Well, lads?

Realizing most people here don't even read books

I started reading Gene Wolfe, when I wouldn't have heard of him before. So thanks, Veeky Forums, I mean it.

i didn't think i'd like infinite jest as much as i did.

I talked to guy who had been to the same small town bookstore as me.

I read the greeks.

I've begun to see the whole population as fitting into one of three categories:

1) Genuine (least common)
2) Pretentious pseud (more common)
3) Incorrigible shitposter (most common)

I wish you were right, since shitposters at least have the redeeming quality of being entertaining and not actually deplorable people, but I feel like pseuds are really more common.

2 is more common than 3

also some people are genuine but you actually wish they'd be pseuds because the naked truth is so depressing and makes you lose hope in humanity

I have developed an intense loathing for an author I've never read and have no interest in reading, solely because of his obnoxious fans.

DFW btw

Don't let the retards and memesters here turn you off of DFW, or any other author for that matter. He's got some great essays, definitely worth checking out if you haven't yet.

I used to think engaging in literature was a good use of my time. But I'm 23 and all I do is read shitty books alone in my bedroom on my weekends. What I'd give to have some real. visceral, life experiences over this mundanity. I feel like I'm absolutely worthless.

I became a pseudo-intellectual regressive pansy in order to try and fit in with the rest of the board

Don't fall for the meme posters, I started hating him without having read anything he's ever written, but now I've realised the man is brilliant.

I've done the same, but I've done it in the order of /v/ -> /tv/ -> Veeky Forums. Always searching for that next level of pseudo-intellectualism. Life was better when I was a pleb.

I like this board. Mind you, I'm 31 so kind old fag. However, it's just nice to be around people who read. Most adults, outside of academia, simply do not read. So it's shit lonely, boring, and bad socially. In terms of intellectually stimulating convo, this place is about as good as you'll find senpai.

Lol i was not aware that f a m becomes senpai.

just so you know someone calling other people plebs is the easiest way to spot a pseudointellectual

perhaps you already knew that though

This new to me as well, senpai

Yeap, try inputting f a m without the spaces and you get senpai

Calling people plebs is puerile and embarrassing but not pseudo-intelligent.

I got curious in the work of an largely unknown 150 year old dead German philosopher, enjoyed the meme, borrowed the book from a library, found it hilarous and funny, found it clever, found out I lack the historical background, read 200 pages into it and got bored of the attack of potential threatening developements 150 years ago, got confused, decided the ideas a written are unpractical and not realizable, put the book aside for se months, got a glimpse of the history surroundong it, came back to it, bought a physical copy of the book, found it annoying to see people here take bits from it they read as a justification for hedonism when the book turns out to be largly as a discussion and comment on the authors time when start openly discussing flaws of theology and state system it influenced and flaws of others discussions about it, found the point about spooks is almost se ondary to the actual point about property (although they go together), got a flash of insight, sort of shaked my worldview, started to doubt I could fully understand the book as written given the context can't be reproduced, still think it's not practical as preseted, still developing my personal guidelines and am strongly influenced by the books notions.

Didn't expect that.
I'm a bit annoyed by the use of it's content on Veeky Forums now

why don't you think so? I thought the correlation was so obvious I haven't even challenged it

I don't think I've ever seen an actually insightful post that has calls people plebs before

can you stop posting this in every thread it isn't funny

I am Asian. I just wanted an alright board about english books. r/Books and sites similar to that were too retarded for the purpose, so I came here 3 years ago. Not everything is nice here but it's the best I could find. At least I got a lot of good recommendations, like Joyce and Chekhov.

I still don't want to read Gravity Rainbow though, the book looks even more challenging than Ulysses. Doesn't want to read a encyclopedia book like IJ either.

I read a post that wasn't cancer.

Post what? The cat image? Or did the text strike you as insincere in any way?

Definitely an overfetishization of the classics and subsequent underappreciation of contemporary lit.

>underappreciation of contemporary lit
Is it even possible?

warosu.org/lit/image/WG1GAcLMXBwbgiZodGIEGg

I don't read contemporary literature. Everything is trash unless it can still be found after at least two decades.

I have twenty something faces of dfw as reactions pics saved and ready.
I'm a bit happier, generally.

That wasn't in two different threads - I corrected the text

Testing, senpai.

and all from the same interview, such a forced meme

I have a gigantic backlog of books now because every time I see a title on here that looks interesting I look it up and usually add it to my list

Not true though

I can shitpost about spooks and property all day.

I've got a nice folder filled with book covers that I've used for various threads on Veeky Forums over the years. About 1,400 of them.

I really fucking hate adverbs. No good writer uses them unironically and now neither do I. Thanks, Veeky Forums.

I get it. I get jokes.

Acing my high school english course
:^)

drinking more

My shitposting on other boards has improved drastically since now I can fuck up the serious discussions

No:
>"muh superior taste"
>constant shit post

I'm actually surprised I can have a conversation with other anons without railing the thread.

Same.

I realized that my grammar is horrendous and that I need to go back to english class again.

my shitposting ability has been honed to a wicked edge

stopped reading books tho

Say what you want about the elitism/shitposting here, but I find that the people on Veeky Forums are genuinely more intelligent than the people on the literature forums I used to follow. Since coming here I've felt more motivated to read and appreciate high quality books.

I hate a man I've never met.

On the up side, I read Schopenhauer and found the justification for my essentially pessimistic world view. Any sort of existential crisis I once had is now resolved.

On the down side, I also read Stirner and live for Stirnerposting.

i read a few books i really loved
for example 2666 and the peregrine

i found out patricia highsmith was a qt3.14, a dyke, and has nudes, and all that stands between me and my waifu is building a time machine to 1946

Gas stations

I hardly ever post. Most of the time i come here to sort through all the shit posting and find posts from careful people with careful opinions.

As a result of this board, I've had the most fun reading new books than ever; and i think i really have learned to think for myself and sort through my own biases. Mostly because a consensus is almost never reached on Veeky Forums, and i'm forced to think for myself, which is something i never got from school or academic essays.

So thanks Veeky Forums

I understand who changed it subtly, and so I understand who to hate, more than I did when I posted prior.

I understood that reference

How did a justification for pessimism resolve a crisis?

I realized the redpill was a lie all along. I am become SJW the destroyer of worlds.

I am not afraid of being a gay zoophile anymore because the concept of purity, mental health, and degeneration are all spooks.

not him, but it's probably his aphorisms on suffering.

Because I wanted to know if my pessimism was justified; the idea that it wasn't was playing on my mind, tormenting me.

Now I know it is.

gay and zoophile's a spook too bro. the only reason fucking human animals is different to fucking any of the other animals is because humans think they're special and want special rules. spooked as fuck tbqph, my property.

I've also learned that I still dislike people who still give a shit about this "Stirner" meme

...

Those side burns are a fucking spook

>bashes adverbs
>uses unironically
is this next level irony or are you dumb

>what is consent

I guess being viewed a creep is a spook too.

Surprisingly, I learned about a lot of good authors and literature.

Property doesn't exist so Stirner is a lie he himself fell for.

Came to lit hating genre fiction, thinking it was for plebs, but now like sci fi and fantasy

>oppressing the autistic
>implying temple grandin does not understand cows
>implying because you cannot understand a language those who speak it are incapable of forming consent
>being both specist and racist while devaluing the inherent worth of those that speak non legal languages and denying them a sex life as a result
bby you don't want to play the sjw game with me i know exactly how creepy your shit is that you need to frame that as a consent not desire issue

Read the Bible

Started reading a lot more philosophy

Increased my calibre library by over 1000 books

Increased my physical bookshelf by 75 percent

More motivated to read when on a literature themed board like this

tricked everyone into thinking im cultured because I read famous literature

i have found books i might have lived my life never hearing of

Check out Consider the Lobster if you want something shorter to see if you'd like him. I think it's only 20 pages. Non-fiction.

I was in a thrift shop place. And it didn't occur to me that I would get an odd look for my books anymore.

I don't know what the counter lady was thinking. But I didn't see her face change at my copy of middlesex upon my clothing.

What did you read exactly?

Same, book of the new sun is the first fantasy series/novel I've been able to get absorbed in since I was a child.

Are you black?

You tried reading more practical books?

This board has some of the smarter trips I've read. That Faulkner tripfag makes sense even though he sucks Faulkner's cock often.

the smartest people i've talked to here were not the trips

I didn't say smartest. That guys doesn't say anything in philosophy threads. Just that he makes sense with his posts and he's not this entitled trip-Jesus that I see in the other boards.

Trips here aren't too offensive. If you're talking about that Fury guy, he's pretty well-read but I only really see him posting in fiction threads.

Yeah. How did you guess?

I actually stopped meeming and started to read

I wondered what kind of people would be frowned upon for buying books and the only ones who have such a stigma for reading are blacks living in "da hood"

Gas stations, race car now

this more-or-less

i became obsessed with a drunk who posts pictures of flowers and knows more about poetry than i will ever and now he doesnt post anymore

That's quite astute. I've assumed she was frowning at me because the book had the word sex in the title.