/lit/ - Literature

>Favorite book(s):
Foundation, Second Foundation, Gone With The Wind, Oscar Wao
>Favorite author(s):
King, Asimov, Murakami, Bolano, Allende, Salinger, Card, Atwood, Mitchell.
>Favorite genre(s):
Bildrungsroman, postmodern, literary fiction
>Favorite publisher(s):
Random House, Virago, Faber and Faber
>Favorite country in terms of their literature:
America
>About how many books do you read per year?:

70

>About how many books do you read per month?:
10
>Last three books read:
Conversation in the Cathedral, Of Love and Shadows, The Convent
>Currently reading:
Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis
>Book(s) you plan to read soon:
Zorry, The Bad Girl, Kafka short stories
>Link to your Goodreads/Librarything/etc, if you have one:
n/a
>Post picture of bookshelf/book pile, if you have one.
n/a

People are angry.

>>1946538

Why aren't you hooting anymore?

I'm at 64 / 100, I'm way ahead of schedule. I had my doubts about reading this much, but I've been having a ball (for the most part). So many great books out there to read, but if you don't push yourself, you won't read half of them.

I thought this was gonna be my favourite novel of his, but he kinda dropped the ball after a while. The first chapter should've been the template for the whole book. Oh well.

I hadn't even heard the wors hipster until 2 years ago. On the internet.

Chapters about the author's writing or his life in general - good

Chapters about the sci-fi / horror stuff - boring as hell

It starts off focused on the former (the first chapter is great), and by maybe halfway through it seems to focus on the latter, which is dull. Why does he do this? I've almost finished it, although I admit, I look forward to having the mysteries solved.

>>1942924

Asimov is amazing, you need to read a lot more of him. I agree with Hideous Men though, I thought it was DFW's worst work (although he's good).

>>1942977

American Psycho is good, yes. I enjoyed it a lot.


As for me, I'm reading Lunar Park, which is a good book so far. The first chapter was excellent. The Teenage Pussy chapter was very good too, but short.

I want to open my own really bad bookstore.

>hardly any stock, just empty shelves
>mostly thrillers and crap
>laugh at people when they buy thrillers and crap, even though there's nothing else to buy
>C4 in basement

>>1942957

Did Tao Lin's wife put him in the friendzone? That explains a lot.

>>1942611

Get a more interesting, colour tattoo.

>>1941874

Wow, pretty bitter. Funny though.

People are complaining about that English classes a lot on here lately. They can't be that bad.

>>1940869

This won't end well.

>>1940861

Why would you do that?

Other than the obvious ones like Dan Brown, etc.

F Scott Fitzgerald
Alice Munro
Alastair Reynolds
Banana Yoshimoto
Ryu Murakami
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>>1940277
I'm reading Luna Park at the moment, and the first chapter was excellent, I agree. The 'skimming' style of it, all the clever language, and the funniness were great, as well as it being about a (real) writer and his journey.

>>1940066

It's not that, there's no more room in my bedroom, which is small and has furniture taking up 80% of the floorspace.

>>1940071

>implying Yates and Ellis are similar
>implying Yates doesn't kick ass

Opinions on him?

I'm starting to like him, and don't view him as low-brow / trashy at all. I don't understand all the hate against him.

My bookcases are filled to about 130% capacity*, and I STILL am not going to buy a LOL Kindle.

*by horizontally placing books on vertical books** because I'm out of room otherwise

**even doing this, I'm nearly out of room

The funny thing is, a trashy thriller CAN be good, despite being trashy. I like the fast pace of storytelling, and the plot twists.

>>1937717

I have AIM, we should talk sometimes*, which would be super nice.

*not today, my brain is fried from a 3 hour session of NiGHTS 1

I buy about two thirds online, and one third at my local Waterstones. Online has a much better range, and is a little cheaper. But in Waterstones the staff are nice and I can actually look at the books. I went for a job interview there once, but they didn't want me. I still think about that sometimes.