/lit/ confession thread

[Anonymous No.5998714]

Have at it, plebs

[Anonymous No.5998751]

i have literally never finished a book

[fagve No.5998763]

I dropped the gabagool

[Anonymous No.5998778]

>>5998751
Wow. That's the saddest and most pathetic thing I've ever heard.

I read the first five pages of Ulysses, put it back on my shelf, and haven't attempted to read it again.

[Anonymous No.5999879]

It's taken me nearly a year to read Don Quixote

I look down upon those who read YA fiction even though in high school I read it all the time

I frequently desire to buy a book largely because of how it will make people perceive me when they see it on my shelf

Frequently I will read less then 50 pages and then play a bunch of vidya

I didn't start with the Greeks

I can't stand poetry

I don't live the literary lifestyle

[Anonymous No.5999890]

I unironically enjoy the books of Gene Wolfe.

[Anonymous No.5999959]

I consider graphic novels good literature.

[Anonymous No.5999963]

no u

[Anonymous No.5999969]

i read like 10 pages of dorian gray and wilde's witticisms were pissing me off so i quit

same with catch 22

[Anonymous No.5999975]

>>5999959
Suggest some.

[Anonymous No.6000020]

>>5998778
I got peer-pressured into doing it. My circle of friends all read it and were Blooming about it. But I did it, though, every fucking page.

[Anonymous No.6000035]

I read the god delusion and that book changed my life.

[Anonymous No.6000099]

>>5999975

Maus, Persepolis

[Anonymous No.6000104]

I haven't read anything new in more than a year, I just spend my time here discussing what I've already read.

[Anonymous No.6000106]

I enjoy Poppy Z. Brite's fanfictiony fantasies about gay vampire incest

I think Christopher Paolini's Inheritance trilogy is actually pretty scent fantasy

[Anonymous No.6000113]

I don't like Orwell

[Anonymous No.6000128]

>>5999975

Arkham Asylum: Serious House

Ashley Wood's Hellspawn

The Fountain

Watchmen (obviously)

Kabuki

[Anonymous No.6000145]

The book that first grabbed me by the balls and made me want to start reading was Catcher in the Rye

I started reading Infinite Jest to get in this girl's pants. But now I really like infinite jest and idk how I feel about girlie anymore.

[Anonymous No.6000148]

i read YA. my novel in progress is YA high fantasy. #notsorry

[Anonymous No.6000171]

Reading makes me want to write but I think writing itself is boring as shit.

[Anonymous No.6000189]

The first thing I do when I have just bought a book is smell it for about half an hour and imagine what kind of a woman that book would be.

[Anonymous No.6000200]

i spend over twice the time i spend reading researching books to download onto my e-reader. I already have far more books in my online library than I will ever read

[Anonymous No.6000204]

>>6000189
really? a full 30 minutes?

i will admit to smelling tobacco scented second-hand books while imagining what pipe-smoking gentleman might've read it before me, but it's no more than a whiff or two.

[Anonymous No.6000251]

I buy books from Barnes & Noble

[Anonymous No.6000268]

I've read fellowship and two towers, but never read return of the king

[Anonymous No.6000288]

>>5998714
I feel like I have no aesthetic understanding of poetry. I've read some of it and like others, but I don't feel like I really "get" it in the same way I "get" prose. With prose, it is normally pretty clear what the author is trying to accomplish and how successfully he accomplishes it. With poetry, I just never really know and I'm skeptical of those think they do know.

While I did like Lolita, I think that the prose is campy and hardly the stunning example of excellent prose people tout it to be. It's just feels overdone for overdone's sake.

[Anonymous No.6000291]

I sometimes lie about what books I've read to others.

A large part of why I read is for egotistical pleasure.

>>6000000

[Anonymous No.6000297]

I stopped reading Gravity's Rainbow a third of the way through cuz 2deep4me.

[Anonymous No.6000338]

>>5999879
I read more literature in english rather than my mother tongue, this means that now I've read more classics from the english language rather than my own.

I would have liked to study literature way more than what I currently do.

I hate harry potter, but I did read up to the fourth book anyways.

I enjoyed LOTR and the hobbit so I bought the silmarillion but never got past the creation of the world.

I want people to gift me an e-reader but no one has done so, I'll never buy one.

The most I've written was in the last year of primary school, it was a sci-fi and I dedicated at least a month building up the world and star system, also local physics (to make some ideas viable), I never wrote more because as soon I wrote the intro and read it I saw how full of cliches and cheap it was.

I have liked every single book lit recommended to me or part of a non-troll list.

I broke up with a girl because she liked paulo coelho and bukowski.

>Frequently I will read less then 50 pages and then play a bunch of vidya
I don't see the problem with this, there's no minimum length required per session.

[Anonymous No.6000362]

I only listen to audiobooks

[Anonymous No.6000396]

My attention span has been completely fucked up by the internet (or drugs or late onset ADD) to the point where i can't read decent novels anymore.

[Anonymous No.6000397]

>>5998714
>>5997943
Shits going down over here!!

[Anonymous No.6000414]

The only thing I'm good at is reading and writing, but I'm not confident enough to attempt to live off my writing. I have no other skills and abhor boring desk jobs/business jobs. My life is going nowhere.

[Anonymous No.6000425]

I'm fairly new to /lit/, mostly a /tv/ guy. Started coming here and reading in general last year. As such, I'm constantly reading at least 5 different books at the same time, and I can't stop picking up new ones. I'll see ones suggested here, or get interested in something, and I just start. I can't stop. Help me, I can't stop. I'm struggling to finish East of Eden right now just so I can finally finish the Odyssey, just so I can finally have time to devote to my library of books about film and also some Stirner. Oh and I've been a quarter of the way through The Second Sex for literally over a year now, might just start over at a later date.

There's so much goodness. Like looking at a rich person's dining table on Thanksgiving. Too many choices.

[Anonymous No.6000449]

>>5999879
>High School
MODS MODS UNDERAGE B&

[Anonymous No.6000466]

I'm embarrassed by my interest in literature and philosophy. It's so genuine and eager, I find reading so pleasant, the ideas and concepts so engaging, it feels too personal to talk about.

I'm also scared I'll be perceived as someone who tries to seem intellectual because I don't think people ser me as the kind of person who'd like these things this much.

I'm lonely, I want a friend to talk about these things. But I'm always afraid.

;_;

[Anonymous No.6000468]

>>6000449
>read - present tense
>read - past tense

[Anonymous No.6000477]

>>5998714
Sometimes I brag about books I didn't finish.

[Anonymous No.6000490]

>>6000396
You can retrain it, start by cutting time spent in the internet and with digital devices.

[Anonymous No.6000508]

I experience intense self-loathing on a daily basis, to the point where I live a shitty life and suspect that part of the reason for doing so is because I want to punish myself for being such a shitty person. I don't have anybody else in my life which is why I suppose I have no real sense of validation from others about my not being shitty, but still. I used to be pretty illogical and naive I guess, and I still feel like my positive traits only exist as a futile means of compensation for my flaws. One of the convictions I feel on a regular basis is that a lot, perhaps most, people I have gotten to know beyond a superficial level hate me, and that I am for whatever reason deserving of their hatred. I feel simultaneously inferior and superior to others, and both these things only reinforce my self-loathing. It's like what could have been a minor trait, easily overcome via having friends and possible a girlfriend (i.e. someone intimately familiar with my character and my dispositions), has developed into the central feature of my personality, and that all my actions and thoughts stem from this thing, and that they are therefore corrupted and fundamentally negative and repulsive. I feel I am beyond saving at this time, and not because I am prone to defeatism or self-pity, but because I have no concept of an alternative life to attempt to imitate or accept as more healthy as my current lifestyle.

[Anonymous No.6000528]

>>6000466
That feel. It's not so much that its personal for me, I'm just afraid of people thinking I'm a pseud - even though I probably am.

[Anonymous No.6000529]

>>5998714

I read all of Shiteggan's Wake and understood very little of it but act like I get it.

I've only read translations of non-english books.

I took Latin and Attic Greek in college, got B's in both, but remember pretty much none of it.

I love WH40K books.

I don't think Harry Potter is total shit

[Anonymous No.6000533]

I skim everything, even the stuff I am consciously aware should not be skimmed and which I tell people to make sure not to skim when reading

I cannot help it

[Anonymous No.6000542]

Back in high school I bullshitted Kierkegaardian philosophy for a paper on Frankenstein. I still haven't read any of his work beyond a few paragraphs, and sometimes think about revisiting the paper when I know more.

[Anonymous No.6000556]

>>5998751
Me neither
i just read the summery, plot, theme etc online and it saved a lot of time

[Anonymous No.6000567]

I like Harry Potter. I think J.K. Rowling is a wonderful lady and I wish she were my mother.

[Anonymous No.6000578]

I hate when people talks about literature in public
I always say that I don't read because people talking about it in public sound like complete cunts.

[Anonymous No.6000595]

>>6000529
>WH40k
My battle brother

[Anonymous No.6000604]

>>6000578
You're just talking to the wrong people m8

[Anonymous No.6000642]

>>6000604
every person of my age acts like he/she has the burden of knowledge on the back and reading is something like a social service they do for the community, it's annoying. but talk about books with old people is quite enjoyable

[Anonymous No.6000655]

I've written over 480,000 words across multiple books, am not even half done with the story, and will never let another pair of eyes see my work for fear of wasting their time with a potentially shitty story.

[Anonymous No.6000681]

>>6000128
>Arkham Asylum: Serious House
fucking yes
have you read year 100?

[Anonymous No.6000720]

Over the past months I have exclusively read Pratchett's books. There's so many of them.

Sometimes I go on a book hunting spree and buy a bunch of them, but I have so many books on my backlog that many of them I have never touched.

I read up to dozens of books at the same time, interrupting my reading to another one when I get bored. Some books I started in 2010 I haven't finished yet.

I once talked to a girl about the book of the new sun and she said she was interested in it and asked that we see each other so she could borrow it. Turns out it was an excuse to hook up with me. I'm still with her, she's actually pretty patrician.

My sister manages a book committee and stands up for protecting small bookstores, but I own an ereader and pirate everything from libgen/#bookz/aaaarg/bookzz

I sometimes pirate "self-improvement" books, albeit in secret.

[Anonymous No.6000727]

>>6000642

>reading is something like a social service they do for the community

they sound like proselytising wankers. you need to find people who can talk high art and pop culture in the same conversation. they're normally a more relaxed sort. it's a drag trying to talk to readers who take themselves super seriously.

[Anonymous No.6000784]

>>6000578
Stop having shit friends?

[Anonymous No.6000811]

I own at least 50 books I haven't read. I've only been to the library in my city twice, and I haven't checked anything out of it.

[Anonymous No.6000827]

>>6000020
I read Atlas Shrugged

>irl /lit/ friends all rave about Atlas Shrugged while bemoaning writers like Stephen King and Dean Koontz
>Enjoy more popcorn lit and dime store crime novels but also stuff like Great Gatsby or gothic lit like Shelly Stoker
>Constantly bitch about how I'm rotting my brain having reading the wide variety of literature and not high brow books
>Finally read Atlas Shrugged
>Start a conversation about how its nothing more that right winged fiction that misses the point of the middle class and lower classes
>Epic autism from the shit eater brigade
>Start countering my point with made up points not found in book
>Stopped talking about a half hour in and watch as the whole group relies none of them read more than cherry picked pages they got online
>Whole thing take nearly a hour and a half

LSS: I read a shitty "high brow" fiction that none of the patrician /lit/ friends have read when i could have read something I enjoyed.

[Anonymous No.6000836]

>>6000827
I am a Libertarian who tells people to read Atlas shrugged but I never made it past the first 100 pages.

[Anonymous No.6000886]

>>6000836
Ive never had a hard time finishing a book, reading was as easy as breathing for me at a young age when I first read Where The Red Fern Grows in fourth grade.

Turns out my school was full retard who didn't want children reading something that make the slower kids feel bad. When I wanted to read day of the tripods or All Quite On the Western Front i was told by the head librarian and the principle not to read during class study time.

But jesus AS tested me, and I read the Twilight series to please a Ex-gf.

[Anonymous No.6000964]

I walk around the marketplace in my town all day and stop productive citizens and ask them vaguely philosophical questions in an attempt to trap them and make them reevaluate their lives.

[Anonymous No.6000977]

>>6000964
The epitome of /lit/ fedora core people.

>I'm so much smarter than you, so you must have a horrid life and I need you to know it so you can be on my level.

[Anonymous No.6000985]

>>6000977
more like genuine autism.

[Anonymous No.6001018]

I generally really dislike older books (old as in older than 60 years) and the way their prose is usually structured.

Except for John Steinbeck.

[Anonymous No.6001028]

>>6000827

>that misses the point of the middle class and lower classes

top kek, go to hell liberal tard

[Anonymous No.6001048]

I dropped Notes from Underground ten pages in.

I dropped 1984 halfway in.

I dropped Dorian Gray halfway in and still don't know what the fuck it was supposed to be about. Literal faggots, as far as I can tell.

I read science and history books meant for children and idiots because I only care about the general idea and not the nitty gritty. 2dumb4that

Harry Potter got me through a dark time in my life and it's a comfy series.

I hated Tom Bombadil

I don't buy books. There are only three things on my shelf: oxford english dictionary, joy of cooking (a gift), and a 1972? print of LoTR/Silm (gift).

>>5999879
>I can't stand poetry

I despise poetry. It's arteeeestic garbage, all of it, and I've read a lot both in uni and on my own. I had no fewer than THREE literature classes during uni (not even English major), not to mention high school, and every single poem by every author was a steaming pile of purple prose like the author was having a wank.

>>5999959

Watchmen is good.

>>6000148

YA is not necessarily bad. I'm enjoying His Dark Materials and Ender's Game (is EG YA?)

>>6000886
>I read the Twilight series to please a Ex-gf.

I read (read:skimmed) the entire series just to see how bad it was. It exceeded my expectations and I still can't fathom how an agent read that and said, "Yeah, we should print this. People should read this." I tried skimming 50 shades and couldn't, so as bad as Twilight is, 50 is even shittier. And that's when I specifically have a fetish for both abuse and proper BDSM, so I should be in the target audience for 50, and I still can't stand it.

[Anonymous No.6001057]

I am currently reading more books than I've bothered to count (~20) simultaneously because I'm a shopaholic and also lack impulse control when it comes to starting a book.

[Anonymous No.6001059]

>>5998714
You look like a Puerto Rican whore

[Anonymous No.6001067]

>>6000977
wasn't that anon talking about socrates?

[Anonymous No.6001075]

>>6001067
shhhhhhhh, none of us have actually read the greeks

[Anonymous No.6001078]

I enjoy writing books more than reading them

[Anonymous No.6001093]

>>6000977
As a philosophical pessimist, I'd say, yes, their lives are actually horrible.

[Anonymous No.6001095]

>>6001048
I really, really, really enjoyed Ender's Game when I was 13-14 and I read all of the series and I think those books really helped me grow as a person.

I almost wanted to cry when I found out Orson Scott Card was a gigantic homophobic who wanted gay marriage to stay illegal. As a teenager, I felt his books were so open-minded that the realization was soul-crushing.

[Anonymous No.6001111]

>>6000886
What a wacky story.

[Anonymous No.6001137]

>>6000977
>implying everyone can't learn something from every person they meat

[Anonymous No.6001153]

I go about college writing papers that play up to my professor's political sensibilities when in reality I am a far-right leaning fascist

[Anonymous No.6001729]

I shitpost in dfw threads and I've never read IJ and have absolutely no intention to do so in the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous No.6001753]

>>6000251

Fist time posting on lit. Why is this bad?

[Anonymous No.6001773]

I skimmed The Great Inquisitor.

[Anonymous No.6001776]

>>6001753
why buy from any expensive major bookstore when you can buy from second-hand stores for infinitely cheaper?

next step up from second-hand stores is local bookstores. they need to be supported.

[Anonymous No.6001780]

>>6000567
Nigga I'd marry her. Her being my mom also would be a bonus though.

[Anonymous No.6001793]

I mark thee with my presence!

[Anonymous No.6001808]

>>5999959

Well it's like any entertainment. Some of it's good, most is shit.

[Anonymous No.6001814]

>>6000128

>No mention of Saga of the Swamp Thing
>Being this pleb

[Anonymous No.6001820]

>>6001793
Ricky that you?
Fuck off you prick!
Fucking twat.

[Anonymous No.6001823]

>>6000977
>he doesn't know who Diogenes is

[Anonymous No.6001830]

>>6000414
>I have no other skills and abhor boring desk jobs/business jobs

Yeah, and so do 95% of the people who work those jobs, snowflake.

[Anonymous No.6001833]

If you claim to love reading but hate poetry you are the ultimate pleb.

[Anonymous No.6001838]

I haven't logged into my reddit account all day because I was frank about YA and was probably crucified. Stop being cancer, /lit/, so I don't have to ever go there.

[Anonymous No.6001844]

>>6001776
>buying books

I guess I'm privileged to be in a college with a great library, but I've always thought you should only buy a book if you can't find it at a library or know you will frequently reread and/or cite it

[Anonymous No.6001847]

>>6001048
>I hated Tom Bombadil

Good, because hes shit and ruins the flow of the book. And dont any of you say I dont get it. I get it and it was shit

[Anonymous No.6001854]

>>6001820
>>6001820
Cry me a river. remember this?

lol faggot

[Anonymous No.6001861]

>>6001048
Didn't 50 start out as a twilight fanfic?

[Anonymous No.6001866]

>>6001833
I only like long poetic works. If it's only a couple of stanzas, I ain't having that shit.

[Anonymous No.6001875]

>>6001854
>>6001820
I bet you guise are total pussies, give me ur address I sware to god i'll stab you with my dad's knife

[Anonymous No.6001887]

>>6001875
You don't wanna FUCK WITH ME.
I just got authentic katana in the mail!

[Anonymous No.6001889]

>>6000113
same. my grandma and him were buddies though

[Anonymous No.6001893]

I never finished Frankenstein. I thought the plot and themes were interesting (especially in a historical/political context), but the prose was so goddamn high flown and flowery I dropped it about 2/3 or 3/4 of the way in. It was like if polonius from hamlet wrote a novel.

[Anonymous No.6001895]

>>6001823

He was referencing Socrates, you fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.6001896]

I've read about 12 books in my life I just like to lurk here.
I'd read about lots of them on Wikipedia, mind.

[Anonymous No.6001903]

>>6001866
you have a good taste
short shit is killing poetry since the times of pindar

[Anonymous No.6001904]

>>6001887
Rick? Fuck your blade i'll borrow my dads AK
you'd be fin in no time.
Fucking TWAT!

[Anonymous No.6001911]

>>6001904
320 blazin XD
this doo with it!

[Anonymous No.6001915]

>>6001903

No, writing in English is killing poetry.

[Anonymous No.6001919]

>>6001915
kind of

[Anonymous No.6001922]

>>6001904
Your fuckin trailer doesn't even have heat....getting cold lol

[Anonymous No.6001923]

>>6001919

No, it is completely.

If your parents were too pathetic and dogshit to give you an education in Sanskrit, Greek and Latin you have no business pretending to be a poet.

[Anonymous No.6001927]

>>6001923

>that classism

I'd be willing to bet you didn't have a middle class suburban childhood

[Anonymous No.6001930]

>>6001922
lol is that your fuckin sex mouth
gay

[Anonymous No.6001932]

>>6001927

Having standards isn't an 'ism', pleb.

Middle class suburban plebs ought to be shovelling dirt, not writing poems.

[Anonymous No.6001935]

>>6001922
thats pretty......cold lol
got him +1

[Anonymous No.6001941]

>>6000128
Ashley Wood's art is so fucking great holy shit. It's like the American version of the dude who does MGS art

[Anonymous No.6001942]

>>6001932
lol you below the standards
little man

[Anonymous No.6001945]

>>6001941
didn't she get busted for some drug related thing?

[Anonymous No.6001949]

>>6001932

>Middle class suburban plebs

I so welcome the revolution

[Anonymous No.6001950]

>>6001793
>>6001820
>>6001854
>>6001887
>>6001875
>>6001904
>>6001922
>>6001930
is this all the same guy?

[Anonymous No.6001951]

>>6001942

Meanwhile my ancestors owned yours by law and probably still own your family in practice.

[Anonymous No.6001953]

>>6000171
Same here. It doesn't help that I have mixed feelings on my writing; sometimes I think my voice is good, but most of the time it looks like I'm so obviously sucking Pynchon's chode. Though, honestly, I could probably dickride the shit out of ol' Tommy, and no one would be any the wiser because no one I've ever met has heard of the man.

Another huge thing I hate is that most ideas I come up with are just ripoffs of Videodrome and Serial Experiments Lain inspired by my constant listening to vaporwave. I don't want to be branded as an SF writer, and I don't want it to be obvious that I'm inspired by actual meme music lel

[Anonymous No.6001956]

>>6001075
Talk for yourself; I attended a prep school and started with the greeks.

Honestly, it's a meme and not a good advice.

[Anonymous No.6001957]

>>6001950
plen detected, back to /reddit/ fedoracore halfwit.

Any Kanye West fans itt?

[Anonymous No.6001960]

>>6001951

>my daddy can beat your daddy up

Get a life nerd

[Anonymous No.6001962]

>>6001951
how do you know?
little man

[Anonymous No.6001967]

>>6001960

>implying genes aren't real

Dat ressentiment though

[Anonymous No.6001968]

>>6001957
He my boy

[Anonymous No.6001969]

>>6000288
>While I did like Lolita, I think that the prose is campy and hardly the stunning example of excellent prose people tout it to be. It's just feels overdone for overdone's sake.
I agree so fucking much. Only rarely have I read a book that I can actually feel to. Gravity's Rainbow had a number of great passages, Broom of the System was really fun for me, Hesse's Beneath the Wheel and fucking Siddhartha really resonated with me, and No Longer Human somehow made me nostalgic for 1950s Japan, despite being a non-weeb white dude born in '94. On the other hand, I felt nothing for Lolita or Notes from Underground. I can acknowledge both of those as greatly written, but just can't really care about them, which is especially weird since I'm that faggot who reads for prose!

[Anonymous No.6001975]

>>6001923
Self-hating English speaker detected.

[Anonymous No.6001976]

>>6001967

>genes define social ordering

Be careful, you're almost making an argument for feminism against patriarchy

[Anonymous No.6001980]

>>6001975

No, I hate you for being a pleb.

>>6001976

Only resentful betas such as yourself would resent a patriarchy.

[Anonymous No.6001981]

>>6001967
jeans are real lol

[Anonymous No.6001986]

>>6001981
dats pretty wak
skype me!

[Anonymous No.6001989]

>>6001980

>Only resentful betas such as yourself would resent a patriarchy.

You really like daddy cock don't you. Come here little guy, I'll teach you the ways of your forefathers

[Anonymous No.6001993]

>>6001989

This isn't a board for plebs, you should leave.

[Anonymous No.6001995]

>>6001986
sure how do I dial?

[Anonymous No.6001997]

>>6001993

>giving up this easily

I, like your father, am ashamed

[Anonymous No.6002000]

>>6001993
I bet you live in a trailer.
Poorboy

[Anonymous No.6002008]

>>6001993
MOPE THE FLOOR LITTLE BOIHOLE
LET ME SEE YOUR BOI FEET!

[Anonymous No.6002015]

>>6001993
lol give me a boifeet footjob!
no homo.

[Anonymous No.6002021]

>>6001993
I bet your always ready to service a man....
little fuckboi

[Anonymous No.6002025]

>>6002000
>>6002008
>>6002015
>>6002021
lol got him +1

[Anonymous No.6002034]

>>6002025
Just because your loud doesn't mean you win.
although it was pretty good

[Anonymous No.6002038]

I read the Greeks for the degenerate sex and puns #CorinthianGrills4lief

[Anonymous No.6002043]

>>6002025
lol yeah he defo homo

[Anonymous No.6002046]

I own all but of 3 of Thomas Pynchon's books. The farthest I've gone in any of them is roughly 50 pages in Gravity's Rainbow.

[Anonymous No.6002050]

>>6002043
>>6002025
>>6002021
>>6002015
>>6002008
>>6002000
>>6001986
>>6001981
>>6001968
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>>6001911
>>6001887
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>>6001820
>>6001793
Is this all the same guy?

[Anonymous No.6002056]

>>6001153
If the only far-right leaning fascist thing you do is claiming you're a far-right leaning fascist on an Aboriginal stonecarving festival, then you're no far-right leaning fascist. You're a normalfag student who writes lefty papers and tells himself he's far right to feel better about it.

But remember: if you don't do more for fascism than you do for leftism, you're essentially a leftist (that's a general comment, I'm not a fascist myself).

>>6001903
That's what clueless people say. Ideal length for poetry is 20-1500 verses (what takes more than two minutes to memorize but less than an afternoon to read). Past that it's functionally a succession of shorter poems with common characters.

>>5998714
I pretend to not want to be a writer and to prefer doing math instead. The truth is I suck at math and I keep my writing "ambitions" alive without writing anything so that there is always at least one thing I have yet to fail.

[Anonymous No.6002058]

>>6002043
Yeah he a little tampon boy.

[Anonymous No.6002066]

>>6002058
lol reminds me of that tampon baby story from that other thread.
Dumb bitch had it coming.

[Anonymous No.6002075]

>>6002050
>>6002058
>>6002066
wtf are you guys talking about?

[Anonymous No.6002082]

>>6002066
Nearly spit out my drink, don't remind me.
can someone repost it?

[Anonymous No.6002095]

>>6002082
Here.

[Anonymous No.6002110]

>>6002095
Fuck thats the one.
Jesus this needs to write a whole book about this shit.

[Anonymous No.6002115]

>>6002095
lol god not this shit again.

[Anonymous No.6002131]

>>6002095
>>6002110
>>6002115
Guys your going off topic!

[Anonymous No.6002135]

>>5998714
I read all of The Fountainhead by Rand just to upset my Phil major friend and I kind of liked it

[Anonymous No.6002139]

>>6002131
Is that you Katie bitch let me see your hoo-hoo.

[Anonymous No.6002142]

>>6002056
>Past that it's functionally a succession of shorter poems with common characters.

What the hell does this even mean?

[Anonymous No.6002150]

>>6002139
fully eye-intact

[Anonymous No.6002160]

>>6002139
Fuck that stupid slag!

[Anonymous No.6002161]

>>6002056
>what takes more than two minutes to memorize
we are not talking about memorizing poetry for your school

[Anonymous No.6002165]

>>6002095
Who's Katie?

[Anonymous No.6002181]

>>6002056
>Past that it's functionally a succession of shorter poems with common characters.

[Anonymous No.6002185]

>>6002165
The bitch that ruined /lit/

[Anonymous No.6002189]

>>6002185
lol horseface

[Anonymous No.6002191]

>>6002185
>>6002095
Don't start this shit again.

[Anonymous No.6002192]

>>6002185
I must not have been here for this

[Anonymous No.6002197]

>>6002095
>>6002185
Heres some more of that thread.

[Anonymous No.6002200]

>>6002050
All me

[Anonymous No.6002205]

>>6002200
I do not forget!

[Anonymous No.6002209]

>>5998714
Is that the kid who shit in a school shower on The Sopranos?

[Anonymous No.6002217]

>>6002197
lol fucking cumlover cunt wanted it.

[Anonymous No.6002219]

>>6002197
That fucking font sucks

[Anonymous No.6002226]

>>6001028
Fuck off, Ayn Rand is the epitome of "fuck you, got mine"

Its a "philosophy" I have only seen taken seriously by fedora-tier highschoolers and my 2 year old cousin.

[Anonymous No.6002229]

>>6002197
>>6002185
>>6002095
I wish I were her tampon boy.

[Anonymous No.6002236]

>>6002189
that's zombieface

[Anonymous No.6002241]

>>6002226
>i never actually read any rand at all

No matter. Free country, right? Blather on.

[Anonymous No.6002247]

>>6002185
>>6002095
>>6002229
Why must you insist on destroying all things of innocence on this planet /lit/?

[Anonymous No.6002253]

>>6002247
Fuck you her videos sucked!

[Anonymous No.6002255]

>>6002185
>>6002253
Didn't she hang herself or something?

[Anonymous No.6002264]

>>6002253
She's sort of cute in a naive way.
too bad she dead

[Anonymous No.6002267]

>>6002264
What she died?!!!

[Anonymous No.6002275]

>>6002253
I can't believe lit actually drove someone to do something like that. I mean, your entire existence over some stupid comments.

[Anonymous No.6002279]

stop forcing this stupid shit

[Anonymous No.6002281]

>>6002275
This wasn't a normal girl... she was sort of slow.

[Anonymous No.6002286]

Apologize for poor english

Where wer u wen u found out katie was kill?


I was at bohemian orgy when my colledge proffesor said "Katie is die"

no

[Anonymous No.6002290]

I started with the Europeans.

[Anonymous No.6002294]

>>6002275
>>6002286
lol remember this.
The glory days!

[Anonymous No.6002299]

>>6002200
wow fucking sweet post number

i don't even ever post anywhere

but oh miraculous heaven
oh ho ly shieeeeet

[Anonymous No.6002309]

>>6002286
I was pissing in bottle when I first heard.

[Anonymous No.6002315]

>>6002294
wtf is that?

[Anonymous No.6002322]

>>6002294
Fuck, not again

[Anonymous No.6002328]

>>6002286
>>6002275
>>6002267
>>6002264
Is she really dead?

[Anonymous No.6002335]

>>5998751
>i have literally never finished a book
I always begin by the end and hardly ever read the beginning.

[Anonymous No.6002337]

>>6002328
Yes no, this is just another ebin meme brought to you by /lit/

[Anonymous No.6002340]

>>6002294
/lit/s lowest moment.

[Anonymous No.6002349]

>>6002328
Shes not dead but may aswell be.
Damn Bitch!

[Anonymous No.6002352]

>>6002349
What she do wrong?

[Anonymous No.6002360]

>>6002352
Her offense was being a pleb whore.

[Anonymous No.6002368]

>>6002352
She wasn't a super smart patrician like some super smart patricians on /lit/

Remember guys! Only REAL intellectuals can appreciate books! Everyone else should be bullied!

[Anonymous No.6002376]

>>6002185
Katie oh Katie where are thee?
Dead.

[Anonymous No.6002382]

>>6002376
Wait is she really dead?

[Anonymous No.6002386]

>>6002360
Its people like you that enforce the patriarchy!

[Anonymous No.6002390]

>>6002386
>>6002382
>>6002376
>>6002340
>>6002322
>>6002294
>>6002286
wtf's going on here?

[Anonymous No.6002396]

>>6002376
Looks like my dyke aunt.

[Anonymous No.6002397]

>>6002390
really funny internet culture

[Anonymous No.6002401]

>>6002376
Is she our new queen?

[Anonymous No.6002405]

>>6002376
Anybody got her phonenumber?

[Anonymous No.6002408]

>>6002401
Go back to /b/
faggot.

[Anonymous No.6002409]

>>5999969
you monster

[Anonymous No.6002414]

>>6002408
>>6002405
>>6002401
>>6002397
>>6002396
>>6002390
>>6002376
>>6002340
>>6002294
>>6002286
>>6002253
>>6002185
>>6002095
I swear /lit/ is done for we all said it was the end!

[Anonymous No.6002417]

>>6002294
are those piss bottles?

[Anonymous No.6002425]

>>6002417
Yes... they are piss bottles.

[Anonymous No.6002434]

>>6002425
Not surprised.....

[Anonymous No.6002439]

>>6000200
me too

[Anonymous No.6002446]

>>6000720
What's wrong with good ol' Terry?

I've read Discworld series twice just for the hell of it. It's relaxing and fun easy-to-read series that can sometimes be genuinely thought provoking.

[Anonymous No.6002447]

>6002417
someone post the entire thread if its out there

[Anonymous No.6002454]

>>6002447
Found it!
The story of our Katie baby.
too bad she dead

[Anonymous No.6002460]

>>6002454
What an embarrassment.
It is a little funny though.

[Anonymous No.6002461]

>>5998714
My favorite book in the world is Savages by Don Winslow.
I haven't finished a single Bret book other than American Psycho due to getting bored halfway through.
I like I. Welsh. Filth was great.
I like Ryu Murakami.
I'm rereading Snakes and Earrings.

[Anonymous No.6002470]

>>6002454
lol she ended her channel over that.
fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.6002480]

>>6002454
lol dat tampon story tho

[Anonymous No.6002488]

>>6002454
I have to stop coming here.

[Anonymous No.6002501]

>>6002488
You and me both brother.

[Anonymous No.6002513]

>>6002454
The ending was too cliche.

[Anonymous No.6002519]

>>6002480
>>6002454
You killed her /lit/!
how do you feel?

[Anonymous No.6002553]

>>5998714
I like to pretend I'm either a rightist or a leftist loony in political threads, depending on my mood and the course of the threads. I'm a contrarian hipster shithead so I always go against the circlejerk.

I like to annoy some online friends of mine by ironically seriousposting about the dumbest issues and arguments, e.g. video games are a higher form of art than literature since they are by their very nature more interactive and involve the consumer of art more and are therefore more emotional and therefore more artful as a medium.

I used to enjoy ASOIAF series and would recommend it to all my friends, but after the TV series came out I slowly started to resent all the new fans and since the TV adaptation turned to such shit since second season I genuinely started to dislike the entire franchise.

I used to read on, say, at least five books a month on average.

Last time I bought a book was in 2011. Then I got a kindle and every single book I've read since was downloaded from various torrents.

Last time I read a book was in late 2013. Then I started watching anime again after a 10+ year break and haven't read a single book in the entirety of 2014. Watched roughly 200 different anime series, though. Only thing I've read in the past 14 or so months was Boku Girl.

[Anonymous No.6002554]

>>6002519
Pretty damn good.

[Anonymous No.6002564]

>>6002454
This Katie chicks kinda hot anybody got nudes?

[Anonymous No.6002565]

>>6000414
Congrats bro, you are in the majority of the population. Mediocrity is for most people.

[Anonymous No.6002571]

>>6000964
>I need to look down on people to feel good

[Anonymous No.6002580]

>>6002564
Your the cancer thats destroying lit.
Besides she's engaged

[Anonymous No.6002582]

>>6002580
>Your

[Anonymous No.6002590]

>>6002582
Fuck you she's soon to be a married woman!

[Anonymous No.6002598]

>>6002185
Katie oh Katie my little dear throw away that tampon baby and let me fuck you up the rear.

[Anonymous No.6002600]

>>6002590

katie pls

[Anonymous No.6002601]

>>6002056
>If the only far-right leaning fascist thing you do is claiming you're a far-right leaning fascist on an Aboriginal stonecarving festival, then you're no far-right leaning fascist. You're a normalfag student who writes lefty papers and tells himself he's far right to feel better about it.

>But remember: if you don't do more for fascism than you do for leftism, you're essentially a leftist (that's a general comment, I'm not a fascist myself).

Writing bullshit essays to get a better grade isn't doing anything for a particular cause you plank. I can't be a leftist if I do not believe any of the words I'm writing.

What if in my personal life I write material that I actually put intentional purpose and meaning behind which advocates fascism? What then?

[Anonymous No.6002609]

>>6002598
lol

[Anonymous No.6002612]

>>6002590
She'll never be married, she's dead.

[Anonymous No.6002615]

>>6002612
What?!

[Anonymous No.6002632]

>>6002612
>>6002590
>>6002598
Lovely Katie your my heart and soul let me fuck you in every hole.

[Anonymous No.6002646]

>>6002632
>>6002612
>>6002600
>>6002598
>>6002590
>>6002580
>>6002564
>>6002519
>>6002480
>>6002434
>>6002414
>>6002396
>>6002401
>>6002376
>>6002340
>>6002309
>>6002294
I'm I on /b/?

[Anonymous No.6002661]

>>6002601
Fuck off we r talking about katie

[Anonymous No.6002670]

>>6002632
Katie honest and free I want you to be with me!

[Anonymous No.6002678]

Does this girl know she's a meme yet

[Anonymous No.6002682]

>>6002678
Shes dead.

[Anonymous No.6002734]

I read a lot in high school though I did terrible in most of my classes. Now that I'm in Community college I'm doing really good in all my classes but I stopped reading for pleasure almost altogether.

[Anonymous No.6002746]

Is Katie the Hamlet to /lit/'s Ophelia?

[Anonymous No.6002757]

>>6002746
Actually kind of works

[Anonymous No.6002763]

>>6002746
bon mot/10

[Anonymous No.6002800]

>>6000106
>Poppy Z Brite
mon nigér

[Anonymous No.6003138]

>>5998714
I have never finished Atlas Shrugged. This book pisses me off, it's just too pretentious.

[Anonymous No.6003166]

I can't read novels anymore. They just stopped being fun. I read short reportages, documentaries and a lot of poetry but I haven't read any good prose fiction in a year.

[Anonymous No.6003322]

>>5999975
Deogratias

[Anonymous No.6003398]

>>6002328
She hung herself with a belt :(

[Anonymous No.6003401]

>>6002328
She blew her face off with a shotgun :(

[Anonymous No.6003408]

Haruki Murakami>Yukio Mishima

I also think he's better than DFW,since I wasn't impressed with Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.6003412]

I pay for ebooks

[Anonymous No.6003417]

>>6003412
Why ?

[Anonymous No.6003426]

>>6003417
CAUSE I CAN

[Steki !!YZ75WBx2rxh No.6003443]

>>6000113
man he looks like christopher from the sopranos
literally

[Anonymous No.6003466]

>>6002565
IS it ok to be mediocre? Compared to 99.9999999999999999% of the rest of the universe, Im a fucking special snowflake.

[Anonymous No.6003535]

>>6000508
Hey man, that sounds rough. I don't know you, but you seem clever, and I think that you possess the intelligence to rise above what you're feeling. I want that you should be able to change yourself however you would like

[Anonymous No.6003551]

>>6000508
Dyel

[Anonymous No.6003608]

The only novels I actually own are based on slasher movies.

[Anonymous No.6003625]

Cringe general

[Anonymous No.6003781]

During 1996 while stationed in Bosnia I accidently killed a woman and her child during a firefight with Serbs. Two guys ran I to a cabins and I emptied the whole 200 rounds out of my SAW. I didn't know they were inside. I committed a warcrime before I was old enough to drink. I never told anyone

[Anonymous No.6003911]

>>5999975
Silver Age Aquaman

[Anonymous No.6003927]

I didn't apply to oxford because i was lazy and doubted myself and now i pretend that Oxford didn't interest me anyway because of the elitist traditional public school bullshit..... Even though i still fantasise about living the Oxford life in a college that has formal dinners every night wearing funny hats and rowing and playing student pranks and being able to tell people I'm an oxforf student and it's really depressing
just like everyone else who apllied to LSE did

[Anonymous No.6003948]

>>6001814
>>6001814
>>6001814
>>6001814
>>6001814

[Anonymous No.6003957]

>>6003927Also i am eating a mustard, lettuce and chorizo sandwich that tastes just lke marijuana and it's really confusing my tastebuds

[Anonymous No.6004039]

That Vito Jr. story could have been better, maybe. Hope everything worked out for the poor guy, though.

[Anonymous No.6004145]

>>5998751
Actually never read one or just not fond of reading?

Das pretty bad man.

[Anonymous No.6004229]

>>6001095

>2015
>Not wanting to outlaw gay marriage

It's like you welcome degeneracy

[Anonymous No.6004252]

I care far more about solid storylines then I do about prose.

[Anonymous No.6004265]

>>6001095
So it's soul crusing read pretty much any christian?

[Anonymous No.6004272]

>>6002390
/lit/ drove a girl who does book videos off of YouTube with a bunch of stupid comments. She's not really dead. Looks like people have already made a meme out of it.

[Anonymous No.6004279]

>>6004229
Shit troll.

[Anonymous No.6004281]

>>6003781
Were you reading a book at the time?

[Anonymous No.6004296]

>>5998751
why you on this board, mayne?

[Anonymous No.6004303]

I cried after reading Chekov's "Stories"

[Anonymous No.6004321]

>>6004272
Don't lie shes dead!
My Katie you were so young, imagine what could've been

[Anonymous No.6004335]

>>6002185
>>6002095
>>6002253
>>6002286
>>6002294
Someone should put the piss bottles on her grave lol

[Anonymous No.6004344]

>>6004335
Why would you want to piss on here grave?
She was so sweet!

[Anonymous No.6004365]

>>6002632
Katie you are my dream, a lovely queen, FUCK MY DICK BITCH!
lol piss bottles

[Anonymous No.6004381]

>>6004335
>>6004365

There is already a place designated for guys like you two.

>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.6004386]

>>6004365
If she ain't in the ground yet i'd tap that.

[Anonymous No.6004394]

>>6004381
Fuck you Katie is /lit/s little tampon baby!

[Anonymous No.6004403]

>>6004394
I get that reference. sadly....

[Anonymous No.6004423]

>>6002095
>>6002185
>>6002197
>>6002253
>>6002286
>>6002294
>>6002322
>>6002340
>>6002376
>>6002414
>>6002417
>>6002425
>>6002434
>>6002480
>>6002564
>>6002632
>>6002612
>>6002746
>>6004335
>>6004344
>>6004381
>>6004386
>>6004394
Katie oh Katie oh my little dear one, let me be your baby boy tampon.

[Anonymous No.6004430]

>>6004423
>>6004394
>>6004386
>>6004365
>>6004344
>>6004335
Whats wrong with you people?

[Anonymous No.6004434]

This thread is crazy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.6004440]

>>6002205
Why does this picture keep appearing everywhere I go on this board?

[Anonymous No.6004443]

>>6004440
You know what you've done!

[Anonymous No.6004458]

>>6004443
Is this some kind of meme or something?
wtf

[Anonymous No.6004517]

>>6001048
i work in a library and hate how His Dark Materials got moved upstairs to the adult's section. it was down in middleschool for the first couple of years, but a bunch of catholic parents complained.

[Anonymous No.6004678]

>>6000529

More confessions

I use to go to large retail bookstores (B&N, Borders, etc.) multiple times a week and read entire books in the store without ever paying for them. I essentially used it like a free library.

I read some pretty overrated pleb books (The Book Theif, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) because a girl I was dating at the time loved them with the hope that she would take my suggestions and read some better stuff and we could then talk about good literature together. This didn't end up well as I imagined as she never once considered reading anything I recommended her (Dostoyevsky, Wolfe, Melville, etc.) The worst part about it? She graduated from Pepperdine with a degree in English, having never read Melville, Faulkner, Conrad, and many others. Her father was also a pleb professor at Pepperdine who wrote a critical book on Harry Potter, I shit you not.

I rarely re-read books, with the exception of Moby-Dick, Wolfe's works, parts of the Bible, and Faulkner's works.

I'm a rabid Disney fan and have read the entire Kingdom Keepers YA series. It's fucking atrocious but I can't help it.

I spend more time playing vidya than reading these days.

[Anonymous No.6005977]

>>6001773
You whore.

[Anonymous No.6005988]

>>6001949
Who will be the first against the wall anon?

[Anonymous No.6006186]

>>5999975
100 Bullets, Sandman, Blacksad, Locke and Key