Veeky Forumserary confessions thread

Is it typical for Les Miserables to take so long for people to read? Gravity's Rainbow only took me two months. Been wanting to read Les Miserables for some time, and I know it's long, but if it takes nearly 6 months then I might pass upon it until I've read more books from my backlog.

I don't read, at all. I masturbate and watch porn all day.

How did you know when to stop skipping it when the Greek names were not being listed? Did you just skip the whole fucking book?

My piss is always boiled by cunts who find The Iliad too difficult. It's an adventure book full of action, it's like you're one of those plebs who can't go five minutes without checking Facebook on their phones.

>tfw can't help but writing 50 pages about the Paris sewers when all my readers wants to know about is what happens next to Jean Valjean

not a confession if everyone else on Veeky Forums does this

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I sometimes like to get into taxicabs and say, 'to the library, and step on it'

>what?
>c-can you get me to the l-library?
>haha you waste your time reading books? What are you crazy gringo? when I was your age in marajo I fucked a different girl every night! How 'bout I get you to the strip club eh? Whaddoyathink?
>o-ok

This is what is so tiring about the book , it summarises my exact feelings when reading it. He spent 80 fucking pages just describing and reflecting on the Battle of Waterloo.

the worst kinds of art is art about itself

like a novel about a writer, or a movie about the movies. i hate this shit. its like the author is saying, "welp, i've exhausted all my ideas"

Maximalism before it was cool.

I was high out of my mind when I was writing Gravity's Rainbow. I just wrote it for the lulz and the lolis. I can't believe how seriously you schlemiels take it.

test

>book 2 is just a list of boats

You know what those sections were for? They were there so Johnny Plebface from Sparta could go 'oh wow I KNOW that guy' and feel smart and special.

Looks like it serves much the same purpose today.

>the worst kinds of art is art about itself
>like a novel about a writer, or a movie about the movies. i hate this shit. its like the author is saying, "welp, i've exhausted all my ideas"
lmao I've read alot of dumb shit on this board but this might be dumbest. c.f. engaging with the medium fuckboiiii

I think Nabakov was and is such a pretentious fuckwit that I've never completed anything except Lolita. I consistently by him, read 70%, and viciously throw him in the trash because he is, to my mind, an absolute charlatan. The shade he threw at great authors is hysterical considering he's a massive fraud.

The confession is that he's considered "great" but I don't finish his stuff, and I think he's a profoundly retarded faggot

i sometimes leave the kitchen floor a little wet so my grandma can slip and break her fucking neck so i can finally have the house all for myself

I haven't enjoyed anything as much as count of montecristo at sixteen because i've been depressed for a decade

>when you make confession time into a humble brag about your greater understanding of literature than some dead writer
Tell me more about your hatred of pretentious fuckwits.

using "pretentious" as an insult is the ultimate way to spot a pseud

I've never read Gravity's Rainbow, but I act like I have to my friends by saying out of context qutoes and rambling about the "You never did. The Kenosha Kid" part when I only watch Nerdwriter1's essay.

That's not what happened.

I strongly disagree.

See: Barton Fink.

Vladamir was pretentious and it seems like he hated a lot of the greatest writers too but damn, disliking Nabokov's writing? That takes things a little too far imo

oh btw books

Didn't realise Nerdwriter1 did a video on Gravity's Rainbow. Do you have a link, user? If you share it with me I won't tell your friends you're a big phony.

Lolita was about a boy. Traps are gay also.

I hate the word "cheeky"

It's overused. The connotation of the word is something innocent and cute getting away with a little something that's against a minor rule. Like a kid taking another candy bar or something.

It's so overused in every context and it genuinely bugs me. "Cheeky G&T" "Cheeky Nandos" "Cheeky bants" "Cheeky cunt" etc

I fucking hate England

ya fr

i don't care, it's a great book and i think it's unbelievable someone could actually dislike it

I'm trying to work on what is basically a fanfiction for a game with an implied plot but nothing actually written. Mostly because one of the characters in the game is my waifu. Oh, and it's a zombies game, too.

I couldn't finish either the Odyssey or Iilad because I was bored to tears

but I finished Ulysses for meme points

I cried at the end of the Phaedo

i judge books by their covers and no one can stop me

Boo! Boo! Get a job!

It took me four months to read Les Mis.

Bow down, lads.

It took me two years.

I refused to continue to the next page until I understood every word and reference. I also read it in French despite having an acceptable English translated version at hand.

> reading The Iliad atm
> didn't realise the ship catalogue in Book 2 was the list everyone complained about

It doesn't even last 3 full pages. Shit's easy to get through.

I have a problem of starting books but not finishing them

I've read less than a handful of poems yet have written publishable poetry.

This just sounds like a monumental waste of my time.

i don't agree with you

see: Holy Motors

I used to do this a lot when I was younger. It was partly because my attention span was pretty thin at the time but also because when I started a book, there were always others I wanted to read at the same time.

I still suffer from that last part a little: start a book, enjoy the book, but notice other books I want to read next/would rather want to read.

I politely disregard your perspective.

See: The Player

How is that a confession? I thought it was generally accepted as a good thing.

I've read a decent amount but can't say anything substantial about anything i've read

I like to open mine in random passages and try to decode something or just project some meanings into it.

But I think it will be a long time before I try to read it cover to cover

I don't actually read books, I only listen to them.

Only if he didn't have fun in the process

Most people on Veeky Forums are contrarian and believe anything written by a black person is instantly bad.

Same. I think I'll probably be in my 50s when I do get around to reading it.

He is probably just a newfag who thinks /pol/posters actually represent this board. I really really wish they would delete /pol/ and not even because I disagree with many of their positions.

Good luck discussing any african author on Veeky Forums.

Not a newfag, user, but whenever I bring up or ask for diverse Veeky Forums recommendations, my thread is often derailed by /pol/tards who believe reading anything by a black person is instant SJW double standards. I get some polite recommendations too but more often than not my threads get derailed.

I know /pol/tards isn't the majority of Veeky Forums but sometimes it's difficult to escape that mentality.

Sometimes i don't finish books. I read a summary and then pretend i've read it. It is not too often that i do that, only when i'm really tired of reading the book

I do not enjoy Shakespeare one bit.

I never want to get into philosophy because all you faggots do is autisticly screech at each other about it.

Which Shakespeare plays have you read, user? Maybe you've just read the really bad ones.

Did you read them outside of class? Genuinely curious. I used to hate Shakespeare too because I never enjoyed reading his work in school but recently I dove into some of his writing and I love it. It's nowhere near as difficult as I remembered it being.

I prefer to discuss literature with women, because the majority of men read for the sake of their own ego and image, and are almost always huge pussies on top of that.

If you said that to my face I'd give you a black eye, faggot.

I think our opinions are not aligned.

See: Sunset Boulevard.

I have read most of his plays and poetry. Macbeth is as close to "likeable" as I can stand, and it is, at least where I am, very poorly thought of. The downside of being an English Major, I guess; hour upon hour of Shakespeare.

I don't like reading. If I read the book it was presumably forced. I have read less books than years I am old.

How do I use a search engine?

i read books while i listen to them cuz im a dyslexic fukniga

I've masturbated to Infinite Jest. Three times.

/pol/ people don't have a problem with you reccomending reading books from diverse authors
they have a problem with, often publically funded institutions telling students to "READ LESS STRAIGHT WHITE MALES" and pretending sub-saharan philosopher Mudiddy Dowopawop is on the same level as western philosophers and that both deserve equal attention.

That may be what you personally believe, but much of the /pol/ shitposting here is just screeching rage anytime any non-white male author is mentioned. You have to be new or delusion to not see thatm

>youtu.be/783hwpJTjlo
It's mostly about how to establish art fundamentals and language for the internet.

I've been browsing /pol/ since 2011 pretty much every day, it's a decent news aggregator
Leftists usually lie about the details, so I doubt you just recommended an author that happened to be non-white, you likely added in a little jab against FUCKING WHITE MALES at the same time, perhaps unconsciously.
Also do you admit that western philosophy/authors in general are far superior to Africans?
Or are you one of those "nothing is better just different ;-)))" faggots?

I used to buy the entire Dune series, including Brian Herbert's turds on his father's legacy and would not read them aside from Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune. When I actually read beyond that, I realized what a horrible mistake I made.

>/pol/ people don't have a problem with you reccomending reading books from diverse authors
Yes they do, almost every thread about african or female authors gets flooded with comments like ">niggers >producing anything of value", "women aren't capable of abstract thought" and so on. Any thread mentioning diversity in a positive light is sure to become a shitfest.

I read 100 pages of a book before I skip to next one. BGarelay anything can keep my attention up.

>Any thread [on /pol/] mentioning diversity in a positive light is sure to become a shitfest.

Don't forget
>user is a shill
>This is the work of the Jews
>(((A word)))

I quit books 30-50 pages before the end. Idk why I do it, I just do. If it's a mutpiul book series I'll read them all till the last book and never finish.

>Tfw getting into Dune
>Tfw still on the first book

Some confessions of mine. I have a translation of of the Iliad, but have yet to read it. I haven't set aside time to read because it takes a certain kind of book to make me do that I find, or else I'll just read in the morning if no one else is in the house. The only two book series I've done this for are The Black Company and Spice and Wolf.

Also, call me a pseud, but I switched my English Major after one class. I hated it so much as I felt my professor was just pulling shit out her ass.

>The Bechdel Test
>King Arthur and masculinity

The amount of you queers who don't remember what you just read and can't form your own opinion, fuck sake, what the fuck

What reason do you fuckers have to be so elitist

>Not crying at the end of Crito

Its not got GR in the video title, you monglord

All these people who come to Veeky Forums but hate reading._. Why do you even bother wasting time here and not on a board that is literally catered to your hobbies?

I've been on Veeky Forums for like 5 years. I just now started with the greeks.

Tell that to the polfags who flood threads with remarks like niggers cant read

Thanks for the chart, user.
> last dune book not even written by frank's son
Bit cheeky, that

Nobody said we needed to rush ,my dude. There's so much lit out there that its bound to take some time. Which greeks you reading?

Our opinions diverge on this subject.

See: Mulholland Drive

I believe you to be disagreeable.

See: 8 ½

I read a lot of entry level stuff and avoid heavyweight doorstoppers because I'm so genuinely excited to get to them that I don't want to read them in case I run out of books to read

I read a lot of philosophy of physics and while it clears up a lot of the confusion I see on the internet regarding concepts in physics I also feel inferior glossing over the equations

>PORNHUB IS UNDERGOING MAINTENANCE

what the fuck is this bullshit...

I cried when Aeneas left Dido because I was trying to work up the courage to leave my abusive girlfriend and it made me feel guilty

>in case I run out of books to read
Yeah I don't think you have to worry about that.