/lit/ - Literature

>>2676307
I'd say that this story could end with the tragic death of our hero, but that would take too much trouble to actually follow through with it.

>>2676295
>>2676293
You two: most incapable of checking for samefaggotry

I wonder if she dreams of electric sheep....

Standard Toaster: Most forgettable

I have a friend who reads non-shitty books, and he said that one was actually quite fun and enjoyable. Not great in a literary sense, but still a light, fun read.

It was about how they all needed to like become one spiritually or some shit, like trust each other on the most intimate of levels and shit like that.
It was a stretch, but he kind of explained it.

I love it.
It could be seen as a tough read.
It's definitely worth it, though.

>>2670097
My fucking sister did that. I lent her a book a while ago, then a few days later I told her "if you fold down the corners I'm going to beat you upside the head with it" and she was like "oh.............." and so I beat her upside the head with it.

Brent Weeks' Night Angel Trilogy is about an assassin. Not anywhere near modern setting, though.
Also, Robin Hobb has that one assassin series, again, not modern day at all.

>reading any of the GOT books
>sansa chapter
>nope.jpg

Better dead than red.

Aside from his more popular works (IQ84, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, After Dark, Elephant Vanishes, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running), how are his books?
I ask specifically about the following:
After the Quake
A Wild Sheep Chase
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Dance, Dance, Dance
Hard-boiled Wonderland & the End of the World
Pinball, 1973
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Sputnik Sweetheart
Underground

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.

>like Christ among the Romans
What does that even mean? You felt persecuted, attacked, and crucified?

I just got IQ84, in the fancy paperback three-volume boxed set. I've only just started it, though. It's enjoyable so far.

I get most of mine from tpb. I used to use the sites in the sticky, but they've proved too unreliable.
The pirate bay has so far had everything I needed, though.

I just finished Ulysses and am now reading A Dance With Dragons.

>>2661610
Is it your first day here or something?
I can understand not knowing me, but both Truman Capote and Sunhawk have been here for quite a long time.

>>2661595
Shit, I mean Random House. Vintage is a sub-publisher of Random House.

I like Penguin. Also, Vintage, but that's a sub-publisher owned by Penguin, so..

>>2659714
I understand why people write them, I just fail to see any good reason to do so.
Writing out why you killed yourself seems pointless, because people can infer without it that your life sucked.
What else would you write? The gist of it would basically be that you didn't want to live anymore.
Everybody already knows that, as you're now dead.
You could argue it would give them a sense of closure, but I disagree, because you'd still be dead, and they'd still have to deal with it. Knowing why wouldn't change anything.

>>2660981
I'm still here..

>>2659707
I mixed up my tabs and posted that in the wrong one. My apologies.

>implying there's such a thing as the human soul