/lit/ - Literature

>The Man Who Would Be King
This paperback coincided with the 1975 film and features 8 other stories. Having never read it, I was confused when TMWBK only took up 36 pages out of over 200. As far as I can tell it's not abridged, though. I love the way these old paperbacks smell. Got it because I love racist authors.

>The Last Valley
Another in the "Now a Major motion picture!" series. Got it because I want to break into the history of the Thirty Years War, and I've found historical fiction to be a great way to build interest.

>The Last of the Plainsmen
Zane Grey, formerly the foremost novelist of frontier fiction, is relegated to the vintage section of my local bookstore. Reviews on shitreads complain about the insensitive sensibilities of the characters and, by extension, the author. Really, that's all the encouragement I needed to pick up one of his books. The copy I have is from 1936.

>The Big Sky
I guess this a deep dive into the life of the old west bearded woodsman, and is renowned for fleshing that world out in a way no other books had. I have a romantic feeling towards loneliness and freedom out in the wilderness, so I knew this would be worth a try.

>I, Claudius
Anons here recommended this to me when I requested historical fiction. I've long had difficulty caring about Roman history, and my hope is that this will spark a fire to learn more. I understand it's a classic.

>The Last of the Mohicans
Many reasons for wanting to read this. The movie was pretty good (absolutely gorgeous to look at), and I value fiction from an era as historically valuable (I know it's set decades before the book was written, but times weren't THAT different), because details are difficult to get wrong when your daily life is the frame of reference you have to work with. Chief among my reasons for wanting to read this, though, is that Mark Twain hated this book and wrote an essay that left fans butthurt ever since.

>The Darkness and the Dawn
This one is in service to my desire to learn the history of Attila the Hun. Looks to be a fantastic adventure, and something that will make me want to dig deeper. Written in 1959.

>The Three Musketeers
Just a nice Readers Digest copy. of a classic. Kind of thing I imagine reading with my son one day.