:14 2010 No.651652 >>651640 Little 'burb outside of Milwaukee.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:38:14 2010 No.651654 >>651642 I'm not the person you quoted, but you're acting like a colossal jerk.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:38:14 2010 No.651655 >>651654 >4chan herp

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:39:14 2010 No.651656 So far, a large representation of the American Midwest, an Aussie, and a SoCal. Weird metrics

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:40:14 2010 No.651661 >>651649 Yep, the movie, not "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." Text is their word, not mine.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:40:14 2010 No.651663 >>651652 We should get some tea in many moons and discuss literature in real life.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:41:14 2010 No.651665 >>651580 I was going to try and meet up with delicious 14-year-old...

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:41:14 2010 No.651667

A/S/L: 21/M/Illinois
Education/Field: English Studies (I'm fucked I know)
Employment/Salary: $8.77/hr washing dishes
Liked these 3 books: Moby Dick, Grapes of wrath, Dr. Sax
Hated these 3 books: atlas shrugged (friend's recommendation in hs), How to write, the old man and the sea
Favorite Author: Kerouac
Least Favorite Author: Hemingway (I get it, he's a craftsman, I just don't like it.)
Genres: sci-fi, anything with the individual vs. society theme is good to me.
What you use as a bookmark: train stub/receipt/anything

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:41:14 2010 No.651669 >>651661 Film Studies people refer to films as texts all the time. I think the surprise was that Blade Runner is supposed to be complimentary to Frankenstein.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:43:14 2010 No.651673 >>651669 It can't be that far off, the essay was easy as hell.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:43:14 2010 No.651675

>>651641
This truly intrigues me. I was under the impression that developmental education in any country directly involved coerced leaning of 'patriotic' literature. As in, Americans read "The Red Badge of Courage" and the French read "The Black and the Red".

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:44:14 2010 No.651678 >>651663 Engaged. Sorry, love. Anyway, I just don't think I could see myself with someone who hates the whole of Shakespeare...

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:44:14 2010 No.651679 >>651673 I suppose they both involve man-made humanoids that go bad but are aware of themselves and the world.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:45:14 2010 No.651684 >>651678 I only had friendship in mind, in any case!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:46:14 2010 No.651686 >>651647 Her duty in life is to point out how Harry Potter is more symbolic and meaningful than anything you can use as a counterexample. I am sure you've seen her posts.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:46:14 2010 No.651689 >>651513 I'd like to be your friend.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:47:14 2010 No.651694 >>651684 MIAD, I infer from your stats? I have friends out that way...

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:48:14 2010 No.651703

A/S/L: 36/M/Seattle
Education/Field: Bachelor's in classics (Stanford), Ph.D. in mathematics (Cal).
Employment/Salary: Applied mathematician. Varies with stock compensation, but averages around $200k.
Liked these 3 books: Christie Malry's Own Double Entry, Three to See the King, Giles Goat-Boy
Hated these 3 books: Ishmael, the work of Robert J. Sawyer, Twilight
Favorite Author: Walter Rudin
Least Favorite Author: Serge Lang
Genres: Fiction, crime, science fiction, mathematics
What you use as a bookmark: my Kindle.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:50:14 2010 No.651709 >>651703 I almost like you. Nash Equilibrium?

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:50:14 2010 No.651712

>>651675
I haven't read those, so I can't say what an analogue would be. But the thing about Australia is, our history is short (at least for the non-aboriginal people), and we don't have any events like the Declaration of Independance to feel all patriotic about. What we do have is bad memories of the world wars and a lot of guilt about how we treated the indigenous people, and anything "patriotic" will looked down upon by at least some part of the populace. It's not to say Australian stuff isn't there, but it's not as in your curriculums.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:51:14 2010 No.651716 20s Physics and materials engineering $$$ The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The Castle, The Day Lasts More Than A Thousand Years - - - Novels, short stories

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:51:14 2010 No.651718 >>651679 Exactly.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:51:14 2010 No.651719 >>651694 Indeed.

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:52:14 2010 No.651723

A/S/L: 18/F/Australia
Education/Field: Graduated high school, working on B Arts/M Nursing
Employment/Salary: Unemployed
Liked these 3 books: The Good Earth, Kafka on the Shore, The Road
Hated these 3 books: Emma, The Notebook, Twilight
Favorite Author: Pearl S. Buck
Least Favorite Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genres: Anything but crime/romance
What you use as a bookmark: Big bird bookmark/train tickets/steakhouse promotional material

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:54:14 2010 No.651737 >>651723 >>651600 >>651490 What's with all the Jane Austen hate?

Anonymous Mon May 10 01:54:14 2010 No.651738

>>651712
American here. I think we have an innate understanding of each other. Both of our countries started off in the same basic way. It might be a few years after the fact, but I just wanted to say thanks for how you tuffnecks went fist to face for our same cause in WWII. Aussies don't get enough credit, but the entire nation is like the American West.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:55:14 2010 No.651742 >>651737 Had to read Emma for class in high school English during Easter break. Sucked bro

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:56:14 2010 No.651747 >>651742 I didn't like it either but it's certainly not the worst book every written. Terribly predictable, though.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:56:14 2010 No.651750 >>651737 It is all sterotypical roles. People hate that shit. So maybe a woman cant do 100 push ups and fly a fighter jet, but does a woman need to be minding the porridge all fucking day?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:57:14 2010 No.651755 >>651738 Haha, no problem, thanks for saving our arses from Japan in the pacific.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:57:14 2010 No.651758 >>651750 In 1812, yes. They did.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:57:14 2010 No.651759 >>651737 It seems weird to me too because it's one of those classics that feels very contemporary in its attitudes. But anything they make people read in school is going to end up on the bottom of these lists.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:58:14 2010 No.651761 This thread reminds me of the debate about the Lord of the Flies. Without the enforcement of law, we all degrade into Chuck Palahniuk.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:58:14 2010 No.651765 >>651737 I thought it was boring. Maybe it was funny in the day, but now it's pretty meh.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:58:14 2010 No.651766 >>651750 Austen's women are not porridge-minders. Seriously, you're totally off-base here.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 01:59:14 2010 No.651768 >>651750 That is where the kitchen is, is it not?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:00:14 2010 No.651774 >>651761 >>651761 I lolled

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:00:14 2010 No.651775 >>651768 Yes. Its the big white hot thing with a clock on it telling women when the food needs to be ready.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:01:14 2010 No.651783 >>651766 I never read it. I just assumed it was like that because if my bitch doesn't have porridge on the stove for me when I get home from the printing press, HEADS ARE GONNA FUCKING ROLL!

Jane Austen Mon May 10 02:07:14 2010 No.651794

A/S/L: 32 (near death) / F/ /London
Education/Field: none. Women shouldn't educate themselves. It is like pouring milk into a shoe
Employment/Salary:none
Liked these 3 books: Anne of the Green Gables, Anything by Erica Jong, Harry Fucking Potta
Hated these 3 books: Logic by Pythagoras, Anything by Bertrand Russel, and How I Fucked an Entire Generation of Womanly Expectation by Brad Pitt
Favorite Author:Harry Potter
Least Favorite Author:Chuck Palahniuk
Genres:Building the Self-Esteem of Women (fantasy)
What you use as a bookmark:my clitoral hood

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:08:14 2010 No.651799 File: 28 KB, 460x427, Laughing Dog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>651794

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:09:14 2010 No.651800 OP, your plan went to shit

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:13:14 2010 No.651811

A/S/L: early 30s / Male / USA

Education/Field: Ivy League undergrad / Oxbridge grad / Classics and English

Employment/Salary: Professional writer (which is why I'm being so deliberately vague) / varies widely from year to year, but b/w 15k - 50k

Liked these 3 books: The Satyricon by Petronius; Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell; Posthumous Memoirs of Braz Cubas by Machado de Assis

Hated these 3 books: Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics by Stephen Landsburg; Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children by Jonathan Kellerman; The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Favorite Author: Byron, Shelley, & Keats.

Least Favorite Author: Ayn Rand or St John of Patmos

Genres: I can't think of a genre I haven't been fixated on at one time or another, except maybe writing about music, for the reason that writing about music strikes me as about as useful as dancing about architecture.

What you use as a bookmark: paper currency from foreign countries I've never visited; photos of people I love, or postcards they've sent me; ironic or ridiculously tacky manufactured bookmarks (Zac Efron, Jonas Brothers)

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:14:14 2010 No.651813

A/S/L:19/M/Antwerp
Education/Field:Dropout/Biochemistry
Employment/Salary:Salesman of fine psychoactive goods
Liked these 3 books:Catch-22, The Picture of Dorian Gray, VALIS
Hated these 3 books: Lord of the Rings, Catcher in the Rye, Ulysses cause it made me feel dumb
Favorite Author: Philip K. Dick or Kurt Vonnegut
Least Favorite Author: Ayn Rand
Genres: Non-fiction and scifi
What you use as a bookmark: a bookmark

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:16:14 2010 No.651814

>>651800
Trying to be silent and expecting much more from this board, but yes, I think you are right. My findings so far:

/lit/ is the 17-30 year old board
mostly male
from Midwest America
"chick lit" haters
fantasy lovers
wide employment background
Partial to Australian women
Culturally cloistered
Economically devoid

What did I miss?

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:17:14 2010 No.651816

>>Least Favorite Author: Serge Lang

I'm sure if Serge Lang were still alive, he'd write you a characteristic 80 page screed defending himself against the charge of being somebody's least favorite author. I'm just curious if he's your least favorite author because you once received one of those famous documents yourself.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:18:14 2010 No.651818 >>651811 Amateur writer here. Give me one piece of advice that you wish you had when you started.

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:18:14 2010 No.651819
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20, Male, Washington

Majoring in history and English secondary education

Poor college student

Liked A Tale of Two Cities, The Brothers Karamazov, and Les Miserables

Disliked Twilight, House of Leaves, and Battle Royale

Dickens is my favorite author

I guess Stephanie Meyer is my least favorite author

I'll read pretty much anything, but I've been pretty heavy into general literature since about 10th grade

I use receipts and this fancy corner-page bookmark

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:20:14 2010 No.651822 >>651814 Only the first thing is even remotely true. The rest is just bullshit that people make up as they go along.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:21:14 2010 No.651823 File: 75 KB, 338x506, 83375407.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>651819 >Les Miserables

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:22:14 2010 No.651827

>>651816

His books are atrocious--tricky, snide little pieces of arrogant nonsense. He was a master troll in fields about which he had little clue (linear algebra, the biology of AIDS). He was fond of embarrassing undergraduates and in throwing his weight around in petty disputes.

He never did me any harm. In fact, I met him one summer at Cal, and he was very nice. But he remains a perfect example of the reason I did not become a professional academic.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:23:14 2010 No.651828 File: 57 KB, 498x343, 97856757.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] After the face

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:23:14 2010 No.651831 >>651814 Partial to Australian women?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:25:14 2010 No.651835 A/S/L:33 / M / CA Education/Field: cannot reveal Employment/Salary: authorship - cannot reveal Liked these 3 books: n/a Hated these 3 books: n/a Favorite Author: me Least Favorite Author: Stephen King Genres: politicos What you use as a bookmark: photos

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:26:14 2010 No.651839 >>651831 Aye. Ya feel it /lit/; gittin oll wit?

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:27:14 2010 No.651843

A/S/L:18/M/ California
Education/Field:High School/ College Student
Liked these 3 books:Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and the New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Hated these 3 books:The Scarlet Letter, Oracle Night and The Lord of the Rings
Favorite Author: I'd say Cormac McCarthy
Least Favorite Author:Stephanie Meyer
Genres:Fiction, African American Literature and Historical Literature
What you use as a bookmark:Pokemon cards usually and the occasional Magic the Gathering card.

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:28:14 2010 No.651845

>>Amateur writer here. Give me one piece of advice that you wish you had when you started.

"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed:
Slow rises worth, by poverty oppressed."
--Samuel Johnson

In other words, meritocracy ain't what it's cracked up to be.

If you think Frieda Hughes has her poetry published because she has talent, think again. Her parents were Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. If you think Edward Albee has his plays staged and wins prizes because he's a great playwright, think again. He inherited more money than most of us can possibly imagine, and inherited it because his adoptive family owned most of the theatres in America. If you think that the hottest new fiction manuscript in the NYC publishing world this year was James Franco's MFA thesis from Columbia because James Franco is the next James Joyce, think again. He's a movie star. And so it goes.

Nepotism and who-you-know or how-famous-you-are has just as much to do with success in writing as it does with success in real estate. This is the grim truth of what it's like to be an artist in a market economy.

On the other hand, if the writer you most admire is genuinely an artist, and you write him or her a fan letter to say that you really care about his or her work, chances are they will be so astonished you'll get a grateful letter back.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:28:14 2010 No.651846 >>651839 But they're all talking to an Australian dude. The female one came in later in the thread.

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:29:14 2010 No.651849

A/S/L: 18/M/Houston
Education/Field: College Student
Employment/Salary: n/a
Liked these 3 books: Harry Potter Series, 100 Years of Solitude, Cat's Cradle
Hated these 3 books: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, A Tale of Two Cities
Favorite Author: Christie, Rowling, and Vonnegut
Least Favorite Author: Charles Dickens
Genres: Don't really have one, although I am partial to fantasy
What you use as a bookmark: Anything around me I can find (pieces of paper, money, etc.)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:31:14 2010 No.651857 >>651849 Money's never a good idea.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:31:14 2010 No.651858 >>651823 >>651823 Les Miserables was a beautiful piece of literature, man. Shit made me cry big, manly tears. Tears that drink Powerade and bench press women, but tears nonetheless.

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:32:14 2010 No.651865

>>He was fond of embarrassing undergraduates

All I knew about him was that I once found this document, which was an 80-page defense of himself against a review of one of his seminars in an undergrad-written guide to various courses / professors....the sort of thing that is now done online. It read like it was written by Charles X Kinbote on dexedrine.

After I found it, I asked a friend of mine whose dad is a tenured math professor at a different institution, and said, "Does your dad know this guy? Is he crazy?" She called her dad and asked him on my behalf, and he said, "Oh, tell him it's just Serge. If he wants to hear more stories, everybody has one."

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:34:14 2010 No.651871 >>But they're all talking to an Australian dude. I do hope it's Ern Malley. He's my favorite Australian writer.

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:35:14 2010 No.651877

>>651845
Actually, I expected that but I didn't wish it to be the case.This may not seem like something similar, but in my case, it is.

I am also an amateur bowler. I want to become a professional bowler, but this entails letters of recommendation from other PBA members. I have won regional tournaments, sanctioned league competitions, and ABT (Amateur Bowlers Tour) placements. No matter how hard I work at what I do, there is an old boys club that blocks me nefariously from becoming a professional.

I have since gone into the laughable "underworld" of bowling where I find that I can gamble my skills using trickery and intimidation. I think I will apply these skills to the world of publication.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:36:14 2010 No.651881 >>651865 > on dexedrine You know how kids in school now use ADD meds (stimulants) to stay alert and focus? Mathematicians (including Lang) discovered that in the forties.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:36:14 2010 No.651883 >>I am also an amateur bowler. Can I confess I am desperate to hear your informed critique of The Big Lebowski, if you've seen it?

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:38:14 2010 No.651890

>>Mathematicians (including Lang) discovered that in the forties.

Oh, I know. Didn't Erdos say that a mathematician was a machine for turning benzedrine into theorems? Or did he say caffeine? I can't remember but I once wrote a piece about mathematicians, just because the stories I heard about Erdos were so amazing I thought, wow, I thought the people I knew were strange...

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:38:14 2010 No.651892 >>651871 Nope. The genius of anything Ern writes is tangible, we'd be able to tell his work from even a thread like this.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:40:14 2010 No.651899 File: 50 KB, 560x393, murdoch.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Your goal is peepee kaka.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:40:14 2010 No.651901 >>651890 I heard this as "coffee into theorems." But yeah, benzedrine works.

Anonymous Mon May 10 02:44:14 2010 No.651915

>>651883
Certainly. In watching the Big lebowski from a bowlers point of view, Donny was the best bowler. The reaction Donny's ball gets on the cut-away scenes from him throwing the ball and the ball hitting the pins are absolutely contrary. Donny need more of a straighter wrist-shoulder line lock than he shows for the same reaction. Donny has no follow through on his throw, making it obvious that the ball will never arc to the pocket. There is no need to "practice" as the Lebowski team does because an amateur is bowling in at least 3 leagues a week. Pin placement on the Rhino suggests a skid/snap reaction which every thrown ball does not--arc to drive is the standard during that time. Skid flip is the de facto standard nowadays. see motivbowling.com

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:45:14 2010 No.651917 1 post every minute for 2 hours straight. /lit/ is dead to me.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:46:14 2010 No.651923 >>651917 Blame the philosophy essay I'm avoiding.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:46:14 2010 No.651924 >>651892 Good answer. I am sure we would know if the black swan of trespass deigned to post on 4chan. As it is, it seems like mostly just the same old angry penguins posting on /b/.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:47:14 2010 No.651926 >>651923 Do you know what I blame a breakdown of? Society!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:50:14 2010 No.651935 >>651923 Let me help you with your essay. Solipsism is the only non-mathematical philosophical idea that CAN exist. Thus, I will not write this essay because It will only be for my benefit, and I am already aware of that fact.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:55:14 2010 No.651952 >>651935 Should I cite it to some guy on /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:56:14 2010 No.651961 >>651952 Solipsism demands you cite yourself to yourself as the only authority.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:57:14 2010 No.651968 >>651961 Yeah, but I feel like not failing, and philosophy lecturers get pissy when you imply that they don't exist.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 02:58:14 2010 No.651972 I was under the impression that a lot of /lit/ anon was female. I am apparently wrong. Leaving here forever. Enjoy your sausage-fest cum showers, /lit/!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:01:14 2010 No.651984 >>651972 Maybe the femanons are smarter than us and are avoiding the thread?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:02:14 2010 No.651991 >>651373 Nope. Face the facts. Women can't read. Women can't deduce. Women have no aptitude for anything beyond the smell of their own tampon.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:03:14 2010 No.651993 >>651984 No.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:05:14 2010 No.652005 >>651991 But! But! Harry Pottor! And Twilight!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:09:14 2010 No.652016 Going to bed Since this is /lit/, I know the thread will be here way past noon tomorrow. Still have American Midwest highschoolers who love recommended reading as the population of /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:10:14 2010 No.652022 File: 15 KB, 320x316, photo-ScaryWolf2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] MOTHERFUCKING CALL OF THE MOTHERFUCKING WILD MOTHERFUCKER

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:14:14 2010 No.652037 >>651915 Learning something like that is precisely why I love 4chan. Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:22:14 2010 No.652066 >>651915 Holy fuck.

Anonymous Mon May 10 03:27:14 2010 No.652076

A/S/L: 21/m/michigan
Education/Field: Working on my BA in Accounting then CPA cert.
Employment/Salary: n/a
Liked these 3 books: The Little Prince, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Bible
Hated these 3 books: Twilight, Eragon, Nietzsche
Favorite Author: Antoine de saint exupery
Least Favorite Author: Meyers
Genres: A bit of everything
What you use as a bookmark: I remember where I was, no bookmark.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 03:32:14 2010 No.652086 >>651597 FUCK YEAH SNOW COUNTRY MONO NO AWARE AND SHIT WORD UP NIGGA

Anonymous Mon May 10 03:41:14 2010 No.652109

A/S/L: 20/M/USA
Education/Field: BA in Philosophy, expected 2012
Employment/Salary: Part time at Housing and Residence Life at the university I attend
Liked these 3 books: Naked Lunch, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Trial
Hated these 3 books: Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, Utilitarianism
Favorite Author: William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut
Least Favorite Author: Any of the Brontes
Genres: Most anything
What you use as a bookmark: Various scraps of paper I have lying around, bank statements and the like

Anonymous Mon May 10 03:55:14 2010 No.652130

A/S/L: 21/M/Canada

Education/Field: BA Political Science

Employment/Salary: Student = No money

Liked these 3 books: Doctor Zhizago, Wacousta, Leviathan

Hated these 3 books: Being and Time, Ethics of Ambiguity, The Koran

Favorite Author: Robert Burns

Least Favorite Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Genres: Anything

What you use as a bookmark: I remember the page

Anonymous Mon May 10 04:24:14 2010 No.652173

A/S/L: 20/m/Canada
Education/Field: Halfway through a BA in creative writing and foreign languages
Employment/Salary: I have never had a job
Liked these 3 books: Envy (Yuri Olesha), Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo), The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
Hated these 3 books: The Elementary Particles, Goblin Market, Tommyknockers
Favorite Author: Faulkner
Least Favorite Author: Christina Rossetti
Genres: Russian and American lit if those count as genres
What you use as a bookmark: folded library receipt

Anonymous Mon May 10 04:25:14 2010 No.652178

A/S/L: 19/M/East Coast USA
Education/Field: High School, Starting College
Employment/Salary: Waiter/Average $600 per month
Liked these 3 books: 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451
Hated these 3 books: The Lightning Theif, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick (I just couldn't get through all the marine biology)
Favorite Author: George Orwell
Least Favorite Author: Hawthorne
Genres: Distopian, Horror, Philosophy
What you use as a bookmark: Whatever scrap of paper is nearest to my hand.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:26:14 2010 No.652182 >>652130 I was hoping someone mentioned Hegel

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:31:14 2010 No.652194 >>651858 >Tears that drink Powerade This sounds recursive. Would these tears then cry Powerade?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:32:14 2010 No.652197 >>652130 >Doctor Zhizago The fuck is that!_! sounds like a bizarro fic

Anonymous Mon May 10 04:36:14 2010 No.652207

A/S/L: 18/M/Iowa
Education/Field: BA, Music Theory
Employment/Salary: Audio Engineer, $12.50
Liked these 3 books: Hop-Frog, Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, Thomas Covenant series
Hated these 3 books: LotR series...
Favorite Author: Lovecraft
Least Favorite Author: Tolkein
Genres: Horror, Fantasy
What you use as a bookmark: Anything and everything

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:39:14 2010 No.652214 sure is liberal art/humanity major in here

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:48:14 2010 No.652231 >>652214 we're all frightened of actual work

Anonymous Mon May 10 04:49:14 2010 No.652234

~20/f/bumhole-upon-shitpiss brook

student/amateur pimpette

op is an american and has well deserved a nuclear holocaust NOW!

John Gardner's Grendel; some plays by bertolt brecht; all the OBERIU authors; SHAKESPEARE! some cinema of lars von trier; some poetry by an author you twits cannot possibly know. Amores perros.

i hate everything i was forced to read to get along with studies, school and hipster losers like yourselves. also, some other plays by bertolt brecht and some other cinema by lars von trier.

love letters are to be written with crayon on cardboard and stuffed up thine arse.

Anonymous Mon May 10 04:49:14 2010 No.652236

A/S/L: 21, Male, Denmark
Education/Field: Studying anthropologi
Employment/Salary: The money given by the state to students, which is about 1500 $ a month
Liked these 3 books: C&P, Tortilla Flat, Den Unge Jægers Lidelser
Hated these 3 books: Sword Of Truth, Katinka, Atlas Shrugged
Favorite Author: Frank Jæger
Least Favorite Author: Terry Goodkind
Genres: No preferences
What you use as a bookmark: The ones i receive when i purchase books.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:51:14 2010 No.652240 so rebellious! yawn

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:52:14 2010 No.652242 >Employment/Salary: The money given by the state to students, which is about 1500 $ a month I take my words back. Nuke denmark instead!

Anonymous Mon May 10 04:55:14 2010 No.652244

Education/Field: Studying linguistics.
Employment/Salary: Currently unemployed.
Liked these 3 books: Ulysses, Another Roadside Attraction, Wise Children.
Hated these 3 books: Atlas Shrugged, Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace.
Favorite Author: Hard one, though it must be either James Joyce or Kafka.
Least Favorite Author: Neil Gaiman, hands down. The hack copies whatever is popular and adds creepiness and swearing.
Genres: Seriously?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:55:14 2010 No.652245 >>652242 Socialism feels pretty good bro.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:56:14 2010 No.652246 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:57:14 2010 No.652247 >>652234 What's with your fucking attitude, whore? You are fucking 20 years old. The only thing you read from start to finish was a rave flyer for Audioweb

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:57:14 2010 No.652248 >>651972 >>651972 i had started a similar thread in euro time without asking for sex. had some evidently cum-filled dumpsters.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:59:14 2010 No.652251 >Amores perros Your understanding of Spanish is nada nunca

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 04:59:14 2010 No.652252 >>652234 >I'm a conceited little brat, derp

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:00:14 2010 No.652255 >>652247 bugger off. it is the internet and i am being honest.

Anonymous Mon May 10 05:00:14 2010 No.652256

A/S/L: 19/M/NZ
Education/Field: BA/LLB in a bunch of sturff
Employment/Salary: part time military reserves
Liked these 3 books: Catch 22, Ivan Denisovich, Salamandastron
Hated these 3 books: Pick any three ultra-popular young adult titles about vampires or wizards.
Favorite Author: Joseph Heller
Least Favorite Author: Hunter Thompson
Genres: Not really.
What you use as a bookmark: Label from a beer bottle.

Anonymous Mon May 10 05:01:14 2010 No.652257

A/S/L: 28/M/USA
Education/Field: Comp.Sci.
Employment/Salary: Student
Liked these 3 books: Tender Buttons, The Fall, and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Hated these 3 books: White Noise, The Da Vinci Code, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Favorite Author: Shakespeare
Least Favorite Author: Ayn Rand
Genres: Classics, Philosophy, Mathematics, Poetry, and Social Studies.
What you use as a bookmark: I collect them so I have many more than just one.

Mr. Eko !!Kvd62zjcAJW Mon May 10 05:02:14 2010 No.652258

>A/S/L:
25, Male, Europe

>Education/Field:
Political sciences

>Employment/Salary:
Real Estate agent/N/A

>Liked these 3 books:
The Peace War - Vernor Vinge
Quarantine - Greg Egan
Pusing Ice - Alystair Reynolds

>Hated these 3 books:
I choose carefully what I read, so I rarely end up reading books that I wouldn't like.

>Favorite Author:
Asimov

>Least Favorite Author:
David Brin

>Genres:
Science Fiction over 9000 times.

>What you use as a bookmark:
Nothing.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:05:14 2010 No.652262 >>652234 I can smell your abundantly fat, yeasty vagina from here in Detroit. We only see you as a chavette, dismissable and commonplace.

Anonymous Mon May 10 05:06:14 2010 No.652263

A/S/L: 20/m/Australia (Melbourne)
Education/Field: Computer Science
Employment/Salary: student, live off savings
Liked these 3 books: 1984, C&P, Dune
Hated these 3 books: I read a page of Twilight, does that count?
Favorite Author: Dostoyevsky
Least Favorite Author: That gamer girl bitch
Genres: Sci-fi, anything really
What you use as a bookmark: pokemon card

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:06:14 2010 No.652265 >love letters are to be written with crayon on cardboard and stuffed up thine arse. unhh

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:12:14 2010 No.652281 File: 84 KB, 400x322, gonnahate.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>652262 >>652252 >>652251 what's up with my spanish? it's not that you could fix it either, stupid twit.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:13:14 2010 No.652285 also, here's a bump for europe good morning, europe!~

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:14:14 2010 No.652288 >>652281 England...nothing but the fookin bist

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:15:14 2010 No.652289 >>652251 Amores Perros is the actual title of something

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:16:14 2010 No.652295 >>652289 Entiendes Mendes?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:24:14 2010 No.652304 >>652281 dismissing this chav's contribution for garrolousness and angst. plus it's tainted with the feeling that the poster is actually a 14 year old boy

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:31:14 2010 No.652311 File: 245 KB, 600x600, Asinine-America.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] thanks for all the drama, boys

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:36:14 2010 No.652313 bumping for timezone shift

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:37:14 2010 No.652314 Thanks for the memories.

Anonymous Mon May 10 05:38:14 2010 No.652315

A/S/L: 20/M/USA
Education: Getting a BA in History, then law school
Salary: 0$
Liked these 3 books: Blood Meridian, Book of the New Sun series, East of Eden
Hated these 3 books: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Picture of Dorian Gray, The Awakening
Favorite Author: John Steinbeck
Least Favorite Author: James Joyce
Genres: Western, Historical, Speculative Fiction
What you use as a bookmark: Random scrap of drawing paper

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 05:47:14 2010 No.652323 >>652295 No entiendo, lo siento :( It's 12 minutes till next lecture so i'll be going. Don't let it die till europe awakens.

Anonymous Mon May 10 05:58:14 2010 No.652340

A/S/L: 18/F/CAN
Education/Field: Going for Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
Employment/Salary: None currently.
Liked these 3 books: ((Only 3? D=))
-L'Etranger
-Fulgrim
-Everything I've read by Alexandre Dumas. I like his writing style.
Hated these 3 books:
-Catcher in the Rye
-Pride and Prejudice
-Any of the Christian novels I was forced to read as a child.

Favorite Author: -Can't Decide-
Least Favorite Author: Does Stephenie Meyer actually count as an author?
Genres: Science Fiction, Grimdark ((Does that count?)), any fiction really other than this "LAWL, REAL LIFE TEENS/YOUNG ADULTS IN CRAZY HIGHSCHOOL/COLLEGE SITUATIONS" stuff. Or smutty romance novels, can't stand them.
What you use as a bookmark: Either a Queen of Hearts or a Jack of Hearts.

Anonymous Mon May 10 05:58:14 2010 No.652342

A/S/L: 23, male, russian
Education/Field: e.eng./IT
Employment/Salary:could be better
Liked these 3 books: Kolyma Tales, For whom the Bell Tolls, Kangaroo
Hated these 3 books: dk. you don't read books you don't like
Favorite Author: Yuz Aleshkovsky
Least Favorite Author: Nietzsche
Genres: as long as it doesn't involve the grand and eternal issues it's good
What you use as a bookmark: my talented dick

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 06:04:14 2010 No.652349 File: 187 KB, 800x960, rage.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>652234 8/10

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 06:08:14 2010 No.652352 >>652244 And you omitted your age and sex because...

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 06:10:14 2010 No.652353 >>652352 it's not a sex board, stupid

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 06:11:14 2010 No.652355 >>652234 You people proclaim yourself /lit/erati but this was so obvious a troll that all of your intellectual egoism should really, at this moment, collapse upon itself. And you should, please, jump off a bridge. Or shoot yourselves in the face.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 06:19:14 2010 No.652366 >>652262 >I can smell your abundantly fat, yeasty vagina from here in Detroit. We only see you as a chavette, dismissable and commonplace. said the poet

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 06:22:11 2010 No.652369 >>651372 D i Ｄ Y o u ｋｎｏ w ｔＨ A ｔ M O O Ｔ i S a t h ｉ e f ｗ H O h ａｓＮ O Ｔ w Ｏ R Ｋｅｄ a Ｄ A Ｙ I N ｈ I s Ｌ i F Ｅ ? H t T ｐ : / / 8 8 . 8 0 . 2 1 . 1 2 /

>>	Percy Bysshe Shelley !SHjzCSZsqE Mon May 10 06:23:14 2010 No.652371 File: 16 KB, 300x385, ShelleyByCurran1819.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Immortal/Male/Your Heart Any young French boys seeking inspiration?

Anonymous Mon May 10 06:42:14 2010 No.652393

A/S/L: 18/F/Thailand
Education/Field: High School Student
Employment/Salary: None
Liked these 3 books: Love in the Time of Cholera, Starship Troopers, Good Omens
Hated these 3 books: Wuthering Heights, The Edible Woman, Cell
Favorite Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Least Favorite Author: None specifically
Genres: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Satire
What you use as a bookmark: I don't. I memorize the page, paragraph, and line of where I had left off.

Anonymous Mon May 10 06:49:14 2010 No.652404

A/S/L: 20, Male, Australia
Education/Field: University Student, Bachelor of Arts/Secondary Education
Employment/Salary: Fast Food worker, bugger all
Liked these 3 books: Les Miserables, Nicholas Nickleby, 1984
Hated these 3 books: Twilight, Five People in Heaven, The Alchemist
Favorite Author: Terry Pratchett
Least Favorite Author: Stephanie Meyer
Genres: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Historical Fiction, Classics.
What you use as a bookmark: Bookmarks, pieces of scrap paper, envelopes; basically whatever I can find.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 06:56:14 2010 No.652417 >>652130 I think you meant Doctor Zhivago, my good man.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:01:14 2010 No.652432 >>652417 why didn't he call him "Doctor Bob", at least in the translation. The ancients had, for one, their mythical hero names translated.

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:05:14 2010 No.652439

A/S/L: 22/male/germany
Education/Field: uni/psychology (starting first semester soon)
Employment/Salary:none
Liked these 3 books: Les Miserables, Crime and Punishment, Steppenwolf
Hated these 3 books: LotR, Valis, can't think of third one
Favorite Author: Dostoyevski
Least Favorite Author: Tolkien
Genres: fiction, short stories,
What you use as a bookmark: local bookstore's bookmark (thalia)

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:06:14 2010 No.652441 >>652439 Erst mit 22 an die Uni? Und dann willst du mit deinem männlichen Geschlecht Psychologie studieren, anon? Das sollst du mir erklären.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:08:14 2010 No.652445 It's a shame only the most vigorous of trolls get an answer on this board. I'd to get to know the lot of you closer than that tightly strapped poll allows me to.

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:12:14 2010 No.652451

>>652441
after finishing school I got sidetracked a bit, had a slight falling out with my father, started studying something else, but now starting over

... und zu meinem Geschlecht: ich mag Kategorien nicht, ich sehe mich zuerst einmal als Mensch, dann als Mann :3

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:14:14 2010 No.652455 >>652445 I would give you my MSN, but trolls would jump on it in a millisecond. I'd penpal you if I don't live in the middle of fucking nowhere.

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:14:14 2010 No.652456

A/S/L: 20, f, australia
Education/Field: last yr bachelor of commerce/economics
Employment/Salary: tutor/not much
Liked these 3 books: the little friend - donna tartt, pastoralia - george saunders and american psycho
Hated these 3 books: the last of the mohicans
Favorite Author: atm george saunders no matter how depressed he makes me
Least Favorite Author: james fenimoore cooper?
Genres: a bit of most, really
What you use as a bookmark: a shiny top shop tag or a train ticket usually

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:14:14 2010 No.652457 >>652445 ... Are you hitting on me?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:14:14 2010 No.652458 >>652451 >... und zu meinem Geschlecht: ich mag Kategorien nicht, ich sehe mich zuerst einmal als Mensch, dann als Mann :3 Willst du dir eine Witwe schnappen?

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:15:14 2010 No.652459
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A/S/L: 22/f/tx
Education/Field: BA english/communications
Employment/Salary: web design $10/hr
Liked these 3 books: Typee - Melville, House of Leaves - Danielewski, An Arrow's Flight - Merliss
Hated these 3 books: Go Ask Alice - Anonymous, Leonardo's Laptop - Shneiderman, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa - Park
Favorite Author: Madeleine L'Engle (no one has lived up to the way her books made me feel back in the day)
Least Favorite Author: Paolini (someone tried to make me read it.)
Genres: Literary Fiction, Modern Fantasy (like Katie MacAlister, not Robert Jordan), Erotica, Adventure,
What you use as a bookmark: receipt for the book, typically

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:16:14 2010 No.652463
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A/S/L: 22/M/Aus
Education/Field: Education (Primary)
Employment/Salary: Around $400 AU a week working at After School care.
Liked these 3 books: Foundation, Confederacy of Dunces, Fahrenheit 451
Hated these 3 books: Twilight, LoTR, The DaVinci Code
Favorite Author: Isaac Asimov
Least Favorite Author: Stephanie Myer
Genres: Sci-Fi, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction
What you use as a bookmark: a bookmark I got from Westsider Books when I went to New York.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:16:14 2010 No.652464 To the two german guys in here: Haltet die Klappe! did your parents not teach you proper manners?

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:18:14 2010 No.652466

A/S/L: 22/M/New Zealand
Education/Field: University, Law
Employment/Salary: Lawyer, around 36k USD
Liked these 3 books: 1984, Crimes against Humanity, The Long Walk
Hated these 3 books: The Tommyknockers, Twilight, Atlas Shrugged
Favorite Author: George Orwell
Least Favorite Author: Stephanie Meyer
Genres: Dystopia, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
What you use as a bookmark: My memory

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:18:14 2010 No.652468

>>652458
>Willst du dir eine Witwe schnappen?

Wo kam das jetzt her? Ich habe nur versucht das "Steck-mich-nicht-in-eine-Schublade"-Klischee zu benutzen, um die durchaus angebrachte Frage nach meiner männlichen Zukunft in der Psychologie zu umgehen. Deshalb bin ich noch kein Grabräuber.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:18:14 2010 No.652469 File: 18 KB, 250x230, rapeohol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>652456 >the last of the mohicans >hated

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:19:14 2010 No.652472 Do gentlemen never ever ask a girl to show her tits and her cunt? Why did op even ask for sex if we're not getting any anyway?

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:20:14 2010 No.652474

A/S/L: 18/F/Australia

Education/Field: High School

Employment/Salary: At School

Liked these 3 books: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, An Abundance of Katherines, The Outsiders.

Hated these 3 books: Go Ask Alice, Breaking Dawn, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Favorite Author: John Green/John Updike

Least Favorite Author: Truman Capote

Genres: General/Classics/Anthologies

What you use as a bookmark: Folded receipts, letters, envelopes, ticket stubs, scraps, actual bookmarks.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:20:14 2010 No.652475 >>652464 I'm sorry, Mutter, it von't happen again!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:22:14 2010 No.652481 >>652474 >A Tree Grows in Brooklyn oh man, awesome liked book!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:23:14 2010 No.652483 >>652468 Willst du also stattdessen erben? >>652464 Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:27:14 2010 No.652492 >>652474 >Truman Capote Can I high five you, sister?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:29:14 2010 No.652498 >>652483 yes, i would very much like that. isn't all too likely, though. and like Mutter said, I will refrain from using nazi-speak from now on.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:31:14 2010 No.652503 >>652498 The Ghostssciences are, as i thought of them, not more than schools for fine dames. So you do have capital? I'm asking all time because you listed Dostoyevski. He's read only by the upper class and pretentious suck-up leeches like myself.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:34:14 2010 No.652506 >>652483 wow, another übermensch who wants to destroy the world with his faggotry.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:35:14 2010 No.652507 >>652506 >faggotry Is that how you call our authentically Hellenic culture?

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:36:14 2010 No.652509

A/S/L: 26, male, london
Education/Field: music (classical, specifically cello)
Employment/Salary: unemployed
Liked these 3 books: the waves, invisible cities, the unconsoled
Hated these 3 books: i don't read books i hate
Favorite Author: italo calvino
Least Favorite Author: idk
Genres: uh....classics?
What you use as a bookmark: ticket stubs from concerts or movies

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:38:14 2010 No.652510 >>652507 > implying I am not of more pure teutonic blood than you bastard

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:38:14 2010 No.652511

>>652503
I had a brief sociology-episode at the RWTH, and there were quite some Herren in there. No, I do not have "capital", but I guess I get by. Psychology interests me, that's why I'm doing it. What are you doing, if I may be so bold? Studying natural sciences and reading russian literature?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:43:14 2010 No.652523 Nineteen / Male / Oregon College; Freshman Unemployed Naked Lunch, Vile Bodies, The Wanting Seed Factotum, Burmese Days, Time Out of Joint Evelyn Waugh Philip K. Dick Satire Receipts

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:44:14 2010 No.652524

>>652511
RWTH and sociology... lol, you know that they only introduced a philosophy department at the RWTH to make it less of a sausagefest?
I am serious, I know some Profs in the administration.
Engineers... pfff

Karohemd und Samenstau
Ich studier' Maschinenbau

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:44:14 2010 No.652525

>>652510
Well, than you are a traitor to German spirit and a Schädling on top of that because you proclaim your blasphemous ideas to foreigners on /lit/.
You cannot call it faggorty when you sodomize another Burschenschafter on Germanic ruins in a forest despite the frost, with only two torches and friction to warm the spirits.
It is the very opposite of faggotry, in fact.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:47:14 2010 No.652527 >>652525 just two dudes, enjoying the strength of each others body, huh?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:50:14 2010 No.652530 >>652524 >Karohemd und Samenstau What nonsense! Samenstau was never a problem to MaschBau. It is alot more popular than any other branch. Why of all things did chose that. Aren't you, social scientists, either virgins or faggots or women or capitalists?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:50:14 2010 No.652531 >>652524 still there weren't only girls in there. for what reason they introduced the philosophy-fachschaft I really don't care. you're right about engineers though, germany's future looks like an idiot. so what are you doing?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:51:14 2010 No.652532 >>652527 It isn't not the strenght of body but the strenght of spirit than we fancy, Kleingeist.

Anonymous Mon May 10 07:53:14 2010 No.652534

>>652530
Maschbau is very popular at the RWTH, but only among Maschbau student's which are almost exclusively dudes. from my brief stay at the philosophy-departement I can say that everybody not enrolled in engineering can't stand them. they even crash other course's parties because their's only have guys.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 07:55:14 2010 No.652537 But they're supposed to have an Abitur!

Maximilian Weber !s7q0WFk8h. Mon May 10 08:07:14 2010 No.652553

A/S/L: 21/M/Australia
Education/Field: Studying BA in Professional Writing. Final year. Majoring in Writing and Sociology, minor in Literature.
Employment/Salary: Retail.
Liked these 3 books: Crooked Little Vein, Dead Europe, Cats Eye.
Hated these 3 books: Tess of d'Urbervilles, Song of Solomon, Dubliners.
Favorite Author: Warren Ellis.
Least Favorite Author: Franz Kafka.
Genres: Fantasy, sci fi, historical fiction, grunge lit. Probaby more that I can't think of right now.
What you use as a bookmark: Anything I can find that will fit. Failing that, I'll dog ear.

Anonymous Mon May 10 08:27:14 2010 No.652572

A/S/L: 24/Male/Malaysia
Education/Field: Aviation
Employment/Salary: Airline Pilot, 50k in USD due to shitty exchange rate.
Liked these 3 books: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.Wind, Sand and Stars. Watership Down.
Hated these 3 books: Angels and Demons, The Alchemist, The Jester (lol airport literature)
Favorite Author: Victor Hugo
Least Favorite Author: probably Paulo Coelho.
Genres: Sci-fi, occasional fantasy, history
What you use as a bookmark: book receipt.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 08:29:14 2010 No.652578 >>651540 Can't be bothered with the survey, but I wanted to offer my condolences to this anon. Feel for you, bro.

Anonymous Mon May 10 08:31:14 2010 No.652579

18/Male/Finland

Vocational Qualification in Business Information Technology

Student

Foundation (Asimov), Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut), New York (Rutherfurd)

I don't hate books.

Kurt Vonnegut

I haven't even one

Science fiction, historical fiction

The library receipt

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 08:32:45 2010 No.652587 >>651371 ｗ E L ｃｏｍＥ T ｏ a ｎ T ＯＰ i Ａ W H Ｅｒ E ａ L l T ＨｅＡ N T ＳＬ I v ＥＩ n H Ａ r M Ｏ N Y : H T ＴＰ : / / 8 8 . 8 0 . 2 1 . 1 2 /

Anonymous Mon May 10 08:40:14 2010 No.652601
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>>651597
>Hated these 3 books: Catch 22
but why?

A/S/L: 22/m/ca
Education/Field: in college, engineering
Employment/Salary: maybe 11k
Liked these 3 books: the sun also rises, down and out in paris and london, catch-22
Hated these 3 books: hmm.. can think of a lot more i like but not any I hate
Favorite Author: maybe Palahniuk
Least Favorite Author: Stephen Chbosky
Genres: fiction, satire, history, anything really minus philosophy.

>>	sage Mon May 10 08:41:14 2010 No.652603 >>651495 ironic how you hate fantasy, yet ulysses is as close as you get.

Anonymous Mon May 10 08:48:14 2010 No.652615

A/S/L: 18/M/Australia
Education/Field: First year law student.
Employment/Salary: Work at a board and card games store, get about $125 a week.
Liked these 3 books: Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-5, 1984
Hated these 3 books: Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, Twilight
Favorite Author: Vonnegut
Least Favorite Author: Meyer
Genres: No genres I particularly like more than any other.
What you use as a bookmark: Movie/concert/sporting tickets

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 08:49:14 2010 No.652618 >>652615 >Hated these 3 books: Pride and Prejudice BUT WHY?

Anonymous Mon May 10 08:59:14 2010 No.652639

>>652615 here

Just realised there is heaps of Australians on /lit/, all around my age too.

>>652618

Eh, wouldn't say its as bad as HP or Twilight but I just didn't get into it at all, and really didn't think of much either protagonist, saw Elizabeth as a bit of a gold-digger and Darcy was still as much a douche at the end as he was at the start imo, Elizabeth's personal opinion of him just changed.

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:09:14 2010 No.652654

A/S/L: 23/M/IL
Education/Field: Graduating this week with a degree in English
Employment/Salary: n/a
Liked these 3 books: The Bell Jar, The Sound and The Fury, Ulysses
Hated these 3 books: Jane Eyre, House of Mirth, Frankenstein
Favorite Author: Sylvia Plath
Least Favorite Author: Charlotte Bronte
Genres: Classics
What you use as a bookmark: Whatever is in arms reach.

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:18:14 2010 No.652668

A/S/L: 21/Male/Canada
Education/Field: Philosophy Major
Employment/Salary: Tim Hortons/shit
Liked these 3 books: Things Fall Apart, The Piano Teacher, Infinite Jest
Hated these 3 books: every book I read in high school
Favorite Author: Jelinek
Least Favorite Author: Sartre
Genres: Philosophy, Psychology, Non-dramatic Fiction
What you use as a bookmark: memory

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:21:14 2010 No.652674
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28/M/UK
Film & Video production - BA
Self-employed
The Fountainhead, Neuromancer, Catch-22
Cloud Atlas, Lunar Park, Spook Country
Ballard
Richard Dawkins
Popular science, philosophy, magical realism
Train tickets

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:34:14 2010 No.652694

A/S/L: 20/M/Adelaide, Australia
Education/Field: Bachelor of Graphic Design
Employment/Salary: Check out chick.
Liked these 3 books: High Fidelity, On the Road, Wake Up
Hated these 3 books: idk, there is always at least SOMETHING to take from a book and love about it
Favorite Author: Kerouac
Least Favorite Author: Mayer. har har.
Genres: Beat generation, I guess
What you use as a bookmark: Plane ticket

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:34:14 2010 No.652695

A/S/L: 20/M/US (NM)
Education/Field: College undergraduate - History
Employment/Salary: N/A usually, summer odd jobs mostly
Liked these 3 books: 1984 (Orwell), Heart of Darkness (Conrad), To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Hated these 3 books: The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), Wizzard's First Rule (Goodkind), Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
Favorite Author: George Orwell
Least Favorite Author: Ayn Rand
Genres: Modern, Historical, Science Fiction, Fantasy
What you use as a bookmark: Small slips of paper. People who dog ear books should die in a fire.

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:38:14 2010 No.652698

19/M/Norway
Education/field: High School student
Employment/salary: none
Liked: Le estrange, Being and nothingness, Hitchhiker series(Adams)
Disliked: Lord of the flies, gullivers travels, book with the big fukken whale and the dude hell bent on revenge.
Favorite Author: Kjelland
Least favorite Author: the bitch that came up with the twilight series
Genres: Satire, classics and scifi
Bookmark: Always forget one, so I mess up the pretty pages by bending them slightly at the edge :|

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:44:14 2010 No.652703

A/S/L: 24/M/New York
Education/Field: M.S. in Nuclear Medicine Physics
Employment/Salary: Physicist/$140,000
Liked these 3 books: The Once & Future King, Let the Right One In, Slaughterhouse Five
Hated these 3 books:
Favorite Author: Bernard Cornwell
Least Favorite Author:
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

Anonymous Mon May 10 09:54:14 2010 No.652709

A/S/L:23/M/Aus
Education/Field:Civil Engineering
Employment/Salary:Unemployed
Liked these 3 books:The Outsider-Camus/The Metamorphsis-Kafka/Crime and Punishment/Notes on the Underground-Dostoyevsky.
Hated these 3 books:Can't decide
Favorite Author:Not sure that i can just pick one.
Least Favorite Author:Can't decide
Genres:Anything
What you use as a bookmark:Always torn bits of paper.

Anonymous Mon May 10 10:20:14 2010 No.652723

A/S/L: 21/F/NY
Education/Field: History/Accounting
Employment/Salary: Sell soap online; only get maybe $200 a week
Liked these 3 books: The Magus, V., The Trial
Hated these 3 books: Don Quixote, Sense and Sensibility, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Favorite Author: George Eliot
Least Favorite Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Genres: Fantasy/History/~Improving Literature~
What you use as a bookmark: Receipts, or whatever scrap of paper I have on hand.

Roland of Gilead !!ljskqCDbtBq Mon May 10 10:28:14 2010 No.652725

A/S/L: 19/m/Florida
Education/Field: Graduated High School
Employment/Salary: Job hunting now
Liked these 3 books: Three randoms? Um, Abhorsen Trilogy, Pendragon Adventures, Shannara series
Hated these 3 books: World War Z (not really hate, but it was boring), Sword of Truth, dunno what else
Favorite Author: Don't have one
Least Favorite Author: ^
Genres: Fiction, mainly fantasy.
What you use as a bookmark: A bookmark or whatever I can find

Anonymous Mon May 10 10:28:14 2010 No.652727

A/S/L: 18 male Denmark
Education/Field: Currently in High School - going for History.
Employment/Salary: Unemployed
Liked these 3 books: You'd call them stupid names.
Hated these 3 books: Twilight, The Banana and the eel and Sabriel.
Favorite Author: Phillip Pullman
Least Favorite Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genres: Steampunk
What you use as a bookmark: A black leather bookmark with the quote:
"Don't see books as your friends, rather see them as acquaintances." or something like that.

Anonymous Mon May 10 10:35:14 2010 No.652731

A/S/L: 28/M/USA-East Coast
Education/Field: Bachelor's Degree. Poli Sci/English
Employment/Salary: Retail/ 30k a year
Liked these 3 books: Don Quixote, Blood Meridian, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Hated these 3 books: The Fountainhead, The Power of Now, Life of Pi
Favorite Author: Haruki Murakami
Least Favorite Author: Ayn Rand
Genres: Surreal stuff. Philosophical Fiction.
What you use as a bookmark: Whatever I can find that won't fuck up the book.

Anonymous Mon May 10 10:47:14 2010 No.652738

A/S/L: 19/M/Netherlands
Education/Field: BA History
Employment/Salary: None, poor student
Liked these 3 books: Lolita, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Looking for Alaska
Hated these 3 books: Pride & Prejudice, Eragon,
Favorite Author: Nabokov
Least Favorite Author: Austen
Genres: I'll read anything, really. Reading a lot of dystopian stuff now, if you can call that a genre.
What you use as a bookmark: I have huge stacks of small pieces of paper to write random stuff on, so I usually grab a sheet of that if I need a bookmark.

Anonymous Mon May 10 10:55:14 2010 No.652742

A/S/L: 19/F/Poland
Education/Field: graduated high school, starting uni this year (robotics or mechatronics)
Employment/Salary: none.
Liked these 3 books: Les Bienveillantes, The Pickwick Papers, The Magic Mountain
Hated these 3 books: Sabriel, Survivor, Too Loud a Solitude (;_;)
Favorite Author: Philip K. Dick
Least Favorite Author: Neil Gaiman
Genres: historical fiction, hard SF
What you use as a bookmark: postcards, tickets

Anonymous Mon May 10 10:56:14 2010 No.652744

A/S/L: 26/m/Miami Florida
Education/Field: English
Employment/Salary:Freelance dog trainer/variable
Liked these 3 books: Dhalgren, Dune, The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Hated these 3 books:Twilight, The Pillars of Creation, A People's History of America
Favorite Author: Neil Gaiman
Least Favorite Author: Stephanie Meyer
Genres: Scifi/Fantasy, Nonfiction (science, history)

Anonymous Mon May 10 10:59:14 2010 No.652754
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A/S/L: 28/M/Madrid
Education/Field: BA Poli Sci/Spanish
Employment/Salary: Teacher/35K
Liked these 3 books: Tale of Two Cities, Vanity Fair, Nana
Hated these 3 books: Atlas Shrugged, To Kill a Mockingbird, LOTR
Favorite Author: Zola
Least Favorite Author: Stephanie Meyer
Genres: Anything but Fantasy or Sci Fi

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:02:14 2010 No.652758 >>652744 forgot the bookmark question I use scraps of paper, or pictures, or playing cards, or whatever is around SOMETIMES i do dog-ear, but not often

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:05:14 2010 No.652762

A/S/L: 21/M/Argentina
Education/Field: Philosophy, focus on classics / Real estate.
Employment/Salary: Jobless right now, so supported by family.
Liked these 3 books: Brothers Karamazov, Borges' Ficciones, The Illustrated man.
Hated these 3 books: Only one I can remember I hated was Pride and Prejudice.
Favorite Author: Dostoievsky.
Least Favorite Author: Jane Austen.
Genres: Everything except romantic novels.
What you use as a bookmark: Any random piece of paper I can find.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:07:14 2010 No.652768

A/S/L: 18 m France
Education/Field: none
Employment/Salary: none
Liked these 3 books: Ender's Game, Nine Prince in Amber , Behold the Man
Hated these 3 books: I don't read books I hate.
Favorite Author: Roger Zelazny
Least Favorite Author: Emile Zola. french classic stuff.
Genres: Fantasy, SF, and that's all folks
What you use as a bookmark: anything. another book, a hanky, a rock, a cigaret

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:08:14 2010 No.652769

A/S/L: 18/F/CA
Education/Field: College, Art Major
Employment/Salary: NA
Liked these 3 books: Twilight, Pride & Prejudice, Ulysses
Hated these 3 books: The Bible, LotR, Atlas Shrugged
Favorite Author: Ann Frank
Least Favorite Author: Hemingway
Genres: Romantic suspense
What you use as a bookmark: pencil

Don't hit on me you silly boys

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:08:14 2010 No.652770

A/S/L: 18/M/Ohio
Education/Field: Engineering
Employment/Salary: 13 bucks an hour, NIOSH
Liked these 3 books: Gravity's Rainbow, 2666, Cosmicomics
Hated these 3 books: Twilight, House on Mango Street
Favorite Author: David Foster Wallace
Least Favorite Author: Stephanie Meyers
Genres: literature, many things
What you use as a bookmark: scraps of paper

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:09:14 2010 No.652771 >>652769 >Liked these 3 books: Twilight, Pride & Prejudice >Don't hit on me you silly boys Don't worry, we won't.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:10:14 2010 No.652773

A/S/L: 24/m/usa
Education/Field: none
Employment/Salary: none
Liked these 3 books: Story of the Eye, Complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Society of the Spectacle
Hated these 3 books: Beowulf, The Old Testament, Lolita
Favorite Author: Georges Bataille
Least Favorite Author: Hemmingway
Genres: none
What you use as a bookmark: I remember what page I was on

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:11:14 2010 No.652774 >>652771 fucking e/lit/ist Pride and Prejudice is a good book.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:12:14 2010 No.652777 >>652769 don't worry, you can't spell and you liked twilight I'd say that you're safe from being respected here

Miley Cyrus !!4f9UdHn0As1 Mon May 10 11:14:14 2010 No.652779
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A/S/L: 19/M/MO.
Education/Field: In college, undecided right now.
Employment/Salary: Working in retail.
Liked these 3 books: A Confederacy of Dunces, 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five
Hated these 3 books: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Ringworld, Next
Favorite Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Least Favorite Author: Augusten Burroughs
Genres: Any.
What you use as a bookmark: Folded notecard.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:15:14 2010 No.652781 >>652779 uggh i forget augusten burroughs i hate his pansy ass so much!

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:15:14 2010 No.652782
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A/S/L: 29/M/Korea
Education/Field: BA English/Poli Sci
Employment/Salary: English Teacher (it sucks, btw) about 30k
Liked these 3 books: McTeague, The Tale of Genji, The Tropic of Cancer
Hated these 3 books: LoTR, Angels and Demons, Five People You Meet in Heaven
Favorite Author: Dickens
Least Favorite Author: That fugly Meyer bitch
Genres: Classics, Dystopian, Historical Fiction
What you use as a bookmark: A plane ticket

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:15:14 2010 No.652784 >>652771 disregard that tits or gtfo i happen to have muscles and a car.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:16:14 2010 No.652786

A/S/L: 18 F Belgium
Education/Field: high school
Employment/Salary: none
Liked these 3 books: A season in hell, Les Châtiments, Fêtes galantes
Hated these 3 books: letters to a young poet, ulysses, lolita
Favorite Author: Victor Hugo
Least Favorite Author: René Char
Genres: poetry, fantasy, erotic, noir..
What you use as a bookmark: a bookmark. aha.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:16:14 2010 No.652788 >>652782 it really sucks? don't say that. it's my dream.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:16:14 2010 No.652789

A/S/L: Underageb&
Education/Field: Public School, now studying AS Levels
Employment/Salary: N/A
Liked these 3 books: The Road, A Game of Thrones, American Psycho.
Hated these 3 books: The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Fellowship of the Ring.
Favorite Author: Cormac McCarthy I guess.
Least Favorite Author: Steaphanie Meyer
Genres: General fiction, Dystopian, post-apocalyptic, fantasy.
What you use as a bookmark: A Dollar bill

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:17:14 2010 No.652790

A/S/L: 21/M/UK
Education/Field: BA English Undergraduate.
Employment/Salary: N/A
Liked these 3 books: Heart of Darkness, Life of Pi, The Remains of the Day.
Hated these 3 books: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Jane Eyre.
Favorite Author: Kazuo Ishiguro.
Least Favorite Author: Jane Austen.
Genres: Almost anything except chick-lit, romance and fantasy.
What you use as a bookmark: Post-it note folded in half.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:17:14 2010 No.652791 >>652789 Missed S and L. S- M L- Britain

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:21:14 2010 No.652795 >>652788 I don't know about teaching English in your native country, but the TEFL field in Asia is horrible unless you get a government position (JET, EPIK, SMOE). Private company jobs are horrendous.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:23:14 2010 No.652798

>>652795
Yeah TEFL is what I want to do (noone would dream of teaching english to Americans)..Horrendous in what way? I'm not very particular, I just want to travel and have enough money to live. I've been super broke for nearly my whole life so I don't need much. Are the hours too long?

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:27:14 2010 No.652810

A/S/L: 21/lady/Monaco (tiny country near France)
Education/Field: major in grammar. really.
Employment/Salary: mcdonald shitty job
Liked these 3 books: Complete poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, Harry Potter (haters gonna hate), Existentialism is a humanism, Sartre
Hated these 3 books: Why would I hate books? They're just ink on paper.
Favorite Author: Rimbaud
Least Favorite Author: none
Genres: poetry, philosophy, fantasy, sci-fi
What you use as a bookmark: a thread of my shirt, usually

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:31:14 2010 No.652818

>>652798

>Are the hours too long?

Yes. If you want to make money, your only three choices really are Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Private companies in all three countries usually operate in their countries' legal grey areas. Their foreign employees often work long hours, are crammed into shared housing, and are often paid late. I made the mistake of working private for one year in Korea.

If you decide to go the TEFL route, look into government run programs like JET, EPIK, or SMOE. Government sponsored jobs are cushy (up to six weeks paid vacation), pay well (usually more than private), and offer better benefits.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:35:14 2010 No.652828

A/S/L: 22 M Melbourne Australia
Education/Field: Bachelor of Arts, still deciding on what to do next
Employment/Salary: Bar/restaurant staff at a winery, working just weekends for around $500 a week.
Liked these 3 books: Murakami's Wind-Up Biwrd Chronicles, Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49, Palahniuk's Haunted
Hated these 3 books: Anything by Dickens, any Romanticist shit, idk I don't read shit books.
Favorite Author: Murakami
Least Favorite Author: Dickens/Bronte
Genres: Modern/Post Modern lit, but generally weirder and culty stuff
What you use as a bookmark: receipt, scrap of paper, bookmark, page fold

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:35:14 2010 No.652829

>>652818
That's decent advice. There are so many scams involved in TEFL that it really makes it difficult to obtain any useful information. I wouldn't mind working a terrible job, I guess. Something chastening about that. I worked 12 hour shifts at a warehouse once and my entire ethos became more solid. Now that i'm a student again i've become like a ghost. Idk. I might go with a terrible job just to test myself. But thanks for the advice.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:35:14 2010 No.652830

A/S/L: 23/M/Finland
Education/Field: IT
Employment/Salary: Post Office
Liked these 3 books: Soul Mountain, The Forbidden Zone,
Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present
Hated these 3 books: Not so much pure hate, but general dislike to the following: Under the North Star, On the Road, Brighton Rock
Favorite Author: n/a
Least Favorite Author: n/a
Genres: Just about anything goes as long as I find the subject to be interesting. Sci Fi, Actor Biographies, Essays, all is fair game.
What you use as a bookmark: What ever is handy atm, like cd case covers, receipts, old tests, etc.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:39:14 2010 No.652840

>>652829

One more bit of advice: Lurk Dave's ESL Korean and Japan Discussion Forums to learn more about the field.

The folks there (including yours truly) have a lot experience, both good and bad, and often write about what they've dealt with on the job.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 11:40:14 2010 No.652845 >>652840 cool i've been looking for something like that. tyvm.

Anonymous Mon May 10 11:48:14 2010 No.652860

A/S/L: 23 / M / Chicago
Education/Field: Political Science (International Affairs)
Employment/Salary: Tour Boat Captain / Masters Student / Teaching Assistant. Make about 20k / year not counting various loans.
Liked these 3 books: Slaughterhouse V, The Watchmen, Absalom! Absalom
Hated these 3 books: The Leviathan, Beloved,
Favorite Author: Franz Kafka
Least Favorite Author: Toni Morrison
Genres: I dont discriminate against genres.
What you use as a bookmark: Fold the corner of the page.

Anonymous Mon May 10 12:44:14 2010 No.653029

A/S/L: 20/ M/ US (California)

Education/Field: International Relations

Employment/Salary: n/a

Liked these 3 books: The Master and Margarita, Notes from Underground, The Aleph and other stories

Hated these 3 books: Beloved, Pride and Prejudice, Catch-22

Favorite Author: Borges

Least Favorite Author: Jane Austen

Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Political History

What you use as a bookmark: A scrap of paper.

Anonymous Mon May 10 12:47:14 2010 No.653039

A/S/L: 22/m/Florida, US
Education/Field: English Education, undergraduate
Employment/Salary: Unemployed, focusing on my education
Liked these 3 books: The Bell Jar, Sputnik Sweetheart, Don Quixote
Hated these 3 books: I can't honestly think of any
Favorite Author: Sylvia Plath
Least Favorite Author: Again, can't think of any I completely dislike
Genres: Soft Sci-fi, Magical Realism
What you use as a bookmark: Old bus passes

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 12:49:14 2010 No.653045 File: 44 KB, 755x569, 1273340356402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] jesus what ever happened to rules 1 and 2?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 12:50:14 2010 No.653047 >>653045 You don't talk about Fight Club and You don't talk about Fight Club?

Anonymous Mon May 10 12:55:14 2010 No.653069

A/S/L: 23/F/Toronto, Ontario
Education/Field: Bachelor of Arts in English and History, Bachelor of Education
Employment/Salary: Grocery Cashier, Min. Wage
Liked these 3 books: The Count of Monte Cristo, Sirens of Titan, Jude the Obscure
Hated these 3 books: Job: A Comedy of Justice, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Atonement
Favorite Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Least Favorite Author: Robert Heinlein
Genres: Classics, Science Fiction
What you use as a bookmark: Garfield bookmark!

Anonymous Mon May 10 12:55:14 2010 No.653073

24/m/N
Chemical Engineering
Grad student, 30k/yr
Liked: Catch-22, Foucault's Pendulum, Gravity's Rainbow
Hated: Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, Return of the Native
Hard to pick one fav author, but let's say Umberto Eco.
Genre: Used to be big on scifi (and to a lesser extent, fantasy) but the past few years have been spent reading more classic type lit
Bookmark: A nice leather bookmark with my initials on it. A souvenir from a friend's trip to Italy.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:13:14 2010 No.653299 calm down, enraged macho online all women are men, not only vice versa.

scarletisred !MKM8khrWko Mon May 10 14:22:14 2010 No.653338

16/f/UK
high school/ script kiddie
none
Crime and Punishemnt, Infinite Jest, The Stranger
Pride and Predjudice, Da Vinci Code, other bullshit
don't have one, maybe Dostoyevsky
Charles Dickens
EXISTENTIALISM, black comedy, not sure yet
headphone wires

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:28:14 2010 No.653356 >>653338 You're cool, baby

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:28:14 2010 No.653357 >>653338 Where in the UK?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:30:14 2010 No.653359 >>653045 +1 ban'em boys

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:30:14 2010 No.653362 26/m/US college dropout laid off The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, The Blah Story - Volume 8, The Contortionist's Handbook bookmark = toilet paper

Anonymous Mon May 10 14:33:14 2010 No.653368

A/S/L: 19/M/USA (Nevada)
Education/Field: In college/English lawl
Employment/Salary: Assistant for Interior Designer, Very gay, but I make money.. very shit amount
Liked these 3 books: The Stranger, American Psycho, Cat's Cradle
Hated these 3 books: Long Way Down, Y.S.K.O.V,
Favorite Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Least Favorite Author: Nick Hornby
Genres: Transgressional, Satire, Philosophy, Existentialism
What you use as a bookmark: Pieces of paper, business cards

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:34:14 2010 No.653371 >>653338 how bout we get together?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:37:14 2010 No.653374 >>653069 WHY DID YOU DISLIKE ANDROIDS?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:38:14 2010 No.653378 >>653356 >>653357 >>653371 LOL. Gang up on sixteen year old girl.

>>	scarletisred !MKM8khrWko Mon May 10 14:38:14 2010 No.653379 >>653357 buckinghamshire

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:39:14 2010 No.653383 >>653379 Ah... Are you posh?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:41:14 2010 No.653386 >>653338 hey, 16 year old girl, read Story of the Eye. thank me later.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:41:14 2010 No.653387 >>652769 >dont hit on me silly boys >twilight

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:41:14 2010 No.653389 17/m/New York Cashier $7.25/hour, $230/week Cat's Cradle, Hocus Pocus, 1984 Atlas Shrugged, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Maelstrom Vonnegut Sam Llewellyn Classic Sci-fi, Fiction, Documentary Index Cards / random sheets of paper

Anonymous Mon May 10 14:45:14 2010 No.653397

A/S/L: 22/male/turkey
Education/Field: mechanical engineering/philosophy
Employment/Salary: student/allowance(lol)
Liked these 3 books: asoiaf, dead souls, les miserables.
Hated these 3 books: anna karenina, belgariad
Favorite Author: by volumes read Raymond E Feist
Least Favorite Author: david eddings
Genres: fantasy, sci-fi
What you use as a bookmark: nothing. I read through most stuff in one sitting. in other cases I just write the page down somewhere.

Anonymous Mon May 10 14:45:14 2010 No.653399
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A/S/L: 21/M/Minnesota

Education/Field: BA East Asian History (graduating in a year). Minor Humanities of hte West

Employment/Salary: Parking Attendant, $6,000/year heh

Liked these 3 books: Dorian Gray, Prince of Nothing, Perdido Street Station

Hated these 3 books: Runelords (David Farland) Outliers, Wuthering Heights

Favorite Author: Oscar Wilde

Least Favorite Author: Mercedes Lackey

Genres: SFF/SpecFic, Historical Fiction (Turtledovesque)

What you use as a bookmark: Ticket Stub from Parking booth

>>	Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 Mon May 10 14:48:14 2010 No.653403 Cool /lit/ hookup thread, guys and girls.

>>	scarletisred !MKM8khrWko Mon May 10 14:50:14 2010 No.653407 >>653386 >increasingly bizarre sexual perversions of a pair of teenage lovers why not >>653383 incredibly

Anonymous Mon May 10 14:50:14 2010 No.653408
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A/S/L: 22/F/Missouri
Education/Field: Junior, Fine Arts major(painting, K-12 Education minor
Employment/Salary: nanny, approx. $10/hr, only 15 hrs a week usually
Liked these 3 books: House of Leaves, Angela's Ashes, The Odyssey
Hated these 3 books: I don't remember books I hate
Favorite Author: William Faulkner
Least Favorite Author: Charles Dickens
Genres: I'll give anything a try
What you use as a bookmark: reciepts

enjoy this picture of my cat, because I am a girl and I read.

>>	Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 Mon May 10 14:52:14 2010 No.653415 >>653408 Nice pussy.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:53:14 2010 No.653416 >>653415 I saw that coming but still loled D:

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 14:54:14 2010 No.653422 30 M California BA in Film, work at a game studio. Producer, 60k Dune, Teatro Grottesco, The Sparrow Year of the Flood, Haunted, Atlas Shrugged Thomas Ligotti, right now. Fuck genre ghettoes. It's all books. My memory. It's not that hard, ladies.

Anonymous Mon May 10 14:55:14 2010 No.653424

44/F/Oh
Community College/General Studies
Twilight, Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, A Tale of Two Cities
Stephenie Meyer
Dickens
Fantasy, romance
a clip my toenails and put them in a sandwich bag to use a bookmark

Anonymous Mon May 10 14:56:14 2010 No.653425

A/S/L: 19/M/TX
Education/Field: College sophomore/English
Employment/Salary:Unemployed
Liked these 3 books: Invisible Man, 1984, Catch-22
Hated these 3 books: Pride and Prejudice, House of Leaves, Twilight
Favorite Author: Aldous Huxley
Least Favorite Author: Jane Austen
Genres: Dystopian Science fiction, classics, pop lit
What you use as a bookmark: page from my note pad or receipts.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 10 15:03:14 2010 No.653447 I just realized that I don't like any of you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 1 23:49:38 2021 No.653447,1 >>653447 Imagine the psychological disturbance from realizing that /lit/ (and likely 4chan as a whole) is, has always been, and always will be, filled primarily with posturing amateur teenagers.

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