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ITT: writers we were obsessed over as teenagers

>> No.16927079

>>16926711
you guys read as teenagers?

>> No.16927141

>>16926711
Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Mishima.
I'm still obsessed with them because I'm 19.

>> No.16927156

I was obsessed over Ortega y Gasset.
That was back when I was 16.

>> No.16927216

>>16926711
I liked him a lot in tenth grade but converted to Christianity the next year.

>> No.16927249

>>16926711
Tolkien

>> No.16927258

>>16926711
Alfred Janny.

>> No.16927554

>>16926711
Borges

>> No.16927617

>>16927141
BASED TEENAGER GANG

>> No.16927620

>>16926711
I was obsessed with weed and hot girls as a teenager

>>16927079
no. I read from 8 to 13 and from 20 to now

>> No.16927631

Mostly Kafka and McCarthy.

>> No.16927880

>>16926711
Debord
Gogol
Baudrillard
Kafka
Joyce

glad i grew up lol

>> No.16928499

>>16926711
Evola and Guénon...

>> No.16928638

>>16926711
>>16927141
>>16927156
>>16927258
>>16927554
>>16927631
>>16927880
Literally all great writers. I was fucking obsessed with hentai.
still am.

>> No.16928649

>>16926711
I was addicted to WoW and Minecraft and dropped out of HS

>> No.16928653

>>16926711
Orwell
Huxley
Burgess

I spent a lot of time reading in the library while I waited for someone to pick me up.

Then I would go home and play videogames lol.

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16928668

>>16926711
I convinced myself I related to his characters despite living in a trailer park in Alabama.

>> No.16928689

>>16928668
kek

>> No.16929107

>>16926711
Kafka
Bukovski
Eliade
Dosto
Clarke

>> No.16929109

>>16928649
highest arena rating in 2s and 3s?

>> No.16929111

>>16928638
based

>> No.16929126

Completely obsessed with Kafka from the ages of 17-19 for some reason

>> No.16929158

>>16926711
Clive Cussler

>> No.16930143

>>16927141
I first read kafka at 14 and still haven't grown out of him at 21, it may not be just phase

>> No.16930171

>>16926711
Mervyn Peake's gormenghast trilogy, Philip k Dick, nabokov, dickens, fondly remember having read perecs life an user manual and potocki's the manuscript found in zaragoza, cloud atlas and murakami dont hold up as well

>> No.16930204

obsessed like "he's literally me" type obsession? hemingway and camus. to be honest, it was a decent entry point to literature.

i really enjoyed huxley and mccarthy too. but i wasn't much of a reader anyway.

>>16928638
i've been on 4chan since i was 15 in 2007 and yet i was never really into anime/manga/hentai at all.

>> No.16930251

Kerouac
Kesey
Camus
I really enjoyed Demian as a teen but couldn’t get into Siddharta or Steppenwolf until my mid twenties
Similarly I really enjoyed Crime and Punishment in my late teens but couldn’t get into The Brothers Karamazov or The Idiot until a few years later

>> No.16930281

>>16927620
Are you me?

>> No.16930348

>>16927880
nice bait

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