>>8588450 >>i unironically enjoyed Coelho's

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>>8588450
I write volumes of fake John Green prose and quotes across boards to try to discredit and humiliate him.

It works 90% of the time.

>>8588450
I think Hemingway is painfully overrated. I can't get through anything he's written without becoming bored out of my mind.

Rarely are there profound female writers. Most of the ones of note aren't really good writers.

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Mrs. Dalloway is better than To the Lighthouse

I read on the computer.

I read infinite jest and liked it

>>8588450
I don't say this in real life because I am sure it comes off as pretentious, but I am convinced that American writers are only capable of mediocrity. The leading figures, Steinbeck, Falkner, Hemingway, Twain (I have read at least one work by each of them) wrote with a simplicity in prose and subject matter that I find elementary. Who can read the works of the Europeans and Russians of that same time period and disagree with me in saying that in contrast, American literature is mediocre at best? A lot of Americans, that is why I keep this to myself and these confession threads.

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>>8588503
>Falkner
>(I have read at least one work by each of them)

Wew, almost got me there lad!

>>8588522
It's to say I'm not just listing names without reason. I understand that each work varies, but one novel suffices to give an idea of the general tendencies of the author, which I found much less appealing than those of foreign writers.

I honestly believe we are all insecure bastards that have dismally complex or pathetically simple lives outside these digital walls and just like feeling smart by just cycling through discussion and troll threads on /lit/

>>8588585
op said sins, it's not a sin to believe true facts like this

anyway mine is that i can't read anything written before the american civil war

I think Italians are the best writers/thinkers/screenwriters

t. American

>>8588597
Haha, joke's on you!!

It's a sin to have an opinion and/or believe them as axioms here on /lit/!!!

...

I want to kill myself

I masturbated last night.

>>8588450
I actually enjoyed the graphic novel version, never read the original

I bought a complete collection of Conan the barbarian stories for $50 and my only regret is the Stephen king quote on the back of it

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>>8588450

I read the first two Hunger Games books and enjoyed them.
I've had Looking for Alaska on my shelf for years and fully intend to read it someday
I will pay more for a book to get one that is not ugly
I have not read anything by DFW except the syllabus to that course he taught.
I don't like Pynchon at all but I have read most of Joyce ie Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses

I want to write an autobiographical novel but I know that because of the subject matter it will probably not sell. I think I'm going to write pornographic novellas based on popular classics instead.

I don't even like fiction that much

I enjoy reading books with homoeroticism or unrequited gay love.

I'm an English major and I barely read anything outside of what I'm assigned to read while in school, and not a whole lot outside of it

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>>8588450
I don't actually read literature; I just come here to shitpost.

I'm about halfway through Anna Karenina and thinking about putting it up. Mainly because Levin is such an insecure little fuck and Anna's melodramatic shit is starting to grate on my nerves.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Levin is going to get over all this "muh feelings" shit and start tappin dat Shtcherbatsky ass. Anna I think is going to either escape Alexey or die trying.

What do you think /lit/? Should I keep going?

>>8588745
>>8588755
kys desu

I've never read Dostojevskij, and im not going to do so anytime soon

I don't care about being an intellectual.

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>>8588755
Read an EZ meme book
Then you can shitpost relevantly...until then
>>>/b/
>>>/pol/
>>>/int/
Here is a reading meme frog

>>8588450
Infinite Jest really affected me, in a deep personal way, as it was a reflection of the personal issues I have that haunt me every day.

>>8588795
Infinite Jest is routinely on polls about /lit/'s favorite books. This isn't that controversial, it's just that the naysayers on this board are very loud.

I started to read 3 books a day only because they were all vampire books.

Twilight got me into reading

>>8588503
The average American reads at the same level as a 5th or sixth grader, and therefore Russian and Western European Novels are inaccessible to them because they cannot comprehend the writing. American writers have a tendency to write in a manner that is accessible to the average American, the great American writers are popular because they are easy and because they are relatable, to the average American.

>>8588765

kms why

i read so much shit on the daily, i don't have time to read things for pleasure

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1etjl6CN5i2

>>8588567
yeah because flags in the dust/as i lay dying and tsatf/absalom absalom are comparable.

I hate Jane Austen and Hemmingway.
British literature is mostly very bland.

I have a huge man crush on Mr. Darcy

>>8588450
I enjoyed it guess, but the type of people that are like omg it's my favorite book are exactly the people who post feel good platitudes on every website they are a part of. marquez is much richer and better writing.

>>8588450
>i unironically enjoyed Coelho's the Alchemist

This is one of the few /lit/ related thing that I would actually consider a sin. Liking it means that there must be something wrong with you on some level. I don't feel this way about any other book.

A few months ago I read The Brothers Karamazov. Close to the end of the book, I had a severe headache and was in a hurry to finish the book because I had lots of stuff to read for my studies so I skipped an entire chapter, which is something I had only done once before (the sewer chapter in les Miserables). That chapter happened to be the Grand Inquisitor. I've been telling myself that I would read the entire trial to correct that mistake but I still haven't.

I think Tolstoy was right about King Lear, Nabokov was right about Don Quixote, The Divine Comedy is better rendered in prose, Homer's epics aren't as good as the aforementioned books, NT>OT, and Bloom doesn't have a divine spark.

>>8589052
Bloom is smarter than me, but he's still a dipshit.

>>8588503
Is prose really as deep as literature gets?

>>8589052
>NT>OT
How's that a sin?

>>8588450
I rarely finish books.

>>8589486
we're on a board of contrarians, finding the sensible one better than the jumbled mess preceding it is bad.

>>8589503
We're also on a board full of christfags and antisemites.

>>8588809
no it isn't, British literature is no more complicated than American on average

t. brit

>>8588974
Who doesn't

>>8588471
Read Middlemarch.

>>8589582
I have, it's dogshit

>>8588450
Duck this count for thinking she looks like Anne frank

I write under a girls nom de plume but I'm just a delusional man

>>8589589
Huh. Now I'm curious, what do you like to read?

>>8588450
I didn't read Ulysses with 13.

I read an excerpt of a story written by a black woman immigrant about her experiences and I enjoyed it enough to put the whole book on my reading list

>>8588688
recs?

>>8588450
damn she's cute is there any violent pornography of her

>>8588450
Readed the whole crap Disney published abut the fairies when I was 9 and enjoyed it, my mom though I was gay. Also readed that Coelho book when I was 10. It was decent, for a kid of that age.

>>8589043
The Grand Inquisitor isn't near the end of the book though. Surely you would have read it already if you were near the end and then decided to skip a chapter.

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I hate reading Hemingway. Barely made it through Old Man and the Sea. Though I recognize the influence of his work.
On the other hand, I loathe everything about Jack Kerouc and On The Road. Terrible with no redeeming qualities.

Also, I purposefully go off my meds so I become manic for awhile and am more productive in writing. Once I see the symptoms for a depressive state set in I start back on.

>>8588648
I sinned to this photo

>>8588503
The more basic the material of the work, the better if the form and style of the author's writing is distinct and significant.

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I only read short replies or replies with an image.

>>8588648
I read The Fault in out Stars before the movie came out based on a recommendation. I thought the novel was really good for a YA novel but thought it was too unpolished and would likely have been amazing if John Green would put some effort into it. His ideas are good but his mediocre prose and text that doesn't really reflect his ideas until after he describes why he did them makes it all moot.