>age >random factoid about yourself >current book you're

>18
>im not autistic
>a breath of life by Clarice Lispector

>>8903334
>21
>I have an identical twin
>crime and punishment

>>8903334
>6
>I like pizza
>cat in the hat by dr. seuss

>18
>Half chink
>Pride and prejudice

>23
>My FIDE rating is over 2,000
>Paradise Lost
Rereading and enjoying it more this time around, likely due to how much older I am

>22
>i have the same name of my grandfather and my brother
>war and peace. pretty gud.

>20
>I am preparing to circumnavigate the earth
>Dove by Robin Lee Graham

>18
>Australian
>Nausea

>>8903334
>19
>I hate myself
>Grabity's Bainbow

>>8903370
Godspeed son

>>8903334
>19
>I'm not actually autistic, I just display most of the symptoms
>Model Theory by Maria Manzano

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>21
>I'm going to get engaged in 2017
> The Master and Margarita
I really enjoy it, just got to Part 2. Keeping track of so many different characters with Russian names can get confusing though.

>20
>my taste in music is that of a hipster
>the picture of dorian gray
Liking it so far, but I'm waiting for a twist.

>28
>broke from 6+ months of celibacy by deepthroating a Caribbean dude a couple of weeks ago
>about to start a paleobiology text because I'm a faggot and love fossils

>20
>to intelligent for most of you
>[None]

>>8903393
>multitrack drifting

>>8903342
>not The Double

>19
>I really like broccoli
>A Room of One's Own. I like her sentences.

>26
>I become extremely uncomfortable when I know a camera is pointed at me.
>Middle C

19
Learned 4 years in a religious school
The sickness unto death

24
Anxiety has ruined my life
Noise/Music: A History

>>8903393
Congrats!

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>21
>I literally eat like 400g of mushrooms a day, I have mushrooms for breakfast lunch and dinner, and I always steal them, I never buy them
>No country for old men. I like the whole southern setting and the general ambiguity of everything

>27
>my wife is pregnant
>collected poems by Walt Whitman
>and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

>>8903334
>18
>I am considered worst of my siblings
>apology

>>8903334
>21
>most average man in existence
>galapagos

>21
>consider myself a feminist
>The Leopard

>>8903393
I'd do a jump over the one friend because the five friends can look at me do it and nobody feels left out

>>8903488
Vonnegut? That's my favourite of his next to The Sirens of Titan and Mother Night.

>>8903334

>26
>I have one attached earlobe and one unattached one
>Les Miserables
My thoughts: I'm enjoying it and love how Hugo links up historical events like Waterloo to major events that would eventually happen later on in the novel. Also find it hilarious how Marius''s attempts to woo Cossette are considered romantic but if he pulled that shit now he'd be thought of as a creepy stalker.

>>8903491
You seem like a great guy.

>27
>I've had sex with exactly 31 women
>V by Pynchon and Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth

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>22
>ive been hoping to fuck this girl and tomorrow im gunna
>in the heart of the heart of the country and wow mrs. mean was really something

>>8903533

>31 women
Teach me your ways senapi, books are all I have. Also how are you finding V.? It's one of my top three Pynchon novels.

>>8903369
>not One Hundred Years of Solitude

>19
>If I were the sort of person to commit suicide, I'd be considering it right now
>Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander. Waggons.

>19
>I've never consumed Alcohol or any recreational drugs.
>The Brothers Karamazov

>>8903544
V is pretty entertaining. I've read M&D and Crying before this and I'd put it below M&D and above Crying. It's pretty readable, especially once you just absorb yourself in the madness and resign yourself to the fact that it's probably not really going to go anywhere definitive.

Surprise, surprise, most of /lit/ can't read.

>>and how do you like it

>22
>virgin
>And the Sun Shines Now by Adrian Tempany

>>8903558
i like it

>>8903334
> 27
> reading a book a day <3
> The Black Company 5 " Dreams of Steel "
Actually just started it, so can't really say much. Narrator shifting was a little bit unsettling but to be expected after how Shadow Games ended. I'm actually quite sad right now because I feel for the Protgaonist, and I feel sad - as I had rooted for that Love to blossom since book 1 tbqh desu sempai

>>8903334
39
American expat in Europa
Fathers and Sons Turgenev. -- I don't know yet. Only 2 chapters in.

>25, it has been my birthday for 5 hours now
>I am blind in my right eye
>A Distant Mirror
The book is a history of the 14th century. It is probably the first woman author I have read since I quit reading YA back in middle school. She makes a few barbed remarks about women's status, which is forgivable, and it is all much better than I expected. Also she seemed to be having great fun backhandedly shitting all over the pre-reformation Catholic Church.

>>8903581
oh, btw, about reading a book a day
> read during breakfast before work ~ 20mins
> spend twice 15min on the shitter at work each day
> have 1.5 hrs of break
>>> adds up to nonchalant en passant 2:20hrs of reading each workday
it's really great, and I can only recommend it to everybody,
breakfast and work alone add up to some 250 pages I gobble through before even arriving at home. From there it's usually just another 2.5hrs or so to finish most books, i.e.:
> spend half an hour in the bathtub, getting clean and reading
> spend half an hour in bed before falling asleep, reading
> consciously find an hour to read somewhere else after work

et voila, a book a day has been read ( approximately, sometimes I read less, of course, sometimes slightly more ).

I really do recommend this to everyone :)

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>24
>I've had sex with 2 girls but have been unable to cum in either (I just go flaccid and have to bail)
>Ulysses

>>8903593
for commuters via train or bus most people can easily add another 20minutes each trip, too!

>>8903593
>gobble through
what is this you're reading, YA?

>>8903465
The Double is some of Dosto's least good work tbqhwym8.

>20
>I have a big birth mark on the chest
>The castle by Kafka.
I didn't expect any action. I'm not disappointed

>>8903610
Savour every page of that because it'll end and you won't be satisfied

>25
>I fly planes
>James Clavell's Shogun

>>8903610
I hated The Castle. It was too real.

>>8903334
>20
>I have absolute pitch
>the Bible

>>8903492
yes

it's premise is excellent and follows through, surprisingly

>18
>I jerk off too often
>Salammbô

>21
>I tasted my own sperm once
>Solaris

>>8903670
>once

>22
>Porn Addict
>Odessy (Just started it this morning after finishing Slaughterhouse 5)

>>8903334
>19
>Fell for the meme
>The Iliad

>20
>foot fetish
>Faust

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>18
>I'm the product of miscegenation
>Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

I'm really surprised by how accurately the book has predicted the twenty-first century. Sure, there are some things that are way off, but for the most part it's almost uncanny.

>18
>I despise generations younger than my own
>a collection of Yesenin's poetry - his earlier stuff feels hit-and-miss, but almost everything post 1918 is great

23
i read only on vacation, browse /pol/ over school year
war and peace. its great, but a lot of cucking

>>8903334
>22
>I want to change city
>confessions of a opium eater - it's utter shit

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20
I'm going to a punk concert tonight, I'm friends with most of the guys and gals who play. I find one of the girls to be really cute/attractive althought not being strictly good-looking.
In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower, by Proust. It's great.

>24
>about to board a plane
>Tristram Shandy

I'm laughing.

>>8903334
>22
>I can solve a Rubiks Cube in 9 seconds
>The Magician's Land
Not as interesting as The Magician King

> 27
> First time i post on /lit
> The Light Fantastic

>>8903817
>>18
>>I despise generations younger than my own
lmao, you've definitely come to the right place

>all these under 20s

>>8903980
I bet they post from phones as well.

23
Regrets most of his actions
Shakespeares complete works; right now: love's labour lost

>18
>I have a dog
>The Plague

>>8903673
Yes, I was 15 and seemed okay then

22
I have a 9/10 gf now and I was a virgin one year ago
Bratya Karamazova

>24
>my hair started turning gray when I was 15
>The Black Obelisk
It made me remember that being brokenhearted physically hurts me in the center of my chest (Thanks, Isabelle). Now it's getting tedious. Too many tombstones.

>>8903670
Hey, I did that too. I was 15 and there was this /lit/ cutie who was helplessly in love with me and she wrote poems for me. She gave me raging boners, she was very submissive while always playing stubborn. I tried to talk her into making me taste my own cum for her. No homo. I don't know what I was thinking. It seemed hot.

I ended up breaking her heart.

>>8903581
Reading a book a day? Enjoy wasting your time and getting nothing from your books. But you're probably reading genre fiction, so either way it's useless.

>27
>looking at a frozen lake
>Complete Poems of Walt Whitman, Blood Meridian

>>8904138
>>my hair started turning gray when I was 15

I've known a few people like this. Greyish hair + youthful features often produces a handsome effect. I'm sure the same is true of you, anon.

>>8903396
Same, staid hard for a good 30 min though. Probably due to overmastrubating and being blind drunk

(Also, 21 and Orlando by Woolf)

>20
>I am demonstrably the worst at Mathematics in my university
>Democracy in America - I really like Tocqueville's style but omg why is this bitch 900 pages long

>>8904203
Was for
>>8903596

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>20
>quadrilingual
>La Prisonnière - Marcel Proust, lovely

>>8904107
Have you told her you were a virgin one year ago?

>21
>I'm a girl
>I'm choosing between the Bible and the Silmarillion
what do I choose?

>>8904453
Post feet

>>8904453
The Bible, obviously. I'd recommend to read other stuff meanwhile. Take reading the Bible as an habit, reading let's say 5 chapters everyday. That's what I'm doing. I guess I would get tired and jump to the Gospels if I didn't. Also
L O N D O N
O
N
D
O
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>22
>
>The Castle

It's not as great as I was anticipating. Honestly, the dialogue can be superfluous at times, especially when K. is talking to others who shouldn't be able to reason and discourse like a fucking lawyer. There are some funny parts, though. And it is quite comfy. But, this being the last of his works I have yet to read, I resolved that his writing was not as robust as I once previously thought. I get that his writing is supposed to be eerie and dreamlike, but things tend to happen jarringly and lack any further explanation. However, I am able to look past that and enjoy the novel. Amerika is still my favorite Kafka novel, desu.

>24
>I'm in line to be the King of Denmark
>The Drunkard's Walk; it's a fine book on probability.

>23
>I want to be the Thomas Young of Biomedical Science.
> Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies by June Casagrande
Fun book; liking it so far.

>>8904576
I forgot to write that the first concert i ever went to was a Kanye West one.

>>8904644
What's the grammar book like, friend?

>21
>I'm not good at this self-describing thing
>Stoner by John Williams

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>>8903962
Welcome!

>23
> I've been stabbed, shot at, and nearly drowned
> On the Genealogy of Morals

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>>8904744

>On the Genealogy of Morals

Good taste. I just finished it.

>19
>I'm trying to teach myself to paint by copying paintings I like
>That Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

>>8904217
>quadrilingual
Samesies, which languages and proficiencies?

>>8904744
Who the hell stabbed you and tried to shoot you?

>20
>I wear wool socks
>Franny and Zooey

>>8904765

I have it in two volumes. Still need to read it.

You should also look into 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'. Schopenhauer included both works in his top 4(?)

>>8903334
>27
>i'm a doctor
>pedro paramo

>27
>I have books that Clarice Lispector autographed for my father during an affair
>Modern Hebrew, an essential Grammar. It's been a good supplement for my Hebrew classes.

>>8904781
I don't know much about Tristram Shandy, is it as legitimately funny as DQ or more of a lame academic kind with footnotes saying "This is an archaic reference to dicks and is a Very Funny Joke?" Cervantes' humor surprised me but people who say Shakespeare is hilarious are honestly exaggerating

>28
>I am a big guy
>Crime and reportage

>>8903334
>25
>I have an inwards-growing hair between my buttcheeks and need surgery
>The Protestant Ethic
Thus far I like it a lot, but I'm only at page 43/167 and though my neurons have been fired up a lot, Weber has yet to get to the point.

26
The Doors of Perception
Every time I befriend somebody new I have a graphic sex dream about them.

>>8903334
>19
>I've never had a job, not even a summer or part time one
>Songs of a Dead Dreamer (and Grimscribe, got the edition with both collections by penguin). I've only read the three first stories, the first one was very good, I like his general style of writing. Reminds me very much of True Detective s1, which I know it inspired, or atleast other works by Ligotti.

>>8903334

>20
>I have a black bookshelf.
>Histoire de le Grèce ancienne

It's very concise, easy to read. I'm going to re-read Aristotle's Ethics after that.
>>8904453

I'll tell you the correct choice if you post a timestamp.

>21
>very strong 565,295,655 s/b/dl
>demons by dostoyevsky only about 30 pages in, i like it so far

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>>8904767
English, passed TOEFL at 16 scoring 112/120
French, currently studying in France, I've been living here for 3 1/2 years
Italian, passed the CELI test at 16 too scoring 180/200
Albanian, mother tongue

What about you?

>25
>In the past year I've broken 7 bones, collapsed a lung, severed an artery, had about a foot of intestines cut out, a blood transfusion, 25ish screws and 4 plates put in my body, and somehow you couldn't tell by looking. It was all just a speedbump, really.
>The Idiot
I like it but the writing is too bloated. Not as good as C&P, but a fun read
>The Aleph
Varies between phenomenal and bland. All the stories share a central theme so they become predictable and frankly tiresome. The Immortal and Room of Asterion are GOAT Borges. I'm on the last story.
>After the Quake
I try not to read too much Murakami in close interval because he's honestly just a bad writer, but what he does offer is not found anywhere else. I like this work. Its probably what I would recommend to people who are trying to get into reading.

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>all these 18-21 yo boys ITT

>33
>i am not interesting. i've been on 4chan for many, many years
>a death in the family by knausgaard
it's ok. he writes lucidly and has interesting thoughts and it's nice to read something that feels so sincere but also somehow artsy, a bit like the recent music of sun kil moon. but it's still lacking something to really grab me and i don't think it's gonna get it

>19
>I've been to two Trump rallies
>Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe, it's amazing

>>8903334
>moot
>4chan was safe
>no data mining malware ads

>Enter Hiro
>data mining malware ads
>logs your ip and posts
>facebook shills come daily to mine data and associate it with said IP
>idiot /lit/ users give him everything he asks for

>>8905042
what about it?

>>8905056
>not lying about yourself whenever threads like this come up
do you even 4chan?

>22
>i'm a prologue and a chapter into my first book
>my own shitty plot holes and general grammar issues

>23
>I don't have a single friend
>Lonesome Dove.

I'm less than 100 pages in and it's decent so far. The characters are likeable and the dialogue is good, but I'm waiting for something interesting to happen.

>>8904801
>people who say Shakespeare is hilarious are honestly exaggerating
Have you seen any of his comedies performed or only read them? I was suprised at how many times I laughed out loud.

>21
>one of my friends has a bacon number of 1
>Fichte, System of Ethics According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre

>>8905063
There are idiots who tell the truth because they feel 4chins is a safe place for them.

>18
>play semi professional tennis and wear a headband
>catch 22
Top book love it

>>8905056
oh no people are going to know basic information about me that I'm completely willing to share with anonymous strangers

>>8905084
Good sheep, don't listen to that goy. Open up everything to everyone.

>28
>NEET. Mooching off of my gf and parents
>How to read like a writer

It's quite good. Author reminds me of Harold Bloom but not so crazy and senile

>>8905056
You're a fucking idiot if you don't think the government already has terabytes of data on you. Fuck off, you redditor newfag.

>>8905079
Why does 4chan collecting your info bother you? Do you not use the internet, facebook? They collect plenty of it regardless. It is how it is buddy, no escaping it

> 21
> I'm going to live in Peru for a couple mounths next year
> Neuromancer, only 30 pages in but seems promising

>>8905103
This, they can literally control your every move and/or human interaction. Why does posting your age on 4chan seem alarming?

>>8903334
>22
>I've fallen down a mountain rock climbing before
>Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.
Just started, but it's enjoyable and comfy.

>21
>I have this bizarre and rare condition called Visual Snow, makes everything have television static
>The Girl Who Wasn't There by Ferdinand von Schirach
It's been a pretty damn fun read and I'm almost finished, Eschburg is a weird character though given how he's a modern artist that makes sense.

>>8905103
>on chins for years
>newfag calls me newfag
>doesn't try his best to leave as small a footprint on the internet as possible
You didn't spend your mandatory time I see, your lack of woodscrews and house fires are showing

>big brother
>implying


>>8905108
>facebook
>he uses facebook
>he puts his real info on facebook
>he posts shit about his life on facebook
I sign in like 9 times a year MAX, and there is no real photo of me on it.

>internet
>he doesn't browse the web using no script, adblock, ublock, discovery, while behind a proxy
Good Sheep

>24
>unapologetic Kerouac and Hemingway fan
>Visions of Cody
Kinda all over the place, not sure I'll finish

>>8905144
Get the fuck out this thread if you don't like it, you fucking virgin. Fuck off

>>8905144
The autism though. I use facebook because I'm willing to exhange semi personal info for the service it provides. Not ideal, but hey.

>22
>Going for my masters in bioengineering
>I've got a physical chemistry text book open at the moment

Just a standard textbook

>18
>i was a brony in middle school
>crime and punishment
>its like sweet sex in my brain

>>8905156
>advertising shill gets angry when someone points out his underhand schemes and lists ways to protect themselves
>lashes out in response
Insults won't help you get my data

>21
>people stare at me because i'm so ugly and insecure
>Notes From Underground
it's okay. the first part flew a bit over my head, but i'm liking the second part so far. the main guy feels very relatable when he goes into his fantasies.

>>8905081
>not Infinite Jest

>>8903334
20
redpilled
my diary desu

>>8905204
One of these days I'll get you, you damnable genius
I will find out exactly what demographic you belong to and tailor your ads so perfectly you will helplessly buy everything I put in front of you
I WILL END YOUR FRUGALITY, MARK MY WORDS

>>8905204
Good goy, don't give them your data.

>>8905215
>reading my own work
Not that pretencious senpai

>>8903588
Happy birthday Anon

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>>8905062
I just think it's really cute
there could be cute boys reading this right now

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>>8905319

Are you a cute girl?

>>8903334
>19
>I can suck myself off
>Siddartha by Herman Hesse

A "factoid" is something that is false that sounds like/is presented like a fact. It's not a "small fact".

>>8905328
I mean by average standards

>>8903383
Thanks man

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>>8905340
Please see yourself out this thread, newfriend.

>>8905353
I bet you think "literally" means "figuratively" too, just because some retard decided it was a good idea to put it in the dictionary.

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>>8905347

That's rather vague anon.

>>8905356
>I can't admit that I'm wrong, so I'll continue to make an ass of myself

Fuck off, you idiot.

>>8905340
>a briefly stated and usually trivial fact - Merriam-Webster

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>>8903334
23
im working 1.1. so ill shoot rockets tomorrow
1984

>>8905340
>>8905356
The suffix "oid" means "like" or "resembling" the preceding word. It suggests that a factoid is like a fact but not completely. Like a humanoid would have the shape and many characteristics of a human but isn't actually human. It is not necessarily a false fact but also not equivalent to a "small fact".

>>8903334

32.

I once went on an rural exploration mission with college friends and George Lucas' niece; we high-tailed it out of the area once we heard dogs barking in the distance. This is a true story.

Whatever. It's depressing but hase some ten-dollar words in one bit that deserve a re-read on my part.

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>>8903343
I smiled

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>>8905359
What would you like me to say?
>Her face was of a distinct look. She was considerably attractive, but not of the average Caucasian standards, though many caucasians had commented on her unique features. Although she only had a normal amount of attractiveness, her non-white neo nazi relatives would put her on a pedestal for having fair skin. Her racial background was indistinguishable, which she found very humorous. In fact, she had counted up to eight people believing she was of Japanese decent, not just Asian, but specifically Japanese decent, completely disregarding her lack of chinky eyes. One time in highschool, a young lad named Tyrone had even asked if she had black ancestors. She had put together a mental chart of what other people had though she was in order; disregarding Tyrone, Blacks had believed she was White, Whites had believed she was Asian, Asains had believed she was Hispanic, and Hispanics had believed she was Romani. With this hidden power she had, she had realized she could easily claim any race she wanted, and use it to her advantage. She found that she could even easily pass as the opposite sex in public with slight makeup and change of clothes. This was could probably be credited to the one eighteenth Austrian Jewish blood she had running though her veins. She also believed that writing herself in third person might make her appear slightly ness narcissistic than she actually is. This of course, like many of her plans in life, had not worked according to plan and fell flat on it's feet, just like her writing.

>>8903334
>21
>I shaved off all of my hair today.
>Tropic of Cancer.

Miller is a degenerate. I love it.

>>8905283
thanks

>26

>used to be normal and have a lot of friends and sex, over the last 3-4 years something fundamental changed about me and now I don't have any friends and can't leave the house without having an anxiety attack

>Harold Bloom's "The Best Poems of the English Language". Pretty imperious title but I don't know much poetry written before the 19th century so I guess it's helping me be a little less retarded

>24
>i worry too much about where i'll end in a couple years
>the zhuangzi. really makes you not think

>>8903334
>21
>Just hit 3 plate deadlift
>Infinite Jest, not really feeling it. Not sure if I should stick with it.

>20
>I'm pretty normal with a social life and all. The things that make me stand out is being kinda ugly, and reading and writing a lot.
>Camus - La Peste. Worst book of his imo. Very descriptive and tells instead of showing. The parts where the narrator (or 2nd narrator) talks about himself in 3rd person and describes his views help with the pace, but it still feels drawn out. 130 pages in, it's 260 pages long in my edition. Can't progress much because I don't feel like reading it. I also hate leaving books unfinished so I haven't read much in the last week or so.

>18
>I've performed at national levels at a certain trivia competition
>Baudolino
Pretty decent.

>>8903393
I thought I was the only one who had that problem.

>24
>I am miserable and I lost contact with all my friends
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Slightly repetitive but definitely puts me in a chilled mood reading it.

>tfw one with The Whole

43
I have had sex over 1k times but with 7 different women over the course of my whole life
hamlet, its OK

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>>8905103

Yeah right they totally want to know what one uninteresting person out of a million reads, watches and shares on the internet. They totally collect terabytes of data from people who use the internet for hours/day. That data includes shit like the news, 4chan and porn. The government is so interested in your totally irrelevant life that they keep that data and collect more.

>Implying you matter
>Making shit up so you feel better about your irrelevance
>tfw it turns into paranoia and you use 32532 different softwares to hide your internet footprint
>tfw you wear your little brother's stormtrooper armor replica in case there's a camera hidden in your monitor and phone's led

>implying you own a phone
>They record every single conversation and keep the camera on to study your life

Kys.

24
i hate myself
infinite jest

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>19
>I'm French/Mexican, I can fluently speak Spanish, french and english.
>I'm also very modest.
>The Age of Louis XIV by Voltaire.
Its going bretty good. A bit of a heavier read when compared to A History of Europe by Pirenne, but I prefer Voltaire's writing.
Anyone mind to recommend any other history book? I'm interested in European and US history.

>>8905690
>hamlet
>its OK

thanks Mr. Bloom

>>8905534
You're right about the feet part and stuff

27/f/ca
I'm a virgin because i was molested as a child
I'm reading the metamorphosis and its amazing

>>8905748
Kek

19
i've never used a CD player
lord of the flies is kind of overrated

>21
>i'm an apprentice harpsichord builder
>been trying to read the iliad since the end of sumer but just can't get into it. Now i comfortably reading Sherlock Holmes

>22
>I feel no emotions from Shakespeare or Tolstoy and I'm sad about it.
>Just finished War and Peace earlier today, will probably read a book of essays on either Homer or Dostoevsky in anticipation for some re-reads in the coming month

I liked War and Peace and think it's far better than Anna Karenina. There's just something about Tolstoy's drama that stifles any emotional connection to the work, for me. It feels clinical, and I remember back when I read Anna Karenina that I thought the way Tolstoy was writing, both as regards prose (in Maude's translation) and just the structure of the story, feels almost as if a perfect computer were writing it. It had all the makings of a flawless story, but just because it was written by a computer it lacked humanity. And I felt similar when reading through War and Peace, but less so, so maybe it's just a better work or maybe my attitude towards Tolstoy has changed. I recognize both AK and W&P as masterpieces and sincerely believe them to be, but they don't compare to Dostoevsky or Homer or even works by "lesser" authors like Turgenev with his Fathers and Sons.
I hope to appreciate him more in the future, but I'm worried now that I'll never grow into liking him. Finally, I think he's extremely arrogant in his writing and this always puts me off. In both War and Peace and Anna Karenina, he'll use some wonderfully vivid metaphor, and then simply explain what each part of the metaphor relates to. I hate it. I want more ambiguity and meaning that I can derive for myself without having it shoved at me as if I were an idiot. I know that people have said that Dostoevsky writes "with a bludgeon", and Tolstoy is more elusive, but I feel that the complete opposite is true. The proverb about something being "wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle" applies to Tolstoy perfectly, whereas Dostoevsky is deeper but not as wide, which I like much, much more.

>>8903334
>18
>Have read all of Dostoevsky's works in Russian and English
>On The Road, love the almost musical prose. The jazz inspired style feels similar to Cowboy Bebop, which makes sense considering how Bebop was a huge part of beat culture at the time.

>>8905356
The dictionary records usage, it isn't a word meaning decision council you moron.

>24
>prefer burgers to steak
>Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

Really enjoying it so far. I really like that the period piece qualities are woven in in such a way that they don't overshadow the characters.

>20
>I only care for the random facts in this thread
>The Art of Seduction by Greene

>18
>sam dodson
>molloy
im about 3/4 through it and ive loved it so far. the last few pages of the first chapter where molloy is dragging himself through the forest were unbelievably good.

18
My favorite thing to buy is Movies on iTunes
Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is my favorite

>>8905861
>prefer burgers to steak

I don't see another option here for civilized non-barbaric humans.

21
i prefer irish whiskey to scotch and drink it every single day
oscar wilde is kind of a fruit

20
My favorite way to spend the day is answering market research surveys
Anna Karenina is overrated

>20
>can't think of anything interesting about myself
>Starship Troopers, the paint has chipped around the edges and it would be a lot of missed potential were it not for Armor salvaging the concept

>>8903533
How many stds do you have? How much child support are you paying?

>>8903334
>30
>I have never been able to remain faithful in a monogamous relationship for more than 3 months
>Too Far To Go
>I like it pretty well, but I know it's just because it's close to home

>27
>i've been shot by a sibling.
>American Colonies, it's good.

>>8904778
Why are people compelled to post such vapid facts of themselves? Are you afraid of being anonymously judged?

>>8905062
He wants to fuck 130 pound nerd boys that are desperate and have never felt intimate affection.

Outside of that its a shame this site has no strong draw to older anons due to its underwhelming administration

>>8905056
>4chan was safe
>implying it hasnt been a honeypot for a long time.

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>>8905726

>>8905069
I never laughed a single time reading them. I do commend him for inventing the jar jar binks of every hollywood movie ever, but its not rwally funny.

22
my chess elo is 2200
old man and the sea is garbage

>>8905748
Try to get a career and date a worthy normie guy whos looking for a long term relationship with kids. Ideally, you date a recent grad aged 22-24.

>21
>Huge pervert.
>120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade. Yes.

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>>8903334
>26
>I have an ear for accents and can imitate any I hear with ease
>Europe Central

39
my penis measures 1.5 inches flacid
world war z should get 2 sequels

41
I've been on 4chan longer than a lot of you have been alive.
I am living a life of Babbittry

>>8905964
Are you a NM?

>>8905968
>Try to get a career and date a worthy normie guy whos looking for a long term relationship with kids. Ideally, you date a recent grad aged 22-24

Do recent grads typically have that sort of mindset in which they are looking for a girl to settle down with?

>>8906125
they consider themselves sofisticated

>22
>well adjusted normal law student
>farewell to arms; hemingway is /ourguy/

>21
>I'm a manlet
>Los cuentos completos de borges

>>8906128
Well, I'm part of that demographic, and I don't feel remotely ready to settle down.

>22
>I dated a woman who is anatomically male for four months.
>The Long Ships, The Black Swan, and The Middle Ages. Loving all three.

>>8906072
4chan has only been around 12 years you tard

>>8906169
>not getting the joke

Wew

>>8906169
He's still been on 4chan for longer than a lot of us have been alive

>>8903334
Young and yet not a boy...25
I read only scientists and classical authors
Carl Schmitt "Legalität und Legitimation" i like it so far

>20
>once ate three litres of humus and lived
>The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (re-reading)

>>8903553
>21
>am a raging alcoholic
>The Brothers Karamazov

>>8903334
>18
>I'm 18
>Don Quixote, The Iliad, Tales from a Chinese Studio, War and Peace (rip 50 pages/day), Inferno

>20
>bisexual. quest cape in a few days.
>Norwegian Wood, its great. super pleasant.

>>8906234
just hummus alone or with some pita? Also how did you get that much hummus. Fuck me thats a lot of hummus please dont be lying anon

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>>8903334
> ... 18
> got beautiful blue eyes :)
> Giles Goat-Boy

>>8906248
Oh, and Essais of course.
>>8906286
Underageb& get out

>>8906293
nuh uh im 18

prove that im not

>>8906301
Pssht. Kid, you're acting exactly the same way I did. I've done everything you're doing, and I did it better, too.

>>8903334
>23
>med student
>all the light we cannot see, enjoying it so far

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>>8906309

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>>8906286
>>8906293
>>8906301
>>8906309
>pssh. Nothin personnel kid.
Get a room you two

>>8906319
I would, but I don't wanna be put on a list.

>>8906322
okay okay, ya got me.

I'm actually seven

>>8906324
Hi seven, I'm anonymous.

22
Enjoying a 4 month break before starting my first job at Facebook.
Finishing Ulysses and several chapters into Far From the Madding Crowd. The latter is such a cozy, rustic, change of pace from Ulysses' mental and physical claustrophobia. Romantic, meditative, and great humor-- highly recommended!

>26
>don't care for fantasy
>third volume of a history of Mongolia. Pretty interesting, has some translations of primary sources.

>19
>I play D&D
>Farinhight 451
It's alright. It's not a literary masterpiece or anything but it is entertaining.

22
i think im schizophrenic
sapians- a brief history of humankind, aye its not bad it is what it says it is on its cover

>20
>fucked a guy in the ass once. now I have a gf. kind of turning into a communist
>Borges' collected stories

>>8903334
>22
>My father bought me a PS2 for Christmas (at my request)
>The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Its actually starting to pick up and I just finished the chapter where Jezal opens his fat mouth and challenges Fenris the Feared. The absolute mad man

>>8906346
How was the guy? I'm considering trying myself

>>8906387
If you weren't fantasising about sex with dudes when you first hit puberty, you won't enjoy it much now.

>>8905031
If true, what the fuck happened to you?

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>age 20
>I have a 1000lb powerlifting total
>Don Quixote
Last 60 pages, amazing book

>>8906432
>I have a 1000lb powerlifting total
Damn son, good fucking work

>>8905031
Got to have such a valuble discourse participant still around. I wish you the very best healing possible.

>>8903545
My sides

>>8906432
Is that Bradley Martyn? Always fucking knew he was redpilled.

>>8904765
>>8906248
>>8904765
>so many bros reading don quixote
i'd chastise you for taking this long but better late than never

>>8903334
>24
>I will begin working for NASA in the near future
>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

>25
>lost virginity a year ago
>Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

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>>8903334
18
Play bass badly
The Passion according to GH
I dont know its alright, its pretty dense i guess

>>8906248
Oh, and The Epic of Gilgamesh
>>8906503
>three whole guys
>oldest is 20
What

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>21
>Girls with nice feet turn me on
>My twisted world
you guys weren't kidding about the memes haha

>>8906556
Do you have nice feet?

i heard we're posting feet ITT?

>>8906566
Are you?

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>>8906564
nice for a 21 yo bloke, so no, no I don't

>21
>I only read because I've convinced myself that I like books even though I don't
>Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
It's alright - probably would've liked it better if I was younger. I started this after finishing A Clash of Kings. If rather be reading book 3 of asoiaf right now instead but I have autism and can't start a new book until I finish the one I'm currently reading.

>>8906556
>>8906578
I am assuming these are your feet because they are extremely not aesthetic.

>>8906586
Just keep ramping up the quality of the lit you're reading and you'll be fine. It can be intimidating at first, but no one is capable of NOT enjoying literature.

>18
>When I was younger I stopped jerking off for five months because I was scared of going to hell
>Kafka's Complete Stories

>>8906592
>talking shit
>not posting anything yourself
you sound like you have horrible taste in feet 2bh bro

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>>8906586
you should try reading better books

not even trolling tb h

>>8906629
Everyone praises Hitchhikers as a masterpiece so I thought I'd get sucked into it. It's really just an ok book. Not bad but not good either. I've already bought the second book so I can't just drop the series after the first book.

>21
>I have a lazy eye I'm trying to fix with an eye patch
>Moby Dick. Great

Anyone else have a lazy eye? Glasses don't work for me... So it's A neurological thing I guess. I'm trying to wear an eye patch for a few hours a day.

Anyone else do this?

>>8903334
>24
>I'm camping right now and can't sleep.
> pride and prejudice. I don't really like it so far, I'm 80 pages in and will only finish it because I want to read all the classics.

>>8906648
Popular books, as with every medium, are usually just "ok". They'll trade focusing on something interesting for mass appeal. You'll probably enjoy reading them, but you won't find anything meaningful in the process.
Or if you do find something meaningful, you're likely to end up like those fedora tippers whose images get spammed here
Lurk here some more to find some good recs that aren't entry level and you'll get much more out of reading in the long run

>>8906653
just wear it all the time and be a cool pirate

>>8906600
Best post

>22
>I legitimately have one extra chromosome (Klinefelter Syndrome)
>Stoner, it's pretty good

>22
>creative writing major
>I'm taking a break from LoTR to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich

>>8906653
Just embrace it. How bad it looks?

>>8903334
>30
>I'm an engineer
>Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Just started it

>Girl has actually posted her feet ITT
>footfags disregard this and post higher quality feet
top kek

>18
>I have a chronic feeling of emptiness
> The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts ... I know.

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>>8906773
>Girl

>>8905688
I agree.

>19
>I want to transfer schools because I think I'm too smart for the one I currently attend.
>The Idiot

>>8903343
Kek

>>8906813
That's insulting

>19

>I'm probably dying but too scared to go the doctor

>100 years of solitude
It's really good. But then again I haven't read much

>>8906919
>>I'm probably dying but too scared to go the doctor
Elaborate

If there's a girl in this thread with feet I want her to know that I would lick your feet irl

32
I sniff girls hair in line sometimes
Anne Franks diary

>>8906923
Oh you know just the occasional waking up in the middle of night gasping for air

>>8906941
That's disgusting

>>8906950

Sleep apnea?

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>27
>I'm a surfer
>Infinite Jest
Like 300 pages in. A bit of a slog at the moment. We'll see.

>23
>I have cystic fibrosis but my health is bretty gud
>The Ego and its Own (but really lots of books on the go at the same time)

>>8906516
Great choice, I really want to read the tractatus. One day!

>>8903392
I have C.C. Chang's text on model theory in my amazon wishlist. How do you find this one?

>>8905081
>19
>Ctrl+F'd "catch" to find someone who's reading Catcher in the Rye but found this guy instead
>Catcher in the Rye

>>8906716
Physically/aesthetically my lazy eye is hardly noticable. Like I said is not a physical issue but a neurological one. I think there are types of lazy eye. I just can't see properly because of it... Probably slows my reading down but I don't know what it's like to have 2 good eyes

>20
>I'm 100 lbs (guy)
>The Aeneid
Almost done with it, I'm starting Paradife Loft next and I'm pretty excited for that

>>8903334
>22
>im in love for the first time ever, but i'm in a relationship already
>short history of decay and also the temple of dawn

>24
>I killed a chicken once
>Emmanuelle

literally two pages in so I can't say much but the writing is pretty bad so far. Then again I wasn't expecting it to be good so as long as the sex is on point I'll be satisfied.

>>8907217
leave her if you don't actually love her, it's only going to hurt more in the long run

>18
>varsity wrestler
>Siddhartha and Demian

>>8907244
>For every book you read, you forget one wrestling move
Thats what wrestlers here say.

>23
>i have asthma
>Our Mutual Friend

Holy shit, it's fucking great. It's shaping up to displace GE for my favorite Dickens.

>>8907156
It's the first thing I'm reading on the subject, other than a a textbook that I skimmed over, so I don't have much to compare it to.
Seems to be doing a pretty good job so far. It suffers a little bit from the usual problem of these kind of books, that interesting things are sometimes hidden behind exercises, though it's not too bad as, as far as I can tell, nothing essential is being cut short.
You can get if for free on LibGen though so can't go wrong in checking it out.

>>8906648
>Everyone praises Hitchhikers as a masterpiece
Only on Reddit. That's why it's a solid basis to work up to actual masterpieces, like Confederacy of Dunces or Tristram Shandy.

>>8906980
We've moved past anti-semitism.

20
I am in love with my step-sister (sort of)
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
I am enjoying it quite a bit. It is the first non fiction I have read that is considered philosophy. I was not sure how I would go reading it but I am having a good time. It is more accessible than I expected.

>>8905056
>>logs your ip and posts
Moot logged IP's as well. Member when celebrity nudes were leaked and 4chan anon went to court and they were talking about the millions of IP's moot had logged?

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>20
>Moving to Los Angeles in 15 days
>The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

Don't know why I bought it but honestly trying to find the meaning in it beside it being a book about his teachings regarding fighting with a longsword.

>>8903334
25
I have a pretty good movie looking scar next to my eye but I don't remember where I got it
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, I love it

>>8903334
> 30
> I was a habitual weed smoker and now I'm depressed for being shunned for being a drug addict although I've been clean for about five years
> Pimp by Iceberg Slim

>23
>currently a bull for a cuckold couple
>reading White Noise

>>8903343
True patrician spotted

>>8903396
The twist is right at the end and it's great

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>>8903334
>18
>I'm going to a university without knowing that university's language
>A Companion to Analytic Philosophy.
Far too technical at places for me to understand clearly but overall good.

>>8906720
killer angels is a cool read.

>>8906009
>>8906072
old fucks

35
I'm a pretty good guitar player.
Warlock by Oakley Hall. Almost done. Good. The tone is somewhere in between Blood Meridian and Lonesome Dove.

>>8907251
I'm gonna have to remember that

>>8903334
>20
>My balls hurt if I don't ejaculate for more than 10 days
>Rimbaud's poetry. Always good to reread my favorite poet.

>>8903484
Congrats!
I hope you're the father.

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>18
>I masturbated 7 times yesterday while working on college apps
>Finishing The Sound and the Fury

>23
>My gf has autism
>utopia

>>8909087
Is it cute autism?