/lit/ - Literature

In Cold Blood-Truman Capote did the true-crime novel first and he did it best.

Ten Days that Shook the World-American Socialist's account of the Bolshevik Revolution. It takes a little background knowledge to get into but its pretty interesting and includes text from speeches and pamphlets and newspapers.

Voices From Chernobyl-This one also takes some background knowledge of the Chernobyl disaster to get into. It focuses less on numbers and dates and more about the emotional effects of the disaster. Sad book, but worth the read.

Right now I'm about halfway through the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Its a total hipster book, but it gives a good look into the mindset of the people in the hippie movement and sometimes you do come across some really great insight about life from time to time. Some parts have been funny as hell.

Alyosha from the Brothers Karamazov
<3

I might not get them all:
Catch-22
1984
Animal Farm
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes From Underground
In Cold Blood
Breakfast of Champions
The Secret Agent
Voices From Chernobyl
Ten Days that Shook the World
Fahrenheit 451
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Man in the High Castle
The Three Stigmata of Eldritch Palmer
Dante's Inferno
Siddhartha
Pale Fire
Dune
The Book of Five Rings
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man

Paranoid: Very High
Schizoid: Moderate
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Very High
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: Very High
Dependent: Very High
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

lol that's probably not the best.

I'm reading through the Modern Library edition of a book and some of the annotations are idiotic. Usually I find annotations to be useful and a good supplement (like when reading Joyce or Dostoevsky) but these annotations are a bit shit.

>>1249612
Update Time :)

>Voices From Chernobyl
Great read. You don't learn that many facts about the disaster, but you learn how it affected different people and how people came to terms with it.
>The Secret Agent
I've finished the first third and I'm enjoying it so far. Its got intrigue, terrorism, and anarchists. Me gusta.
>The Electric Kool Aid Test
A Nonfiction book written as a narrative (think In Cold Blood) about the hippie movement, etc. I don't really know.

>>1257548
>That feel when you like Dostoevsky and Vonnegut. :(

I actually don't care.

1. Do you read for leisure? yes
2. Do you read on a daily basis? yes
3. Do you watch television for leisure? yes
4. Do you watch television daily? yes
5. Do you look at the moon? sometimes
6. Are you happy? no
7. Should books be censored if they are too controversial? no
8. Would you give your life for the written word? depends
9. Does technology lead to less face-to face human interaction? yes
10. Is “faster” a synonym for “better”? no
11. Does technology enhance your confidence in social settings? no
12. Does technology increase your awareness of global events? yes
13. Does mass media reflect the intelligence of average American citizens? no
14. Is happiness more important than truth? no
15. Is mass media entertaining? yes

Did you just finish Fahrenheit 451?

>>1253520
>mfw Orr was not really dead, and was a genius

>Last book you read
>Currently reading
>Next book you plan to read
and thoughts on the books.

>Last book: Fahrenheit 451-Very good book. It was a quick read and it was more hopeful than most dystopian novels.
>Currently: Voices from Chernobyl-Interesting read. I love learning about Soviet history and radiation/nuclear energy has always interested me. Its really sad though. :(
>Next: The Secret Agent-Conrad-I have to read this for an English class. I got to pick the book, though.

>>1247283
I know its beat. But everyone's reading it because they think its a hippie book.

I'll give you lobotomies until you think that 2+2=5.

Long Live Big Brother, etc.

>>1247203
OP, were you assigned to read this book for an English class? Half of my fucking class is reading On the Road. (I'm bringing The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in to troll all the wannabe hippies)

>>1242808
I lol'd so hard at this one.

I used to think epitome (I pronounced it in my head as eh-pee-tome) was a different word from (eh-pit-o-me).

Good evening /lit/,
My English teacher has assigned us to read a from the New York Times' list of 100 greatest modern novels. He calls this "Cultural Development" because he assumes that we've never touched a book in our lives. I'm not really in the mood for a modern novel and I'm actually in the mood for some Russian lit, but whatever.

tl;dr I'm thinking about reading The Secret Agent. Is this book worth my time /lit/?

>>1233523
How do gay guys (and straight women) stand those hairy legs?? Its icky.

I agree with the ideas and while I know that there will always be economic inequality in the world, the government should word toward leveling the playing field as much as possible.

INTJ checking in.

My mom read to me. I really liked listening to her read, but one day she said, "If you want to find out how this book ends, read it yourself." So I did.

One at a time. Two if I have to read a book for my classes in addition to the one I'm reading for fun.

I play the vidya and read some manga from time to time. I just started teaching myself German for shits and giggles. I practice Taekwondo.

>>1230962
>Implying America's conservatives aren't right leaning rightists.

>Implying there aren't communists in America. There just aren't that many ;_;

>>1230703
Sorry Anon. I was able to access the article from the Google link, so I didn't think you'd need to log in. If you want to read it just search for "Drugs" by Gore Vidal.

Brothers Karamazov. Crime and Punishment was good too.