/lit/ - Literature

>>1180399
I actually am reading it in Spanish. I wrote the title in Spanish to imply that I was. :/

For OP:
Mediocre :( I've written about 40 pages in the past year. This includes about 3 finished short stories and some other shit that was just for practice. I've also written about 20 poems in the past year. Sometimes I go through phases of writing tons and then I go for months where I don't write anything and I just read.

>>1179363
At the moment I'm an active reader, but sometimes I write more than I read and I slow down to the Still Mediocre category.

>papa Karl
>mon visage

>>1180350
>>1180354
Don't listen to these assholes. I love this book, and it was an awesome read. One of my favorites.

1. A Confederacy of Dunces
2. Cien años de soledad
3-10. I don't plant that far ahead

>>1179093
He was an English teacher from my high school. He fucking loved the Great Gatsby. You don't even know how much, caps guy. For a second I was convinced you were him.

>>1179077
Mr. Skenyon???

Either lying down in my bed or lying down on the couch in my living room. I also really like reading in my living room in the winter when the woodstove is burning because I like the way it smells and I like to listen to the wood crackle as it burns. I like days when all I have to do is sit around and read. Like if I'm snowed in or something, so I shovel for a while and then I sit back and read. :)

>>1179042
;_;

You might be smart but you have no soul. Reading fiction helps us better understand the human condition. Its about the emotions that a well written book evokes in you. Catch 22 made me laugh, A Clockwork Orange made me sick to my stomach at points and put me right in Alex's mind, 1984 made me feel that same defiance that Winston felt against Big Brother. Its not about what you know when you read fiction, its what you feel.

OP watch anything Quentin Tarantino has made in the last decade, and then go back to /tv/ (unless you want to stay and chat about books).

Sage for not /lit/, obviously.

>Orwell
>Implying 1984 and Animal Farm weren't against totalitarianism instead of Communism

At the end of Animal Farm, the Pigs look like the humans. The humans are supposed to be the capitalists. At the beginning, the farm was doing fine under Communism until the pigs took over and started oppressing everyone.

I just finished up Ten Days that Shook the World. It was an American socialist's account of the Bolshevik Revolution. Its pretty interesting stuff, but it starts out a little slow. Once the revolution takes off I thought it was pretty awesome (battles in the streets of Petrograd, arresting the yunkers and fighting the Cossacks. Good stuff.

I had to read it for English too. Its okay. I didn't find it particularly amazing, but it was a pretty easy read. Brace yourself for epic gayness on the part of Gene (unless you like that sort of thing, we don't judge here on /lit/).

Also, are you like 15? I had to read this when I was a sophomore in high school.

Classic Literature: Catch 22
Fantasy: Idk
Science Fiction: Dune or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Romance: Idk
Mystery: And Then There Were None
History: Ten Days That Shook the World
Crime: The Brothers Karamazov (I don't even care that it doesn't count as crime)
Best Book Ever: Clockwork Orange or Catch 22

>>1178115
I'll probably be starting 100 years of solitude in the next week or so. It'll be the first book I've read in Spanish so I'm pretty excited for it (not counting an adapted-for-Spanish-students copy of Amalia that I was forced to read).

>>1178716
Good books for kids:
Narnia
His Dark Materials
Harry Potter (deal with it. I like the books too, but they are for kids)
the Redwall books
Artemis Fowl
The Pendragon books
The Inkheart books (Inkheart was my favorite book back when I was in 5th-6th grade, highly recommended).
In addtion to Inkheart, anything else by Cornelia Funke (Thief Lord, etc).

A lot of people I know didn't like how Caulfield goes off topic on these tangents all the time, but I kind of enjoyed reading some of the things he talked about. I also understood where he was coming from on some things (coming to terms with the fact that you can't protect the people you care about, especially children, etc). He is really whiny, but I think Salinger mean him to seem childish up until the end where he becomes more mature.

I'll play almost anything if I think its really good. I like W and JRPGs and I like some FPS like Deus Ex and Half Life 2, but I don't really like playing the online FPS like CoD because I'm not really that spectacular at shooters and I'm kind of a loner who hates playing with others. Some of my favorite games are the Metal Gear Solid games, Katamari Damacy, Bully, Persona 4, Half Life 2, and Deus Ex. :3 I sometimes go on /v/ but as OP said, sometimes I just can't take the bullshit there.

I can't get on this train I have 6 Supreme Court cases to write about before bed. :/

Dostoevsky's a pretty cool dude. I've read Notes from Underground, C&P, and The Bros K. I liked the Bros K out of all of them. I felt like I could relate in some way to all the brothers not counting Smerdyakov, the bastard, and I was really rooting for Dmitri even though it was pretty clear that he was doomed. Crime and Punishment was my second favorite and I related to Raskolnikov and his whole struggle about whether or not to confess, but the I consider the Brothers Karamazov to be Dostoevsky's greatest work. I think it was Kurt Vonnegut who said: "Everything there is to know about life is in the Brothers Karamazov." And I think that's true.

>>1168785
I just finished 1984 and it was hella depressing.

inb4 /lit/terbugs telling me why a crushing totalitarian regime that not only destroys your individuality, but also strips you of your emotions other than hate for the enemy and love for the state isn't depressing.

I need to have a good cry now. :(