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>OKCupid
>every artsy, hipster, lib arts girl ever

>Murakami
>Kerouac
>Vonnegut
>David Sedaris
>Nabokov
>Kafka
>Bukowski

I know this shit is inconsequential to me getting my dick wet, but it's honestly testing my boner...

>> No.4085720

I have never registered an OKCupid account in my life.

>> No.4085723

>>4085720

You're missing out. It's a pretty decently easy way to get laid.

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>>4085716

a girl who is into these kinds of authors would give more eclectic recs from you a go than girls who are only into straight genre lit

the key is to show them shit that is in the same wheelhouse as the stuff they like now. ease them into different shit. if she's into lolrandom hipster romance like murakami then show her some boris vian. she'll love it and think you're based for showing her something new

but you're making threads about okcupid on 4chan so it's not like you even have game enough to get any of them anyway lol

>> No.4085771

>>4085716
>being this shallow

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>>4085716
deal with it

>> No.4085798

>>4085716
Um... these are actually good writers, some of them are actually downright Great with a capital "G". I would be super impressed if I could find a qt who liked Kafka. What's your issue?

>> No.4085800

Females are a very good litmus test whether the art is sensible. Those authors are all very good and sensible. It's the same for music, I can show BB King to any chick and she will like it. Bitches are dumb but they can smell sensibility.

>> No.4085807

>>4085798

>I would be super impressed if I could find a qt who liked Kafka. What's your issue?

none of them will fuck him and this is his coping mechanism

>> No.4085809

What is bad about those authors?

>> No.4085837

>>4085723
I decided to take a look and there are surprisingly a lot of bi girls there.

But unsurprisingly most of them (bi or not) aren't very good looking.

>> No.4085854

I wouldn't say this is gender specific. Those writers are just popular among late teens/early 20s people on the artistic fringe.

Many have been for a while and will be for a long time

>> No.4085863

What's wrong with these authors? I swear that for /lit/ anything is plebcore.

>> No.4085865

>>4085809
They're painfully bourgeois, for the most part.

>> No.4085866

>>4085854
Can someone explain what's bad about them?

Not that I'm a big fan or anything, but wondering of this criticism

>> No.4085870

>>4085865
>bourgeois
and what are you

>> No.4085873

>>4085865
Which implies?

>> No.4085876

>>4085866
they're mainstream and seemingly easy to understand. since /lit/ is an excercise in mental masturbation and intellectual superiority they can't be taken seriously. because reading it doesn't provide any ammunition to flaunt your superiority.

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4085877

yeah, and then there's the faggots who think that what they consume makes up for them being entirely worthless and unpleasant human beings

>> No.4085884

>>4085876
I haven't read much of them I'm just wondering what makes them bad.

>> No.4085896

>>4085870
I'm bourgeois. That's why I like Kafka. But you kept asking what people's problem with those authors was, so I ventured an answer.

>>4085873
It's come to be associated with the mediocre or the unimaginative. Worse still it implies preoccupation with respectability, cultural capital and material values.

>> No.4085899

>>4085870
Patrician.

>> No.4085906

>>4085896
How can you so casually accept these negative things about being bourgeois?

>> No.4085909

>>4085877
>Please understand that if we ever were to meet, I AM THE MAN in the relationship

he probably doesn't think, since noone can write this shit about themselves and mean it

>> No.4085910

>>4085906
I just like what I like, man. I don't get caught up in what I'm *supposed* to like or what people will think if I like a particular thing.

Any discourse on authenticity or lack-thereof is boring to me. So, as you can imagine, I don't come on 4chan very often.

>> No.4085911

>>4085877
>liberal agenda eroding freedom
>Ayn Rand
>proud conservative

this always makes me so mad

>> No.4085947

>>4085716
Let's see your list, then.

>> No.4085964

absolute straight men have shit taste

>> No.4085972

that's pretty much my taste, i should have probably done lib arts at college

>> No.4085974

>>4085716
Pray tell, OP, what would you rather see them reading?

>> No.4085983

>>4085866
Personally I don't find anything bad about them, HOWEVER they are the type of authors one can easily name drop to seem cool or hip, so I think it's more a case of /lit/ wanting to distance themselves from such a stereotype

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4085994

>guy likes Kafka
intellectual

>woman likes Kafka
>fucking hipster (for liking something "mainstream" no less)

Anyone seriously still wonder why there's an apparent lack of female intellectuals out there? or why intellectualism is perceived as a boy's club?

>> No.4086006

>>4085994
Because those stereotypes are generally true?

>> No.4086016

>>4085994
But it's true. Women who read immediately become either very depressed and needy or extremely conspiciously 'bookish' (lol I'm a nerd!!).

People in general can't keep shit to themselves, but women are even more demanding of attention, probably because as young children they were asked to perform for their parents/family and loved the attention they used to get being 'cute' for people, now they're adults and don't get that attention so they start dyeing their hair, getting pierced, tattooed, start dressing lavishly, all to get the attention from people, specifically from the daddy figure who will validate their existence and keep them feeling beautiful and better than her competitors (her mother probably, in the shape of other girls later on) for ever.

>> No.4086026

>>4086006
Somebody, scratch that, not somebody, just a woman, liking something "too mainstream", makes her a hipster? Doesn't that in fact make YOU a hipster for impugning her on the charge of being "too mainstream"?

>> No.4086030

>>4086016
It really depends on the woman. My first love (didn't work out because she's asexual), whom, I still keep in touch with, is the most intellectual person I know and is uncomfortable with a lot of attention. Her favorite work is Goethe's Faust, which she learned German just to read, but well all know Faust, so, what, is she a fucking hipster for being too mainstream now?

>> No.4086031

>>4086030
>whom,
accidental comma

>> No.4086033

>>4086030
>asexual

See what I mean, reading just isn't for women, it causes them to deviate from their predetermined gender role of waif fuckslave

>> No.4086044

>>4086033
Which is a good thing. A lot of men just feel really insecure that a woman might be as smart or even smarter than they are, so they scorn the shit out of women who wish to peruse intellectualism, then deride women for being empty-headed.

I'll tell you right now, if the roles are reversed and I had to put up with a bunch of shit from female intellectuals for trying to be a male intellectual, and got constantly put down for just trying to get attention or being a hipster, I'd say fuck all of that and start following celebrities. I don't care how smart you supposedly are, if you're emotionally stunted and are constantly shitting on me to the applause of your friends, then I'm not going to want to be part of your clique.

>> No.4086046

>>4086044
>peruse
pursue

Sorry, I'm fucking tired

>> No.4086052

All of those are enjoyable authors, OP

>> No.4086055

>>4086044
You're typing that shit out without a hint of irony, at a time when the academic establishment in literature is completely dominated by man-hating feminazis.

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>>4086055
This

Reminds me of pic related

>> No.4086067

>>4086064
lol the fuck is that

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>> No.4086075

>>4086055
It's not. It's increasingly being dominated by manchildren who think Ayn Rand and Nietzsche are the acme of intellectualism.

>> No.4086078

>>4086075
ACADEMIC ESTABLISHMENT

NOT /LIT/

>> No.4086079

>>4086075
Wow you obviously have no experience of academia.

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>2013
>dating a woman who reads anything but trash

>> No.4086091

>>4086055
Man-hating?

>> No.4086117

>>4086079

this.

places are actively looking for women and minorities and giving them preference. they want a nice PC spread regardless of bias because it's a statistics game for them now.

>> No.4086141

>>4086117
not my problem you're going to such a shit uni that the only attractive aspect of prospective professors is their identity, m8
http://beingawomaninphilosophy.wordpress.com/

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4086145

>>4086068
>liking authors for social rather than literary value
le irony

>> No.4086158

>>4086141
That whiny cunt who can do no wrong sounds like a great person to work with. Sexism is clearly the only reason she isn't getting ahead.

>> No.4086163

someone do a search for mishima

i wanna see those aesthetic-loving qts

>> No.4086165

>>4086068
i want to know if any of those girls actually read all of In Search of Lost Time

>> No.4086172

>>4086158
>I no longer work at college level but when I did the professor of Philosophy quite explicitly told me that if I slept with him he would ensure I was looked after as far as my career went.
haha yea bro
*tips fedora*

if you're dumb and thought all these stories were from the same person I can forgive you I s'pose

>> No.4086189

>>4086172
I just read the top one, it was retarded enough for me to dismiss all the others.

>> No.4086191

>>4086165
is it good?

>> No.4086197

>>4086189
sorry, but your first post was too retarded for me to continue this conversation further ;)

>> No.4086226

what's a good icebreaker on okcupid? i'm imagining the amount of crappy lines these girls are inundated with. the male/female ratio on that site must be 50 to 1.

>> No.4086246

>>4085837
>I decided to take a look and there are surprisingly a lot of bi girls there.

Not really. All sluts identify as bi these days.

>> No.4086258

>>4086141
>academia
>haven of abuse of power and sexism due to believing itself to be outside society, thus making its position as soft-left moralfag even more ironic
leautodidactface

>> No.4086335

>>4086016
>But it's true. Women who read immediately become either very depressed and needy or extremely conspiciously 'bookish' (lol I'm a nerd!!).
>or extremely conspiciously 'bookish' (lol I'm a nerd!!).

Implying we wouldn't be if we actually got serious positive feedback from our "nerdy" interests. If the established norm were that girls were bookish and we guys weren't, girls would most likely flock to the guys that did read.

>> No.4086351

>>4085877
Isn't kind of the point in Objectivism to establish yourself the man of the relationship instead of just saying it?

>> No.4086353

>>4085716
>Meeting women online
>Judging anyone else, ever

OP you must be joking

>> No.4086354

>>4086016
So what's actually so wrong in wanting attention after all?

Is the human not a social animal?

>> No.4086378

>>4086067
Tao Lin's and his buddies new manifesto in Modernist manner

>> No.4086384

>>4086016
>But it's true. Women who read immediately become either very depressed and needy or extremely conspiciously 'bookish' (lol I'm a nerd!!).

Same with men, except instead of laughing about being bookish, they become pretentious assholes with egos that would intimidate Ron Jeremy's penis.

>> No.4086454

>>4086246

And unfortunately all of them are fucktarded liberals. I'm not kidding, I know these types. They read stuff and it goes right through. They'll remember it, but they'll never understand it. If you ask them about it, they'll say they liked the plot or the writing or something like that - or repeat what they have heard others say about it. Independent thought has not touched their minds, ever.

>> No.4086464

>tfw you've only read like two of those authors

>> No.4086529

>>4086354
Because it undermines the image these people create that they enjoy books for the sake of enjoying books, not as a means to fit into a clique or seem cool/attractive.

>>4086384
But most of the pleb banter on here is for humorous effect, but by poitning that out it deflates the idea. It's like a tacictly accepted inside joke. Just look at the feel threads on this board, it shows that we're not all patrician alpha males. /lit/ is like a young Charles Bukowski, it acts as if everybody is a faggot but itself but does so with self-depricating awareness

>> No.4086539

>>4086454
I agree. Also, I think one trend that is pretty annoying these days is the whole "muh oppression" trend, where women and limp-wristed fags are so determined to be on the right side of history and whatever that they actively search out things they feel are oppressive and talk about the country as if it's a total shithole, meanwhile ignoring the benefits of, say, white history, and viewing the world through the eyes of every oppressed person it can which makes them loud, obnoxious, bitter and deluded. Not every woman/liberal is like this of course, and I realize it's overblown by /pol/ and such, but it's annoying nonetheless. We'll be walking around on eggshells if these retards are ever in charge.

>> No.4086549

Any girls in this thread have any input on this discussion?

>> No.4086564

>>4086539

Well, here in Sweden they are pretty much in charge. A day or two ago they announced that we will be accepting free immigration from Syria. But that's a bit off-topic and better suited for /pol/, I know.
I was not implying that educated women are all liberal retards (and not even that all liberals are retarded, although most are), just that a large majority of them are. The problem is that they are indoctrinated with that shit all the way through kindergarten to uni - it's not their fault that they turn out retarded, but it's unfortunate.

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>>4085865
the bourgeois own butt

power to those who hoard the means of production and elaboration of the top heavy distribution of Kapital!
Exportation of the traditional proletariat as body to the third world. Rebrand the manufacturing sector as the service sector. Disrupt Unionization of food service workers.
Keep the oligarchy at bay with the power of the wild card market and the economic "suicide bombs" of toxic loans and ponzi schemes


USA USA USA skeleton gloves for life

----------
what do you think about this as an okq pf, I like it cause it shows I'm real and that I've kissed a girl before

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>any profile that claims to be bisexual

>> No.4086581

>>4085983

Yeah, it's basically the same as "fedora-core" /mu/ and /tv/. A lot of it is really good art, but it's also really appealing to people who probably don't understand the message or its importance in the first place.

One example is Taxi Driver. Fantastic movie, but a lot of hipsters and edgy teens like it because they idolize Travis Bickle, which is COMPLETELY against the spirit of the film. Travis is an idiot, and a failure, and a wreck of a human being, and people who idolize him are missing the point that the film is trying to make.

>> No.4086591

>>4086075
Yeah that's /lit/ not /academia/

>> No.4086593

>>4086581
Similar to Fight Club and those who idolize the protagonist

>> No.4086594

Is the complaint about the authors themselves or are you insinuating that the girls who mention them do not truly read or 'get' those authors?

>> No.4086596

>>4086141
Most of these seem like genuine grievances. A few of them are just complaining about being hit on. Granted, genuine sexual harassment is not pleasant, but a one time attempt to get into someones pants doesn't strike me as sexism.

>> No.4086597

>>4086594
Read the thread Dumas

>> No.4086598

B-but I thought Murakami wasn't pleb.

You lied to me, /lit/.

>> No.4086600

>>4086598
>B-but I thought Murakami wasn't pleb.

Have you even read Murakami? There's no mistaking it.

>> No.4086605

>>4086596
>but a one time attempt to get into someones pants doesn't strike me as sexism.

It's not right for professors to make advances on their students, even once. It's exploitative.

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>>4086068

Kafka nooooooo

>> No.4086614

This doesn't apply to all of you, but how many of you wouldn't have the exact same taste as the OP if you hadn't been socially exiled into becoming an internet abusing 4chan user?

Some of you are acting like you naturally developed your taste in literature, when all you really did is succumb to the elitism of an anime board.

>> No.4086618

>>4086581
>>4086593
Wow, you're like those faggots who say "But you're SUPPOSED to hate Holden Caulfield!"

That's wrong. You're not 'supposed' to make any kind of moral judgement. That's not what fiction is for.

>> No.4086619

>>4086614
>implying /lit/ didn't steal most of its taste from me

>> No.4086620

>>4086618

Wait, what? Do people dislike Holden? I kinda liked him.

>> No.4086625

>I know this shit is inconsequential to me getting my dick wet, but it's honestly testing my boner...

Why would you care? The girl I'm fucking atm doesn't even read, and has only read the first twilight book since school. This shit really doesn't matter.

>> No.4086626

>>4085798
>I would be super impressed if I could find a qt who liked Kafka.
Move to a city, they're not hard to find at all.

>> No.4086627

>>4086620

Most people do.

>> No.4086628
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>>4086605
This.

It's a bad situation to put someone in.

Unless the prof is a master of empathy and understanding they can't know to what degree a student's consent is coerced, and even whether other students'll feel coerced into fucking them to level the playing field once word gets out.

And that's assuming they have good intentions rather than being scumbags, which is a lot of people. Anyone with a brain would just avoid that situation, or be extremely inconsiderate. Or actual be that well intentioned and receptive that knew what they were doing. But is that likely? Academics? Really? It's gotta be unacceptable as policy otherwise it comes down to nebulous definitions of how hot and kind the authority is. That said, holy hell I wished my English teacher had cougared me. We went on a kind of date after highschool, but she had a boyfriend. How I pine.

>> No.4086635

>>4086627

Really? That explains a lot about most people.

>> No.4086634

>>4086628
Missing several words.
Time for me to stop posting and go to sleep.

>> No.4086637

>>4086618

It's not about moral judgement, it's about understanding the theme of the work. You're "supposed" to dislike Holden Caulfield because he represents the emotional fetters of immaturity, and the inability to move forward with one's life. People who fall in love with the character generally miss this, and thus prove that they don't really comprehend the material. It's not a matter of "judgement", it's a matter of simple reading comprehension. Understanding what is being communicated at you.

>> No.4086638

>>4085798
>some of them are actually downright Great with a capital "G".

this board really needs to get over dave father wallace

>> No.4086639

>>4086068
Anyone have a link to plsgo's profile? My 10 second Google search yielded no results. She's cute, she's in my city, and her taste seems fine to me (I can't believe there's a girl out there who reads Vachss.) The only potential red light is that she claims to be Bi.

>> No.4086645

>>4085716
>posting most commonly recognised authors.

Well, it beats putting
I like
'x' guy who wrote his 150,000,000 word novel on McDonald napkins.

I mean this is most common in any form of meeting of new people.

I tell people I read Murakami, Joshua Mohr, Beckett etc because I know it's books people are most likely to recognise than say Erlend Loe. It makes conversations happen instead.

Think of the other

>I like reading, who are your favourite authors
Oh, that's easy I'm really into Andrei Bely
>who
oh, just a russian writer who wrote the greatest piece of modernist literature before joyce's mediocre ulysses but never got the credit.
>that's nice, bye now.

>> No.4086653

>>4086637
I'm sorry but you sound like a shitty reader. Salinger didn't write Catcher for people to read it and go "Wow Holden is a stupid annoying moron, I hate him!" He is a flawed but ultimately sympathetic character. A very authentically human character, in other words. The book is not a warning against behaving like Holden but simply a communication of "You are not alone."

>> No.4086663

>>4086653
>He is a flawed but ultimately sympathetic character. A very authentically human character

This world will have advanced the day people stop passing this lazy cookie cutter bullshit as criticism.

>> No.4086686

>>4086663
It's not intended as criticism or analysis, just praise for Salinger's ability to create a character. Holden is complex and sympathetic and that's why Catcher has endured for so long and remains so polarising. When I hear someone saying they hate Holden, I just assume they are a dull, insensitive person who reads for the wrong reasons.

>> No.4086697

>>4086637
Recognizing Holden's emotional immaturity doesn't necessarily entail disliking him, you knucklehead.

>> No.4086698

>>4086663

There are dissertations on the novel. If you want a more in-depth analysis, read those.

This is just an image board.

>> No.4086701

>>4086637
>You're "supposed" to dislike Holden Caulfield because...

This place is a wasteland, often.

>> No.4086709

>>4085974
Prithee, anonymous poster, what has inclined you- and I mean to say, what is the root of it-to question such a thing?- for, you see, the taste is most trite and plebeian; I continue, sir, the list is compil'd, it seems, by a try-hard hipst'r girl.

>> No.4086715

>girls

Granted girls are probably the most guilty of this shit, with their winning combination of instinctive dilettantism and constant demands for attention and recognition, but anyone who lists those as their favourite or most influential authors is like someone listing The Godfather as their favourite movie. Great movie, yeah, but they probably aren't a huge cinema buff. If they claim to be, five more seconds of inquiry will reveal they know nothing about the medium.

Also on the list of "okay to read, but reveal plebcore+1 status if cited as favourite" list:
>Hemingway
>Camus
>Beckett
>Joyce
>DFW
>Pynchon
>Any classic mention situated in a vacuum of ignorance about other classical or even similar works
>Any classic which reveals they read it for an undergraduate course and will continue acting like it's the best thing ever for the next three decades, "Hmm ah yes the Theban Plays, mm quite indeed rather excellent plays, ah yes mmm mrhm whilst rather indeed, sorry who the fuck is Euripides is that a type of soap?"

>> No.4086730

>>4086715
>>Joyce
>>DFW
>>Pynchon

Dude, you need to take a break from /lit/. These authors are not commonly namedropped in the real world (due to their complexity or perceived complexity) and indeed that is why /lit/ is so drawn to them. I don't think I've ever met a dilettante Beckett fan, either.

>> No.4086735

>>4086730
this

>> No.4086751

>>4086141
look, life sucks. most people try to assert their will over another's. people who you dont like are going to hit on you in this life.
also academia is full of people who failed at the real world.
sexual harrassment isnt about feminism. it's about people getting upset about the fact that there are shit people in the world. like they're fucking surprised. some weird asshole in beaverton always makes a kissy face at me when i pass by him on the street. you cant control other people's behavior. why dwell on it, honestly ?

>> No.4086784

>>4086730

Pseudo-intellectuals like to spout those a lot from my experience. Maybe not Pynchon, but Joyce and DFW are mentioned pretty often.

>> No.4086797

>>4086715
But I actually really like Camus. His philosophy, I mean. The only fiction by him I've read is the Stranger and I thought it was alright but not great.

>> No.4086815

>>4086730
>I don't think I've ever met a dilettante Beckett fan, either.

You've never met a Beckett fan? They're around

>> No.4086887

>>4086226
Really dude? Just introduce yourself.
I would say something like "Hey! My name is anon, and I saw that you're interested in (X thing we both like). (Begin discussion about X, while also asking other pertinent questions).

>> No.4086980

/lit/, would you date a qt who doesn't like reading?

>> No.4086997

>>4086980
Yep, my ideal girlfriend would be literate but just that. I wouldn't want her being corrupted by crude or challenging passages in books. She would remain the young, innocent naive girl I first fell in love with, whose only role in life is to soothe her dark, brooding, intelligent boyfriend (me).

>> No.4086998

>Meet girl
>She's a solid 9/10
>Find out she reads a lot of books
>Quality stuff everywhere
>She brings me home to her place
>We kiss
>I feel her up
>Notice her bookshelf
>Paperbacks everywhere
And then I left.

>> No.4087002

>>4085800
that's because he's there

>> No.4087006

>>4085865
don't spill that frappuccino onto your skinny jeans, m8

>> No.4087010

>>4086997
most women don't have the intellectual capacity to do much else so don't worry

>> No.4087011

>>4085876
I wouldn't call any of them (save for Murakami) 'mainstream', "50 Shades of Grey" and Rowling are mainstream.

>> No.4087017

>>4085974
DFW and Pynchon, ofc.

>> No.4087026

>>4086055
>using the term "feminazi" unironically

go to bed rush limbaugh

>> No.4087065

>>4087011
>Murakami
>mainstream

If you went up to random people on the streets of America he'd be the one they're least likely to recognize (not counting Sedaris)

>> No.4087095

>>4085716
>Nabokov
Is there an implication being made that there's something wrong with Nabokov? king_of_plebs.jpg

>> No.4087111

>>4087095
Kafka is good but you can read all of Kafka in an afternoon, so everyone who says KAFKA IS MY FAVORITE WRITER is generally a retard, even if Kafka is OK.

Most people who say Nabokov simply read Lolita in high school. Or parts of it. And he's a big venerable name so it makes you look smart to mention him. /lit/ is slightly higher than Facebook tier, so they'll at least pretend to have read Ada or something, but generally it's the same idea here.

>> No.4087116

>>4087111
>Because you can read all of something in an afternoon, you can't love it and think it's all great
jeeeeez come on

>> No.4087191

>>4086645
bitch pls who hasn't read Erlend Loe.

>> No.4087278

>>4086614

m8 I succumb to whatever amazon.com links me to

>> No.4087301

>>4085794
A hipster girl would tear him apart for having a copy of that racist imperialist Kipling's work.

>I fucking love Kipling

>> No.4087326

>>4087301
Could be worse, Kipling's portrayal of Indian people was far more progressive and informed than you'd expect, despite being problematic in a Conrad kind of way
There's much worse stuff for them to point out in literature than Kipling's attitudes - really, Joyce, was that bit about blackface performers with "smackfatclacking nigger lips" necessary?

>> No.4087330

>>4087326
*you'd expect of the period
although obviously you'd know that because you're a fan

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>>4086068

got daym mllebooks is patrish as fuck would wife

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>>4086068
why in the world would she describe her like this.
Personality doesnt even seep through her material. Jesus, what a fucking idiot

>> No.4087495

>>4085994
Woman's aren't allowed to known as intellectual beings

>> No.4087502

>>4087478

just some kid trying to be edgy. who cares.

but they're all basic compared to that mlebooks qt. any girl who likes donne and kierkegaard is better than most of /lit/ even

>> No.4087517

>>4086998
What's wrong with paperbacks?

>> No.4087847

>>4085877

This is clearly some 4chan troll who made a fake account.

>> No.4087921

The majority of people on /lit slags off any author who isn't Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, but in reality probably could not write any material that is better than the work of the authors that they deem terrible. It's so immature and almost amusing.

>> No.4087971

Hang around a bookstore that has authors you like then.

>> No.4087994

>>4086075
I disagree in your Neitzche opinion, tell me why is he not, and who is at the top?

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>>4087921

You have a very naive understanding of criticism and aesthetic.

>> No.4088052

>>4085716

Maybe you can teach her about good books.

>> No.4088067

>>4085716
>not being happy she reads books at all.

>> No.4088147

>>4087921
Fallacy.

>> No.4088180

>>4087921

>this logic

Stop posting here. Thanks.

>> No.4088238

-Rabelais
-Dinesen
-McCarthy
-Eliot
-Cortazar
-Fenélon

>OKCupid
>every artsy, hipster, lib arts girl ever

>> No.4088299

>>4088067
Have some god damn standards you pathetic, desperate beta.

>> No.4088333

>>4085877

there is no way in hell a person like this can exist, is there?