/lit/ - Literature

The tonal inflection is really how newfags use Greentext. Greentext is not to give a certain tone to a sentence, that's just an emergent effect. Its purpose is to quote a sentence, a word, an idea or an action. Using Greentext, or the Quotation Mark as it is called, just as a way of formating the visuals or the tone of your post is poor form.

My earlier thread went all right, but not too fantastically. I am looking for help on deciding what books to buy; I have thirty dollars. I'll tell you some things I liked and what I've purchased so far, and you can consider these or just recommend what you've enjoyed yourself. I am also considering my friend whom I trade books with, so I'll list her likes as well.

I liked:
>The Vivisector, Patrick White; Beloved, Toni Morrison; The Fountainhead (inb4 shitstorm); Chekhov's short stories; BNW and Island, Huxley; Vonnegut; E. E. Cummings; Camus

She likes:
>beatnick shit and The Perks of Being a Wallflower; also Vonnegut and Bukowski

I am probably buying:
>Siddhartha, another play by Shaw, Immortality by Kundera, No Longer Human by Dazai, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Vonnegut.

Recommend, insult, have a party -- just post in my thread, please. I know I'm a casual, man.