/lit/ - Literature

I'm seconding David Sedaris and Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut has a way of making you incredibly depressed while still being funny. Breakfast of Champions is both hilarious and depressing.

Yo, /lit/ Recently I've been writing about nonfiction essays for my classes, but now I need to write a short essay bout myself. Can /lit/ post some of their favorite essays so I can get some inspiration about the tone I'm going for? I'll start off and post some of the essays that I've found interesting.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/home/vidal-drugs.html
http://www.ghc.edu/faculty/llerych/BlackMen.pdf

Russian lit is good.

Latin American and French are great too.

15/100

There is a huge over-representation of Dostoevsky on this list. (Not that I'm complaining since I love old Fedenka)

I about halfway through OP. I read the poem first and then flipped back and forth reading the commentary. So far its pretty good, but its pretty obvious that Kinbote is straight up crazy.

>>1227597
I honestly think it was Nabokov just trolling when he make Kinbote say to get two books.

I couldn't finish Leaves of Grass either. I like some of the poems in there though. Oh Captain My Captain is in Leaves of Grass and is pretty entry level. Read it if you haven't already.

I'M STARTING THIS BOOK TONIGHT. OH FUCK, I JUST REMEMBERED THAT I HAVE A DATE WITH DIMA. NIGHT NIGHT /lit/ I HOPE I GET LUCKY.

Sup, bodh/lit/sattvas. I read this book yesterday.

It is motherfuckingly good /lit/. It is earth shatteringly amazing /lit/. It will make you feel so at peace with the world and will change your outlook on things. You will love everyone after reading this book. You will fucking talk to rivers. You will fuck so many courtesans. You will FUCKING ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT.
FUCKING READ THIS MOTHERFUCKING GODDAMN BOOK /LIT/ I FUCKING DARE YOU.

Pale Fire is next on the list, then Voices from Chernobyl and 100 Years of Solitude. So that makes 3. Cheers, OP.

>>1214606
OP this is a slow board. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

>>1213986
You mean "Of Mice IN Men" amirite??? ololol

Crime and Punishment
I'm a masochist.

>Stranger is in first place
>In Remembrance of things past is second
>Le Petit Prince is fourth
>Obvious french bias is obvious

The second one.

I think.

I always second guess myself when it comes to grammar.

Ten Days that Shook the World-A American (socialist) journalist's account of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Voices from Chernobyl- An account of the Chernobyl incident where the nuclear reactor blew up. (I haven't read this one yet, but its on my to read list and it looks cool.)

>>1213154
It just annoyed me that every other character got what was coming tot hem except for Ignatius. :/

I also can't understand why /lit/ likes the book so much.

Post the last book you read and your opinions of it. Spoiler tag as necessary.

Pic related: I hated Ignatius, but I loved how at the end everything sort of came together. And everyone got their just deserts. Except for one person: Ignatius. I HATED Ignatius. Because even though he was well educated and made some good points about society he had no common sense, and he was a huge prick throughout the entire novel. I really wish he had been sent off to that mental hospital. He was totally delusional at points. The only things that saved the book from Ignatius were the other characters like Jones, Claude Robichaux, Lana Lee even though she was a bitch at least she got what she deserved that the end and Patrolman Mancuso. They were awesome characters. I know that in life (and in a lot of books) characters usually don't get what they deserve at the end, but the author seemed intent on making sure that every single character other than Ignatius got exactly what was coming to them at the end. I really which that bastard had gone to the asylum..

I know I used spoiler tags liberally. I didn't want to get bitched out for spoiling the novel for someone.

Writing an essay on Gore Vidal's "Drugs", studying for a Calc test, finishing A Confederacy of Dunces so I can start Siddhartha.

>Are there any authors or books that you desperately want to like but for some reason or another can't? Who or what are they, and why not?

Right now I'm reading a Confederacy of Dunces. I really want to like it as much as lit does, but I can't get over how much I hate Ignatius. I only have about 4 chapters to go at this point, so I'll finish it, but this book is really killing me. The best part about the book is Jones. I love that guy, but he can't salvage the rest of it for me.

OP you fucking suck. You don't need a degree in linguistics to put those into English words. Its not that difficult.

In Cold Blood

inb4 not fiction

Sherlock Holmes
Dubliners

>Be at school
>Somehow get into a conversation with a girl about books
>lolol I don't read books,
>I ask why not.
>I never have the time, I always have to go to dance classes and theater rehearsals!! (Implying that if you have the time to be reading books, you're probably a basement dwelling nerd who browses /lit/ all day erry day).
>Mon visage when being able to dance and act is going to shit for her in the real world, and she'll probably end up as a waitress because she neglected her intellectual side and really missed out.

I also have a fucking life. Fuck theater geeks who think they're superior to lit geeks.

poast some poems