MBTI Type and an Author of Book you enjoyed

[Anonymous No.23032881]

and get a recommendation. I'll start:

INTJ
Sartre, unironically.

>Yes, this is because I want to see which types frequent /Lit/; no it is not a data mine--I'm just a nerd.

[Anonymous No.23032889]

>astrology believer enjoys bad author
poetry.

[Anonymous No.23032897]

>>23032881
I was gonna reply seriously until I noticed you wrote 'Author of Book you ENJOYED [emphasis mine].' Just one we enjoyed!? The state of /lit/, man.

>INTJ btw
>Nabokov is my hero

[Anonymous No.23032927]

>>23032889
>yet another pseud-scoffer peddles the common conflation in his ignorance
Poetry, spoken-word even.

>>23032897
Cringe, from start to finish, and neither will I give recommendations to pedos. Take pic rel as the best you'll get.

[Anonymous No.23033495]

INTP
Plato.—I don't like 'authors', I like books. However Plato is the only author in this sense who I like. By the way, those who frequent /lit/ the most are INTPs and INTJs.

[Anonymous No.23033508]

>>23032881
Im an e something something so i doubt our interests overlap enough where we can rec stuff.

[Anonymous No.23033522]

>>23032927
>Cringe, from start to finish, and neither will I give recommendations to pedos. Take pic rel as the best you'll get.

I love Lolita but Ada is actually my favorite work of his and the 20th century, and it's about metaphysics, time, aesthetics, textuality... and incest and pedophilia. Hmm.

[Anonymous No.23033543]

>>23032889
Kek’d

And I like Sartre

[Anonymous No.23033545]

ISTP
I haven't read book since I was a kid. Might get back into it cause I've liked writing lately.
I like lord of the rings

[Anonymous No.23033561]

INTJ
Pynchon, DFW, Gaddis, and McCarthy wrote all my faves

[Anonymous No.23033569]

>>23032881

Also another INTJ I'll list five authors I really enjoyed:
Andrei Bely, Lovecraft, Agota Kristoff, Mervyn Peake, and Krasznahorkai.

>>23032881

I'd suggest maybe Heidegger

[Anonymous No.23033597]

>>23032881
INTJ
I only read sissy hypno stuff and Yu-Gi-Oh fanfics

[Anonymous No.23033607]

Lol @ all the mistypes itt

[Anonymous No.23033612]

>>23033607
Explain

[Anonymous No.23033689]

INTP
I dont enjoy reading

[Anonymous No.23033714]

INFP
William Faulkner

[Anonymous No.23033964]

I don't read because I enjoy it. I read because I feel like there's something I don't understand that I want to understand, so I slog through tedious books that waste my time. I finish a book, think I got it all figured out, and then post about it on /lit/. Then /lit/ tells me I don't understand and tells me to kys so I get frustrated and read another book to understand what I don't understand.

[Anonymous No.23033987]

>>23032881
I'm not going to stoop to the self-congratulatory retardation of MBTI so I'll just post my zodiac sign instead

Saggitarius
Plato's Complete Works. The strongest of the dialogues I've read so far was Phaedo but Cratylus proved unexpectedly interesting despite being a somewhat obsolete linguistic discussion

[Anonymous No.23034062]

>>23033987
While self congratulating yourself on being too smart to post your mbti you outed yourself as too stupid to even answer a simple prompt.

[Anonymous No.23034068]

>>23033714
literally me

[Anonymous No.23034081]

>>23033987
This is a weird pendulum swing
Just say your mbti or don't say anything at all if it offends you
I dont get the need to signal how above it all you are

[Anonymous No.23034103]

>>23034062
I answered both prompts. One was a sincere book recommendation, faggot.

>>23034081
>don't say anything at all if it offends you
And do something productive with my time? I am a /lit/izen and resent what you are implying!

[Anonymous No.23034112]

>>23034103
No, you failed to answer the prompt and now you're coping

[Anonymous No.23034114]

>>23034103
>>23034112
Alright settle down you two

[Anonymous No.23034118]

>>23034112
Plato is an author
I say, greedily taking the bait.

[Anonymous No.23034119]

INFP
Peake

>>23033714
Does enjoying Hemmingway mean I can't enjoy Faulkner?

[Anonymous No.23034124]

>>23034118
Your answer to the prompt was not Plato, but Plato's Complete Works. You answerd with works and not the author. You misread the prompt because you were too busy being smug and now you are coping

[Anonymous No.23034149]

>>23034124
and everyone in the thread applauded your astute observational wisdom. Was that the point you were wasting my time with all along?

[Anonymous No.23034159]

INFP
Comte de Lautreamont

[Anonymous No.23034175]

>>23032881
ENTP
Revolt Of The Masses

[Anonymous No.23034528]

>>23034175
Fuck.you.

[Anonymous No.23034657]

>>23034149
The point is that you're retarded. That would be obvious if you werent a moron

[Anonymous No.23034683]

>>23032881
ENFP, Leo
Dickens

[Anonymous No.23034692]

INTP
Naked Lunch
I don’t think other INTPs would like it.

[Anonymous No.23034909]

INTP
Chekhov's short stories. Misery, Enemies, Grasshopper, and the Ill-Temperedman my personam favourites
Kipling's Man who would be King
Doyle's Sherlock and the Lost World as well
Now that I think of it, I seem to enjoy victorian era Sci-fi a lot, as Verne and H.G. Wells are some of my personal favourites

[Anonymous No.23035696]

I'm >>23033495
>>23033987
I am also in midst of reading his complete work, life-changing stuff, although I didn't like Cratylus. How would you rate what you've read thus far? Here's how it'd go for me:
>Euthyphro 3/5
>Apology 4/5
>Crito 3/5
>Phaedo 5/5
>Cratylus 2/5
>Theaetetus 3/5
>Sophist 4/5
^(if you haven't read this one yet I suggest you get familiar w/ parmenidean metaphysics, as one third of it suddenly goes that way; you'll enjoy it way more if you understand parmenideanism)
>Statesman 2/5
>Republic (still reading this one, but so far) 5/5
Yes, I did skip over about a dozen dialogues so I can read Republic. I'll return to them in time.

[Anonymous No.23035752]

>>23032881
I did this shit years ago and I had a BM type that was like, mostly attributed to women.
So that was fucking cool.


I think it was INFP?
Am I a fag?

[Anonymous No.23035757]

>>23033714
>found the other INFP
Hello my fellow brother in homosexuality
>chooses Faulkner
These boys would be lost without us

[Anonymous No.23035763]

Oh shit there are actually a few INFPs here. Are you all men?
I saw this asked on /pol/ and it was INTJs nearly across the board.
Do you feel like it accurately corresponds to who and how you are?

What do you think it says about the arts that there's more of INFPs here than ever were on /pol/

[Anonymous No.23037610]

>nobody recommends anything

[Anonymous No.23037696]

>INTP
>Borges, PKD, Joyce

[Anonymous No.23038241]

ENTP
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha

[Anonymous No.23038619]

>>23032881
infp
faulker, proust, pessoa, dosto

[Anonymous No.23038630]

>>23035763
>Are you all men?
no :>

[Anonymous No.23040058]

>>23034119

Nice encountering another Peake fellow Peake Chad. I think I would suggest Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, or William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land if you're into heavily atmospheric and gloomy pieces.

>>23034159

Maybe Baudilaere but you've probably already read Les Fleurs du Mal I suggest Roberto Bolano

[Anonymous No.23040446]

infp
kierkegaard, peake, zweig

[Anonymous No.23040496]

>>23032881
INTJ/A, Sartre sort of acts as an endpiece to existentialist thought in a number of ways. If you liked his core philosophy then you might enjoy taking a stroll in psychology for a bit, if you liked his more Lit pieces then other French Lit from the time might be of more interest. I had to go through the whole MBTI thing for work years ago and found it to be a method management liked to use to micromanage further, I was told this response was in alignment with my MBTI designation and I honestly have considered it a waste of time at best and method of oppression at worst ever since.

[Anonymous No.23040499]

>>23032881
>MBTI Type
pure soi

[Anonymous No.23040552]

>INTP
>Libra
>Fearful Avoidant
>Roman Catholic
>age 26
>122 IQ
>Male nurse
>Jung's Psychology and Alchemy
Recommendations, please.

[Anonymous No.23040634]

>>23032881

ENTP Kant
(As others pointed out MBTI is debunked)

[Anonymous No.23040888]

>>23040634
Oh wow its debunked? Oh noooo.
Absurd.

[Anonymous No.23040915]

INFP
Huxley for BNW, I guess.
I really haven't read enough, but I'm curious what I might get recommended.

[Anonymous No.23040973]

>>23032881
ENFP
Dostoevsky, specifically brothers karamazov, but also his work generally

[Anonymous No.23040994]

ENTP
Frank Herbert

What can I say, I like the big worm.

[Anonymous No.23041079]

>>23034528
What

[Anonymous No.23041115]

>>23032881
ENTP
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

[Anonymous No.23041323]

>>23040552
Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog?

[Anonymous No.23041352]

SCHIZO
One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

[Anonymous No.23042103]

INFJ
Tolkien. Goes hand in hand really.

[Anonymous No.23042753]

>>23040634
>debunked
Anyone who thinks this has been filtered. *cue scoffing*

[Anonymous No.23042759]

INFJ
What should I read?

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9RIEstm6 No.23042876]

«I N T P»; MAHMOUD DARWISH.

[OP [INTJ] No.23043070]

OP here. I got too busy to keep up with the thread and was hoping it would just die, but since you guys have kept posting, I suppose I'll try and give some replies and recs.

>>23033495
I'm surprised Plato would be the sole author you like--sounds a bit pretentious, honestly, but to each their own. This board does seem to be predominantly NTs or INXXers based off of this thread, which does not do well to uphold positive stereotypes, kek. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus for you.

>>23033508
That's not how it works. I will say this, and it will no doubt be news to many here, but ALL the types are highly interrelated. You can make groups of four of any of them for one reason or another.

>>23033522
It sounded good until the last bit. The Illustrated Man; Bradbury, for you. Not every story is a hit, but some are great, and his foresight--amazing.

>>23033545
Rare company! You should. If you liked LoTR, try the Irish mythos. I love them both and read them for the first time close together. Hopefully you'll enjoy it too. There's an Anthology of Irish Literature by David H. Greene or Tales of the Celtic Bards: Myth and Music by Claire Hamilton. If you're in the mood to listen, here's some of Hamilton's bardian storytelling on YouTube. All three stories are good, but I really liked the second one. youtube.com/watch?v=SPo57TxA8_I&list=OLAK5uy_m7ewgDjtOeLtCGESouQdQJ-awW33UwRAU

>>23033597
Osamu Tezuka's Hi no Tori (Phoenix), but taken with a grain of salt. The Bible is what you really need.

>>23033689
Then how about a good poem? A Dialogue Between Thyrsis and Dorinda by Andrew Marvell. One of my favorites. Sometimes I just say to people at random, "Tell me, Thyrsis, prithee do, whither thou and I must go?" No one ever has any clue what I'm talking about.

>>23033987
That was oddly self-congratulating, my dear, star-born Sagittarius. Though shaking with terror my recommendation will fail to satisfy even as a homely doormat for your weary feet, I'll recommend Reinhold Niebuhr, who while not rivaling the Phaedo's grandeur is a suitable offering from one of my station, sir. As for the types, there's no intrinsic honor to any of them.

>>23034683
A Dickensian! Surely you must be a nicer sort than I am. For you, Anthony Trollope's Doctor Thorne.

>>23034909
We might get along. I'll recommend To The Spring Equinox, the first in the Kokoro trilogy by Soseki.

>>23035752
Not by type, you aren't. What would Tolkien say? And would you grieve Bloom's weary head even further? Hasn't the man enough sorrows? Go and read something manly, like an ENTJ--The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire by Luttwak (given to me in some excitement by an ENTJ irl). Or else accept yourself and read something comfy--Romaunt of the Rose; Chaucer.

>>23035763
>/pol/ is nearly all INTJs
Why must you hurt me? What did I ever do to you?

>(to be con't)
>If I skipped you, it's probably because I wasn't yet sure what to suggest. I'll do my best to circle round again.

[OP [INTJ] No.23043204]

>>23037696
So long as you promise me you won't go running off into the occult and waste your life caught in the spider's web, I'll give you a pearl I keep in my pocket! *Borgian INTP promises like a genuine lad* Very well, then! Yeats' poem, Ego Dominus Tuus--a bit difficult if you're not familiar with poetry, but in my experience INTPs can handle it, and the short story to which it led me, Rosa Alchemica. I've read the pair so many times I've lost count. I've made so many people read them I've lost count. I even held my entire family hostage and read it to them once. I couldn't even tell you why. Not a one of them retained it, I think. If it doesn't satisfy your appetite, try an Ne dominant, D.H. Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner. And if you're not pleased with that, well! *huffs; flabergasted*

>>23038241
Venus im Pelz; Sacher-Masoch

>>23038619
>Andrew Wyeth
Well, well, well, a discerning INFP! William Barret's Irrational Man, specifically for the chapter The Testimony of Modern Art; and Love and the Turning Year: One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese translated by Kenneth Rexroth.

>>23038630
Trans-women count as men, Mr. Madam. Greives to be Eve, but if you'd had 'em y'know 'es Adam!


>>23040446
Milton.

>>23040496
I found his philosophy to be good, but it was his literature which I enjoyed the most. It has certain predictable INTJ flaws, however. MBTI isn't what you think, though it can be used as you've said. It is merely an analytical system based on observation. The results may be used in many ways, of course, so it is no surprise a business uses it to try and squeeze more efficiency from its workmen. That is what they do. I consider it to be a work of colossal genius, the primary source of Jung's redemption, and a body of work which is still incomplete and only just nearing its vindication--as modern neurology is beginning to catch up to the frighteningly sharp perceptive abilities of that half-retarded man. At some point, they'll notice, and he'll get the credit he deserves. I just hope it doesn't add too much steam to his work which is best left forgotten. I recommend The Owl of Minerva. A favorite reread of mine, it is a collection of essays by various philosophers on philosophy.

>>23040552
I love your note-taking, but boy is your Bible a little beaten! Poor thing. Andrew Murray's Absolute Surrender and C.S. Lewis' Weight of Glory.

>>23040634
It isn't. Metaphors We Live By; Lakoff and Julius Caesar; Shakespeare.

>>23040915
Oh, do read it! You'll like it. You may hate this one though, Atlas Shrugged; Ayn Rand--or by it's hidden title, Brave New World: The Prequel. If you can't stomach it, try Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

>>23040973
Agamemnon Trilogy; Aeschylus

>>23040994
Big worm, you say? Super Frog Saves Tokyo; Murakami. I've never seen or read Dune, so it leaves me uncertain what to rec you.

>>23042103
The Fairie Queen; Edmund Spencer

>(con't)

[Anonymous No.23043217]

INTP
Baudrillard

[OP [INTJ] No.23043267]

>>23041115
I'm unfamiliar save by name of Revolt of the Masses, but Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

>>23042759
William Blake and The Bible, so you don't get led astray by Blake who is being led astray by his own inner life.

>>23042876
I've wondered what type you were. I knew you must be similar--I'm either strongly in agreement of disagreement with your posts. I've never read Darwish, but John Clare is my recommendation. If you're overly familiar with him, perhaps A Warbler's Song in the Dusk: The Life and Work of Otomo Yakamochi by Paula Doe.

>going back to those I think I missed...
>>23033561
The Aleph; Borges--Death and the Compass is my favorite, and perhaps Eiji Yoshikawa's, Musashi you may enjoy.

>>23033569
The Face of Another; Abe, Kobo

>>23033714
Robert Burns and Henry Taylor

>>23034119
Vernon Scanell and Mark Strand

>>23034159
John Keats

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9RIEstm6 No.23043285]

>>23043267


I DO NOT READ BRITISHER AUTHORS —LEWIS CARROLL, THE EXCEPTION—, MUCH LESS ROMANTIC BRITISHERS.

[OP [INTJ] No.23043290]

>>23043285
As usual, you manage to annoy. Ironically, I don't read "Palestinian" authors, but I thought I humor you with a recommendation anyway.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9RIEstm6 No.23043305]

>>23043290


BRITISHER AUTHORS ARE BRITISH; MAHMOUD DARWISH IS UNIVERSAL.

[OP [INTJ] No.23043314]

>>23043305
>Moud...universal
I doubt that very much.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !Ry9RIEstm6 No.23043321]

>>23043314


?

[Anonymous No.23043348]

>>23032881
ENTJ
Frederick Forsyth

[Anonymous No.23043362]

>>23043204
Well, the place I worked at did not seem too interested in improving efficiency, they were seemingly more interested in using it as a way to foster communication or perhaps may have just believed that interemployee communication issues could be magically solved somehow with it. Anyone who tested with the I designation were immediately targeted with more micromanagement. Whenever I would tell them the answer to what they were asking this was met with a stern reference to my designation, and I just went back to telling them whatever they wanted to hear and they left me alone so insofar as I can figure it out the test just seems to be accurate enough to determine the difference between introverts and extroverts. My performance metrics were already consistently the highest in the company so it is entirely possible they were using it as a means to target underperformers and may not have actually been interested in me for any reason other than the fact I scored high introversion. Overall I would say it did nothing to improve efficiency, especially since it seemed to result in more HR complaints. Perhaps for some business models it may have a more applicable function of improving efficiency but I have only seen it used with some sort of magic pill intent to try to solve communication "issues" that are largely born from systemic corporate culture problems anyhow. I will check out the Owl of Minerva though.

[Anonymous No.23043994]

>>23032881
ENTP
J.D Salinger. not as profound as some other answers but he defined my obsession with literature after having to read him in high school.

[Anonymous No.23044004]

>>23043267

>The Face of Another by Kobo Abe

Already read and loved it was actually speaking with someone about it the other day. I'm a pretty big fan of Abe in general and have almost read everything released in English besides a few essays and a couple long out-of peint works

[Anonymous No.23044368]

INFJ
Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.23045190]

>>23033545
>I like lord of the rings
The books or movies? Because if the latter, you might get kind of disappointed.