Literary confession thread

I read less than a hundred pages a day

I like a lot of Borges' stories but in a large number of his fictions I feel like he is trying far too hard to be intellectual and profound. Also, a lot of his ideas are reused over and over.

I've never read Infinite Jest. I don't even own the book.

>I've never read Infinite Jest. I don't even own the book
You are the same as like 60% of this board to be honest senpai.
You too.

I worry I've started too late. I'm 22, and only for a year now have I finally lost interest in all video games. I read about Nabokov starting at 12, and Bloom saying he, like every other twelve year old in the nation, read Julius Caesar when he was twelve. Fuck.

I've read ~120 books this year, including bigguns like Ulysses, IJ (reread), Moby Dick, Brothers K, C&P, Bible, Blood Meridian, Histories, Peloponnesian War, and then the entirety of the Greek tragedians, and Aristophanes, half of Shakespeare, half of Plato, and then some pick and choose.

I've made progress but I wonder if I'll ever be able to articulate myself like Bloom or some of my professors or even some of you fogeys.

I've read more visual novels than actual novels this year.

You're only a few years behind. Use that anxiety to motivate yourself to put in a few extra hours everyday.

anyone who reads more than 40 is a virgin

You've read more books in a year than most il/lit/erates will read in 5
You're doing fine my bud

i like erotic novels

this post made me feel anxious

I havnt finished a book in my entire life. Considering some cioran though.

I used to write elaborate greentexts about seeing John Green around Indianapolis, plus some other writers. Only one of them about John Meme was true. The only other true one was about seeing Houellebecq in a Carrefour.

Do share

I idolize Hitler and aspire to revive National Socialism.

Today I was foolish enough to think I would find a writing thread on Veeky Forums.

I aspire to revive socialism in general.

i would really like to know your list of 120 books that you've read.

how about a list of ALL the books you've ever read?

I always prefer the movie cuz I didn't read the book lol too many wurdz n sheit

I enjoy buying/collecting books and building up my personal library more than I enjoy reading.

I'm incredibly embarrassed while my wife and I are socializing with our friends because most of them have literary degrees, while she hasn't so much as finished a book for any higher reading level than a 13 year old.
I love her endlessly, but I wish she would take interest in more intellectually stimulating literature

I love all of big boy malcolm's books

Well, yeah. That's what I expect for the typical user of the board who ridicules any book that isn't strictly dry philosophy or some 1000-page novel written hundreds of years ago.

You can't not fall in love with a book that takes that long to read. It's practically Stockholm Syndrome.

How do you have so much free time?

>go to the giant carrefour near me
>in the wine aisle
>see a guy in a huge parka even though it's a pretty mild September
>could it be?
>it is
>try not to drop my spaghetti
>don't say anything
>continue shopping
>see him at a few other spots in the store
>at one point he brushes past me and says "pardon"
That's the extent of the interaction. I was too shy/self-concious about my French to approach him. Also, if I were him, I would hate to be bothered in my neighborhood supermarket.

same. Who the fuck am I

It's not about the amount of books you've read, it's your level of understanding and ability to critically think about them. If you find yourself having to search up every idea about a book because you missed it while reading, you need to slow down.

Nothing to be ashamed about. Even as a faggot myself this book was shit.

I read a lot of romance books. I know lit doesn't approve, but I'm addicted.

I haven't read anything by a woman since I read Harry Potter in middle school.

Now share the John Meme story

I once read Bolo! and I don't even like sci-fi.

All the cashiers at one of my local bookstore are cute girls.

>tfw always make sure to stick around a bit after paying
>tfw they never comment on the books I buy

you made me laugh, keep it tight!

I steal all my opinions about books from other people

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This isn't anything to be ashamed of.

Sometimes I keep on reading although I don't have the feeling I fully understand what is going on in the book or in a scene.

Nice work, user.

And I'm not talking about the books you read.

IKTF
Especially when tired, its just like you're reading the individual words but not putting them together with the rest of the words in a sentence and learning absolutely fucking nothing. I did this for almost the entirety of Dante's Inferno and I feel like I wasted several hours of my life staring at words that I didn't understand.

>Be me
>Be 16
>Get into literature
>Start with the memes
>Sophocles, Homer, Ovid, all the good stuff
>Read the entire bible
>Tackle the 19th century
>Gogol, Dosto, Melville, Twain
>I'm becoming better and faster at reading
>Can tell the quality of a book objectively
>Go into 20th century
>Joyce, Pynchon, Faulkner, Hemingway
>All the greats
>I finally come to the magnum opus
>I've heard so much about it
>Infinite Jest
>I crack it open and read a hundred pages
>2,3,4, 500 pages
>I reach the end
>I feel confused
>Quickly skim the book again
>I couldn't find any discernible talent
>It made Steven King looks like Cervantes
>mfw

It's worth finishing and thinking back on. Trust me, the disgust fades when you reread. I loved that book for its philosophical prowess, but it's also one of the raunchiest reads.

kek

Hey, give me back my opinion about Voltaire's Candide, I'm gonna need it in a couple of days.

quality

I feel I won't apprehend/grasp truly any book that is not written in my native language or in any romantic one.

I only read because I lost interest in everything else.

I guess it technically means reading interests me more than anything else, but it is just the tallest dwarf.

10/10

Eh, this isn't as much of a problem as you think.

From a certain perspective, Dante's Inferno is just Book 6 of The Aenied. Of course, we in posterity know that this isn't the case, because we know how Dante diverged and developed from his obvious source of inspiration, and it's worth at least trying to write your novel, to see if in the unraveling a similar development takes place, and your work in the end becomes something other than "literally Blood Meridian".

It took me over a month to get just half way through Last and First Men, at which l point I gave up and returned it

I have been reading The Recognitions 6 months ago.

I gave up 200 pages into The Brothers Karamazov. I found it painfully boring.

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Did you at least read the grand inquisitor?

I haven't read a single page in 2 days. I spend my free time reading about romantic affairs, something I'll never have in my life, and I think suicide every day.

By 'affairs' I don't extramarital though, just relationships in general.

you have never been in a relationship?

I read nothing but genre fiction and I read over 80 books this year.

underage b& delicious

No, I was too ugly in my teenage years, and now I'm too inexperienced and clueless. Up until a few months I never cared that much as I was too busy reading.

What happened now that makes you suddenly care about?

I'm not sure, some part of me feels like now, in my twenties, I'm supposed to experiment and find love, sleep around even, as it would be inappropriate later.

>tfw you're 20 and you realize you only have a bit of time left before you can experience having your first love experiences at a young age

>at a young age
>20

it's too late for you

I never read the last 10-20 pages of War and Peace where Tolstoy goes on to explain history in his own view. Yeah, I'm a bad a person.

Me neither.

Came here to post this.

It's pretty fucking sweet bruh, id get on it if I were you
Every great writer had a young love who it didn't work out with

The entire second part of the epilogue was a waste of time. He'd already made his point many times by then and it was disappointing to get so little information on the characters in the last 100 or so pages.

So you are telling me there is a chance I get to become a great writer one day, partially inspired by those two horrible years with that certain girl.
Oh boy

I read less than 40 and i'm virgin ;_;

I unironically love Stephen King

Bolo in italian is the chewed food mixed with saliva. hih.

user thats so sad

There are numerous options, lets talk about two easy ones:
1, Install tinder, like everyone, chat up everyone, lose virginity or acquire potential romantic partner in a matter of weeks.
2,Try talking to women.
If there seems to some chemistry, ask them out
If no, become good friends and ask them to introduce you to friends looking for romantic partners.
Other factors include your attractiveness and perceived social standing.
Godspeed user, fuck the world like it is meant to be fucked by men. Remember that you have roughly twice as much female ancestors as males, you were born to make it!

no wonder pickard drew inspiration from him

overly intellectual and pretentious

desu im a virgin too but i like shitposting

My favorite fantasy novel is Mistborn

I skipped part of John Galt's monologue in atlas shrugged, desu

>talking to strangers

I take Veeky Forumss consensus opinions on literature as fact even though I haven't read the vast majority of works discussed here.

I think I'm too stupid to read difficult philosophical texts, or behemoth novels like GR and IJ

Me too, I also pick fights with both Trump supporters and SJWs. I pick apart their arguments and revel in the downvotes they give me.

I'm averagely attractive but too young to make the usage of tinder-like-stuff socially acceptable. I'll have to do it the old way.
Thanks user, your support gave me straight!

I unironically love Bukowski and Ken Kesey. They are my favorite

Yep
Hardship breeds creativity, turn that hurt into a true literary novel

ASOIAF was the first book series to actually intrigue me as a teenager, that then pushed me to start reading an abnormal (by my degree) amount of books.

Thanks GRRM.

Everyone who's not part of the Ayn Rand society skipped part of that shit

I can only read spanish literature.
I know that spanish lit is one of the most solid lit canons but I am really ashamed of not being able to appreciate foreign works.

No fucking shit!? I always try to talk to people about it but nobody knows what it is or its too pleb

I haven't read any major books by any russian classic. Reason being, they were shoving that shit down our throats in highschool(russia) and everyone pretty much grew to hate the authors

What do they teach in lit classes in Russia?

Everyone hates Tolstoy and Dosty in Russia?

Sometimes I worry that my antisocial tendencies and inability to understand other people will prevent me from ever being able to write interesting, complex characters that aren't just transparent reflections of myself.