/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12058957]

>age
>something about yourself
>current book

[Anonymous No.12058961]

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i'm currently reading three books: tenth of december by george saunders, teatro grottesco by thomas ligotti, and the idiot by dostoyevsky
i'm currently reading three books: tenth of december by george saunders, teatro grottesco by thomas ligotti, and the idiot by dostoyevsky

[Anonymous No.12058962]

20
democrat
mein kampf

everyone post incoherent bullshit to mess with the data mining

[Anonymous No.12059000]

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My kidneys hurt
Jane Eyre

[Anonymous No.12059009]

>>12058957
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chronic constipation
The Underdogs

[Anonymous No.12059021]

>>12058957
22
My clothes are damp
The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.12059101]

>>12058957
>24
>I have a fetish for Jewish girls
>The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello

[Anonymous No.12059116]

>>12058957
22
moral nihilist
in the middle of so many but just recently Gödel, Escher, Bach

[Anonymous No.12059122]

20
lift 6 times a week
Siddhartha

[Anonymous No.12059130]

>>12058957
100.
Alice gives me an erection.
None, because reading is for nerds and is neither based nor redpilled.

[Anonymous No.12059172]

>>12058957
9001
Je ne suis pas une pipe.
Steel Ball Run

[Anonymous No.12059180]

20
I squat 600lbs but am a benchlet
pessoa poems

[Anonymous No.12059184]

24
i wish i were an alcoholic
bar menu

[Anonymous No.12059201]

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I am not happy
How to be Happy by Eva Woods

[Anonymous No.12059206]

>about 20 billion years
>I saw generations after generations of birds sharpening their beaks against a mountain made entirely of diamond and eventually carving a tunnel through it; sadly, I just remember the event as a short and fast time-lapse
>eat, pray, love

[Anonymous No.12059220]

>>12059101
Curious. The title should traslate to "the were-Mattia-Pascal" or "the no longer Mattia Pascal".

[Anonymous No.12059240]

>>12058957

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Oilfield
Journey to the End of the Night

[Anonymous No.12059254]

>>12059184
just start drinking then. but it's no fun, i'm telling you.

[Anonymous No.12059257]

>>12059101
>Jewesses
Utterly repulsive. What is wrong with you?
Jews have a history of inbreeding.

[Anonymous No.12059261]

>>12059184
i'm an alcoholic and it;s great
a+ would recommend
look at that i used a semicolon instead of a comma because i'm too drunk to type accurately
that's the kind of hilarious shenanigans that occur when you're an alcoholic

[Anonymous No.12059262]

>21
>I'm an anti-semite
>Starting Strength, by Mark Rippetoe

[Anonymous No.12059263]

>>12059257
Jew woman here. I secretly dream of an affair with a Canaanite.

[Anonymous No.12059278]

>>12059184
>alcoholic
Why?
>>12059263
Israelites =! Canaanites desu uwu uguu

[Anonymous No.12059282]

>>12058957
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I have 3 half read books I've been reading for months at this point: Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Revolt Against the Modern World, and a version of Plutarch's Lives

[Anonymous No.12059289]

>>12059172
jojolion is better fag

[Anonymous No.12059290]

>>12059261
oh gosh i even said comma instead of apostrophe
hilarious
what mischief will this devil drink get me into next

[Anonymous No.12059291]

>>12059282
Forgot to say something about myself.

I still think about another girl even though I'm newly wed and have a kid on the way. lmao

[Anonymous No.12059301]

>>12059289
r u implying i shuld skippeth parteths????

[Anonymous No.12059303]

>>12059278
>Israelites =! Canaanites
Precisely

[Anonymous No.12059307]

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i've been living like a neet for 5 months and it's great
sanctuary

[Anonymous No.12059310]

>>12059303
Israelis =! Israelites UwU

[Anonymous No.12059317]

Anyone else reading the Book of Θώθ?

[Anonymous No.12059340]

>>12058957
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I'm happy, which is contrary to what I observe in other people my age. Although I spend most of my days alone, I live a good life, because I see the worst case scenario everywhere, like an endless choir of church bells ringing in my head. But everytime I look up, I am happily surprised by an encouraging reality: my imagination has struck the wrong bell yet again.
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.12059352]

>>12059310
Yes. There's some OT passage prohibiting israelites to make babies with other local populations in the promised land.

[Anonymous No.12059362]

>>12059352
Yes. Because they were evil, at a later stage in their civilization.

[Anonymous No.12059368]

>>12059362
*The Canaanites, I mean.

[Anonymous No.12059402]

>>12058957
>50
>I glow in the dark
>The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

[Anonymous No.12059501]

20
mining engineering student
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[Anonymous No.12059550]

>>12058957
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kymmenen kertaa kymmenen yhteensä sata
Nausea By Jean Paul Sartre

[Anonymous No.12059578]

>21
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>I want to learn French but I have such a shit attention span that I don't think I will be able to do it. I've bought a bilingual book that will arrive on Sunday but I don't know what other steps to take

[Anonymous No.12059588]

>>12059362
Still, I fantasize about taco-eating graphs (picrel) with mohabite/edomite/etc women during my husband's ridiculous attempts at procreation.

[Anonymous No.12059596]

>>12058957
33
my feet hurt
on liberty

[Anonymous No.12059606]

>>12058957
420
I love the album Invisible Connections by Vangelis
Steppenwolf

>>12059201
>69
>I am not happy
why the fuck you steal my shit?!

[Anonymous No.12059612]

>>12058957
>26
>i want to become a video essayist but on the subject of mass media and media literacy overall, not film
>montaigne's essays

[Anonymous No.12059649]

>age
26

>something about yourself
Had a bad day. Feel like I want to die often, I think I might have to go back to psychiatric treatment. I hope better days are ahead, though it seems very unlikely at this point.

>current book
Skylark.
Under the jaguar sun.

[Anonymous No.12059667]

>>12059588
>taco-eating graphs
wonder if thats a real thinge

[Anonymous No.12059691]

>>12058957
20
Enjoying a cup of tea at the moment
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

[Anonymous No.12059704]

>>12059691
>Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
It's a very nice book.
I also think I was your age when I read it.

[Anonymous No.12059718]

21
Masturbated twice today, while I didn't do it this week
Skin in the game, next one will be Marc Aurelius

[Anonymous No.12059737]

>>12058957
>19
>I have a driving licence but I'm almost incapable of driving
>The Epic of Gilgamesh

[Anonymous No.12059742]

>>12058957
>23
>I'm high
>Dostoyevsky's The Idiot

[Anonymous No.12059765]

>>12058957
ageless thread of awareness
'self' pshh
First Love

[Anonymous No.12060095]

>>12058957
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married male
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K8KVKM1

[Anonymous No.12060125]

>>12058961
>reads three books at once
never gonna make it

[Anonymous No.12060145]

>>12059718
>Masturbated twice today
what about No-Nut-November?

>>12059691
>Enjoying a cup of tea at the moment
nice

>>12059184
>i wish i were an alcoholic
nice

[Anonymous No.12060147]

>>12058957
>22
>I lost my virginity with the girl I love yesterday night
>Oppression and Liberty by Weil, The Present Hour by Bonnefoy and The Crossing by McCarthy

it feels good for the moment

[Anonymous No.12060157]

>>12059578
duolingo

[Anonymous No.12060192]

>30
>between early age to mid 20s I used to read books and was inspired to read
>these days I'm broken and depressed so.havent been able.to finish any book
>machiavellian intelligence
might finish it today or tomorrow since only 40-50 pages left and it's an incredible read

It's all true and I have lived through the various experiences the book discusses

[Anonymous No.12060195]

>>12060147
I'm happy for you anon :)

[Anonymous No.12060254]

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I’m in a mental crisis because i’m Not sure if I should switch my major in college or finish the one I’m in Notes from underground by Dostoevsky, and the Aeneid

[Anonymous No.12060265]

>>12058962
"the democrats are the real racists"

[Anonymous No.12060375]

>>12058957
>22
>I work at Disney and hate it.
>Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.12060380]

23, I feel tired, The Wasp Factory

[Anonymous No.12060381]

20
I think my peepee broken
Lord of the flies

[Anonymous No.12060726]

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I was molested when I was like 6, lol
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

[Anonymous No.12060850]

>>12058957
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I have big dreams and bigger daddy issues
Theozoologie

[Anonymous No.12060971]

>>12059606
how am I stealing "your shit" exactly? where can i find "your shit" for it to be stolen?

[Anonymous No.12061019]

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i'm currently completely without prospects or goals and my job is dead end but i can't find it in me to commit to anything that might last for fear that i will hate it like i do everything i have commited myself to in the past
not reading anything which i guess goes along with my current state of mind

[Anonymous No.12061023]

>>12058957
>29
>I used to act as a bull for different girls
>None, using my time to write since nano is going on

[Anonymous No.12061075]

>>12060971
>where can i find "your shit" for it to be stolen?
yo mama's ass

[Anonymous No.12062004]

>>12058957

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I am a professional a data miner
Finnegans wake.

[Anonymous No.12063024]

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I've been having a constant pain in my head and limbs for the last 14 months and doctors cannot find the cause
Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Sun Also Rises

[Anonymous No.12063027]

>19
>sadist (not being edgy)
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[Anonymous No.12063034]

>>12061019
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

[Anonymous No.12063037]

>>12061075
oof

[Anonymous No.12063057]

22
Recently moved to LA, have no friends
Kafka complete stories and Vanity Fair Thackeray
So far Metamorphosis was good but overrated. I can understand how Metamorphosis is probably closer to the lasting modern isolation that most characterizes Kafka, but I thought In the penal colony was the best of the few I've read so far.

>>12060726
story?

>>12059578
>Monte Cristo
Wow that book needed an editor. Dumas just spews whatever comes into his head. Probably good for you given your attention span though. Also Dumas is excellent practice for intermediate French speakers cuz it's essentially YA level. I read 3 musketeers after 1 year of French.

[Anonymous No.12063068]

>>12058957
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I'm being falsely accused of sexual assault
In the Swarm and Bel-Ami

[Anonymous No.12063071]

>24
>I'm actually reading multiple books but can't be bothered listing them all
>In Search of Lost Time

[Anonymous No.12063073]

>>12063068
anon definitely sexually assaulted someone

[Anonymous No.12063085]

ITT: narcissists

[Anonymous No.12063763]

>>12060145
I don't care about no nut November. It's useless to go on streaks like that. It's a wrong way to tackles the problem. I prefer to slowly try to first reduce it and eventually replace it.
I 'm not planning on becoming a monk.

[Anonymous No.12063874]

>>12063763
>I 'm not planning on becoming a monk.
sad
also I mean it as "fun" not as a solution to a problem

[Anonymous No.12063920]

>18
>Lost my virginity to a prostitute
>A Tale of Two Cities

[Anonymous No.12063940]

24
Hate my life
Conspiracy against the human race

[Anonymous No.12063945]

32,8

In a perpetual state of over excitement
Often forget my pants unzipped

Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life

[Anonymous No.12063946]

>>12063027
>19
>not trying to be edgy
pick one

[Anonymous No.12063957]

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STEMfag
Moby Dick, Discourses, Basic Economics

[Anonymous No.12063963]

>>12058961
>>12059009
>>12059240
>>12059596
>>12060192
>>12060850
>>12062004
>>12063945
Boomers please get off my board

[Anonymous No.12064023]

>>12058957
>23
>Constantly insulted by my chink friends from being a filthy chink-austronesian-australoid mutt
>The Book of Disquiet

[Anonymous No.12064050]

21
im autistic and ive been a shut in since I was 15
reading a lot of plato

[Anonymous No.12064069]

>>12058957
20
retard
The Power of Now

[Anonymous No.12064072]

>>12059116
>moral nihilist
What a cuck

[Anonymous No.12064075]

>>12060157
Duolingo suckz

[Anonymous No.12064148]

>>12064075
You suck, Duolingo is good

[Anonymous No.12064159]

>>12063068
>Bel-Ami
Hey, I just finished that book!
>I'm being falsely accused of sexual assault
Pro-tip George Duroy is not good inspiration.

[Anonymous No.12064361]

>>12058957
25
Broke for the next week
Faust pt1

[Anonymous No.12064411]

>>12058957
19
Bad grades in school
Seneca

[Anonymous No.12064441]

19. I play harmonica. Der prozess

[Anonymous No.12064822]

>>12064072
fag

[Anonymous No.12064910]

>>12058957
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Recently put an end to years of incelness
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a hot tin roof. It's unbelievable how good T. Williams' plays are.

[Anonymous No.12065054]

>>12059550
You deserved it

[Anonymous No.12065635]

>>12058957
20
Moving to Albuquerque in a few months
The State and Revolution

[Anonymous No.12066067]

>>12059289
lmao it's not even finished

[Anonymous No.12066082]

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I once wrote a story framed as the diary of a serial killer and dumped it on a city park hoping someone would fall for it.
Lolita.

[Anonymous No.12066092]

20
i regret doing a law degree and i don't even want to be a lawyer
Trainspotting

[Anonymous No.12066123]

>>12058957
22
cant not finish a book so i read fucking shit 1000 page books sometimes
infinite jest

[Anonymous No.12066129]

19
my hands are cold
the caves of steel

[Anonymous No.12066156]

Olivia
From Bolivia
How to cook with olive oil

[Anonymous No.12066371]

>>12058957
>>age
23
>>something about yourself
I went to school for graphic design
>>current book
Process and Reality by A.N.Whitehead

[Anonymous No.12066386]

20
I punched a wall last night until i couldnt feel my hands
The Idiot

[Anonymous No.12066412]

>>12058957
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i regret every decision i have made but somehow i feel better off than the day before
skylark

[Anonymous No.12066447]

>>12058957
21
am a girl
crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.12066485]

24
Started going into boxing gym this summer
Crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.12066496]

>>12058957
30.
I've had a lazy eye for most of my life but I've only recently started getting muscle spasms in it that are worrying me.
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman.

[Anonymous No.12066502]

>>12066496
>I've had a lazy eye for most of my life but I've only recently started getting muscle spasms in it that are worrying me
Don't worry about it. So did Jean Paul Sartre and nobody makes fun of him

[Anonymous No.12066687]

>>12066502
Mine isn't googely, just doesn't function as well as the other. Nobody even notices it which is why I am worried about the twitch as it could hamper my good looks - not that I need them.

[Anonymous No.12066711]

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I listen to tom waits religiously
Boom of sand but i want to try faulkner

[Anonymous No.12066756]

27
Can't afford health insurance
Other v1 by Tad Williams

[Anonymous No.12067447]

>>12058957
>23
>hate myself
>The Idiot Doestoevsky

[Anonymous No.12068057]

>>12058957
18
I lost my phone 2 weeks ago. I woke up at 5am in the toilets of a chinese restaurant in Dublin and my phone was missing, although my wallet and keys remained. Either it was stolen while I was unconscious, or I dropped it at some point. Regardless, I was forced to wait in the freezing cold train station for 3 hours until the next train arrived. I stayed in the toilets yet again as it was the only area with a door to keep some of the 3 degrees celsius out. Sitting there, shifting in and out of consciousness for three hours while the cold slowly crept deeper into my flesh was a horrible experience that has since stopped me from drinking. Eventually the orange lights near the roof of the station declared it was nearing 8am so I stumbled to the platform, the dark navy of the clouds lined with the rosey pink of morning as a background to the distant lights, red white green orange, of the railways. They delayed my train and I was forced to sit on a frozen metal chair before my train finally tugged it's way to a final rest before me. The gentle lights within and the cushioned seats were such a relief to me while I stared out at the early morning play of sunlight on the dewy fields. The train eventually reached my town and I was given the pleasure of walking for 20 minutes in the biting cold to my house wherein I was able to heat myself some pasta and finally embrace sleep for at least 5 hours.
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.12068421]

>>12059122
b a s e d
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[Anonymous No.12068430]

>>12058957
30
Schizoaffective
The Man who was Thursday

[Anonymous No.12068464]

>>12059122
You doing brosplits or PPL? Also, upgrade to Abe, Kafka and Gogol you will be better off for it.

[Anonymous No.12068583]

>27
>I wish I was dead
>A Small Corner of Hell

[Anonymous No.12068758]

>>12058957
19
love dogs
blood meridian

[Anonymous No.12068887]

18
Make my own wine since I'm not old enough to buy it
Patent it yourself and Full Circle a treatise on roller locking

[Anonymous No.12068901]

>21
>I am a shotacon and a pedophile
>Journey to the end of the night

[Anonymous No.12068909]

>>12068583
>was
you mean were, because you're speaking about a condition that is yet to be

[Anonymous No.12068910]

>>12058957
>14
>Just got my first pubes
>Culture of critique

[Anonymous No.12069017]

28
I "lost" about 450k by not selling my crypto
Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

[Anonymous No.12070620]

>>12058957
19
invented the NPC meme
Admissions by Henry Marsh

[Anonymous No.12070636]

>>12068909
*tip*

[Anonymous No.12070651]

20
This is a low iq board and :>>12068909 is a redditor(low iq)
Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.12070948]

>>12058957
19
kind of depressed
the road

[Anonymous No.12071579]

>30
>One Hundred Years of Solitude is the only book I can't bring myself to finish.
>A Confederacy of Dunces
Am I a humorless asshole for not finding a Confederacy of Dunces remotely funny? I'm about halfway through and the book seems extremely depressing so far.

>>12069017
Thoughts on Mansfield Park? It's probably the work where her augustan prose shines best. I didn't enjoy anything by her until I picked up Mansfield Park, I hope it's treating you well too.