/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10425071]

>age
>5 favorite writers
>other anons r8

[Anonymous No.10425098]

>19
>ezra pound, james joyce, du fu, ayn rand, sam beckett

[Anonymous No.10425102]

Data mining thread. OP only cares about the age.

[Anonymous No.10425119]

>>10425102
no i dont

[Anonymous No.10425124]

>>10425071
Yes you do.

[Anonymous No.10425127]

>>10425124
no you dony

[Anonymous No.10425133]

>>10425119
That's why you post this exact same thread under a thousand different permutations and through every one of them the only thing that stays constant is age, or a small few other data-mining questions.

As I have told you before, I am extremely autistic. I lurk /lit/ many hours a day and catch almost every one of your threads. I have posted many fake replies in every single one, for a very long time. I don't know what Chinese rice farm you work for but I will see you in hell data-mining poster.

[Anonymous No.10425138]

>>10425133
ok desu im not op, just the other dude shitposting

>inb4 don't believe me

that's fine, im sorry i didnt mean to upset

[Anonymous No.10425140]

>22
>Goethe, Goethe, Goethe, Goethe, Goethe

[Anonymous No.10425143]

>>10425127
As far as criticism goes psychology-based criticism is 'foreign object found in body tier.'

[Anonymous No.10425146]

>>10425143
are you calling me a faggot

[Anonymous No.10425149]

>>10425133

[Anonymous No.10425150]

>>10425143
Sorry there's something lacking in my post.
Badomboomchi!

[Anonymous No.10425162]

>>10425071
18
Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dante, Cervantes, Peterson

[Anonymous No.10425165]

>>10425146
Nope.

[Anonymous No.10425174]

>17
>William Blake, Seneca, Xenophon, Coleridge, and St. Augustine

[Anonymous No.10425179]

68
Hillary Clinton, Trevor Noah

[Anonymous No.10425222]

>>10425102
>420
>deleuze, deleuze, deleuze, deleuze, deleuze
>>10425098
0/10
>>10425162
5/10 Shakespeare, Tolstoy ++ Peterson --
>>10425179
>69/10

[Anonymous No.10425276]

>>10425098
0/10

>>10425140
4/10

>>10425162
0/10 go back to leftypol

>>10425174
enjoy your ban

[Anonymous No.10425296]

i can't find myself enjoying fiction but

21
Hegel, Schelling, Whitehead, Aristotle and Plato

philosophia perennis and so on

[Anonymous No.10425306]

>15
>hobbes, montesquieu, vico, novalis, stirner

[Anonymous No.10425938]

18 :-)
Steve Cole
Robert Muchamore
Martin Hanford
Elisabetta Dami
Thomas Pynchon

[Anonymous No.10425957]

23, pic related

[Anonymous No.10426018]

24.
Shelley, (John) Clare, Kafka, Goulson, Rackham.

[Anonymous No.10426050]

69 loll
Hemmingway
Kerouac
Henry Miller
Steinbeck
Melville

[Anonymous No.10426053]

19
O'Connor, McCarthy, Faulkner, Pessoa, Cervantes

[Anonymous No.10426061]

Pretty shitty taste ITT

[Anonymous No.10426066]

>>10426061
>be me, a random guy on the an anonymous online image board who decides to tell everyone how shit their taste is, even though taste is entirely subjective, without posting a single thing they like.

[Anonymous No.10426466]

>>10425071
>20
>Henry David Thoreau, Henry Louis Mencken, Henry James, Henry Hazlitt, Henry Fielding
>Pretty much anyone named Henry desu

[Anonymous No.10426595]

23
Dostoevsky
Hemingway
Joseph Heller
Milan Kundera
Italo Calvino

[Anonymous No.10426625]

>23
>Cervantes, Nabokov, Blake, Pynchon, Durrell

[Anonymous No.10426638]

>>10425071
Christ, I’m too old for this board. Bye forever, /lit/

[Anonymous No.10426690]

>>10425071
>26
>Joyce, Proust, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Homer

[Anonymous No.10426731]

23

Gogol
Hawthorne
Nabokov

I wouldn't rate my interests. Not worth it for someone. I'm not well-read. I just pick up some things I've heard of and put it down if I dislike it and repeat til I strike gold.

[Anonymous No.10426732]

>>10426690
10/13

[Anonymous No.10426738]

>>10425133
Thank you for your service

[Anonymous No.10426828]

>19
>Tao Lin, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, Lena Dunham, Alan Watts

[Anonymous No.10426845]

Old enough to feel self conscious about still being here
Houellebecq
Ballard
Saki
Wodehouse
McCarthy
Assessment of /lit/: insecure children/ 10
Self Assessment: cynical failure of dubious sexuality/ 10

[Anonymous No.10426850]

26
Shakespeare
Joyce
Woolf
Housman
Chaucer
atm

[Anonymous No.10426883]

>33
>Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,and Paul

[Anonymous No.10426914]

19
DFW
William Gaddis
Hunter S. Thompson
Pynchon
Franzen

[Anonymous No.10426940]

>25
>Douglas Adams, Michio Kaku, Darren Shan, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Israel Regardie

[Anonymous No.10426994]

1066
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Goethe
Villon
Kevin B. MacDonald

[Anonymous No.10427026]

> 20
> Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dante, Homer, Virgil.

[Anonymous No.10427057]

>22
>Hesse
>Exupery
>Pessoa
>Alain de botton
>Tolkien

[Anonymous No.10427062]

>>10427057

Literally pleb tier lol you bought that scam artist's books ahahah

[Anonymous No.10427369]

>23
>Vollmann, Krasznahorkai, Gaddis, Houllebecq, Voskuil

hi

[Anonymous No.10427434]

>>10425071
>29
>mccarthy, kadare, wolfe, kazantzakis, conrad

[Anonymous No.10427464]

>>10425071
>23
>Melville, Dostoevsky, Cervantes, Plato, Baudelaire

[Anonymous No.10427482]

>>10425133
Thanks anon, get fucked shills!

[Anonymous No.10427490]

>26

>Joyce
>Goethe
>Lispector
>Beckett
>Gombrowicz

[Anonymous No.10427497]

18
Shakespeare
Updike
Arthur Miller
O'Brien
Crane

[Anonymous No.10427501]

>>10427497
Those are really good picks for a youngster

[Anonymous No.10427506]

>>10427497
>>10427501
differentfag

[Anonymous No.10427510]

25
Gabriel Marquez
Tolstoy
Dosto
Cormac McCarthy
Yasunari Kawabata

[Anonymous No.10427531]

>>10427369
pls recc best into to gaddis anon
j r and recognititions are supposed to be enjoyable but brutal reads because of their unconventional/esoteric arrative structure
does he have short stores or other stuff?
>>10427510
more people need to read marques he is a bro. his short stories are challenging but rewarding spooks

>age
the 18 meme
>5 favs
william gass
gabriel g marquez
herman melville
flannery o'connor
hmmm... maybe john ashbery?
>if i had to add a more obscure dude who i've been checking out recently but doesn't make the cut
pierre guyotat is edgy af but the style is neat

[Anonymous No.10427543]

>>10427369
pls recc best intro to gaddis anon?
j r and recognititions are supposed to be enjoyable but brutal reads because of their unconventional/esoteric narrative structure
does he have short stores or other stuff more approachable?
>>10427510
more people need to read marquez he is a bro. his short stories are challenging but rewarding spooks

>age
the 18 meme
>5 favs
william gass
gabriel g marquez
herman melville
flannery o'connor
maybe john ashbery
>if i had to add a more obscure dude who i've been checking out recently but doesn't make the cut
pierre guyotat is edgy af but the style is neat

[Anonymous No.10427662]

>>10425133
>post facts about yourself threads
>some facts stay the same because people tend to repost what others do
>this is literally the definition of a "social trend" or "meme"
>autistic anon thinks it's literally all just one person trying to datamine, of all things, peoples' ages
And every pepe poster is the same alt right skinhead trying to meme the country into voting for Trump. Every 4chan post ever made except for yours is part of a large one-man conspiracy designed to block your concentration and waste your time.

[Anonymous No.10427713]

18 year old
Jorge Amado
Hemingway
Geoffrey Blainey
Tolkien
Agatha Christie

[Anonymous No.10428175]

>>10427062
I reckon his school of life project has some bullshit, but you haven't even read the books. Why do you try to fit in so much in this echo chamber?

[Anonymous No.10428353]

>18
>Toni Morrison
>Virginia Woolf
>Margaret Atwood
>Emma Lazarus
>Al Franken

[Anonymous No.10428362]

>18
>rainer maria rilke, dostoevsky, tolstoy, aldous huxley, albert camus

[Anonymous No.10428365]

>>10428175

I read Consolations of Philosophy and it's trash

[Anonymous No.10428375]

21ys
William Blake
Elizabeth Gaskell
Sinclair Lewis
Thomas Pinecone
Reza Negarestani

[Anonymous No.10428380]

>All these fucking ""18"" year olds
It explains so much

[Anonymous No.10428382]

>>10428365
I think it's a very useful book for people with no philosophy background, and much better than self help bullshit.

[Anonymous No.10428383]

22

Homer
Sophocles
Plato
Shakespeare
Melville

[Anonymous No.10428418]

>>10428383
10/10

[Anonymous No.10428421]

>>10428380
Hell, at least kids are reading

[Anonymous No.10428455]

>>10425071

20

Flann O'Brien

Don Delillo

Knut Hamsun

Herman Hesse

Italo Calvino


>>10427510
kawabata is patrish

>>10426053
cool

[Anonymous No.10428483]

>>10426053
Seems legit, have you read Under the Volcano?
>>10425071
>24
>Augustine, Montaigne, Gogol, Lucian, Kierkegaard
>>10425102
Pic related

[Anonymous No.10428661]

>>10425071

22
Dostoyevsky, Emerson, Shakespeare, Dan Jones, C.S. Lewis

[Anonymous No.10428689]

>>10425071
>666
>Hitler, Bernays, Luther, Goebbels, Wyndham Lewis
:P

[Anonymous No.10428831]

Csikszentmihalyi
Crowley
Lovecraft
Blatvasky
Stephen Flowers

[Anonymous No.10429022]

>>10426883

> 33
> passive nihilism rising
> falling for a mass movement for meaning

[Anonymous No.10429089]

>>10425071
>23
>Steinbeck
>Vargas Llosa
>Tom Wolfe
>Chekhov
>Salinger

[Anonymous No.10429152]

>>10425071
>23
>Woolf, Milton, Nabokov, Dickens, Hemmingway.
Great Expectations was a slog when I was a kid, but when I re-read it was way more heart-felt and compelling.

>>10425098
>Ayn Rand
I guess good otherwise? I honestly find it hard to imagine people unironically enjoying Beckett and Pound. They're great writers to be sure, and extremely influential. But as a personal favorite? Naw.
6/10

>>10426466
Interesting/10

>>10426625
Blake is the shit. 8/10

>>10427713
tolkien/10

[Anonymous No.10429180]

22
Plato
Ovid
Montaigne
Shakespeare
Schopenhauer


>>10425140
i like
>>10426690
i like more
>>10427026
>>10427497
>>10428383
i like most

[Anonymous No.10429536]

>18

>Goncharov, Chekhov, Sterne, Celine, Dos Passos

[Anonymous No.10429541]

>>10429180
I fell for the "Montaigne is like your funny, intellectual uncle!!" meme. Shit bored me to tears and he came to no new conclusions. Why do you like him? I'm seriously asking

[Anonymous No.10429559]

>15
> Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kaur.

[Anonymous No.10429568]

>25
>Stephen King, Joji Miller, Tao Lin, Ayn Rand, and Greg Sestero

[Anonymous No.10430843]

>21

>james augustine aloysius joyce
>dante alighieri
>guimarães rosa
>melville
>homer

[Anonymous No.10430917]

>>10425102
What is data mining? What does he gain from it?

[Anonymous No.10430930]

33

William Faulkner
Gordon Lish
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Denis Johnson
James Joyce

[Anonymous No.10430955]

>23
>mccarthy, delillo, burgess, joyce, nabokov

[Anonymous No.10430958]

>24
>Charles Dickens
>JK Rowling
>JRR Tolkien.
>Lewis Carroll
>Mari Jungstedt/Anna Jansson

[Anonymous No.10431061]

>18
> John Stuart Mill, Shakespeare, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Paine, Marcus Aurelius
I haven't read much

[Anonymous No.10431129]

>23
>Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Homer, Dumas, Cervantes

[Anonymous No.10431258]

18
Keats, Pound, Shakespeare, Melville, Southey

[Anonymous No.10431264]

>>10430958
Honest question: What do you like about Dickens? He writes pulp in my opinion. Is it just the way he writes the pulp that entices you?

[Anonymous No.10431268]

>33
>Hitler
>Goebbels
>Mussolini
>Schmitt
>Yockey

[Anonymous No.10431283]

>>10431264
>he fell for it

[Anonymous No.10431352]

>>10429541
I’m not the guy you asked, but for me Montaigne’s process is much more interesting than any ‘conclusions’ he comes to. His essays are really just a man being very honest about his experiences, fears, thoughts etc. without worrying about contradictions or how they mind hinder his reputation. Maybe they aren’t to your taste but, for me at least, he’s just an extremely comforting and wise voice that’s as at ease writing about thumbs as he is the death of his close friend.

[Anonymous No.10431381]

>>10429568

[Anonymous No.10431397]

>35
>Hesse, Murakami, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, Robert Anton Wilson

[Anonymous No.10431651]

>>10429541
>>10431352
this guy has some of it

But mostly, the dude is the best. There's a reason Nietzsche puts him above Schopenhauer as someone who brings joy to the world. Montaigne deeply read Plato and Seneca (two of my very favs) and Plutarch (just like Shakespeare did), and he writes as an amalgamation of those writers plus more. I could draw quotes from any random page of my edition but first I'll throw a couple things out there. He has talked about his chronic pain (kidney stones) and how he'll take that any day over the anxieties people aren't used to. I relate to that heavily (and I find it funny that elsewhere in On Experience he says he doesn't drink a lot of water, never really did). He is one of the very few out there who are outright against learning Latin or Greek unless it's an experience like his where he learned Latin as a child. He admits his Greek is dead because of this, and in some points he says he wish people read for the meaning rather than the style. (And in another areas he praises style, but less so, but anyway, going back to what other anon says about contradictions, Montaigne is the master and the dude admits it. His whole skepticism motto [one he had hung on his wall, a quote by terence] is the only certain thing is uncertainty).

He praises friendship and admits to the fickleness of a relationship with woman (and also admits that it might just be possible that a man and a woman relationship could reach the heights, but then claims that there is a reason the ancients shied away from it). He, like Shakespeare with Rosalind and Cleopatra, mentions that, "As fathers hide their affection from their children, likewise wives are prone to hide theirs from their husbands, to maintain a decent respect." And if it was just for this line I would be thankful for Montaigne, who singlehandedly helps any man in any relationship. Some quotes:

>I mortally hate to seem a flatterer; and so I naturally drop into a dry, plain, blunt way of speaking, which, to anyone who does not know me otherwise, verges a little on the disdainful.

(I'm going to purposely go to "Of Cripples" for this next quote because it heavily relates and is great)

>I myself, who am singularly scrupulous about lying and who scarcely concern myself with giving credence and authority to what I say, perceive nevertheless that when I am excited over a matter I have in hand, either by another man's resistance or by the intrinsic heat of the narration, I magnify and inflate my subject by voice , movements, vigor and power of words, and further by extension and amplification, not without prejudice to the simple truth. BUT I DO SO, however, on this condition, that for the first man who catches me up and asks me for the naked and unvarnished truth, I promptly abandon my straining and give it to him without exaggeration, without overemphasis or padding. A lively and noisy way of speaking, such as mine ordinarily is, is apt to be carried away into hyperbole.

[Anonymous No.10431711]

(cont)

>>10429541
>>10431651
I guess to address your "no new conclusions" I would say that if your goal is to live happy, then Montaigne has the conclusions. Plato and Seneca and Ovid and Horace helped him there, and they can help us too, but so can Montaigne.

>For our boy, a closet, a garden, the table and the bed, solitude, company, morning and evening, all hours will the the same, all places will be his study; for philosophy, which, as the molder of judgment and conduct, will be his principal lesson, has this privilege of being everywhere at home.

Cf. Martial and his epigram about just letting the boys keeping well and having summer to themselves, in order to learn. Montaigne himself doesn't outright quote Martial here but just like in the rest of the essays, if you're well read in especially Seneca, you see the influence.

>And when I undertake to speak indiscriminately of everything that comes to my fancy without using any but my own natural resources, if I happen, as I often do, to come across in the good authors those same subjects I have attempted to treat--as in Plutarch I have just this very moment come across his discourse on the power of imagination--seeing myself so weak and puny, so heavy and sluggish, in comparison with those men, I hold myself in pity and disdain.

>If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat such-and-such a food, don't worry: I'll find you another who will not agree with him.

>What shall we dow ith this people that admits none but printed evidence, that does not believe men unless they are in a book, or truth unless it is of competent age? We dignify our stupidities when we put them in print. It carries very different weight with this people if you say "I have read it" than if you say "I have heard it." But I, who do not disbelieve men's mouths any more than their hands...

>I do not make it my business to tell the world what it should do--enough others do that--but what I do in it.

>"Nothing Shall I, while sane, compare with a dear friend." - Horace

>"Elegance of style is not a manly ornament" - Seneca

>"The companions of Demosthenes in the embassy to Philip praised that prince as being handsome, eloquent, and a good drinker. Demosthenes said that those were praises more appropriate to a woman, a lawyer, and a sponge, than to a king...

(and a little later)

>Plutarch says further that to appear so excellent in these less necessary qualities is to testify that one has misspent one's leisure and study, which should have been employed in more necessary and useful things.

>contagion is very dangerous in the crowd. One must either imitate the vicious or hate them. Both these things are dangerous: to imitate them because they are may, and to hate many of them because they are unlike us.

(again he doesn't quote or credit Seneca here, but this is a very close paraphrase of one of the early letters)

[Anonymous No.10431754]

>>10425071
>26
>Gogol, Twain, Mishima, Bulgakov, Selimovic

[Anonymous No.10433043]

Alejo Carpentier, Dostoyevsky, Víctor Hugo, Borges, Cortázar

[Anonymous No.10433048]

>>10433043
I'm 23, sorry I forgot

[Anonymous No.10433062]

>25
>William Styron, Thomas Wolfe, William Gaddis, George Eliot, Ha Jin

[Anonymous No.10433500]

>22
Baltasar Gracian
Cao Xueqin
Kierkegaard
Melville
Szentkuthy

[Anonymous No.10433527]

>>10431754

>Selimovic

That's my motherfuckin' nigga. The end of The Fortress pissed me off for a good week.

[Anonymous No.10434635]

Tfw no Hardy mentioned

[Anonymous No.10434662]

>18
>Lovecraft, Evola, Gentile, Kaczynski, Vikernes
leave me alone

[Anonymous No.10434664]

>>10431651
>>10431711
I enjoyed this post.

[Anonymous No.10434833]

20
Swift, Coleridge, Yeats, Waugh, Blake

[Anonymous No.10435090]

>>10434662
>vikernes
Your list was ok up to this point. His wife goes on about some kind of bear cult and she apparently had a dream about it.
Read some guenon too

[Anonymous No.10435096]

>18
>Hardy, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Dostoevsky, Hemingway

[Anonymous No.10435110]

>>10434662
>kaczynski and vikernes
jesus

[Anonymous No.10435114]

>23
>Goethe, Kant, Dante, Plato, Joyce

[Anonymous No.10435154]

18
Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Raymond Chandler, Terry Pratchett and Pynchon.

Yes I know I'm a reddit pleb

[Anonymous No.10435160]

18, Lovecraft, Heinlein, Herbert, Orwell, Bradbury