/lit/ - Literature

I read Infinite Jest...
...twice

I don't subvocalize, so I'm extremely well read. Admittedly I dropped Finnegans wake earlier this year, but otherwise I have absorbed all of your memes.

>>8666946
You have to go back.

>>8666964
>I don't subvocalize
Then you're clearly not well read if this is what you think it means to be well read.

>>8666944
I've read animal farm

>>8667042
dang that book is crazy, its like the animals are talking but you know its all a deeper meanin

I read clockwork orange...
...without looking anything up

The only writing that challenges me...
Is my own.

>>8667057
holy.... i want more....

>>8667066
Your not ready kid.

>>8666944
Yesterday I read The Phenomenology of Spirit in one sitting and understood everything. So you tell me :^)

>>8667036
It enables me to read faster, thus I read more.

>>8666964
>mfw the subvocalization meme still exists

Glad to see something from the good old days still exist on this decrepit board.

>>8667069
hot damn

>>8667046
there's a deeper meaning?
I thought it was the novelization of the movie Babe.

I have been read twice in a row Moby Dick and War and peace (each separatly).

>>8666944
I get into taxis and say things like, "the library and step on it!"

I only read penguin edition... wyd

>>8667076
Good old days my nigga what are you on that was like 9 months ago

>>8667085
jej

>>8667074
in a smaller amount of time however it depends on how much you actually read

I read Orkhon scripts..
in the original language and alphabet didn't understand fully of course, but more patrician this way

I'm so well read I occasionally recognize allusions... without having to check sparknotes.

I read and comprehended Ulysses without reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man first

>>8667622
It was implied that I spent a lot of time reading. Because I don't sub-vocalize, I do practically everything faster. My skill (and inheritance, let's be honest) lends me, by rough calculation, 6 hours a day to read, and I read at least 4 times faster than average.

>>8666944
I'm oil well-read.

>>8667071
i read it in english and german, same with kant

>>8666944
I've only just started reading seriously this year, and I have a feeling that I'm more /lit/ than a lot of people here

>>8666944

I've read the entire oeuvre of James Joyce without any milk

I will save the white race from these evil spook slayers.

>>8669166
ABSOLUTE MADMAN
>mfw fucking 9 store fronts

>>8669166

I'm so well-read, when people mention John Williams, I say, "The author?"

>>8667074
>he doesn't take the time to appreciate the aesthetic the writer gives to his prose

>>8669792
kek

I'm so unhip, that when you say Dylan, I think you're talking about Bob Dylan

>>8669822
formalism is for the unsophisticated

>>8669866
Sophistication is formalist.

>>8669191
did you read a lot as a kid, too? after reading a lot as a child i don't subvocalize and i think it makes me a quicker reader than those who didn't read as a child, though i do notice that if i don't read for a while that my speed goes down a bit when i'm getting back into it.

>>8669903
woops didnt mean to have that name

>>8666944
i read lolita and didnt want to tiddle little girls after

>>8670058
winrar

>>8667085

Babe actually has a lot of deeper stuff about Australian culture in it. For one, sheep have been constant within Australian popular cinema, as they represent some kind of European culture - large scale agriculture - thriving in the savage wasteleand of the Australian bush. Sheep are good too because they are infinite and bland ie nothing. For Babe to achieve autonomy and identity he has to use the sheep as a foil, turning them into something (nothing) to self actualise himself

>>8670067
>>>/b/

>>8666944
Nothing, literally a visitor from /v/. Writing a short story right now though.

Hi guys!

>>8670428
you best leave that /v/ """"culture"""" behind

>>8670428
post what you've written, please.

>>8667074
>reading to read more

>>8670438
It's in Spanish, is that allowed on the board?

>>8670437
/v/ is pretty fun at times, but today I felt like lurking around for some reason. Probably not gonna become a regular, I know jack shit about literature and I haven't read stuff that isn't from school in ages.

i'm much better read than your average pleb, but less do than an actual well read intellectual. i've read a little of a lot of guys
i'm probably better read than a lot of /lit/ just because i'm in my thirties and have been reading for a lot longer than you young men

>>8667085
this is fucking funny

How well-read am I?

I read Being and Time in its original German, with no secondary/supporting material, and understood everything I read.

How well-read i am?

I once fully read a local newspaper while eating cereals without milk.

>>8667097
Underrated post

700+ read books on goodreads

These are books I read that were released in the past 5 years

>>8670815
>he read past the Being section
fucking madman

How well-read am I?

I read Kant just for the prose.

I've read every Bob Dylan album at least twice.

>>8670815
Well I'm a native German speaker and I did this too, but I read it in English

>>8670889
These are some embarrassing books, lad.

>>8670889
You better be a book reviewer

>>8670889
Do you understand the principle that eating junk food makes you fat applies to your brain, too?

>>8670889
Hope you're trolling lad

>>8667046

Rare TPB rederence... nice....

I've read shakespeare's works with all the words and lines in reverse order

and it made sense

i make my own books