/lit/ - Literature

High-brow Tier

Thomas Pynchon

Highish-brow Tier

JD Salinger
David Foster Wallace
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
James Joyce
Charles Dicksons

Mid-brow Tier

Roberto Bolano
Haruki Murakami
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C Clarke
Jonathan Franzen
Leo Tolstoy
FD
Margaret Atwood
Paul Auster

Lowish-brow Tier

Stephen King
Isabel Allende

Low-brow Tier

James Patterson
Dan Brown
Danielle Steele

The Stranger – Albert Camus
The Narrow Corner – W Somerset Maugham
Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
Conversation in the Cathedral – Mario Vargas Llosa
Of Love and Shadows – Isabel Allende
Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis

I really can't decide. I'll get 1, maybe 2. Talk to me, /lit/.

>>1740680

I haven't read a YA book since I was 16, thank you.

>>1740683

One of the reasons paragraphs exist, is to make things more readable. The white indentations provide points of reference on the page. Without them, reading is (unnecesarily) difficult. Why would someone not use them?

Having said that, I jsut finished By Night In Chile, which is one paragraph over 150 pages.

I like the author very much from The Feast of the Goat, but this seems mediocre. Should I keep reading? There's little engaging or interesting about it at all, and some of the subplots are plain bad.

I own 2 other new books by the author, so I hope they don't suck too.

I've read Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, and some of Young Hearts Crying (at the moment), and he's really good. Almost every page is a winner. I think he's nailed what it means to be middle-class, even better than Updike or Franzen. I also have several other books to read by him on my shelf, a compilation of his short stories and another novel.

Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishirugo
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
Black Rain - I forget
Amrita - Banana Yoshimoto
Audition - Ryu Murakami

Had a glance at Amrita, didn't care for it much. Will probably return later. Which should I read? I'm leaning towards beginning with Nocturnes.

I'd definitely say The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Worst work is after the quake, that book was a fucking disgrace, even worse than After Dark.