/lit/ - Literature

>pic unrelated, just my only funny /lit/ pic I have on my new comp

>Moby Dick
Never read it, heard mixed reviews, some describe it as epic, some as tedious
>The Old Man and the Sea
Latest book I've read, enjoyable read without looking super deep into the text. Was also my first Hemingway, but made me want to read more. Also very short, can be finished in two or three days reading at a leisurely pace.
>Brave New World
Had to read a bunch of distopian novels throughout high school and it made me loath reading them. I honestly mix up parts of BNW with parts of Anthem, 1984, and The Giver a lot. I think this is the one with Soma? For me, if you've read one you've read them all, and 1984 was my personal favorite.
>Walden/Civil Disobedience
You'll have to push yourself to get through no matter how much you love the idea of Thoreau and Transcendentalism. I was a summer camp counselor and read excerpts from this to the bad campers who didn't want to read their own books during reading time just to bore the shit out of them (and maybe it'd instill some subconscious love for nature). I still haven't even finished the whole thing cuz I pick it up for about 3 weeks and put it down for 4 months. As for Civil Disobedience, I was planning on reading it after Walden, but maybe doing it before would get you that Thoreau goodness without all the boring parts.

Currently reading Beloved by Toni Morrison for the second time, and just kind of want a general Beloved thread. I first read the book in high school and now am rereading it for my English class in college. When I first read it I liked the book and thought it was well written even there were a lot of parts that I blissfully never understood. Now that I'm about fifty pages through the reread, I'm picking up on a lot more stuff than I did the first time through and just feel like having an open forum about the book.

>TL;DR: Thoughts, comments, questions, opinions, anything about Beloved