/lit/ - Literature

I dunno why, I just added to it a little, based on my reads over the last few months. It's not really the 'best' books of the 21st century, just ones I consider the best or ones I think have some special quality. I tried to keep the number of books per author down, since people complained before.

But Targaryens are all impevious to heat in general, right?

lol, Kindle.

I want to hold a paper book in my hands. Feels much better. Nothing to go wrong. Don't have to pay anything in the first place.

Yeah, I get the whole 'she's go dragon blood' in her thing, but what does this mean? That one of her parents was a dragon, lololol? I don't understand.

Also, sorry for asking a entry-level question when the fifth book has just come out. I've only read and seen the first book / season.

>>1919282

Lolita is a good book, with decent characters and plot, and great prose. I admit, though, I hated it at first. Didn't read it for 2 years because the first 10 pages were so boring.

>>1919280

Alright. Here are some random examples that I've read this year. Rabbit, Run, John Updike. Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishirugo. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa.

>>1919248

Are you denying the existence of slightly bad (4/10) books? Because that's what it sounds like.

Ah, I see. You read bad books to denounce idiots in a more informed way. There is merit in this.

I've gone through various phases where I have or haven't finished bad books. I used to ditch them, then I kept going (for some reason), then I decided not to finish them again, now I finish them because I can't afford to get many books. I dunno. I feel trapped when I start reading a bad book, because I think I'm going to finish it, and know I'll have wasted 3 or 4 days. I won't usually finish a very bad or terrible book though, just a bad one.

It's worth reading to page 50 though, to give the book a chance.

Hello?

If they're bad with the opposite sex, they write a pimp who fucks everything with boobs. If they're weedy and weak, they write tall and strong people who win fights. If they're too afraid to take drugs for fear of the police / their health / what their social circle thinks, they write about someone who starts doing weed, acid, coke, and other drugs.

Confirm.

A very bad book, a great author.

I've been looking forward to reading this for a month, and I'm 200 pages in and kind of bored. The prose isn't strong at all, the characters are average, and there isn't much plot yet. Does it get better?

Seriously, Llosa is all over the place for quality. Feast was Great Tier, whereas The Green House was Neckbeard Tier.

>>1916405

A better place than the person who said that to me, apparently.

>>1916388

Not in my country it wasn't.

As a European, I've never understood this. How can you write without joining the letters together? It must be extremely slow, and is no better in any other way than joined-up handwriting (cursive). I've known ONE adult in my life who didn't use cursive, and we always thought it was weird.

>pedophilia
>everyone dying
>pedophilia
>incest
>pedophilia
>everyone hating each other
>pedophilia

What the fuck happened to him in his childhood? This is worse than Bret Easton Ellis in America Psycho, or Margaret Atwood in pretty much any of her books.

>>1916300

Don't read Wizard and Glass, then.

Given all the nerds and turbovirgins here, I thought it might be like the 9 character types from RPGs. I've studied pyschology, but fairly low level, and never covered that. How do people remember all the types just from the acronyms?

>>1913824

It helps to be unemployed (like most of this board), and not have enough money to buy loads of games and DVDs.

>>1913789

I read for an average of 5 hours a day, which seems like a lot.

>>1913806

I have a fear of trying new authors. I'm not sure if I'll like them.

I've made a dozen threads about hispanic lit before, but not quite this one. Do you like it?

That picture of the naked girl masturbating to Swedish Harry Potter was great.

Also, I've never understood all these stupid personality types. Is it from RPGs or something?

Various books by Mario Vargas Llosa, Roberto Bolano, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Junot Diaz and Isabel Allende. There's the awesome tier stuff like 2666, The Feast of the Goat, Oscar Wao and The House of the Spirits, then a dozen more good tier books such as (for example) Last Evenings on Earth. The recurring themes of poverty, religous strangeholds, war and linguistics are very enjoyable, and there's something exciting about storytelling set in poor countries. Who's with me on this?