/lit/ - Literature

21
M
Mex
Esp. Eng.
No
No
Some
None
page 0 - The picture of Dorian Grey

Age: 21
Sex: male
Nationality: Swiss
Languages (fluent): English, French
(Aspiring) writer?: no
Published?: no
Authors you love: Hemingway, Poe, Lovecraft, Irving, Card, etc
Authors you hate: Coehllo
Currently reading?: Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King

>>4048330
27
m
australia
english
no
no
rene guenon
none really

Age: 19
Sex: Dude
Nationality: murican
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: idk
Published?: naw
Authors you love: Dosty, Vonnegut, Saunders
Authors you hate: n/a
Currently reading?: Brief Interviews w/ Hideous Men, Forty Stories

>Age:
20.
>Sex:
Male.
>Nationality:
Norwegian.
>Languages (fluent):
English, Norwegian.
>(Aspiring) writer?:
No.
>Published?:
No.
>Authors you love:
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Carl Sagan, Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Robert Sapolsky, Arthur Clarke, Richard Feynman.
>Authors you hate:
I don't really hate any authors.
>Currently reading?:
The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin. I haven't started yet. I just finished The Book Of Disquiet an hour or so ago and will start tonight.

16
m
french
french, english
i tried but didn't turn out well
nope
lovecraft, stephen king
none
"It" stephen king

Age: 23
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Languages: English and passable German
(Aspiring) writer?: Maybe some day
Published?: No
Authors you love: Carver, Mishima, Pessoa, Wallace, Chekhov
Authors you hate: Kerouac, Marquez, Franzen, Austen, Duffy
Currently reading?: The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy

20
m
Amer.
English, Ebonics
No
NO
yes
absolutely
A Frolic of his own (it's kicking by butt at times)

19
Male
American
English
Yes -- finished my first short story a couple of weeks ago, working on three others at the moment.
No
Camus, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Orwell
Vonnegut, Easton Ellis
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Age: 21
Sex: pornhub, xvideos,
Nationality: French
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: Nope
Published?: nah
Authors you love: Verne, Vian, Dosto, Le Clézio
Authors you hate: Dickens.
Currently reading?: The Crying of Lot 49, Dead Souls

>>4048446

C:

Age:
Sex:
Nationality: Scottish
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: No
Authors you love: Clive Barker, Roddy Doyle
Authors you hate:None thus far
Currently reading?: The Phantom of the Opera

>>4048330
These threads are pointless. No one discusses anything.

>>4048452
*Age: 24
Sex: Male

>>4048453

It's for people who are curious about others on this board.

Feel free to discuss anything, though.

18
M
American
English + German
No
No
Melville, Hesse, Penn Warren, Thoreau, Camus, Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, Plath, Byron
Joyce, Hawthorne, Hemingway
The Fall, Gay Science

22
Female
Mexican
Spanish and English
Yes
Yes, once.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.D. Sallinger, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Ibargüengoitia.
Paulo Cohelo, eww!
Fast Food Nation.

>>4048514
pls be in london

>>4048467

Nice taste.

For Hemingway, read his first book In Our Time and remember the iceberg theory. Read slowly.

>>4048520

I am, but I'm fat and ugly. You wouldn't fuck me with a condom if you could.

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Nabokov, McCarthy, Orwell, Hitchens
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading?: Manufacturing Consent

Age: 23
Sex: M
Nationality: American
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: I try to write poetry, not really looking to publish
Published?: No
Authors you love: Hemingway, Pessoa, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Melville
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading?: Kafka's short stories, As I Lay Dying. I just finished Stoner.

>>4048528
Just read the fucking sticky.
>>>/fit/17018018

>>4048528

this is 4chan. i think you're underestimating us. we would fuck our own clones if we could because we're just that desperate.

>>4048465
Ok well I learnt that I'm possibly the oldest person here. You're all around 20.

>>4048450
>C:
wat?

>>4048558

I'm 31.

>>4048564
OK, I'm not the oldest then.

>>4048548
Does telling yourself that help you sleep at night?

>>4048569

>>4048467

Please tell me that gay science is a comedy

>>4048624
It's Nietzsche... gay as in joyful.

>>4048569
Age:36
Sex: m
Nationality: Swede
Languages (fluent): Swedish, English
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Paul Auster
Authors you hate: None
Currently reading?: Some philosophic stuff

Age: 20
Sex: M
Nationality: SUA
Languages (fluent): English, Italian, Romanian
(Aspiring) writer?: Yeah
Published?: Nah
Authors you love: Anne Carson, Sylvia Plath, Giacomo Leopardi, Salvatore Quasimodo
Authors you hate: I hate Eminescu as a person, but speaking strictly in terms of oeuvre, no one comes to mind.
Currently reading?: rereading Nueve Ensayos Dantescos

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: I suppose.
Published?: Yes
Authors you love: Fitzgerald, Chabon, Steinbeck, Capote, Yates, Chekov
Authors you hate: Bukowski, Flannery O'Connor,
Currently reading?: Picked up Swamplandia and Winter of Our Discontent after work.

Has anyone read Swamplandia? It seriously has 4 or 5 pages of acclaim before the first chapter, which gives me reason to believe that it's for beach-reading casuals.

>>4048632

Well, i was kinda rigth. It sounded funny.

Age: 21
Sex: Male
Nationality: Norwegian
Languages (fluent): Norwegian, English
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: Only in magazines
Authors you love: Oyvind Hellenes, Paul Auster, Vladimir Nabokov
Authors you hate: None in particular
Currently reading?: "Dette burde skrives i nutid" by Helle Helle

Age: 23
Sex: f
Nationality: croatian
Languages (fluent): english, russian
(Aspiring) writer?:no
Published?:no
Authors you love: Tokarczuk, Chekhov, Blok, Calvino
Authors you hate: not exactly hate but Pessoa and Nabokov come to mind
Currently reading?: The dangerous liaisons by Laclos

>>4048564
Why is a 31 year old on 4chan?

Even though I am 27.

Age:17
Sex:male
Nationality:Latvian
Languages (fluent):Latvian, English
(Aspiring) writer?: yes
Published?: no
Authors you love: Irwin Welsh, Daniliewski, Kessey, and some Latvians
Authors you hate: none that I can think of
Currently reading?:

Age: 20
Sex: Virgin
Nationality: Canadian/British
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Anne Frank
Authors you hate: Hitler
Currently reading?: How to Win Friends and Influence People

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>>4048706
glad to see /lit/ isn't overrun by wanna-be writers, as I suspected it's a vocal minority of faggots who are so desperate for recognition/attention that they make threads all to themselves instead of asking for spoonfeeding in one big writing thread

the rest of you can go fuck yourselves with your dogshit excuses every time you post some shitty wordy paragraph or stories about teenagers masturbating in supermarkets or pissing in front of old ladies

>>4048717

Age: 20
Sex: M
Nationality: British
Languages (fluent): English, German
(Aspiring) writer?: Yeah, though a lazy one
Published?: Sort of I guess
Authors you love: John Berryman, Philip K Dick, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats
Authors you hate: Bukowski's poems suck, not read his prose though
Currently reading?: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, Selected Poems of Randall Jarrell

>>4048711

What can I say, man, are you gonna stop coming when you're a certain age?

I started 4chan in 2008. I was 26.

>>4048529
>Manufacturing Consent
Get ready to forget about Hitchens entirely. It's a path many /lit/ users seem to take.

>>4048720

This is why these threads are useful: you ask the silent majority to speak up and you're surprised.

>>4048748

Hitchens is fucking dumb. I mean, really fucking dumb.

Age: 17
Sex: M
Nationality: Italian, American
Languages (fluent): American English, Italian
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: Nope
Authors you love: Valerio Massimo Manfredi (italian), Andrea Frediani (italian), George R.R. Martin, Tolkien
Authors you hate: Dan Brown
Currently reading?: looking for something new to read

>>4048748
Yeah, I've noticed /lit/ can get a bit off course sometimes. Keep reading, though, and eventually, you're one of the fortunate few, you will undergo some course correction, which will lead you back to the Hitch.

>>4048769

What have you read by Brown?

Age: 18
Sex: M
Nationality: USA
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: Sort of. I want to be a comedian and work in film.
Published?: Assuming high school publications count, yes. If not, no.
Authors you love: Hemingway, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Nathanel West
Authors you hate: Camus
Currently reading?: The Power and the Glory

>>4048780
I started reading The Lost Symbol but I just couldn't go forward after some pages.

>>4048789

So you start a book that's like third of fourth in a series and you expect to understand?

>>4048796
Not to understand, I just didn't like it.

>>4048802

If I started the Lord of the Rings at the third book, I don't think I'd like it either.

Age: 19
Sex: Male
Nationality: British
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: No
Authors you love: Kafka, Brandon Sanderson, Orwell
Authors you hate: Angela Carter, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Currently reading?: Dune - F.Herbert

>>4048720

Are you this assmad because you're a shitty aspiring writer too?

Age: 22
Sex: Male
Nationality: British
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes, unsurprisingly
Published?: I had a few short stories for children published but that was for money.
Authors you love: Thomas Hardy, Flann O'Brien, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Faulkner
Authors you hate: Ben Brooks. Others I don't care for but few I hate.
Currently reading?: Gulliver's Travels

>>4048816
>Published?: I had a few short stories for children published but that was for money.

More on that. Where, how, how much, etc.

>>4048824

I was part of a creative writing group once (won't be again though!). Someone came in and said that a local nursery wanted some children's stories. I wrote out one, gave it to them and apparently the kids loved it.

So pursued it further and got it published and was sold to some nurseries. Did a couple of follow-ups too. Made a couple hundred from each book.

Age: 21
Sex: Penis
Nationality: Texan
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: Sorta
Published?: Sorta; I won a contest and had a short story published in a local magazine.
Authors you love: Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Harper Lee, Herbert, Wyndham, Frost, Crane
Authors you hate: Ginsberg, Ginsberg, Ginsberg
Currently reading?: The Green Brain

>>4048836

Nice!

I fear creative writing groups. I don't think it's a great thing.

Age: 24
Sex: M
Nationality: brazilian
Languages (fluent): portuguese / english
(Aspiring) writer?: no
Published?: no
Authors you love: machado / tolkien / voltaire
Authors you hate: none
Currently reading?: 471 F, some poe's tales, the selfish gene

>Age
30
>Sex
m
>Nationality
english
>Languages (fluent)
english
>(Aspiring) writer?
no
>Published?
no
>Authors you love
woolf; calvino; nabokov
>Authors you hate:
i don't read authors i hate, so i never develop strong feelings about them. i have little interest in ayn rand for example, but as it doesn't seem like something i'd enjoy i just don't read her books
>Currently reading?
house of leaves; a month in the country; the demolished man

Age: 26
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer: No
Published?: Yes (academic journals, and whatnot for my graduate degree)
Authors you love: Hemingway, London, Kipling, Tolkien, Heinlein
Authors you hate: Austen, Woolf, Kerouac, GRRM, Robert Jordan
Currently reading: The Song of Roland

>>4048856

Song of Roland is epic Muslim-slicing shizzle. Took a uni class on it. Badassery.

Age: 37
Sex: male
Nationality: swedish
Languages (fluent): swedish and english
(Aspiring) writer?: yes
Published?: no
Authors you love: George R.R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, H.L. Mencken, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Anton Wilson, Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Philip K Dick and Tove Jansson.
Authors you hate: Liza Marklund, Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson
Currently reading? Storm of Swords - Steel and Snow p 273 tv-tie in ed

ITT: everyone's a writer, no one's published.

>published = by a real publishing company

>>4048864
The majority of the people in this thread have said "No" to the aspiring writer question.

>>4048861
Fuck! Forgot about Carl Sagan. Love that man.
Also haet Ayn Rand. She's an inverted necromancer.

>>4048853

No they're not.

You get some good people in there but everyone wants to get on with everyone else so it is very self-congratulating. No one wants to upset anyone else so no one can call each other on their bullshit. I was reluctant to share anything I valued as I wouldn't get honest criticism.

It is like writing forums online, the worst criticism is changing one or two lines and fixing the grammar. Though /lit/ can be overly critical, anonymity allows for some criticism to exist.

Age: 25
Sex: Male
Nationality: Chilean
Languages (fluent): Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: No
Authors you love: Márquez, Kerouac, Cortázar, Bolaño, Benedetti
Authors you hate: Bukowski, Coelho.
Currently reading?: Putas Asesinas by Bolaño

>>4048869
>She's an inverted necromancer.

That makes no sense.

>>4048868

Sure...

All these didn't say no. Learn to count.

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>>4048883
Maybes don't count as yes or no, idiot.

>>4048883
>>4048899

and the Chilean occurred after that post.

>>4048899

Grasping at straws.

>>4048903

You too.

>>4048907
It's not grasping at straws, that's literally what the word means. Maybe:a possibility or uncertainty. Whereas yes and no are definitive. Sort of and I don' know (if they mean they aren't sure about whether they want to be one, and not that they are waiting on an acceptance or rejection letter) fall into that same category.

>>4048330
19
M
Dominican
English and Spanish
Yes
No
Phillip K. Dick
Toni Morrison
Crime and Punishment

Age: 20
Sex:m
Nationality:American
Languages (fluent):English, Spanish and I am working on my French
(Aspiring) writer?:I write on the sider
Published?:Nope
Authors you love:Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka and Hemingway
Authors you hate: Tao Lin
Currently reading?:A book about the hundred years war and another about the history of Punic wars.

Age: 15
Sex: m
Nationality: American
Languages (fluent): English
(Aspiring) writer?: no
Published?: no
Authors you love: DFW, Chris Ware, Vonnegut
Authors you hate: none
Currently reading?: Ulysses + Grapes of Wrath

>>4048878
A necromancer is a living person that speaks to and controls the dead.

An inverted necromancer is a dead person that speaks to and controls the living.

20
Male
American
English, Spanish, French
No
No
Camus, Faulkner, De La Pava
Knowles, Coelho, McCarthy
A Naked Singularity

>>4048330
>Age:
Oldfag.

>Sex:
F

>Nationality:
Murrican. Sorry. I hate us too.

>Languages (fluent):
English.

>(Aspiring) writer?:
Writer.

>Published?:
Yes. A few poems.

>Authors you love:
Margaret Atwood. Oscar Wilde. Charles Dickens. Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge.

>Authors you hate:
Palahniuk. James Patterson. JK Rowling.

>Currently reading?:
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler,
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

>>4048940
>Sorry. I hate us too.
You are the worst kind of person, and I say this as a non-American.

>>4048972
lol, okay, want to explain or just throw mean words around like the big meaniepants you are?

18
m
usa
english
yes
no
kleist schulz bernhard carver novalis
bowles chopin klima idk
life and fate

>>4048979

He's right. I'm European and I can't fucking stand this "self-hate" shit the most pretentious Americans do.

Get over yourself.

>>4048923
>15
>Authors you love: DFW

Good stuff :)

>>4049016
I almost sense the yanks do this as a "hey guys look at us, we're so fat and stupid but not me I'm LOLSORANDOm also fuck god I'm profound right? so counterculture. American flag with a weed symbol am i rite bros?"

They can't do self denigration quite like us.

Age: 21
Sex:M
Nationality: USA
Languages (fluent): English, Deutsch
(Aspiring) writer?: Academic
Published?: Gave a lecture at a seminar and had my paper in the seminar proceedings journal.
Authors you love: Nozick, Mill, Locke, Singer, Kripke, Wittgenstein
Authors you hate: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Greek Philosophy
Currently reading?: Euthanasia by James Rachels

>>4049058
People hate Kierkegaard? I understand not agreeing with him, but really, who hates Kierkegaard?

>Nationality: USA

Ah. Carry on.

>>4049050
What can we do to win the approval of you Europeans? We're derided for being patriotic and we're derided for being unpatriotic. Would you prefer we show indifference?

>>4049079
You have to not be American, obviously.

Age: 24 in September
Sex: Male
Nationality: Lithuanian
Languages (fluent): Lithuanian, English
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes
Published?: Yes
Authors you love: Dostoevsky, Bartol, Bierce, Škėma, Toole, Gibson
Authors you hate: None, but I dislike Peter Sotos
Currently reading?: "Island" by Aldous Huxley

>>4049070
>People hate Kierkegaard?
The guy did have Nozick first on his list of p cool guys. You can't expect too much from them.

>>4049088
That was not the picture I wanted.

Age: 23
Sex: Yes please
Nationality: British
Languages (fluent): English and American English
(Aspiring) writer?: No
Published?: Not literature but I have articles out there on the web-sphere
Authors you love: Mishima
Authors you hate: no-one
Currently reading?: Jude the Obscure

>>4049097
>Sex: Yes please
tellmeiwasaskingforit.jpg

>Age:
23
>Sex:
M
>Nationality:
Mexican
>Languages (fluent):
Spanish, English
>(Aspiring) writer?:
Aspiring, yes.
>Published?:
No
>Authors you love:
Borges, Murakami, José Agustín, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, Gabriel García Márquez, José Emilio Pacheco.
>Authors you hate:
I can only think of Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez, fellow mexicans will know what I'm talking about
>Currently reading?:
Alberto Chimal - La Torre y el Jardín
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation

Age: 23
Sex: M
Nationality: French & Irish
Languages (fluent): French, English
(Aspiring) writer?: Yes, currently working on a collection of short stories
Published?: No (not yet!)
Authors you love: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Fitzgerald, Musset, Jack London, Flaubert, Stendhal, Maupassant...
Authors you hate: Ayn Rand
Currently reading?: "L'étranger", by Albert Camus

>>4048924
That was pretty clever, actually. I take back what I said.

>>4049079

Get the approvals of the Europeans who are worth it. Be patriotic, for fuck's sake.

>>4049079
I actually don't mind patriotism from Americans. There's a difference between "MURRICA #1!" and "I'm proud of my nation, its history, its culture, and its progress."

>Age:
23.
>Sex:
Male.
>Nationality:
American.
>Languages (fluent):
English, Spanish, Portuguese, some French.
>(Aspiring) writer?:
Kind of, yes.
>Published?:
Nope.
>Authors you love:
Whitman, Pessoa, Burroughs, Kafka.
>Authors you hate:
I don't really read books I'm not liking to the end, so none.
>Currently reading?:
Re-reading Naked Lunch because of the thread we had recently.

>tfw you are too old for 4chan but there's nothing else to do on the internet

>>4049279
just read more and/or get a life