/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11140729]

>age
>year you came to /lit/
>favorite books
>currently reading

[Anonymous No.11140738]

>>11140729
>20
>no idea
>Moby Dick, Love of the last tycoon, Master and Margarita
>Lovecraft

[Praise Lord Kek No.11140739]

>>11140729
>18
>2016 (during the presidential election)
>Culture of Critique, On the Jews and their Lying, Gulag Archepelago, 12 Rules (Peterson), and Schopenhauer's On Women
>Weininger's Sex and Character

[Anonymous No.11140749]

>>11140729
Stop posting sexual and anime shit to /lit/

[Anonymous No.11140751]

>>11140729
>26
>2012
>Invisible Cities, The Trial, Sickness Unto Death, Book of Disquiet
>chronicles of avonlea

[Anonymous No.11140765]

>22
> ~3 months ago
>The Gay Science, The Metamorphosis, Epic of Gilgamesh, Franny & Zooey
>Started Name of the Wind a week ago. I got 200 pages in, but I haven't touched it for four days.

[Anonymous No.11140799]

>23
>2013 I think
>Hilarotragoedia, A Universal History of Infamy, The Temple of Iconoclasts, The Volga is born in Europe
>Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus, Deleuze&Guattari's What is Philosophy

>>11140751
Classic good taste

>>11140765
Don't bother, it's shit

[Anonymous No.11140811]

>28
>probably 2013
>2666 and Moby Dick
>Death on the Installment Plan
Dude was born to despair

[Anonymous No.11140823]

>>11140729
>19
>about a year ago
>book of disquiet, stoner, confessions of a mask, invisible cities
>illuminations rimbaud, the portable checkov, metamorphosis kafka, the unique and its property

[Anonymous No.11140881]

>>11140729
>19
>I was 16 I think
>Don't really know, probably chronicle of a death foretold
>about to start dubliners

[Anonymous No.11140885]

>>11140729
>18
>year ago
>don't know if I have one
>Two Wings

[Anonymous No.11141013]

>>11140729
>26
>2012
>The Recognitons, Infinite Jest, Lot 49, Lolita, Book of The New Sun, Cryptonomicon, Blood Meridian, My Struggle, The Magus, Notes from Underground
>Fooled by Randomness, Bleak House, Consider Phlebas

[Anonymous No.11141062]

>>11140799
>it's shit
I was leaning in that direction. The book seems like a lot of pointless plate-spinning confusing the acquisition of skills as bildungroman. I'm still curious to see how the shoe will drop on Kvothe's heroism

[Anonymous No.11141095]

>23
>2012? Don't remember.
>Stoner, Hard to be a God, Chess Story, Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, No Country for Old Men

[Anonymous No.11141105]

>>11141095
Oh and I'm currently reading The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer after watching the newest season of Twin Peaks

[Anonymous No.11141115]

>>11140729
>24
>2014
>Gravity's Rainbow, Anna Karenina, The Elementary Particles
>Moby Dick (and I'm loving it)

[Anonymous No.11141132]

>>11140738
7/10
>>11140739
2/10
>>11140751
8/10
>>11140765
6/10
>>11140799
8/10
>>11140811
7/10
>>11140823
7/10
>>11140881
6/10
>>11140885
5/10
>>11141013
6/10
>>11141095
6/10
>>11141115
7/10

[Anonymous No.11141137]

>>11140729
>mid 20's
>15
>The Quest for the Holy Grail, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Des Republica

[Anonymous No.11141144]

>>11140751
should check out Concluding Unscientific Postscript after Sickness. More to read, but it's the bulk of his philosophy.

[Anonymous No.11141151]

>>11141137
missed fav books
>Catcher in the Rye, Gorgias, Crime and Punishment, Phantom Tollbooth
I don't really have favorites, but these books left an impression.

[Anonymous No.11141277]

>>11140729
>age
25
>year you came to /lit/
2015
>favorite books
Moby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Wuthering Heights, Lolita, Brothers Karamazov
>currently reading
Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.11141311]

>>11140729
> 22
> 2016
> The Master and Margarita, Kokoro, The Day Lasts More than One Hundred Years
> The Gate by Natsume Soseki

[Anonymous No.11142395]

>>11140729
purrrrr what show is this

[Anonymous No.11142490]

>18
>2017
>TTSS; Swann's Way (but only Combray)
>The Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.11142501]

>>11140729
>age
22
>year you came to /lit/
2012, so when 16-7?
>favourite books
I don't read but lately I've been enjoying Borges
>currently reading
Finished Fear and Trembling this morning

[Anonymous No.11142506]

>>11140729
I think I came here around 2011.
The first thread I saw was a DFW thread. I bought Infinite Jest from a used bookstore the very next day.

Now I read three books a month and have an addiction to coffee.

[Anonymous No.11142509]

>>11140729
>18
>2013/2014
>Riverside Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Dark Eidolon, Aristophanes Complete Plays, Blood Meridian
>Plato's dialogues, Aristotle: Selections, Pryor's Stonehenge, Michelangelo's Notebooks

[Anonymous No.11142510]

>18
>2017 (browser /a/ since like 2015)
> Catch-22, Count of Monte Cristo, Cat's Cradle
> Walden

[Anonymous No.11142524]

19
2016, been on 4chainz since 2011 though
don't really have one
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

[Anonymous No.11142528]

>>11142510
>>11142509
>>11142490
little newfag pseud maggots
i bet you're not even 18

[Anonymous No.11142586]

>19
>/lit/ in 2017, 4chan generally in 2012
>The Stranger
>Of Mice and Men
Pls no bully, I'm taking my first steps into literature rather late, but first steps they remain

[Anonymous No.11142634]

>>11140739
Bait kill yourself please

[Anonymous No.11142655]

>>11140729
27
probably like 6 years ago
stoner, augustus, butchers crossing
rabbit run and im not enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.11142874]

20
5 months ago
Foundation “trilogy”, catch-22
Crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.11142896]

>>11140729
>22
>2017
>The Brothers Karamazov, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Survivor
>How to Read a Book by Adler

[Anonymous No.11142912]

>23
>2016 (been shitposting on 4chan since 2008)
>Winesburg Ohio, Dubliners, Second Treatise of Government, Progress and Poverty, and Nightfall
>Been looking. Rec me something.

[Anonymous No.11142941]

> 21
> 2016 or 2017
> A Clockwork Orange, Crime and Punishment, Oedipus the King, Lolita
> On Liberty, The Republic, Crime and Punishment, The Stranger, The Iliad, Beyond Good and Evil, The Corrections, Sing Unburied Sing

[Anonymous No.11142960]

>18
>2017
>Story of the Eye, Invisible Cities, Don Quixote
>The Magician (Maugham)

[Anonymous No.11143158]

>>11140729
>22
>2018
>Crime and Punishment and LOTR
>Studies in Hinduism - Rene Guenon

[Anonymous No.11143763]

>>11140729
>19
>End of 2017
>Girl with Curious Hair, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, The Unabomber Manifesto, Cerebus, The Rape of The Mind, Win Bigly, Portrait of The Artist, Not Impossible, Male Fantasies
>How to Win Friends and Influence People, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Bible
Only started real reading less than two years ago, so bound to be filled with pleb shit

[Anonymous No.11143852]

>>11142896
How to Read a Book was a collaboration, and it's not worth reading.

[Anonymous No.11144154]

>>11141062
I liked the book for its clever weaving of plot and subplot as well as an intricate myth based world. I was a fan of his dnd stuff first and the book was just an extension of this taste. It's not the greatest book, or the greatest fantasy book, ever written as some may claim, but if you enjoy a good story then sit back and realize that it compounds and gets exponentially better each page.

[Anonymous No.11144163]

>>11142528
H-hazing :(

[Anonymous No.11144216]

>>11142912
>Winesburg, Ohio
>Progress and Poverty
I like your taste. As for a rec, Something Happened by Heller (I'm assuming you've likely read Catch-22, this is somewhat similar in style but much, much better).

[Anonymous No.11144252]

>>11142912
>>11144216
>Progress and Poverty
There are my Geoist bros. Very good!

As for me
>25
>2013
>Walras' Elements of Pure Economics, Apollonius' On Conics, Aristotle's Metaphysics, Smith's Wealth of Nations
>Pappus' Collection (Bk IV), Pareto's Manual of Political Economy (mathematical appendix), Aristotle's Metaphysics, and The Federalist Papers (just started the Madison ones)

[Anonymous No.11144313]

>>11140729
>22
>Jan 2017
>Crime and punishment, all quiet in the Western front
>Dubliners

[Anonymous No.11144316]

>>11140729
almost 22
2014
my antonia, sound of waves, gene wolf wizard knight
currently reading the accelerationist reader from urbanomic

[Anonymous No.11144362]

>>11140729
24
2016
Tender is the night, Breece Pancake stories, Berlin Alexanderplatz
Some Rilke poetry (slacking off in my reading)

[Anonymous No.11145010]

>18
>2017
>Jesus' Son, My life in the bush of ghost, The Melancholy of resistance, the Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
>The obscene bird of night

[Anonymous No.11145045]

>>11141132
4/10

[Anonymous No.11145132]

>>11140729
>23
>Late 2015 I think
>A la recherche du temps perdu
>''Against the Modern World'' but I'm halfway through and it's getting quite dull so I think I'll start reading ''The rings of Saturn'' by W.G. Sebald

[Anonymous No.11145316]

>28
>2010
>The Master of Go, The Summer Book, The Once and Future King
>Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter, The Complete Japanese Joinery by Hideo Sato, Illustrated Dictionary of Japanese Onomatopoeic Expressions by Taro Gomi, Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts

[Anonymous No.11146167]

>20
>2016
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Jakob von Gunten, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Journey to the End of Night

[Anonymous No.11146200]

>20
>2013 or 14
>Under the Volcano, Portrait of the Artist, Master and Margarita, The 42nd Parallel
>Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus

[Anonymous No.11147401]

>20
>current year
>Seneca - Of a Happy Life & The Shortness of Life
>Sapiens

[Anonymous No.11147421]

>>11140729
>28
>2017
>Don Quixote
>Joseph and His Brothers
J&HB may overtake DQ but it's too early to tell.

[Anonymous No.11147436]

>>11140729
>18
>2017 but occasionally browsed it before
>Ulysses, Hamlet, L'Étranger, The Count of Monte Cristo, Catch-22
>Paradise Lost, The Old Man and the Sea, The Trial

[Anonymous No.11147614]

>21
>2013
>D. Quixote
>The Elephant's Journey

[Anonymous No.11147836]

>18
>Summer 2016
>Seneca's Letters, St. Augustine's Confessions, fragments of the Presocratics
>Homer's Iliad
I'm mad at myself for not having read either the Iliad or the Odyssey before, especially for one wanting to go into the Classics

[Anonymous No.11148322]

>20
>5 minutes ago (just checking this board out)
>The Last Wish
>Thinking Fast and Slow

[Anonymous No.11148365]

>>11142528
I bet you don’t even read

[Anonymous No.11148379]

im 24 and feel way too old for this board now. goodbye /lit/, it was a fun decade.

[Anonymous No.11148619]

>18
>2014
>don quijote, divine comedy, el mágico prodigioso, quevedo's satires

[Anonymous No.11148637]

>>11148619
forgot currently reading
>spring snow

[Anonymous No.11148800]

>>11148379
See you tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.11148932]

>37
>2017
>Shakespeare, the Bible, Kafka, Borges, Pynchon
>re-reading The Tempest (reading Fences, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Plath with my students)

[Anonymous No.11149472]

>>11148379
26
i know your feelings

[Anonymous No.11149538]

>>11140729
>25
>'09
>relunctant fundamentalist
>Long Division, its alright, its interesting enough for me to be carefully reading over it twice, I just want to have something loid open over self aggrandizing yuppies blowing eardrums out about toni morrison and mediocre writers who just complain about white people

[Anonymous No.11149558]

Don't really like it here, just come to find books to read.
>18
>end of 2015
>Don Quixote, Ovid's Metamorphoses, A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Lolita.
>William H. Gass - On Being Blue

[Anonymous No.11150550]

>>11140729
>20
>2013
>The Forbidden Book by Guido Mina di Sospiro and Joscelyn Godwin

[Anonymous No.11150566]

>>11140729
25
2013
Favourite books: Don Quixote, Les Miserables, Watership Down, Wuthering Heights, The Sound of Waves
Currently reading: Dostoevsky's The Idiot

anyone got any reccs?

[Anonymous No.11150581]

>>11140729
>23
>2018
>C&P, Defending Jacob, The Road, Rediscovering Americanism, Meditations
>City of God by Augustine

[Anonymous No.11150585]

>>11150550
man child

[Anonymous No.11150609]

>>11140739
absolute garbage tier

pardonable ONLY because you're young

[Anonymous No.11150640]

>30
>2015 or 2014
>The Bible
>The Bible; The Intellectual Life, Sertillanges; Children of Light, Children of Darkness, Niebuhr; and various other things - usually poetry

[Anonymous No.11150642]

>>11149558
>Don't really like it here, just come to find books to read.

You're a good kid.

[Anonymous No.11150646]

>>11145316
>The Complete Japanese Joinery by Hideo Sato

It's good to see I'm not the only one interested.

[Anonymous No.11150652]

>>11140729
>18
>2017
>Crime & Punishment
>Tractus Logico-Philosophicus

[Anonymous No.11151080]

>>11140729
>19
>2013
>Godel's Proof, Macbeth, The Enchanter
>Analysis I (Tao), the Remains of the Day, Superintelligence

[Anonymous No.11151780]

>21
>2017
>Infinite Jest, The Bell Jar, Stoner
>Oblivion by DFW

[Anonymous No.11151787]

>>11148379
27 here. This is the last age thread I can take — everyone is 18 - 20. I’m out for good this time as well. Nail in the ol coffin this thread.

[Anonymous No.11151793]

>>11140729
>25
>don't remember, probably '10
>blood meridian for fiction, phenomenology for non
>cicero and marquez

[Anonymous No.11151816]

>>11151787
It could be that only young people post in these threads, but I agree, it's disheartening.

[Anonymous No.11151934]

>18
>2015
>Iliad, The Kybalion, Mystery of the Grail
>The Hermetic Tradition
>>11150550
>Joscelyn Godwin
false flag

[Anonymous No.11151989]

>>11150646
You're definitely not! Are you just interested in the topic, or do you do woodworking too?

[Anonymous No.11152004]

>>11140729
>19
>18
>Alice Adventures in Wonderland, Cyrano de Bergerac
>Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.11152056]

>>11151787
Its mainly the young posters that care about these kinds of threads though. I'm in my mid-20s and I've never posted in one of these before.

[Anonymous No.11152069]

Holy shit I feel old
>23
>/b/ 2007, /mu/ -> /fa/ -> /lit/ don't remember when
>Absalom, Absalom!
>White Noise (English), Lucian's True Story (ancient Greek), Lucretius De Rerum Natura book 4 (Latin)
Grad student, classes ended last week so I finally have time for pleasure reading

[Anonymous No.11152175]

>>11151787
how i feel in /lit/

[Anonymous No.11152259]

>>11140729

> 24
> 24
> Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, A Song of Ice and Fire, And Quiet Flows the Don
> Fellowship of the Ring (haven't read it since like 5th grade.) And Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.

[Anonymous No.11152278]

>>11140729
18
15/16
Basically all Pynchon books I've read, Catch 22, although nostalgia plays a big role in that
The Silk Roads, just started reading.

[Anonymous No.11152305]

>>11141132
Just posting grades with no further explanation as to why you think someones taste deserves that particular grade is kind-off annoying. The grades carry no real value now, the way I see it. I understand explaining every single grade is a bit tedious, but now the post is pointless. Picking someone you'd like to criticize/give feedback, and justifying your grade is an alternative I guess

[Anonymous No.11153428]

>>11152305
Everyone wants to be an arbiter of taste. No one wants to back up their opinions

[Anonymous No.11153528]

>19
>Not sure
>The Sound and the Fury, Notes From Underground, Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina
>Moll Flanders, a collection of Donne's poetry, a collection of Dickinson's poetry

[Anonymous No.11153774]

>22
>2012
>The Burning by Kathryn Lasky, The Lily and The Lion by Maurice Druon.
>Life and Death by Stephanie Meyers, and SPQR A History Of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

[Anonymous No.11153858]

>>11141137
Noice
>>11141277
Bitches love their Shakespeare.
>>11141311
You ever have White Russian?
>>11142490
Not bad at all
>>11142501
Might be alittle too deep for my taste
>>11142506
Keep on rockin
>>11142509
Good to see your getting your ground game out of the way
>>11142510
Count of Monte Cristo? Hell yeah
>>11142586
Off to a good start
>>11142655
I can dig it
>>11142874
Sweet
>>11142896
I might have to look into Survivor
>>11142912
You do you man
>>11142941
Good shit
>>11142960
Not quite sure about this one but different strokes.
>>11143158
Pretty good and a good pic. What more could you ask for.
>>11143763
Your on a good path. Stay the course
>>11144252
Aristole is a straight G
>>11144313
All Quiet on the Western Front=Great
>>11144316
Hmm ok then
>>11144362
Nice favs
>>11145010
Coolio

[Anonymous No.11154144]

>>11151989
I've done some basic woodworking, nothing fancy yet, but that specific book was actually on my Amazon wish list. I was shocked to see it here.

[Anonymous No.11154162]

>>11140729
>25
>2015? 2014?
>Labyrinths, Amsterdam Stories, Soul, Long Day's Journey into Night
>The Names and The Death of al-Hallaj

[Anonymous No.11154197]

>>11140729

>31
>I’m here since around 2011
>My favorite book is either War and Peace or One Hundred Years of Solitude. I also love Memoirs of Hadrian, Shakespeare’s poetic language and the short-stories of Tolstoy and Checkhov.
>I’m currently re-reading Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.11154883]

>>11140729
>26
>24
>Ulysses, Swann's Way, Siddhartha, TBK, Nicomachean Ethic
>Ulysses but with guides

[Anonymous No.11154979]

So when OP asks what are you reading now, and then people answer with 4 or 5 books, are you guys ACTUALLY reading 4 or 5 books, or is it just the 3 books you've read recently, followed by what you're reading now.

Do people actually read that many books at once?

[Anonymous No.11155114]

>>11140729
>19
>idk
>Story of the Eye, The Great & Secret Show, Existentialism is a Humanism
>The Motorcycle Diaries

[Anonymous No.11155141]

>13
>2018
>Harry Potter
>Harry Potter reread

[Anonymous No.11155171]

>>11140729
>26
>2015
>don't really have favorite books these days, I mostly just drink and binge read whatever feels relevant once a week or so
>blood meridian, castle to castle, growth of the soil

[Anonymous No.11155192]

>>11154979
Yes, I have roughly four books I am reading at any given time.

I usually just get to the first one only on any given day.

[Anonymous No.11155210]

>>11140729
>22
>2013
>Norwegian Wood
>The Sound of Waves

[Anonymous No.11155664]

>>11155141
Try these if you haven't already:

>Watership Down; Richard Adams
>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll
>The Hobbit; J.R.R. Tolkien
>Call of the Wild; Jack London
>Musashi; Yoshikawa Eiji
>The Illustrated Man; Ray Bradbury

[Anonymous No.11155672]

>>11155210
N-N-NORWEIG-GIAN W-WOOOOOOOD!!!!????

You've got to be kidding me. IT'S HIS WORST NOVEL (...that I've read)!

[Anonymous No.11155748]

>24
>2014
>Cinnamon Shops(Schulz), The Passion According to G.H.(Lispector), The Narrator(Cisco)
>Short Stories, alternating between Platonov and Borges

[Anonymous No.11155756]

this place is filled with newfags holy shit.

[Anonymous No.11155790]

>>11140729
>22
>2014
>The book of mirdad, Being and time
>Plato all works (sophist right now)

[Anonymous No.11156008]

>26
>A few hours ago while pooping, fell off of another board
>the sad tale of the brothers grossbart, surfaces and essences, hell house, the land that time forgot, and generally anything Pratchett shit out
>path of the scholar warrior, and the hero with a thousand faces

[Anonymous No.11156047]

>>11154979
I like to juggle two or three to keep my mind refreshed. Generally a nonfic against a fiction.

[Anonymous No.11156212]

>22
>On and off since 2014
>Crime and Punishment, The Sound and the Fury, and The Turn of the Screw
>Modern Man in Search of a Soul

[Anonymous No.11156268]

>26
>2008
>The Unique and its property and the essays of Montaigne
>Storeys guide to keeping honey bees.

[Anonymous No.11156281]

>>11156047

Lol. Where’s that image from?

[Anonymous No.11156376]

> 19
> 2018
> not sure yet, at the moment it’s Dubliners
> The Canterbury Tales

[Anonymous No.11157265]

>>11140729
>27
>Always stop by when I run out of threads on /a/
>No favorite books yet
>Markens grode and Min kamp series

[Anonymous No.11157272]

>>11148379
I really thought /lit/ would be all late twenties -> early thirties folk.

[Anonymous No.11158210]

>>11140729
>20
>Somewhere around 2016.
>Anna Karenina, The Magic Mountain and revisiting Pullman's His Dark Materials for childhood memories.