/lit/ hookup thread

[Anonymous No.1044165]

Let's see if there are any newcomers

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Age:
Location:
Last book read:
Currently reading:
Favourite book:
People you're interested in:
Any other information you deem relevant

[Anonymous No.1044177]

Age: 24
Location: Portugal
Last book read: Conference of the Birds
Currently reading: Greek Classical Myths
Favourite book: Wuthering Heights
People you're interested in: right now, Cicero

[Anonymous No.1044181]

Age: 21
Location: Richmond Va
Last book read: Ender's Game
Currently reading: War and Peace
Favourite book: can't decide
People you're interested in: As long as they're reasonably intelligent, it doesn't matter.
Any other information you deem relevant: I drink beer for breakfast

[Anonymous No.1044194]

Age: 28
Location: Los Angeles
Last book read: Shades of Grey
Currently reading: Department of Mad Scientists (Listening to War and Peace)
Favourite book: Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
People you're interested in: People who immediately renew their passports even if they have no immediate plans for international travel.
Any other information you deem relevant: I was once on a cruiseship that crashed into a glacier of the coast of Antarctica. I was reading a book about The Endevour at the moment of impact.

[Anonymous No.1044203]

Age: 28
Location: central Massachusetts, USA
Last book read: Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Currently reading: The Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison
Favourite book: I don't know, I haven't read them all yet.
People you're interested in: People who will give me free books.

[Anonymous No.1044209]

Age: 17
Location: UK
Last book read: The curious incident of the dog in the night time
Currently reading: The phantom tollbooth
Favourite book:1984
People you're interested in: peoplewith different perspectives and lifestyles than my own.

[Anonymous No.1044210]

>>1044209
Reported, underage b&

[Anonymous No.1044221]

Age: 19
Location: England (East Midlands)
Last book read: American Gods (meh)
Currently reading: V, Naked Lunch
Favourite book: Can't choose :(
People you're interested in: Anyone who will buy me books in exchange for photos of my cock

[Implying !!OwMMiDsuHLo No.1044222]

Why does anyone post in these threads.

If you find a guy/girl near you, it'll just be some pudgy jobless average-looking wannabe intellectual.

Trying to find relationships on 4chan is like getting your groceries from a dumpster.

[Anonymous No.1044249]

>>1044222
Hey, I almost found true love on 4chan. /b/ of all places.
Only problem was she was married and lives thousands of miles away.
Ah well. These things happen.

[Anonymous No.1044255]

>>1044221

Do you have a nice cock?

[Anonymous No.1044258]

>>1044222
I'm not expecting to meet anyone, I'm just talking,

[Mogwai !cf2x3LGl9A No.1044282]

Age: 18
Location: England, East Midlands
Last book read: LOL i dont read.
Currently reading: 4chan /lit/
Favourite book: a book with pictures of countries and details about them.
People you're interested in: Nice Soul girls.

[Mogwai !cf2x3LGl9A No.1044291]

>>1044221
Oh hai

[Anonymous No.1044300]

Age: 19
Location: PA
Last book read: The Plague
Currently reading: Winesburg, Ohio
Favourite book: Either The Trial or Pale Fire
People you're interested in: People who like talking about books and art.
Any other information you deem relevant: Heavy tea drinker with casual interest in UFO sightings.

[Suddenly, Tripcodes! !yRd8SXc/L. No.1044324]

Age: 19
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Last Book Read: "Peeps" by Scott Westerfeld
Currently Reading: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Favourite Book: "Looking for Alaska" by John Green, "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
People your interested in: Well, I like me the artsy types o' women. As much as like reading and writing I'm primarily a musician, so an interest in music is nice.

[Anonymous No.1044343]

Age: 18
Location: Wales, UK
Last book read: Phaedo - Plato
Currently reading: The Iliad, Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine
Favourite book: Don't have one
People you're interested in: Cats. They're people.
Any other information you deem relevant: Well I once....no, scratch that. Nope, nothing relevant to add.

[Anonymous No.1044345]

Age: 18
Location: MI
Last book read: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Currently reading: Good Omens
Favorite book: Neuromancer
People you're interested in: short dark-haired indie girls who like to fuck (honestly)

[Anonymous No.1044356]

Age: Oh God, how am I 22?
Location: Dallas, Texas
Last book read: And Another Thing
Currently reading: Baltimore
Favourite book: Tie between Feet of Clay/Night Watch/Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
People you're interested in: Short, don't like blonde hair, really dig glasses.
Any other information you deem relevant: Tall, nerdy, philosopher.

[Anonymous No.1044367]

Age: 22 male
Location: philadelphia, pa
Last book read: the selected poems of kenneth koch
Currently reading: the corrections by jonathan franzen
Favourite book: i keep coming back to the selected poems of george oppen. i don't know. i think this question is somewhat bullshitty.
People you're interested in: i like girls that like to read a lot and like to talk about books and stuff. also girls that like to drink wine and watch movies and yell obscenities at bums. maybe a little breakdancing on the side.

[Anonymous No.1044370]

Age: 23
Location: TEXAS
Last book read: Twilight of the Idols
Currently reading: Outer Dark, Moby-Dick, Unbearable Lightness of Being and Pale Blue Dot
Favourite book: The Sound and the Fury
People you're interested in: Cute young girls who want to have sex with me.

[Anonymous No.1044375]

Age: 20
Location: Texas
Last book read: Northern Lights
Currently reading: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, A Canticle for Leibowtiz, The Subtle Knife
Favourite book: Hitchhiker's Guide, A Clockwork Orange, The War of the Worlds
People you're interested in: Tall and dark hair, glasses! intellectual types.
Any other information you deem relevant: I also really like video games, in addition to reading.


>>1044356
Hey you! I live like an hour east of you. I am small with glasses, but unfortunately have blonde hair.

[Anonymous No.1044377]

>>1044370
>>1044367
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>>1044177
Sex/gender?

[Anonymous No.1044385]

Age: 18
Location: Scotland
Last book read: Ada
Currently reading: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Favourite book: Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle
People you're interested in: Wannabe-intellectuals, social retards, etc
Any other information you deem relevant: I have no friends right now.

>>1044343
Tell me about Phaedo, I skipped it.

[Anonymous No.1044384]

>>1044377
I'm male

[Anonymous No.1044390]

>>1044385
How did Ada treat you? Well, obviously pretty well since it's your favorite, but what did you think while you were reading it? I enjoyed it a lot but it's not quite my favorite Nabokov. Sometimes brevity adds to brilliance.

>>1044300

[Anonymous No.1044400]

Age: 19
Sex: Female
Location: Scotland
Last book read: The rights of man
Currently reading: The Art of Happiness
Favourite book: The prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
People you're interested in: Someone I could talk about books to in person, So from Scotland hopefully.

[Anonymous No.1044412]

>>1044343
Where in Wales?

[Anonymous No.1044413]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.1044420]

>>1044375

How did you like the Subtle Knife? Have you read the Amber Spyglass yet?

[Anonymous No.1044430]

Age: 25
Location: Paris, France
Last book read: Nouveaux écrits de Rodez
Currently reading: Walden, Essays by Emerson, Sylvia Plath Journal, The Lay of the Land (R. Ford), Portrait du Joueur (Philippe Sollers), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.
Favourite books: Franny and Zooey, Le Bleu du Ciel
People you're interested in: Writers, Painters, Musicians, &c

[Anonymous No.1044432]

>>1044420
Haven't finished The Subtle Knife yet, but almost! I don't quite like it as much as the first book, probably because of the new character addition. But it's still pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.1044437]

>>1044400
Do you speak with a strange yet sexually arousing accent?

[Anonymous No.1044438]

>>1044430
Male?

[Anonymous No.1044448]

>>1044438
yes, yes, male, you average frustrated /lit/ lurker LOL

[Anonymous No.1044453]

>>1044356

[Anonymous No.1044460]

>>1044432

Aw, I really liked Will and his batshit mother.

[Anonymous No.1044470]

posted in the last one as well...

Age: 27
Gender: Male
Location: Amish Country PA
Last book read: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Currently reading: waiting on Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace to come into the library, rereading some PKD short stories
Favourite book: dune series
People you're interested in: conversational types. females. /lit/erary folks, specifically scifi. internet buddies. females.

[Anonymous No.1044474]

Age: 27
Gender: Male
Location: Amish Country PA
Last book read: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Currently reading: waiting on Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace from the library; rereading PKD short stories
Favourite book: dune series
People you're interested in: conversational types. /lit/erary types, specifically scifi. internet buddies. females.

[Anonymous No.1044489]

>>1044430
samefag here, /lit/ used to have a tinychat a few months ago on tinychat: lit2

[Anonymous No.1044490]

>>1044370
Where in Texas are you?

[Anonymous No.1044493]

>>1044255
That's kind of subjective, but I guess I've had compliments.

[Lady Lipstick Machine Gun No.1044494]

Age: 21
Location: American south
Last book read: FEED by Mira Grant
Currently reading: Blindness by Jose Saramogo
Favourite Book: so far, still 1984. Waiting for something else that will completely transform my way of thinking, even though it's been five years. ;_;
People I'm interested in: Vonnegut, Hemingway, maybe Nietzche. Reading a bit of anything well regarded I can get my hands on at the moment.

[Anonymous No.1044497]

>>1044489
t i n y c h a t (d o t) c o m/lit2

[Anonymous No.1044502]

Age: 16
Location: Tejas
Last book read: Dubliners by James Joyce
Currently reading: How fiction works
Favourite book: Song of Solomon by Toni Morisson
People you're interested in: James Joyce, Toni Morisson

[Anonymous No.1044507]

>>1044356
>>1044370
>>1044375

We should have a texasfag meetup.

[Anonymous No.1044510]

Age: 29
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Last book read: yesterday I finished A Maze of Death and The Sirens of Titan
Currently reading: Going to start VALIS today, maybe some short stories on the way
Favourite book: Of all time? That's tough. If somebody asked me today what book they should read, I'd say Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. I read it last week, and it's sticking with me more than the other books I've read since then.
People you're interested in: reclusive, effortlessly-creative musicians

>>1044474
Good man. I have the PKD reader, but I was thinking I'd trade it in, I think a different publisher puts out all of his short stories in a few volumes. So far I don't enjoy the short stories as much as the books, but I'm going to run out of these small doses of PKD.
I'm just getting into his post-freakout books. I was worried they would be overly-spiritual and not what I like about his stuff, but this has turned out to be wrong.

[Anonymous No.1044513]

>>1044177
Oi, você leia ficção em português?

[Anonymous No.1044519]

>>1044507
Yes please! Where's everybody else from? I think the Dallas area is quite a nexus.

[Anonymous No.1044520]

>>1044507

Well, school starts up in 2 weeks...I live in Dallas.

[Lady Lipstick Machine Gun No.1044526]

>>1044413

[Anonymous No.1044530]

>>1044520
Know any good meet-up type places in Dallas? Like a good bookstore or something?

[Anonymous No.1044535]

>>1044530
I'm in Austin unfortunately, but I might be able to make a trip to dallas to meet some litfags :D

[Anonymous No.1044546]

>>1044535
We totally need to make this happen. I live about an hour from Dallas, but I don't know about the bookstores there for possible meet up locations. Maybe a Half-Price books?

[Anonymous No.1044550]

25
Dallas, Texas
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Portnoy's Complaint
I can't narrow down favorite books well.
Interested in people who open their eyes, move around, and speak, preferably.

Texasfag meet-up sounds both interesting and shitty at the same time.

[Anonymous No.1044553]

>>1044546

There's that big-ass Half-Price Books off of Northwest Highway in Dallas?

[Anonymous No.1044557]

>>1044513
não, há muitos livros que não consigo encontrar em português e portanto leio em inglês.

[Anonymous No.1044560]

>>1044550
I'm kind of social and would try to make it not awkward and shitty! Man I am excited now.

[Anonymous No.1044567]

>>1044553
The address is 5803 East Northwest Highway, Dallas, TX?

Looks pretty great, lots of other stores nearby as well! Anybody else up for this? Is it a good location?

[Anonymous No.1044571]

Age: 18
Sex: Female
Location: Southern Massachusetts
Last book read: Gutenberg Elegies (for an english class)
Currently reading: In Cold Blood
Favourite book: Clockwork Orange, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Crime and Punishment
People you're interested in: Girls who like lit, the vidya, maybe even animu (though I haven't watched any in ages), who aren't much older than me. I don't even really wanna fuck. I just want to find someone nice to talk to and maybe hang out with and lets see what happens from there.

[Anonymous No.1044572]

>>1044567
I have school, work, and other shit to handle. I doubt if we could actually make a timeslot that would fit for all of us. If we did, I'd be in.

[Anonymous No.1044575]

>>1044571
>Female
>Likes GIRLS

[Anonymous No.1044576]

Isn't specification of gender kind of important to a "hookup thread"? Otherwise it's a real flip of the coin whether you find someone that understands you or someone that really makes you question your sexuality.

[Anonymous No.1044577]

>>1044571
>Female
>Likes GIRLS

[Anonymous No.1044578]

>>1044572
Well, Sunday's are generally free I think?

[AnonTom2.0 No.1044580]

Age: 25
Location: Detroit, MI
Last book read: A Feast For Crows
Currently reading: Sea of Monsters
Favourite book: A Brave New World
People you're interested in: Grant Morrison
Any other information you deem relevant: Currently jotting down ideas for novels in several genres, and writing 2 as we speak.

[Anonymous No.1044581]

>>1044577
You need to get out more, bro.

[Anonymous No.1044583]

>>1044577
You got a problem with that?

[Anonymous No.1044584]

>>1044581
?

[speaks_out_of_turn !ga5fJBSHKk No.1044588]

Age: 29/M
Location: Middlefield, Ohio
Last book read: Saturday by Ian McEwan
Currently reading: Maugham's Choice of Kipling's Best and The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Favorite book: This is a mood dependent choice for me, but today it would be Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday by Vonnegut. I'm feeling silly.
People you're interested in: Adventurous, amorous, and A-moral types. TEE-HEE.

[Anonymous No.1044591]

>>1044165

Sauce on that pic OP? Pleasee

[Anonymous No.1044592]

>>1044591

[Anonymous No.1044593]

>>1044584
Girls who like girls are not uncommon. It's not a huge deal.

[Anonymous No.1044597]

>>1044591
>asking for sauce on /lit/

[Anonymous No.1044606]

>>1044400
Are you that person from Edinburgh?

[Implying !!OwMMiDsuHLo No.1044629]

>>1044597
Like asking for a source on /lit/ is any worse than a hookup thread on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.1044646]

>>1044356
>>1044370
>>1044375
>>1044502
>>1044550

tinychat dot com/texaslit

If you guys want to!

[Jerks !!USHZtxsn4gh No.1044685]

>Age
20
>Location
London, UK
>Last book read
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
>Currently reading
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
>Favourite book
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Calvino)
>People you're interested in
Everyone, I suppose- most people interest me in one way or another.
>Any other information you deem relevant
I'm a classical musician. Also, I'm a heterosexual male.

[Anonymous No.1044699]

>>1044685
>I'm a classical musician
Jesus, that's worse than being a Jazz musician in the 21st Century.

[Anonymous No.1044715]

>>1044699
Yes, lets kill all music genre that was "invented" befor the year 2000. We don`t need it anymore. It`s not like it has inspired any modern works or anything. Oh, and while we`re at it, lets kill all literature that was written before 2000 as well. Don`t need it anymore, do we?

[Anonymous No.1044720]

Age:22
Location: Nova Friburgo, Rio
Last book read: Made a pause on Gravity's Rainbow, before that, not sure. Either Clarissa, by Verissimo, or Unbearable Lightness of the Being.
Currently reading: Old man and the Sea
Favourite book: 1984, i guess
People you're interested in: Moderately attractive girl, that can put with me, and a bossy personality.
Any other information you deem relevant: I'm incredibly pathetic, even by 4chan standards.

[Jerks !!USHZtxsn4gh No.1044723]

>>1044699

It's not all that bad, I still get regular work and that...

>>1044715

Come now, I'm sure he wasn't being malicious.

[Anonymous No.1044725]

>>1044715
You interpreted my meaning incorrectly.

[Anonymous No.1044726]

Age:22
Location: Nova Friburgo, Rio
Last book read: Made a pause on Gravity's Rainbow, before that, not sure. Either Clarissa, by Verissimo, or Unbearable Lightness of the Being.
Currently reading: Old man and the Sea
Favourite book: 1984, i guess
People you're interested in: Moderately attractive girl, that can put with me, and a bossy personality.
Any other information you deem relevant: I'm incredibly pathetic, even by 4chan standards.

[Anonymous No.1044730]

>>1044715
i don't think that's what he was saying at all.

but you have to admit, being a classicly trained musician is like being a blacksmith. it's a lost art that was once very relevant but that has lost some of its importance

[Jerks !!USHZtxsn4gh No.1044735]

>>1044730

That's not true in the slightest, though!

[Anonymous No.1044748]

typical no one lives by me, Chicago

Also typical that a large portion of people are not from the U.S. as us 'mericans are on the whole illiterate

[Anonymous No.1044752]

>>1044606
Nope I'm from Ayr.

[Anonymous No.1044753]

>>1044735
well, you're obviously in a better position to speak than me.

But i just don't think that when people, in the future, look back and tell the history of music of our time, classical music won't play as an important role as it did in previous centuries

[Jerks !!USHZtxsn4gh No.1044762]

>>1044753

I've no way of saying if that's true or not, certainly, but I'm a performer rather than a composer. People will still look back on recordings of Caruso and Clement and say that they were some of the most talented musicians to ever live.

Besides which, conservatoires are still alive and well and Bel Canto is taught in numerous schools around the world.

It may not be the coolest thing at the moment, but opera is still going. Covent Garden will still sell out almost every night with seats in the stalls going at 500 pounds sterling each.

[Anonymous No.1044767]

>>1044685
>If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

This plus the teacup thread confirm you are fucking rad.

[Anonymous No.1044781]

>>1044753
That's because classical music isn't pop music. History is written by rich white guys and classical music is what rich white guys listen to (such as myself) so naturally, that is what ends up in the history books. With the advent of recording, music has become a mass-produced commodity driven by the demand of the general public. On top of that, most of what would be called classical music today is not very accessible for most listeners.

[Anonymous No.1044782]

Age: 20
Location: Wisconsin
Last book read: Fatu Hiva by Thor Heyerdahl
Currently reading: Contact by Carl Sagan
Favourite book: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
People you're interested in: Drug dealers

[tusense !ozOtJW9BFA No.1044787]

>>1044194
Are you real? That last bit is too awesome.

[Anonymous No.1044794]

>>1044571
>Location: Southern Massachusetts
Wow somebody that actually lives close to me and--

>interested in: Girls
Goddammit.

[Implying !!OwMMiDsuHLo No.1044805]

>>1044794
18-year-old girls who like girls are just going through a phase. Give her a few months and she'll be ready to hop on the cock again.

[Anonymous No.1044797]

>People will still look back on recordings of Caruso and Clement and say that they were some of the most talented musicians to ever live

You obviously know more about music than i do but i studied piano for a few years and i think i have an above average knowledge of music and i have never heard of those musicians, though I, like many others, have heard about Bach, Debussy, Chopin, Beethoven etc... see what i mean?

>Covent Garden will still sell out almost every night with seats in the stalls going at 500 pounds sterling each

Sure, but (i think) they are playing the opera pieces that were written a long time ago.

And being a classicly trained musician is extremely cool, not to mention that it is a profession regarded with great respect. It's something that i have always wanted to be, but you have to start at an early age and i didn't get into music until i was 13.

[Jerks !!USHZtxsn4gh No.1044798]

>>1044767

You're very kind to say, thank you very much. If you're ever in London we can have tea and discuss Calvino.

[Anonymous No.1044808]

>>1044805
At what age do you think sexuality sticks then?

[Anonymous No.1044817]

>>1044808
Not that guy and I don't agree with him - but there are many teenage girls who go through confused phases and are just figuring shit out, and a lot of them wind up realizing that they are actually straight. Boys, too.

[Anonymous No.1044818]

>>1044805
I don't think it's so much a phase, but that at certain points in life you are more attracted to certain kinds of people.

[Jerks !!USHZtxsn4gh No.1044829]

>>1044797
You don't need to start early at all- I'm a singer and I've been forbidden to try various roles until I'm much much older. There are two or three roles I'm allowed to attempt at my age, and it's very unlikely anyone will hire me for them. In the meantime, I'm a choral singer, and there's plenty of demand for choirs at the moment, luckily.

Perhaps you don't know them, then... but I'm sure you know who Pavarotti is?

And Covent Gardens will, every now and then, put on something new, but it's not really their brief. ENO, whose stall seats go for a hefty 200 pounds sterling each will certainly do new stuff, and The Opera Group almost exclusively do new stuff.

You're all quite right, it's not hugely popular at the moment, and perhaps it is a dying art, but I resent the implication that it's obsolete.

[Anonymous No.1044831]

Age: 15

Location: USA

Last Book Read: Pygmy (sucked)

Currently Reading: Walden

Favorite Book: For Whom The Bell Tolls

People I'm Interested In: I truly dislike most people. There are no real distinguished similarities between the people that I DO like. We just kind of click.

[Anonymous No.1044833]

Age: 22
Location: Germany
Last book read: making money by Terry Pratchett
Currently reading: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Favourite book: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
People you're interested in: People who want to talk and hopefully some fellow germanfags if they happen to be here.
Any other information you deem relevant: Currently reading through all the Terry Pratchett novels, almost done.

[Anonymous No.1044838]

Age: 19
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Last book read: Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh
Currently reading: Fall of the Roman Republic - Plutarch
Favourite book: Probably the Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
People you're interested in: Anyone who can maintain a decent concersation

[Anonymous No.1044842]

>>1044838

>Conversation

Damnit

[Anonymous No.1044847]

>>1044842
Well you ruled yourself out, good job.

[tusense !ozOtJW9BFA No.1044855]

Kay, I'll bite.

Age: 23
Location: New Jersey, USA
Last book read: On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Currently reading: Player Piano, A Game of Thrones, The Raw Shark Texts
Favourite book: too difficult to choose
People you're interested in: anyone. I have no IRL friends T_T
Any other information you deem relevant: I'm really bored. Someone hang out with me.

[Anonymous No.1044856]

>>1044847

Just woke up.
That's the price of nocturnalism.

[Anonymous No.1044854]

>>1044829
now i feel ashamed. I do know who Clemente and Caruso are but i thought you were referring to composers so i didn't place them.

Obsolete? I don't think so either, but it just doesn't influence the direction music takes anymore.

It's like Venice, which was once the cultural and economical center of the world, but now is just another city. Still beautiful though...

By the way, are there any great temporary composers of classical music? The most "recent" i know are Rachmaninoff and Debussy