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>age
>five favorite writers

And other anons r8

>> No.18775408 [DELETED] 

17
Alexandre Dumas
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jules Verne
Haruki Murakami
H.P. Lovecraft
Banana Yoshimoto

>> No.18775429

>>18775374
19
Kafka
Melville
Joyce
Dickens
Dostoyevsky

Fuckin hell I'm boring

>> No.18775431

>>18775408
ummmm excuse me you are not allowed on this website

>> No.18775438

>>18775431
You don't have to be 21 to post, do you?

>> No.18775439

>>18775438
no but 18

>> No.18775440
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18775440

>28
>Plato, Kafka, Rimbaud, Agamben, Togashi

>> No.18775443

>>18775440
Is that Gackt?

>> No.18775446

>>18775439
So.. what's the problem?

>> No.18775449

>>18775374
28
/lit/
/fit/
/g/
/3d/
/sci/

>> No.18775457

>>18775446
you said you were 17 which is a lower number than 18

>> No.18775465

>>18775457
>17 is lower than 18
I'm going to need you to define your axioms buddy

>> No.18775473

>>18775457
Sorry, that would've been an unnecessary reply if i had re-read it. I am 18.

>> No.18775543

36
1. Neal Stephenson
2. Pynchon
3. Bolano
4. Stephen King
5. Thomas Mann

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>>18775374
20
Calvino
Platonov
Chesterton
Virilio
Wittgenstein
>>18775429
You're not boring as long you genuinely enjoy and appreciate reading those authors.
>>18775543
Very good picks all around. How's stephenson for somebody who never read fantasy ?

>> No.18776053

32:
Neil Gaiman
Joe Abercrombie
Frank Herbert
Sanderson
Joe Hill

>> No.18776093

>>18776015

I just like him as an author because he is unique and smart. He himself says Baroque Cycle is him at his best, and I agree. But a lot of people like Snowcrash, the book that put him on the map. My list of favourite authors doesn't relate to my favourite books, necessarily. I just like the style, humor, and books that these have written, for their originality. Though, for Mann, I've only read his short stories.

>> No.18776104

>>18775374
48
>Jean Rhys
>Elena Ferrante
>Donna Tartt
>Willa Cather
>Virginia Wool

>> No.18776130

>>18775440
>Rimbaud
A man of culture I see 7.5/10

>> No.18776159

>>18775374
21
goethe
cervantes
nabakov
camus
shopenhauer

>> No.18776175

>>18775374
25
Tolstoy
Dosto
Bulgakov
Soseki
Mickiewicz

What does this say about me lads

>> No.18776204

>>18776175
it says you're an educated slav. probabaly a cool dude. maybe doesn't like tarkovsky.

>> No.18776221

27
Faulkner
Hugo
Twain
DH Lawrence
Kerouac

>> No.18776232

>>18775374
Chaucer, Donne, Attar of Nishapur, Ovid, and a tie between Calvino and Pu Songling
>>18776015
Based
>>18776053
>Neil Gaiman
Haven't read his novels in a long time but The Sandman is great.
>>18776175
If the OP allowed for more than 5 authors I would have added Soseki as well, good taste.

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18776253

23

changes every week, along with my hobbies

i have no identity

i am nothing

>> No.18776259

>>18776232
Oh yeah I forgot to say I'm 19

>> No.18776261

>>18776253
That is literally me, but I'm ok with it. TBQH I have fun being like that and wouldn't embrace anything. I'm 33.

>> No.18776283

23
DFW
Robin D'Angelo
Jordan Peterson
Christopher Marlowe
Stefan Molyneux

>> No.18776288

>>18775429
Beats me at 19
>>18776015
Based Chesterton bro
>>18776175
This man like his Russians

25
Lewis
Dosto
Milton
Lovecraft
Virgil

>> No.18776322

>>18775374
26
In no particular order: Camus, Nietzsche, John Williams, Pessoa, Hamsun

>> No.18776323

>>18775374
27
Fitzgerald
Conrad
Kafka
Doyle
Wells

>> No.18776331

22
Conrad
McCarthy
Lermontov
Dostoyevsky
Joyce or Stendhal

>> No.18776361

>>18776159
Read more

>>18776221
Read less british/american literature

>>18776283
Meme/10

>>18776323
Reddit
Le me:
30
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
William Shakespeare
Rainer Maria Rilke
John Williams

>> No.18776384

>>18776361
9.9/10
couldn't give you a 10 because I haven't read Rilke. Nice.

>> No.18776430

25
Laclos
Rousseau
Marie de France
Shakespeare
Pierce Brown (guilty pleasure, but I can't help it)

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>>18776261
Oh God, so it's not going to get better with age? I think I'll rope soon.

>> No.18776479

>>18775374
>21
>Cioran
>Bataille
>Huysmans
>Lautréamont
>Bloy/Rebatet/Villiers d'Isle Adam

>>18775429
Great
>>18775440
Great
>>18775543
Me not like it that much
>>18776015
Great
>>18776053
Good
>>18776104
Good
>>18776159
Great
>>18776175
Great
>>18776221
Good
>>18776253
listen to him >>18776261
>>18776430
Good good

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18776542

21
Borges, Bulgakov, Céline, Chesterton, Pound (honorable mention for Philip K. Dick)
I really need to read more...

>> No.18776560

>>18775374
25
François Bégaudeau
Victor Hugo
Michel Foucault
Umberto Eco
Either Louis-Ferdinand Céline or Albert Camus

>> No.18776568

>>18776476
No, but it gets fun, in the sense that once you reach a certain level of understanding, all those past 'selfs' can be brought back at your own will. I love this thing. Because after that you will be able to create those whenever you read a new book and books suddenly get way denser but definitely way more rewarding.

>> No.18776594 [DELETED] 

15
>Chekhov
>Ibsen
>Joyce

>> No.18776620

>>18776560
>Foucault
why?
>>18776594
>15
uh oh

>> No.18776653

>>18776175
>Mickiewicz
What the fuck
Dziady is OK but most of the rest is nothing special. Konrad Wallenrod is dogshit for example.

24
Virgil
Gogol
Xueqin
Gracq
Mishima

>> No.18776676

>>18776620
>>Foucault
>why?
His level of analysis on power, discipline, and relations between human subject is incredible and it's pretty much the best you can find.
His writing from the 70's are surprisingly still very valid despite all the digital technologies. I think they're even more valuable than before.

>> No.18776695

24
William Gaddis
Italy Calvino
Jorge Luis Borges
John Donne
Virginia Woolf or Joyce

>>18776560
Look, I love Eco as a scholar and as a semiotician but his fiction is complete ass. Though by your inclusion of Foucault I guess you might be so concerned with fiction
>>18776479
Can’t speak to enough on your list, definite blind spots of mine
>>18776430
Interesting but certainly outside of my taste with the exception of Shakespeare
>>18776361
Very nice
>>18776331
A little basic, but decent choices
>>18776323
Ehhhhhh
>>18776322
Go outside

>> No.18776701

>>18776676
>the best you can find
>on power
de Jouvenel did it better
>discipline
Aristotle/Plato did it better
>relations between human subject
Even Marx did it better
>I think they're even more valuable than before.
In what way, would you argue?

>> No.18776746

>>18776695
Italo Calvino* ffs autocorrect

>> No.18776754

>>18776701
Thanks, will read these.
> In what way, would you argue?
I think he nailed it with his description of the optimal surveillance systems on society, which all major entity in tech (whether it is private corporations or big state entities) are precisely following. I'm talking about shaping society to facilitate surveillance, shedding light on subject instead of on themselves to assert power, recognizing the high value of information about people and creating power in harvesting it, etc.

>> No.18776759

18

Dostoevsky
Epicurus
Plato
Goethe

And I know since I’m into Greeks I can’t really slander Foucault as a pedo that hard but the amount of PoMo / Mo worship ITT is insane

>> No.18776760

31

Eugene O’Neill
Robinson Jeffers
Cormac McCarthy
Dostoevsky
Stendhal

>> No.18776765

I don’t know how people are able to do this.

>> No.18776773

>>18776765
It’s not really about picking favourites but about a) projecting an image of yourself and b) playing a role in the taste-making process. It’s easy and fun if you don’t take it too seriously

>> No.18776785

21

Edogawa Rampo
Alexandre Dumas
Dante Alighieri
Agatha Christie
Soji Shimada

>> No.18776816

>>18776754
>Thanks, will read these.
Try "On Power" by Jouvenel.
I guess for «discipline» would be "Nicomachean Ethics" (but a Foucaultnian rejects morality, so... your choice; try to always open yourself to an idea, while [maybe] never accepting it, fully or partially). Marx in this case would be the 1844 manuscripts; but I really do enjoy de Benoist's writings, so go with either.
>I think he nailed it with his description of the optimal surveillance systems on society, [...]
This sounds very close to Jacques Ellul's critique of technology, you might enjoy him as well (if you haven't read him already).

>> No.18776826

>>18776759
>I can’t really slander Foucault as a pedo
you can slander him for being a feminist
>the amount of PoMo / Mo worship ITT is insane
somewhat agreed

>> No.18776849

>>18775374
>20
Plato
Borges
Eco
Dostoyevsky
Pynchon

Basic as sin, I'm aware

>> No.18776856

>>18776104
what's with all the broads?

>> No.18776896

18
Nabokov
Kafka
McCarthy
Dosto
idk I can't take of a #5, maybe Hemingway lole (mostly for the short stories)

>>18776849
We're on the same boat, I'm afraid. Doesn't help that I just got into this literature thing after years of merely orbiting around it. It has been a fun ride so far, though.

>> No.18776900

>>18775374
21
Schopenhauer
Dostoevsky
Michel de Montaigne
Mary Shelley
Oscar Wilde
>>18776479
Based pessimist.

>> No.18776936

>>18776653
>Xueqin

>>18776760
>Eugene O’Neill

Nice surprises.

>>18775429

Not a bad list. I just can't understand what people love about Joyce.

>>18776253

Fernando Pessoa, is that you?

>>18776760
>Robinson Jeffers

Another nice surprise.

Me:

Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Emily Dickinson
Checkhov
Wislawa Szymborska

>> No.18776941

>>18776936

Forgot age: I'm 34

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>>18775374
21
Peter Thiel
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Arthur Schopenhauer
Matt Ridley
Warren Buffett (If his letters to his shareholders count)


I've never read any literature, and if I did, I don't remember it. That includes all the "great" literature I've read in highschool and in college. If institutions required it, I didn't seriously read it—I've only ever copied off of classmates or "sparknotes" it: 1984? Sparknotes. Shakespeare? Sparknotes. Said in another way, I've skipped every book I didn't choose for myself.

Schopenhauer is the only philosopher I've ever read. I have never seen a single page of the Aristotle or Plato. I've never read any Russian literature. I don't know jackshit about Karl Marx or Adam Smith. I've heard of Popper and Humes and Aquinas. But I've never read any of them.

I unironically can't even rank other anons because I have no interest in reading the most recommended authors in this board. It's almost as if anons fell for the memes and the approval status of pseuds; but I fell for normie tastes and marketing...

>> No.18777106

imagine posting itt but not rating others posts… couldn’t be me

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>>18777090
>"It's almost as if anons fell for the memes"
>reads Taleb
>reads Warren Buffett
>doesn't read the greeks
>doesn't read the russians
Cringe: The Post

>> No.18777133

>>18777090
>I unironically can't even rank other anons because I have no interest in reading the most recommended authors in this board. It's almost as if anons fell for the memes and the approval status of pseuds; but I fell for normie tastes and marketing...
Your reading list is something that someone who frequents /biz/ and /pol/ would unironically come up with. Not only is it clear that you're looking for the approval of your peers ( you're 21, so it's understandable, but also that your " knowledge " consists of nothing more than a recommended reading list on a Tibetan Commodities forum. You could be outed by any second semester econ student. Stay humble, hubris is a vice. Expand your horizons beyond what is encouraged in your subcommunity.

>> No.18777138

>>18775374
19
kafka
camus
dazai
carroll
dahl

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>>18775429
/lit/ newcomer, looking to fit in, you've got the wrong intentions at heart. This is a place to gain inspiration from, not a place to emulate doctrinally. You'll make it if your intentions are noble.

>>18775440
Nice

>>18775543
You don't care about what people think of you, unironically nice to see.

>>18776104
This is bait or you're biased towards female writers.

>>18776159
Reddit

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>>18775374
19
Joyce, McCarthy, Nabokov, Umberto Eco and Flannery O'Connor

>> No.18777281

>>18776361
Thanks for the response, but Hugo is french. Lawrence is the only Brit on my list.. but yes I definitely have to read less american lit. Its just what I like because I'm American. Just picked up Illuminations by rimbaud today though. I love dat Hugo, so I figure i wanna read more french

>> No.18777339

>>18775374
20
Gadda
Dostoevsky
Houellebecq
H. Murakami
Pamuk

>> No.18777369

>>18777339
>>18777161
>>18777138
>>18777090
Rate others, losers

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19.
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare

>> No.18777895

22

Gibson
P.K. Dick
Dostoyevsky


And that's basically it, still looking

>> No.18777930

>>18775374
25
Jack London
Hunter S. Thompson
George Orwell
Bertrand Russell
Noam Chomsky

>> No.18778759

24

Homer
Dante
Thomas Browne
Jorge luis Borges
Arno schmidt
Cormac McCarthy

6 but whatever.

>>18775429
Good for a new starter desu
>>18775543
You certainly have a type Mr. Anon. How many years did you waste being stoned?
>>18776104
/lit/ cougar tier
>>18776159
Good picks but a little too /lit/ pleasing
>>18776175
Cyka blyat tier
>>18776221
Don't like Kerouac and twain, rest are good.
>>18776283
Can't tell if bait

>> No.18778777

>>18775374
18
1) Marcel Proust
2) Jane Austen
3) Shakespeare
4) Chaucer
5) Augustine (I'm not a larper i went to catholic school)

>> No.18778781

>26

>Tolstoy
>Maugham
>Boswell
>Casanova
>Mann

>> No.18778800

>>18775374
19
dosto
breece d'j pancake
faulkner
melville
wallace
hopefully i can develop actual taste lol