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[Anonymous No.4058373]

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[Anonymous No.4058385]

18
Male
American of the US kind
English, 4 years of Spanish.
Already into my second year of Biology
Not necessarily, though writing and publishing a book is on my bucket list
Love: Doestevsky, McCarthy, London, Conrad, Steinbeck, Aurelius
Hate: Chopin, Brontë(s), Hemingway, and a few shit-lit authors like Meyer and that bitch who wrote the Hunger Games.
I'm currently reading "Annals of Imperial Rome" by Tacitus. Recently making my own classical education
I have a few: The Brothers Karamazov, Blood Meridian, Grapes of Wrath, Meditations.

[Anonymous No.4058396]

Age: 20
Sex: m
Nationality: Irish
Languages: English
Degree/job: 3rd Year English
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Pynchon, Ishiguru
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading: Heart of Darkness
Favorite books: Never Let me Go, Inherent Vice, Catch-22, The Sun Also Rises

[Anonymous No.4058397]

>>4058385
Favourite London books?

[Anonymous No.4058401]

>>4058397
I loved Call of The Wild, even now. It imbued a sense of naturalistic adventure into me.
I liked several of his Short Stories like "Batard", and especially "To Build A Fire". The story "Love of Life" was pretty tense as well.

[Anonymous No.4058402]

>>4058401
I also found him via Call of the Wild. I've read an essay about how it relates to his views on industrialism and found it quite interesting.

Have you read any of his non-'adventure' books?

[Anonymous No.4058403]

Age: 19.
Sex: Male.
Nationality: Spanish.
Languages: Spanish, English, French.
Degree/job: Grade on Philosophy
(Aspiring) writer?: No.
Published?: No.
Authors you love: Foster Wallace, Faulkner, Pizarnik.
Authors you hate: Palahniuk, Murakami, Coelho.
Currently reading: Akira.
Favorite books: The Sound and the Fury, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Maus, The Plague, The House of Bernarda Alba.

[Anonymous No.4058404]

>>4058403
Any Spanish books you can recommend?

I have a Spanish friend whose mother is getting remarried soon and he's been through some shit recently, would like to send him a book.

[Anonymous No.4058405]

>>4058385
>18
>2nd year of Biology
huh?

[Anonymous No.4058407]

>>4058402
I have heard his soft science-fiction novels are good, if a bit preachy for socialism.
I haven't seen an copies of "Martin Eden" at bookstores either.
Ah well, I have much on m backlog, so they will have to wait unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.4058408]

>>4058403
>Authors you love: Foster Wallace, Faulkner, Pizarnik.
>Authors you hate: Palahniuk, Murakami, Coelho.
*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.4058410]

>>4058407
I'm not a fan of his science-fiction (although the Shadow and the Flash is interesting).

He wrote mucch of his sci-fi and adventure stories simply to make money and earn a living.

I have a copy of Martin Eden. It has many flaws but is very interesting for several reasons. (Nabokov loved Martin Eden)

He also wrote The Iron Heel which influenced Orwell and was reprinted around hte time that Allende was overthrown by CIA backed Pinochet in the 60s.

[Anonymous No.4058413]

>>4058404
Check out Lorca (I love his plays, but his poetry is also good), Tiempo de Silencio by Luis Martín Santos, Los Girasoles Ciegos, Baroque plays by Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega...

Unamuno it's pretty good, if you like the "faith and identity problems" stuff you might like him.

[Anonymous No.4058416]

>sure why the hell not

Age: 19
Sex: M
Nationality: US
Languages: English, Spanish
Degree/job: Working on English major
(Aspiring) writer?: For sure. I only wish I had more time to work on projects.
Published?: In a magazine once
Authors you love: Woolf, Dostoevsky, Beckett
Authors you hate: Huxley, Bukowski, Burroughs after about 25 pages (he can be hilarious, but after reading all of Nova Express I was bored and wondered how much shit he was on)
Currently reading: V. I'm enjoying it. It has a lot of interesting character study.
Favorite books: To The Lighthouse changed me as a person. Lets see... Hamlet?

[Anonymous No.4058417]

>>4058413
Thanks. My friend isn't into poetry or plays, he isn't very bookish.

Are there any modern/contemporary books about young people?

Not YA, but something like Less Than Zero, Almost Transparent Blue, etc?

[Anonymous No.4058418]

>>4058416
>To The Lighthouse changed me as a person
How does this happen?

[Anonymous No.4058423]

>>4058417
Mmm... Maybe "Ventajas de Viajar en Tren", by Antonio Orejudo.

[Anonymous No.4058424]

>>4058423
Thanks. I'll check out all the ones you've suggested.

[Anonymous No.4058426]

>>4058423
Does this have a lot to do with youth?

I'm reading the synopsis

http://www.americareadsspanish.org/translation-rights/nsb-titles/659-ventajas-de-viajar-en-tren-the-advantages-of-travelling-by-train.html

and it seems to have more to do with psychiatry

[Anonymous No.4058427]

>>4058426
It's about Psychiatry, but he tells stories about his youth,

[Anonymous No.4058428]

>>4058427
Oh okay. Do you know any more?

[Anonymous No.4058431]

>>4058428
I've been thinkin a while but no. Spanish literature hasn't developed that topic correctly

[Anonymous No.4058433]

>>4058431
Fair enough. Thanks for your other recommendations :)

[Anonymous No.4058439]

>>4058373
Age: 20
Sex: M
Nationality: Italy
Languages: Italian; English
Degree/job: longshoreman
(Aspiring) writer?: No, I want to be a reader and not trapassing THAT line
Published?: No
Authors you love: Dostoevsky; Tolstoy; Pirandello
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading: Don Quixote
Favorite books: The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.4058442]

>>4058439
What does a longshoreman job involve?

Loading and unloading ships?

[Anonymous No.4058446]

>>4058442
Yes, but to be honest I'm on department strategic so I don't load and upload physically.

[Anonymous No.4058455]

>>4058446
How did you get the job?

Is it long-term or something to do before college?

[Anonymous No.4058457]

>>4058405
I completed a full year of school already because of AP Credits

[Anonymous No.4058458]

>>4058457
So this is a summer job?

[Anonymous No.4058461]

Age: 24
Sex: m
Nationality: /
Languages: Serbian, English, basic knowledge of Hungarian
Degree/job: Student of philosophy / sports journalist
(Aspiring) writer?: wishful thinking...
Published?: Articles and short essays
Authors you love: Nietzsche, Cioran, McCarthy, Thompson, Yalom, Lovecraft, Poe, Camus, Kafka, De Sade, Sartre.
Authors you hate: /
Currently reading: "The Fall into Time" and "The Consolation of Philosophy".
Favorite books: We, the Children from the Zoo Trainstation is the only book i consider "favorite" because i've been re-reading it since i was 13 yo.

[Anonymous No.4058467]

>>4058461
Is this you?

Please be my girlfriend

[Anonymous No.4058469]

>>4058455
Full time and indefinite period. I went to the port with my curriculum and did the interview, after some week they called me to notify that the workplace was mine.

[Anonymous No.4058471]

>>4058469
Ok so are you still enrolled?

Is it in a small town or a city?

[Anonymous No.4058473]

>>4058467
Ha. No. Check the
>Sex: m

[Anonymous No.4058474]

>>4058467
>Sex: m
how desperate are you

[Anonymous No.4058476]

>>4058473
>>4058474

[Anonymous No.4058484]

>>4058471
>Ok so are you still enrolled?
What do you mean?
>Is it in a small town or a city?
Little town in Adriatic sea, the port is the major economic power of the place.

[Anonymous No.4058492]

>>4058484
Are you still enrolled in the university?

Sounds like a nice place. In my mind an Italian girl is very attractive, the symbolic Italian girl being black-haired, a little olive-skinned, thin, wears dark red lipstick and a black dress with white polka dots, natural eyebrows, long eyelashes, cute feet with pink toenails and toes that are soft and warm, thighs like veal, smallish breasts with erect nipples that are a dark red and a hairy vagina, similar to a man's armpit hair after a shower, all in all a very delicious prospect, one I would enjoy spending starry, moonlit nights drinking wine with from a bottle overlooking the harbour and pushing olives into one anothers mouths as we laugh and frolic on the dry grass

[Anonymous No.4058494]

>>4058492
lol

[Anonymous No.4058496]

>>4058492
virgin detected

[Anonymous No.4058498]

>>4058496
Is that supposed to be pejorative?

[Anonymous No.4058500]

>>4058492
>Are you still enrolled in the university?
No.

>Sounds like a nice place. In my mind an Italian girl is very attractive, the symbolic Italian girl being black-haired, a little olive-skinned, thin, wears dark red lipstick and a black dress with white polka dots, natural eyebrows, long eyelashes, cute feet with pink toenails and toes that are soft and warm, thighs like veal, smallish breasts with erect nipples that are a dark red and a hairy vagina, similar to a man's armpit hair after a shower, all in all a very delicious prospect, one I would enjoy spending starry, moonlit nights drinking wine with from a bottle overlooking the harbour and pushing olives into one anothers mouths as we laugh and frolic on the dry grass

>smallish breasts with erect nipples

Y-you know that many girls I met wanted breast operation? T-t-that's the saddest thing in the world. : (

[Anonymous No.4058501]

>>4058498
yeah

[Mutemattics !!58hTUK7XbfZ No.4058502]

Age: 23
Sex: stronk male
Nationality: Greek (not ancient, i'm modern)
Languages: Greeklish
Degree/job: (Aspiring) Ubermensch
(Aspiring) writer?: aspire my dick
Published?: i doubt anyone can handle it
Authors you love: Vokistrak Vangelson (we call him the VV or "w" for short)
Authors you hate: Authors that don't write
Currently reading:
>reading
Being a plebe is so 20th century it's not even funny
Favorite books: I like liking the books that i like

am i edgy yet?

[Anonymous No.4058505]

Age: 19
Sex: F
Nationality: English
Languages: English, Spanish, passable French
Degree/job: Med student
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes, definitely
Published?: No, and I don't hope to for a good 10 years
Authors you love:
Authors you hate:
I don't love or hate authors, I judge their works on their individual merits
Currently reading: The Green Mile
Favorite books: The Wind on Fire Trilogy, His Dark Materials, The Perks of Being A Wallflower

People always call my favourite books pleb-tier, and I understand that, but when you use the word 'favourite', I just can't honestly say I've enjoyed any of the more high-brow books I read more than the books I read when I was young, and was free to love them with purity and naivety. My *favourite* books will probably never change.

[Anonymous No.4058506]

>>4058500
It's sad, but I guess they think it's a sign of beauty, which is sad considering that small breasts are very attractive as long as the girl's face is also.

>>4058501
Well I hate to tell you but your insult does not effect me. I'm a virgin by choice, not circumstance, sex being a matter of having the capacity to be pleased by another and also of pleasuring another, and I am waiting to find the right girl who I feel is deserving of the pleasure I have the capacity to give her.

[Anonymous No.4058507]

>>4058505
Where do you live?

[Anonymous No.4058508]

>>4058502
so random and witty :)

[Mutemattics !!58hTUK7XbfZ No.4058512]

>>4058508
xDDDDDDD

[Anonymous No.4058513]

>>4058506
pls stop posting

[Anonymous No.4058515]

>>4058507
England. The West Midlands

Why?

[Anonymous No.4058516]

>>4058513
Why does everybody here keep saying that to me?

I'm never mean or offensive, and I always try and be open to people, but everyone wants me to leave.

[Anonymous No.4058517]

>>4058505
>(Aspiring) writer?: Yes, definitely
>Sex: F

lol

[Anonymous No.4058518]

>>4058512
aren't you the guy that posted that shitty poem recently?

[Anonymous No.4058521]

21
CIS Male
Romanian
Romanian, English, French
BA, Translator [not literature]
I'm not a faggot to think myself a writer just because I feel I have an original thought once in a while
see above
Dostoievski, Steinbeck, Sanderson, Hobb, a bunch of others
Terry Goodkind, Patrick Rothfuss
The Grapes of Wrath, Catch 22, Skeleton Crew
Grapes of Wrath [fiction], The Forever War [science fiction], Way of Kings [fantasy]

>>4058507
Good question, never heard of English nationals before, maybe a dumb brit?

[Anonymous No.4058524]

>>4058505
>People always call my favourite books pleb-tier, and I understand that, but when you use the word 'favourite', I just can't honestly say I've enjoyed any of the more high-brow books I read more than the books I read when I was young, and was free to love them with purity and naivety. My *favourite* books will probably never change.
Maybe you're just a forever pleb. Greatness isn't for everyone

[Anonymous No.4058526]

>>4058516
you don't fit in

[Anonymous No.4058527]

>>4058517
top lel

[Anonymous No.4058529]

>>4058515
Because I want to hopefully have a light conversation with you during this thread, and have you ask me, or accept me asking you, for a skype address, where we can further our conversation while growing closer as named individuals, hopefully leading to a rendevouz at some town half way between our respective towns, where we can spend the day walking around hand in hand, you in your green mod army jacket with a slightly reddened nose and tears from the cold in you eyes, until we book into our room at the Holiday Inn and maybe browse 4chan together for a brief while and listen to music, get drunk, then have a night of sex without restraint or taboos.

[Mutemattics !!58hTUK7XbfZ No.4058530]

>>4058518
yes also a tiny story, i shitpost unintentionally.

[Anonymous No.4058531]

>>4058521
>CIS Male

Stopped taking you seriously right there.

[Anonymous No.4058532]

>>4058529
lmao

[Anonymous No.4058534]

>>4058531
i stopped at >romanian

'ten pula mea de-aici

[Anonymous No.4058535]

>>4058531
sorry, with all the faggots like >>4058529
I thought it would be appropriate

[Anonymous No.4058536]

>>4058529
I like the way you think.

[Anonymous No.4058541]

>>4058529
I see. Well I don't use skype, or have casual sex, or own an army jacket, although they are cool. But I do talk to people. Sometimes.

[Anonymous No.4058543]

>>4058535
This is 4chan after all. That is never appropriate. But "super secret 4chan kids club" aside, i find the whole CIS and gender identity bending very self defeating.

[Anonymous No.4058548]

>>4058541
I like that you don't have casual sex, this suggests you aren't corrupted, although your knowledge of human bodies/anatomy suggests you aren't the waif sweetheart I'm searching for.

The coat isn't necessary (although they are widely available for rather cheap). I'll just keep replying to you in the hope that you'll reciprocate, until you decide not to.

I realize this decision on my part may portray me as a weak, 'beta' male, but I assure you come our physical IRL meeting I will dominate you mentally and physically, in such a way that you will want, perhaps need, that I do so.

[Anonymous No.4058551]

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Nationality: Scottish
Languages: 1, though I've been thinking about learning German lately.
Degree/job: Technical Support manager. £29k a year, easiest job in the world.
(Aspiring) writer?: No, though I do write shorts based upon my more interesting dreams.
Published?: No.
Authors you love: Asimov, Philip K. dick and Arthur C. Clarke.
Authors you hate: The dude that wrote the Percy Jackson books.
Currently reading: The first in the Iron Druid Chronicles.
Favorite books: The Belgariad and related books. They are basically my LOTR. I read the series at a young age and as such have fond memories of it, much the same way many do with LOTR.

[Anonymous No.4058555]

>>4058548
I see. Well I'm afraid I'm not the girl for you. I am neither a waif, nor a sweetheart, nor do I put up with BS like being dominated EXCEPT in the confines of the bedroom, and after you take your turn with the ballgag, and strapon up your ass

But you're not a strong enough man to handle that, are you?

[Anonymous No.4058560]

Age: 18
Sex: M
Nationality: French
Languages: French, English, Spanish (Not as good as the first two), Mandarin (though I forgot almost everything I have learnt)
Degree/job: Studying humanities
(Aspiring) writer?: I'm far too lazy to get even a short story started
Published?:
Authors you love: Rousseau, Nabokov, Proust, Céline, Perec
Authors you hate: Balzac, Hugo (only as a plawright)
Currently reading: Flannery O'Connor's short stories, Ada or Ardor, The Second Sex
Favorite books: Pale Fire, Rousseau's Confessions, Journey to the End of the Night

[Anonymous No.4058563]

>>4058555
Rest assured the domination will only take place within the confines of our room at the Premier Inn. I would gladly take the strap-on, and will take the opportunity to 'trap up' unless this idea perturbs you.

[Anonymous No.4058572]

>>4058563
Well colour me impressed I suppose.

Except unfortunately we won't be meeting at any sort of inn, hotel, half-way house or bed&breakfast because I don't do sex until after I've fallen in love. And I hail from /r9k/ and I recognise your type, and your strategy, and I already know enough about you to know that you are NOT my man.

So good luck honey. You keep trying until you get a bite, and watch as every woman fails to live up to the fantasy you've built up inside your head. Need I say 'Gatsby'?

[Anonymous No.4058576]

>>4058572
I am your man, and you will fall in love with me. If you know anything about the human body, which you should, you'll be aware that attachments can be formed almost unconsciously, you can see someone and fall in love with them. One sentence can trigger feelings of awe and sexual passion, and believe me sweetheart you will bite, and I will reel you in until you emerge from the water gasping, flopping around, and rubbing yourself against the polyester bedclothes.

[Anonymous No.4058580]

ITT: Neckbeards pretending to be women.

[Anonymous No.4058582]

>>4058576
Not him, but I'm starting to love you, anon.

[Anonymous No.4058584]

>>4058582
Are you a female or an effeminate male?

[Anonymous No.4058585]

>>4058576
You're a pathtic excuse for a man with no concept of what love is nor what it truly means to become close to a human being.

This is me, stopping replying

[Anonymous No.4058586]

No one this desperate for physical intimacy is worth spending time with.

[Anonymous No.4058588]

>>4058584
The former. However, I'm an Irish nationalist, so our love will have to be clandestine and directed by Neil Jordan.

[Anonymous No.4058592]

Age: Wat da?
Sex: Maybe
Nationality: Human
Languages: Esperanto
Degree/job: Idk
(Aspiring) writer?: Can write
Published?: Classic lit
Authors you love: Moses/Solomon
Authors you hate: Ulysses
Currently reading: Ulysses
Favorite books: Ulysses

[Anonymous No.4058593]

>>4058588
You will be my Speranza and I will fulfill every physical desire you have. What are your favourite things about your body?

[Anonymous No.4058596]

>>4058572
I think it's more the other way around, doofus. You want a gay who will take a strap-on... that's fantasy.

[Anonymous No.4058599]

I wish these threads didn't contain the sex question. Can't keep the attention whores and desperate virgins contained

[Anonymous No.4058608]

>>4058593
I can see my veins through my skin and turning in circles makes me dizzy. I physically desire Fermanagh, Armagh, Tyrone, Down, Derry and Antrim be returned to Irish rule

[Anonymous No.4058611]

>>4058596
No, that's not what I want particularly. I just dislike people who can only dominate and refuse to submit. It suggests weakness and insecurity, and I think the best people can do both and, more importantly, know when they should do either. And I also dislike the hypocrisy of men who expect women to do anal but revile at the idea themselves.

But quite aside from that, I don't think life is really about 'dominating' or 'submitting', it's about being human and trying to do your best by other humans. He didn't seem to be on my level at all, so I decided to make fun of him a little. Just my fancy

[Anonymous No.4058613]

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Nationality: Uruguayan -am i the only one here :( ?-
Languages: Spanish, english + little bit of french and german.
Degree/job: None yet, but 2nd year of mathematics, 3rd year of philosophy and 1st year of engineering
(Aspiring) writer?: Depends of my mood.
Published?: Nope.
Authors you love: Dostoyevski, Goethe, Dumas.
Authors you hate: Dan Brown, and Stephanie Something from Twilight.
Currently reading: Madame Bovary, Arsene Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes, Leviathan.
Favorite books: Karamazov Brothers, Werther, The Count of Monte Cristo.

[Anonymous No.4058618]

>>4058608
I will have you speaking Gaelic by the end of the night. You will be gripping the caseless pillows and begging Mother Mary to look away as I penetrate your Irish peat.

[Anonymous No.4058621]

>>4058592
/lit/,is that you?

[Anonymous No.4058625]

>>4058373
20
Male
Australian
BA(History)/LLB
maybe one day
no
Love:Waugh, Tolkien, Bronte, Trollope, Steinbeck, Kafka, Patrick White
Hate: GRR Martin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Satanic Verses
Brideshead Revisited, Wuthering Heights, Midsummer Night's Dream (if plays count)

[Anonymous No.4058626]

>>4058613
How did you find 4chan/lit?

[Anonymous No.4058630]

>>4058611
tough shit, you can't have him now, he's writing poetry for Eireann now

>>4058618
I don't know if the Blessed Virgin is not to lay her eyes on Holiday Inn's neglect of linens or your bog hole spelunking. This feels right either way.

[Anonymous No.4058633]

>>4058630
Yeah, I'm so jealous. Especially considering you're a man who's also making fun of him

[Anonymous No.4058634]

shut up losers

[Anonymous No.4058639]

>>4058611
Most men don't care about anal. If anyone has an obscured view, it's you.

[Anonymous No.4058646]

>>4058633
You ought to be envious of the poetry of Eireann, limey.

[Anonymous No.4058655]

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Nationality: French
Languages: Attic Greek, Modern Greek, French, Low/High German, Hindi.
Degree/job: Currently: PhD in Philosophy, Duke University; BA in Philosophy and Physics, UPenn.
(Aspiring) writer?: Maybe
Published?: No.
Authors you love: My self, Whitehead
Currently reading: David Lewis' On the Plurality of Worlds.
Favorite books: Principia Mathematica, Process and Reality.

[Anonymous No.4058714]

Age: 18
Sex: m
Nationality: russian
Languages: english, russian, french, spanish, ukranian
Degree/job: student in software engineering
(Aspiring) writer?: no
Published?: no
Authors you love: dosty, chekhov, pasternak, poe, fitzgerald just to name a few
Authors you hate: nabokov
Currently reading: moby dick
Favorite books: TBK, LOTR

[Screwtape !!tdBUE9PLvpz No.4058721]

>>4058630
>>4058618
>>4058611
are any of you even Christians

(Aspiring) writer?: (no) no
Published?: no
Authors you love: the members of Christ
Authors you hate: the members of an harlot
Currently reading: The Making of Fornication, Reading Capital, Taipei
Favorite books: The Good Soldier Švejk, i don't really like books that much

[Anonymous No.4058731]

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages: English
Degree/job: CS+Math Programmer
(Aspiring) writer?: I would like to but my writting skills are terrible
Published?: no
Authors you love: Dostoevsky, McCarthy
Authors you hate: Nabakov
Currently reading: The Republic
Favorite books: Moby Dick, The Brothers Karamazov, Blood Merridian

[Anonymous No.4058735]

>>4058373
nice try government

[Anonymous No.4058740]

>>4058655
You have a PhD at 21?

[Anonymous No.4058747]

Age: 18
Sex: m
Nationality: US
Languages: English, low proficiency Russian
Degree/job: student
(Aspiring) writer?: If I ever stop writing total shit. no.
Published?: no
Authors you love: Chekhov, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, Shakespeare, Kafka, Camus
Authors you hate: anyone who posts on /lit/
Currently reading: Eugene Onegin again
Favorite books: Eugene Onegin, The Trial, Dead Souls, Hamlet, Today I Wrote Nothing, The Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.4058748]

Age: 26.
Sex: Male.
Nationality: Danish.
Languages: Danish, English, German, French.
Degree/job: N/A.
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes, published stuff online.
Published?: Self, so no.
Authors you love: Dean Wesley Smith (Not for writing, for general writing business stuff)
Authors you hate: Arrogant ones.
Currently reading: Les Misérables.
Favorite books: No.

[Anonymous No.4058749]

>>4058735

>the government doesn't already know all of this for use in future interrogation sessions
>being forced to read all of the works you despise most nonstop for weeks on end by the police state

[Anonymous No.4058754]

>>4058747
When Camus and Kafka make on your favorite writers list, there's little hope for you to become a good writer I'm afraid

[Anonymous No.4058757]

>>4058529
rendezvous*

[Anonymous No.4058760]

looks like Karamazovs is /lit/s most favorite book for now

[Anonymous No.4058770]

>>4058760
muh moralizing

[Anonymous No.4058775]

>>4058754
fortunately I don't harbor any such delusions.

[Anonymous No.4058780]

Age: 27
Sex: male
Nationality: Danish
Languages: English, Danish, Arabic
Degree/job: None/None
(Aspiring) writer?: No. I write for no reason.
Published?: Ha no.
Authors you love: Ernest , Fyodor, Jung
Authors you hate: Dan Brown
Currently reading: Rereading Man and His Symbols after finishing some short stories by Dosto
Favorite books: Schopenhauer's essays.

[Anonymous No.4058846]

>>4058740

Yes:

I finished university in 2 years and graduate school in 3.

[Anonymous No.4058850]

>>4058846
How so?

[Anonymous No.4058869]

>>4058780
>Age: 27
>Degree/job: None/None
What do you do for living?

[Anonymous No.4058875]

>>4058869
Nothing.

[Anonymous No.4058889]

Age: 21 next October
Sex: Male
Nationality: Egyptian
Languages: Arabic, English and an embarrassing French
Degree/job: Computer Engineering undergraduate/Freelancer game developer
(Aspiring) writer?: I just write for therapy
Published?: No
Authors you love: Moustafa Zekri, David Foenkinos, Dazai Osamu, Naguib Mahfouz ofc
Authors you hate: can't think of any at the moment
Currently reading: Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
Favorite books: Fear Eats the Soul, Cat's Cradle (fuk da hate)

[Anonymous No.4058903]

Age: 24 in September
Sex: Male
Nationality: Lithuanian
Languages: Lithuanian, English
Degree/job: No
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: Yes
Authors you love: Dostoevsky, Bierce, Bartol
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading: Lolita
Favorite books: The Idiot, Alamut

[Anonymous No.4058908]

>>4058903
How's Lithuania? Do you like living there? I never hear much about it.

[Anonymous No.4058910]

>>4058908
But they're everywhere in universities

[Anonymous No.4058914]

>>4058910
I'm American.

[Anonymous No.4058917]

>>4058908
It's much like the rest of Europe. Very pretty. Cold.

[Anonymous No.4058919]

>>4058655
>PhD in Philosophy
>Age: 21
>Languages: Attic Greek, Modern Greek, French, Low/High German, Hindi.

Confirmed for a troll; thanks for the laugh.

[Anonymous No.4058922]

Age: 22
Sex: Male
Nationality: Danish
Languages: Danish, English, French. Learning arabic
Degree/job: Working on my bachelor in international relations. Setting up light and sound for concerts on the side
(Aspiring) writer?: I only write for myself as a hobby
Published?: Only ressearch papers
Authors you love: Henry Miller, Bukowski, Baudelaire, Wilde
Authors you hate: Hans Christian Andersen
Currently reading: Ulysses
Favorite books: Diary of a Drug Fiend, Tropic of Cancer

[Anonymous No.4058930]

Age: 20
Sex: F
Nationality: 'merican
Languages: English
Degree/job: Electronics specialist
(Aspiring) writer?: Aspiring is the word.
Published?: Nay.
Authors you love: Pynchon, Cortazar, Kafka, Marquez.
Authors you hate: Authors who make a joke of themselves.
Currently reading: Waiting for my new books to come in from Amazon. Then it'll probably be The Savage Detectives or If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
Favorite books: V., The Trial, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Blow Up and Other Stories.

[Anonymous No.4058931]

>>4058930
hey sexy

[Anonymous No.4058971]

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Nationality: Bulgarian
Languages: Bulgarian, English and a tiny bit of French and German
Degree/job: 4th year in Cultural Studies (Which doesn't mean shit..)
(Aspiring) writer?: Well, working on it...
Published?: Nope, but didn't tried either.
Authors you love: Dostoevsky, Kafka, Steinbeck, Solzhenitsyn, etc.
Authors you hate: Coehlo and Kalin Terziyski (a Bulgarian writer who is extreamly shitty, but popular)
Currently reading: The Shadow Line by Conrad and La Bête Humaine by Zola (the both of which I realy, realy like..)
Favorite books: Well, fuck. Dunno, too many... Recently read "Three women" by Robert Musil and loved it.. Also love everything by the "favorite authors" guys.

[Anonymous No.4058981]

>>4058971
>Authors you love: Dostoevsky, Kafka, Steinbeck, Solzhenitsyn, etc.
>etc

[Anonymous No.4059003]

>>4058919

You're not the first skeptic.

It still is kind of flattering to put people in such a state of disbelief.

[Anonymous No.4059015]

>>4059003
As you say, Mr. The-next-Kripke.

[Anonymous No.4059021]

>>4058850
For undergrad, I was taking an average of 6 courses a semester, as well as summer and winter courses. I received some credit from high school and waived several requirements.
For grad, I completed the course load in the first two years and finished my dissertation in the remaining year. Still unemployed though.

[Anonymous No.4059031]

>>4059015

If I am precocious, I'm definitely not THAT precocious.

I still needed to attend grad school.

[Anonymous No.4059095]

>>4058373
26
Male
American
English
M.Ed. in Elementary Education
No
Yes, in academic journals. Nothing fancy.
London, Tolkien, Hemingway, Heinlein, Kipling
Woolf, Rothfuss, GRRM, Robert Jordan, Goodkind
A Dance with Dragons, I feel compelled to read it because it was given to me as a gift.
Call of the Wild/White Fang

[Anonymous No.4059107]

>>4058555
lol

[Anonymous No.4059112]

23
Male
American
English, enough Spanish to read the newspaper
Student/Hooker
Little poems in little magazines
Love: Genet, Guy Davenport, Samuel R. Delany.
Hate: Marquez, Salinger, Cummings
Reading: Kindred by Octavia Butler
Favorite Book: Delany's Hogg or Davenport's Death of Picasso

[Anonymous No.4059133]

>>4059112
>Cummings
why? :(

[Anonymous No.4059157]

>>4058930
What's it like knowing I'd let you break wind on my face without even having to impress me?

Girls get it so easy in life.

[Anonymous No.4059162]

>>4059112
...hooker?

[Anonymous No.4059178]

>>4059112
>Hogg
you sick fuck

[Anonymous No.4059179]

>>4059162
He was trying to show us the miserable life of the student. The student lives as a slave to the school just to get a piece of paper at the end, and in order to get that piece of paper, he must submit to the authority which is the school. He feels as a hooker who has no choice in life but to kneel down on the knees, in order to get that piece of paper which might and might not result in future success. Even if it meant success for him, he won't forget the things he had to do when he was a student/hooker as they will haunt him forever, and when he looks down at his knees, he'll remember the days in which he was a student/hooker.

[Anonymous No.4059182]

>>4059157
kill yourself betaboy

[Anonymous No.4059185]

>>4059179
No, I get paid to have sex

[Anonymous No.4059199]

>>4059185
>>4059179

sooo clever.

nice work, anons, seriously.

[Anonymous No.4059204]

>>4059133

Mostly cause he was asshole irl, and I can never tell the good poems from the bad. I do rather enjoy "Buffalo Bill's/ defunct."

[Anonymous No.4059209]

>>4059179

No, I more or less just enjoy the work. How long did it take you to type that?

[Anonymous No.4059211]

>>4059209
Around 30-40 seconds.

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4059212]

18 male usa english no no no ducasse daumal sologub henny jahnn bataille stirner leiris schwob neechy i don't like A LOT tbh currently the thirst for annihilation favs are by authors i mentioned

[Anonymous No.4059215]

>>4059212
if you don't want us to read, keep it to yourself
if you do, make an effort and make it readable you shit

[Anonymous No.4059219]

Age: 19
Sex: M
Nationality: Bulgarian
Languages: Bulgarian, English
Degree/job: Bachelor (Second Year)
(Aspiring) writer: Yes
Published: In a magazin
Authors you love: Gorky, Camus, Joyce, Woolf, Hamsun, and some other local authors.
Authors you hate: I don't really hate anyone, but maybe Hemingway.
Currently reading: "Човекът в езика. Езикът в човека" (The men in language. The Language in Man) It's a ethnolinguistic study.
Favorite books: Gorky's "Childhood"

[Anonymous No.4059220]

>>4059215
i was able to follow that post easily, you're clearly mentally retarded

[Anonymous No.4059221]

>>4059220
good for you kid

[Anonymous No.4059228]

>>4059220

tripfag posting w/o his trip

obvious as shit

[Anonymous No.4059234]

>>4059212
Just another cunt who thinks he's funny.

[Anonymous No.4059238]

>>4059228
actually if I were that guy I would have posted with trip just to be obtuse

[Anonymous No.4059241]

18
Male
USA
English, Spanish
Economics major
Aspiring Writer: yes
Published: no, nor have i ever tried
Love: Faulkner, Woolf, Pynchon
Hate: Chopin, Coelho
Currently Reading: Invisible Man
Favorite: The Sound and the Fury, To the Lighthouse

[Anonymous No.4059243]

>>4059238

tripfag trying to convince us it isn't him

obvious as shit

[Anonymous No.4059245]

>>4059241
>Love: Faulkner, Woolf, Pynchon
i bet you like metal too. complexity is the best thing in art~

[Anonymous No.4059252]

>>4059245

I would say his distaste for Chopin is the bigger red flag there.

Also see: "nor have i ever tried"

[Anonymous No.4059263]

22
f
Russian/Ossetian
Russian, English, French
Specialist in International law
(Aspiring) writer?: No, everything I wrote is total shit
Published?: Not yet
Authors you love: Albert Camus, Douglas Coupland, Isaac Asimov , Edgar Allen Poe
Authors you hate: Chuck Palahniuk, Vladimir Nabokov
Currently reading: Patti Smith - Just Kids
Favorite books: The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, Nibelungenlied, The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4059272]

>>4059243
ya u caught me ;)

[Anonymous No.4059274]

>>4059263
for some reason i think i'd have guessed you were female anyway

[Anonymous No.4059276]

>>4059263
Why Nabowkoff? Explain.

[Anonymous No.4059277]

>>4059263
Isn't Edgar Allen Poe the best?

I love how dark and mysterious his writing is; I wish I could be as great of a writer as he is, lol.

[Anonymous No.4059280]

Age: 24
Sex: Male
Nationality: USA
Languages: English
Degree/job: Currently wating tables. Was working on an english degree. Now trying to become a graphic designer to work with 3M and design and apply vinyl vehicle wraps.
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes. My earliest work was a novella about a war between angels and demons when I was 11.
Published?: No.
Authors you love: Ernest Hemingway, John Gardner, Tom Stoppard, George Martin, Anne Rice, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe
Authors you hate: I disagree with this question fundamentally. Nobody should ever "hate" an author. Except for maybe Richard Knaak. His writing is an abomination.
Currently reading: A Clash of Kings by George Martin
Favorite books: A Song of Ice and Fire cycle by George R.R. Martin, Grendel by John Gardner, Candide by Voltaire, The Snows of Kilamanjaro and Other Stories, The Old Man and the Sea both by Hemingway, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, Death of Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Once and Future King by T.H. White, The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, American Psycho by Bret Ellis, Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik

[Anonymous No.4059290]

>>4059280

Forgot Cormac McCarthy

Also I am appalled at the lack of Cormac McCarthy love.

[Anonymous No.4059291]

>>4059276
I think most of his works are just weak.

[Anonymous No.4059294]

>>4059291
How so?

[Anonymous No.4059298]

>>4058373
22
m
usa
english
creative writing and pre dental
yes
no
none
just about all of them except for a few that i find tolerable
nothing
none

[Anonymous No.4059314]

>>4059298
good post snowflake

[Anonymous No.4059340]

>>4059298

I feel like I knew more about you before you posted that

[Anonymous No.4059344]

Age: 20
Sex: Female
Nationality:Vietnamese
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Degree/job: going to university for accounting
(Aspiring) Writer?: Not too much lately but it interests me
Published?: Nah.
Authors You Love: Kafka, Hemingway, Carver, Murakami (both Ryu and Haruki), Brautigan, Kharms, Salinger (Nine Stories is amazing), etc.
Authors You Hate: Not really anyone that I can think of. I just don't bother if I don't like them.
Currently Reading: Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
Favorite Books: The Sun Also Rises, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (wish they would re-release it with the missing chapters though), House of Leaves, The Castle, Revolutionary Road, Hunger, Journey to the End of the Night, Nine Stories, etc.

[Anonymous No.4059347]

>>4059294
Because Camera Obscura and Lolita are just cheap and boring, Nabokov wanted attention, and can't read him seriously anymore. Do you have a different opinion?

[Anonymous No.4059362]

>>4059347
how about Bend Sinister? I didn't know Nabakov was another one of these suck-ups who comes to America and writes a bunch anti-communist crapola like some kind of economic uncle tom

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4059365]

>>4059362
why do those shit covers exist

[Anonymous No.4059366]

>>4059344
my ex is vietnamese
are you my ex

[Anonymous No.4059376]

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality: American (US)
Languages: English
Degree/job: Psychology/Philosophy/Education student
(Aspiring) writer?: In what sense? I write and finish on a frequent basis, sure.
Published?: No. Don't plan on it it either.
Authors you love: Whoever wrote Hebrews, Plato, Freud, Jung, Zizek (lulwutapleb), Pirsig, Huxley (his later stuff; not anything like BNW, though I don't hate on that necesarrily)
Authors you hate: Judith Butler, Chomskyhonk (love and hate, really), Hume (so boring)
Currently reading: The Gas by Platt
Favorite books: Republic, Phaedrus, Civilization and Its Discontents, Island (Huxley), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Hebrews

[Anonymous No.4059385]

19
m
US
English,Spanish and I am trying to learn Latin
Student
nope
nope
Dostoevsky,Tolstoy,Joyce,Pound,Kafka,Hemingway Woolf and Wilde
Tao Lin and Patterson.
As I Lay Dying.
Picture of the Artist as a Young Man, Picture of Dorian Gray, The Cantos of Erza Pound and Julian by Gore Vidal.

[Anonymous No.4059392]

>18
>male
>Canadian
>English, (shitty) French
>high school
>Liberal Arts student
>yes
>yes
>Salman Rushdie, David Foster Wallace, Timothy Findley, Russell Hoban, Andrew Hussie, Jorge Luis Borges, Shakespeare (we counting poets? Ted Hughes, Robert Pinsky, Gerald Stern, Steve Roggenbuck)
>George R. R. Martin, most Giller Prize winners, Thomas Pynchon (poets again: Margaret Atwood (as a poet), Michael Ondaatje (as a poet), P. K. Page, Shane Koyczan)
>Blood Meridian, In Search of Lost Time Book 3: The Guermantes Way
>Riddley Walker, Infinite Jest, In Search of Lost Time, Titus Groan, (we counting plays? because mothafuckin' HAMLET)

[Anonymous No.4059396]

>>4059392
>You hate Pynchon.
I thought summer was winding down.

[Anonymous No.4059399]

>>4059274
edgy

[Anonymous No.4059408]

22
Male
English
Just English but i'm learning German and Japanese
Unemployed/No Degree
Nope, I wouldn't mind being a critic though.
See above
Authors I love: Franz Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Mishima, Herman Hesse, Camus, Philip K Dick, Meryvn Peak, Philip Pullman, Osamu Dazai, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoy, Jim Butcher, Douglas Adams, Oscar Wilde, David Foster Wallace, Arthur Rimbaud, Evelyn Waugh, Charles Baudelaire.
Authors I loathe: Hunter S Thompson, George RR Martin, J.K Rowling, BEE, Chuck Palahniuk, Hemmingway, F Scott Fitzgerald.

My Current read is Franz Kafka's The Castle
Too many to list.

[Anonymous No.4059415]

>>4059408
Why do you hate Hemingway?

[Anonymous No.4059418]

>>4059415

I thought For Whom the Bells Toll wasn't really that special and I can't see why people like it. I found it pretty boring to be honest.

[Anonymous No.4059421]

>>4059408
How are you learning German?
I mean, what are you using?

[Anonymous No.4059423]

>>4059418

But maybe i'm being unfair since that's the only book by him I read. I do own Across the River and into the Trees which I will read since it's pretty short.

[Anonymous No.4059424]

Age: 23
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages: American
Degree/job: American
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: No
Authors you love: Tolkien, GRRM, Conrad
Authors you hate: Never read a book I didn't like
Currently reading: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Favorite books: The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, ASOIAF series, Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.4059428]

>>4059423
Personally I love Hemingway but will not try to convert you.

[Anonymous No.4059431]

>>4059424
Not to be pretentious but this is a joke post right?

[Anonymous No.4059432]

Age: 19
Sex: M
Nationality: Finnish
Languages: English, Finnish, Japanese and conversational Spanish/Chinese
Degree/job: Finishing up Lukio
(Aspiring) writer?: Writing, not paid.
Published?: No, several books I've finished in English and few short stories in Finnish/Japanese but I don't find them good enough to be published. They'd probably sell a little but I don't bother because I'd find them embarrassing later on.
Authors you love: None.
Authors you hate: None.
Currently reading: Got a few mental health related books, forgot author names.
Favorite books: I don't know.

[Anonymous No.4059433]

>>4059421

I just grabbed a German language learning pack on a torrent website. I haven't fully immersed myself in the study of it yet but i'm going to take it more seriously though I am having trouble with the four cases.

[Anonymous No.4059434]

>>4059362
He was born into an aristocratic family, I'm sure he had no warm feelings for communists.

[Anonymous No.4059436]

>>4059431
It's a joke post in that it's funny, but it is also true.

The favorite books are basically the only books I've read. I didn't particularly like Harry Potter, but everyone else wrote so many different books as their favorites I felt like I needed to pad it with just anything I'd read.

[Anonymous No.4059437]

>>4059433
Do you still have the link? I'd appreciate if you could post it here.

[Anonymous No.4059438]

>>4058373
I'll bite.

24
M
American
Spanish (first language), English (2nd)
No degree, waiter, freelance reporter for the local paper
Yes
Published 2/3 stories written
Pynchon is the literary superhero whose poster adorns my wall
Don't really 'hate' any author, hate is an active pursuit, mine is a passive disinterest
Currently reading the jaw dropping Mason & Dixon
Favorite books: the aforementioned fersure, TCoL49, Slaughterhouse 5, Lolita, Blood Meridian, Underworld, The Talisman, Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, GR is okay but not as great as people think it is.

[Anonymous No.4059439]

>>4058373
>Age:
18

>Sex:
Technically I'm male but I am personally female and spiritually I consider myself to be...okay I'm a male.

>Nationality:
Haitian/Indian

>Languages:
French, English

>Degree/job:
Currently working at Starbucks, hope to have a law degree someday.

>(Aspiring) writer?:
I was when I was little, but my parents made sure that dream didn't last. I guess I understand their skepticism.
>Published?:
...yeah.

>Authors you love:
Cormac McCarthy, Raymond Chandler, Hemingway. My age is still newbie level so I have a lot of time.

>Authors you hate:
Eh, I'm not one of those guys who get irritated when a work I don't like is acclaimed. But you can put me in that pile of people who don't care much for mary sue fantasies though.

>Currently reading:
Griftopia by Matt Taibbi.

>Favorite books:
Suttree, The Long Goodbye, Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.4059443]

Age: 27
Sex: m
Nationality: american/french
Languages: english, french, some serbo-croatian (grandparents)
Degree/job: classics ba and ma, library science ma / librarian
(Aspiring) writer?: no
Published?: a couple of classics articles, book reviews, library shit
Authors you love: homer, aeschylus, thucydides, montaigne, racine, stendhal, melville, proust, henry james, woolf, patrick leigh fermor
Authors you hate: dostoevsky, marlowe
Currently reading: maupassant contes
Favorite books: iliad, a la recherche du temps perdu, moby dick, montaigne's essais, don quixote, thucydides

[Anonymous No.4059447]

Age:18
Sex: Male
Nationality: Mexican/Spanish
Languages: English, Spanish
Degree/job: working on double major in Philosophy and Psychology
(Aspiring) writer?:
Published?: not yet
Authors you love: Hemmingway, Vonnegut
Authors you hate: n/a
Currently reading: The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar WIlde
Favorite books n/a

[Anonymous No.4059457]

Age 22
Male
Norwegian
No degree, no job
Not really aspiring to be a writer. Maybe I'll start doing it sometime. Not published, obv
I love Jules Verne, Lovecraft, John Fowles, Alexandre Dumas, Knut Hamsun, Frank Herbert
I dont truly hate any books, but I suppose I dislike Stephanie Meyer since shes the only author rumored to be crap that I read. Dunno why I did, though.
Currently reading Eirik Raude
Favorite books are Hitchhikers Guide, Mysteries, Robinson Crusoe, The War of Wars, Dune

captcha: helpsite book

[Anonymous No.4059458]

>>4059438
Muh nigger.

[Anonymous No.4059468]

>>4059245
Metal is complex in the same way white noise is

[Anonymous No.4059474]

Age:19
Sex: Male
Nationality: Swedish
Languages: Swedish, English, basic French
Degree/job: Chemical Engineering
(Aspiring) writer?: No, not really.
Published?: Nay
Authors you love: Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, Salinger, Steinbeck, Aurelius
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading: Demons by Dostoy
Favorite books: Catcher in the Rye, Meditations, Cannery Row, The Idiot

[Anonymous No.4059477]

Age: 22
Sex: male
Nationality: mexican
Languages: spanish/english
Degree/job: u wot m8?
(Aspiring) writer?: hobbyist amateur shit tier writer. Haven't practised in months actually
Published?: lol no
Authors you love: I like joseph conrad. Some others too idk
Authors you hate: can't think of any
Currently reading: Illuminatus! trilogy
Favorite books: 100 years of solitude... er Idk what else, Lord Jim I guess

[Anonymous No.4059479]

>>4059436
But, why would you be browsing /lit/ if you don't read books?

[Anonymous No.4059484]

>>4059479
I like wanting to read books.

[Anonymous No.4059486]

>>4059479
maybe he just wandered here, saw the thread and posted

[Anonymous No.4059488]

>>4059432
>Japanese and conversational Chinese
>19
Nah

[Anonymous No.4059493]

>>4059458

[Anonymous No.4059502]

>Age:
25
>Sex:
Male
>Nationality:
American
>Languages:
English, Spanish
>Degree/job:
Economics (BA), unemployed
>(Aspiring) writer?:
Maybe
>Published?:
No
>Authors you love:
Waugh, Hemingway, Flaubert
>Authors you hate:
Bukowski
>Currently reading:
John Banville - The Infinities
>Favorite books:
Growth of the Soil, Brideshead Revisited, The Sun Also Rises, Sentimental Education

[Anonymous No.4059519]

>>4059366
Was your ex into all those books/authors?

[Anonymous No.4059521]

>>4059439
Degenerate detected

[Anonymous No.4059529]

Honestly it's news to me that there are women in this board. I'll have to start reading posts in a female voice in my head.

>muh subvocalization

[Anonymous No.4059540]

23
m
american
english (some german)
bs math / nanny
no
no
love: jorge luis borges, flann o'brien, samuel beckett
hate:
current: in the heart of the heart of the country - william h. gass
favorite: the waves - virginia woolf, the recognitions - william gaddis, the colossus of maroussi - henry miller

[Anonymous No.4059543]

>>4059519
pseudo-deep YA a la hemingway, kafka, murakami and salinger? yeah

[Anonymous No.4059551]

>>4059488
I started learning Japanese when I was 13, Chinese and Sanish when I was 16.
Languages are easy, believe it or not. Maybe you should try learning more than one?

[Anonymous No.4059560]

>>4059551
Write your post in Chinese

[Anonymous No.4059575]

Age: 22
Sex: M
Nationality: Scottish
Languages: Some French, some Italian
Degree/job: English Lit graduate / unemployed
(Aspiring) writer?: Aspiring
Published?: I'd like to be some day
Authors you love: Jack London, Saul Bellow, DFW, Haruki Murakami
Authors you hate: Richardson, Joyce, most Modernists
Currently reading: The Secret Life of Words - Henry Hitchings
Favorite books: DFW's short stories, The Interrogation (Le Clezio), Hunger (Hamsun), Dangling Man (Bellow), The Call of the Wild (London)

[Anonymous No.4059781]

>>4058373

Age: 22
Sex: M
Nationality: ARG
Languages:ENG SPA FRA
Degree/job: cinematography
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: No
Authors you love: Joyce, Borges,
Authors you hate: Most
Currently reading: Food of the Gods
Favorite books: why the fuck do i do these

[Anonymous No.4059783]

>>4059781
>that one guy who is 2cool to have favorites
every thread

[Anonymous No.4059809]

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality: Argentinian
Languages: English, Spanish
Degree/job: 1st year Political Science
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Borges, Kafka, Maquiavelo
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading: The Republic
Favorite books: Fictions, The Metamorphosis, Fahrenheit 451.

[Anonymous No.4059815]

>>4059252
>distaste for Chopin is the bigger red flag
red flag? what's wrong with disliking Chopin? I read the awakening in a class and was forced to comb through it for feminist symbolism and i really grew to dislike it after a while; it's not that she's a bad author, it's that she's not really for me.

>nor have i ever tried
yeah, I'm 18 and only write for fun, sparingly at that thanks to other time commitments. So?

>>4059245
>i bet you like metal too
no, i don't listen to metal. It's not the complexity, it's the fun of discovery and piecing together details :^)

[Slapnuts No.4059866]

Age: 23
Sex: M
Nationality: USA
Languages: English, French
Degree/job: College, Bartender
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Heinlein, Stephenson
Authors you hate: Salinger, King
Currently reading: The Grand Design (Hawking)
Favorite books: A Stranger In a Strange Land, The Odyssey, Huckleberry Finn

[Anonymous No.4059898]

Any lawyers or librarians in here?

[Anonymous No.4059924]

>>4059543
Then maybe I am.

[Anonymous No.4060008]

44
M
Spic-American
English/Spanish (peppering of others)
No degree / own tattoo shop
Yes
Yes, both self and by others
Robert Anton Wilson, Shakespeare
none
a book on Zen
RAW's "The Cosmic Trigger" Volume 1

[Anonymous No.4060068]

>>4059344
There are missing chapters of windup bird?

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality:Australian
Languages: English, Spanish, little bit of french
Degree/job: Biomedical science student
(Aspiring) Writer?: Write poetry sometimes
Published?: no
Authors You Love: Hemingway, Murakami, Burroughs
Authors You Hate: nope
Currently Reading: Old Man and the Sea
Favorite Books: Wind-up bird chronicle, 1Q84, Junky, The Road.

[Anonymous No.4060105]

Age: 26
Sex: Male
Nationality: American (United States)
Degree/job: Anthropology student; got laid off from a fast food job the other day because they hired more people than they needed, assuming some would quit because of how much the job sucks
(Aspiring) writer?: Meh. I used to write a lot. Less so now. So I guess I'm a writer but don't care if I ever get published or "make it big."
Published?: Nope.
Authors you love: China Mieville, Ursula K. Le Guin, McCarthy, Hemingway (short works), Dumas
Authors you hate: None spring to mind. I guess I think Orson Scott Card is a douchebag. I tried to read Twilight to see what the big deal was but couldn't push past ~35 pages.
Currently reading: The Bible (Oxford edition NRSV), Game of Thrones
Favorite books: The Bas-Lag Trilogy, the Dartagnan Romances

[Anonymous No.4060128]

Age: 27
Sex: Female
Nationality: Serbian
Languages: Serbian, English, Croatian, Russian
Degree/job: Film critic
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: Yes
Authors you love: Dimitrijević, Sekulić, Dostoevsky, Andrić, Tolstoy
Authors you hate: Palahniuk, DFW
Currently reading: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Favorite books: The Bridge on the Drina, War and Peace

[Anonymous No.4060133]

>>4058588
typical fenian

[Anonymous No.4060149]

>>4060068
Yes, two chapters are missing and then they moved around one chapter.

[Anonymous No.4060231]

Age: 18
Sex: Female
Nationality: Chilean
Languages: Spanish, English (but not as good as spanish)
Degree/job: None at the moment... i may start studying english literature next year, though
(Aspiring) writer?: yeah, i've been writing poetry/short stories ever since i was a kid and will never drop the dream of being published someday. I'm a perfectionist though, so i won't try to publish until i'm 100% satisfied with my work
Published?: no
Authors you love: Poe, Bécquer, Baudelaire, Dostoyevski, Kafka, Alejandra Pizarnik
Authors you hate: i don't like Bukowski at all tbh.
Currently reading: second part of the brothers karamazov
Favorite books: too many to list

[Anonymous No.4060266]

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality: Self-loathing American
Languages: English (hoping to get into French, German, and maybe Russian)
Degree/job: Dropout on welfare
(Aspiring) writer?: Vaguely, writing violent smut to sell on Amazon Direct and several short stories out of impulse
Published?: Nope
Authors you love: Pynchon, Poe, Burroughs, PKD, Alan Moore (I don't give a shit if he's predominately a comic book writer)
Authors you hate: Encompassing disdain for everyone involved with alt-lit and YA, haven't really come across real authors I absolutely hate
Currently reading: V.
Favorite books: Gravity's Rainbow, Naked Lunch, The Three-Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

[Anonymous No.4060341]

Age: 23
Sex: m
Nationality: American
Languages: English, a bit of French
Degree/job: philosophy major
(Aspiring) writer?: not particularly
Published?: yes
Authors you love: Barthes, Bukowski, Camus, Fanon, Faulkner, Fromm, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Salinger, D.T. Suzuki
Authors you hate: (regarding style only) Ginsberg, Hemingway, Hegel, Hume, Kerouac, Russell, Sartre
Currently reading: Leaves of Grass, Point Counter Point, The Complete Stories (of Kafka), Phenomenology of Perception
Favorite books: Zen and Western Thought, Mythologies, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, Black Skin, White Masks, The Sound and The Fury, To Have or To Be, Siddhartha, Franny and Zooey, Johnny Got His Gun, Black Power

[Anonymous No.4060368]

Age: 24 as of last week
Sex: male
Nationality: american
Languages: english native; can read french pretty well
Degree/job: math major
(Aspiring) writer?: yes :lol/sad:
Published?: no
Authors you love:borges, dostoevsky, mishima, bolano, murakami (eat a dick), gogol, joyce
Authors you hate: none really. i'd say ayn rand or something but hating ayn rand is like being angry at a child.
Currently reading: stoner; history of philosophy in 20th c. by delacampagne
Favorite books: brothers karamazov, 100 years of solitude, candid, after the quake, 2666

[Anonymous No.4060375]

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality: Indian
Languages: English, French, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Arabic
Degree/job: 2nd year compsci and economics
(Aspiring) writer?: No.
Published?: No
Authors you love: McCarthy, Pynchon, Steinbeck, Heller, Pratchett, Asimov
Authors you hate: Only authors I have a strongly negative opinion of are Coelho and Bukowski
Currently reading: The Black Swan
Favorite books: Catch-22,

[Anonymous No.4060398]

>>4058505
>I don't love or hate authors, I judge their works on their individual merits

Be a little more pretentious please.

[Anonymous No.4060403]

>>4058576
Tears are streaming down my face as I imagine the size of your fedora collection.

[Anonymous No.4060412]

>>4060375
my nigga right there

currently reading catch-22 for the sixth time

[Anonymous No.4060427]

Age:18
Sex:Male
Nationality:'Murica
Languages:English and Latin
Major/job:First year English major
Aspiring writor?: Maybe, not sure yet.
Published?:Lol nope
Love:Joyce, Milton, Shakespeare, Ovid, Vergil, Caesar, Cicero, Homer, Aristotle, Decartes, Marx, Lenin, Mao, Pynchon, Che
Hate: none maybe Hawthorne
Currently reading: nothing. I'm busy studying the Japanese language.
Favourite books: Ulysses, paradise lost, ab urbe condita, comentarii de bello gaullico, Aeneid, Finnegans wake, The Odyssey, The Great Gatsby, The Awakening of Latin America,

[Anonymous No.4060688]

>>4060231
>Baudelaire
>doesn't speak french
lol

[Anonymous No.4060690]

>>4060341
Why do you hate Sartre m8?

[Anonymous No.4060692]

>>4060690
probably because he's a philosophy major

[Anonymous No.4060703]

Age: 27
Sex: male
Nationality: German
Languages: German, English, little bit of Russian, French and Japanese
Degree/job: Student
(Aspiring) writer?: yes
Published?: nope
Authors you love: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Goethe, Pynchon, Hemingway, Pasternak, Shakespear, Milton
Authors you hate: Haruki Murakami, Theodor Fontane
Currently reading: Sophies World, Old Man and the Sea
Favorite books: Brothers Karamasov, War and Peace, Faust, Doctor Zhivago

[Anonymous No.4060705]

Age: 18
Sex: male
Nationality: USA
Languages: English, Russian
Degree/job: no
(Aspiring) writer?: no
Published?:no
Authors you love:David McCullough, Ron Chernow, Candice Millard, Theodore Roosevelt, Craig Childs
Authors you hate: none
Currently reading: lots
Favorite books: The Beast In The Garden, Destiny Of The Republic, The Last Season, Huck Finn

[Anonymous No.4060723]

Age: 23
Sex: M
Nationality: Indonesia
Languages: Indonesia, English, bit of French & Japanese
Degree/job:psychology student
(Aspiring) writer?: aspiring
Published?: nope
Authors you love: Dewi Lestari (local writer), Jin Yong, Murakami, Osho, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Coelho
Authors you hate: none, probably hardline Muslim authors
Currently reading: Discipline and Punish
Favorite books: Condor Heroes trilogy, Supernova (local literature)

[Anonymous No.4061185]

>>4060692

That really wouldn't explain why he likes Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, they're awful by contemporary standards.

>>4060341

>hate [the style of] Russell

you must not be an analytic,
in which case you ought to fuck off, m8.

[Anonymous No.4061247]

Age: 28
Sex: Manly man
Nationality: freedom
Languages: thats, like, some french movie, right?
Degree/job: grip
(Aspiring) writer?: arent we all?
Published?: do dick pics in glamour boy magz count?
Authors you love: i dont wanna pick
Authors you hate: no hate, they're all doing they're thing
Currently reading: Apocalypse Culture
Favorite books: If i pick one all the other books'll get mad and attack me in my sleep. then i'll have to explain the bruises to my mom and then i'll have to talk to officer crumpky again. he likes to be alone with me.

[Anonymous No.4061256]

>>4061247
>they're
yup, it's america

[Anonymous No.4061259]

Age: 24
Sex: M
Nationality: Argentina
Languages: Spanish, english, some swedish.
Degree/job: Real Estate broker
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Tolstoy, Dostoievsky, Asimov, Bradbury, Homer, Aurelius, Calvino, Borges.
Authors you hate: Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski.
Currently reading: The Elder Eddas.
Favorite books: War and Peace, Karamazov Brothers, Illustrated Man, Invisible Cities, Livy's History of Rome, Odissey.

[Anonymous No.4061285]

Age: 20
Sex: M
Nationality: Italian
Languages: Italian, Latin, English
Degree/job: student
(Aspiring) writer?: I write stuff, but i'm not aspiring to become writer
Published?: or get published
Authors you love: Foscolo, Zanzotto, Calvino, Dostoevksij, Bolano, Buzzati, etc
Authors you hate: maybe Lovecraft
Currently reading: The book of disquiet
Favorite books: Karamazov Brothers, 2666, the nonexistent knight, etc

[Anonymous No.4061287]

>>4061256
d'oh!

[Anonymous No.4061298]

>>4061285
>Authors you hate: maybe Lovecraft
y?

[Anonymous No.4061399]

Age: 22
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages: English (I'm a dumb American)
Degree/job: Philosophy, SAT tutor
(Aspiring) writer?: Sure
Published?: No
Authors you love: Faulkner, O'Connor, B. Easton Ellis, Hawthorne, Pynchon
Authors you hate: I don't really hate any authors.
Currently reading: The Odyssey
Favorite books: The Sound and the Fury, Hamlet, Moby-Dick, Less Than Zero, The Things They Carried

[Anonymous No.4061415]

Age: too old for 4chan
Sex: m
Nationality: English
Languages: English
Degree/job: BA hons/office temp
(Aspiring) writer?: Oh yes
Published?: N
Authors you love: Shakespeare, Blake, Dante, Woolf, Burroughs, Homer, the Bible
Authors you hate: Don;t hate, just discard and ignore. Most stuff doesn't interest me.
Currently reading: Bible, Lord Macaulay History of England vol 2, Crowley's Book 4, Spenser Faerey Queen, Vivekanada Raja Yoga.
Favorite books: Bible, Woolf's great novels, the Trial, Cellini's Autobigraphy, Tristram Shandy, Inferno.

[Anonymous No.4061416]

>>4058373
Age: 20
Sex: f
Nationality: dominican
Languages: spanish, english.
Degree/job: law student, 3rd year/paralegal.
(Aspiring) writer?: no, but i try poetry.
Published?: no
Authors you love: cortázar, caicedo, galeano, bukowski, pizarnik, nietzsche, kafka,
Authors you hate: coehlo, marquez, austen and all of those who writes romantic cheesy bs.
Currently reading: the unbearable lightness of being, kundera.
Favorite books:

[Anonymous No.4061428]

>>4061416
oh and favorite books: hopscotch, the outsiders, opio en las nubes, little prince (say whatever you want), historias de cronopios y famas, indignez vous and letter to a child never born.

[Anonymous No.4061466]

Age: 23
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages: English, German
Degree/job: English/grocery store clerk
(Aspiring) writer?: Sure, why not
Published?: Yes
Authors you love: Thomas Pynchon, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, William Blake, Harlan Ellison, Georges Perec
Authors you hate: Palahniuk, Bukowski, Gene Wolfe
Currently reading: Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon), Lesser Apocalypses (Bayard Godsave), The Oulipo Compendium
Favorite books: House of Leaves, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Stoner, La vie mode d'Emploi

[Anonymous No.4061471]

>>4059575
>Hating James Joyce
I thought summer was winding down.

[Anonymous No.4061592]

Age: 18
Sex: Male
Nationality: Colombian
Languages: Spanish, English / Learning French and German
Degree/job: Mathematics
(Aspiring) writer?: Not sure
Published?: No
Authors you love: Sabato, Garcia Marquez, Nietzsche, Herman Hesse, Andrés Caicedo
Authors you Hate: Miguel de Unamuno, Jorge Isaacs, Charles Bukowski, Rafael Pombo
Currently reading: Portnoy's complaint - Philip Roth
Favorite books: The Baron in the trees, 100 years of solitude, Calicalabozo, Steppenwolf, lolita

[Anonymous No.4061606]

>Age:
20.
>Sex:
Male.
>Nationality:
Norwegian.
>Languages:
Norwegian, English.
>Degree/job:
None/None.
>(Aspiring) writer?:
No.
>Published?:
No.
>Authors you love:
Dostoevsky, Camus, Carl Sagan, Robert Sapolsky, George Orwell, Richard Feynman, Vladimir Nabokov, Christopher Hitchens.
>Authors you hate:
Don't really hate any.
>Currently reading:
Sult, Knut Hamsun.
The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin.
>Favorite books:
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime And Punishment, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Plague, The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyat, The Book of Disquiet, The Luzhin Defense, Letters from a Stoic, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Pale Blue Dot, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, Oblomov, Darkness At Noon... I feel like I've listed enough.

[Anonymous No.4061614]

Age: 24
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages: English, German, Spanish
Degree/job: Chemical Engineer
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes..
Published?: No, but I'm still in the process of writing the book.
Authors you love: Borges, Maupassant, Nietzsche
Authors you hate: Kerouac, Bukowski, Wallace, Franzen
Currently reading: Heidegger's Supplements
Favorite books: The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Ficciones by Jorge-Luis Borges, Ovid's Metamorphoses

[Anonymous No.4061616]

>>4061614
>Jorge-Luis

Not sure why I did this. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.4061628]

>>4061592

>Authors you love: Andrés Caicedo
>Authors you Hate: Rafael Pombo

plebello cacorro marihuanero

[Anonymous No.4061634]

>>4061606
stian

[Anonymous No.4061632]

Age: 19
Sex: M
Nationality: American
Languages: English, Spanish, French
Degree/job: Working on a B.S. in Economics
(Aspiring) writer?: Kind of
Published?: Also kind of
Authors you love: Dostoevsky, Don DeLillo, Pynchon, DFW, Jane Austen
Authors you hate: Charles Dickens, Nikolai Gogol
Currently reading: Zorba the Greek
Favorite books: Infinite Jest, Underworld, The Brothers Karamazov, Gravity's Rainbow, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

[Anonymous No.4061640]

>>4058373
reading Carson Cistulli and Kenneth Koch

[Anonymous No.4061643]

>>4061640
>reading
>Carson Cistulli

[Anonymous No.4061766]

>>4061634

What?

[Anonymous No.4061786]

Age: 25
Sex: M
Nationality: United states
Languages: english
Degree/job: ba in english/dead end job
(Aspiring) writer?: not anymore
Published?: no
Authors you love: Sherwood anderson, knut hamsun, carson mccullers, john fante, jd salinger
Authors you hate: chuck palahniuk, janet fitch
Currently reading: the bicycle diaries- david byrne
Favorite books: the stranger, the remains of the day, madame bovary, the catcher in the rye, ask the dust

[Anonymous No.4061816]

>>4058585
AMAZING... this was so fucking funny

[Anonymous No.4061826]

>>4058373

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality: German
Languages: German, English, some French
Degree/job: None

(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No

Authors you love: None
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading: Hegel
Favorite books: Kafka's diaries

[Anonymous No.4061887]

>>4059484
this

[Anonymous No.4061894]

18
F
US
English
In school for Journalism. Too scared
to go full English
Yes
One poem
Love: Plath, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Whitman
Hate: Camus...um..Austen
A Trip to the Stars, The Jungle
Favorites: Leaves of Grass, The Bell Jar, Catcher in the Rye, Member of the Wedding, Joy Luck Club (don't you dare call me a pleb), The Elephant Vanishes

[Anonymous No.4061910]

Age: 23
Sex: M
Nationality: British
Languages: English, Swahili (no, I'm not black)
Degree/job: A masters in Ecology, currently working towards a PhD in coastal marine ecology
(Aspiring) writer?: Not really
Published?: No
Authors you love: Celine, Bulgakov, Turganev
Authors you hate: /
Currently reading: The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist; The Technological System by Jacques Ellul
Favorite books: The Cone Gatherers, Journey to the End of Night, Rabbit is Rich

[Anonymous No.4063376]

>>4061910
>(no, I'm not black)
take your racism back to pol white boy

[Anonymous No.4063716]

>Twenty-three
>Male
>American
>English, German
>None, lab technichian
>(no), yes.
>No
>Cortázar, Mishima, Bernhard, Faulkner, Krasznahorkai, Pynchon
>King, Palahnuik
>Mason & Dixon (Pynchon), the read of the year thus far.
>Hopscotch (Cortázar), Heart of Darkness (Conrad), The Melancholy of Resistance (Krasznahorkai), Correction (Bernhard)

[Anonymous No.4063772]

22
Male
Danish
Danish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, German
Student
Not really
No
Kierkegaard, Melville, Kafka, Littell, Mann, I.P. Jacobsen, Bernhard, Céline, Tolkien

Murikami
Danish stuff and philosophy books
Moby Dick, The Castle, The Kindly Ones, Niels Lyhne

[Anonymous No.4063785]

18
Male
Estonian
Estonian/English
none
No
Nothing
Terry Goodkind
Any pretentious pseudo-intellectual shit
The Sword of Truth
The Sword of Truth, Harry Potter, The Hobbit

[Anonymous No.4063789]

>>4063772

>Tolkien

Your fantasy literature taste is shit.

[Anonymous No.4063803]

Age:20
Sex:m
Nationality:Hungarian
Languages:Hungarian, English, (basic) Latin
Degree/job: studying law
(Aspiring) writer?: only essays and articles
Published?: only journalism
Authors you love: Swift, Voltaire, Dostoevsky, Kosztolányi, A. C. Clarke
Authors you hate: Bulgakov, George R. R. Martin, Dan Brown
Currently reading: Star Maker
Favorite books: Gulliver's Travles, Demons, Rendezvous with Rama

[Anonymous No.4063804]

Age:23
Sex:M
Nationality: murrican
Languages:English
Degree/job:Retail but joining the air force in November
(Aspiring) writer?: I dabble but I don't aspire
Published?: no
Authors you love: Beckett, Nin, Dick, Steinbeck (mostly cause I live in salinas and his work was crammed down my throat as a kid), Faulkner, Plath
Authors you hate: iono, Rushkoff maybe
Currently reading: Edouard Leve, Wilde
Favorite books The Beckett Trilogy

[Anonymous No.4063835]

>>4058505
>I don't love or hate authors, I judge their works on their individual merits
>>>>>>>>>>>

[Anonymous No.4063842]

19
Male
Scot
Shop assistant, practically uneducated
no
^
Love: tolstoy, dostoevsky, shakespeare, voltaire
Hate: stephen king, GRRM, jkRowling, etc

[Anonymous No.4063845]

>>4058930
>Authors who make a joke of themselves.
>Favorite books: The Trial
mfw

[Anonymous No.4063852]

>>4059219
O you stinking Communist...

I like you.

[Anonymous No.4063888]

>>4058439
Da dove vieni di preciso?

[Anonymous No.4063892]

>>4063845
you missed Pynchon. the ultimate 'joke'

[Anonymous No.4063948]

>>4063789
>implying I like Tolkien because it's fantasy

[Anonymous No.4063971]

>>4058516
6/10 troll, not bad.

[Anonymous No.4063981]

20
Male
American
English, German
Physics, B.Sc
No
A scientific paper
I love Tolstoy and Henry Miller and David Brin
I haven't read a bad book in a real long time.
Sword of the Lictor
Anna Karenina, Tropic of Cancer, Confessions of a Mask

[Anonymous No.4064727]

[Anonymous No.4065047]

>>4064727
word