Literary confession thread
>>7436455
Give an example so that we can emulate it. Are they supposed to be like "I haven't read X yet?"
>>7436455
i don't read threads on /lit/ i just highlight text from random posts and post a smug pepe
9 out of 10 times it derails the thread
>>7436455
I eat from the trash can of ideology.
>>7436460
I haven't read yet.
>>7436465
>the trash can of ideology
>>7436469
fuck off ivan.
>>7436469
Dumb frogposter.
>>7436455
I haven't read anything except classics for the past few years. I think that makes me better than all of you guys.
I don't read anything but the newspaper. I just come here because I get off on being around pretentious college students.
(I'm actually not kidding. The people here aren't nearly as smart as they think they are but it gives me warm fuzzies because it reminds me of my college days.)
>>7436481
>having good taste = 'pretentious'
Hellloooo reddit!
>>7436455
I haven't finished a new novel in almost a year. I read essays all the time, and did a pile of reading on top of that in grad school, so I just don't have the focus. Basic college burnout I guess.
I haven't read Lolita yet.
i can't stand proust
i think bukowski's legitimately good
i like the p&v notes
i think antony and cleopatra is way better than macbeth
i was too stupid to follow kant and wittgenstein without help
I read translations.
>>7436484
Ya cause clearly I'm referring to the books (incidentally I read a shit ton of lit-tier stuff in college - I just don't have time now that I have a gf, a social life and a stressful job). No, they're pretentious because of how they're obsessed with talking down to strangers and pumping up their ego with the literary accomplishments of others (which 2bh I often wonder whether they even read, much less understand).
I don't read.
I left /lit/ for /his/ so don't worry about it.
>>7436508
Good riddance. Stay there.
I put the book dowb cried for like 10 minutes at some point in siddhartha like three quarters of the way through. was 24 years old
>>7436499
>No, they're pretentious because of how they're obsessed with talking down to strangers
?
gramps got lost everyone, call the hospice
>>7436516
*book down and cried
I love Tao Lin, I think Bukowski is good, I think DFW is bordering on genius.
>>7436525
Dude really? You're really gonna deny that a major component of the culture of this board is basically shaming strangers for their taste? There are whole threads on this board where people circle jerk over insulting people who have a shitty taste in books. Even the way the people on this board talk to each other makes it clear; you'll see more snide, incompetent attempts at wit here than ... pretty much any other place I've found on the internet (and to kill an obvious supposition you might make, I rarely post - I just lurk for the most part).
Come on, really? You're really gonna deny that's the case?
>I want to believe this can work desu
>desu
I know for a fact that I didn't type 'desu.' Seriously. I typed another dumb meme, granted, one that I've cringed at a hundred times but one that has lost its currency and therefore much of its most irritating qualities. It's the one with the letter T, then the letter B, then the letter H, but lowercase. There has to be some kind of scripting/filtering here.
>>7436464
marry my daughter o king of the peasants
>>7436555
>being this much of a newfag
>>7436555
get rekt faggot, that what do you get for writing like an booty pirate.
>>7436545
that's why I came to this board in the first place (85% lurker here). a side-effect of all the dick-measuring and intellectual one-upmanship is that, in order to appear superior, people have to eventually recommend good/interesting/obscure works, which I take and filter as much as I can.
>>7436572
>the ol' reverse maymay troll!
hahaha oh wow this sure goes over lit's head you best be getting to /b/ where they're on such a more self-aware level of thought i mean i can't believe he fell for it he has to be some sort of idiot i mean who hasn't invested a minimum of 50 hours research into counter-memeing you have to be prepared in this day and age or else the spooky jews will catch you off your feet well maymay'd, well trolled, tip of my hat (fedora amirite) to you fine gentlemen who make this site worth returning to
>>7436455
I never read. That's my confession. I have some learning disability that hinders my enjoyment of reading(bad reading comprehension).
I enjoy reading in my own language far more than in english.
>>7436464
>dom post
>>7436970
dum-dum frogposter :(
>>7436460
>>Give an example so that we can emulate it.
>I argue both for and against New Criticism with made up historical sounding facts. I try to give the structuralists the highest accuracy.
I couldn't stand reading Lolita; it was too edgy for me; I dropped it a third of the way in.
I will never find another book that makes me feel the way Naked Lunch makes me feel :(
This isn't really a confession, I'm just sad senpai
>>7438029
>it was too edgy for me
Proof that you haven't read it at all.
I find fiction dull
>>7436555
Is this now pasta?
>>7436572
>newfags
Wasn't this copypasta started literally yesterday?
I own three john green novels.
i think constance garnett is better than pevear and volokhonsky.
I really think my Bukowski idolizing friend is going to kill himself. I'm relieved and terrified at the same time
>>7438186
>suicide
>no pissbottles
pleb
>>7438195
Left of the milk jug
>>7438205
that's gatorade, senpai.
>>7438186
English?
>>7438186
>Ouija board
Good riddance.
>>7438216
That's not gatorade in there, senpai
Color is too dark
>>7438284
no senpai,
>>7438292
Trust me it's piss
>>7438307
He makes videos too. The psychedelic interlude is my favorite part
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYz-GcIbDH8
>>7438307
no senpai. i know piss in a bottle when i see it.
>never read a line of sade outside the numerous secondary literature i have read on him
though i have seen the film of salo
I hate philosophy.
I've never read a philosophy book. I hate the concept of reading about philosophy.
>>7438328
The liquid in the bottle in the picture is still clearly darker than the gatorade you posted.
>>7438398
I might be even worse on this. I like philosophy, but I have never read a single page of a philosophy book.
I like "good" genre fiction.
Every time I finish a book, I masturbate and cum on the first page.
>>7438417
I think that's the lighting. That looks pretty fucking gatorade neon to me.
>>7438417
nah senpai, you're not taking into account the darkness of the room, and the near fluorescent tint of unnatural yellow that composes the fluid in that GATORADE bottle.
>>7436455
I didn't start with the Greeks.
>>7438426
So did DFW, you're fine.
A film that executes well on a philosophical idea is much more fulfilling and satisfying than a literary novel that does
>>7438186
I would also kill myself if i had such shit taste in literature
>>7438478
DFW had no discernible talent
>>7438472
It's alright, as long as you had actually commenced with the Chinese
>>7436555
sure sure senpai, nice trips tho
I once accounted for maybe 30% of the Kolsti posting on this board.
I'm too good for this place
>>7438160
>admits this is his first day on this board
get lost new fag
I hardly ever finish a book. I start it, read until I get the gist, and then put it away and consider it "read".
>>7436499
>hey're pretentious because of how they're obsessed with talking down to strangers
and you're not talking down to strangers for talking down to strangers?
I'm severely dyslexic and the longest book I've ever completed was Looking For Alaska, for school. I hate John Green but the book appealed to me because my girlfriend at the time died in a car wreck.
I do not know why I am here.
>>7440022
just end it man.
I share opinions on /lit/ about books I've never read.
>>7440022Audiobooks.
>>7436494
What's wrong with the p and v notes? I heard it was the best.
>>7436555
Whoo. Check 'em!
>>7440122
the best is learning russian.
but yeah they are better than Garnett
>>7438502
Le ebin m9
