/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11072357]

How old is /Lit?
What book are you reading?
What state are you from?
Are you a loner virgin?
> I'm 21
> Crime and Punishment, The Stranger, The Sound and the Fury
> US
> Loner but not virgin

[Anonymous No.11072370]

>>11072357
32
Road to Wigan Pier and Stalin
NO
No. Wife and kid.

[Anonymous No.11072373]

>>11072357
22
a frolic of his own
wa
engaged but feel lonely

[Anonymous No.11072376]

24
Just finished Poetic Edda, listening to a librivox recording of The Dawn of Medieval Europe. Will try to finish Auf den Marmorklippen by Ernst Jünger today.
Too paranoid
Same as OP

[Anonymous No.11072380]

>18
>American Psycho
>Florida
>Of course, why else would I be on 4chan

[Anonymous No.11072384]

>25
>Meditations
>CAN
> Small group of friends // girlfriend

[Anonymous No.11072400]

>>11072384
OP here, I'm a hopeless romantic lol

[Anonymous No.11072407]

>>11072400
Me too anon
It's kind of suffering to be a hopeless romantic in the modern age

[Anonymous No.11072412]

>23 today
>The Fisherman
>NY
>Pretty lonely right now, not a virgin

[Anonymous No.11072413]

>>11072407
Yeah cuz sex is easy, but most girls I've talked to are incredibly superficial, guys too but it doesn't impact me as much lol

[Anonymous No.11072418]

>>11072413
Yep
I can't say I'd never have sex with someone I didn't love or really like personally because I'm weak willed but I'd feel bad about it

[Anonymous No.11072421]

>>11072412
Happy Birthday

[Anonymous No.11072425]

> 18
> Bleeding Edge
> n/a, not from us
> yes

[Anonymous No.11072426]

>>11072418
I'm that way now, but when I was younger I just did it just because

[Anonymous No.11072432]

>>11072426
Kinda regret it, pretty bad memory

[Anonymous No.11072437]

>>11072376
>listening to a librivox recording of The Dawn of Medieval Europe

[Anonymous No.11072445]

>>11072357
27.
Pic related.
The UK.
Nah, gf is asleep next to me.

[Anonymous No.11072453]

>>11072445
How to get gf

[Anonymous No.11072472]

>>11072357
>27
>Typee by Herman Melville
>California
>no, qt /lit/ gf and lots of friends

>>11072373
>a frolic of his own
How is it? This one's been collecting dust on my shelf for a while.

>>11072453
b urself

[Anonymous No.11072473]

>>11072357
24
V.
I'm not American
No

[Anonymous No.11072537]

> How old is /Lit?
Almost 24
> What book are you reading?
Brave New World, Meditations, The Discourses, and Pragmatism
> What state are you from?
Uhh, Utah I guess
> Are you a loner virgin?
Married and expecting a child, looking forward to the dirt in my eye when I get around to Schopenhauer

[Anonymous No.11072543]

>>11072357
Man, I clicked on tt thinking I was entering a discussion about Franzen and the Corrections. :(

[Anonymous No.11072547]

>>11072543
Did you like it?

[Anonymous No.11072597]

>>11072547
I have only read parts of it, but I'm one of the few around here that will stick up for Franzen and laud him as an important literary figure, mostly for his earlier work, which is of high quality despite his latter work, through which he used to become a sell-out.

[Anonymous No.11072742]

>>11072357
21
Crime and punishment
NV
Loner
Not virgin

[Anonymous No.11072746]

>>11072597
The Corrections was a boring mess, I would advise people to spend their time reading actual PoMo lit.

[Anonymous No.11072755]

25
Meditations
UK
Virgin but not loner

[Anonymous No.11072795]

23
V.
Europe
No virgino

>>11072473
How d'ya like V.?

[Anonymous No.11072811]

>>11072437
It's still a book, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.11072856]

>>11072357
>18
>Quran
>not in US
>virgin yes, loner no

[Anonymous No.11072921]

20
The Pale King, Antifragile, The Eye of the World
Eastern Europe
Both :(

[Anonymous No.11072935]

>>11072357
22
St. Augustine's Confessions and Satantango by Krasznahorkai (weird combo I know)
Missouri
Single but not a virgin

[Anonymous No.11072970]

>>11072357
20
Mein Kampf and The Sound of Waves
Switzerland
I'm a friendless khhv. I'm trying to be in a long distance relationship with a girl from the US, but she's fucking annoying. Why are women so needy of attention?

[Anonymous No.11073203]

>>11072453
Be yourself kiddo.

[Anonymous No.11073207]

28
rabelais
providence, ri
no, gf who is trying to get lit

[Anonymous No.11073209]

>>11072370
new orleans?

[Anonymous No.11073232]

>>11072357
>I'm 19, 20 in june
>slowly reading through violence and the sacred, and the sailor who fell from grace with the sea (slowly because I'm in the middle of my exams, and also because I've been getting too into twitter and I need to cut down my consumption of that to make more reading time)
>not American, live in Scotland
>I'm pretty schizoid and I don't really handle intimacy very well, so I am kind of yeah (also for some reason I only really need to know that woman are attracted to me and then I think "well I'm done now" and stop pursuing them, so basically have no motivation to get with anyone beyond the validation of finding out they like me--this is something I'm trying to work on but it's hard because it's so ingrained in my personality)

[Anonymous No.11073302]

>>11072357
30
drawing on the right side of the brain
antartica
kinda, i have a sex doll, never with a real woman.

[Anonymous No.11073457]

>>11073207
Nice, just moved to Providence myself. You guys have some cozy libraries here.

[Anonymous No.11073605]

>>11072357
22
Lolita
lol
not virgin, but def a loner

[Anonymous No.11073631]

>>11072357
28
The Street of Crocodiles
VA
Not a virgin, but I've only been with my longtime gf who I lived with for six years. Feels very bad. I dunno how to get with girls who aren't her.

[Anonymous No.11073653]

>>11072357
>19
>A Theory of Justice
>Latvia
>Dislike people, am alone but not lonely
>Not a virgin, have no trouble getting some

[Anonymous No.11073699]

>>11072357
>18
>Crime and Punishment and Letters from a Stoic
>Not from the US
>Have lots of acquaintances, but no close friends

[Anonymous No.11073718]

>>11072357
34
Elementary Particles, Caesar's commentaries, some Robert Penn Warren poetry
California
Married

[Anonymous No.11073729]

24
Berlin Alexanderplatz
NJ
yes

[Anonymous No.11073755]

>>11072357
>Over 35
>Just finished 2666; starting White Noise
>West Coast gulag
>Loner, yes. Virgin, no.

[Anonymous No.11073821]

>>11072357
38
deRetz's Memoirs, some fugitive Emerson lectures
VA
divorced, removed- both actually and dispositionally. hopeless but ok. at home in all weathers.

[Anonymous No.11073881]

19
Finishing V
Sitges, Spain
Have a GF and pretty good friends

[Anonymous No.11073957]

This thread makes me feel a little old. Godspeed to our young literates. Remember to read Siege.

[Anonymous No.11073997]

>18
>Mythology
>Dublin
>yes but I like it

[Anonymous No.11074550]

21
Crime and Punishment and the Bible
US
Same as OP but emphasis on the loner part

[Anonymous No.11074586]

>>11072357
>18
>Ulysses, Paradise Lost, The Trial, The Canterbury Tales (Coghill Translation)
>No thanks
>Not a loner but I am a kissless virgin

[Anonymous No.11074591]

>>11072357
19
Ulysses
eurofag, not gonna mention my nation
friendless, virgin, underdog, neet and all that pack
>tfw no /lit/ gf
>>11073957
what even is Siege?

[Anonymous No.11074615]

>>11072357
21
The Wind-up Bird chronicle & Bertrand Russell's history of western philosophy
ND, but currently live in MN
Loner, sort of. I have my roommates and no one else
Well, I haven't been interested in sex until a month ago, and I lost my virginity to a good friend/roommate of mine. She however doesn't want to be exclusive and that makes me very sad.

[Anonymous No.11074632]

27
War and Peace
Indiana
Wizard

[Anonymous No.11074643]

18
Catch 22 and the myth of Sisyphus
US,NY
Y-yes

[Anonymous No.11074679]

23
The Devils of Loudun
UK
Virgin loner but I'm funny. I just don't tend to make meaningful connections with people.

[Anonymous No.11074989]

>>11072357
22
Nothing as of now. Just studying
Iceland
No. But I'm in a loveless relationship so I might as well be.
>>11072376
What did you think of the Poetic Edda?

[Anonymous No.11075059]

37
Le Rivage des Syrtes
France
Divorced and paying a lot in child support without being allowed to see the kids. Just kill me.

[Anonymous No.11075074]

21
The Pale King and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Gothenburg, Sweden
Virgin, got one friend so I guess I'm not a complete loner

[Anonymous No.11075083]

>>11072357
>21
>Beyond Good + Evil
>NW UK
>Of fucking course

[Anonymous No.11075130]

30
The Plague
Texas
Not a virgin, all my friends left me two years ago after a girl lied that I raped her.

[Anonymous No.11075138]

27
Re-reading some Lovecraft stuff, and Herodotus on the side
I don't live in a state
Yes

[Anonymous No.11075463]

>>11072357
>19
>Reflections on Violence, The Year of the Hare
>Norway
>not virgin not loner

[Anonymous No.11075495]

>>11072357
>22
>Several books on race theory and Egyptology (research)
>US
>Fuckboy when I want to be, but mostly avoiding relationships rn b/c I don't need no drama

[Anonymous No.11075629]

>>11072970
How'd you meet her

[Anonymous No.11075649]

>>11072357
>27
>Permutation City
>MI
>Married

[Anonymous No.11075676]

>22
>Pale Fire
>NZ
>Same as OP

[Anonymous No.11075811]

>>11072357
>22
>The Box Man, The Social Contract
>IL
>In relationship, but long-distance. not virgin

[Anonymous No.11075819]

>>11072472
Not him, but Frolic was great. Though I loved pretty much everything Gaddis wrote, including his letters, so I'm not exactly unbiased.

[Anonymous No.11075894]

>24
>Rereading The Red & the Black
>Canada
>Not a virgin, bit of a loner

[Anonymous No.11075946]

>>11075894
From my experience, not being a virgin but never having had any sort of meaningful sexual relationship feels worse than just being a virgin did in some ways. I've screwed a few random whores once and never saw them again, never actually been with a woman long-term.

[Anonymous No.11076043]

Comfy thread frens.

>24
>Underworld or Amazonas (by Döblin)
>Germany
>Not a virgin, trying to be a loner but my conscience/close friends end up dragging me outside lest I become some crusty hermit
>>11073729
Very good taste anon. How is the translation? I'd recommend Die Ermordung einer Butterblume (if you can find a translation), it's a collection of Döblin's stories which blows Kafka out of the water as far as literary expressionism is concerned.

[Anonymous No.11076096]

20
Ficciones and Portnoy's Complaint
India
Yes, a loner virgin

[Anonymous No.11076111]

> 18
> The Castle - Kafka
> Yes, I have kissed and dated for a week though

[Anonymous No.11076133]

23
On the Will in Nature, Goethe's Theory of Colors
NY
Not a virgin but haven't had sex since when I lost my virginity, five years ago

[Anonymous No.11076138]

23
In Cold Blood
The State of Canada
Yes

[Anonymous No.11076159]

>23
>Confessions by Rousseau and Afterland by Mai Der Veng
>Tennessee
>Neither

[Anonymous No.11076162]

>>11072357

26
The Idiot by big D
rural Alberta
Yes unfortunately both.

[Anonymous No.11076194]

>>11075130
How'd that end up

[Anonymous No.11076399]

>>11072357
>18
>Atlanta
>Ethics by Spinoza
>Virgin

[Anonymous No.11076451]

>>11072357
>19
>Infinite Jest, A Frolic of His Own
>US. In Maine for school
>Not virgin but not exactly flourishing socially. I blacked out and apparently made out with some girl right in front of the girl I've been soberly building a relationship with

[Anonymous No.11076487]

>>11074989
It's great, although I only read some cucked translation annotated by what seems like a bit of a feminist (muh queer themes were mentioned in the introduction).

However, the themes it deals with are still very interesting. Reading the almost fatherly advice in Hávamál was quite moving actually. I was already familiar with the general themes of norse mythology through the prose edda and some plebbier secondary sources, but with each text you get a bit of a different perspective on the story which is quite fun.

I would definitely recommend it if you haven't read it already. Is it compulsory reading in your neck of the woods?

[Anonymous No.11076493]

>>11074591

I am unfamiliar with it myself, although people compare it to the Turner Diaries which are honestly pretty fun to read.

[Anonymous No.11076531]

I'm 35
I just finished Misery by Stephen King. Heading to the library tomorrow for more.
Here in sunny California
Not a loner. Very social. But things are strange for me just now.

[Anonymous No.11076605]

>20
>The Odyssey (again)
>California, but not originally
>Loner, but I once ate a chinese whore's hairy vagina

[Anonymous No.11076634]

>>11072970
kek i saw your post on r9k

[Anonymous No.11076637]

>>11074591
mention ur nation then you could maybe change the friendless part

[Anonymous No.11076650]

23
American kingpin
new South Wales
no I'm not loner virgin

[Anonymous No.11076820]

>>11072357
18
Anna Karenina
Not from US
Not a virgin but I've become more and more asocial the last year.

[Anonymous No.11076836]

>>11072472
him, Frolic is my first big Gaddis and it's pretty great. It's not like bombastic writing that's slapping me in the face with every page but it is well written.

[Anonymous No.11076839]

24
Phaedo
Belgium
Loner yes, virgin no

[Anonymous No.11077663]

>>11073207
>tfw no trying-to-get-/lit/ gf

[Anonymous No.11077696]

26
Crime and Punishment/Quran/Tazkiratul Auliya
Not from US
>Sex before marriage is prohibited, so vrgn yeah.

[Anonymous No.11077703]

>>11075629
world of warcraft

[Anonymous No.11077705]

>>11075894
>Red &Black

mah nigga

[Anonymous No.11077712]

>>11072357
28
Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
connecticut
yes and no

[Anonymous No.11079340]

>>11076836
Read The Recognitions. It was Gaddis at his most ambitious.

[Anonymous No.11079358]

19
invisible cities and a little larger than the universe pessoa poems
us
yes

[Anonymous No.11079406]

19
The Decameron
Germany
kv

[Anonymous No.11080172]

>>11072425
genuine question. why do you like bleeding edge?

[Anonymous No.11080188]

>>11072357
16
my twisted world: the story of elliot rodger
Los Angeles
raped at 13

[Anonymous No.11080190]

>>11072357
30
nothing right now
california
a loner but not a virgin

[Anonymous No.11080350]

>>11080188
How big was he?

[Anonymous No.11081146]

>>11072357
22
Gravity's Rainbow
US
Loner

[Anonymous No.11081147]

>>11079340
I'm working my way backwards

[Anonymous No.11081276]

>>11075059

how do you think you keep from getting a divorce? what went wrong ? what would you change if you could change anything.

[Anonymous No.11081281]

>>11076399
hey big red

[Anonymous No.11081417]

>>11072357
25
Big Sur, The Trial
fuck off
virgin and sort of loner. i'm not NEET and i have work friends, but i don't hang out with them much even though they invite me to shit all the time

[Anonymous No.11081446]

>>11072357
>46
>The Story of the Stone (and some Terry Pratchett)
>California
>LOL no.

[Anonymous No.11081473]

>48
>Afterparty by Daryl Gregory
>Pacific NW
>lolno. I'm highly introverted but great at being social when I want to be

[Anonymous No.11081487]

>20
>Consider the Lobster, Butcher's Crossing, Call Me by Your Name
>US
>Very much a loner, not a virgin

[Anonymous No.11081555]

>24
>Omensetter's Luck and have been reading From Dawn to Decadence slowly on the side for months
>Wisconsin
>I have a number of good friends but live alone, can get with hot art hos when I try but like other anons above have said I don't much appreciate shallow sex anymore and I keep getting ghosted after the third fuck despite keeping a moderately distant demeanor wrt what I really want (a relationship who am I kidding I am so lonely since my long term relationship ended a year ago)

[Anonymous No.11081724]

>19
>Joseph Andrews, War and Peace
>Michigan? More like Bitchigan!
>Virgin, but have my group of friends

[Anonymous No.11082030]

most of us are below 25, is anyone here surprised?

[Anonymous No.11082034]

>18
>speedboat by renata adler
>not in the us
>neither! but always lonely

[Anonymous No.11082055]

>21, soon to be 22
>Prochain épisode by Hubert Aquin (dislike it so far)
>Canada
>Yes to both

[Anonymous No.11082097]

>>11072357
18
2018 Pushcart Prize. The poetry is shit but the some of the short stories are rad
Leaf in BC
Just lonely

[Anonymous No.11082120]

so many fucking normalfags in here
i hate this board getouttt