/lit/ - Literature

>>10870450
Here's a few of mine:

Les Miserables: I wanted to read it because I enjoyed the musical and now it's difficult for me to return to the musical because it re-arranges and removes so many wonderful moments from the book (although I'll give credit it couldn't be easy adapting a 1400 page novel into a 2 hour musical). The book is a perfect tragedy that goes out of its way to warm your heart in the best possible way (i.e. Cosette being told to go play with her new expensive doll; Marius receiving the letter from Eponine on the barricade; Marius reconnecting with his grandfather; Marius realising how much of a hero Jean Valjean is after talking to Thenardier; etc) and leaves you feeling so much sorrow for a character you've come to love. It's a long book but I think that works to its benefit - it took me 4 months to finish it and those 4 months I came to fall in love with everybody in the book. The ending left me in tears.

Don Quixote: it's funny, mischievous, playful and endearing. Despite all the misadventures and troubles that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza get themselves into, you kind of want them to continue going on and on into more misunderstandings and when, in part two, they come across the manipulative duke and duchess, you see a little of yourself in them and wish for the misadventures to stop because you know these two characters are getting screwed with. I love Cervantes' cheeky sense of humour - his criticism of a false sequel to book one of Don Quixote throughout his book two were very funny and I loved the playfulness of his treating it like accurate "histories." I fell in love with the characters - shout out goes to the student who studied the first book and pretended to be a knight who wanted to defeat Don Quixote - and that ending hits like a fucking sucker punch. Sancho's final words to The DON about becoming shepherds and having more adventures if the DON gets better fucking broke me.

> be me
> read Moby Dick between lectures, in the waiting rooms and at the student common area
> realise I am now enjoying the book immensely
> realise I am now enjoying it so much that I do not care about the world around me
> go about the rest of my day

>>10799738
nice work, anon, keep going, my dude, i love you

>>10734317
John Dies at the End is pretty cool pulp actually. So what if you enjoy genre fiction or whatever, my dude. At least you're reading something. Maybe dip your toe into the classics from time to time, there's likely something there you'll dig. I got into the classics through more pulpy means like weird fiction (House on the Borderland is genuinely great and it's pretty short too).

You might like Akutagawa's Rashomon too.

If you like the Stargate movie novelization (lmao why though) then maybe you'll dig some Philip K Dick? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Ubik are accessible, authentic in their world-building and genuinely thrilling the more you read. PKD gets a bit too real at times, you'll definitely find something to relate to there.

Maybe these reccs might interest you? It's cool if not. you do you, boo <3

I have more fun playing Deus Ex and thinking about Philip K Dick stories and imagining them taking place in the video game than I do actually reading them.

> when you've made good progress for this week and finally get to put your feet up

Let's instead talk about this mango bird

Birds are obviously the most /lit/ pet.

>intelligent
>cheeky sense of humour
>sense of rhythm and timing
>can actually recite poetry