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>> No.1047085

noone reads these.

21 male
hampton roads virginia
currently: count of monte cristo
last: a clash of kings
favorite(fuck your limey spelling-OP!): lord of light maybe, but seriously i have trouble narrowing down BEST or FAVORITE lists to 5 or 10, much less a single item.

>> No.1047387

24 Male
Mississippi
Currently: "Hell at the Breech" Tom Franklin, "Time Enough for Love" Heinlein, "The Fountain Head" Rand, "The Ethics of Liberty" Murray N. Rothbard (actually and audio book for when I drive), and a few other randoms books I have started and forgot about but will pick back up sometime.
Last: Just finished Withur We on my nook. Its free to download and a great scifi Libertarian novel. Kinda like "Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Get it here, now, http://www.withurwe.com/
Favorite: No favorite. I have favorite authors. Vonnegut, Phillip Jose Farmer, Bukowski, Larry Brown.

>> No.1047397

I'm bored

Age: 36
Sex: Male
Location: Upstate NY
Currently reading: Teatro Grottesco; Evolution's Darling; The Count of Monte Cristo
Last book read: Pride & Prejudice
Favorite book: Grendel, if anything. But I like Borges, Nabokov, Joyce, and Wolfe a lot.
Extra info: I play jazz bass, and can only climax if I'm wearing diapers.

>> No.1047411

>>1047397

feel you on the diapers

>> No.1047412

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Location: Sweden
Currently reading: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
Last book read: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Favourite book: Norwegian Wood
Extra info: My only remarkable skill is that I'm a good writer, so I took up reading to learn more about it.

>> No.1047423

Age: 20
Sex: Female
Location: Texas
Currently reading: The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, A Canticle For Leibowitz, The Subtle Knife
Last book read: Northern Lights
Favourite books: Hitchhiker's Guide, A Clockwork Orange, The War of the Worlds
Extra info: I also really enjoy video games. And I like people with glasses.

>> No.1047425

fuck you
f
fuck you
the gun seller
the clown
cam fucking u, burroughs and charlie bukowski dont count because i did it for the twatster cred

>> No.1047428

>>1047397
where in upstate bro

>> No.1047432

Age: 19
Sex: F
Location: California!!!!
Currently reading: A few things: David Copperfield, New Yorker Stories before 1944, and Spinoza's Ethics
Last book read: Just finished Faust part 1
Favourite book: Uhhhhhh Faust was pretty baller
Extra info: hrmmm

>> No.1047434

>>1047428
Near Binghamton. You?

>> No.1047437

>>1047397
>>1047397
>Favorite book: Grendel,
qft.
>if anything.
qft 2
>But I like Borges, Nabokov, Joyce, and Wolfe a lot.
but my indieclopedia also names pavic as a pomo god. are an indie indie to ignore him?
also which borges which nabokov, you namedropping fag?

>> No.1047452

Age: 18
Sex: Male
Location: Glasgow
Currently reading: An Enquiry.... By David Hume
Last book read: Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Favourite book: The Trial by Franz Kafka
Extra info: How did it go for all you Glasgow fags today, or are we not all on yet?

>> No.1047459
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>>1047437
Borges: You're asking whether I prefer Garden of Forking Paths or Aleph? I don't really have an opinion there, they're both great. I've read other stories, but don't know what collections they are originally from without looking.

Nabokov: I've read Pale Fire, Lolita, Luzhin's Defense, and a bunch of stories. Pale Fire is definitely my favorite of those--left over from the post-college time when I was reading lots of "metafiction", and was as interested in the puzzles as the story & characters.

Pavic is the Khazars guy? I haven't read that, but it is certainly on my list. Cyclonopedia will be the next book of that sort that I read, though.

>> No.1047460

>>1047452
Guy who organized the meet up here.

One guy showed up.

We had a good conversation though so I consider it a win.

>> No.1047462

Age: 27
Sex: Male
Location: PA
Currently reading: Infinite Jest (because its been on /lit/ so much you fuckers)
Last book read: The Ghost King by RA Salvatore
Favorite book: Why would you ever ask a person that?
Favorite genre: sci-fi

>> No.1047464

>>1047452

Why would you read the Critic of Pure Reason at 18? That's just idiot. There's no way you understood it well enough to claim it has been an usefull read. Read that at 23-25, when you'll have a real reading background, you just lost your time brother.

>> No.1047465

>>1047460
Awesome, so how similar (or not) were you? Age difference for instance? I'm interested in how well you could stereotype /lit/izens who are even from the same city..

>> No.1047468

>>1047434
Near Syracuse. Pretty close--that's cool.

>> No.1047471

Age:21
Sex:hypermasculine
Location:South Hesse
Currently reading: Caligula & Die Gespensterdivision. I'm looking at a Grossman now but the amount of letters scares me.
Last book read: an ironic stalin era drama that you probably don't know
Favourite book: see 1 above. I am in love with Primo Levi and with Bohumil Hrabal
Extra info: that pariah immigrant who usually sat in the corner except that i never did because i immigrated after having finished school (just now). i used to be the one to bully them.
overstressed. need literate people badly. my artsy fartsy soul is suffocating with physics, economics, maths, and other such triffles.

>> No.1047473

>>1047464
Why do you think I went straight to Hume? I really was a blur mostly, especially compared to The Republic. I wouldn't call it a waste of time though.

Hume is alot better, perhaps because it was written in English. Do you think I should go back to the Greeks with some Aristotle after this?

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>>1047468
Neato. I used to live in Cazenovia, even closer.

>> No.1047486

>>1047473

Oh, my bad. I apologize.

All I had read when I first gave it a try (Kant) was Camus' Rebel and The Republic. I went straight to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan after that and I strongly recommend it as an introduction to real philosophy. That being said, it's a very huge book and there are some very unusefull parts in it. Hume might be a good read, never tried it. All in all, yeah, I guess reading some English-written philosophy might be a good idea. Go back to Kant later, way later.

>> No.1047490

>>1047459
>>1047459
>and a bunch of stories
no you didn't. prove you did! name one.
i remember it had him trying to be kafka on one occassion and on another he tried to be david lynch and chekhov at once, that twat.
i never read any borges aside from universal history of infamy (with gauchos in it). there was also that so story of a venegful self-rape wench. what was her name again? it's, like, my favourite now.

>> No.1047492

>>1047486

Still me : going back to the Greeks can't hurt neither.

>> No.1047499

>>1047465
We were about three years apart, he was into history and philosophy and was doing a degree in them. I'm into comp sci and economics and I am doing a comp sci degree. He dressed in a suit, I was in casual stuff.

We spent the majority of the time talking about world politics. Was nice to meet a fellow /lit/izen though hopefully someday I shall meet other Scottish /lit/ browsers.

>> No.1047506

>>1047499
What Linux distro do they use in the uni labs?

>> No.1047510

>>1047506
ubuntu But two machines are on red hat for some reason.

>> No.1047534

i see you're the gay castrate board for emasculated skoptsy*

*look up this term plebians. also, click the wikipedia for it has pictures, lol

>> No.1047537

Oh man, I guess it really isn't worth bothering with /lit/ anymore

>> No.1047543

>>1047510
Ah thanks, I'm still to decide on what other subject to take but looking forward to the comp sci course at least.

>> No.1047546

>>1047492
they can. ignorance is a bliss. enjoy!

>> No.1047550

>>1047490
There's something wrong with you.

>> No.1047556

>>1047412
do you have drugs, a car, light music and a place to stay, my sweet swedish boy?

>> No.1047557

20
M
NYC
Now-Gravity's Rainbow, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Inherent Vice, whole bunch of other shit I can't remember
Last-The Iliad
favorite-Dark Tower series

aim- cheesebox303

>> No.1047564

>>1047550
oh no. another elitist impostor. just fuck off

>> No.1047575

>>1047492
OK thanks. Aristotle's "On the Soul" isn't too challenging is it?

Also, does more modern stuff like Foucault require alot of knowledge of fundamentals or can you just jump in? His History of Sexuality & Discipline and Punish seem really interesting.

>> No.1047589

>>1047575

Aristotle isn't challenging. Never read Foucault. I'm not that much of a philosopher. I enjoy knowledge, so philosophy is a part of my interests, but I'm certainly not a specialist. Some other anon might help you better if you plan to become a true philosopher and only (or mostly) read philosophy.

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>>1047564

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1047594

reported for /r9k/ shit

>> No.1047598

>>1047594
Reported for abusing the report system

>> No.1047599
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1047599

Age: 20.
Sex: Male.
Location: Oregon, USA.
Reading: Ptolemy's Almagest, Age of American Unreason and EbonMusings.
Last Book: Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain.
Favorite Book: The Hobbit and Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses.

Extra Info: I just finished a box of Mac'n'Cheese mixed with a can of tune. It was delicious, but I really don't want to think about the horrible things that I was putting into my body.

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>>1047598
reporting a thread unrelated to literature is not abusing the report system

if you weren't a retard you'd know that

>> No.1047628

im a gigantic faggot
metaphorically

female
upper east coast
the screwtape letters, invitation to a beheading
immortality
franny&zooey (shuddup), life is elsewhere
i read few books repeatedly

>> No.1047656

20f
Sydney
Currently reading: Being Dead by Jim Crace
Last book read: Leaves of Grass - Walt Witman
Favourite book: The Trial by Franz Kafka
Extra info: yes I actually enjoy Kafka. For Real.

>> No.1047658

>>1047604
embodiment of faggot hipster scum

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1047697

Age: 63
Sex: Male
Location: Washington
Currently reading: X-Files: Ground Zero by Kevin J Anderson
Favorite book:Dune: Paul of Dune

>> No.1047706

Age:20
Sex: Male
Location: New York
Currently reading: For whom the bell tolls/ Ficciones
Last book read: Dance Dance Dance
Favourite book: Slaughterhouse-Five
Extra info: I have no friends.

>> No.1047843

>>1047706
>I have no friends.
Are you awkward? I have a feeling all the people who say this aren't & would be condescending if I were to meet them irl.

>> No.1047867

19, M, Montreal (Canada)
Currently reading The Gay Science, some Schopenhauer, Waiting for Godot, Les Chants de Maldoror...
Last book read was quite a while ago and I think it was Pale Fire.
I don't have one favourite book.

>> No.1047871

Age:
Sex:
Location: California
Currently reading: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Last book read: Dune
Favourite book: couldn't say
Extra info: my elbow hurts

>> No.1047902

Age: 18
Sex: m
Location: Norway
Currently reading: The Age of Reason, sartre.
Last book read: A Hero of our time, Lermontov
Favourite book: War and Peace, Tolstoy
Extra info: None needed

Also>>1047464: I read it at 18, and i think i got the essence, it was certainly interesting. I think this has more to do with your previous knowledge about philosophy and Kant than age. I`m not claiming that i got it all, but enough for it to be rewarding.

>> No.1048039

No one ever talks to me in these threads.


;_;

>> No.1048045

>>1048039

I'm a dude, but I'll talk to you if you want?

>> No.1048050

22
Male
Winnipeg
Night Flight
Anansi Boys
Can't choose
I don't want to meet any of you.

>> No.1048167

ill talk to anyone at this point

>> No.1048375

>>1048167
Hey baby, what kinda talking you talking about? Sexy talking?

>> No.1048391

>>1047902

That just means you'd have got more out of it at 23-25. There is no way somebody has read enough / got enough philosophical background at 18 to fully comprehend The Critique of Pure Reason.

Don't believe me? Read it again at 25. You'll get my point.

>> No.1048396

>>1047423
I am >>1047697

Sup?

>> No.1048400

>>1047843
You're probably not here(2 hours later) but mostly I just don't talk that much.
People ask me to hang out with them and stuff but...I just don't.

>> No.1048435

Age: 25
Sex: male
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Currently reading: After dark -Murakami-
Last book read: the girl who kicked the hornet's nest -Larsson-
Favourite book: Ender's game -Card-
Extra info: professional artist