/lit/ - Literature

I once knew a cute girl who had read all Tolstoy in the original. Now I only speak to girls who w33d lmao evry night.

>>7864298

The girls in my local Waterstones seem pretty smart, reading mid-brow and high-brow stuff, but most girls seem dumb when it comes to literature. Too unclassy, too ditsy.

Do males even read? I haven't met a single male who reads beyond genre trash with the occasional pleb shit like Pynchon, DFW etc.

>>7864298
kek
the only girls i interact with are stoners

>>7864317
tits or gtfo.
you can't talk to any girl these days. they just think it's creepy.

>>7864317
This.
I meet a lot more women who read properly than men.
Men read fucking Andy Mcnab.

>>7864470
Do you want diq pics faggot?

During my junior year of highschool I started hooking up with a 10/10 SJW senior who was the closest thing to a well read female I've come across

>her favorite authors were Salinger and Plath
>constantly admonished me for liking Fitzgerald because he was an abusive misogynist etc
>literally started screaming at me in the middle of Barnes n noble once because I wanted to buy one of his books
>loved slam poetry
>able to convince her that Holden raped his sister, Phoebe
>she then hated Salinger
>lose my virginity to her

I now avoid talking about literature to the opposite sex altogether

>>7864317
I have 32 fully patrician friends and 3 who read genre or mid tier with an occasional patrician book and I know of 2 girls who read mid to patrician books who both dislike me. Also a lot of tumblir Nabokov x Patrick Rothfuss x Murakami. So yeah, it's easier to meet a patrician male, but more girls read.

>>7864470
To be fair, these days most men are creepy

I have a qt Jewish architect friend and she reads highbrow. Started with the Greeks, likes Antigone a lot. She speaks Mandarin fluently so she translates poetry for me and stuff. Pretty cool.

>at the romance section smiling to myself because of all the cliche covers
>a chick comes over a gives a brief smile at me because she probably things I like these books
>contact ends there

But im a girl!
(i dont tend to speak to other females about literature thought)

I talk to books about girls desu

>>7864578
same

I mostly just read the same as everyone else

>>7864605
everyone else here^

I talked once with my then English teacher at High School, that's it.

>>7864317
Saaame.

>>7864291

>implying I talk to girls

>implying I go outside

>implying that if I was outside I would be reading books

>implying I go to book stores

>>7864996
>shooting yourself on the chin

Not a good idea baka desu senpai san.

>>7864540
>I never leave my house, and I assume that all the guys out there are as creepy as the anons I interact with

>>7864291
Women are plebs in general. Most of my Lit classes are female-dominated, but all the excellence is in a few male hands.
They go on defending Harry Potter as 'canon' and 'high literature', and reciting Buter, Said, Foucault, Derrida, and all the marxist academia, in its most basic, self-important and stupid form. I say that, and still claim, that most of my Linguistic professors are women, and they are jolly great scholars. But their students, all over the humanities, vacuous, half-literate idiots.

>>7864520
>>able to convince her that Holden raped his sister, Phoebe
kek. This also didn't happen, but still, kek.

For some reason I am compelled to recap Plato's dialogues to my current gf

the last time I had a conversation with a girl Bush was president

I recommended flannery o'connor to a female friend with a mild interest in literature once. Not sure if she ever read any, I haven't seen her in a while. She hadn't read much outside of high-school tier works so we didn't really have much to discuss otherwise, but would occasionally ask what I was reading and what my thoughts on it were.


I don't see women very often these days

>>7864291
Met my current GF (and soon to be more) because we were distant FB friends and she agreed to become one of my many readers.

Her appreciation for books - both classic and current - surpasses mine even though she's much younger.

I think she's a good critic in her own right, too, though her assessment of my earlier work is on the harsh side. But that makes her approval of my more recent work that much more special to me.

She's done some writing herself but is too insecure to share it with me - yet.

Protip: Always seek women who are smarter than you.

>>7865077
upvoated xD

>>7865077

>>7864291
Yes. My girlfriend is very well-read. So are a couple of her friends.

>>7865077
>>7865104
Why do you even come to /r9k/ if you're normies?
What possesses you to enter a woman hate thread and talk about how great women are and how much sex you have to sex-starved robots?

Are you here to gloat?

Let us have our board in peace, we go through a lot of shit already and we know we're undesirable and genetically inferior. You arent saying anything new, just making us feel bad

or are you roastwhores who are here to point fun and pretend like women aren't worthless?

>>7864538
I never browse /lit/, what the fuck do those terms mean? Genre, mid tier, what makes a patrician book, patrician? Give me some examples.

>>7865114

Don't think I'm a 'normie' because I'm here (QED).

I've been in the midst of a personal crisis for a while and have neglected writing and literature because of it. I've had to withdraw from a rather notorious MFA program.

But the crisis is now ended and visiting this forum feels like coming home again. Ideally, I'll be back in the program this fall, too, and am going to teach a workshop this summer. Said crisis may even lead to a book I can crank out before the semester begins, too.

>Do you talk about girls?

No. Should have ended the question there.

>>7865114
this isn't r9k you frogposting faggot kill yourself

>>7865278
>this isn't r9k

lol

>>7864549
>translating poetry

The girl I like is pretty well read. She likes all kinds of books, open to pretty much anything. We're reading some Salinger together.
too bad she has a bf ;_;

>>7865326
would you like to sniff her butthole?

>>7865320
She just does it to practice translating for fun and it's cute to see her struggle to think of the right words in English.

>>7864549
>architect

>>7865334
I wouldn't say no

>>7865367
do you think it smells nice, lad?

>>7865000
informative murder trips

gotta go for the back of the mouth

>>7865285
>>7865114
wut

>>7865379

how new?

>>7864317
Pynchon is highbrow as fuck

>>7865392
>this is what undergrads actually think

>>>1452145(You)
sweet dreams

lel, not even the girls that I study lit with know shit about literature. There is only one ex gf that is somewhat interested in good literature but anytime I start to get seriously into the topic she tries to change the subject. It's a fucking burden to know so much more shit than everyone else.

>>7864291
I should read to the dead more.

>>7865395
You're just the worst.

>>7865437
all those people probably feel the same way about a subject they've chosen to have a keen interest in, you gosh darn elitist.

>>7865484
found the undergrad

>>7865498
Correct. You're still the worst, though.

>>7865114

Wow, there's no other board like /lit/. I just had to stop here for a moment, preempt the unending irony and say: "great meta-post m8, I love it".

>>7865233

Fucking lurk moar, faggot

i read discworld, culture series by iain banks and the expanse, thats not high literature is it? will people look down on me if i dont want to read war and peace, ulysses or biographies?

>>7864317

Statistically men read less. But hey, at least the best authors, critics, artists, and -well- pretty much every field, are all men.

I've had at least one legit conversation about books with a female. She liked Michael Crichton's stuff, still better taste than most women I've met.

Its usually
>"I read too, anon."
>"What're your favourite books?"
>[insert teeny bopper with a movie adaption book series here]
>mfw

There's a Chinese girl I work with who reads a lot. I usually dont know what shes reading unless I ask because its all in chinese. I think she likes a lot of WW2 lit and made a comment on Moby Dick when she saw me reading it.

>tfw talking to a girl who knew more about the greeks than me
>tfw trying to lie about a scene you are pretending to read only for her to have to correct you

>implying I don't read exclusively to pick up "smart" girls
lmao

>>7864578
>refers to girls as "females"
Either pretending to be a girl, or the rare feminine autist

>>7865965
That pic

It's not a question of does /lit/ speak to girls about books it's a question of how /lit/ speaks to girls about books

>>7866001
Oh fuck!

I clearly haven't been on this board long enough.

>>7865995

It depends. If I'm t a bar or party I won't bring up a book but I might use a cool or funny quote from one. When the girl asks if I made that up I'll just mention the author and recommend she reads it. But unless I'm talking to an ex gf who was a lit major I keep the description simple "Well it's about this and that, its pretty cool, I can let you borrow it" etc.

>>7865965
FUCK i have read the greeks and this is how every conversation about greek myth goes for me

how do people remember everybody's goddamn names and shit? damn!

>>7865077

>Protip: Always seek women who are smarter than you.

protip: this is nu-male bullshit

I have a female professor in high school who has read a lot. The girl I'm attracted to hasn't read much, but is slowly reading Chateaubriand, Harper Lee, and Thornton Wilder. My sisters are both readers, but they prefer romantic YA.

Most of my friends like reading, though, and most of them are female. One likes Steinbeck; the other devours Shakespeare, while the last loves Endo. I guess I attract people like them, because my power levels are showing.

>>7864549
REEEEEEEEEE, fucking race traitor, I should have a jewish qt by right tbqh

I haven't talked to a girl outside my own mother in years

>>7867120
are you NEET?

>>7867121
Currently yes.

>>7867116
But I am a Jew too. We are both just fucking gentiles to scorn our parents and will end up getting married someday to keep it in the family tbqh

>implying anyone actually reads outside of /lit/
>implying /lit/ isn't male dominated
>implying anyone who browses /lit/ is even capable of leaving the house, let alone talking to a potential romantic partner

>>7867123
how do you survive
how are you finding it

>>7867132
>We are both just fucking gentiles to scorn our parents
kek, I'm curious though, why do you scorn your parents?

>>7867151
I've only been a NEET (4 months) only up until recently but it's shit, it makes you feel like shit, a complete waste of a human being contributing nothing. I live off my parents, I know they're disappointed in me but they try not to show it. Been applying to a few places and hopefully going back to uni soon. Would not recommend.

>>7867186
I always thought NEETS were just a meme. Are there actually many of you on here?

>>7867186
at least you have time to read books, r-right?

>>7867175
Because they are over bearing Jewish parents. Pretty classic. I don't hate them, I really do love them and appreciate them. But I still gotta get my digs in when I can on them, so I do it by dating and fucking gentiles.

i talk to girls about books constantly, mostly at work (suck it, neets), and they look at me like they have no clue what the fuck i'm talking about, but that it's vaguely interesting (possibly feigned)

>>7867186
I had the same experience as you, I spent the summer without a job and all my friends thought I was a lazy piece of shit. I still payed for my food and that but I still felt like I wasn't giving anything to society. I ended up getting a job by fall at least.

Wouldn't recommend it either

>>7867198
Yeah I suppose, I imagine r9k has quite a few but hopefully I'll never sink that low.
>>7867204
That's the plus, but it's quite difficult reading 12 hours a day in between the constant feeling of inadequacy. I imagine a lot of other NEET's have no problems with it at all though

>>7867206
iktf too well. but lately my spite has gone into neetdom

>>7865326
I would say kill him

>>7865367
but clearly you're a faggot

>>7867175
because they're jews too

>>7864291
>>7864291
I don't talk to anyone about books. In my experience, no one cares and no one wants to know that you care. They just see it as you adding another intellectual feather in your hat and resent you for it.

Fuck I hate people.

I don't really like people -- but my crippling social anxiety isn't quite as bad as my severe monophobia, so I actually get out quite a bit.

I enjoy going to bars/parties but sitting off in the distance, watching the night from afar, either smoking or reading, or just 'ZEN'ing out.

It defiantly attracts a certain type of person. Usually pseudo intellectuals or outsiders or occasionally drunk, but none the less, friendly girls.

I talk about my passions with whomever asks, but more often than not I'll run a long monologue on my favourite authors/art films/experimental composers, and whomever I'm talking to will just reply 'oh cool, yeah, reading is so fun -- have you read hunger games? (Or some equally as popular contemporary title)

Short answer -- it doesn't usually go well talking to girls about books. I only say girls because they're the only ones who approach me -- guys are probably the same, if not worse (at least in the places that I hang out)

>>7865988
im posting on lit, i think that is obvious that i have autism.

>>7867304
you sound like a huge fedora

>>7867304
>>7867308
I feel like it has to be bait. I find it hard to believe someone on /lit/ lacks this much self-awareness. Or at least openly expresses it.

>>7867304
>I talk about my passions with whomever asks, but more often than not I'll run a long monologue on my favourite authors/art films/experimental composers

>my passions
>whomever
>a long monologue
>experimental composers

top kek

>>7867308
>>7867317

>kicking a sperg while he's down

Poor form, lads. He's knows he' doesn't get along well with people. It was literally the first line.

>>7867304
10/10 you got me good, almost spilled my chocolate milk

>>7865498
It wasnt hard you sweeping statement ass motherfucker. Ever since survey guy, everyone knows that 80% of lit is undergrad-age. Most of those go to college which is why theyre here

>>7865965
Yeah, desu I when you come across a real reader its either you school them or they school you. So rare to get to meet someone on the same level.

>>7864298
I knew a girl like that, too!...
She was terrifying.

Girls are way more likely to be into reading to at least some degree... So I've ended up in a situation where I'm a 24y/o virgin with more female than male friends. They like to talk literature with me, and I've got oneitis pretty bad for this qt that reads Victorian classics. Anyway, a lot of them are into authors like Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, etc. -- most read a decent amount of contemporary lit actually which is refreshing after being on /lit/ all the time.

>>7867488
I hope you get that nut brotha

I am a girl. I read the Greeks, but I also read Murakami. Can't stand YA romances or nonsense like that though.

I think the assumption that women read more than men is correct, and it also seems true that they mostly just read a lot of crap. I am majoring in English, and my classes have more women than men. Obviously all these women read highbrow shit because it's required for class, but they all exude this pseudo-intellectual aura that kind of renders all the good reading useless.

The men in my class are no better because they're constantly in pursuit of pussy, which also renders all the reading pointless, in my opinion.
Pic related is probably my favourite book right now.

>>7867515
I wish I had a girl to talk literature with.

>>7867488

>with more female than male friends

I don't get how any straight guy ends up with more female than male friends. But then I have no friends so what the fuck do I know.

>>7864291
Oh, what do you expect me to do?
Packed my bags and headed west

I know that somewhere, someone hears my voice
Set the ball a-rollin

A plan of dignity and balance for all

For you see the steel is much too strong
A plan of dignity and balance for all
Go to hell
Go to hell
Oh, what do you expect me to do?
The train of consequences

>>7864520
That's a pleb

>>7864549
I hope you're helping her to convert to Catholicism.

>>7865077
>women who are smarter than you
Nice one

>>7867553
And I wish I had a boy to talk literature with. I did have a friend, but he moved to Canada last year. He got me to read the Russians. I don't know why, but I'd crossed out Russian lit without even trying it first.
Guess us women really are idiots.

>>7867650
I moved from a 700000k people town to a 200000k so the chance of meeting a literary qt got lower alongside culture being dead here.

>>7865077
>Always seek women who are smarter than you.
You say that like they're easy to find. Or maybe they are for you.

No, but seriously, that's retarded. Women need to admire you at least a little bit; they'll say it's bullshit, but it's not. I say you should go for the smartest possible girl you can get that's still a modicum dummer than you, at least in what's most important to your self image (books in this case).

>>7864470
>tits or gtfo.
I was seriously about to post this on r/4chan. You're so funny!
>you can't talk to any girl these days. they just think it's creepy.
probably because you're a stunted creep.

I tried to get my girlfriend into reading, she tried Lolita and made it about three pages in before giving up, I also talked to her about the rats in V. and she said she would like to try Tommy P but that lasted about two chapters when I got her TCoL49. She is happy to read Irvine Welsh and Burgess.

I don't understand her taste in music either, how can a front desk double bassist insist on listening to the 1975 and HAIM and say that 'listening to classical' stresses her out.

forever a pleb gf

Women are objectively more into literature. From the numbers of people taking lit and writing classes, to the fact they single-handedly keep literary fiction alive with sales (no /lit/ pirating books is not buying books).

I don't know which wacky world you live in where it's only men you meet that read literary fiction. Is it simply the case you don't speak to women and just make the assumption all the females in your sphere read YA?

>>7866906
>>Protip: Always seek women who are smarter than you.
>protip: this is nu-male bullshit
>>7867702
>>Always seek women who are smarter than you.
>You say that like they're easy to find. Or maybe they are for you.

They're damn near impossible to find - for all of us. And just the fact that you are here having this discussion suggests you are on the right side of 130, too.

It's not enough that they're just smart, either. They also have to be physically attractive. You might not have trouble landing a land whale with a PhD in Chemistry.

Lost track of the times I spotted a qt3.14 and the first sentence out of her mouth revealed an average or barely above-average intellect and was crushed.

Anyway, why do you want a woman smarter than you are? Same reason you want an employee or business partner smarter than you: they make you and your life better.

This is especially true of a wife. You want a woman fertile, beautiful, and brilliant. Most of a child's intelligence comes from their mother's genetics, and intelligence is largely hereditary.

I do have friends who like their women dumb because they want someone perpetually in awe of them, because they are insecure. This is a reflection of their own weaknesses.

>>7864291
>>7864317

Can females even understand literature? I haven't met a single female who could grasp the soul of a work like men can.

>>7867813
>Most of a child's intelligence comes from their mother's genetics
I love your type. Verbally gifted, scientifically and mathematically impaired.

>>7867834

Can you explain why I'm wrong? I'm not interested in an argument, but evidence I've come across indicates intelligence is mostly inherited and it's mostly from the mother.

Here's the WSJ:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB835919711841023500

What do you base your belief on?

>Do you talk to girls

Stopped reading there. No.

>>7867845
The fact that every guy I know who is intelligent and mentally healthy got it after his father. I know I certainly did, not necessarily biologically, but culturally. Women are passive and rarely as passionate about wide leaning. They get a degree, find a job and the intellectual development ends.

>>7867923
Dropping the hard evidence

>>7867732
This desu.
Just talk to more girls, anons. You'll be surprised. Granted, not all of them have good taste, but then all men don't have good taste either.

>>7867923
No. Some of us are Chris McCandless incarnates.

Where do you find well read men and women? I've been to my public library book club but it wasn't good.

>>7867813
Listen, even smart girls are dumb, because they're GIRLS

do you understand what that means?

everything about them is reactionary emotionalism

there's nothing wrong with dumb girls
in fact they're often easier to work with

and much easier to find.

>>7868017
The question was what makes you think so.

>>7868045
2bh this illogical sperging out is much more hysterical than most females. are you sure you have a diq m8? picsc

>>7865233
They are sure signs the anon is an insecure sense asshole. Avoid at all costs irl.

There are the same varieties of idiotic and smart women as there are men. By the time you're out of college you'll have met enough people to realize this.

This thread is like the view for /lit/. A bunch of chickens clucking away at nothing.

>>7868070
passion does not equal hysteria, stop tryna suck my dick

>>7864291
Yes, I talk to coworkers, professors and peers at conferences about books. They respond well, since we're all in literature fields.

>>7868036
In graduate school and working at universities.

>>7866001
Awww. I follow her on Tumblr. She's a sweetheart, really; her book reviews are pretty void of substance but I like that she tries to find the positives in what she reads.

It still makes me feel sick to think about what this board put her through.

>>7867923
The argument is that men get their intelligence from their mother's genetics. You dismissed my science reference with an N=1. Can you understand why I'm not convinced?

>>7868119
I'd fuck your bussy but it sounds salty.

>>7868045

They are all dumb in girlish ways, but there are those out there that are legit smart and know how to leverage that. Clever.

Ayn Rand.
Alice McDermott
Flannery O'Conner
Etc.

>>7866371
>>7865965
who is this bone drone?

>>7868149

Some day you'll love a girl and stop hating women for no good reason.

>>7868202
To be honest, I only started hating women after loving (and subsequently getting dumped by) a girl. And I don't hate them any more than I hate men.

>>7868202
Some day you'll stop implicitly dehumanizing women by reacting to any negative opinion of them by automatically assuming it could only ever be the result of "virgin failure to attain the Sacred Vagina."

Surprisingly, women are people too! And you can judge them as individuals and actors, rather than treating them like objects who exist to puff up your ego on the Internet by implying you get laid with them more often than theoretical anonymous virgins do.

>>7864317
pretty sure women dont understand literature but only read to brag about it on insta/twitter

it's evident in their usernames

bookgirl420
katyreadsbooks
pinkgirlreading
socksandbooks

FUCK OOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF

>>7868238
dubs of truth xD

>>7868254
I mean, often those types of usernames are tied to blogs with a "book review" format going on. They basically are hobby critics, so it's no surprise that they'd advertise as such.

>>7868238
I said "love" not "get laid". I wasn't implying you are virgins, I was implying that once you love a woman (and actually respect one) you'll stop hating women for no reason. Nothing about being a virgin. "All women are stupid" is not based on reality and it's not a very healthy opinion.

>>7865249
>I have a personal "crisis"
>but I'm getting my life on track and going to interact with other people
>I even have a gf
>but I'm not a normie

Fuck off tripfagging faggot, this isn't your fucking blog

>>7865233
How the fuck do you not know what a genre is

>>7864291
ITT people who care more about impressing others/self validation than putting their egos aside to learn from another.

All of the women around my age that read only do so as an accessory to their non-existent personality. It is just the typical recognizable fashion reading. Either that or YA romance trash which they might even still take pride in.

Not that most men are better but I have met a few that read/understood literature or philosophy.

>>7868427
What am I meant to learn from the millionth girl to think they are an intellectual because they read the hunger games and one book by Plath?

>>7868470
>Plath
Who the fuck is Plath? Did you mean Sylvia Plath?

Because if that's the case, and you sincerely believe that only writing 'Plath' is enough for everyone to know for sure who you're reffering to, then you're part of the problem T B Q H mah ebin senpai-man

Although lit obviously has different experiences, women consume literature much more than men. After he won the Booker Prize Marlon James said in an interview that women being the largest consumers of literature had led to writers like himself being encouraged to write 'to women'. Not only that but students of literature are disproportionately women to an enormous degree.

>>7868484
...who else would he mean

>>7868484
You are the problem.
Everyone who isn't a complete pleb knows who you mean when you say Plath.

>Girls
>Reading Murakami
I've never met a single one.

That said, none of the girls I know or have met read anything that isn't Nicholas Sparks-tier shit, or John Green books. I've tried getting my little sister to expand her tastes too, but to no avail.

The only girl I know who's read anything else likes travel memoirs.

Then again, I tend to avoid talking about what I'm reading with almost anyone else anyway

Plath
Plato

the latter doesn't deserve to be discernable from the former merely by one single letter in everyday speech.
i rest my case friends

Still, I also like Sylvia Plath (/plæθ/; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) as much as you do.

>>7868507
Oh, I get it now. You're trolling.

Damn, I must need another cup of coffee.

>>7868506
I've met several girls who were into Murakami's brand of magical realism when I worked in a bookstore. Kundera and Baricco are also extremely popular with the girls. Older women seem to love Scandinavian crime novels for some reason.

Find work in a bookstore, you'll see what girls read (mostly trash).

>>7868282
Sorry, anon, but >>7868238 has got it. You're not capable of loving a woman and respecting her if you can't see the social pressure for her to be a shithead like most of them are content to be.
Most women are very happy they don't have anywhere near the social responsibilities or expectations which men are expected to hold in order to not be a rapist scumbag, and they are quite happy to give up any and all agency if they don't have to accept the negative consequences of their actions. They're essentially opting to be less than human to not be flawed, and responsible despite their flaws, like real humans. If you love and respect a woman who does that, you're enabling her and keeping a pet out of narcissism; stop that or you are dehumanising not just those who want to outsource their responsibility to the male side, but also those women who want to be judged by an equitable standard.

>>7868238
>Surprisingly, women are people too! And you can judge them as individuals and actors, rather than treating them like objects who exist to puff up your ego on the Internet by implying you get laid with them more often than theoretical anonymous virgins do.

>This tumblrfag writing

>>>/out/

>>7867845
Interesting. Can't wait to read the article you linked after I subscribe to get past the fucking paywall.

I would like to meet a man as well read as me. Where are you men of /lit/?

some of the best writers in the CW classes ive taken were female, but also the worst ones

>>7868812
If you're a woman, then all of /lit/ is women. Most of them are better read than you.
If you're a gay man, try starting an Isherwood thread. He's underrated even if the Berlin period is high on swagger.

>>7868812
I barely leave the house.

>>7868506
>>Girls
>>Reading Murakami
>I've never met a single one.

One of my Ex's, who is now getting a PhD in chemistry and is half viet, half german (biggest tits you've ever seen on a slant, with a real mean-streak), owned several of his books and was herself a voracious reader. She was particularly fond of that book of his with numbers in the name (???)

>>7868397
>Fuck off tripfagging faggot, this isn't your fucking blog

Were you absent when it was declared? It actually is my fucking blog now and I've named it "Anon Actually Enjoyed Slurping his Uncle's Semen."

>>7868484
>>7868494

Roger Plath, sports novelist. Obv.

>>7867923
>hurr durr the women I meet are dumb
>watch me refute scientific research of genetics with my personal analogy

Only on /lit/

I never met a girl who read Stephen King or young adult literature. They either don't read or have average tastes. My sole female coworker loves Herman Hesse.

>>7864291
I only talk to them about it if they ask or if it comes up in conversation (i.e. if they're writing something and it reminds me of what I'm reading).

I know some girls who read: a girl I have a crush on likes Hubert Selby Jr. and another girl I'm friends with at uni is very keen on Dune (and YA fiction, but that's better than reading nothing, right?).

>>7869055
I infer you think Hesse is average?

>>7868960
Iq84

> people on /lit/ surprised that girls don't read

Maybe you people should associate with less girls and more women.

>>7869186
Stop being so jelly, Charlotte; leave Dolores alone.

>>7869179
u can tell how average he is because his books are so short! above average writers write books of above average length, my friend! hesse's nobel prize? affirmative action case probably

>>7864520
Convince me about the rape.

>>7868484

You're an idiot. Sylvia Plath isn't an obscure author in any sense, especially on a board that talks about literature.

>>7869184
>Iq84

That's the one. I've only read his short works.

>>7869196
Good post, anon. I like you.

>>7869179
It's entry-level material.

>>7869216
it's exit level material ur just too pleb to get it, stick to reading loooong books because clearly those are deeeeeep

>>7864291
My girlfriend is a /co/mrade, I don't think she reads regular books anymore although she knows like the high school basics.

>>7869186
You didn't read this thread at all. You just really felt the need to say that cringe inducing line. Congratulations you inbred fucking mongoloid.

>>7869224
I used to fantasize about meeting a cute punk rock /co/mrade girl when I was in high school


Never ended up meeting her but the fantasies subsided anyway

>>7867650
The idiot

>>7867650
>Guess us women really are idiots.
maybe it's all the ballsac shrinking hormones going to ur tranny brain, bro

>>7867303
Old post but I agree. I feel like when I'm out with my friends I went to college with everything is dripped with irony and cynicism and it's difficult to show genuine interest in things.

>>7869219
I doubt your poor grammar and your weird concerns over writing length deserve Herman Hesse but I'm glad to discover there's something like “an exit-level book”. Positive note. Anyway, I meant he appears among the first authors read once one desires to go through a less frivolous literature. “Ulysses” is probably a great book but if you hold it in the subway I will think you decided to read seriously a month ago.

>>7865053
damn then when was the last time u got laid? the clinton presidency? lmao

Guys this this girl in my grad class that I sort of have a crush on had her thong hanging out which has been a huge fetish of mine since like 7th grade back in 2004..... What do I do???

>>7869228
No woman wants a man without class. Come back when you are ready to handle this, man-baby. Get some class.

>>7869197
Woh woh woh! He's not fucking Nabokov but average? Maybe im a bit biased but steppenwolf and the glass bead game are pretty good books.

>>7869262
Could be true.

>>7869262
Hesse's story about the vegetarians is pretty exit-level and frivolous. I'mma read that and eat some chicken pizza while you try to hash out canon with the anon you responded to.
>>7869272
This is not a drag performance of Nabokov's work, Charlotte.
>class
Show some or we're dropping the second act and cutting straight to Lo's school play after Paris.
>>7869209
Don't fucking touch me.

>>7869271
Nothing.

>>7869290
Fuk canon, I want to hear what you think are not god tier books there are. Context

>>7864317
>Do males even read?
Where do you think you are?

>>7869500
I'm not drunk enough for you to be typing like this, anon.

>>7869566
No fair. Get drunk, fuk books