/lit/ - Literature

lol. that was funny anon...

No, she unironically only reads Harry Potter fan fiction. That said, she’s a wonderful geologist and I admire her a lot.

Mostly classics because modern books are generally a bit too degenerate for her tastes. We enjoyed reading and discussing Homer together. Currently she is studying Latin.

/lit/ will think this post is fiction but it's not.

Women don't read.

>>13916072
Forgot to mention she is my wife. Girlfriends are bad because sex before marriage is a sin.

>>13916084
Forgot to mention she’s a man

>>13916090
Forgot to mention she was born a man but now has a vagina she dilates and that I stick my 2 inchh penis into each night.

>>13916060
She's currently reading "My Side of the Mountain". She was reading The Chronicles of Narnia in japanese (she's a jap), but when don't have Prince Caspian in japanese so she's reading that book and waiting for Prince Caspian.

>>13916060
My last ex liked Dostoievsky among other things. She recommended Crime and Punishment to me, and she was fascinated when I summed up the Eternal Husband for her. I Also read her Gogol's Portrait as she was falling asleep on my knees. Was a very sweet night.

That said she's working in a field that leaves her very little time to read, and she's constantly learning new crafts, so I doubt she's reading on a very regular basis. Well I guess it depends.

My ex before that was into HP and similar fiction but she also enjoyed Kafka and had an extensive scientific culture (she studied chemistry and physics at college level, mathematics at gradschool level, and did some scientific work in bioinformatics).
My ex before that was some kind of crazy enlightened scholar, she fan a fan of Breton, Foucault and Jodorowsky, but she also read Basho and Plutarch and admired Beckett, Faulkner and Céline. She also had emotional attachment to the figures of Saint Louis and Saint Michel despite being non-christian and borderline commie/anarchist politically. Truly an adorable weirdo.

>>13916060
My girl liked Lolita. Her favourite book is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

>>13916095
Have sex

>>13916060
>implying I even have a gf

My girlfriend’s favourite book is The Virgin Suicides. What does this mean bros?

>>13916123
dilate

>>13916060
damn I wish I had a gf

>>13916123
Keep your shoes on, Dorothy

>>13916133
That you must fuck her quick if you want to avoid a tragic incident.

>>13916060
Mine is really dyslexic so she basically can't read ;_;

yeah
She loves Henry James, Philip Roth, Wordsworth and Eliot. Wrote her thesis on Adorno and Romanticism.

She's reading A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin. And previously The Savage Detectives by Bolaño

>>13916060
She read strictly ancient philosophy and claim that anything written after them is just sometimes smart rephrasing in more contemporary language, or blatantly wrong

>>13916519
Not to be offensive, but she sounds like she would love my circumcised dick.

>>13916622
She sounds like a /lit/ dweller and a male one at that.

She basically never reads, which is unfortunate because when she was still going to school and had to do mandatory reading she almost always appreciated good literature. She liked The Metamorphosis, for instance, and especially Faust, which we had a lot of good discussions about.

>>13916060
I write her little book reports

>>13916622
I am starting to think she is right, that philosophy did not significantly progress in the last 2000+ years, with small improvements made by few

My wife is reading Hamlet even as I type. My gf enjoys mystery novels.

>>13916675
What does "progress" mean in philosophy?

>>13916114
and then you woke up

the girl I’m interested in probably hasn’t read anything higher than bestseller girly stuff and isn’t so intelligent at all

idk if she’s the one we used to be really in love a few years ago then no contact and i dunno if such a girl should be the mother of my children

>>13916060
I sum books up for my gf, she reads nothing outside of anthropology/biology and she dislikes most fiction.
I've read her Epic of Gilgamesh and she literally had no response despite saying she was "SOOOOO interested in MESOPOTAMIA CUZ NERDDDD!!!"
She liked my summary of Nabokov stories however.

>>13916114
>she reads HP
kind of every girl under 32 does. If she is any older, she was too old when HP came out and got huge for kids. It's like the Ewok-Test in HIMYM.
>she was a fan of Foucault
that's an absolute red flag that makes me fall out of love faster than I get a derection. it's literally worse than HIV, because there are no condom against dumb theories.

>>13916060
No. She reads the Joy of Cooking.

>>13916843
fuck off pseud

>>13916072
>>13916084
Please don’t breed

>>13916060
My imaginary gf is perfect and really cultured, she has read all the books in the world and has an iq of over 90000

hahahaha....ha

>>13916766
Do you people even love your girlfriends/wife?

/lit/ has a lot of normal-fags, but the trade off is that they always talk about their gfs like they are pests and they want to murder them

Slowly getting her into it, we started with some of the anglo women books and shes liked them so far

>>13916060
>Do you talk about books with your girlfriend?
Yes.
>What does she read?
Books I read. Books I write. Why do you ask?

I'd say 75% of our conversations are theology, right now centered around St. Frances de Sales, St. Louis de Montfort, and the Venerable Mary of Agreda. I also talk a fair amount about The Confessions (which were essential to my return to the faith,) and some of my own insights into the ritualism and spiritual implications of various Catholic positions which I have pieced together through esoteric and imprudent researching when I was younger.

>>13916994
Having a gf and an inherently solitary hobby often clash, mix that altogether with many /lit/tards being wageslaves yet normie enough to get a gf will do that to you

When we started dating. She reads several books a week in several languages. These days I don't read much.

>>13916119
Did she interpret it as a great romantic work though or in the proper context of humbert humbert being a based pedophile

My gf knows japanese and only reads Japanese books with anime covers. Sometimes I try to recommend her books I'd think she'd like but she refuses to consume anything not weeby and written in Japanese.

G-girlfriend...?

>>13916060
Male power fantasy and crime stuff

im so lonely

>>13916994
Most posters here are bitter boomers who hate their wives and absent-minded kids

FEET

>>13916712
You degenerate

>>13916095
Forgot to mention that man was also my brother who is now my sister-wife.

>>13919537
Forgot to mention that in addition to being my brother (now sister) he was also my father (now mother).

>>13919213
me too anon
It's the most painful thing I've ever had to deal with

>>13918514
This worries me, will I be happy if or when I have a gf? Will I treat her well? what does sex feel like?

If your gf reads male authors then you are getting cucked.

My gf likes Anne Carson best.

>>13916060
I talk about destroying her little fucking pussy.

>>13916843
>references HIMYM
>shit on Foucault for being dumb
>most likely yasn't even read him
I think I'll stick with the leftist who has better appreciation for Christian culture than most roght wingers.

>>13916060
I talk about shit I like and she doesn't read.

My girlfriend buys classic literature books to be pretentious and then doesn’t read them.

Don't have one, but girls I've usually been around tended to focus on (sometimes write as well) self-pitying, navel-gazing trite. For some, this could be romantic or even endearing, but I guess I'm too bitter nowadays to see the use of it. I'm not sure if I should be saddened at that.

>>13916967
Kinda redundant saying that

>>13916712
based

>>13916843
Cringe bait

>>13920768
That's peak /lit/.

>>13916060
Not a gf, but my first fuck buddy last year tried to impress me by saying her favorite books were lolita, the old man and the sea, and infinite jest.
I'm pretty sure she has never read any of them and has no idea why I thought what she said was funny

>>13916843

>there is no condom against dumb theories

kek

>>13916068
Based geologist. I need to find one like that.

>>13916994

Do men really LIKE women? How's that for a philosophical question. If your guy friend had the personality of your girlfriend, would you hang around him?

Really makes you think.

>>13920910
Yes to both, because I only date girls with great personalities. Annoying thots are for fucking only, if that.

I've never been able to talk literature with girls and i've been with 10 in the past few years. As you get older you realize how it's nearly impossible unless living in the right area to find anyone to discuss literature with and stop caring.

Yea she reads books with me and we discuss them after, she really likes lotr. Pic related.

She seemed interested in reading Notes from Underground so I lent her my copy and it's been 6 months and she's read 5 pages.

No gf, but the girl I like is into Henry Miller and Richard Brautigan. We both love the grateful dead.

>>13919213
I wonder what happened at 80 years old for the brown survey

My gf reads contemporary Cantonese fiction and web novels. She doesn't like reading in English. The two books she's tried reading have been a Stephen King novel and a heather's pick memoir.
When she asks me what I'm reading about I tell her and she says 'ok'.

>>13920910
Learn to love women. I dont want my best friend to be my girlfriend

>>13916060

My mummy reads to me

>>13921231
why does your gf wear a dress so that people can see her underwear?

>>13916060
My girlfriend isn't fluent in English so I need to buy her books that I like that happen to have been translated into Japanese. It's a little more cumbersome than I'd like, as a lot of books just don't get translated unless they're classics. That or if they're just Japanese books.

Overall she says she used to hate reading but she's been going through the books I give her pretty fast. I have her on a healthy diet of Mishima, Kerouac, Endo, Murakami, and more. Varied as possible.

>>13921294
This post is so sad

>>13916060
She reads cheap fiction, I love her, so I always ask her to tell me what she's reading, I don't like fiction but I like her and her exegesis are fun overall. She reads from 50 to 100 books a year, so the quality varies a lot, and is on the cheap side, but sometimes she reads a good one.

>>13916060
She has some troubles and we both read Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland and Coraline together, then by herself she began reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower. No neither of us are underaged but she hasn't done much in years so I've tried to get her back into it.

>>13920636
By your logic, she cucks you with a woman, she a lesbian yo.

Gf reads baudelaire to me in french and we read and discuss from the phenomenology of spirit at our favorite coffee shop. The most /lit/ activity with gf is embowering yourselves in extravagant art

>>13921087
Definitely not a book I'd loan to a female

>>13921231
you should be out there fighting for democracy

>>13916060
Are there more images of her feet?
>>13916967
Please go back to r3ddit.
>>13916994
All of 4chan is full of normalniggers. Good to see someone who isn't of the Profligates.
>>13919512
Fag.

>>13921270
honestly wish this i could go back to this

>>13916060
Yes, we do. She is currently reading "Mother" by Maxim Gorky (in russian).

>>13921231
post moar

>>13916060
i do. she's not a reader herself but likes it when i tell her about my reading because it makes me sound smart and she likes being the kind of woman who attracts smart men. it's like stylish dressing but for the brain

>>13916060
>girlfriend

I bought her Clarice Lispector novels recently and she’s become obsessed.

She grew up reading Stephen King so I’ve been getting her to read better things. So far she’s read Portrait, Lolita, My Stuggle, and a Girl is a Half Formed Thing

>>13916060
My girlfriend hates reading. She says it's gay and merely a shadow of true art.

>>13922760
Maybe she is one of those cunts who likes modern art.

>>13920910
Love that monkey lol

>>13916060
if i had a gf, yeah i'd try to talk to her about my books as she ignores me and dreams of a chad cock inside her and wondering why she's not dating a real man

>>13916060
> girlfriend

She once gave me a handjob in the back of a greyhound bus while I read Lolita to her.

Yea we are reading infinite jest together I wish that dfw was still alive because we'd both enjoy a three some with him

The girl I am dating now doesn't read English very well. She is Vietnamese.

I dated and am still friends with a girl who was pretty lit. When I started dating her she liked the Beatniks and now she hates them. Pretty based.

All you race traitors dating asians, enjoy your hapa incel kids making you famous from killing normies.

>>13920910
>If your guy friend had the personality of your girlfriend, would you hang around him?
yes since she isn't a vapid thot

>>13916090
Was a man***

>>13923219
>is against genetic diversity

keep fucking your sister and have a deformed habsburg baby

>>13923951
genetic diversity literally significantly increases the chances of your kid popping out as retarded or deformed

¿Why so many people here have
asian girlfriends ?

>>13923219
That’s racist anon-chan, how rude! Didn’t your mama tell you not to be racist? You are going to be raped in prison if this keeps going on, just warning you.

>>13922888
How old?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NiMBzpZF1nE

>>13916119
Not even PKD top ten

>>13924211
I did a prison bit and didn't get raped. Not to say it doesn't happen, it does quite a bit, but if you maintain situational awareness and fight back you probably won't get raped.

>>13916090
Xir pronouns are tradwife or wife, trad.

She likes novels. She reads more than me.

>>13916068
Yeah it's weird my wife is in finance and went to an ivy league uni but reads nothing but YA trash

>>13916068
>Have romantic opportunities with girls from time to time
>They all read yaoi, Death Note, and Harry Potter.

Is this common, or do I just have bad luck?

>>13919213

Is this the dunning-kreuger of happiness?

>>13925072
women rarely understand anything more complex than that

>>13916060
she and i have different interests. we often go to BN together and sit for hours. she reads her books i read mine. then at dinner she summarizes what she read and i summarize my readings.

we both learn a lot this way, or at least i do.

>>13925072
my ex was ivy league. she read every fucking classic under the sun 1x, then read anne rice's vampire books and phantom of the opera literally dozens of times

my new gf just reads biographies of business leaders. she used to like william wordsworth and f. scott fitzgerald. now i guess she's more driven to advance her career as a journalist.

she's ESL btw

>>13925459

Man, I fucking hated those vampire books. Lestat is the ultimate pseud.

>>13916599
Based. Ive yet to meet a girl that likes Bolano. I most certainly hope to

>>13916060
My girlfriend is the best literature helper. Always there to lend a hand for me. Pic related is her
fuck Im so alone I want a woman in my life

>>13916712
My man sprinkled infidelity in the thread like it's nothing. Fucking kek.
Based

>>13916060
Modern female chic lit types trash but also stuff economics

>>13916060
>

here's a philosophical question for you /lit/

I want a gf who walks around barefoot 100% of the time but her feet are always clean and soft and pristine

is this possible?

>>13924637
t.larper
Prison rape is the biggest meme in existence

>>13916068
If it's HPMOR, then she is based.

>>13920931
What a fag. Since when did Starlight was into lotr?
>>13921087
Tell her to start with Part 2. At the least, you might get your book back.
>>13925089
Nothing wrong with either of those. They're popular so it's more likely to meet someone who is into them and you can't fault fujos if you ever had lesbian fantasy.

>>13916060
They should all read The Scarlet Letter: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

>>13916072
>>13921319
>>13922973
>reading books together

>>13916994
"Men either despise women or have never thought seriously about them"

>>13926665
>t. brainwashed yuddite

>>13926713

I should clarify.
They -only- read yaoi, Harry Potter, and Death Note.

>>13926713
Why wouldn't she like it?

god i want a fujogf so fucking bad

>>13926820
Facile and cosmetic quote. You could just as easily stated the opposite.

>>13926557
yes, and she lives with me
she puts lotion on her feetsies every night

>>13925541
Maybe he has an agreement with his wife, but I agree, nice delivery in any case.

>>13916675
>‘Philosophy hasn’t made any progress? – If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn’t
genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can’t this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?’
Wittgenstein

>>13916994
Eh. She's a good woman but after a decade you run out of stuff to talk about, especially where we both have completely different interests vs when we first met. I don't know if I we met now if I would have married her.

But she raises our kids and would never cheat on me. I should probably show her more appreciation than I do.

>>13926996
Ok, that's.. kinda strange
>>13927038
I can see Twilight being into lotr. Starlight is more into... Actually, I don't know if she would read fiction.

>>13916060
>25
>tfw no gf
>pain is too much
>wish someone could take my sex drive away
>get sick
>lose sex drive
>it's been 3 months now and it hasn't come back
>have no desire for sex whatsoever
>still want gf
It never ends

>>13926841
Get out of /lit/, you anti-intellectual

>>13923959
you're thinking of inbreeding, sisterfucker

Tijuana is a 45 minute drive from my home. WTF is a girlfriend?

She used to read stuff like Stephen King, but now all she does is watch women's TV instead. I mostly read history or philosophy stuff, which she thinks is manly

>>13919537
forgot to mention that this is all in fact an elaborate ruse, i do not have a partner

>>13916060
She doesn't have much time to read because she's to busy letting me cum on her feet.

>>13922760
she sounds really hot

>>13916060
Mine occasionally reads random things I might suggest, at least she never reads YA trash. Her favorite book is Lolita and Kokoro, plus she lets me choke her in bed so I guess that's /lit/. She did, however, attempt and give up on reading both Ulysses and Kant. Do I keep her?

>>13920910
Women and men are different you brainlet. If my girlfriend had my best friend's personality, I'd dump her, and vice versa. Having girlfriends and guy friends are different experiences.

>>13916068
Shawn please go

>>13928485
Post pics

>>13916060
She read stereotypical women's books that mainly feature fictional romance and mystery.
She reads every single day, which makes her more of reader in terms of quantity than myself and probably 95% of this board.
I don't really read for pleasure anymore, so I envy her.

>>13925163
Nah she says that her job is so demanding/intellectually fulfilling she just likes to relax with something fun and mindless on her off time. Her intelligence is more in the realm of instantly being able to intuitively grasp problems that come up and analyzing patterns/numbers rather than deepthots about books and philosophy, anyway.

>>13929548
>She read stereotypical women's books that mainly feature fictional romance and mystery.

3-4 examples? I'm curious to read some and see what it's like.

>>13929659
What's it like to have a wife

She doesn't read

>>13916060
Wifey isn't allowed to prattle on about her "thoughts" about books or anything else, and if I catch her reading anything other than pre-1955 home ec. texts, it's the paddle and corner time.

>>13916060
can read or wrtie and negther cna i

>>13927370
What you desire isn't sex anon,its emotional intimacy.

>>13927369
Twilight is a fucking stemtard, a stupid person's idea of a smart person.
Starlight on the other hand is based, curious, childlike and passionate.

I told a girl at work I did a lot of reading over the weekend. She laughed. I don't know if she thinks I was being sarcastic, or if she thinks I'm a faggot. Probably the latter.

>>13925459
She will trade you for the chad bull of wall street at the first opportunity

>>13930411
I know how do I get it

>>13929875
I've equally never loved someone as much as her or been as hurt so badly. She gives a good footjob tho so she's got that going for her

>>13930687
>or been as hurt so badly
care to tell more?

>>13920931
Thought I wouldn't find you?
>>>/mlp/34378643

Kill yourself.

my boyfriend is reading the Tao Te Ching as well as The Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs. It's really cute, since both of those he's borrowing from me.
He also tried reading The Doctrine of Awakening, but found EWWvola too masturbatory.
He also reads a lot of novels in French, which I find really cool since it's not even his first language.
t. not a faggot

>>13931012
>It's really cute
You're totally a faggot

>>13931012
>t. not a faggot
So, you're a /g/ tranny........

>>13916748
>ah yes, the girl that I love
>what a simpleton she is. What a retard. Dumber than a yard of lard. God she's stupid.

>>13916994
If you think this is bad, you should check out gay threads on /gif/. I've never seen so many incredibly bitter married men on 4chan in my life.

>>13921142
Partner dies

>>13920925
>literally live in OXFORD
>only lit conversation I've had is with a fat student I met at a BDSM meetup
she's studying erotic german and french literature though which was cool because I'm reading erotic chinese literature rn

>>13931080

>>13931214
This proved nothing.

>>13926766
Like reading out loud. I enjoy reading out loud to her.

>>13931221

>>13931221

>>13931214
If you are, indeed, a woman, I have to say that you have a very unfeminine hand. Whenever I notice a woman's hand, I usually find myself appreciating it's delicacy. But there is no such thing in yours.

>>13927061
Maybe he's talking about his future wife who he has yet to meet?

>>13931214
>>13931416
post feet

>>13931186
The /gif/ userbase is fucking disgusting. Like a terrible whirlwind of giga normies and coomers.

>>13930960
rude

>>13916509

>>13922807

>>13919802
Feels like masturbating by using a woman's vag

>>13919518
>>13921394
>>13926557
>>13927058
>>13928485
>>13931680
Based feet bros

Anyone I've known with a girlfriend usually doesn't read, and if they do read, it's always some big zeitgeist book that takes them months to finish. I just assume any girlfriend stories here are people's comforting fictions.

>>13920910
>Do men really LIKE women?
No, which is why tomboys are the thinking man's choice.

> If your guy friend had the personality of your girlfriend, would you hang around him?
Fuck no.

>>13932041
Time to get higher standards, anon.

>>13932265
>Actual 3D tomboy
>Not a relatively high standard
The fuck are you on about.

>>13932269
If you wouldn't hang around her if she didn't have tits then yeah you have no standards

>>13932277
>If you wouldn't hang around her if she didn't have tits then yeah you have no standards
Again nigger, the fuck are you on about.

>>13932279
>If your guy friend had the personality of your girlfriend, would you hang around him?
>Fuck no.
based amnesiac poster

>>13932292
Are you legitimately retarded?

>>13932300
no you

>>13930458
Twilight admired Starswirl the Bearded who was based on Gandalf (which was my basis of her being into lotr). Also, Twilight is a stemCHAD.
> Starlight is based, curious, childlike and passionate
Agree with this, though.

>>13916060
yes, she is a big fan of Mishima and C.S. Lewis. one of her favorite books is lolita

>>13916994
I love my gf, gfs are simply pets tho
Also implying I am a normie was a rather simple-minded blunder

I hate that I hate women.

>>13916060
>girlfriend

>>13920910
I generally enjoy talking to women more than men so ye that'd be chill