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ITT: Lit confessions

I took part in World Book Day in April this year, and got to give out copies of Misery by Stephen King to strangers. The whole idea is to get people reading by giving them free books this organisation gives you. I still have nearly all of these Misery books because no one wanted them. They are just piled under my bed, whispering "let us die". So whats your lit confession?

>> No.2981581
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I didn't know there were more pictures of that really stoned guy.

>> No.2981584

Should have given 'Finnegans Wake'.

>> No.2981587

>>2981584
That's cruel.

>> No.2981611

My grandfather's uncle was a big reader and known locally as a very bright lad. He seemed like he would be the first in the family to go to the university. Then he died in an accident with some heavy machinery. The books passed to my grandfather who went on to become a dentist. Then they passed to me.

They're all from 1895 to around 1922. Good stuff. Plays, classics, a nice bible... I never read a single one. I guess I was always too absorbed with my own reading, but I never wanted to get rid of them either - they're just there - like a row of leatherbound tombstones.

I am a university student now. Whenever I feel the workload, I think about those closed books and I start studying. And someday I will read them all.

>> No.2981630

>>2981581
Looks like he's rolling, not stoned

>> No.2981640

One time in an English course I didn't care for we had to take a scene from Romeo and Juliet and adapt it into something new to show we understood it. I did an "IRC" version and everyone actually liked it.

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>>2981572
That's actually pretty nice idea but I think even people who take those would just throw them into dark corners of their houses and never get to read it. I thought about hidden commercials like asking celebrities to show around with books more often, same with film makers putting in more books, just like apple was advertising their shit in a sneaky way. That could work.

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>>2981641

>> No.2981653

>>2981650
That's my thought exactly.

>> No.2981659

>>2981653
I can say I've kept myself to this. But I'm still a virgin, so it wasn't that hard.

Maybe I shouldn't be reading Aristotle's logic for my philosphy course on a saturday night.

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>I can say I've kept myself to this. But I'm still a virgin
Maybe you are the last one bing in your country which still posses some books?

>> No.2981734

>>2981687
In the town where I currently live, this might be the case.
Trying to get into a mixed fraternity/sorority in Amsterdam this monday, kinda excited.

>> No.2981781

>>2981650
I went home with a girl once. I was looking at her book shelf while she was powdering her nose (but I knew she was taking a dump that wouldn't flush because I kept hearing the toilet), and noticed she had a whole shelf of Ayn Rand.

I climbed out of her window and ran home.

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>>2981781

>> No.2981837

>>2981781
>not eating her dump

>> No.2981888

>>2981781
We need to make shit cool again. If you go home with somebody, and they don't shit a pepsi can they then can't flush, don't fuck them.

>> No.2982042

When I managed a used bookstore, we would fill up a trailer with unwanted books left over from all of our bulk purchases and send it to be pulped about every 3 months.

>> No.2982521

I skimmed through the last 200 pages of Gravity's Rainbow :(

>> No.2982542

My favorite book is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>> No.2982544

>>2982521
You monster.

>> No.2982545

I have 18 books read in total.

>> No.2982552

>>2982042
I feel slightly sickened by this.

>> No.2982556

>>2982552
I feel sad too, I wonder if there are guys working at th presses who save the book books from being dumped

>> No.2982558

I have never found a book as beautiful as I found Danny the Champion of the World the first time I read it.

>> No.2982561

I take polaroids of my genitalia and hide them in the books that my class need to take out of the college library, then hang around at a distance and watch them look at them as they fall out of the book they pick up

>> No.2982562

>>2982042
WTF! They better have been really trashy books made for the sole purpose of making billions and had almost no artist merit

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After years of trying and failing to get my serious literary novel published i gave up and wrote an urban fantasy novel aimed at teenage girls. I used ideas from already popular titles in the genre and mashed them together to look original. It was accepted by a major publisher and will be realesed in about a month.

>> No.2982686

>>2982683
Hope it puts some food on your table, and if you don't have a table, I hope it makes it possible for you to buy a table so you can put food on it.

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>>2982683
You are what's wrong with the world

>> No.2983042

>>2983022
No, it's the publishers that refuse to publish his novel that's what's wrong with the world. They drove him to it. They dressed slutty.

>> No.2983043

>>2983022

No. He did what he felt was necessary to get his foot in the door. The publisher did what he felt was necessary to keep his company in the green. The readers who prefer the regurgitated cliches are what's wrong with the world. Change starts at the bottom.

>> No.2983053

Reading Atlas Shrugged is slowly changing my political ideals and I'm afraid of it...

But I can't stop reading.

>> No.2983064

I once killed a man with his own shoe.

>> No.2983065

>>2982545
Have you seen /lit/'s "show off your collection" threads? Most of this board could say that.

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>>2983053
Join us!

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>>2983053

Run, Anon! Save yourself!

>> No.2983100

>>2983053
Yeah... this has happened to me... though, my transformation got less aggressive near the ending, and I managed to climb out disagreeing with, I guess, about half of her bullshit.
Meaning, I suppose, that I don't really consider it bullshit.

>> No.2983258

>>2983064
>>2983064
You got the M&Ms though, right?

>> No.2983261

>>2981781
If you raped her? Would that be alright with her?

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My friend gave me his copy of Atlas Shrugged insisting I read it. I read about 20 pages and it's been under my bed ever since.
I've been reading Kerouac instead, which I find to be a much better use of my time.
Dare I give Atlas Shrugged another shot?

>> No.2983283

Another anon who has worked at a secondhand bookstore here.

The amount of books we throw away is shocking: it could be a fantastic novel but if the cover is a bit dirty or something then we bin it, if it hasn't sold after a certain amount of weeks we bin it, if it's non-fiction, not famous and not published in the past 10 years we bin it.

>> No.2983315

>>2983269
I'd rather read Rand than Kerouac.

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>>2983315
BWAAAH!

>> No.2983335

I wasn't able to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude. It was painful to read. And now, I've convinced myself and the people who surround me that it is utter shit, so that I don't feel bad about my whole incapability.

>> No.2983339

>>2983315
I'd rather read neither.

>> No.2983347

I didn't enjoy heart of darkness, I just couldn't understand why Kurtz had such a great impact on the narrator when they barely interacted at all.

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When I was at University I use to stay late in the library and ejaculate into old history books because I hated one of my professors.

>> No.2983365

>>2983347
The narrator is the nameless sailor who heard Marlow telling the story, to be more precise. Marlow was so affected by him because he saw in Kurtz how thin the veneer of civilization truly is.

>> No.2983378

I read books at face value and prefer to ignore deeper meaning (no matter how obvious) and loathe analysis of any kind.

come at me

>> No.2983425

I tend to agree with many things Harold Bloom says.

>> No.2983439

>>2983378
i also avoid analysis of literature; just as I do with film.

>> No.2983456

>>2983335
I agree, it was so fucking boring. I blame the translator

>> No.2983460

I work at B&N, and, when we have to return mass market paperbacks to the publisher, we have to "strip return" them, which is where we rip the cover off of it.
It feels bad.

>> No.2983465

>>2983425
>I tend to agree with many things Harold Bloom says.

Bloom claims that Freud is one of the best authors of all time.

Motherfucken _Freud_. Why not put Dale Carnegie or Ayn Rand on there, while you're at it, huh, Harold??

Harold Bloom is literally as stupid as a sack of bricks.

>> No.2983477

>>2983465
>Rand
>Carnegie

You're selfish bias to showing, faggot.

>> No.2983475

>>2983460
Is this like breaking someones thumbs if they don't pay a debt?

>> No.2983488

I've stolen more than 2200 dollars on books, and all that on just one year.

>> No.2983489

>>2983488
how?

>> No.2983490

>>2983477
> You're selfish bias to showing, faggot.

I feel like this was supposed to be an insult, but you being unable unto English made sure that nothing ever came across.

>> No.2983497

>>2983489
I had tons of ways, sometimes i even just took them and walked away like they were mine.

>> No.2983498

I liked the last four Harry Potter books.

Also, my girlfriend buys a lot of books, but goes and reads fan fiction instead and I just sit there and let her.