/lit/ - Literature

He wished the phone would stop ringing. It was bad enough to be sick let alone having the phone ring all night long. Boy was he sick. Not from any of their sour French wine either. A man couldn't hold enough of it to get a head this big. His stomach was going round and round and round. Fine thing nobody'd answered that phone. It sounded like it was ringing from a room about a millions miles wide. The hell with that telephone.

Let's talk about some good anti-War novels.

Pic definitely related, my all time favorite book, actually. The intense style and use of syntax makes the book beautiful. It's about a soldier who loses all his limbs, and his face, eyes, mouth, nose, and ears are scarred. It also doesn't come off as anti-soldier, which isn't exactly what I want.

Johnny Got His Gun by Trumbo.
I can't stress how much this book changed me. Within the fourth chapter I'd cried four times, and it gets more powerful and tragic as it goes. It has a powerful message, and I think that damn introduction by Sheehan ruins it. So just skip that. But the actual book is just. My God.The lack of punctuation might annoy some at first, but it really just makes some scenes more powerful and frantic and just, damn.

It couldn't come at a better time, either, with the troops coming home by the end of the year. I guess it would be more suitable for deciding war, but I mean, still.

Another huge plus - I hate to say it, but many classics just aren't that enjoyable, at the very least, they're not page-turners, this book is by far. It's still lit and not trashy, at least according to the College Board (I learned a few days ago it was on the AP Lit exam a few years ago.), and the cover is beautiful. Pic related.