/lit/ - Literature

Anyone read this? Thoughts?

The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek

"In The Good Soldier Švejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hašek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.

Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.

Cecil Parrott's vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine."

http://www.mediafire.com/?mv0a3qcajhl4rmk

I need war literature

Give me the best war-related titles ever written

Picture related, one of the best

What you reading?

Picture related

What /lit/ thinks about this one. Neer your opinion

Fuck you OP

>>2550551
Kind of like how the author died before he could finish this masterpiece :'(

>>2512228
I'm considering reading this, is it any good?

I'm now going to do this every fucking time these threads are posted.

Svejk was a good soldier.

Discuss.

>>2460970

/lit/, I want to read some interesting literature, care to help me out?

I`ve already checked out Wells, Dumas, Hugo, Doyle, and Moby-dick, Don Quixote, War and Peace, The Last of the Mohicans and many other titles that come up here.

Of course some may recommend some sci-fi and fantasy like PKD and the like, but I honestly just cannot really get into those genres. (Aware Wells is sci-fi, but it is essential)

Picture related, another enjoyable read

WHAT I DO NOT GET IS HOW PROLIFIC AN AUTHOR CUMMINGS IS, AND YET SOMETHING LIKE THIS GETS HARDLY ANY MENTION ON /LIT/

EVEN ON THE THOUSANDS OF 'READ CATCH-22 OR SOME OTHER FUNNY BOOK AND WANT MORE', THIS ALMOST NEVER COMES UP.

PRETTY MUCH BASED ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCES OF BEING ARRESTED AND CONTAINED BY FRENCH AUTHORITIES FOR NO REASON AT ALL, DURING WW I IN WHICH HE VOLUNTEERED.

HUMOROUS SHIT, EVEN THOUGH IT IS FICTIONALISED TO A DEGREE. THE ONLY SET-BACK IS THE IMMENSE AMOUNT OF FRENCH THROUGHOUT THE NOVEL THAT IS NOT TRANSLATED.

AMAZING CAST OF CHARACTERS AND UNFORGETTABLE HUMOUR AND PLOT, HIS PROSE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL TOO.

PICTURE RELATED, MORE ABOUT THE SENSELESS BUREAUCRACY BEHIND WAR AND ITS FUTILITY, ALSO BASED ON WW I AND VERY FUNNY

IF CANNOT READ TITLE IN PICTURE, IT IS THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK. BOOK HAS NICE LITTLE PICTURES THAT REALLY ADD TO THE ATMOSPHERE, SCENES, AND HUMOUR IN THE BOOK