/lit/ - Literature

>>1954995

But Kafka's novels were shit. I don't want to read more shit. Or do I...?

I dunno about Moby Dick. I wasn't keen on buying it, but everyone said how great it was, and I got it dirt cheap, so there you go. I always have serious doubts about reading a new author, to the point of inaction.

I'm leaning towards Kafka, even thought he and I are locked in a vicious battle.

I have these.

Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
The Narrow Corner – W Somerset Maugham
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Zorro – Isabel Allende
The Complete Short Stories – Franz Kafka

>expecting /lit/ to say Kafka or Auster

A very good book. Good prose, good plot, very good characters. Most of Franzen's work is enjoyable, so read the rest of it as well.

>>1954521
>>1954468

It's right there, all of 2 paragraphs. What's the problem?

D&E, you didn't respond to what I said.

>>1954470

That explains it. We need how much D&E values his intellectual 'accomplishments'.

This is the worst thread I've seen on /lit/ this month. Then I looked at the OP, and realised why.

What exactly is wrong with the postmodernism that people on this board (apparently) write? I haven't read any of it, but you make it sound like all postmodernmism is terrible, and inferior to other genres (lol @ that). Could you clarify your position? At least people are trying something new and fresh, staying away from the cookie cutter novels that most genres have, good or bad.

Depends for me. I used to have no problem buying hardcovers on release day, or the first 6 or 12 months, but now I tend to wait for the paperbacks. Hardcovers are just too damn expensive here, £20 versus £7. Three times more, for a book that's heavy and unwieldy? No. I'm actually waiting on about 5 different Roberto Bolano books to come out in paperback, which I want to read but are to expensive. On the other hand, I intend to get 11/22/63 and 1Q84 on release day in (I think) October.

>implying paperbacks aren't better than hardcovers anyway, regardless of price

Lolita. Got it 2 years ago, only just read it. A good book.

>I will never again read anything as great as the Foundation Trilogy

This makes me feel worse.

>>1951995

This.

There are so many different ways it could be great rather than good, that you can't say.

EIther...

IT, Stephen King - 1,400 pages

or

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - 1,200 pages of small print


Longest book I've ever heard of is Poor Fellow, My Country, which is 1,500 pages of small print. You'll have a long beard by the time you finish that book.

I bought the book on recommendations from /lit/.

>implying you should listen to recommendations from /lit/

I like Dickens. My college English class hated Great Expections, but I liked it (secretly, lulz). A Tale of Two Cities is boring though.

>>1951618

What is Balzac like? What does he write about?

Indeed, his old (and middle) works are much better than his new works. Lisey's Story and Cell were awful.

I'd say Mario Vargas Llosa. Some books are great, some are terrible. Stuff like The Feast of the Goat and The War of the End of the World are great, but The Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral were beyond bad, they were terrible. He's written some inbetween stuff too, like The Way To Paradise. I don't understand how the style, content and quality of his work vary so much. I can barely tell apart books by Haruki Murakami, or Richard Yates, or Margaret Atwood. All good writers, but they write such similar books, similar content and similar quality. You know what you're getting with them. I'm scared to even buy a book by Llosa, incase it's terrible. Then again, it might be the best book I've read for months.

Also, I prefer his EPIX to his 'slim' novels. I'd rather have a 750 page book with a large cast of characters by him, rather than simple simple and down-to-earth that is 300 pages (although those can be decent too).

>>1950592

I only read 30 pages an hour with a trade paperback. 90% of people probably read faster than me. Many people claim to read 70 or 80 pages an hour.

People on /lit/ apsire to be like the great literary trolls, like Brown, Patterson and Meyer.

4-5 hours a day. I read for 2 hours in bed, then read for 2-3 hours in the afternoon. Sweet times.

>lolita and mockingbird both in Shit Tier

nope.jpg

This list pops up every so often. Was it a troll picture, or just a fucking stupid picture?

>>1947606

Made me lol, I admit.

>>1946624

I've been reading some of them. Just not all. I don't want to read them all. Oh, I see.