/lit/ - Literature

>randomly gives you a boner

Book recs with disturbed, confused and sick protagonists such as lolita, the sailor who fell from grace with the sea, clockwork orange, life for sale, etc etc.

This book is awfully boring

>>21033695
His real memoir

>>21013243
I think it's this one

Post the shittiest book /lit/ has recommended you. Pic related.

>>20583033
>fun people doing fun things with kids with no greater messsage

(accidentally posted this as a reply in another thread)

So I realized while trying to write some songs that I'm a fucking retard and my vocabulary and literary skills are very limited due to me not reading any books in the past 8 years. So a few days ago I went to barnes&noble and picked up 2 books. Lolita and Lord of The Rings part one. Are these some good starter books for me to get into reading again? Which ones would you recommend? I'm 20 years old, entering my 3rd year of college, and I haven't picked up a book since like the 9th grade if that helps.

So I realized while trying to write some songs that I'm a fucking retard and my vocabulary and literary skills are very limited due to me not reading any books in the past 8 years. So a few days ago I went to barnes&noble and picked up 2 books. Lolita and Lord of The Rings part one. Are these some good starter books for me to get into reading again? Which ones would you recommend? I'm 20 years old, entering my 3rd year of college, and I haven't picked up a book since like the 9th grade if that helps.

I don't get it. What is the point?

Why is this book so hard to understand?
This is my first time attempting to read a book in around 10 years. I literally get so confused with the descriptions used. I have to read it with sparknotes to understand what actually is happening.
Are books like this only for High IQ people?

>>20405711

Idk nigga, read the book

Wtf is the point of this book? Madness? Love? Obsession? Or is it really just rambling prose about pedophilia?

Why did people on this board tell me the ending was bad? It's beautiful. Maybe the middle parts with the first trip would be more turgid on a second reading, but for the most part this is like the perfect novel.

I'm so rusty to reading sometimes i'll reread the last few pages i read and and i was so tired i pick up SO many details it's like i was reading a brand new book kek while reading the novel lolita i thought that camp Q and dolores were both in france so when they went on the road trip i was so confused how they got to america. anyone else a brainlet?

>first 1/4, good book
>second 1/4, good book
>third 1/4, the worst pile of shit, entirely incomprehensible gibberish, taking a vibrating dildo and putting it against the autocomplete suggested word button on your phone would make for better storytelling than this tornado-cleanup-site of words you're calling writing
>fourth 1/4, really good book

What in the ever living FUCK did I just read?

"Her brown rose tasted of blood."
what the fuck, was HH eating ass this whole time?

I'm new to literature and currently reading Lolita. While the prose is really pretty, an overwhelming amount of the text is completely fucking unnecessary. The amount of times I've been reading through a passage, thinking "will you get to the point already" before finishing it and realizing that there was no point to get to is staggering. The book is drowning in superfluous metaphors and descriptions while actual events seem to barely happen at all.

There's paragraph after paragraph of things that Lolita's outfit could be likened to in some way, but plot lines like her being transferred to a new school and learning to act or them being followed as they travel cross country are barely even there. I have almost no idea what their relationship is actually like, any event or action on their part that could give me insight into it is obfuscated by piles of bullshit. He's a child molester and she's a tsundere, and both of them seem to simultaneously control one another. She'll lie about where she's been so she won't get in trouble with him, but then she'll beat him over the head with emotional leverage and blackmail him into submitting to her demands. He'll man-handle and literally sexually assault her, but then he'll literally crawl around on all fours begging to lick her feet. Is there any explanation as to why they act this way? No, because he had to make room for describing every car he can remember seeing from one arbitrary point in time to another or to explain why the paintings on the wall of the hotel lobby are for plebs and how nude children would be a far better choice. At least, I think that's what he said, because he seems to have challenged himself to be as nebulous and verbose as humanly fucking possible.

What the fuck am I missing? Is this what literature is supposed to be? A mediocre story told in a mediocre way to justify having a series of words that sound pretty when put in a particular order? I'm currently on chapter 22 of part two and everything I've read up until this point could have been told in less than half of the space and time it's taken so far, and it's murdering my motivation. Why the fuck should I read another 14 chapters when I know there's going to be barely enough actual story for even a few?

Why can't women understand this book?

So, why does /lit/ love this book so much?