I Just turned 29 and I'm reading Siddhartha by Hermen Hesse and Dirk Diggler by Douglas Adams. The next books on my list are Dune by Herbert and Introduction to Epistemology by Robert Dildos.
Should I just kill myself at this point? Am I even redeemable at as a pleb?
>In b4 read Stiner or Camus
low quality pepe, bad post... kys
well you're a frogposter so that's not a good sign
anyway start with the greeks
i read these in high school lmao
>Calls someone else a frogposter
>suggest someone starts with the Memegeans.
Why, senpai?
Plato is a fag. Pheado is a homo. Pythagoras and Aristotle are okay tho.
>Robert Dildos
>being this pleb
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26 about to be 27
where's the dude from the other night who had forgotten his age? he gave a range from 22-26
>likes Aristotle
>hates Plato
You're on the wrong board, stemlord.
OP here
I probably should've added "What is your age, what are you reading" to the title. But I thought it would've been self-evident from my OP.
never too late brother
I'm between 22 and 23 myself.
only on Veeky Forums will you find someone so deep in a existential crisis that they only know a 4 year range for their age
That guy was a fucking fraud. Overplaying his hand and so immersed in his own self image he "forgot to remember" twas merely an act!
33, just finished Vineland and If On A Winter's Night A Traveller. About to start Dangerous Liaisons.
19, just finished reading the Moviegoer
Gonna give Absalom, Absalom another go and see if I like it better than I did a few years ago.
19 and moving on to my 5th novel by John Hawkes.
18.
I've only lurked for the time being and still view myself as a pseud in pursuit of legitimacy.
haven't read in months desu
how shit was vineland and how good was winter's night?
22, just finished At Swim-Two Birds, up next: Metamorphoses by Ovid. I'm also slowly making my way through The Book of Disquiet.
Not them, but I remember not following Vineland at all and not enjoying the prose either, and I remember liking Winter's Night, and I've been meaning to read it again.
Take my opinion with a grain of salt, though, because I haven't read these since I was in high school and trying to replace having an actual personality with being "well-read"
I actually liked Vineland. It wasn't as good as the other Pinecones I've read but it was still a good book.
Winter's Night was amazing though, I think my favorite book was Around An Empty Grave.
yeah calvino is great. I'm surprised that book isn't talked about more here. since everyone seems to like weird Trippy shit.
I'm 13.
Reading Das Kapital.
Don't kill yourself, OP. You're not worthless, you deserve to be treated fairly. The best moments haven't come yet, listen to me, be patient, and love yourself. Best wishes :)
Have (You) read any of his other stuff? I was thinking about getting Invisible Cities next.
21 reading peoples tragedy
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Turned 25 yesterday and reading The Master and Margarita
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Reading GEB (yeah yeah, fuck off) and starting Siddhartha
Between the ages of 18 - 30 on average just like the rest of Veeky Forums except /b/ which is probably 10 - 20 on average.
What's Dirk Diggler by Douglas Adams? Is that a joke?
Also is Robert Dildos a real person?
23, reading Bel Ami and the ultimate meme book, Infinite Jest
>13.
>Reading Das Kapital.
If you're real, you're a living meme.
Average age here is about 24, I'd say. In the other thread a couple of days ago I was the oldest guy at 36.
I'm about to start the Theban plays of Aeschylus and was thinking to season that with some Greek or Roman poetry in between. Any recommendations from you, better educated youngsters out there?
Its one of his books, friendo.
I think the full title is "THe Holistic Detective Agency of Dirk Diggler"
>Also is Robert Dildos a real person?
Pic related.
>The Master and Margarita
>Bukenov
Have you read A Hero Of Our Time by Lermentov? I had that and M&M on my Ruski backlog.
Wow op. I read Nabokov, Steinbeck, and Hemingway when I was 16.
Do you even anti-social?
>average
>gives range
wew lad.
He knew his birthdate, he kept saying that he just didn't bother calculating it haha
22-26 is a weird/young range to forget.
If it was like 26-29 or even 28-32 maybe
Looks like I'm the oldest here, 57.
27, reading ride the tiger and fanged noumena atm. after that I've got absolute recoil on the shelf before a reread of phenom of spirit.
For fiction I just finished 2666 so will start Lolita after my friend finishes with my copy. She says she's enjoying it so far so it should be in my hands soon.
Want to look into some poetry as well. Interested in Byron but I've no idea where to start. I liked darkness.
Open to recommendations.
21. Just about to finish the Iliad and then I will move onto the Odyssey. Also halfway through Enquiry Concerning Human Understand by Hume. Trying to give myself a good background in epistemology and experience reading early modern philosophers so that I can tackle Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
I haven't had as much time to read as I would like though because neither english/lit or philosophy are what I'm actually studying.
I'm 73! I was introduced to the website by my grandson who wanted me to do a question and answer here but I told him it was unlikely anybody from his age group read my books. I don't post all that much, and a lot of the conversations go right over my head I must say! However I do find the whole concept of the website very intriguing. I think if it had been around when I was young I'd have turned into a "neckbeard" too! It's great what you kids are doing and it's nice to visit from time to time to see the kinds of discussion going on about authors I read when I was a younger man. Sometimes I hear the same kind of opinions about certain authors that I heard when I was in my twenties! Anyway I saw this discussion and thought it would be quite funny to tell everybody how old I was .
What did you think of the Moviegoer?
While reading it I disliked it, and I still think it's a book written by a non-writer. However the "message" or theme I recognize in the book has stuck with me although I don't know if it was actually evident in the novel.
Are you the guy who has spammed John Hawkes in every thread now for at least four months?
25, about to start reading Future Smart. Non-fictions lost interest with me, sadly, but I dont read much
>my books
What's your name?
fiction's*
My name's Homer Hadley Hickam, I wrote some books that were quite popular over a decade ago. I've never seen my name mentioned here so I guess I'm not a very big name among the younger generation!
24 here. Just finished M&M. Holy fuck amazing 6/5.
>Going to read Heart of a Dog next
do you have wife and kids?
you can understand any skepticism that may arise...
Can you prove it? Like take a pic with a paper written Veeky Forums or something.
>Open to recommendations.
Lose your virginity
mods are going to take away his means of shitpost production.
so you picked up the "start with greeks" and "he woke me from my dogmatic slumber" starter pack?
Any one wanna take bets on what he lands on?
No one is irredeemable, it has just got to feel worth it to go that way.
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Evola - Men Among The Ruins
Rarely on Veeky Forums anymore except for the occasional recommend.
This is good bait.
I'm 26.
Right now I'm reading The Monkey and the Tiger by Robert van Gulik, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan by Roger S Keyes, Possession by A.S. Byatt and Njal's Saga. The last several books I've read have been children's fairy tales to figure out which illustrators I like best.
Next up I'll probably read more fairy & folk tales, more Gulik, might finally read through The Book of Monelle.
22 here
Finishing The Joke by Milan Kundera, awesome book, 4.5/5
next i'll read La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Garcia Lorca
BTW OP,i started with Hesse too, Siddharta in fact. It's a good starting book, easy to read and a great message hidden, not the greatest but pretty good
You shouldn't kill yourself, read Shadows of Paradise instead
You're never too old to start, m8.
The important thing is that you're reading.
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Reading Crime and Punishment at the moment as well as Lacanian theory
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Just now starting IJ, and have already read the others in the memeology.
Been coming here since I was 22
There is no way he can parse that text at 13. I don't care how highly the dipshit thinks of himself. If this is real this little monster egotist is another Jaden Smith in the making.
I don't like ride the tiger so far off that's what's triggering you
Don't do this, my man. You're 22 until the day you turn 23. Life is moving one day at a time and no faster.
I don't see why people ever bother to say this. Yes. People are capable of reading high brow stuff like Dostoevsky at the age of 14. It's not a big deal.
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I'm twenty four.
I'm not one of you awful groupthink clowns though.
I can make my own horrible mistakes.
Unfortunately if on a winter's night a traveler is not nearly as good the second time around.
23, making my way through Houellebecq at the moment. Always been a reader but never on the same level as the Veeky Forumserati, this is the first year I've really tried to challenge myself with the books I read.
3 year old here. I'm currently reading Finnegans Wake and The Phenomenology of Spirit.
dirk gently* Is it called dirk diggler in other countries?
Do you buy into this board's pretentious horseshit that hard? Read what you like. Anyway a lot of people here like dune. I don't. But many do. And if you can handle dune in terms of density and detail then you can probably handle most literature.
I'm 25 and I love douglas adams. Who cares what these people think? There was a survey a while back and it turns out a vast majority of them are virgins. And trust me, it's not for lack of trying, they just suck at being a person and found refuge in books. You don't want to be them.
>There was a survey a while back and it turns out a vast majority of them are virgins
Should I keep reading Siddhartha? This book is so damn dry. No wonder its coursework.
I'm at part two where he meets the princess and cuts his neckbeard. Does it ever get better?
20; reading Ellul's 'Technological Bluff' at inordinately slow pace.
I would guess most are mid-20s.
Skip it and read Steppenwolf instead, unless you don't want to overcome your psychological misery :^)
Turned 18 yesterday and finished the book of the new sun today. Gonna get into The lime twig next.
Thats his second worst book imo, but i think im pretty much alone in liking Black Snow
>Robert Dildos.
I think it's actually called Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, leading me to believe that the Dirk Diggler thing was a joke referencing Boogie Nights.
Is Robert Dildos the name of the infamous dentist with the bad haircut, or were you just calling me an idiot? Because I still can't find anything about him online.
22, currently reading The Rider by Tim Krabbe.
Siddhartha is a great book. If you ever went to University you should also read The Glass Bead Game which is a utopian book set in a hypothetical future University. It's damn interesting.
Don't try to impress people with what you're reading, just read the things that interest you. Forcing yourself to read something uninteresting just because it's highly regarded is going to burn you out pretty fast.
My skeleton is 10 years. My fat cells are 8. Sperm is 2 months. 4 month old blood. Central nervous system is twenty. Skin is a month old. The liver is 1 year old.
Personally I am 18 but most people tell me I am very mature for my age. Currently reading The Antichrist by Nietche.
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I love actual /literature/, but I'm not too pretentious to read some Pratchett, grrm, gaiman and other Reddit teir authors.
Nothing wrong with reading what you enjoy, op. Most people here hate reading which is why they will shit on fun books like discworld and asoif.
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been reading Hillare Belloc's Heresies at home
Gaddis' Recognitions on audiobook at work
I'm 19 years old.
I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.
I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.
I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.
I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.
Both my parents are alive and in good health.
I have no regrets.
I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.
I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.
I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.
I will live a good life at your expense.
Im 18 and im reading the Qur'an.
It's terrible don't bother, all i've learned from going in as a leftist liberal is that Islam is irreconcilable with western values and we have all been lied to.
>but I'm not too pretentious to read some Pratchett, grrm, gaiman and other Reddit teir authors.
So you're paranoid about being seen as "pretentious".
>Most people here hate reading
Only to then be pretentious.
Don't feel the need to endlessly caveat your taste like this. You should be past that now. Stop being paranoid about being seen as pretentious or not pretentious by people.
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Siddharta was OK but Dune is a chef d'oeuvre.
Why kill yourself OP ?
What ? How can someone be pretentiously reading Pratchett ? It is so easy to read.
Excellent book
>So you're paranoid about being seen as "pretentious".
>Only to then be pretentious.
No, I'm trying to assuage OPs grief about being an irredeemable pleb by relating to him. You've misunderstood me.
>Don't feel the need to endlessly caveat your taste like this. You should be past that now. Stop being paranoid about being seen as pretentious or not pretentious by people.
>Endlessly caveat
>Endlessly
This is nothing but exaggeration. Even if you'd like to consider it a caveat, I think I was fairly brief.
If you are actually the same Hickam who wrote October Sky, you don't belong here, sir. This is strictly a place for malcontents. Enjoy your twilight years without having to reflect on the existence of people like us, please.
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When it comes to literature, I go for all the Veeky Forums memes.
I don't even want to name them for being called out for memeing/shitposting
But I find it very rewarding.
If your pic were true, most women would be considered intellectuals.
he considered women as sex tools, not as human beings
20 here, turning 21 next month. Currently reading 'The Ego and His Meme,' 'Trancework,' and 'Divine Comedy.' Not sure what to read next, maybe 'The Prince' or 'The World as Will'