Veeky Forumserary confessions

i haven't read anything before 1800

I want the ironic meme culture to vanish.

I go to book stores to sit down, read, drink coffee, and then steal one or two books.

I like Ann Beattie.

I enjoy Tao Lin.

I don't like Goethe.

I like reading novelizations of scifi movies I like such as Star Wars and Alien

I have never read a book in my life yet I spend my days here shitposting and pretending I know what I'm talking about. Whenever I get into a discussion, I go to Sparknotes for help. I've won all the arguments I've ever had on Veeky Forums so far.

>I've won all the arguments I've ever had on Veeky Forums so far.

so who wants to let him know...?

In my own works I usually have a minor character be my self-insert and have a female character fall in love with him only for one of them to die and emotionally scar the other.

>apologizing for liking a Beattie, a good author

Only on fucking Veeky Forums

I've written for multiple anime visual novels, some of them available on Steam.

>I hate Post-modernist writing
>I don't think anything good has come out of the British Isles, literary-wise
>Russian literature is the best
>It's better to read a lot from a few, than few from a lot
>Women have destroyed literature in the last 50 years
>Literature is never coming back
>Faulkner was the first in a line of really pretentious faggots, and it's a shame he wasn't stomped out early on

idk, I've only seen hate for her on this board so far.

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>>It's better to read a lot from a few, than few from a lot

fucking this

go

>I don't think anything good literary-wise has come out of the British isles
>Who is Oscar Wilde

You.. you do it user. It's best if he hears it from you

I hate David Foster Wallace, true hatred.

I've never read any of the Greeks.

The only Shakespeare I've read is Hamlet, and that's only because I studied it in school.

Do you have any interest in Shakespeare or The Greeks? They're worthwhile

>I think Faulkner, Goethe, Pynchon, DFW, some bits of Joyce, Sartre, Camus, Cervantes, Virgil, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and most poets of the world, to be honest, are all unimpressive writers.

>Good poems are one of the greatest form of literature, but they are extremely rare, and yet sometimes people who are not very famous or don’t have a great body of work are capable of writing single pieces that are greater than anything famous poets ever wrote. One example is Wilfred Owen's poem - Dulce et Decorum Est.

>If I could save only one book between the Bible and The Complete works of Shakespeare I would go for Shakespeare without a moment of hesitation: his poetry is so great and his enormous talent so rare that it is much more important than the cultural significance of the Bible.

Beattie is as garbage as Lin.

Yeah, I'll get to them eventually. There's just other stuff I want to read first.
I've recently read Bulfinch's Mythology, so I do have a bit of second-hand greek experience.

I like to smell my own ear serum

I like little girls.

you will love Leon The Professional

I already do.

>apologizing for not liking Goethe, a smug, talentless, reactionary, overrated prick

no need to, Veeky Forums

Then I wouldn't worry about it too much, user. We all have to start somewhere and we all were at a point where we hadn't read the greeks or Shakespeare. Just always remember to enjoy yourself, my man.

They make you feel so good?

This is most of Veeky Forums

hah. Yes.

I've never read any philosophy or politics but I write articles for sjw magazines with the hope of sabotaging them without their knowledge, I read wiki entries on Marx and Engels and watch lectures to seem like a I know what I'm talking about.

That's actually pretty cool, youre like a secret agent or something. It also seems like a potential goldmine of humor if you incrementally make the articles more and more ridiculous.

I am halfway through an English Literature degree and the last time I thoroughly enjoyed a novel (I, Claudius) was over two years ago.

Haha yeah I have considered that if I were to crank up the heat very slowly they I might be able to get some real loony shit out there before they know what's going on.

dude if people don't know Conrad as a classic writer, no matter how "problematic" the book's name is, they need a fucking slap

this is not a confession, this is why people write

>i didn't realise what i was reading until it was too late
i thought about killing myself after that fat heroine was revealed

Found the pseud pleb

Some time back, I used to read in the subway for two reasons:

>Read the book
>Hope that a cute literary girl notices me reading among the sea of people playing shitty cellphone games and walks up to me to start a conversation. She can then be impressed with what I'm reading and my thoughts on it and maybe we exchange numbers.

I used to do this while being COMPLETELY aware of just how pathetic this fantasy was. I'd be unable to focus if a cute girl would come and stand next to me in the train because anticipation and acute awareness of her would constantly be on my head.

>Is she looking in this general direction?
>Can she see the title of the book I'm reading?
>Better tilt the book so that she can
>Oh wait, haven't turned the page in a while, she'll think I'm not reading but thinking about her. Better turn the page
>Fuck I actually hadn't read the previous page
>Surreptitiously flip back
>hurriedly read the page
>flip again
>breathe a sigh of relief. now i have some time to think about her presence near me
>Damn I think she's peeking into my book. why the fuck does this particular part of the book not have something patrician on it? fuck my luck. wait. she's not looking anymore. maybe just contemplating how to start talking to me
>she's still got her earphones on. (seems to be texting chad)
>she's still looking away and doesn't seem to be showing an interest...oh, here comes her stop. oh well, back to reading now.....is that...is that another cutie? maybe this one will notice me. nope. she's with chad2. can they both just stop chatting and giggling I'm trying to read here ffs.

I would reach home having shamefully read 1 page which I'd reread anyway.

More recently I've started enjoying books more so I don't care enough about women around me in the subway and just read for the pleasure of reading. But a part of me still hopes that some cute girl comes over and starts a conversation on seeing me read.

how did you like Bulfinch? i just started him today, and i chose him over Hamilton.

this is pathetic but I will reply anyway

no one will start a conversation with you if you're reading. Interrupting someone who's reading is rude and no one does that.

Obviously. you don't think I haven't thought of that in my utterly pathetic state? Reading without looking up is a rookie mistake. I used to pause after a few pages as if contemplating and would look up. Or to check if my station has arrived or not. So that others would get a window to start a conversation. You really underestimate the extent to which I can think like a pathetic lonely person.

Put the book down and say hi in this situation.

No one wants to be the conversation starter and you're the one with ground to make up cause you're a spaz.

I don't think it's pathetic desu. Every time I read in public I'm overcome with self-consciousness, with how I appear as "the reader", with what other people think of the book I'm reading. I think about how I'd summarize the book if someone asked, and then I get anxious when I realize that I don't actually have a summary for the book, that maybe my reading has been entirely superficial, that I'm not a reader at all but some cuck who only wants people to THINK he reads so he can feel superior.

I don't read much in public.

>I'm overcome with self-consciousness, with how I appear as "the reader"
Yes. Exactly this. If I'm lucky the book will be good enough for me to immerse myself into it for long enough to stop being so conscious about this.

i bought a bunch of books that i couldnt understand and ended up giving Leaves of Grass to my dads kebab friend

I've posted this before but a couple of years ago when I was riding the train home from uni for winter break, a qt asian girl approached me after I set my book down and said "I love that book! It really changes your perspective on pedophiles." I ended up losing my virginity to her in one of the train bathrooms and never saw her again after I reached my destination.

sry for the blog post

I read literature and poetry over anything else for aesthetic value alone. I'm too ignorant to pick up on most every reference or literary device and so on from books so I read them just for the pleasure of reading, not so much in a "omg bookz xd" or serious academic pleasure but absorbing all the wonderful ways writers can make beautiful passages out of language. My language skills are dogshit so I can't really "translate" my intuitive knowledge of something into written or spoken word without it sounding stilted as shit, if that makes sense, which makes me envy great writers so much. I can't hold a conversation for shit about the contents of books with anyone beyond the most vapid observations and I have the feeling people think I am pretentious for my "elitist" taste, so I usually read up on what the hell is going on with the deeper meanings or allusions or whatever the fuck from secondary sources just so if I ever have to talk to someone about a book they think I have some idea of what the hell I'm doing.

> can they both just stop chatting and giggling I'm trying to read here ffs.

I know this feel. Not the rest of your post, only this. I get it's a public space, but if they're so loud that I can hear them three carriages down on the same train then maybe they're just so retarded they can't understand the difference between an indoors and outdoors voice.

he looks like a qt i'd fugg his asian boipussi desu

I remember finding this in a Value Village when I was 14 or 15, and the crease in the spine led me to a passage where the main character is getting some mad pussy from some chick. I immediately bought that book and used it to jerk off for the next few years until I discovered hardcore porn. I think I still have that old copy lying around somewhere, with its jizz-stained pages and scent of decade-old adolescent juices.

dude if it's actually stained with cum why didn't you throw that shit away wow gross, remind me to never go round yours for a hardcore reading marathon sesh, faggot

I actually believe that writing fanfiction can be good for writers.

It allows you to play around with style and character in an established setting. Plus I just think everyone needs a creative thing to do

My flatmate has that on a shelf. What's so bad about it? I've never encountered it before.

yknow throwing away a book isn't the only way to stop owning it

some might say it's actually the worst

Owen wrote a lot of great poems besides Dulce et Decorum est though

I clean my fingernails with the edges of my books.

That's the only really nasty thing I can think of.

> guy says "I can never throw a book away"
> guy responds saying "throwing away things is baaaaad"

At least you tried to function in a conversation???????? nice

yknow libraries _let_ you take books, with a v simple protocol, you faggot

I've been told from various sources including anons here that my writing and ideas are pretty decent. The thing is, I rarely read, and even when I do, its mostly trash. I just don't find much enjoyment from it. Most of my inspiration comes from vidya and sometimes animu/comics. I also got a scholarship to a top 15 US university and entrance to their writing society, which I turned down. I eventually ended up at a small state college in my hometown.

and you fuckers all wonder why you're single.

If you're more interested in vidya and comics, have you considered trying to write in those mediums? Makes more sense than going for straight up prose if you're not so keen on the conventional novel.

Fair enough about Shakespeare and The Bible

Gross, are all your books pages black along the ridges?

this seems like something I would do lmao

I hate that you cannot be nearly as snobbish with your choice of music as you can be with literature.

Even though I study Italian and French at uni, I often don't like to read prose in those languages since I'm such a fast reader in English that I just feel really slow and stupid when reading in a foreign language. I will not read translated poetry though.

I can count on one hand the number of poems (in English) that I think are any good from the past 60 or so years. I'm less virulently opposed to modern stuff than I was, but I still really think most poetry produced today is incredibly shit.

From what ive heard its just nerd glorification, which is whatever, but it comes off as forced and tacky

this is more normal than you seem to think

if you had catalogued all these grills into a book, you'd at least be a new sartre if not a flaubert. i say do it again.

lol that's canon faggot every heard of specs

I really like Stephen King. I'm not embarrased about it either, but seeing most posts here on Veeky Forums I'm guessing it is something that would trigger most posters here.

I'm actually one of the (probably) few married people here!

Only some, and it's just the two corner edges. I try to use the cover if it's something durable, doesn't show as much on them.

lol dumbass

I just really wish I could have a conversation about classic literature every now and again with somebody I knew who was also interested in it. Talking to my friends about literature is a no-no since they don't read.

haha lol epic nice

maybe because "confessing" you can't throw a book away implies guilt for not doing so????

>I don't think anything good has come out of the British Isles, literary-wise

That's a big claim. Care to elaborate?

It's literally just a bunch of "wibbly bibbly bing bong" bullshit for gaylords

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Dracula and Frankenstein are pretty good. You don't like those?

happiness isn't productive for now.

hahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAA

not saying much desu

shit is this not acceptable/normal

gonna reevaluate some life decisions/nail products

I don't have a talent for drawing, and I'm not too keen on letting someone else handle my characters visually. Oh well

Riiiiiight.

Why don't you get a more constructive hobby, like reading?

Just one of the perks you'd get out of it would be to move away from discussion with the endgame being "winning", and instead to engage in discussion with the endgame being winning knowledge =)

i jerked off to a video where a guy pisses on a book a lady has been reading
i mean he's also pissing on her, but the pissing on the book was the real appeal

When i write i go back and forth between writing and editing. Stupid i know. I'm starting to think there is no perfect language except for very simple matters. Especially when you write about spiritual matters as many of the words we use to describe that world can mean so many things and a lot of people have their own interpretations of those words.

Infidel!