/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12612396]

>age
>your vocation
>current book

21
Software developer
Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.12612405]

>>12612396
>23
>English tutor
>Handmaid's Tale

It's a good book. I'm also black and asexual.

[Anonymous No.12612426]

>>12612405
wow thats great anon, am so happy for you!

[Anonymous No.12612458]

>>12612426
Thanks Anon. I'm VERY proud to be black and asexual. I think I'm very lucky to be born this way!

[Anonymous No.12612462]

>>12612458
Dont you get lonely being asexual and all

[Anonymous No.12612468]

>>12612396
>32
>Paramedic
>Sven Hassel Legion of The Damned

[Anonymous No.12612469]

>>12612462
No I'm also schizoid.

[Anonymous No.12612483]

>datamining

[Anonymous No.12612534]

>>12612396
22
neet loser
the book of disquiet

i love pessoa so much

[Anonymous No.12612541]

>>12612405
>>12612458
Why do you do this

[Anonymous No.12612546]

24
lawyer
Eugene Onegin

[Grignr the Ecordian No.12612578]

>>12612396
>31
>Journalist
>"Rashomon and Seventeen Other Tales"

[Anonymous No.12612585]

25
Biological scientist
A book of Tolstoy short stories

[Anonymous No.12612590]

>>12612396
>18

>bartender
>medschool student

>Tango, discusión y clave

[Anonymous No.12612602]

>18
>Law Student
>LSAT Barron's Book
i just wanna read again ;w;

[Anonymous No.12612611]

>>12612396
>69
>EMPEROR
>Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[Anonymous No.12612621]

>19
>IDF conscript
>One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.12612624]

30
Medical Software Instructor
All Systems Red

[Anonymous No.12612630]

>>12612396
>21
>vocation
boy you clearly don't understand the concept of vocation.

[Anonymous No.12612832]

>21
>Student
>In the first Circle by A. Solzhenitsyn

[Anonymous No.12612853]

>25
>Musician
>Duino Elegies

[Anonymous No.12613560]

>>12612396
>20
>system administrator/devops
>mindfulness in plain english

it's cool

[Anonymous No.12613646]

>>12612396
28
marketing/sales
der arbeiter

[Anonymous No.12613663]

>19
>Civil Engineering student
>War & Peace and Letters From a Stoic

[Anonymous No.12613678]

>>12612396
21
Uni student
LotR

[Anonymous No.12613681]

>20
>student/schizoid shut-in
>isolt vol 2
>>12612534
based

[Anonymous No.12613695]

>21
>student
>Absalom, Absalom!

[Anonymous No.12613702]

24
warehouse boi
The Mabinogion

[Anonymous No.12613713]

>>12613702
great pick

[Anonymous No.12613728]

>>12612396
19
Philosopher
The Ego and it's Own

[Anonymous No.12613735]

18
Student
The Stranger, Camus

[Anonymous No.12613759]

>23
>pharmacy student
>The Man Without Qualities

[Anonymous No.12613776]

>>12613728
>philosopher
Kek
You're not a philosopher. Stop deluding yourself

[Anonymous No.12613780]

>>12613776
>ironically unironic

[Anonymous No.12613793]

>>12613776
That's my vocation, never said I was my dear spook

[Anonymous No.12613811]

>24
>Factory/manufacturing worker
>Hillbilly elegy

[Anonymous No.12613817]

>>12612396
28
Logger
Either/Or

[Anonymous No.12613825]

>>12613793
Oh my bad, I thought OP said occupation. I guess I'm the brainlet here.

[Anonymous No.12613839]

>>12613825
Okay but why I couldn't be a philosopher as an occupation?

[Anonymous No.12613849]

>23
>student
>Faust

[Anonymous No.12613855]

>>12612396
>24
>Process Server Coordiantor/Dispatcher
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce

[Anonymous No.12613858]

>>12613839
You're not a 19 year old published philosopher. That's why. Theres 2 definitions of vocation: a suitable prospective career (ie a "calling") and an occupation. You may be the former, but you're not the latter.

[Anonymous No.12613863]

>>12613858
fair enough

[Anonymous No.12613869]

>24
>history teacher
>Seneca, Selected Letters

why didnt I do law... i imagine the workloads the same...

[Anonymous No.12613891]

20
Student
Land, labor and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914

[Anonymous No.12613898]

>>12613869
>wanting to do law
>wanting to go thru law school, having 60 hr work weeks, no social life, copious amounts of stress

Stay teaching

[Anonymous No.12613967]

>>12612396
>20
>ShiTEM shitudent
>Either/Or

[Anonymous No.12613982]

>18
>STEMfag/retailcuck
>The Demolished Man

[Anonymous No.12613996]

23
SAT tutor & rideshare driver
Currently reading The Prelude, Austerlitz, and Minima Moralia (I like to alternate between verse, fiction, and theory)

[Anonymous No.12614003]

>>12613898
Law school is easy if you’re not dumb. I imagine working at a firm will suck though.

[Anonymous No.12614009]

>19
>dentistry student
>Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.12614027]

>>12614003
Even a small shitty law firm sucks ass. Pay isnt even great either if youre not ambitious and career oriented. The comfy lawyers sacrifice their 20s. Teaching is easy as everliving fuck, sure the pay sucks but the benefits are good and if you’re not a spergo it can be rewarding

[Anonymous No.12614053]

>>12612396
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Freelancing software developer, but I got a stable job as tech support in a different city this friday, which starts next friday, because I need to pay some of my parents' denbts for a couple years, and I need to know I'll have a full check every month. Might keep on freelancing as a software developer at night though, if I have enough energy. Will miss being a shut-in though, I've been one for almost a decade now.
Gravity's Rainbow, which I started early january. Took a couple of days from it to read Goblin Slayer v6 when it came out mid/late january though.

[Anonymous No.12614060]

>25
>English Teacher
>Blazing Guns On The Chisholm Trail by Borden Chase

[Anonymous No.12614063]

>>12612611
This image does things for me.

>>12612396
>30
>banking analyst
>Supreme City

[Anonymous No.12614177]

>18
>student
>The Trial

[Anonymous No.12614186]

>>12612396
>39
>writer
>Pedro Paramo

[Anonymous No.12614191]

>>12614186
Do you live of what you write?

[Anonymous No.12614209]

>19
>Supermarket employee
>Story of the Eye

I wish I had better taste, but I'm working on it. There's so much I need to learn

[Anonymous No.12614225]

21
Aerospace Engineering Student
Meditations

[Anonymous No.12614229]

>>12614063
>This image does things for me.
you like it? I mean the milk must be good...

[Anonymous No.12614234]

>>12614225
The Aurelius one's?

[Anonymous No.12614241]

22
Engineering student
Spring Snow

[Anonymous No.12614244]

>28
>Factory Slave
>The Ego and its own

[Anonymous No.12614247]

>>12614244
Me too! >>12613728
In which part are you?

[Anonymous No.12614254]

>34
>neet
>Thomas the Obscure and some Borges essays

[Anonymous No.12614261]

20
Idk yet maybe math
Titus Adronicus & Idiot's Guide to Statistics I
Got held back twice (and I'm still in high school) due to heart problems developing my sophomore year (when I was 16).

[Anonymous No.12614262]

>25
>Legal firm task bitch
>Aenied

[Anonymous No.12614267]

>24
>physician
>the decline of the west

[Anonymous No.12614270]

>>12614191
I don't write. It's only my vocation.

[Anonymous No.12614280]

>29
>student (recently left the military)
The Glory of Christendom

[Anonymous No.12614285]

>>12614247
Just started 2.2.2 I'm a very slow reader.

[Anonymous No.12614286]

>>12614280
In one piece?

[Anonymous No.12614310]

>>12614285
For this book I have to read slow too to get the sense of each phrase

[Anonymous No.12614325]

>>12612396
23
NEET winner
N/A

[Anonymous No.12614335]

>>12614325
>NEET winner
Trustfund? Jelly.

[Anonymous No.12614457]

>30
>office admin at census bureau
>Fall of Hyperion

[Anonymous No.12614515]

>21
>student/cook
>ubik

[Anonymous No.12614575]

18
neet piece of shit
pic related

[Anonymous No.12614729]

>>12612469

Absolutely and unironically based

[Anonymous No.12614783]

>>12612396

24
Call center """technician""" (wagebitch)
1984

[Anonymous No.12614816]

>>12614457

Sounds extremely blackpilled, especially if in the US

[Anonymous No.12614862]

>31
>chef
>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

[Anonymous No.12614900]

>>12614325
based

[Anonymous No.12615225]

29
paramedic
ASOIAF V: A Dance with Dragons but feels more like A Feast For Crows: Episode 2

[Anonymous No.12615300]

>18
>Student (History)
> Pale Fire

[Anonymous No.12615306]

>>12612546
hello fren

[Anonymous No.12615316]

>>12613849
Based

>22
>student
>The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

[Anonymous No.12615328]

>>12615300
I was thinking of picking this up. I know Nabby is regarded as a pretty good writer but I honestly despised Lolita. How are you liking it?

[Anonymous No.12615357]

>19
>university student
>(re)reading Paradise Lost and reading (for the first time) Maximes, by La Rochefoucauld

[Anonymous No.12615398]

>>12615306

[Anonymous No.12615406]

>16
>neet
>Description de l'Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les ordres de sa majesté l'empereur Napoléon le grand.

[Anonymous No.12615413]

>19
>Student
>killing commendatore

[Anonymous No.12615436]

>>12615406
>16
underage get the fuck out

[Anonymous No.12615453]

>>12612396
>24
>Supervisor
>Ariel

[Anonymous No.12615458]

>>12615436
rude

[Anonymous No.12615471]

>>12615458
GET
OUT

[Anonymous No.12615478]

>>12615471
not nice

[Anonymous No.12615486]

>>12612396
>27
>computer repair
>invitation to a beheading

[Anonymous No.12615501]

>>12612396
>25
>Mortgage capital markets
>The Sound of Waves

Reading it makes my hate my office job life. I wish I was doing something tangible and social rather than analytical and ephemeral.

[Anonymous No.12615506]

>>12612396
>23
>neet
>an essay on cosmic horror

[Anonymous No.12617076]

26
Laywer
Pic related

[Anonymous No.12617089]

>19
>student
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. No.12617092]

>>12612396
>721
>student
>TPK

[Anonymous No.12617097]

>26
>butcher
>Kenny’s New History of Western Philosophy

[Anonymous No.12617099]

These are all careers.
None are vocations

[TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. No.12617109]

>>12617099
Misread, oopsies. Math and Philosophy.

[Anonymous No.12617111]

>>12617099
>posting identifiable vocational traits on 4chan
fed

[Anonymous No.12617128]

22
Boomer
The Recognitions

[Anonymous No.12617141]

>18
>Student
>As I lay dying

[Anonymous No.12617152]

>>12612396
31
neet
the dispossessed

[Anonymous No.12617444]

>>12612396
>25
>lyft driver/student
>The Big Sleep
It's neat but I preferred The Long Goodbye. Need more good pulp in my life. Any recs?

[Anonymous No.12617449]

First two are irrelevant.
Currently reading
>Lev Shestov - The philosophy of Tragedy: Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.12617533]

24
Scaffolding
Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.12617551]

33
About to start working forklift for food distributor
Henryk Sienkiewicz-Quo Vadis

[Anonymous No.12617595]

24
Civil Engineer
Dust of Dreams (Malazan Book of the Fallen #9)

[Anonymous No.12617611]

>20
>porn/onlyfans
>man and his symbols

[Anonymous No.12617654]

25
hairdresser
the invisible landscape

[Anonymous No.12617861]

> 33
> Police Officer
> Musashi

[Anonymous No.12617870]

>25
>paramedic
>Atomised by Michel Memebecq

[Anonymous No.12617985]

>20
>Secondary Education student
>Shogun

[Anonymous No.12618500]

>32
>writer
>The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

[Anonymous No.12618733]

>>12612396

>21
>English teacher
>"The art of the Deal", by Donald J. Trump

[Anonymous No.12618751]

>>12617099
Amen.

[Anonymous No.12618838]

>>12612396
22
Student Computer Science
The Possibility of an Island

[Anonymous No.12618851]

>28
>Data Editor/Trainer
>Orcs: Army of Shadows

It's not that good but mindless between heavier reading.

[Anonymous No.12618855]

>>12612396
>24
>School IT
>The Pale King
Working on changing career paths though.

[Anonymous No.12618860]

>>12618851
I read the original Orcs trilogy sometime in the past year or so, and mindless entertainment describes it pretty well. Nothing I'd recommend, but I can't say I didn't enjoy it as an easy read.

[Anonymous No.12618911]

>>12612396
>22
>Student (might end up NEET after my degrees is over this year)
>switching between Dubliner and The Idiot

[Anonymous No.12618967]

28
HS English teacher
Scarlet Song by Mariama Ba

[Anonymous No.12618986]

>>12613996
How are you liking Minima Moralia? Does it make a cohesive argument or is it just a collection of Adorno’s opinions?

[Anonymous No.12619015]

25
Data Analyst
The Wasp Factory

[Anonymous No.12619026]

>>12614862

I read that last year, it was pretty a good intro for me to PKD. I read Ubik in January and liked it a lot more.

[Anonymous No.12619040]

28
Unemployed
Homo Deus

[Anonymous No.12619061]

>>12612396
>>age
23
>>your vocation
student/schizo/shut-in
>>current book
Dune, soon™. I ordered it 12 days ago and it still hasn't arrived for fuck sake.

[Anonymous No.12619070]

>>12612396
>26
>student
>The Cynic Philosophers
I have to learn to rationalize the beggar like lifestyle I'll have to adopt once I fail my exams.

[Anonymous No.12619114]

>32
>Semi professional gambler
>Interview with the Vampire.

[Anonymous No.12619220]

>>12618860
Yep, exactly what I was looking for as I plan out the next few months reading. Likely Voltaire, some stand-alone classics, and then The First Law.

[Anonymous No.12619366]

>25
>EMT
>Mason and Dixon

[Anonymous No.12619944]

>28
>Resident doctor
>reading several at once: Perosnal Knowlege by Polanyi, random intro to machine learning book for non computer science plebs, last book of the Sea of Feetility tetralogy by Mishima and unironically Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.12619980]

>>12612396
>1
>professional faggot
>le cock, la cock, les cock

[TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. No.12619998]

>>12619980
>der cock

[Anonymous No.12620001]

Eternal
Wanderer
The Sleep of Ahasuerus

[Anonymous No.12620689]

>>12619998
i like that.

[Anonymous No.12620907]

>>12612396
23

Library assistant and musician

Currently reading a few different books:
>C by Tom McCarthy - fucking sick, like Pynchon meets Beckett meets the as-yet unmade Lynch film Ronnie Rocket
>The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro - a bit slow to start but very hypnotic, really interesting take on the middle ages and collective memory
>As When by Tom Raworth - posthumous poetry collection by my old tutor, genuinely wonderful man with the most incredible imagination

[Anonymous No.12620912]

>>12612396
Hey, how are you liking software? I’m a CS student, with literary aspirations, and wondering if it gives you the time to still read and write

[Anonymous No.12620922]

21
Musician
Ulysses

[Anonymous No.12620932]

>>12614053
How hard was it to get a stable income from freelancing?

[Anonymous No.12621510]

>>12612396
19
shelf stacker
moscow to petushki

[Anonymous No.12621684]

>>12612396
>20
>student
>The Rights of Man

[Anonymous No.12622488]

>>12612405
Might be the worst book I have ever had the displeasure of reading. for that, fuck you.

[Anonymous No.12622519]

>>12612396

>21
>student
>King Lear

[Anonymous No.12622551]

>29
>hedge fund ceo
>wide sargasso sea

[Anonymous No.12622562]

>>12612396
>19
>pornstar
>a rebours

[Anonymous No.12622567]

>late 20s
>unemployed wannabe author swinging between odd jobs and corporate gigs
>Soft Machine by Burroughs, and Selected Stories and Sketches by Osamu Dazai
>>12612405
>Handmaid's Tale
You know, I read the first paragraph (just that, though) and it was pretty well written. Not much desire to read any further, though, because the rest is probably shit based on the fanbase.
>who the fuck reads just the first paragraph of something
Wannabe authors. You have no idea how important the first paragraph is.
>>12612534
On my to-read list, is it good?
>>12613759
Also on my to-read list, how is it?

[Anonymous No.12622575]

>>12622562
>a rebours
>puts so many gemstones and gold trimmings on the turtle it fucking dies of it
Absolute madman. Why did you pick this up? Several people on /lit/ have read it, for being a seemly obscure text by an unknown. I heard it was the little yellow book that influenced Dorian Grey, and that led me there. Dunno about anyone else though.

[Anonymous No.12624098]

26
Manager at a fast-casual/part time student
East of Eden

[Anonymous No.12625197]

>>12620932
Impossible.
I was getting 0 cents for months, and then enough to live for a year or two in a single one.

[Anonymous No.12625232]

>>12612602
>18
>law student
How

[Anonymous No.12625269]

>>12612396
28
Lawyer
Swann’s Way

[Anonymous No.12625290]

>27
>neet
>Don Quijote

[Anonymous No.12625330]

>>12612611

[Anonymous No.12625394]

26
Doctor
Crime and Punishment

Sometimes I wish I was neet so I could read and write more often, but these days I’m always working...

[Anonymous No.12625430]

>25
>Construction Turnover Specialist
>LOTR The Two Towers

[Anonymous No.12625709]

22
Cashier, joining military
Paradise Lost

[Anonymous No.12625733]

>>12618986
It's been a great read so far (I'm only about 1/3 of the way in). It definitely reads more like a random collection of opinions than a cohesive argument (especially compared to something like Dialectic of Enlightenment or Negative Dialectics), but with that said, I think that over time certain larger arguments start to congeal and are developed across different aphorisms.

It's certainly the most fun I've had reading Adorno. Many of the aphorisms are brilliant and totally change the way you look at some aspect of the world. Others are comically pretentious or just downright curmudgeonly. But either way, the book should dissuade you of the notion that Adorno was some completely joyless buzzkill—I mean he is, but he's clearly having a lot of fun playing that role, and does so with a great sense of humor.

[¿ No.12625752]

22
Work front desk in a car glass replacement garage
Lolita by nabokov
and
The book of longing (a poetry book bye Leonard Cohen)
Picture of my trip to peru not related

[Anonymous No.12625784]

>>12612396
>19
>Student
>The Ego and His Own