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Literary confession thread

>> No.9365504

>>9365496
I unironically hate all of you and think that you're horrible, untalented writers who don't deserve to even laugh at /r/writing

>> No.9365514

>>9365496
Pynchon, Wallace et al are just terrible, like unbelievably bad at writing

>> No.9365519

>>9365496
I have never read a book.

>> No.9365525

im triggered by stirner memes

>> No.9365527

>>9365519
Nobody on /lit/ has.

>> No.9365528

I own more books than I have read.

>> No.9365532

>>9365496
I unironically made a pledge to read only women authors and POC authors for the rest of the year

>> No.9365538

I just finished IJ. I had forgotten that Hal mentioned he dug up himself with Don and Wayne at like page 16. I feel retarded - I am.

>> No.9365540

i havent read anything in like 2 years
i really like reading and have a gigantic backlog ready to read but other more fun things distract me

>> No.9365564

>>9365496
i haven't read a novel in almost 2 years. i'm not even that interested in literature. i just come here to shitpost.

>> No.9365570

>>9365496
I can't read

>> No.9365578

I think movies/television/lecture are a more compelling format to give information.

No one gives a fuck about the details in books except pseudos.

>> No.9365595

>>9365532
you're gonna read some great shit you wouldn't have read otherwise

getchu some of that Marlon James and Louise Erdrich

not really a confession since I willingly tell people this, but Anna Karenina was one of the worst books I've ever read. It's one part the plot of a short story he wrote years prior, one part Madame Bovary and hundreds upon hundreds of pages of Tolstoy's dogma attempting to be presented like it's the one true way

>> No.9365601

>>9365496

I think fiction is for sentimental queers/women and philosophy/history/politics/science texts (non pop) are the only enjoyable forms of literature

I don't understand how you homo fuccbois can read garbage like pychon, hemingway, or poe

>> No.9365604

I mostly read because I feel like I should, rather than any genuine enjoyment.

>> No.9365634

>>9365601
Anyone who thinks this highly of politics is likely sub 50 IQ

>> No.9365644

>>9365634
Honestly, less than that.

>> No.9365653

>>9365634

It depends on whether we're talking about Hoppe and Zizek or Ann Coulter and Ta Nehisi Coates

>> No.9365670

>>9365653
all of those people are absolute retard tier

>> No.9365867

>>9365519
I've read a lot of books and still post here.

>> No.9365875

>>9365496

I don't understand the criteria behind any of your tastes except as a mess of self-referential garbage inherited from others and think I'm probably smarter than most of you simply for being an auto-didact who generates my own, mostly wrong but at least novel opinions constantly.

>> No.9365925
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9365925

I loved the Inheritance Cycle

>> No.9365962

>>9365496
the thought of continuing to read infinite jest after the first four chapters instills in me a powerful feeling of extreme dread. i don't want to do it but you guys are going to make me do it eh? i hate you all

>> No.9365970

>>9365925
it's like the star wars prequels of books. made by one person who had way more control than he should. extremely corny, cliched plots. weird kind of obvious political message. extremely bizarre transformations for main characters. some plots dragged on painfully long and others resolved in single sentences.

in the same way it is lovable for how strange it is

>> No.9365997

>>9365496
i go to libraries and pretend to read books until a female comes near me looking for a book, i pretend that i work there and want to help her, when she asks me to help her pick out a book, i tell her that i'm part of the a book club and she should join because she has great taste, then i give her /lit/ in big letters on a business card and smile and sit back down to my book.

>> No.9366007

>>9365496
I prefer small (max 200p). The faster I finish a story the better I feel. Has electronic media ruined me?

>> No.9366022

>>9365970
>lovable
Ive read the series 4 times through and really want the 5th book to hurry up.

I need to find a new series.

>> No.9366033

Been reading the same book since October 2016...being a wagie is death.

>> No.9366042

I mostly read history and I can barely tell the difference between genuine and pop books.

>> No.9366054

>>9366042
it's okay historians are still being surprised herodotus didn't make shit up half as often as they thought.

>> No.9366117

>>9366022
There's a fifth? I only read the last two out of obligation to my childhood self. I thought it was over. Didn't 4 come out kind of a while ago?

>> No.9366130

>>9366117
4 came out in 2011

He has said in interviews that there will be a 5th, stand-alone, book that will take place after the Inheritance series. The same world with new and old characters.

>> No.9366162

>>9366130
I thought he was writing a SF story now

>> No.9366170

>>9365578
Why is it that people always try to compare different mediums?

It's useless, none is "better" than the other, each of them provide a unique way to convey subjects that the other may be incapable to do in the same way due to the inherent difference of them.

Just fucking enjoy them for what they are instead of being pretentious

>> No.9366171

>>9365504
t. r/writing

>> No.9366172

-About a third of my books are unread even though I buy new ones.

-Every third book I read is a trashy pulp novel.

-I read classics an expect them to be highly moving and touching and tend to be disappointed each time and question why these works get such praise.

-I think that the "X country has the best literature" arguments are mostly unsubstantiated wank.

-Stirner is right

-Most of my collection is history and political works

-I think Orwell is a good writer

>> No.9366176

>>9366007
Depends on your ability to concentrate and reading longer works.
Although it's not necessarily bad that you prefer novellas, a few of my favorite books are short.
Plus a lot of amazing authors never did a 250+ p. works

CAPTCHA: Kino freda

>> No.9366183

>>9365496
I never am able to read a book past page 50, regardless of my actual enjoyment.

>> No.9366186

Sometimes I prefer to be well versed in my country's literature than reading some classics, not because of national pride, but rather the amount of great authors we have and still haven't get around most of their work that interests me way more than Mark Twain or Dickens I haven't read a page of any of them

>> No.9366188

>>9366186
Which country?

>> No.9366225

>>9366188
México

>> No.9366257

>>9365496
>I love Melville too much.

It's like I'm in a cult now. Everyone I know who reads or thinks of themselves as literary always holds Moby Dick up as the classic that doesn't deserve to be a classic.

I always shill for Moby Dick. Everytime. They used to ask me for book recommendations all the time back when my favorite books were things like East of Eden, The Great Gatsby, or Pride & Prejudice, but now I tell them to read Moby Dick and they grumble and whine. Feels good man.

>> No.9366522

I read a book written by Anne Lamott

>> No.9366532

>>9365578
Lectures offer dialogue, but limit the sphere of what can be handled. Television/movies are way too subtle to be honest with their implications.

>> No.9366539

My brother bought me a book for my birthday but I've been reading digital for so long that I can't stand reading physical anymore so I haven't touched the one he gave me and instead downloaded and read a digital version of the book.

>> No.9366546

You are all retarded pseuds and shitposters who haven't read shit and talk out of your asses. I would have moved to rabbit long ago but that site looks ugly and annoying as fuck.

>> No.9366596

>>9365532
*Disgust*

>> No.9366608

>>9366225
damn chicanos man.

>> No.9366915

I like John Green novels

>> No.9367203

>>9366257
I'm with you,

I love Melville. Particularly Moby Dick. It's my favorite novel of all time and every time someone badmouths it I get defensive. I kind of get it when people bitch about entire chapters devoted to the uses of whale products. But so what? Skip those 2 chapters if you must. The story is excellent and you can get lost for years in discussions of Melville's intent.

>> No.9367206

I still finger track desu

>> No.9367289

I refuse to read books by women and even burnt one which was assigned to me in school

>> No.9367299
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9367299

I love books about cryptids, conspiracies, and ancient aliens but I don't believe any of it.

>> No.9367361

I've never read anything by Steven King, because his books are fucking enormous and I don't want to spend 1000 pages on a waste of time.
I haven't read a novel front to back in years.

>> No.9367369

I am male and I read Laurel K Hamilton. (for mostly degenerate reasons)

>> No.9367436

>>9365528
Applicable to most people who read. The temptation to pick up more books before you've finished your current one is always strong.

>> No.9367482

It took me a while to understand the first section of The Sound and The Fury

>> No.9367487

I dropped the sound and the fury at the first section

>> No.9367507
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9367507

I only read genre fiction and only the stuff recommended by /sffg/ at that since I'm mostly an anime&manga kinda guy but enjoy western fantasy
I fucking loved the Light Novel of Goblin Slayer, first time I've felt giddy reading anything since like 2010 or so

>> No.9367528
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9367528

>>9365496
I shit on Bukowski for years before realizing that he was not the same guy who wrote Fight Club. I mean he still turned out to be a pseud, but still pretty embarrassing on my part.

>> No.9367555

>>9367487
At least make it to the second section: Quentin's section is the best by far.

>> No.9367564

>>9366257
Moby Dick is something special and unfortunately not everyone can appreciate it.

>> No.9367570

>>9365496
I read James Patterson in high school..

>> No.9367580

>>9367570
I read Maximum Ride: Schools Out Forever in 36 hours
that's the fastest I've ever read a book

>> No.9367586

>>9365570
what does this say?

>> No.9367587

>>9367528
>Criticizing writers you haven't read and calling other people a pseud
I implore you to kill yourself.

>> No.9367589

>>9367203
>Skip those 2 chapters if you must.

>> No.9367603

>>9367587
I read Fight Club a long time ago, I just forgot who wrote it, and I hardly think anyone would disagree that Bukowski was a pseud.

>> No.9367605

I constantly worry while reading that I'm not retaining enough

>> No.9367606

>>9367589
It was advise given by one of my teachers in HS. She said they didn't even read those in her college class that covered the book. Personally I found it all very fascinating.

>> No.9367610

I don't read any books I just come here because I like sharing and reading the high intellect of this board.

>> No.9367617

I came here from reddit.

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9367628

>>9365532

>> No.9367714

I'm gay. I love men's buns and wieners.

>> No.9367728

>>9367714
Why are you saging and shitposting? This thread has just as much merit as every john green bait thread.

>> No.9367740

>>9365514
It's okay, we all had a little trouble understanding them at first. Keep working, though, you'll get it anon.

>> No.9367745

every second book I read is some self-help, finding yourself, crystal, yoga, massage, true you type shit.

The other books are about dragons.

>> No.9367756

>>9365867
Then youre fucking retarded.
This place is explicitly for pseuds, and for pseuds only.

>> No.9367767

I'm a psuedo but not a spook.

>> No.9367775

>>9365528
I've written more books than I have read

>> No.9367779

>>9367775
wow its andy mcnab

>> No.9367788

>>9367775
>>9367779
More like Robert Pattison.

>> No.9367957

>>9367775
Garth Marenghi pls go

>> No.9368094

>>9367299
This isn't really that much of a confession, though. I mean, you were basically the target audience of The X-Files and you're currently the target audience of who knows how many shitty paranormal/conspiracy/alien abduction related shows on TV.

>> No.9368105

>>9367507
Sadly /sffg/ Isn't the same any more, reddit destroyed those threads.

>> No.9368112

>>9367775
Go away Chuck Tingle.

Pounded In The Ass By The Anonymous Users Of A Jamaican Plastic Tools Manufacture Forum will not be written by itself.

>> No.9368134

I've written book reviews on FB and I kinda like it

I don't like reading fiction. I'll only read it if it holds some cerebral merit to it.

Most Anglo lit I've read was the most boring, dull and dry out there.

war memoirs hold a lot literary merit

every book I get is either a memoir, theology, reference, classic russian lit, or an operations book.

I used to read video game and starwars books back in high school, and to this day I regret it badly, I also regret forcing myself reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series.

>> No.9368442

>>9365604
RNS

>> No.9368444

I really like George Orwell's writing

>> No.9368462

>>9367299
Ancient aliens is absolute trite, but I honestly believe in bigfoot/sasquatch, based off my own experiences

>> No.9368480

I unironically believe The Magicians by Lev Grossman is one of the most important books written so far in the 21st century.

>> No.9369087

i cannot stand victorian writing and many potentially good novels i derive no enjoyment from because of the awfully dry prose

>> No.9369093

>>9365496
I have read everything Veronica Roth has written.

>> No.9369100

>>9368480
I think the television series is pretty good. Have not touched the books yet.

>> No.9369107

>>9369087
>Victorian writing
>awfully dry prose
I bet you unironically hate Wuthering Heights, too. Pleb.

>> No.9369120

>>9365496
Almost every single post I've made on lit has been a line or excerpt I ripped from literature ranging from pulpy detective novels, to 733T postmodern melodramas and nobody has ever called me out on it. Going on 4 years now.

>> No.9369129

>>9366608
Not even a chicano anon...
I just appreciate the works that we produce, nothing else

>> No.9369132

>>9369107
i dont hate it but i wouldnt choose to reread it

>> No.9369138

>>9369129
Start with Rulfo. Pedro Paramo, Will change your life, carnalito.

>> No.9369158

>>9365528
Nothing out of the common anon, Roberto Bolaño himself said many times that he owned books that he could not get to read and that he knew he would never read because he would die first. And Bolaño was pretty well read.

>> No.9369163

A Song of Ice and Fire is good

>> No.9369166

>>9365653
You'd be better off reading shit like Robert Nozick or John Rawls, or more formal political theory like stuff based on social choice theory, rational choice theory, game theory, etc. (e.g. Amartya Sen, Kenneth Arrow, etc.)

>> No.9369168

>>9369129
I implore you to read Xavier Villaurrutia and José Gorostiza.

>> No.9369185

>>9365496
I don't have a PhD in literature or philosophy and I can only speak one language.

>> No.9369304

>>9369138
Already read that 3 times. My grandma was from Sayula and she met Rulfo when he was a a youngster (and also found out why Pedro Paramo is written in the strange way that it is)
>>9369168
Already did, anon. Villaurrutia should be a must-read for every mexican and I've read a few of Gorostiza poems.

Actually we have some amazing underrated poets like Owen, Andrés Henestrosa, Niggli, Nervo, Reyes, Efrain Bartolomé, Diaz Miron, Nandino, Quirarte, Alí Chumacero, Bonifaz Nuño, Homero Aridjis, Villaurrutia, Pacheco...

Also I'd say that everyone should read José Revueltas, specially Los días terrenales

>> No.9369343

My favorite book is a shitty YA novel

>> No.9369345

I don't even read books, I only come here because every other board on 4chan is progressively getting dumber and dumber. The floodgates have opened and basically every single board I have regularly posted on for eight years is ruined. It's not uncommon to see: a complete lack of proper punctuation and grammar, Reddit and Tumblr memes, nigger abbreviation speak, childish non arguments, and porn/non board related content. It's just grating to me. Fuck Reddit for ruining this site for me.

>> No.9369353

>>9369345
Then why do you still come here?

>> No.9369356

>>9366162
not same anon but i read the inheritance cycle as well when i was a kid and i believe paolini said he would probably write a standalone book about brom. but its disconnected from the main cycle.

>> No.9369371

>>9369345
lol

/lit/ is people pretending to be not retarded, at least some people don't pretend

I feel you though, I feel like I've grown out of some boards, and others I have to find the occasional thread I can tolerate.

Now I really only browse /out/, /lit/, /lgbt/ (only because it's one of the few trans places that isn't super moderated) and have to heavily filter through /k/ and /r9k/ to find anything worthwhile.

I hate thinking of myself as super mature but sometimes it just feels like everyone posting is a 15 year old, I stopped browsing stuff like /a/ or /v/ a long time ago because of feeling like that.

>> No.9369420

>>9369371
>Super mature
>Mentally maladjusted tranny
So this is the power of /lit/... woah...

>> No.9369429

>>9369353
Because there is nowhere else to go.

>> No.9369770

i read all of infinite jest, didn't like it, and almost immediately forgot everything about it

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>>9366033
>being a wagie is death

This

>> No.9369815

>>9367605
valid confession, friend. just keep working at it :^)

>> No.9369882

I think that most modern love for Shakespeare's plays is purely bandwagoning and ingroup signaling.

Shakespeare is talented. I'll even accept that *for his time*, Shakespeare was immensely revolutionary. But people seem to hold up Shakespeare as some sort of giant of nearly incomprehensible greatness whose might transcends even the best of modern writers. I don't buy that.

I've read over three quarters of Shakespeare's plays and many of his sonnets. I think his sonnets are actually much better than his plays, and if people were mostly talking about his sonnets, I would find that plausible. But I firmly believe that the circlejerking about his plays is mostly bullshit. Yes, the characters are realistic; yes, the themes are universally human. I could say the same about plenty of modern literature (and would in fact say that a good deal of modern literature is thematically deeper than Shakespeare's plays).

I may or may not be well read by your standards; I studied English and mathematics at a good university, and I certainly do read a lot. Feel free to disagree.

>> No.9369885

>>9368480
why? elaborate?

>> No.9369905

>>9368480
Read the first one, it was actual garbage, by the time I got to the end of it I was reading it ironically.

Only finished it because my dad gave it to me as a gift.

>> No.9369969

I hate reading classical literature

>> No.9371128

>>9369882
Have you seen his comedies? I'm studying Twelfth Night and it's been a blast so far, that is if you watch the play(not just read it) to make it more enjoyable. Especially the play in Shakespeare's Globe starring Stephen Fry, it was really hilarious IMO.

>> No.9371459

>>9369120
Post one
>>9369163
>>>/reddit/

>> No.9371640

>>9366172
/pol/ overflow who hasn't shed any of the cancer off yet

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9371888

I re-read the entire trilogy and the sequel trilogy as an adult. And enjoyed it.

>> No.9371924

I feel compelled to write random one-off philosophical writings much like the federalist papers whenever I get off of work. I should write them and post them here.

>> No.9372155

Most non fiction books are 90% filler and only 10% actual information

>> No.9372696

>>9366007

Same... it sucks. I hate myself for not being able to enjoy longer books.

>> No.9373205

>>9367299
Me too, it's just comfy and fun to read.

>> No.9373219

I'm so devoid of originality I've gone entirely the other way and decided to try and S-Rank copying the characters I like.

>> No.9373259

Ive read ASOIAF three times.
Ive read the Twilight saga twice.
IJ is unironically my favorite book.
Nietzsche is unironically my favorite philosopher.

The only question is, how can I be more pleb? if even possible.

>> No.9373267

>>9373259
You could be me

My favorite author is Nisio fucking Isin

>> No.9373962

>>9365496
I picked a up a copy of 'A Portrait of The Artist' once while shopping with my sister and when she I asked my what it was, I said (Because I'd forgotten the authors name, but tried any way because I didn't want to look like a psued)
"A Portrait of The Young Man As An Artist by James Earl Jones"

>> No.9374514

>>9366172
>I read classics an expect them to be highly moving and touching and tend to be disappointed each time and question why these works get such praise.
Jesus man, right there with you.

>> No.9374551

>>9373962
I would listen to that audiobook

>> No.9374731

>>9367299
Any book recs for any of those? I'm with you there

>> No.9374738

>>9373962
Jesus

>> No.9374740

>>9373259
Putting nietzsche in all this thrash... Get some sense of hierarchy and objective value

>> No.9375705

I have linguistic aptitude and my only real passion lies with the written word but I would rather do nothing than study it at a university

>> No.9375721

>>9365604
/thread

>> No.9375730

I prefer well-written comics to well-written literature.

>> No.9375789

I think most Anglophones vastly overestimate the merit of English literature as a whole. Anglophone readers tend to only read English literature with a tiny supplement of Russian and maybe French literature. A figure like James Joyce is not highly regarded on the European continent. Anglophone readers tend to skip a lot of great German writers like Goethe, Schiller and Rilke, who are widely regarded to be superior to someone like Joyce. Pynchon and DFW are literally who tier outside the US.

>> No.9375797

>>9365496
I wish I could get characterization and pace like J.K. Rowling.

>> No.9375837

>>9375797
Just copy her, like she did with other writers lmao