/lit/ - Literature

Oh boy, do I have the book for you.

Storm of Steel is obligatory. I recommend reading the 1960 version. A Farewell to Arms is fiction but is one of my favourite books and I can't rec it strongly enough. And my favourite book of all time is picrel, about an English journalist's witness of the Bosnian war and it's simultaneously the most beautiful, tragic, and badass thing I've ever read. There's a sequel too which is just as good and is a must-read as well.

Picrel is the best book I've ever read, so...
>>21767346
Fuckyeah.
Also, Storm of Steel is another obvious one.

what're /lit/'s favorite memoirs or autobiographies? I'll read one about anything; there's nothing better than when the writing style and actual events click with each other.
I'd like to find one written by a director or some other artistic type

>>20772301
I know I harp on about it endlessly, but here's your answer.

My War Gone By, I Miss It So

>>20346377
Can it be nonfiction? Because picrel is my favourite book regardless.

>"Peace seems to allow so little space for belief in destiny, fate, God, or ghosts...but even discounting the iced down state of my senses...London seems a wasteland of spiritless order, the unvarying rhythm of its days somehow denying the possibility of any other dimension."

>"I wanted to throw myself into a war, hoping for either a metamorphosis or an exit. I wanted to reach a human extreme in order to cleanse myself of fear, and saw war as the ultimate frontier of human experience.

not to make a blogpost out of it anymore than it is but i read this at a very important time in my life which ultimately ending up in me failing monstrously. Lives of quiet desperation anons...

Plis gib awsom war jornalism liek tis

My War Gone By I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd. It's a fantastic account of the Bosnian war by an aspiring war correspondent who also happens to be addicted to heroin. It's an amazing book.
>>18971495
Take your meds.

>>18968365
OP read this immediately.

Good war journalism books?

>>18608574
Gravity's Rainbow is a really hard read anon, and I don't think it's especially what you're looking for anyways. -t. has read the first 120 pages of it.
May I suggest a non-fiction book? This is literally my favourite book and you should read it. It's about the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

>>18584322
The most beautiful book on war you'll ever read.

>>18364004
Cringe
>>18364037
Good
>>18364042
Cringe & pseud
>>18364064
Based
>>18364069
V based
>>18364089
Good
>>18364150
Good
>>18364224
This is a 25+ board, buddy
>>18364501
L.
>>18364512
DUDE MAGICK & CROWLEY, AND SHIT, DUUDEE
>>18365633
Ehhh comme ci comme ca
>>18365668
Cool
>>18365696
Ugh
>>18366562
Cute & probably a woman
>>18366592
How is that? I'm reading the Roberts biography
>>18366603
Thumbs-down
>>18366833
Gay
>>18367148
Based!
>>18367171
Ugh
>>18368124
Eh
>>18368160
Nice
>>18368170
Cool B-)
>>18368245
Pseud
>>18368641
Basado! and comfy
>>18368903
Also based & comfé
>Meanwhile: picrel

>>18218113

>>18019646
Excuse me?

>>17807343
Solid advice here and in picrel

>>17627441
My War Gone by, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd. An incredible true story about a novice journalist's first-hand, gonzo account of the war in Bosnia and all the tragedy that came with it, as well as a telling of Loyd's odd sense of satisfaction and completeness war and conflict brings him.
A few of my other all-time favourites are Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1960 version, haven't read the 1929 edition yet), A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway, House of Leaves by MZD, The Hobbit by Tolkien, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch & several other books by Philip K. Dick, On the Road & The Dharma Bums as well as Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac...

>>17245766
Non-joke response coming through...

>>17168094
I wouldn't have read this marvelous book without the recommendation of an anon.

>>17055569
1/2
So when Beba asked if I would like to go across to the Serb side with him, I thought he was joking. He was a liaison officer in the government army, a Muslim. We were standing together on a crest of ground overlooking the Serb lines. A ceasefire had been organized so that the Serbs could collect some of their dead from a failed attack of the previous week. Under the terms of this deal, Beba and four of his men, wearing purple sashes over their smocks, tuned in to the Serb net on their motorolas, and stood up above the trenches at the foot of Mount Vlaši. The Serbs came out of their lines and began searching through the scrub for their dead, responding to the shouts of Beba and his men. ‘No, left a bit, left a bit, are you blind? Yeah, there, see him?’ they would call out. There looked to be about a dozen corpses, but the Serbs only managed to retrieve four. The rest lay in a minefield, and were abandoned to the earth. ‘Now I’m going to meet them,’ Beba said to me, ‘do you want to come?’ I was stunned for a minute. Muslim soldiers talking to the Serbs on radios or across trenchlines happened all the time, but to actually cross into their zone was something I had not heard of. Of course I agreed.

Hey could i get some badass books about war like pic related please, thank you