/lit/ - Literature

Any good literary blogs that would be worth the time of checking out?

As the only person posting in this thread who has published 3 books, although no-one will ever believe me, I'll resolve this.

Ulysses: 19 votes
Just as good as everybody says. The pinnacle of 20th century fiction, does both realism and stylistic extravagance with equal facility.

Mrs. Dalloway: 10 votes
Clearly these votes were all women, no offence. Woolf is overrated, especially by high school English teachers. If you want to find a great woman writer, choose Emily Dickinson. Problem: Emily's too intelligent for most readers, male or female.

1984: 7 votes
Meh. I think Homage to Catalonia or the Road to Wigan Pier are better books by the same author. But it's worth reading to get you to think critically about what television is doing to us.

Blood Meridian: 6 votes
Overwrought, overelaborate, clearly written by McCarthy with his scabby cock in one hand and Roget's thesaurus in the other. I sorta enjoyed it. Plus, it's the only major novel to be referenced in a Vampire Weekend song ("A-Punk") and parodied in a film (Owen Wilson in the Royal Tennenbaums is playing Cormac McCarthy..."I am the James Joyce of the Western. My novel Wildcat is written in an obsolete vernacular.")

The Great Gatsby: 6 votes
Good solid choice. Intriguingly American insofar as it begins as a broad social satire and ends with a strangely bleak and desperate religious vision. For that reason, I approve of anybody who voted for it.