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When i read /lit/ i find that some posts seem to be written by teenagers, but other ones seem to be written by knowledgeable adults with a lot of formal education.

Now i'd like to have a good idea of the age of the average /lit/ user and the kind of books they read according to their age, therefore:
> How old are you?
> Do you have favourite books?, wich ones?

>> No.4325789

>>4325786
22
My favourite book is A la recherche du temps perdu.

>> No.4325808

33

The Bible, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf

>> No.4325810

>>4325808
Is that you Clarissa?

>> No.4325812

>>4325810
Yes bb

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23, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

>> No.4325829

>>4325786
16
Brothers Karamazov

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>> No.4325840

>>4325812
It has been far too long, darling. How I've missed you so.

>> No.4325841

17
The History of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Non-Fiction), The New York Trilogy, The Nonexistent Knight, Slaughterhouse Five, Nuori Johannes.

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>> No.4325844

30

Borges

>> No.4325847

Does anyone here have a literature degree?

I would want to get one but it seems like a waste of money. I'd rather do a STEM degree.

What are your job prospects?

>> No.4325863

>>4325829
>>4325841
Leave this place

>> No.4325869

>>4325847
If you'd rather do a STEM degree then do that.

But don't come in here and start a shitstorm about degrees and jobs.

That being said, I graduate next fall. I'm probably going to go into marketing or something. You know, working for the man and what not.

>> No.4325875

>>4325847
I'm in the process of completing one. I intend to go to graduate school though, however as I've been reassured there a plenty of prospects for people who know how to write a sentence. That being said, if you're going into education for job prospects then I would stick with the STEM degree.

>> No.4325876

>>4325869
Doesn't that depress you? Working the rest of your life in some boring ass job?

>> No.4325878

>>4325869
*I'll graduate with an English Lit degree

>> No.4325888

>18
>The Christmas Orrery, and some non fiction stuff

>> No.4325892

>>4325876

I figure I won't be anymore happy if I was an engineer and working in a boring ass engineer job.

I'd rather write for a living, but I understand it's not practical to live off that so I figure I can work and make a little money on the side writing (until I explode and become wildly loved). I figure the whole slaving away at a job becomes easier once you have people to support so who knows what life has in store. If I ever get a girlfriend, there's no telling what could happen.

>> No.4325901

30
invisible cities; the waves; blood meridian; the unconsoled; moby dick

>> No.4325903

>>4325786
22
not many. i feel like im better off if i dont read much and if i try to work with little influences

>> No.4325895

>>4325876
At least anon isn't going into journalism.

>> No.4325898

>>4325863
Why?

>> No.4325899

>>4325786

>i

>books they read according to their age

>?, wich ones

>space between > and sentences

I think we all know who the teenager is here...

>> No.4325906

>>4325786

19

Doktor Glas

>> No.4325908

>>4325903
How's that novel coming? I bet it's dreadful.

>> No.4325910

>>4325876
I think this a wrong attitude to possess; to think that all jobs but ones that match your education and interests 1:1 are boring and soulless, without any good qualities.

Marketing is a job invented for minds of 4chan, where you have to fast, edgy and creative and able to communicate well to get the best results. Sure, your knowledge of Pushkin's past won't help there, but it appeals to certain type of literature - that of moment - and is that no enough?

>> No.4325920

>>4325901
> invisible cities
Oh! What an intriguing work.

>> No.4325937

21 years old
Absalom, Absalom!; Dr. Faustus; Paradise Lost

>> No.4325952

>>4325786
Rhetoric and diction hides a lot. Anyway...

>23
>Cold Mountain (Fraiser), Up In the Air (Kirn), Time of Man (E.M. Roberts), Love Me (Keillor)

>> No.4325954

23
Heart of Darkness, The Red Dwarf novels

>> No.4325995

28
Catch-22, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Watchmen

>> No.4326009

Set aside to the realism, plebs.

>21 y/o
>El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha

>> No.4326012

>>4325898
http://www.4chan.org/rules

Global Rules #2

>> No.4326042 [DELETED] 

13
The entire western canon

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>> No.4326043

>>4325786
20
V.; The Stranger, The Doors of Perception.
I haven't read too much. Just skip around from whatever I see.

>> No.4326055

17

Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow and, of course, Ulysses.

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>> No.4326064

>>4325786
18
Sense and Sensibility, War and Peace

I don't think I have very good taste in literature.

>> No.4326071

Wow, OP way to attract every brat who apparently is not supposed to be on 4chan. Apparently they are all familiar with Dostoevsky, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Camus, Shakespeare and every other author that is mentioned on this board daily. If I didn't know any better, I'd say some of these "kids" are trying to be funny.

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>>4326055
Ladies and gentlemen, /lit/

>> No.4326080

>>4325876
Being this spoilt. How old are you?

>> No.4326082

>>4326071
>If I didn't know better
Except you actually do know that all these posts are trying to be funny. Stop being disingenuous.
>every author that is
who* is; learn to write.

>> No.4326083

29
I like the classics.

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22
Finnegan Wake's

>> No.4326088

19
Against Civilization by John Zerzan, A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers... Idunno. I enjoy a lot of books. These are just some that provoked more reaction than others, good or bad.

>> No.4326089

>>4326080
I see someone is English. I learned recently that in the U.K. "spoilt" is an acceptable term in place of the word "spoiled". I dig your language.

>> No.4326091

18, Kafka, Lem, Borges, Calvino, Eco

>> No.4326094

>>4326080
How old are you? Like 30? Hope you enjoy sucking the corporate dongle for the rest of your miserable existence.

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>>4326055
>>4326072
I lol'd

>> No.4326098

>>4326082
I apologize I cannot help my cynical attitude. There is something about being an asshole, that I find enjoyable. As for my writing skills, you are correct and I apologize for my oversight.

>> No.4326104

>>4326012

pish posh

dont be jelly that a 16 year old had better taste than you did

>> No.4326106

22

I'm an idiot so whatever I read last. Blood Meridian, in this case.

>> No.4326109

>>4326094
I make good cash, doing a job I like thank you. You enjoy neet-life sinking into a crushing depression doing nothing with your life as you slowly notice that you have no friends, no achievment to your name and just being a general freeloader on society.

>> No.4326119

>>4326071
I realize I'm not as well read as a lot of the people here, but that's part of the reason why I'm here. I don't post in the threads about authors I don't know, but I often read them with the hopes of learning about the authors, in order to become more well read and a generally better person.

>> No.4326143

>>4326119
I know, I was being sarcastic. As long as you can stomach a slight bit of pretension, /lit/ is a decent place to get reading suggestions and even have civil discussion. I wish I knew about it when I started my literary journey.

>> No.4326259

>>4326109
Do you think most jobs people do today accomplish anything for "society"?

>> No.4326307

>>4326259
I'd say most jobs involve the transfer of money between different persons which is vital to the economy, which is a major part of any society so yes, I do think it accomplishes something for "society"

>> No.4326327

>>4326307
Do you think that society really needs your so-called "economy" to function? You really have been brainwashed.

>> No.4326336

>>4325786

26

Tolstoy and Shakespeare: like all of what they produced (excerpt for the doctrinaire and religious Tolstoy texts).

Its funny, but I like novelists and short-story writers the most when they write in crystalline and limpid language. Poets, in the other hand, seem to me to be greater according to their capacity and creativity to write metaphors and similes (I don't like poetry that lack imagery too much).

>> No.4326341

I don't answer surveys regarding my personal life, but my favorite book is either Ulysses or Ada (by Nabokov).

>> No.4326344

21

The Magic Mountain

>> No.4326349

>>4326055
OP said favorite books not "books /lit/ trolled you into reading".

>> No.4326355

>>4325786
18
The Master and Margarita, 100 Years of Solitude, Gospel of John

>> No.4326359

>>4326341
That sounds just like I imagined you, Sarah.

>> No.4326369

>>4326341
Did you want to know my age now, honey?


>>4325786
>Do you have favourite books?
Several favorites, most recently was Vidal's Julian. But like music, I will no doubt find more.

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11. Phenomenology of Spirit, Meditations

>> No.4328147

>>4325829
21
The Brothers Karamazov, The Gunslinger, The Book of the New Sun

>> No.4328153

21
from several genres my favorites are
Brothers Karamazov followed closely by Grapes of Wrath
The Way of Kings
The Forever War

>> No.4328158

31
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
American Gods
The Man in the High Castle

>> No.4328162

>>4325841
>The History of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Non-Fiction)

oh not the fiction version?

btw even the abridged version is c.900 pages. is it possible you are stretching the truth underage (and shortly to be banned) anon?

>> No.4328166

>>4326104
The mods are really strict about age. Expect a ban soon.

>> No.4328170

>>4326327
>muh armchair revolutionary
>fuck society and the spooks
>NEET 4 lyfe
>One day they will read my writings and be inspired

top kek

>> No.4328172

>17
>Stoner

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>> No.4328174

20
Kafka (diaries), Bernhard (early novels)

>> No.4328176

>18
>The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family

>> No.4328183

>>4326355
You're me at 18. Did my final project in AP lit on Master and Margarita.

20
Master and Margarita, 100 Years of Solitude.

I've barely read since then.

>> No.4328185

>>4325789
26
2666, White Noise, Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats

>> No.4328187

>>4326474
nice, these books are very poetical, I would add "Critique of Pure Reason"

>> No.4328188

38
lolita

>> No.4328190

>>4328174
Kafka (diaries) = just so good

>> No.4328192

20
steppenwolf

>> No.4328202

26

INFINITE JEST BITCHES

>> No.4328209

22
The Master and Margarita
BSc Comp. Sci., MLitt Phil.

>> No.4328220

19
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Eh, I don't claim to have the greatest taste, plus my "favorite book" tends to change quite a bit.

>> No.4328229

57: Boswell's LOJ

>> No.4328282

21
Jacques the Fatalist

>> No.4328287

29
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

>> No.4328289

28
Lit degree, read a lot of books (obviously).
Having a favourite is a kind of a teenage thing. I am guilty of wanting to read modern classics more so than other books so I tend to read the obvious ones rather than hunt out the more obscure.
I guess I like modernist/post modernist lit the most.
I read Heart of Darkness last wasn't bad and prior to that Satre - Nausea, again not bad and both worth reading.

>> No.4328290

>>4325786
20

fave author is Oscar Wild in general, fave book of all time is Alice in Wonderland.

>> No.4328291

>>4328289
Same poster
I think I just changed my mind to Hemingway - Fiesta as a favourite.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy must be a second as I don't think I have read any other book more times.

>> No.4328294

22
My Friends by Emmanuel Bove

>> No.4328300

>>4328153
>The Way of Kings
I couldn't make it past book one. When does that book get good?

>> No.4328307

>>4325786

22

My favorite reading subjects tend to be world religions, sociology and history as far as non-fiction goes and fantasy & horror as far as fiction goes.

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>19
>Favorite novels: Glamorama, The Elementary Particles, and Cosmopolis

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>>4325786

>21
>College dropout
>The Trial, Breakfast of Champions, House of Leaves
>Not even trolling
>Currently reading White Noise
>Boring as fuck imho

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>>4328313
Most of White Noise is trying to imitate the trivality of everyday life in a family, so it is intentionally mundane at times. However trust me if you finish it you will see it's worth.

>> No.4328322

>18
>Nausea, The Wretched of the Earth and Fear and Trembling are the most notable recent ones.

>> No.4328324

>>4328190
Yes... I have the fear that I'll never read anything like that again, which is quite a sad thought at age 20...

>> No.4328331

> 21
> season of migration to the north

>> No.4328340 [DELETED] 

17.999......

Cat in the Hat

>> No.4328343

23
A Song of Ice and Fire

>> No.4328384

>>4326098
Fuck head

>> No.4328387

19, Stephen Kings The Stand

>> No.4328550

21, The sorrows of young werther

>> No.4328572

25, To The Lighthouse or La Vie Mode D'Emploi. College dropout incidentally.

>> No.4328578 [DELETED] 

I actually am 17, but I write here for improving my English skills.
Favourite book...[hipster] Vera Historia by Lucian by Samosata[/hipster].

Nah, man, I would say Aulularia by Plauto, for sure.

>> No.4328581

>>4328578
Oh, well, farewell to the arms.
(I actually am 18, for God's sake, I was 18 on June)

>> No.4328596

I believe survey threads are cancerous, but I feel like I should reply to one for once.

23

Doppler (I love all other Loe's works as well, but I don't wanna list them all)

Frankenstein (been fond of it since I was a teen)

Life of Pi (call Martel a hack all you want, but it was an entertaining book presenting some interesting ideas in an engaging way, I appreciate the work and all its faults, debatable or otherwise)

Glad to see The Master&Margarita being mentioned in the thread, it's quality stuff.

>> No.4328618

19. TBK is my favorite. I also really enjoy Milan Kundera and Anton Chekhov. Cummings, Berryman, and Dylan Thomas for poetry.

>> No.4328622

>>4325829
>>4325841

Is this (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) real?

>> No.4328623

>>4328596
I just finished M&M and was not especially satisfied. What did you like about it?

>> No.4328625

>>4328622
Yes.

>> No.4328630 [DELETED] 

5
Rikki Tikki Tavi

>> No.4328631

>>4328625

But what those guys did wrong except for maybe some mainstream-taste and desire to impress? Ah, I know. They are underage, right?

>> No.4328633

>19
>My favourites include but are not limited to Dance Dance Dance, The Secret Agent, The Beach, Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment

>> No.4328638

>>4328623
>What did you like about it?

Some would reply that they liked its subtle criticism of the communist regime, but I personally liked how its different stories meshed together, how it played with slightly controversial and progressive (at the time) ideas (displaying the devil in a somewhat positive light, characterizing Pontius Pilate as a human being, and he's basically the Christian Hitler), and how it had a nice dose of humor with it all.
Wolland's troupe's a lovable bunch, all Pilate chapters were intriguing to me. The story of the characters in the title was actually the least interesting to me, but that's because I was more impressed by the other, more dynamic aspects of the story at the time.

>> No.4328653

>>4328638
I agree that parts of it were interesting, but on the whole I just found it to be bland. I wasn't really engaged in the story & the prose was less than desirable. It was an amusing (though not humorous) little book, but I can't see it being among someone's favorites. To each his own, I guess. I think I wasn't moved by Pilate's portrayal because I had just finished another book that was more forgiving of him.

>>4328618
I always forget to say how much I adore DFW._

>> No.4328679

19
Whom the bells tolls and Pan Tadeusz (by polish writer Adam Mickiewicz)

>> No.4328683

>>4325829
>>4325841
Thank you based mods.

>> No.4328774

18
the Red and the Black by Stendhal
Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

>> No.4328778

18
Animal Farm, Roadside Picnic, Blood Song, Gary Stu Chronicles, Masters of Doom, Witcher series, in no particular order. Haven't read many of the classics, inb4 pleb and whatnot.
I read a shitload of fables and stories by brothers Grimm as a kid but don't remember anything about them except the fact that I liked them.
Currently trying to finish TBK but maybe I'm just not cut out for slav family drama and theological debates in 19th century Russia, at least not yet. Also working on Critique of Pure Reason which is giving me somewhat of a hard time because of the dated as fuck vocabulary Kant uses. His general ideas aren't that complex, at least when you look at them in hindsight in 2013. Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Raynolds also seems promising enough.

>> No.4328782

>>4325786
20
shakespeare stuff (tragedies and as you like it esp.), war and peace, anna karenina, critique of pure reason

>> No.4328786

>all these 17-20 year olds
Now I feel disgusted at myself for spending so much time on this fucking board.

>> No.4328788

>>4328786
>not delighting in contribution to the education of youths

>> No.4328792

>>4328786
you really SHOULD feel disgusted. you're basically showing yourself to be the intellectual equal of a bunch of people younger than you. it's time to grow up, grandpa. it's perfectly healthy to hang out on a literature board of your peers, not to hang around a bunch of youths you don't know and get in arguments with them.

>> No.4328797

>>4325786
27
Iain M Banks scifi novels are all top tire favourite books.
A great shame that he died, I was hoping for a decade or two more of great books at least.

>> No.4328798

18
Virgil's The Aeneid, or The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

Anyone know of anything similar to the latter?

>> No.4328802

21
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
V. by Thomas Pynchon

>> No.4328931

>>4328786
Oh, don't be like that. It's only a problem when kids pretend to have a greater understanding of the world than they do.

Alice in Wonderland, Neverending Story, Mort guess my age

>> No.4328962

>>4328786
If you're so "grown up" why don't you fuck off and do something with your pathetic life?

>> No.4328965

>>4328931
37 and you're a woman.

>> No.4328970

>>4328965
Wrong.
183 and i'm a hobbit

>> No.4330092

24
Sedaris and Manion

>> No.4330096

>>4328970
What a coincidence, I'm 2000, African and a buddha.

>> No.4330115

>>4326327
>
This is the most adorably naive thing I've read all day.

>> No.4330130

26
Brothers Karamazov, The Waves

>> No.4330141

>18
>brave new world, It, 1984

>> No.4330150

42. Favorite book is Mrs Dalloway

>> No.4330160

>>4325786
21

Brothers Karamazov, L' Homme Revoltè

>> No.4330170

24, The Ghost in Love & Through the Looking-Glass

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18
Mein Kamf

>inb4 POL PLS GO I WANT POL 2 LEAVE WAAAHHHH

>> No.4330291

>>4330187
wow what a cool picture. is that like blood? that's like really edgy and challenging. i bet you are a real freethinker.

>> No.4330311

>>4330187
Do you listen to Von Thronstahl unironically?

>> No.4330323

Well, since I'm on my phone, 17.
Favorite books: IJ, Lolita, Flowers for Algernon, Catcher in the Rye (don u say it), and Fabric of the cosmos

>> No.4330342

23
The Grapes of Wrath, The Plague, The Prince

>> No.4330357

20
Halo: Fall of Reach

>> No.4330366

pls also list gender so I can know whether to think 'cute' or 'pleb'.

>> No.4330368

>>4330187
Can you explain why you like it so much? Personally I found it to be poorly written and sometimes just ridiculous (like Jews as shape shifters that infiltrate the bloodlines of other races). But I admit I'm heavily biased against it.

>> No.4330373

>>4328162
Ive read the unabridged everymans version twice (history nerd) and it is a fuckin great read and very accessible to anyone who loves the english language.

As for me, 31 Blood Meridian/The Count of Monte Cristo/Call of the Wild

>> No.4330381

36

Of Human Bondage

>> No.4330392

>>4328631
?

They said in their post they were 16 and 17. Obviously they're underage.

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>>4330187
How brave and forward thinking of you.

>> No.4330508

>>4328310
Michel Houellebecq sucks so badly.

>> No.4330512

>>4328318
>>4328313
He's right, White Noise is very good, just hold on.

>> No.4330521

19
1. A Hero of Our Time
2.Master And Margherita
3.The process

>> No.4330618

20
crying of lot 49

>> No.4330651

>>4326086
>Finnegan Wake's

That's a new one. Blasphemy, but new. Also, you've never read it.

>> No.4330657

22, Thérèse raquin

>> No.4330670

19

The Sound and the Fury/To the Lightouse/Heart of Darkness. It's really hard to choose just one.

>>4325829
>>4325841
>>4326055
>>4328172

lol

>>4326064
Sense and Sensibility is awful, though.

>> No.4330672

19
steppenwolf,thus spoke Zarathustra,notes from underground,100 years of solitude,the tunnel

>> No.4330675

>>4325786
>42
>Dostoyevsky, Borges, Lem, and DFW are my favorites. The Brothers Karamazov is my #1.
>Master's, but not in lit

>> No.4330696

>>4330670
so is heart of darkness and the sound and the fury.

>> No.4330703

20

if on a winter's night a traveller

>> No.4330717

>>4330672
>steppenwolf,thus spoke Zarathustra,notes from underground,100 years of solitude,the tunnel

I can relate

>> No.4330718

I'm 18
My favourite books are On The Road, Pedro Paramo, Infinite Jest, The President and possibly Breakfast Of Champions. There's many. There are the ones that are the most memorable to me right now.

I still have a bunch of stuff to read, though. I'm currently reading The Pale King and after that I'll probably bandwagon over to Stoner. I really need an E-Reader. I'm currently attending university for engineering so my knowledge of literature is that of a hobbyist. I'd like to course something related to philosophy or literature later on, though.

Also since we're at it, could someone help a young /lit/erate and explain to me what's so special about Molière? I'm trying to build a better picture for myself of literature across the ages and I can't wrap my head around why Molière has stuck around so deeply; to me he just comes off as a Mozart of sorts: Very talented and proficient, but just a crowd pleaser for courtesans. I don't reckon this deserves its own thread.

>> No.4330726

>18
>Harry Potter series. I'm now reading Crim and Punishment, my first "classic, serious" novel... it's something different entirely.

>> No.4330741

>21
>dont read lol

>> No.4330789

>19
>Currently reading The Bear Went Over the Mountain: A Novel
>Highly enjoyed Fahrenheit 451, Into the Wild, Bless Me Ultima, fiction wise
>non fiction: The Abolition of Man hands down favorite.
>Look forward to reading a lot of those books that everyone should read but I haven't read yet, like Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, etc.

>> No.4330791

>>4330741
The fuck are you doing on /lit/ for then?

>> No.4330822

12 xD
The hunger games and twilight xd cant wait until next hunger games movie comes out xdxdx

>> No.4330827

22
Alice in Wonderland

>> No.4330832

>>4330791
perusin', cruisin'
chillin, killin

>> No.4330839

26
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

>> No.4330841

>>4330839
disgusting

>> No.4330847 [DELETED] 

16
The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.4330852

49, anything by Malcolm Gladwell

>> No.4330858

19, A Clockwork Orange.

>> No.4330884

>>4330847
UNDERAGE B& BASED MODS

>> No.4330982

>>4328622
No. Post your age

>> No.4330987

>>4330852
How'd you find 4chan?

>> No.4331348

>>4330852
That guy is shit

>> No.4331370

21
The Sirens of Titan

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>>4325829
>>4325841
>>4326055
>>4328172

>/lit/ mods in charge of jokes

>> No.4331379

>>4325786
22
Tie between:
> Looking for Alaska
> Never Let Me Go

>> No.4331384

9 and a half.

Favorite books:

>Bernstein Bears "Messy Room"
>The Juliette Society

>> No.4331391

23.
Little, Big. Lord of the Rings. The Reefs of Earth. Wendell Berry. Poetry of Wallace Stevens and Robinson Jeffers.

>> No.4331397

21
'no'

>> No.4331398

Since bans are being handed out can i please also have one? Finals week right now and a three day ban would give me alot of incentive. Plzzzzz

>> No.4331406

>>4331398
Try mentioning that they're high school finals.

You can still lurk when you're banned though

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20
Currently reading: The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Favorite Book: Underworld

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Crime and Punishment

>> No.4331415

>23
>No favourite. I've read many books across many genres and styles, so it's not only that I find it pointless, but also quite an impossible task to choose a book which stands above all.

>> No.4331446

just to let you guys know, most of you will probably have to reread most of the books you listed to truly understand them... ego-boosting aside.

>> No.4331499

>>4325786
19
the stranger, extremely loud and incredibly close, i first read it a decade ago, but id still have to say eragon was great

>> No.4331502

>>4331398
:(

Uhm yeah it's high school finals i promise.

>> No.4331504

>>4331502
Create a thread nonrelated to literature

>> No.4331507

>>4331446
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1986/oct/09/why-read-the-classics/

They wouldn't be my favourite if I didn't reread them again and again like how this is one of my favourite essay.

>> No.4331514

18
Les Miserables

>> No.4331515

>>4331446
>implying we haven't read them multiple times already

It goes without saying, bro.

>> No.4331538

>>4326089
It's that way everywhere, am I wrong? We say 'spoilt' in Australia.

Also, you're weird.

>> No.4331543

20
Notes From the Underground, Dostoevsky, & The Vivisector, Patrick White

>> No.4331547

21
The Stranger.

Will I outgrow it someday /lit/?

>> No.4331554

>>4331547
Yeah.

>> No.4331556

>>4331543
The Vivisector started out so well, but I dropped it in the middle because it got so boring and unengaging.

>> No.4331583

>>4331556
I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but I do think you need to finish a work before you can properly appraise it; and I didn't find it any more boring than some of - say - Dostoevsky's doorstoppers, like The Idiot and so on.

>> No.4331618

>>4325786
>18
>Thus spoke Zarathustra, Meditations, a metric shitton of science fiction (specialy Stanislaw.)

>> No.4331624

>>4331538
Hey there, it's the "weird" anon. We say spoiled here in America. Thanks for noticing my weirdness; I'd rather be weird than an asshole.

>> No.4331640

Is it coincidental that most anons here seem to have similar tastes in literature? We all need to get the fuck off this board.

>> No.4331645

>>4331624
>an asshole
Look, if I've offended you I apologize, but did you need to insult me?

>> No.4331649

>>4331645
The asshole bit was directed at me not you. Poor choice of words on my part. No need to apologize, I am the one who should apologize. You are certainly not an asshole, I took weird as a compliment.

>> No.4331650

>>4331618
Lem?

>> No.4331651

>>4325786
>19.
>Prisoner of zenda. Alternately mystery novels involving closed rooms which don't have bullshit like secret exits or cats with poison tipped claws.

>> No.4331721

>>4331650
Yup.

>> No.4331729

>>4331721
Thanks for your taste. You should try Calvino, Eco, and Kafka.

>> No.4331732

25

Zuckerman Bound trilogy, Othello, King Lear, the short stories of Hemingway, The Sound and the Fury, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Lolita (not even trolling)

>> No.4331733

23
Unsure about my favorite book, the best I read this year are:
The Darkroom of Damocles by Willem Frederik Hermans.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy.

>> No.4331734

23

Master and Margarita

>> No.4331763

>>4331729
I already know Kafka... It's quite amazing. Lem should be translated to more languages... Here in Brazil only Solaris was translated to Portuguese and most people barely know him. Even my philosophy teacher who is an sci fi addict never heard of him. Jesus I hate south america. Although I'll try Borges as soon as I can.

>> No.4331769

>>4325847
>>4325869
>>4325875
>>4325876
>These
When will people learn that your career and your interests are not always going to match up perfectly. You can study for many different reasons, for interest, for a career, for continuing your education, for avoiding the real world (many, many of us are guilty of this), but ultimately you have to create your career. One isn't just going to arrive at your doorstep ready-made and waiting for your ass to sit down.
And I hate how people keep pushing this dichotomy between education and job prospects. I know a guy who studied religion and history at Berkeley and now he works as an accountant at a successful insurance agency. This guy was basically on the road to becoming a priest, but he had no interest in following that road.
I don't fucking care how much money I make once I get out of university, because I know it's not going to be enough, and it never will be. The best I can hope for is to have a small living space with enough food and utilities. That's it.
>inb4 I'm going to be kicking myself in 10 years when I'm homeless, I'm sure
To be honest, I would have loved to have studied physics in uni, but my calculus marks just weren't high enough so I could never pass beyond basic theory.
But even then, what would I do with that degree? I don't know, but that's the challenge that everyone faces once they leave their institutions.

>> No.4331780

>>4331769
It's because Reddit, Tumblr and Forbes Magazine have made the internet people insecure about their life choices.

>> No.4331781

>>4331769
By the way, I'm 22
my favourite authors are Borges, Vallejo, Onetti, Nabokov, Beckett, Proust (yes, I know), Celine, Malraux, Gonçalo Tavares (so fucking good), Guimaraes Rosa, Lispector, etc.

>> No.4331790

>>4331780
Every once in a while, I bite and follow a link to one of those "Top X Degrees with the Best Job Prospects" articles and I always hate myself a little for having done so and for thinking about all the people who believe them.
I wonder how many of my high school mates followed through on their plans to become doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, etc.

>> No.4331799

>>4331790
I'm guilty of that too, but then I remember that Forbes is basically a shitrag, their motto is essentially: If you're not making $100,000 a year, you're a loser. I hope people don't take their words too much to heart.

I'd be curious to see what becomes of those I knew in high school. Let's follow up in a few years.

>> No.4331806

>>4330718
I used to have the same problem with Shakespeare and Beethoven. Their good, competent, crowd pleasing, talented, but they didn't make the same impression on me as modern and contemporary writers. Then I sat down and forced myself to read Shakespeare and Moliere and Cervantes, and to listen to Beethoven and Haydn and Mozart. There is real beauty in their works and I think it's partially the remove we feel centuries apart and also an offputting reaction to the reverence which modern literature pays them which make it hard to appreciate their talents.
Sure, I still put Shostakovich, Bartok, and others above the classics, but that's my personal taste.

>> No.4331812

>>4331799
I have such an aversion to the idea of reuniting with my classmates after 5 or 10 years because I'm sure it's just a chance for people to show-off their accomplishments and have a nostalgia binge. I mean, part of it is because I'm sure I won't have accomplished anything within the foreseeable future, but part of it is just my complete apathy towards almost everyone I knew back then. I wasn't unpopular or anything, I just don't want to go back there.

>> No.4331817

>>4331812
Don't think I'll be attending any reunions either. Most of the people I knew in high school were just acquaintances, those who were my close friends I am still in contact with. Only a few of those friends went to college anyway and I'm up to date on their activities.
Knowing my high school, whatever accomplishments anyone from my grad. class has to show in the next year or so is not going to be that impressive. So I'm with you, fuck going back there.

>> No.4331851

>>4325786
19

Don't really have a fav book, but I do like 1984, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Call of the Wild, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Hunger Games is a guilty pleasure

>> No.4331870

>>4331763
Do try Borges, he is life-changing.
About Brazil, do they teach you about Clarice Lispector, João Guimarães Rosa and Machado de Assis in school or are they outliers?

>> No.4331881

>>4331851
Have you read anything else by Salinger?
I'm always curious by what people read in high school because I spent a lot of hours reading back then (I would wake up at 4 am and read until it was time for school, then read throughout the afternoon and evening, then leave weekends open for dates and parties).
In my university, it seems like a lot of lit majors just read the basic discussion-oriented things they taught in class without reading independently. Granted, most of them want to become teachers.

>> No.4331898

>>4331881
The rest of Salinger's work are not that great. There are a couple books of his short stories floating around out there. Also, most university Lit. majors are under the impression that they don't have time to read independently between homework and partying.

>> No.4331906

>>4331898
lol id say that franny and zooey was good. i liked perfect day for bananafish and ocean full of bowling balls too

>> No.4331923

>>4325906

Hjalmar Söderberg? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDDING ME!?

Im 24 btw and i like all of Hemingway and Orwell

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>>4331923
Hjalmar är en god författare. även om min personliga (svenska) favorit är Heidsenstam

21, Shakespeare, Borges

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Probably because I've reread it so many times. I honestly have no idea why I have, and why I like it so much. It is just the first thing that comes to mind, sorry.