/lit/ - Literature

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>post add-ons to first list before seeing this thread
>only one author overlaps

anyone have one of those recommendation pics for Horror novels?

>Crossover Appeal 1 - Read No Country for Old Men, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Jurassic Park, The Godfather, The Exorcist, To Kill a Mockingbird, and In Cold Blood.

>The Eschatologist: Read Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Spenglers Decline of the West and Barzuns From Dawn to Decadence.

>Bayard's Bluff - Convince someone you've read a book you haven't.

>Camwhore - Contribute a picture of your bookshelf to a shelf thread.

>Blast from the Past - Re-read ten from either the Goosebumps series, the Animorphs series, or the Deltora Quest series.

>Devils Advocate - Read Faust, Paradise Lost, Master and Margerita, and Inferno.

>Archivist - Meaningfully contribute to fifty threads that are past page 10.

>10/5 - Read five books written in the last ten years.

ITT: Literary devices, styles, gimmicks, cliches, tropes, or other things used in writing that you like

Personally, I'm a sucker for anything with sufficient meta-humor or meta-analysis. I also like self-awareness and genre-awareness in fiction of all kinds. Dunno why, always have.

Also, I always seem to like things with quirky, unreliable, or otherwise atypical narration, like the ASoUE books.

Ok /lit/ let's write a short story. One word per post. I'll start:

The

What other boards do /lit/erates frequent?

Also: Does your taste in 4chan boards reflect your taste in books? (i.e., /lit/erates are interested only in classic literature, /sci/ interested in scifi, etc)

Why did nobody tell me that Heinlein is like Ayn Rand but scifi?

also this

'Sup, /lit/. Remember that huge archive of books, in the rapidshit links, with the shitty organizing? Well, I manually organized them all by author last name, removed as many dead, corrupt, or nonexistant archives that I could find, and the grand total comes to 2,179 ebooks total. Took four days, but it's so much easier to search now.

Oh, and the old archive was on rapidshare, but rapidshare is shit, so I used mediafire instead. Uploading on megaupload too, just 'cause.

By author last name...

A-B: http://www.mediafire.com/?myzjghad1m5

C-E: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dnn1mmzgkcg

F-I: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?igi4ndwthzj

J-L: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?idzdvdn5ytj

M-Q: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lmtmtzlwlgd

R-V: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dn2tz5yjzze

W-Z: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y2niznrjmnn (including anonymous and varied authors, and Star Wars and Warhammer franchise books, so you can focus on them if you like them or delete them if you don't)

I'm gonna post megaupload links later. Enjoy a non-shitty lithursday/bookchan/etc ebook archive, /lit/.

Choose your own /lit/ adventure!

>What book should I buy? thread
>Have you read this obscure book you obviously haven't read? thread
>Lovecraft is a racist thread
>Rate my bookshelf thread
>Do you guys have a chart like /mu/? thread
>Trainwreck Existentialism thread
>Trainwreck Marxism thread
>Threads about either George RR Martin or Stephanie Meyer (interchangable)
>General misunderstanding of the beat generation thread
>Pointlessly self-centered elitism thread
>Poetry thread
>Homework thread
>Nostalgia bombs thread

In this thread begun
by me we write Haiku for
you to critique /lit/.