Sterotypes Thread

What does your favorite author say about you?

Include stereotypes of said author.

I'll start:

Kafka, Thoreau, Hemingway, DFW

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I don't know if it's a stereotype but I imagine you feel alienated somewhat. Also a cool guy. Maybe you smoke cigarettes.

>cool guy
>reads Kafka
Pick one.

I think expressionism is cool

cool =! popular chad

You have almost no real friends but you're genuinely happy nonetheless

Most of the so-called German expressionist writers were jews trying to corrupt the high arts with weird shit. They were subversive, not cool.

Kafka, Dostoevsky, Steinbeck, Kierkegaard

You're American. Still young. Fresh out of High School, or in any case still in College/Undergrad age. You dream about being a writer. You want to write a beautiful novel that will be appreciated for its prose and its relatable sentiments. The novel which will make you famous, as you imagine it in your head, is probably somewhat depressing and melancholy, but with a sort of sweet interior happiness to it. It will be based on your own experiences. You keep imagining this novel but you will never write it. You have friends and a social life, but you are the quiet and intelligent person in your social circle. You have eclectic taste in music, but most of it is contemporary stuff. You don't know too much about classical, but enjoy hearing it.

kafka: introverted, very intelligent, misunderstood, has few friends but very close and true friends.

Similar to what I wrote here
But you are getting into a philosophy and existentialism phase. The novel you imagine in your head is darker and less consoling.

Fuck you nerd. Expressionism is part of life lived intensely.

You probably aren’t turned away by dark or depressing things in life, you don’t try to ignore them or pretend like they don’t exist, and you occasionally have a sense of humor when shit goes down in life. And you have pretty good taste.

What if my favorite writer is Herman Melville? I have only read Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, and Bartleby the Scrivener, but I am pretty sure he is the writer I most admire.

>Kierkegaard
smart and life of the party. you are religious, positive and optimistic.

Hunter S. Thompson, Pynchon, DFW, Nabokov

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Ayo faggots do me:
Henry James
Rene Guenon
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gustav Meyrink
Dostoevsky
Michel Houllebecq
Antoine De Saint Exupery

Max Stirner, Krasznahorkai, De Sade

>Nietzsche

You're quiet and intropsective. You are very skeptical and a critic of society. You know more than you let on. You've been through some shit and that has made you stronger.

you're addicted to Yea Forums and hate yourself
european or a pretentious american. "what's the difference?" one might ask

thomas campion
walt whitman
hart crane
rainer maria rilke

>DFW

You are a literati, you are a very creative individual, have high standards and have a very difficult mind to process, not many people understand you. You are educated, articulate, and well spoken.

Murakami, Sartre

Edgy teenager complaining about everything but doing nothing, will hopefully be saved by Christianism in few years...

Gregory Palamas is cool, but Christian exclusivism is dumb and utterly implausible. Same goes for other religious exclusivisms. I also really like C.S. Lewis' fiction. Definitely not a teenager.

>Murakami

You are kind of a weeb. You are just getting into literature and are not sure what to read. You heard of this Murakami guy and everything he wrote feels pretty comfy. Also you are probably a woman.

>walt whitman
Trying to pretend you are an intellectual by reading walt whitman. You've seen dead poets society one time and decided to read walt whitman.

>rainer maria rilke
hipster

>Dostoevsky

russian literature ~ a great choice. you like complex things, you like a challenge and don't want to take the easy way out. you like to think.

You have an artsy head so relate to Sartre. Also watch anime

Baudelaire
St. John of the Cross
Plato
Calderon de la Barca
Dante

Herman Melville

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Literally are the same thing you describe the other person as

Stephen King, Robert Cormier, HP Lovecraft

Hemmingway, Bukowski, Kafka, Harlan Ellison and Elmore Leonard

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Terry Pratchet
Roald Dahl
Paul Jennings

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Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Nietzsche, Joyce, Twain

A really calm and patient man.

You feel alienated by the world sometimes, but you also think you will change it for the better.

You are an individualist. You like to create things and you don't like when other people try to influence you.

I havent read that much authors to have favorites

You have a short attention span and like potty humour. You love Marvel films.

>late Burroughs
>St. Augustine
>PKD

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>Melville, Conrad, Coleridge, Junger

You are the strong silent type.

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>Short attention span
nah
>potty humour
nah
>you love marvel films
nah

any other takers?

Deleuze, Laozi, Perec

Kafka,Hamsun,Shakespeare,

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big brained nibba

Tolstoy, Nabokov, Mishima, Pavic, Pelevin

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What about Gary Cooper?

Melville, Conrad, Fielding, Wilde and Bronte (Emily)

You're probably like me. What would you recommend of Fielding and Wilde?

You have a neurotic personality. Your parents were cold and or distant. You have been diagnosed with anxiety or depression. If you are a male, you feel alienated from masculinity

Thoreau, Tolkien, Vonnegut (I know), Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Lewis

Plotinus
Boethius
Langland
Pearl Poet
Sturluson
Dante
Augustine
Aquinas
Chaucer
Borges
Tolkien
Vinge
Asimov
Lem
Dick
Wolfe
Stephenson
RAW
Eco
Calvino
Perec
Pynchon
Hofstadter

Proust, Beckett, and Jean Toomer

Kafka, Conn Iggulden, Yann Martel

I'd recommend Tom Jones by Fielding, it's one of my favourite novels. Regarding Wilde, I'd start with Dorian Gray and then branch out to his plays, poetry and short stories.

Jung,Thoraeu and Plato.

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Oscar Wilde, Fernando Pessoa, Machado de Assis, William Faulkner

You've probably only read one book at most of many of these authors that you consider to be your "favorites", if even one book.

Céline, Proust, Trakl, Adorno, Bataille

You're projecting, mate.

Pynchon
McCarthy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Foucault

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You are the kind of person who argues at parties about that age of consent laws are tyrannical.

Franz Kafka, Adam Lanza, Kevin MacDonald.

You are 16.

/nightwalk/
You are a catholic and want to spend your golden years in the Italian mountains
Simple but sophisticated
You read mostly for pleasure and don’t understand why people read Joyce and such
You smoke and have a martyr complex
You have a small attention span
You fell for the Yea Forums meme
You have seen the abyss in man and came back to tell the tale
You want to fight in a war, but would never sign up for fear of brainwashing
You are schizophrenic
You are depressed
You are just getting into serious reading and or just have vanilla tastes
/1800sfeel/
You have BPD
...
You like caviar
You like smoked meat, but heavily spiced
You used to do hard drugs but found the light
You want to kill yourself
You’re French

How right am I?

someone do me

Rabelais, Sterne, Joyce, Pynchon

Montaigne, Goethe, Stevens. Shakespeare is a given, but I could never weary of those either.

you have the big brain. lost many IQ points abusing mdma in my youth.

Kierkegaard and St Augustine

Do you long for faith but have a hard time embracing it?

>You want to kill yourself
i-is it that obvious?...

you used to be left leaning, but now you don't believe in morality anymore and barely even care about politics

It was the Pessoa and Wilde that gave it away

Why Wilde?

Yeah, I’ve gone to almost every church in my city and I’ve tried out a ton of denominations but I can’t find anything that truly connects with me

Calvino

Just remember, if you don't find the one correct Church, and it could be any of them, from the largest, to the most out of the way and minuscule denominations, you will go to Hell forever.

Hunter S Thompson, Salinger

dork

not him but closet homos often off themselves

Most people who I’ve met that love Wilde were horribly depressed or just lived a sad life in general. I think people who like his work just generally have a worse quality of life than others whether it be socially, economically, or any other category

"Nietzsche" is shit tier btw
>insecure about status
>doesnt understand descartes
>used to watch peterson (still in your recommended)
>believes lives value is measurable in succes but perceives himself a loser

>wilde
>closet homo

Nietzsche, Goethe, Stendhal, Hemingway Deleuze,

Tell me more about Hemingway Deleuze

Nice try, nerd

Explains your interest in Kierkegaard.

I love Wilde and I fit the bill

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Umberto Eco, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Shakespeare

some kind of visual creative who loves visual art purely for beauty and not for any sort of political thing.
for me it is melville, dante, pynchon, sterne, milton and browne.

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Pynchon, Borges, Plath, O’Conner, Baldwin, Bollanio, W.S. Merwin, Ballard, Baudelaire, Deleuze, Lacan, and de Man.

an american francophile

Joyce, Shakespeare, Byron, Rossetti, Bronte (Emily), Dumas, Dostoevsky, Milton, Chaucer, Hugo, Kafka

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a cute twink desu

It was actually heavy right-wing leanings, but other than that you’re spot on

Proust, Maupassant, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Dumas

Borges, Valéry, Gómez Dávila

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You are a just an average frog

Probably an architect who smashes tons of blonde artsy girls in the weekend
>>
Went throught a commust phase. Now converted to catholisms and got baptized.

Hölderlin, Joyce, Heine, Balzac

you still live with your parents and think your brother is an idiot

Anne Frank, Sylvia Plath, Dante, Hemingway

Dostoievsky, Borges, Alexandre Dumas, Terry Pratchett

after 7 years, it's still this guy

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you hate yourself

DFW, Huysmans, Stephen King.

You are not wrong, but I'm pretty sure you could apply that statement to anyone on his board. I guess I was expecting something akin to 's analysis

Milton, George Eliot

You're not white

Jesus Christ, I feel called out.

your expectations are too high for the company you keep. rattle me again for more magic 8-ball-tier ministrations

Oscar Wilde
Hunter S. Thompson
Stephen King
Ernest Hemmingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frank Herbert

I think I'll put the computer away and do something more productive

Celine, Borges, Plato, Witkiewicz

incel

E.L. James
Stephenie Meyer
Tina Fey
Tara Gilesbie
Rose Christo

incel
closet gayboy
neckbeard but lowkey cool
fatty, but likes to party

plays vidya 3 hours a day, has unopened copies of tolstoy, dostoevsky, dante, joyce, cervantes on shelf

you were raised in a college town which you never moved away from and assume pretensions of intellectualism by proxy

Negative on the vidya but direct hit on both Dosteovsky, Joyce and currently reading Tolstoy.

My three favorite novelists are Hamsun, Sebald, and Tolstoy

My three favorite poets are Eliot, Akhmatova, and Celan

My three favorite playwrights are Shakespeare, Pinter, and Chekhov

I like many other writers

Do you like Petrarch?

Hemingway, ayn rand, vonnergut

You have never seen a vagina up close

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Sorry but inaccurate
Although I mainly sleep with asian girls

>everything I don’t understand is because of Jews
Throw yourself off an overpass, incel

You are ver high IQ and the envy of your very large social circle in regards to intellect, class, wit, status and wealth. Undoubtedly a prominent member of the aristocracy.

nietzsche, plato, heidegger, junger, evola, spengler

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germaboo

Heminway (going to his Key West house this week), Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath and Jack Kerouac

I don't have BPD as far as I know

P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, John Swartzwelder

Kafka
Borges
Lovecraft
Poe
Camus
Wilde
García Lorca

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Melville
Proust
Dostoevsky
Joyce
Calvino
Italo Svevo
Oakley Hall

Pessoa
Cioran
Leopardi
Mishima
Baudelaire
Dostoievski
Proust

I want to die every day.

20th century vagabond

based on an analysis of your favorite authors I surmise that you wish to die every day

you were raised catholic or have a boner for catholicism

sartre
camus
verlaine
woolf
eliot
mo yan
yu hua
ding ling
osamu dazai
proust I say despite failing to make it all the way through in search of lost time three separate times

Keep at la recherche friend… Proust had open eyes.

Im actually switch, honey

top kek

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Marcel Proust
Denis Johnson
St. Augustine
Rousseau

>expressing yourself through the media you consume

J U S T fuck my society up senpai

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>You smoke and have a martyr complex

You may well just be right

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Reclusive paranoid dope smoker

Dante, Giacomo Leopardi, Alda Merini

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mann
sebald
danilo kis

Chaucer
Shakespeare
Milton
Keats

You start masturbating in the middle of a smoke.

I should offer Eve the apple.

fetishize an older England
older than 25

Aristotle, Seneca, Cervantes, Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand

Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, vandermeer

>PKD
>Cormac McCarthy
>Gene Wolfe
>Baudrillard

>Kafka, Dostoevsky, Steinbeck, Kierkegaard
absolutely unable to marry or settle a final deal
(reading advice: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump)

Juenger, Wyndham Lewis, Schiller, Vico

Hesse, Borges, Dostoevsky

>E.L. James
>Stephenie Meyer

Please be joking. Either you are a fan of literotica or YA, you just read for fun, you pick up a book for no reason when you should actually be doing something productive, please kill yourself.

Tina Fey actually isn't that bad, but still.

personal favorites:

you're very intelligent. object the status quo.

you're a nazi

you like fiction, classics, and horror.... you're very smart and big brained obviously. you don't need our opinions.

You delve into the depressing side of things, but with sardonic humor of course. not everyone understands you. great story teller, and your true friends appreciate you.

you just got into philosophy, you are a brainlet. (ie play do and neechee.)

literally me when i was 17 or 18 and first knew what philosophy was so i bought will to power and the anthem. nice try

not bad desu all great authors and people who have influenced many and you can learn a lot from them.

are you in high school?

not american

don't let anyone ever dull your sparkle.

Gogol, Kafka, Houellebecq

you're a girl

wow you know me so well lmao

list is way too long imo
all of them are good ones, but just too much variety. pick a genre, god DAmN

thoreau - nature freak. want to quit your job to become a farmer. /nightwalk/

tolkien - trash

vonngeut - communist / liberal

lewis - okay

tolstoy - /myguy/

You have scoliosis.

you are BIG BRAINED, my duuuuude, you are the smart one in your friend group if you have any

are you me? you are literally amazing, you are GOD. you have great tastes. but you are deeply isolated by the world and you are weird AF, man. [stay woke tho.]

>nobody replies to me
BUT I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. I POSTED A PICTURE, I REPLIED TO SOMEONE ELSE I FOLLOWED ALL THE RULE S

>[Book you like]
>incel
Did I summarize the thread accurately

you are correct lol

Bataille, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Ligotti

true intellectual, you don't trust anyone, don't like the government or authority

>Sophocles
>Shakespeare
>Walt Whitman
>Dostoievski
>Gabriel García Márquez

you spelled dostovevsky wrong. big brained, big headed. love debates. into politics. classics reader

>no Calvino

>García Lorca
Based

>Maupassant
Based

We spell F. D. like that here in México.

oof my mistake

Horrific projection.

Based

Bradbury
Lovecraft
Gene Wolfe
Ligotti
William Gibson
Clark Ashton Smith
Jeffrey Thomas

Based

Question Authority

Big Brained

Mishima
Pessoa
Ligotti
Bulgakov
Faulkner

you like to pick a nice quiet spot to read. you are skeptical of many things. you are very honest but can come off as very blunt and sometimes condescending. you spend all day browsing lit

Robert Aickman
Italo Calvino
Arthur Machen
Malcolm Lowry
Samuel Beckett

>Christian exclusivism is dumb and utterly implausible
>I Iike lewis
pick only one of these

you're cool

Jung, Conrad, Huxley

Psychedelics using neo-hippy.

You got the psychedelics half right and the rest wrong.

You got a fascination with the uncharted reaches of your psyche; you think there's truth to be found in even the most uncomfortable discoveries, and psychedelics are your vessel into your heart of darkness.

>You got a fascination with the uncharted reaches of your psyche;
Nope.

>you think there's truth to be found in even the most uncomfortable discoveries,
Sure.

>and psychedelics are your vessel into your heart of darkness.
No.

Dostoyevsky
Joseph Heller
Pynchon

Nabokov
Lovecraft
Tolstoy
Nisio Isin

Mishima
Hardy
cumming

I don't fear brainwashing

Wilde, Chekhov, Melville, Emily Dickinson, Cormac McCarthy, Henry James

Quirky, but with a strong moral foundation.
Hates the modern world.

Stendhal
Mann
Tolstoi
Borges

dostojevskij
kirkegaard
marx

Nope, just gay

Plato, Nietzsche, Hume, Machado de Assis

Thoreau, Epictetus, Asimov, Michener, Emerson

very into nature

you just started reading

liberal

>burroughs
>david ohle
>pynchon
>rené daumal

Oh, and Nisio IsiN.

What if William Golding is my favorite author?

Sophocles, Bernanos, Céline, Pynchon

weird flex but ok

John Dos Passos, Vasily Grossman, Melville, Joyce
You have no trust in any modern institutions whatsoever
You hike or at least go outdoors a lot

i indeed have vanilla tastes

>John Dos Passos, Vasily Grossman, Melville, Joyce
pseud

W-why user? Just because of Joyce?

i could keep @ing ppl but it gets tedious

youre all boring white guys who arent nearly as smart as they think they are

Yeah welcome to Yea Forums faggot

ik it comes with the territory but i think a reminder is helpful

whats sad is theres no where else b/c reddit is filled with teenagers and adults who collect funkopops and forums are dead afaik

im sorry desu. i made the thread and it was fun in the beginning but now im running out of things to say for people based on their authors >:(

my favorite author is sean goonan lmao

Mine are Calvino and Alighieri

>Alighieri
Why would you read fanficer

Bulgakov, Jünger, Bordewijk en Hermans

based

Je toont altijd degelijke en sterke pik, even when the going gets though.

Streuvels, Gezelle, E. Jünger, Spengler

Forgot Ignatius of Loyola desu

You're a pewdiepie watcher

You have learned to laugh at what disturbes you

Peter Hitchens

You're a sinner

Lekker Belgisch manneken met een duidelijk beeld van schoonheid, jeugd en deugd. Ondanks uw inzichten in de grote beweging van het leven ontkom ge niet aan de onzinnigheid van uw daden; ge pist nog altijd tegen de maan.

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>You're a pewdiepie watcher
couldnt be more true, i like those authors as well

Nondedju copain

>You have learned to laugh at what disturbes you
same

bump

classics

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lovecraft

This means you are a god among men.

thank you, kind sir. *tips fedora*

> Bukowski
> Fante
> Kerouac
> burgess

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Yeah, I like Lovecraft a lot. He's virtually the only horror writer I've ever been able to get into.

>Kerouac

meme

all great authors and unironically, you seem cool, and fun to be around.

actually, wait,


30 year old boomer

Thanks brother

there is literally nothing wrong with being a homoromantic sailor

Bolaño, Pynchon, Lispector, Bulgakov, Borges

>white man bad
>European novels are too complicated, you must be pretentious if you like them
>I wish I could go back to r*ddit to discuss YA

lmao exactly. you back you plebs

based

Most of the people who post things like this are fundamentalist boomers from /pol/ and they can fuck off right back there.

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> Just keep lurking and built your confidence

> It took me a while to get the meme thing

> I red pilled by 75 year old father

btfo boomers

Roald Dahl
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Hans Christian Andersen
Louisa May Alcott

i think of childhood desu. avid reader, you were the smartest pupil in your youth. melancholy and nostalgic is what i imagine when i think of those authors.

bump

Houellebecq, Bolaño, Dostoevsky, Rosset

based and faggotpilled

true

can we be friends

bump

s-sure, user ;-;
twitter.com/chuunifuck

you are sadist and you don't trust people

>Jordan Peterson
no but seriously I love Robert E. Howard

based

what every person should be desu

you enjoy a good story. you aren't afraid of weird or absurd things. you aren't afraid of loss, grief, or heartbreak either. you love a good book and you are not afraid of a challenge.

>Robert E. Howard
yee haw

how about emmerson?

you don't like living a normal life? I dunno

>Nabokov
>Tarjei Vesaas
>Henry James
>Margaux Fragoso
>Kate Skylark

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you watch anime

Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Thomas Bernhard

Orwell, hemmingway, kaczynski and camus

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misunderstood, lonely, and depressed

literal unabomber

Do me please
Boris Vian
Sartre
Camus

t-thanks user, don't let anyone ever discourage your kindness!

:3 np

some what of an elitist

you really like wine

Do me as well, please

Dickens
Tolstoy
Waugh
Dostoyevsky
Wilde
Borges

You're senile but don't realise it yet.

>Do me as well, please
t. 30 year old boomer

all those are really good authors tho, you might be senile

Don’t use my face please

sorry hun

Oh noooos

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qt

Chekhov
Dostoevsky
Emily Bronte
Shakespeare

Read the essay by Turgenev on Hamlet and Don Quixote.

female or under 30, has an office job. positive or over all happy demeanor. cries often and likes reality TV.

>jordan peterson
>karen slaughter
>jojo moyes
>kate atkinson

Perec, Borges, Pessoa

hopeful romantic

spanish, into art, absurdist

like mystery

>Dostoevsky
>Turgenev
>Kafka
>Sartre

All that's coming to my mind right now

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Depressed and new to literature

hunter s thompson, dostoyevsky, joyce, hemingway, dazai, jack townsend

>Dostoevsky
>>Turgenev
>>Kafka
>>Sartre
absurd, like tragedy, has depression / anxiety, thinker

traditional, into weird things, like long novels

Homer, Aristotle, Boethius, Blake, Goethe, Hölderlin, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Heidegger

studied philosophy or sociology in college

elitist and some what pretentious

you read too much. you do have amazing tastes desu

Hesse, Steinbeck, Orwell.