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I know these threads are looked down upon, but I'd like to know more about the kind of people who post here.

>location
>favourite book(s)
>favourite author(s)

>> No.2068507

Studying in Boston, but from Chicago.
Favorite book is Ulysses.
Favorite authors are Joyce, Pynchon, Faulkner, and Nabokov (Though I've barely read any Nabokov, just Pale Fire and I'm working on Lolita)
(Also T.S. Eliot if we're counting poets.)

>> No.2068510

Quebec, Canada
Favourite book is The Stranger
Favourite authors: Camus, Nietzsche, Kerouac
I'd rather read poetry.

>> No.2068511

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Infinite Jest
Neal Stephenson

>> No.2068512

>>2068507
>>2068507

Holy shit- I'm from chicago, and i'm studying in boston too. What a small world..

>> No.2068513

San Bernardino
I didn't care for Illuminatus! in praxis but in theory it's my favorite. Haven't read the "perfect" book yet but I've a feeling it will be Focault's Pendulum. If we're going by writing style it would either be Rendezvous with Rama or Steppenwolf.
PKD, Nabokov, Pratchett. I consume other media more than books and over-all it would be Grant Morrison, PKD, and Suda 51.

>> No.2068514

>>2068507
ok, are there really any colleges in boston that are so small that you'd give your identity away by naming the specific school? are you at harvard/mit or are you at emerson and trying to cultivate an air of mystery that makes it possible for someone to infer that you're studying at harvard?

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- Berlin, Germany
- Infinite Jest (currently reading, awesome),Acid House, Siddhartha, American Psycho, The Stranger
- BEE, DFW, Albert Camus, Herman Hesse, Salinger

>> No.2068563

>>2068514
I'm at Suffolk. I didn't think it was relevant, and I'm not super proud of it like I would be at say Harvard. Got bad grades in high school, even though I got nice ACT/SAT/AP scores. You?

>> No.2068572

Chicago

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Count of Monte Cristo, Meditations, The Plague, Bury Me Standing, Steal This Book, Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More To Life, Buddenbrooks, A History of Warfare, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet, The Silmarillion, Ender's Game/Shadow

Raymond Chandler, Banana Yoshimoto, Tolkien, Louisa May Alcott, Junkets, A. A. Milne, heian court literature

>> No.2068581

new york
blood meridian(i reading about indians getting massacred)
tolkien, love his narrative style

>> No.2068592

Pearl Harbor
I still would say I don't really know.
Same as above.
Still learning I guess.

>> No.2068593

>>2068511
MAH NIGGA
Ottawa, Canada
Roadside Picnic, Journey to the End of Night
Arthur C Clarke

>> No.2068596

Holland
Siddhartha
Hesse, Murakami, Garcia Marquez, and Pratchett right now.. can't fucking stop reading Discworld novels >.>

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Phoenix, AZ
A Maze of Death
Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, David Eddings, others I can't remember.

>> No.2068613

Manchester, TN
Cat's Cradle,
Vonnegut, Klosterman

>> No.2068630

Los Angeles, CA
Sentimental Education, A Hero of Our Time, Fathers and Sons, Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgenev, F. Scott Fitzgerald

>> No.2068664

>location
Texas
>favourite book(s)
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Today I Wrote Nothing by Daniil Kharms, Kornel Esti by Dezso Kosztolanyi, Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.
>favourite author(s)
Yasunari Kawabata, Daniil Kharms, Lu Xun, Kenji Miyazawa, Dezso Kosztolanyi, Bohumil Hrabal, Osamu Dazai, Tove Jansson, Izumi Kyoka, Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

>> No.2068694

Vancouver, BC
Deniro's Game and An Invitation to a Beheading
Rawi Hage, Nabokov, Beckett, Liam Durcan, Carver

>> No.2068821

Ljubljana, Slovenia
A Tale of Two Cities
Tolstoy, Dickens, Waugh

>> No.2068833

los angeles
crime and punishment, johnny got his gun, 1984
dostoevsky, bukowski, t.s eliot

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Czech Republic
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami

>> No.2068836

St. Louis, Missouri

Lord of the Rings, The Stand, Song of Ice and Fire series

Tolkien, King, GRRM

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>>2068836
>Location: Florida
>Favorite book: Grapes of Wrath
>Favorite author: Faulkner

>> No.2068842

>>2068833
We should hang out sometime.

>> No.2068844

Michigan, USA
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison

I never used to read much. Now I'm starting to read more so I don't have many books or authors to choose from. I'm reading "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison now because someone on here recommended it to me. :)

>> No.2068859

>>2068842
yea if this is the guy who is in to turgenev, fathers and sons is a great novel

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Minnesota, United States

Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami, Christopher Moore, Jostein Gaarder, motherfucking Plato .

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>> No.2068877

>>2068859
Yeah, I'm that dude.

>> No.2068880

New Zealand

Road to Serfdom, Man economy state, 1984

Rothbard

>> No.2069033

>>2068841

do you not approve of my literary taste?

>> No.2069051

New Zealand

The Brothers Karamazov

Camus, Gene Wolfe, Dostoevesky and Nabokov

Also Lovecraft.

>> No.2069073

Virginia
Dorian Gray, A'Rebours, Lolita, Either/Or, Democracy in America
Wilde, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Rorty, Huysmans, Nabokov, Wittgenstein, Arnold, Kierkegaard