/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13634963]

how badly has lit fucked you up

[Anonymous No.13634988]

>>13634963
i don't get this esoteric traditionalist perrenial etc trend on here. isn't spending all day on a cambodian cavepainting forum a bit at odds with the glorious revelations you have supposedly been uncovering and exposing yourself to, and the ramifications those lessons have for the pursuit of excellence and living the good life?

[Anonymous No.13634994]

age 10 wtf

[Anonymous No.13634999]

>>13634963
I haven't grown an inch since i was 13

[Anonymous No.13635001]

Not very badly because I'm not an easily influenced contrarian

[Anonymous No.13635008]

>>13634963
Hamvas is a pseud.

t. Hungarian

[Anonymous No.13635009]

what an embarrassing image

[Anonymous No.13635010]

>>13635008
What's your opinion of Karol Kerenyi, I'm currently reading his book on Greek mythology

[Anonymous No.13635015]

>>13634963
Lit turned me into a 26 year old Janissary too, WTF.

[Anonymous No.13635017]

>>13635015
B A S E D

[Anonymous No.13635032]

>>13635010
Haven't read him yet , unfortunately.

He literally got BTFO of the country by Lukács though after he accused him of being a fascist in the post-WWII communist regime where Lukács had quite a bit of pull due to his connections. Poor guy.

[Anonymous No.13635046]

The Master said, To delve into strange doctrines can bring only harm.

[Anonymous No.13635050]

>>13635046
Yeah but that's what Jesus said about his doctrines too.

[Anonymous No.13635501]

>>13634999
are you a woman?

[Anonymous No.13635624]

>>13634963
I bought a few books I didn't know about after seeing them here, but otherwise, my tastes don't largely overlap with most of /litcore/. I come here mainly for the entertainment value. It's good to have humor in your life, especially if most of the books you read are rather depressing, though those are generally the best books, so I'm not complaining.

[Anonymous No.13635632]

>>13635501
I'm the same and I'm not a woman. I just peaked really soon, I guess.

[Anonymous No.13635671]

/lit/ has mostly just amplified my previously extant signals. The soul of my reading interests remains the same; the body just has greater breadth. I doubt I ever would have read Infinite Jest, or ended up with half a dozen Pynchon books, if not for this place, though. I'm also much stronger in armchair philosophy now, so thanks for that cultural capital.

[Anonymous No.13635683]

>>13634963
this badly

[Anonymous No.13635686]

13 To Kill a Mockingbird
14 A Clockwork Orange
15 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
16 The Stranger
17. Demian
18 Crime and Punishment
19. Moby Dick
20. War and Peace
21. Remembrance of Things Past
22. Ulysses
23. Finnegans Wake
24. Twilight

[Anonymous No.13635764]

>>13635686
*of the Gods

[Anonymous No.13635803]

>>13635764
*Idols

[Anonymous No.13635820]

>>13634963
>no Shankara

[Anonymous No.13635831]

>>13635803
>>13635764
>>13635686
Seriously though, why do existentialists have such cool-sounding titles? If I was a complete pleb something like "Twilight of the Idols", "Fear and Trembling", or even "Exile and the Kingdom" would pique my interest much sooner than something like "The Critique of Pure Reason" or the "Phenomenology of Spirit".

[Anonymous No.13635874]

>>13635831
It's because existentialism is basically just genre philosophy.

[Anonymous No.13636091]

>>13635046
Is he naked ??

[Anonymous No.13636179]

>>13636091
Well he is in the bath

[Anonymous No.13636245]

>>13636091
I think its from that part in Inferno where the people are frozen to their shoulders in ice.

[Anonymous No.13636262]

I actually started reading because of this site.
>>13634963
That's a pretty cool progression. Plotinus and the Gnosics are pretty cool. Been wanting to read Hermeti-cum and Bhagavad.

[Anonymous No.13636267]

>>13636262
I forgot to post the rest of my post.

[Anonymous No.13636280]

>>13634999
Same here

[Anonymous No.13637333]

>>13636267
>Sees Kant
How is that even possible, did you start reading philosophy at 16?

[Anonymous No.13637366]

>>13634963
>>13636267
is this some kind of meme to draw current you as obnoxious looking as possible or are you really that desperate for attention?

[Anonymous No.13637367]

>>13634963
>upholding hacks beside Plotinus
Heretical.

[Anonymous No.13637370]

>>13636262
>Plotinus and the Gnosics
plotinus says: kys

[Anonymous No.13637377]

>>13637333
Not him, but I read my first Kant at 13, and that was because a 16 years old friend had shilled him to me.

[Anonymous No.13637409]

[Anonymous No.13637419]

>>13637409
who the fuck reads tristram shandy at 16

[Anonymous No.13637424]

>>13637419
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvwlt4FqmS0
i came across this video through /v/ (which i browsed age 13-15 quite heavily) and the way he described the book made me want to read it. its still one of my favourites now.

[Anonymous No.13637435]

Age 10 uhh too busy playing vidya
Age 13 Tolkien GRRM
Age 16 Orwell, Huxley, Lovecraft
Age 20 (current) C.G. Jung, Evola, Guenon, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Ligotti, Junger, Cioran, Dion Fortune , Kafka, Mishima

I might be a brainlet, but a constantly evolving brainlet.

[Soren Kierkegaard No.13637440]

>>13634994
why so surprised? I started reading at age 8, nothing fancy of course, just some classic and not so classic children's novels

[Anonymous No.13637441]

>>13637419
It's a pretty fun and comfy book. It's more surprising that he even came to read the Enneads.

[Anonymous No.13637444]

10: video games
13: video games and friends
16: video games and anime/manga
20: popular good literature like Nabokov, Hesse
23: the Greeks

[Anonymous No.13637447]

>>13634999
thats because you are still 13

[Anonymous No.13637449]

>>13634963
>age 10
Molière, Melville, J.K Rowling, Tolkien, Stephen King
>age 13
Kant, Dante, K. Dick, Chekov, Gautier
>age 16
Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Matheson, Boileau, Huxley, Lewis, Orwell, Malherbe
>current, age 28
Miller, Harbermas, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Brentano, Bioy Casares, Mishima, Bernanos, Stendhal

Apparently I peaked between 10 and 13. Also had a huge Dosto phase in my early twenties. In the end I'm not too permeable to /lit/ memes, probably because I came to this place pretty late.

[Soren Kierkegaard No.13637456]

>>13637449
>age 13
>Kant
what a terrible mistake!

[Anonymous No.13637469]

>>13637456
Eh, it was groundwork of metaphysics of morals so nothing too life-changing. The Pure Critique was another beast altogether.

[Anonymous No.13637524]

>>13634963
nowhere as bad as this image, putting guenon and blavatsky in the same category.

[Anonymous No.13637584]

>>13635683
Who's that based boy on the right?

[Anonymous No.13637604]

>>13637584
Soren

[Anonymous No.13637615]

>>13637435
Boa, nando.

[Soren Kierkegaard No.13637660]

>>13637584
it is I

[Anonymous No.13637703]

>>13637419
It's made up, who the fuck reads those authors at age 10 ?

[Anonymous No.13637744]

>>13634963
>Gurdjieff
>Eliade
>Plotinus
>Peter...
>Peterson?
>PETERSON?!
Kek

[Anonymous No.13637765]

>>13634963
>10
Darren Shan
>13
Lovecraft
>16
Rabelais
>28 (current)
Nothing excites me anymore

[Anonymous No.13637938]

>>13637435
Deleuze is the next step.

[Anonymous No.13638404]

>>13635001

This.

[Anonymous No.13638441]

>>13636267

>Reading Spinoza at 18

You remind me of me when I lugged a copy of War & Peace everywhere in 8th grade. Didn't read more than ten pages of it but boy I bet everyone else thought I was smart and cool.

[Anonymous No.13638448]

>>13634963
haha i still read matthew reilly it's really good

[Anonymous No.13638539]

>>13637333
I only started reading because of /lit/. I went for what appeared to be the most important books discussed on here. I skipped a lot and kinda just went right for Kant because he looked interesting. Way above my head though, with the fucking Critiques Of Reason and Judgement. Mainly liked him for Prolegomena, which I could actually almost understand.
>>13637366
I was just drawing for fun. It's supposed to be a Hawaiian shirt.
>>13638441
I specifically went to Spinoza because my parents owned Ethics and I didn't have to buy it or get it at the library. I didn't read any of his other works yet. I don't claim to have even a half-understanding of the work. I fucked up hardcore my youth reading and education. I'm trying to compensate that nowadays.
>>13637444
>Having friends
>Ever
REEEEEEEEEE
At least you started with the greeks.
>>13637449
That's pretty good anon. What book of Stendhals are you reading? I've never read him, but heard of him. Is he any good?

[Anonymous No.13638547]

[Anonymous No.13638575]

>>13634963
>all those jewish authors
thanks for admitting the bulk of the posts on this site are scripted as part of a conspiracy to propagandize western culture directed from the inner circles of the jewish religion

[Anonymous No.13638588]

>>13638575
He's reading Islam not Judaism, you ignorant hick. Towelheaded swordsmen not tiny hatted bankers. Get better at racism.

[Anonymous No.13638702]

>>13638588
>horowitz
>steinbeck
>kafka

[Anonymous No.13638710]

>>13638588
google 'zohar' please

[Anonymous No.13638779]

>>13637938
As soon as I will finish up everything I have planned, yes. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.13638792]

>>13638710
Oh yes, anon is as Jewish as Madonna
>>13638702
Which one of those do you think led to the fez?

[Anonymous No.13639494]

10
pop sci and pop philosophy
12
read a bunch of philosophy but didnt understand much of it. I can remember reading a treatise on human nature, an enquiry concerning human understanding, russels history of philosophy, wealthy of nations
14:
mostly popular book. Hungergames, harry potter, lord of the rings, enders game, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. a lot of books from my native country. enjoyed all of this very much.
16: same as 12, but actually understood most of it. read plato, aristotle, hume, kant, descartes, nietszche (a lot of this lmao).
18 - now (22):
generally same. Read mostly a lot of pomo stuff (deleuze, rorty, zizek), phil of science (kuhn, and kantian stuff), political philosophy (feminism, adorno, marx, spergler, schmitt). I also read a lot of the philosophers that trend on and off here. Whitehead and Land i actually found very insightful. Don't know if i agree with them, but, like deleuze or kant, you can appreciate the kind of thought proccess that gives rise to that kind of argumentation/writing.

[Anonymous No.13639506]

>>13638779
>>13637938
Kant, Nietzsche, Freud and Marx are necessary prerequisites

[Anonymous No.13639614]

>>13637449
kant at 13? nietsche at 16?
who the fuck you think you're fooling?

[Anonymous No.13639645]

>>13634963
Not at all. I was fucked before I came to /lit/ and I'm only here to shitpost.

[Anonymous No.13639695]

>>13639614
Not him but that's not strange in my country either. By product of a Catholic society that makes you cram Aquinas from 10-12

[Anonymous No.13639786]

>>13639645
I feel like I should clarify this.

At 8, I was functionally illiterate and still on picture books with two and three letter words. Dr Seuss was too difficult.

At 9, I learned to read basically overnight, driven less by a desire to read and more by a desire to write, and by the time I turned 10 I was reading with university entrant-level comprehension and speed. Around this time I started reading because books were interesting, and began with Watership Down, Ender's Game, and The Snow Goose.

I began to go through my parents' extensive bookshelves systematically. At 11 I read an Orwell anthology, though I only remember Animal Farm. At 12 I read The Horse Whisperer, which alarmed my school teacher at the time because she had also read it and she was concerned about me reading the sex scenes.

At 13 I lugged around and read the entirety of the Three Kingdoms in snatches over the course of a couple of months.

At 16 I finally read Harry Potter myself, because until that point it had been read to my younger siblings by my parents, and I used to just listen in at story time.

At 21, I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest because I appreciated the irony. I had found it in the psychiatric hospital library, where I was committed for 10 months. I also read a bunch of Stephen King, the Bible, and those awful Eragon books. There wasn't a lot to choose from in the library.

At 24 I was free and was making my way through the complete collection of Sherlock Holmes novels, between reading a lot of non-fiction natural history, biology texts, and canine anatomy theory.

At 28, I just read whatever catches my eye. No one's opinion on what I'm reading will have any effect on me. I'm here in my half-literate glory to annoy people.

[Anonymous No.13639951]

>>13634963
am zoomer
>10
spiderwick, a series of unfortunate events, charlie bone
>13
spook's apprentice, magyk
>16
murakami, orwell, huxley, garcia marquez
>20
nabokov, borges, jung, lispector

[Anonymous No.13639958]

ew guenon

[Anonymous No.13639987]

Not very. Introduced me to Camus, which has helped me develop a more positive worldview. So thanks, I guess.

[Anonymous No.13640164]

>10
Didn't read.
>13
Anthony Horowitz, Young Bond
>16
Chuck Palahniuk, Hunter S. Thompson, George Orwell, Harlan Ellison, Issac Asimov
>27
Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Cormac McCarthy, William Gibson (I got to the Sprawl trilogy late), Thomas Pynchon

[Anonymous No.13640186]

>implying i read
hah

[Anonymous No.13640207]

>>13635683
>Hang yourself, you will regret it
But there's no afterlife, Kekegaard.

[Anonymous No.13640804]

>>13639506
You just need a cursory glance of these guys to understand Deleuze. Stop being a meme man and pick up a fucking book for once rather than spewing out lit charts.

[Anonymous No.13640840]

>>13635686
Nice list hombre
>>13636267
>Hesse and Timothy leary at 16
you the man
>>13637449
Dope list. I see Villers in there. Is that suppose to be Bloy?
>>13638547
Wish I could read the thirty guy

/lit/'s getting into Jung eh?

[Anonymous No.13640844]

>>13634963
For someone who used to only read science fiction and history mostly I've broadened my reading horizons quite a bit. Read some really good stuff from all walks of literature.

Read a bunch of boring shit too.

[Anonymous No.13640847]

>>13636267
>underage

GTFO

[Anonymous No.13640960]

>>13635015
>>13634963
kek

[Anonymous No.13640976]

>>13635831
Phenomenology of Geist is a cool-sounding title u pleb

[Anonymous No.13641181]

>10-13
Comics almost exclusively except for Ray Bradbury and Salinger. Watchmen, Hellblazer, Sandman, The Question
>14-16
Camus, Kafka, Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Kerouac, Wilde, Federalist Papers
>17
David Foster Wallace, Murakami
>18-19
Return to Kafka. Virgil, Shakespeare, Pynchon, Delilo, John Williams, Faulkner, Rawls, Plato, Kant, Rousseau, Hobbes, Montaigne
>20
Calvino, Balzac, Flaubert, Mark Fisher, Marx, Heidegger, Freud
>21-22
Baudelaire, Borges, Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Gibson, Nabokov, Kierkegaard, Luc Sante, Carver, Bolano, E.B White, Daoist texts

[Anonymous No.13641242]

>8-11
diary of a wimpy kid, goosebumps
>12-14
minecraft, dota 2
>15
Melville, Plato, Dostoevsky, DFW, Tolstoy,
>16
Bellow, Nabokov, Borges, Baudelaire, Mann, Maugham, DeLillo
>17
Céline, Bernhard, Sebald, Wallace Stevens, Sir Thomas Browne,

[Anonymous No.13641759]

[Anonymous No.13641784]

>>13641759
>10
>Hopscotch
>13
>Cosmopolitics
how did you get dumber to the point of developing an interest in Levinas. u peaked bro

[Anonymous No.13641803]

Where's Deleuze?

[Anonymous No.13641810]

>>13641759
Cosmopolitics is harder than Totality and Infinity.
It might be harder than Voynich as well.

[Anonymous No.13642902]

Age 10 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid, absolute masterpiece
Age 13 - Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Plath, Camus
Age 16 - Dostoevsky, Easton Ellis, Joyce
Age 20 - Tolstoy, some Homer, Hobbes, Plato, Nietzsche, Bataille, Hume, Mill, Dickens, Whitman, etc