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/lit/ confessions thread.

I learned a month ago that Roald Dahl was a man.

>> No.911120

Really, OP?

But he wrote an autobiography called Boy: Tales From Childhood.

>> No.911132

>>911120
That's how I learned.

;_;

>> No.911138

I always skipped a good chunk of 1984 right around where they are discussing the manual or whatever (anyone know what i mean?) but i still consider it one of my favorite books.

>> No.911175

I didn't like Dune

>> No.911194

>>911138

The "book" by Goldstein, yeah i know a lot of peopel who skipped that, personally i thought it was pretty interesting because it essentially expanded on the entire background of the novel and exposed how the soceity managed to remain under the partys rule for so long.

Then again, I had to read it for school and probably would have skipped it during a self pleasure read.

>> No.911199

>>911194
Thank you! man the guilt. I will probably read it though, some day.

>> No.911206

Ahah, I have a thing about sometimes assuming authors are female, based on their names.

For some reason, I thought Lewis Carroll was a woman for the longest time. Same with China Mieville. But I always thought Roald Dahl was a man, mostly because I misread his name as 'Ronald' constantly.

>> No.911225

I would go gay...for Ginsberg

>> No.911235

>>911206
you know, his name is ronald. a paper misspelled it once and he just went with it. BAMF.

>> No.911240

When I was little, I misread Brian Jaques as Brain. So, in my head it was "Brain Ja-quays."

Haha.. ohh, good times.

>> No.911241

>>911235
Well damn. I feel better then.

>> No.911249

I only read Lolita, The Great Gatsby, and The Master and Margarita halfway through.

Only one I regret not finishing, and probably will one of these days, is TMaM.

>> No.911251

>>911249

Oh, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Shit was sloooooooooooow.

>> No.911252

>>911249
How could you not read TMaM?!?

>> No.911257

I hated the first half of Catch-22...and I can never place my finger on the why.

>> No.911258

>>911235
>>911241
This is not true.

>> No.911259

>>911249
Oh, speaking of this. I haven't read Lolita all the way through either. I think I got a little over halfway and then just stopped. One day I will finish it. One day.

>> No.911261

>>911258
Dammit I am so confused now.

>> No.911264

>>911252

Was writing my dissertation at the time and never felt like reading for pleasure after spending 8 hours a day reading journal articles and shit. Meant to get back to it but haven't yet.

>> No.911266

I always assumed Carol Reed was an enterprising and talented woman director. Shame on me.

>> No.911292

I thought L.M. Montgomery was a man.

>> No.911294

Despite loving The Stranger, The Fall, and the Myth of Sisyphus, I completely abhor The Plague and am loath to admit this to anyone when I say Camus is one of my favorite authors. I'm sure The Plague must have some redeeming value but I'm unable to see it.

>> No.911322

>>911249
>>911259

Part 1 of Lolita is infinitely superior to Part 2. Part 2 is probably more "significant" or something, and it certainly contains lots more dohohoho clever references, but Part 1 is just beautiful. In my opinion, I mean, and I'm probably totally wrong.

>> No.911340

>>911322
I think part two has a lot more depth, you really get into H.H's head. I can understand why the hotel-after-hotel part might deter someone at first though.

>> No.911343

>>you know, his name is ronald. a paper misspelled it once and he just went with it. BAMF.

Horseshit! His parents were Norwegian. He was named after Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first man to reach the South Pole. Are you a fucking moron?

>> No.911351

>>911322
Part 1 is pretty much universally preferred.

No fucking reason to not love the second half, much less fucking read it.

>>911294
As a Camus lover, you disgust me.

>> No.911360

I fucking hate The Great Gatsby.

I really don't get all the faggots that rage on about it being the best American novel of all time.

The metaphor was obvious and drawn out, the characters weren't enjoyable and it had some of the most ridiculous dialogue ever.

>While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.

>“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”

>> No.911363

>>911175
>>911138

Same here, I want to go back and re-read 1984 without skipping that part, and maybe give Dune another chance while I'm at it.