/lit/ - Literature

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Anonymous Tue May 13 17:23:04 2014 No.4888273 [DELETED]

how pleb or patrician is your family, /lit/?

>father:
reads popular crime novels- henning mankell, ian rankin, and a lot of historical texts
>mother:
patrician. shakespeare, petronius, virgil, aeschylus, metaphysics
>sister:
pretty good- plath, fitzgerald, beat, also lots of history

overall pleased with family 8/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:25:03 2014 No.4888285 Stop thinking of your private life in terms of 4chan memes

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:25:20 2014 No.4888287 I don't know what a pleb of a patrician is, could you explain them in their correct context?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:27:03 2014 No.4888298 /lit/ - my blog

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:28:09 2014 No.4888303 >>4888287 >patrician someone who shares your tastes >pleb someone who does not

Anonymous Tue May 13 17:31:46 2014 No.4888314

>>4888273
Father works in the yard and complains about his prole job.

Mother takes ceramics classes at Rec center and paints shitty owls on rocks.

Brother plays LoL all day in his bath robe and has a copy of aristotles metaphysics that he has never cracked the spine of.

2/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:37:40 2014 No.4888348 >>4888314 keked

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:40:07 2014 No.4888359 >>4888273 It would be a shame if you implied to put the bad mouth on Rebus, the greatest detective in Scot history.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:40:24 2014 No.4888362 Dad: doesn't read Mom: doesn't read Sister: Eh, pretty standard. Used to be super into Palahniuk, but I haven't talked to her much in a while, so I'm not sure.

Anonymous Tue May 13 17:43:01 2014 No.4888375

Mom reads erotic fiction
Sister reads erotic fiction also, YA shit, etc. She has started acquiring books by authors such as Dickens and Austen and some odd old books but i think she's just collecting them and not reading them - not sure.
I have no idea what my dad reads, if anything.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:46:28 2014 No.4888396 Dad - Reads travel books and newspaper. Mom - Reads bad romance novels in Spanish. Brother - Reads newspaper and rides bikes Sister - No clue, but she works in film Brother - Reads John Grisham and is really pretentious overall 4/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:48:11 2014 No.4888399 my parents were Trotskyites, and used to burn down a lot of abandoned buildings. The law started to get onto them so they moved to s. america when I was 16 and I've been living with my grandparents since then. not sure if that is patrician or pleb

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:49:18 2014 No.4888407 >>4888375 how old is your sister? so she just reads books about cocks and gets soaking wet? in your house?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:50:16 2014 No.4888410 >>4888375 >erotic fiction Arab or not arab?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:52:56 2014 No.4888418 What does reading have to do with social class?

>>	samefag Tue May 13 17:55:13 2014 No.4888427 >>4888399 >burn down abandoned buildings why tho

Anonymous Tue May 13 17:56:22 2014 No.4888431

Father- Anything about the wild west
Mother- Self-help books
Sister- Some shitty gossip magazine
Brother- Absolutely anything. I was talking to him yesterday and he was reading a book about Alfred Nobel and last week it was a book on the various types of frog.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:56:52 2014 No.4888433 >>4888407 She's a young teenager I presume hormones are kicking in and stuff

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:57:54 2014 No.4888436 >>4888273 >father Dyslexic and so doesn't like reading. >mother Reads medical articles (she doesn't work in a medical field) and occasionally books I recommend to her. >sister Reads what I recommend.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 17:59:21 2014 No.4888440 >>4888433 can you tell us more?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:00:15 2014 No.4888442 >>4888410 post contemporary

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:01:27 2014 No.4888445 >>4888427 I really should probably talk to my therapist about that question soemtime

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:01:33 2014 No.4888447 >>4888433 describe her taste in more detail please

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:02:05 2014 No.4888449 Father -- Twain, Churchill, Bierce, economics journals, medical journals, pulp scifi. Mother -- historical religious texts (Thomas a Kempis), Catholic devotionals, pulp mysteries. Brother -- nothing

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Anonymous Tue May 13 18:06:53 2014 No.4888464

Dad: Super patrician, the reason I got into literature.

Mom: Stupid maximum pleb cunt who reads nothing but Hunger Games and other shitty pop lit. I'm not fucking kidding, she read Fifty Shades of Grey and sincerely enjoyed it. No wonder my Dad left her when I was three.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:09:12 2014 No.4888470 File: 23 KB, 324x257, 1391842190058.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Only reader in my family is one cousin. He reads nothing but war stories. I think now that he's in his middle 30's he regrets missing his chance to kill foreigners.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:10:44 2014 No.4888474 File: 41 KB, 620x388, 1385885162706.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4888464 What did u get that pleb bitch for mother's day?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:11:13 2014 No.4888478 >>4888464 L O L

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:13:59 2014 No.4888487 >>4888474 A concise message on her Facebook wall. She lives a six hour drive away and I couldn't be bothered to send her anything material. Honestly she's lucky she got that much, the cunt.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:14:22 2014 No.4888488 >>4888303 topkek

Anonymous Tue May 13 18:15:49 2014 No.4888491

>>4888273
Father- doesn't read, never read
Mother- doesn't read, never read, tried to read the lovely bones and got ten pages in and quit. Has been gathering dust ever since
Sister- read twilight, kinda, but not really.

They are far right conservative jesus lovers who think Obama is the anti-christ and every week someone mentions "the end times are coming".

Anonymous Tue May 13 18:17:08 2014 No.4888496

Dad - doesn't really read
Mom - reads a bit of Ian McEwan and Colm Toibín
Brother (18) - he's got some Bukowski, Wilde, Heller, Bolano. Knows a little about philosophy but seems like mostly wikipedia stuff.
Brother (14) - Fairly good for his age, bit of Orwell,Lord of the Flies, Malcolm Gladwell, Mythology
Sister (12) - Harry Potter and tween fiction
Brother (9) - this little fucker reads everything, all the Harry Potter books, all Tolkien's works, read Animal Farm (one one level obviously), fucking impressive for a boy of nine. Possible future /lit/ poster if I can't help it

Anonymous Tue May 13 18:23:38 2014 No.4888523

Dad: Has bad vision and is a very slow reader, so he doesn't read much. The only things he reads is articles and essays on property management (he's head of engineers for a leasing company). He is passionate about the few books he has read in his life, so there's that.

Mom: Reads a lot pop and YA lit. Really into Jodi Picoult, Dean Koontz, that kind of stuff. My sister and I recommend her some deeper stuff, but she's still pretty pleb. I'm glad she at least reads.

Sister: Pretty well patrician. Unfortunately, she's pre-med so she doesn't have much time to read outside of school work.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:24:42 2014 No.4888529 Jesus is my father and he didn't read any books.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 18:29:42 2014 No.4888545 Who the fuck cares how well read anon's family is?

Anonymous Tue May 13 18:39:36 2014 No.4888575

>>4888273
>Father
Reads alien conspiracy theories and FOX news tier "OH THE MUZZIES IN THE WHITE-HOUSE" things, occasionally something a bit more sophisticated will tickle his fancy, albeit very rarely
>Mother
Reads a lot of thrillers, mostly Jack Reacher which is pretty good I guess, and a lot of self-help stuff.
>Brother
Only reads books when he has to, to busy partying to give a shit about those lame books, you fucking nerds
3/10 Jack Reacher's carrying the weight here.

Anonymous Tue May 13 19:25:06 2014 No.4888684

mother:
romance novels and thrillers in English, no idea what in her first language (Serbian), although I know she has a 14-volume Borislav Pekić set.

father:
mathematics texts and scientific journals, occasionally a relatively non-pleb sci-fi or fantasy novel (e.g., T. H. White, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe). does not care at all about literary fiction, poetry, or philosophy.

brother 1 (17):
does not read. I think he owns a copy of a book about some band called "Red Hot Chili Peppers"

brother 2 (15):
reads a little bit because I tried to influence him, but my intervention was too little too late and he's basically just as much of an empty-headed retard as brother 1.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:28:09 2014 No.4888696 >>4888273 >mother: >patrician >shakespeare euro-forced trash, most recently being pushed into india. fuck the literary community and their drama.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:28:39 2014 No.4888697 >>4888496 >9 years old >Harry Potter, Tolkien, Animal Farm >impressive lol

Anonymous Tue May 13 19:30:06 2014 No.4888701

Father - Mostly historical texts. Some Rankin stuff. Also shitloads of fishing stuff.
Mother - Extremely literate. Would lambast me for reading too much Pratchett or fantasy when she thought I wasn't reading enough demanding literature. Apart from that she was laissez-faire to everything with my life.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:31:49 2014 No.4888708 >>4888697 >9 year old >Absorbing Animal Farm effectively Alright, Harry Potter is extremely easy to read and The Hobbit is fairly light but actually reading LOTR is a challenge in itself.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:35:19 2014 No.4888719 >>4888314 >mfw thah actually sounds like an postmodern novel

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:36:52 2014 No.4888730 >>4888273 >father: very seldom he reads at all except newspapers. if so, it's mostly short stories though. And he has a complete Hermann Hesse collection from the 70s >mother: travel literature, magazines >brother: manga 3/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:44:03 2014 No.4888745 >>4888545 It's just conversation, man. Seeing where people come from, how they are different, regardless of who their parents are. Chill out, man. No one is forcing you to be in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:52:59 2014 No.4888786 My mother is an English Major who reads popular novels, my father reads surfing magazines like he's still 19.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 19:53:20 2014 No.4888790 >>4888745 no one's forcing you to shitpost but yet here you are

Anonymous Tue May 13 19:59:56 2014 No.4888817

>father
mostly catholic theology books, but nothing with much depth. it's not that he isn't intelligent, he just doesn't like serious lit.
>mother
Crime novels, tabloid fiction, etc
>sister
fucking nothing
>brother 1
fucking nothing
>brother 2
manga and comic books (he has aspergers)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 20:00:27 2014 No.4888820 >>4888708 >people are animals >communism is bad It's not difficult.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 20:07:32 2014 No.4888857 >>4888820 It's not but I don't think there would be many 9 year olds knowing what communism is or the history of the progression of the revolution in Russia. It is more 13 year old material.

Anonymous Tue May 13 20:16:59 2014 No.4888895

My father: mixed. Picks up everything from The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, etc to Divergent.

My mother: pleb -- though to be fair, she's a doctor and works 80 hours a week. When she reads, she wants something light and entertaining, not some dense intellectual tome.

Brother: med school, doesn't read much outside of medical texts.

Sister: pleb. YA fiction and those badly written, overly dramatic women's romance novels.

I don't know. 5/10?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 20:21:04 2014 No.4888903 >>4888697 Nah, I'd count that as impressive. I still couldn't read at all when I was 9.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 20:24:50 2014 No.4888913 >>4888903 So you're even dumber than a dumb kid. Do you want a pat on the back?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 20:31:29 2014 No.4888932 >>4888913 I'm just saying, kid's impressive for reading that as young as he is. Anyway, I learned to read the next year and jumped straight to an adult reading and comprehension level. I'm far from dumb.

Anonymous Tue May 13 20:43:40 2014 No.4888964

Dad: very well-read. While kids were learning their ABCs, he's already been reading The Three Musketers when he was 6. Right now he mostly reads Fantasy novels, though, because he's already read most classical literature of some renown there is.
Mom: reads lit occasionally, but mostly when prompted by my father, doubt she really understands much though. She is always having trouble keeping up with a movie, I think a book would be even more tiresome for her.
Granny: Lots of women's novels, since they are easy to read. Probably read stuff when she was younger, though.
Grandpa: No idea. He probably read some good /lit/, but very selectively.

Anonymous Tue May 13 20:53:27 2014 No.4888993

>>4888273
>father
reads science fiction, popular science books, magic realism novels
>mother
reads jane austen, crime novels
>sister
used to read young adult fiction, don't know how much she reads nowadays. mostly stuff about womens issues I'd imagine
>brother
film student, so lots of stuff about film theory and the like. read some classics too.

6/10 could be worse

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 20:54:18 2014 No.4888994 this is banal as fuck. but I'm curious, what are the people that don't even need to read? The ones that are past it. (I don't mean doctors that are too busy, that is just petitebourgeios as fuck.)

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 20:57:11 2014 No.4889009 >>4888399 That's pretty patrician. My parents were Trots too.

Anonymous Tue May 13 21:00:54 2014 No.4889022

>>4888994
I wouldn't say banal exactly, though I get your point. Still, dumb threads like this one are OK once in a while.

Dad: Got into law school without a degree by talking up the interviewer about Gunter Grass novels, loves Pynchon, McCarthy, Flaubert, Ichiguro, Richler, generally the origin of my love of literature

Mom: Doesn't really read but will occasionally read some pop lit like Jodi Picoult or something

Sister: Never really read until recently, likes Plath, Vonnegut, Woolf, kind of "entry-level" but it's nice to see her actually try

7/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:07:20 2014 No.4889041 >>4888399 >burn down abandoned buildings If they were pre-Corbusier ones then that makes me butthurt, fucking barbarians

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:10:26 2014 No.4889052 >Mother Whatever she read before dropping out. Likely children chapter books or something. >Father Illiterate >Sister Schizo. Welp. How am I even remotely competent?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:12:12 2014 No.4889060 >>4888273 My family reads the highest of the high and the lowest of the low, so they're very patrician. If you read only high brow shit, that's more pleb than you think.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:14:23 2014 No.4889068 >>4888496 >Dad - doesn't really read Too busy fucking your mom obviously.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:14:54 2014 No.4889071 >>4889060 Your posts makes no sense.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:18:54 2014 No.4889086 My brother only reads online tabloids and my mother is functioning illiterate.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:30:13 2014 No.4889133 >>4888273 >parents Both of them never read fiction. All they read are books about economics and medicine (all types of medicine). Not for their job, for fun. >sister Reads almost nothing. >other sister Pretty much just poetry.

Anonymous Tue May 13 21:31:56 2014 No.4889138

>Father
I've never seen him read a thing. He's been in the military his whole life and currently works at Guantanamo Bay.
>Mother
Reads Daniel Steel and watches Grey's Anatomy and Dr. Phil.
>Sister
She thinks she's intelligent and deep but she's not. Obsessed with "Gone With the Wind" the movie, and works in Real Estate. She's a "social butterfly" type.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:33:13 2014 No.4889145 >>4889071 Because you're stupid!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 21:55:02 2014 No.4889202 >father Probably hasn't read a single book in his life. >mother Hemingway, Anne Rice, Dean Kuntz >sister Whatever she's forced to read in school. >brother Has mild dyslexia; nearly illiterate. 0.5/10

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:02:27 2014 No.4889225 >>4888684 >some band called "red hot chili peppers" How fucking ignorant can you be?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:10:34 2014 No.4889243 >>4889225 I try not to engage with popular culture of any kind, but especially not popular music.

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>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:24:05 2014 No.4889301 >>4889286 What? I'm a Catholic traditionalist.

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:28:24 2014 No.4889315

>father:
Reads detective novels, spy/war novels, science fiction, classical history, whatever I leave lying around the house, fedora tier books for "rebellious"/"freethinking" adults that his friends give him

>mother:
Terry Pratchett novels + whatever depressing tale the book club is reading this week

>brother:
War memoirs, memoirs written by former police or firefighters

>self:
Fantasy, horror, literary fiction, nonfiction about politics and history

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:28:51 2014 No.4889318

>>4889243
It's pretty impressive you managed to go all the way to 2014 and not know who Red Hot Chili Peppers are when they were pretty big even in the eighties. I don't know man, you seem to be missing out in terms of music. There's a world between Nicki Minaj and RHCP. They had a really nice funky sound in the early stage.

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:30:27 2014 No.4889324

>>4889243

This is nice in theory and I am incredibly ignorant about what is played on the radio (because I prefer podcasts or audiobooks when I travel), but if you aren't even aware of them by name it means: a) you don't talk to human beings very often and if you do, you're a horrible conversationalist who likely talks about themself and shows little interest in other human beings, and b) you're a horrible brother who won't even feign interest in a band that is the subject of the one book your brother apparently owns.

There's avoiding vapid culture and then there's shutting yourself off. I hate RHCP, but I know who they are.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:31:40 2014 No.4889326 >>4889318 I remember watching their super bowl performance this year with family and neighbors to a unanimous response of "this crap sounds like complete bullshit."

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:35:56 2014 No.4889339

>>4889324
>a) you don't talk to human beings very often and if you do, you're a horrible conversationalist who likely talks about themself and shows little interest in other human beings, and b) you're a horrible brother who won't even feign interest in a band that is the subject of the one book your brother apparently owns.

Wow, correct on both counts. Still, neither my brother nor other people are worth it, and I prefer shutting myself off from the corruption of the modern world.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:40:13 2014 No.4889352 >>4889243 what do you even listen to

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:44:47 2014 No.4889361 >Mother Only reads Russian religious books (Dostoevsky mainly) >Father Alcoholic who has never read a book in his life >Sister Reads YA stuff. She's young though.

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:45:51 2014 No.4889363

Dad: He's dyslexic and English is his second language, so just newspaper articles and car magazines.
Mom: Everything, but mainly crime novels and recent award winners. She's definitely the reason I read so much now, she would take me to the bookstore all the time in elementary school. I gave her an Elmore Leonard book for mother's day
Sister #1: Mostly teen fiction. she's a big fan of John Green (or at least she used to be, she doesn't really read much anymore).
Sister #2: Also dyslexic. She reads a lot of manga and I don't, so I can't really speak to it's quality.
Grandpa: Carl Sandburg and military history books
Grandma: Jodi Picoult and similar commercial lit, BUT she does have Finnegans Wake sitting on her office bookshelf.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:46:18 2014 No.4889365 >>4889352 Classical music and plainchant.

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:48:39 2014 No.4889370

>father
Pretty much everything. Lots of philosophy, Victorian-era stuff, and 1940s pulp detective novels.

>mother
Magic realism on a good day, shitty inspirational stuff on a bad day.

>stepfather
Beat poetry, plus whatever's in the New Books section of the library.

>brother
Mostly the Nintendo catalogue, though I think my mom got him to read Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:51:39 2014 No.4889377

Dad: studied philosophy and literature in Paris. He's read about everything I want to read. Patrish to the max, too bad he's a douche.

Mom: Studied spanish literature and was a super patrish too, but by her late 30's she became obsess with generic romance and self help books.

Sister: Pop lit and pseudo-philosophy for college liberals.

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That's a nice sounding family OP.

My father read some Louis L'amour for a stretch of time.
My mother loved her mysteries most of all.
One sibling studies psychology and she reads rightwing crap. Another reads manga. ...I'm always the weird one.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:52:47 2014 No.4889381 >>4889365 Not gonna lie, you sound like an insufferable faggot. I thought I was bad. I scoff in people's faces when they give me recs and don't like wasting my time on anything that isn't worthwhile to my development, but jesus, man.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 22:54:21 2014 No.4889388 Interesting families >>4889133 >>4889086 >>4889022 >>4888817 >>4888701 >>4888396 >>4888314 Very interesting families >>4889361 >>4888730 >>4888684 >>4888399

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:57:13 2014 No.4889398
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>>4888273
>father
Colonel in the army and served two tours of duty in Afghanistan. Library filled with foreign policy books and required read given to him from the Army. Maintains a fairly large collection and is collecting Rudyard Kipling (Own's a few first editions). Has his masters and is pretty well rounded from an academic stand point.
>Mother
Nurse. Doesn't read at all. Buys books and never picks them up. Has her associate and gave up on trying to get her Bachelors. Has more common sense than intelligence
>Sister
Pot head and budding meth addict. Dropped out of high school and ran of with her loser boyfriend. Has had two different kids with two different men, whom my parents are currently looking after.

5/10 Family is pretty pleb. I'm bassically an amplified version of my dad, with all his strenghts and weaknesses multiplied by one hundred.
Uncle is 100% Patrician tier, but he's not my imediate family

Anonymous Tue May 13 22:58:48 2014 No.4889402

>>4889060
>this just in if you don't read shitty stories then you are pleb
Right sorry m8 let me read "My Immortal" about five times so I can become Plato-tier patrician like yourself your superior intellectual intelligence has truly saved a wretch like me
>*tips fedora*

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:01:08 2014 No.4889405 >>4889381 I am indifferent to your opinions about me.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:03:11 2014 No.4889408 my great uncle was a poet, published, but wrote in a language I can't read he killed himself to avoid conscription my immediate family only reads the bible

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:03:38 2014 No.4889411

>>4889041
You know you and I both still don't know if my Trotz parents were burning down these buildings for some insurance scheme like it was the bronx, or some nonsensical neo-marxist direct action.

now I have no idea what Le Corbusier would have even thought of his shit being burned down. Not that his buildings existed in the goddamn rust belt.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:06:00 2014 No.4889418 >>4889243 Jesus you're a fucking sperglord.

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:06:05 2014 No.4889419

dad
>actually can't read, has to point to pictures when ordering at mcdonalds

mom
>at most the reads the newspaper for her horoscope to tell my dad what's going on. often has the tv guide in her hands

brother(18)
>blind and developmentally disabled because of child abuse

sister (16)
>nothing. i bought her a hunger games book for christmas but she never opened it. gets very bad grades and i think has trouble reading

overall a 0/10 ;_;

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:07:20 2014 No.4889423 >>4889398 >Has had two different kids with two different men, whom my parents are currently looking after. no offense but your family is more than just pretty pleb, that is total trailer trash status son

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:08:34 2014 No.4889427 >>4889419 spics...

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:08:36 2014 No.4889428 >>4889418 OK? I don't really care what my beliefs makes me to you.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:08:55 2014 No.4889431 >>4889419 I want to give your entire family such a big hug. What is their background? what are their careers?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:09:24 2014 No.4889432 >>4889419 Wow, I'm sorry.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:10:09 2014 No.4889437 File: 79 KB, 600x450, cry wall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4889419 ;_;

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:10:10 2014 No.4889436 >>4889419 That's awfully sad.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:10:49 2014 No.4889442 >>4889419 what the fuck. this is why we need to kill the poor.

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:11:32 2014 No.4889446
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>>4889398
this is so fucking 'Murrica it is sort of sad.

I wish your country wasn't an imperialist piece of shit. I'd almost hope your parents could reach their potential - instead they were fucked, and hope they die softly, your dad in a war crimes prison. I'm sorry.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:11:33 2014 No.4889447 >>4889419 >because of child abuse From your parents?

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:13:12 2014 No.4889451 >>4889442 What a stupid response to the problem of the poorly educated.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:13:32 2014 No.4889452 >>4889419 ru raymond carver Fiction?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:14:04 2014 No.4889454 >>4889446 Are you Canadian?

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:14:13 2014 No.4889455
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>>4889428
>I'm sorry my intellectual superiority is just to great to be influenced by the inferior masses. Everyone calling me a faggot means that they should change, not me.
Get over yourself.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:14:14 2014 No.4889456 >>4889402 You'll never be on my level bitch!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:15:35 2014 No.4889460 >>4889446 >I wish your country wasn't an imperialist piece of shit. Confirmed for retard.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:16:08 2014 No.4889462 >>4889398 can you imagine his dad could have devoted his thoughts and opinions to modernism, or utopia, or friendship - instead he is a killing maching - instead his thought process is polluted and he is pollution.

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:16:49 2014 No.4889464

>>4889451
It's not a stupid response. We can replace them with robots now. They no longer have a function, and they dilute the gene pool, since generational poverty largely correlates with low intelligence and overall genetic inferiority.

>>4889455
Do you change your beliefs simply because other people call you names? How sad.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:17:10 2014 No.4889467 >>4889460 the pleb reads Kipling, then kills sandpeople for the jews and the rich. nothing is harsh enough for his type.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:17:56 2014 No.4889470 >>4889455 See >>4889405

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:21:06 2014 No.4889482

>>4889431
my dad lays carpet. he doesn't have beyond an 8th grade education, used to work in the mines until they closed. my mom was a school bus driver until she got her 3rd dui and had her license revoked. we are just a regular family from nebraska, a little on the poor and trashy side

>>4889447
>because of child abuse
yes, from my mom. my mom ran away from our family and went on a gambling binge at the indian casino. my little brother was a year old and she took him along for some reason (argument with my dad i think). he nearly starved to death because my mom left him alone in the motel room for 2 whole days w/no food while she was at the indian casino gambling away the inheritance she just got from her deceased mother

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:21:24 2014 No.4889483 >>4889467 >then kills sandpeople for the jews and the rich. Again, confirmed for retard.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:22:08 2014 No.4889485 >>4889482 How are you doing personally?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:22:41 2014 No.4889486 >>4889482 Very interesting. Could write a good book about your life, liberals will eat that shit up mein friend.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:23:19 2014 No.4889487 >>4889483 sorry, can we stop thinking afghan vets are anything but garbage? You don't come to lit and think that type of people won't be spit on

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:23:32 2014 No.4889490 >>4889467 At least they stopped killing whites and switched to sandpeople. NATO bombs no longer fall on the bridges of Belgrade. Be grateful for small mercies.

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:23:43 2014 No.4889491

>>4889482
>yes, from my mom. my mom ran away from our family and went on a gambling binge at the indian casino. my little brother was a year old and she took him along for some reason (argument with my dad i think). he nearly starved to death because my mom left him alone in the motel room for 2 whole days w/no food while she was at the indian casino gambling away the inheritance she just got from her deceased mother

You are the American Frank McCourt.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:23:49 2014 No.4889492 >>4888399 At least they were abandoned and not with people living inside.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:25:20 2014 No.4889495 >>4889487 >You don't come to lit and think that type of people won't be spit on. Sorry, can you develop basic english before an opinion.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:25:56 2014 No.4889497 >>4889460 The US is neo-imperialist though. >>4889464 At least now you sound flippantly humorous about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:25:57 2014 No.4889498 >>4889492 Oh god no. I think part of the point was they were already abandoned. Why they would burn useless buildings is still a mystery. I can't imagine how they'd be helping the working class. probably helping the petitebourgeiois that owned the :/

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:26:49 2014 No.4889500 File: 1000 KB, 4000x3549, right-wing v2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4889487 >/lit/ is a hugbox for my puerile college leftist ideology Whatever bub.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:26:59 2014 No.4889501 >>4889495 >Sorry, can you develop basic english before an opinion. idk, can you?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:27:52 2014 No.4889506 >>4889497 >The US is neo-imperialist though. Also confirmed for retard.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:28:01 2014 No.4889508 File: 287 KB, 1000x1012, 24525435.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4889500 oh sorry I forgot your dads were War Heroes.

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:29:46 2014 No.4889515

>>4889485
I am 23 y/o and moved in with my uncle a few years ago to help him with his construction company. I am also taking classes at the local university part time. I am doing fine, but my family is always one step away from eviction, something bad happening, etc. I send my dad money every week to help pay the bills and to my sister so she can buy groceries for the family. If my mother ever gets money she spends it on booze, cigarettes, or at the casino.

>>4889486
Sadly my story is not very exceptional. I know plenty of people who grew up in similar, if not worse, situations. Such is life in small town america.

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>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:30:33 2014 No.4889519 File: 55 KB, 349x466, Gore Vidal amused.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4889506 Do you at least admit to it being neocolonialist?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:31:04 2014 No.4889520 >>4889515 >Sadly my story is not very exceptional. I know plenty of people who grew up in similar, if not worse, situations. Such is life in small town america. Exactly, neither was Frank McCourts, which is why it resonates.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:33:05 2014 No.4889526 >>4889519 No. Give me proof. Otherwise it sounds like some Naomi Klein hyperbole

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:36:47 2014 No.4889538 >>4889515 You're a good sort. I've a similar broken kind of family, due in no small part to alcoholism, and I've always wanted to help them out in some way beyond cash.. hugs

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:37:20 2014 No.4889540 >>4889538 how much do they drink?

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:37:28 2014 No.4889541

>>4889520
To be honest I think about it a lot, but I can't help but seeing my upbringing as anything more but a catalog of bad things that have happened to me and the people around me. It is a very ugly history. For instance, I see my father personally as a loving, dedicated man, when in reality all he is is a sad, pitiable example of a human being. I know lots of people in my small town who think that my family would be better off if we never existed in the first place. It's like that. Nothing redeeming to write about

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:41:37 2014 No.4889550

>>4889541
which authors do you like reading? what youre saying reminds me of john cheever and his waphot chronicles , or anything raymond carver, or a lot of those sad southern writers, or something like george saunders 10th of decenmber . for some reason us privileged liberals love this stuff

« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:44:44 2014 No.4889551
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>>4889526
The United States (and other powers of course. Russia has Syria and is actively trying to retake the Ukraine, among others) is and has been for well over a hundred years a neocolonialist power. The whole Cold War was based on power grabs. Pinochet was our man in Chilé. We, the CIA killed or aided in the killing of their democratically elected socialist leader, because he would have kept all Chilean wealth for Chilé.
The Shaw of Iran was the same story! On and on I could go.
Just read up. Don't need to respond with anything other than that, please. No need to derail the thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:46:06 2014 No.4889552 >>4889551 imnot who you are replying to, but just be careful with the word 'we' there is no we in america. there are not americans, there are classes.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:46:26 2014 No.4889553 >>4889540 Rarely at all for fear of developing it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:48:01 2014 No.4889557 >>4889553 do you know that you write like a female?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:49:32 2014 No.4889558 >>4889551 I've read that book. You can't even spell Shah right, don't start telling me about "Neo-colonialism".

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:50:36 2014 No.4889560 >>4889551 You don't even know what colonialsim means.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:52:36 2014 No.4889565 >>4889552 I take no responsibility for their actions, but I hear ya. "The CIA" was enough >>4889557 Have I been found out?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:53:02 2014 No.4889566 >>4889551 >democratically elected socialist leader, because he would have kept all Chilean wealth for Chilé. MFW you think that is true.

Anonymous Tue May 13 23:53:18 2014 No.4889567

>>4889550
My favorite authors are Turgenev, Flaubert, Zola, Goethe, Stendhal, mostly european stuff. I never liked reading stories about other poor people because I thought their lives were just ugly like mine was, Zola would be the only exception to this. When I was a kid I used to spend all the free time I could at the local library because our gas got shut off and our house had no heat during the winter, so that's when I developed a passion for lit. Sometimes neighbors or my dad's boss would give us firewood, but we would only burn that at night.

>>4889419
also forgot to mention that I have an older half-brother from my mom, but I rarely know him since he's been in jail the past few years for sexually assaulting people when he worked at a nursing home

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:57:16 2014 No.4889576 >>4888487 writing on your parent's wall is pretty nice of you, champ

>>	Anonymous Tue May 13 23:59:09 2014 No.4889582 >>4888701 what kinda shit does your mom read?

« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Tue May 13 23:59:14 2014 No.4889583

>>4889558
>You can't even spell Shah right
Ah, that stings. ...I don't see it in print that often.
>don't start telling me about "Neo-colonialism".
That's just stupid though.

>>4889560
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism

>>4889566
No no, your face and the CIA's face and the corporate bigwigs of those days faces when they thinks it was true, and true enough they went to kill him

Anonymous Wed May 14 00:00:57 2014 No.4889585

>>4888273

>father
Mother tongue French, reads a lot about spirituality, history, and other misc. topis

>mother
Reads wickedly fast, but usually only things like that rank slightly higher than Dan Brown

>sister
In a book club, reads vonnegut, dostoevsky, nabokov

>brother
watches a lot of cinema, reads minimally

>sister
artist, reads minimally

Overall 5.5/10

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 00:02:10 2014 No.4889590 >>4889022 you mean ishiguro there?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 00:04:53 2014 No.4889594 >Mother doesn't read >Father doesn't read >Brother doesn't read >other Brother doesn't read >Gradmother popular fiction crime novels Family, I am disappoint/10

Anonymous Wed May 14 01:46:38 2014 No.4889794

>>4888273
>mother
Bible, and religious propaganda religious salesmen leave at the door
>sister is a teenage girl
fantasies or some shit
>father
implying he has time, but he was a philosophy professor in Honduras for a short time if that means a fucking thing
>other sister

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 01:49:15 2014 No.4889801 Who the hell cares stop seeking validation on the internet you twerps.

Anonymous Wed May 14 01:55:25 2014 No.4889817

>>4888273
Mother- reads romance books really goddamn fast, also bible

Dad-David Baldacci and some books about retail(for job)

younger brother 1-nothing, (gave him a book and he lost it without opening)
younger brother 2- nothing (young enough to harbor hope for)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 01:57:05 2014 No.4889825 >>4889801 Where else should we seek it? I don't have irl friends.

Anonymous Wed May 14 02:08:54 2014 No.4889862

My mother was a patrician back in the day. Read Shakespeare, Dante, Pynchon, Joyce, Melville, Tolstoy etc. when she was in her twenties and briefly studied literature. Now that she's fifty-five, she almost only reads contemporary Finnish literature coupled with Swedish crime novels. Not the worst by any means, considering she reads several hours per day, but she had the potential for much more.

As for my dad, he doesn't read anything except some technology and boating magazines.

5/10 could be worse I guess.

Anonymous Wed May 14 02:14:13 2014 No.4889875

>Father
Into fantasy. I try to push high-brow lit and philosophy on him but he always says he doesn't have the time. Read to me when I was younger i credit him entirely for sparking my passion for literature.
>Mother
Self-help and occasionally feel good novels. Beyond saving.
>Brother (12)
Interested in science fiction. I have let him read some easier philosophical works. Shows great promise.
>Grandfather
Enjoys war novels, however he mainly reads the newspaper recently. Always willing to give my suggestions a chance.
>Grandmother
Patrician as fuck. has read and continues to read a wide assortment of philosophy from around the world (in the work's native language). Reads Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. An amazing woman and an inspiration for my studies. I hope one day to the a fraction of the person she is.

Anonymous Wed May 14 03:07:56 2014 No.4889938

My father stresses from work in the office to continue the work at his home pc. Almost never read anything beyond a few popular books about the current society, such as "What is money?" by Andreas Cervenka. Moslty he spends his time in the sofa with a trappist having a mid-life crisis. He's enormously proud of the fact that I've actually read something of Plato and knows what "Zoroastrianism" is.

Mother reads a lot of popular crime novels and quite a few economic journals. More importantly she keeps herself in intellectual circles, still it's only about material questions such as economy and politics.

Lil' Bro is 100% pleb, plays Hearthstone all day unless he gets an assignment form school, in which case he reads half a book before calling me on skype asking for help. Once I loaned him Brave New World and got it back rolled like a flyswatter and covered in the sticky remains of a subway cookie, unsurprisingly I'm not as helpful as I was before.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 03:13:10 2014 No.4889945 >mom too drunk most of the time to read >dad is too busy to read >step-mom reads Agatha Christy novels and Christian fiction 1/10 would not recommend.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 03:15:18 2014 No.4889946 >>4889467 Sounds like a noble man, while youd probably commit sucide if you had to take care of a family.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 03:21:06 2014 No.4889950 >>4889945 What are those christian fiction? Sounds interesting.

Anonymous Wed May 14 03:27:46 2014 No.4889957

>Father
Not sure, he never really discussed much of himself with me and now he's passed away.
I've glanced at the books he sometimes had out; usually mathematics, probability, engineering, light game theory, only novels of his I ever saw was Fountainhead/Atlas Shrugs.
>Mother
Anything related to cooking; books, auto-biographies, stories.
Sometimes horror, I couldn't say what though.

Once when I was a kid out with Pops shopping for a birthday present for Mom, I remembered she mentioned wanting to read some book called "War and Peace" and I told my Dad such. He responded that she'd never read the damned thing and only wanted it as a display piece, I found that insulting and argued until he bought it for her.

She was immensely pleased, and put the book on a shelf. It's been twenty years and I don't think she's ever opened the cover.

?/10, ranging from "Pleb as Fuck" to "Dad's a Goddamn Wildcard".

Anonymous Wed May 14 03:37:55 2014 No.4889971

>father
Doesn't read much except for magazines. Haven't even seen him in two years so idk really.

>mother
6/10, has the mind for it but is too burned out on work for it to matter. Reads pop-lit mostly when not watching TV. (She is truly a /TV/ patrician though)

Favorite novel is probably The Color Purple. At least that's the one that had the most impact on her life.

>brother (16)
Loves to read but doesn't because he's in with the stoner crowd and its not cool. When he does get into a book he devours it, favorites include Gatsby, 1984, The Giver etc. Is hanging on the precipice of pleb/patrician and could go either way.

>me (20)
Patrician-lite. When it comes to literature I honestly don't have Mich of a history, but I'm pretty well read philosophically. (At least compared to /lit/)

Anonymous Wed May 14 03:41:30 2014 No.4889979

>father
I don't remember the last time I ever saw him reading, but he has a very old copy of Cosmos in his study. He's more /mu/ and /k/ than /lit/.

>mother
Lots of Ian Rankin and Len Deighton, as well as German novels and Shakespeare from her university days, but I don't remember the last time I saw her reading either. She helps edits her professor friend's historical nonfiction, though.

>brother
Got an e-reader while I haven't, and I think he's devoured most of the classics since they were free on Amazon.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 03:48:26 2014 No.4889990 >>4889419 >dad >actually can't read, has to point to pictures when ordering at mcdonalds Right in the feels.

Anonymous Wed May 14 03:48:48 2014 No.4889991
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>>4888273

>Dad
seems to read a few books on business or self help. The business books are all the same size (small) and have similar cover design which has always struck me as odd. I think they are meant to look unpretentious or something.

>Mum
a lot of YA. She works in that industry but seems to genuinely enjoy them. Other than that she reads like these woman books, I can't describe them better than that. And she has her masters in english ffs.

>Brother
Maybe two books a year that aren't related to his degree. I bought him dune once for a going away present and he liked that. I usually buy him war books for presents but i'm not sure if he likes them that much or just reads them out of loyalty :_;

My family watches hours and hours of tv, rarely sees any movies that aren't huge blockbusters. I remember growing up and only getting to watch "Feel Good Movies" (ty Mum) which depressed me, and "Comedies" (Dad) that also depressed me. I'm the only one who reads seriously, listens to music beyond top40 or club shit, has any interest in philosophy, the only person in my entire extended family that is remotely left wing (family is from rural alberta) Only atheist, although my brother would be one too if he gave a shit.

>tfw there are millions of families like this

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:04:17 2014 No.4890023 >>4889991 >and "Comedies" (Dad) that also depressed me. now you're just starting to sound like a debbie downer. how is it his fault that fucking comedies depressed you as a kid? what would you expect the man do to here?

Anonymous Wed May 14 04:15:04 2014 No.4890047

>>4888273
>father
Loves his political writing and philosophy and has read a wide variety of classics.
>mother
Mostly crime novels, but she loves Zola and a few other classic novelists.
>sister
Self-help books and true life stories about cats.
>other sister
Teenage shit and tumblr nonsense, but she's very intelligent and I think when she grows out of it she'll have top-tier taste (if she does).

8/10

Anonymous Wed May 14 04:16:37 2014 No.4890050
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Dad: reads a lot about nazism, the great war, that kind of stuff. Was a huge fan of Tolkien in his young years.

Mom: Reads about the Greeks, their myths and theatrical pieces (tragedy and comedy), but also thrillers and Agatha Christie.

Sister: don't see her often, once saw an Umberto Eco lying in her room though.

Brother: God tier: into all kinds of philosophy, literature, it's some sort of geitonogamous interaction between us. It feels good to have an identical twin brother to discuss philosophy with at the dining table.

Brother: used to read a lot and fast, but has discovered videogames and haven't seen him interacting with the alphabet in a while.

Brother: he occasionally grabs a classic to gather dust in the living room.

All in all a decent environment to develop great literary interest.

Rate me faggots.

Anonymous Wed May 14 04:19:35 2014 No.4890056

>>4888273
father: mostly crime novels, he's a detective inspector so I suppose it's to be expected. Not badly read at all, reads a few classics like Crime and Punishment and Bleak House. He seems interested in literature but not enough to really get into it

mother: Anything involving missing girls or written by Khaled Hosseini. She's read a few things I've given her (Great Expectations, The Sound of the Mountain) but hasn't seemed overly interested in pursuing literature any further

brother: first-year english student at oxford, lots of Shakespeare and Dickens and Joyce, seems to be really into Martin Amis at the moment. Has stuck almost exclusively to fiction as far as I can tell apart from literary criticism and a few books on Beethoven and Cezanne. Trying to get him into Greek theatre and philosophy currently, he really liked the Oresteia and the Three Theban Plays which I got him

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:23:19 2014 No.4890063 >>4888696 what

Anonymous Wed May 14 04:33:05 2014 No.4890086

>Father
Rich, doesn't read
>Mother
Erotic fiction, wizards, etc.
>Next brother
Doesn't read, gay, hugely social, lots of young girlfriends, he owns
>Youngest brother
Facts
>Uncle
Famous philosopher, writes shitty god books that everyone loves, hugely well-read, dead

10/10

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:37:44 2014 No.4890098 >>4890086 They actually want to build a statue of my uncle, but my grandmother wont let them. That's gotta be patrician as fuck, right?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:40:06 2014 No.4890104 >>4890098 My grandmother reads about people who succeeded despite disadvantage, and watches real TV shows where people win money and are happy and she's happy for them too. And all this on top of her various emotional appeals. tryhardoldlady/10

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:43:26 2014 No.4890112 >>4890098 Can you give us a hint concerning the identity of your uncle? Don't tell me it's Hitchens.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:47:19 2014 No.4890119 >>4890112 Nah, my uncle was a "mystic", as the priest at his funeral was careful to remind those in attendance.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:53:55 2014 No.4890128 >>4890119 Continent? Country?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 04:55:08 2014 No.4890130 >>4890128 He was black. Nelson Mandela was at his funeral, they wer bros

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 05:00:38 2014 No.4890143 >>4889991 Your family doesnt sound that bad, get over yourself.

Anonymous Wed May 14 05:01:30 2014 No.4890146

>Mother
Watches reality TV all day.
>Sister
Watches reality TV all day.
>Father
Reads books on programming, fishing magazines, occasionally a World of Warcraft book.
>Step mom
Stuart Woods, Dean Koontz, erotic fiction, Michael Crichton, etc. Basically all the shitty New York Times bestsellers.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 05:09:49 2014 No.4890157 >>4890130 So, he was into this Ubuntu stuff?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 05:25:02 2014 No.4890179 >>4890157 Nevermind, it's Chinua Achebe.

Anonymous Wed May 14 05:25:28 2014 No.4890181

>Mum
buys flavour of the week books recommended in magazines and never reads them.

>Dad
Pretty good, always gets interesting books that I haven't heard of but doesn't get round to reading them all.

>Brother
Enjoyed pratchett and rice when he was younger, now reads schopenhauer and a few engineering books. Loves writing.

Anonymous Wed May 14 05:35:42 2014 No.4890194

>dad
big fan of alexandre dumas and probably zola (i guess he read germinal ten times, but haven't seen him reading another book by him) he also likes jules verne and tintin comics because a loved them when he was young.

>mom
kazantzakis, hesse, andre gide, kastaneda. quite patrician taste in art overall, especially in music.

>younger sister
mostly YA. Loves harry potter. I gave her his dark materials (recommended by some anon) and I think she liked that as well.

>younger brother
mostly manga. He used to read narruto, bleach and those kind of garbage but lately hes getting into more serious stuff (sinen ? I dont remember what it was)

>older brother
stemfag. doesn't read lit much. just some sci fi.

Anonymous Wed May 14 05:42:52 2014 No.4890203

>father
Used to read almost everything back on his youth. Mostly native novels, mainly Yaşar Kemal's and similar works. He had also read many religious books.
He wrote poems in his youth, and some of them are actually decent. Funny thing is he -apparently- stopped poetry when he got married/I was made.
>mother
Pleb. She sometimes takes one of my books or my father's books, and reads it. Most of the time she can't understand and asks me.
>sister
Pleb, but she is very young -just 11 or so-. She reads shitty YA books, but she has a potential. I mean, for her age, it is normal that she reads those books and she reads a lot, more than me I fear. Though she always declines my offers for better books, which makes me upset.

Anonymous Wed May 14 05:45:01 2014 No.4890205

>mother
A writer herself, she read lots of classic when she was young. Now she's into Philip DIck, Joe Nesbo Nick Horby etc.
>father
Died long ago, totally wasn't a book guy.
>grandma
Cooking books, biographies of famous people.

My mmmy rises the bar, I'm fine with it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 05:47:53 2014 No.4890211 >>4890179 lmao, no it isn't

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 05:48:13 2014 No.4890212 >>4890179 YOUR UNCLE WAS CHINUA ACHEBE? HOLY FUCKING CANNOLYS HE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN WRITER I'VE EVER READ SOMETHING FROM

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 05:50:17 2014 No.4890215 >>4890212 Yeah man

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 05:52:57 2014 No.4890217 >>4890215 If what you say is true, let me say your unca got it right with Heart of Darkness. A hug from Italy, stay strong Nigeria.

Anonymous Wed May 14 06:22:40 2014 No.4890270

>father
has in the past few years only read about physics and things related to his job, has a decent library, though
>mother
reads mainly crime and romance novels, claims to have read and appreciated Shakespeare a lot when she was younger
>brother
reads mostly non-fiction and is also into fantasy

I don't even care

Anonymous Wed May 14 06:27:23 2014 No.4890283

>Mother
Degree in philosophy. Favourite authors include Woolf, Dickens and Sayers. Finishes a book on average a week.
>Grandma
Retired Librarian. Reads mostly YA and Crime.
>Uncle
Fluent in several languages. Reads Harry Potter in every new language he is pursuing. Has read some classics but doesn't read widely any more.

Everyone else is more plebby. More plebby than this thready can handle.

Anonymous Wed May 14 06:28:03 2014 No.4890289

Father loves his science fiction and fantasy (is quite well read in the two). Although he has read some literary fiction too, he is only so open to discussing it with me. He tried The Trial and didn't feel it.

Mother is dead.

Brother reads good literary fiction but is less interested in it than me. Prefers TV shows and comics

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 06:52:11 2014 No.4890342 Mom wrote two fictional novels. My dad wrote two books non fiction academic. I have written nothing.

>>	Dead Author 420 Wed May 14 07:00:58 2014 No.4890356 >>4890342 You just wrote that, getting me to respond to You, which is something your mom and dad were not able to do :)

Anonymous Wed May 14 07:04:23 2014 No.4890362

>>4888273
>dad (semi-patrician and semi-pleb)
He reads a lot of Science fiction. Some of it seems pretty ridiculous but most of it is the better works of that genre, from authors such as Samuel Delaney, Margret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut Neil Stephenson, etc...
He also has good taste in general literature, but he tends to focus on Science fiction more than anything.
>mom (good taste but rarely reads)
She recommended Camus for me when I was a kid, so she can't be all that bad. She just doesn't read much.
>sister ("young adult books"-tier)
She's 14, so I don't expect her to be a patrician or anything. I mean, I was reading Burroughs, Huxley, Bukowski, Trumbo, Orwell, Steinbeck and Hemingway around that age, but I was the only kid I knew who read anything other than "young adult" books.
She did skip ahead and read Animal Farm (shit book imo) and Of Mice And Men way before they taught them in school, so she might have potential.

Anonymous Wed May 14 07:34:24 2014 No.4890396
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>>4889862
I wonder at what point intelligent people feel the need to stop reading good literature

Seems like its the young who are the ones reading good lit, with taste dwindling with age

I don't want this to happen to me ;s

Anonymous Wed May 14 08:01:00 2014 No.4890448

>Dad
Used to read a lot of pleb-tier scifi, Asimov, Heinlein and such. His sight is pretty fucked nowadays and he works all the time so he reads just financial magazines and news.
>Mom
Romance novels, some shit about the Old Testament.
>Brother (16)
Doesn't really read, mostly plays vidya.
>Sister 1 (9)
Doesn't read at all, just maximum-pleb children's books.
>Sister 2 (9)
Started on Dragonlance recently. Read the Hobbit, Harry Potter, things like that.

I'd say 4/10

Anonymous Wed May 14 10:42:36 2014 No.4890864

Father
> university professor of political science, knows a lot about nineteenth century to present history, reads novels and what not by pretty much everyone

Mother
> reads constantly, but mostly sort of pop nonfiction stuff relevant to her interests, sometimes biographies etc

Sister
> doesn't read much

Brother
> I think he's reading some of the hundreds of classic I left at home when I moved out, so that's good.

My maternal grandmother was an english teacher and she is very well read. My grandfather was a really smart guy and was very into James Joyce.

I consider myself probably second most patrician after my grandfather who taught himself how to farm, run a fishing boat and build a house while being a very wise and well read person.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 10:59:58 2014 No.4890913 >>4889590 Yeah, sorry. I think The Unconsoled is one of his top 3 favorite novels.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 13:10:03 2014 No.4891314 >>4890864 >consider yourself more patrician than your university professor father yeah ok, keep telling yourself that.

Anonymous Wed May 14 13:13:42 2014 No.4891318

Dad
>Doesn't read much aside from Louis L'Amour westerns. His favorite book is All Creatures Great and Small

Mom
>Doesn't read unless she has to for her job or school. Couldn't tell you the last time I saw her reading a book for pleasure

>Sisters
No idea, but they were never very big readers to begin with

>Brother
Reads everything by Rick Riordan and nothing else. Prefers to play vidya because "reading gives me a headache"

Anonymous Wed May 14 14:30:54 2014 No.4891582

Father: Dyslexic, just reads some magazine or news articles from time to time.

Mother: Steinbeck, Donne, Yeats. Also lots of horticulture and botany books at home. Some religious and spiritual type books as well.

Sister: Some du Maurier, but mostly YA.

Brother: Some graphic novels

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 15:59:20 2014 No.4891867 >>4889801 how do you know validation is being sought?

Anonymous Wed May 14 16:23:32 2014 No.4891955

>father
When he was my age around 22, he had read more than most people do in their lifetime. Philosophy, Classic Lit, Science Fiction, Poetry, etc. He became a serious alcoholic and lost large parts of his memory and now can't remember much. Doesn't read now because he says its a waste of time.
>mother
Reads from time to time, nothing profound.
>sister
doesnt read

-2/10 overall

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 18:42:44 2014 No.4892371 >>4888303 This /lit

Anonymous Wed May 14 18:49:01 2014 No.4892392

>father:
my father isn't a reader. even if he were, i don't know what the selection is like in federal prison.
>mother:
she reads a lot of victorian and spanish language literature but a lot of terrible shit, too, like john grisham and janet evanovich.
>sister:
rap lyrics on rapgenius.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 18:51:27 2014 No.4892397 >>4891314 if he's anything like the university professors i've had, that's not really saying much.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 19:03:23 2014 No.4892419 >Father reads Stephen King >Mother reads bible and god books >Sister reads Jane Austen and Mitch Albom

Anonymous Wed May 14 19:03:25 2014 No.4892420
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>father
Legends mention him reading when he was young. He just lies by the TV.
>mother
Dead now. She didn't read much, but I remember her reading Eco.
>brother
Used to read in high school. Now he's too busy and important.
>uncle and aunt
Read tons of shit, aunt translates literature.

Anonymous Wed May 14 19:21:34 2014 No.4892471
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>Father
He owns and reads a lot of crime novels. The ones with half-naked girls on the cover and nothing else. I once read a bit of it and it was absolutely terrible
>Mother
Nothing excepted a book about fibromyalgia written by a charlatan. Oh, also some articles about pharmacists' conspiracy on the net.
>Big bro
He introduced me to some nice basic literature. He liked fantasy and scifi a lot but now he reads some jap literature (in japanese [we're french]). He lends me books sometimes.
>Lil bro
Nothing.
Really. Nothing. He's 15 and never read a whole book in his life. He had Kafka's Metamorphosis for school and didn't read it.
I lost hope for him.

Also, as I'm part of my family
>me
Nothing fancy, I'm reading the Iliad at the moment and fell in love with Laszlo Krasznahorkai a few weeks ago.
I like early Bataille, Mishima, Maupassant and Buzzati a lot.
I also enjoy ero-guro mangos and french graphic novels

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 19:24:17 2014 No.4892479 >>4892471 >French graphic novels >graphic novels It's BD you Americanized cunt.

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>>4892479
There's bd and bd.

To me something like Arzach, Blast!, the Nikopol Trilogy or Polina is a graphic novel.
I think BDs are less... "abstract".
I even have the same problem with mangas, something by Matsumoto will be something between a manga and a graphic novel in my eyes.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 20:50:42 2014 No.4892661 >>4890864 You think your papa fucks any hot little students? I mean why else be a prof?

Anonymous Wed May 14 20:53:15 2014 No.4892667
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>>4890217

No he didn't.

He should be forever grateful to his English over lords for teaching him how to read and write, or else he would just be one of these bandits on the Niger delta.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 14 20:55:17 2014 No.4892674 >>4890217 His criticism of Heart of Darkness is so ridiculous, it reeks of jealousy.

Anonymous Wed May 14 21:15:24 2014 No.4892718

Dad: Fuck if I know, I only see him watch TV
Mom: Shitty erotic fiction and shittons of medical books
Younger brother:whatever popular fiction is around(Hunger Games)
Younger sister: Lot of horror stuff, some romance stuff, whatever school makes her read.
Me:genre fiction

Family rating: maximum pleb

Anonymous Wed May 14 22:34:45 2014 No.4892911

>father:
nonfic on psychology, gut healing, etc, but was an english teacher and very well-read

>mother:
idk haven't seen her in 3 years

>father's gf:
young adult novels

>mother's 2nd husband:
???

>mother's 3rd husband:
probably coding shit and arabic world peace shit

>dad's gf's daughter:
young adult shit

>me:
classics, philosophy, spiritual, /lit/ recommended books

i am my father's child

Anonymous Wed May 14 23:44:15 2014 No.4893127

>>4891314

He's more knowledgeable and always will be since he has thirty years on me, but I read at a better rate than he does, I read more widely and I have better taste in music and cinema.

>>4892661

Most likely, my parents are divorced and he's quite alpha and still relatively good looking.

Anonymous Wed May 14 23:46:58 2014 No.4893137

Nobody in my family reads but me, except for my great-grandmother who is dead and read John Grisham and Walter Cronkite. My mother must have read in the past because she got me into Xanth when I was like 9 but I'm pretty sure she doesn't now.

I like pomo and "the classics".

>>	Anonymous Thu May 15 00:07:46 2014 No.4893216 >>4889482 As terrible as that sounds, two days of infant hunger does not a retard make. Fetal alcohol sounds a likey factor. Plus who-knows-what. >>4889491 Frank McCourt WAS an American ya dingus.

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>>	Anonymous Thu May 15 00:42:24 2014 No.4893291 My sister reads several books a week, but none of them are worth anything. It's all supernatural teen romance shit. I recently told her to read Heart of Darkness because it's so short, and I guess we'll see how it goes.

Anonymous Thu May 15 00:49:04 2014 No.4893313

My dad reads pretty much anything, and has a brety gud taste, he got me into Cortazar, Borges and a lot of cool, mid century brazilian literature. Sadly, he became a conservative (this is the man who gave me my first Society of Spetacle copy) and thinks I should tone down a little

He also is somewhat of a good poet, though he quit writing when he got married.

My mom doesn't read and thinks I spent too much money on books

My brother, welp, he actually MOCKS me because I read. I didn't even knew people like that existed, but my brother does.

Anonymous Thu May 15 00:57:14 2014 No.4893329

Father - doesn't really read, although currently working on this doctoral thesis on the application and results of new technologies on vocational training, never had higher education back in the day, full on pleb really
Mother - neurologist, reads plebby shite (mostly historical semirealistic fiction, woman falls in love during WW2 with the enemy etc), tried to get her to read Metzinger but she kind of hates her job and looked like I was offering her a bowl of shit to eat
Brother - Hit and miss, our tastes overlap from time to time, reads mostly fiction, too busy with engineering studies to read "heavy shit"
Sister - Really don't know, from what I've seen she bounces between stuff like Coelho and nonfiction about music (she's a piano teacher and a freelance musician)

>>	Anonymous Thu May 15 01:16:46 2014 No.4893377 Rarely talk to my family, even though I live with them. I just don't really leave my room except for food. I think my sister has read Twilight and the Hunger Games. My mom buys books sometimes, but I doubt she actually reads them.

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