/lit/ - Literature

Fiction must be logical
Real life mustn't

/Lit/, I need your help:

My best friend recently read "The Hunger Games". Given that it is a masterpiece of literature, she forced me to read it so that she would have someone to talk to about it.

Please, /lit/, give me a book that she will enjoy that is not a piece of shit. I need to show this girl what a real book is.

What's /lit/'s opinion on Salman Rushdie?

well OP
to answer your quest, i studied french in highschool for four years and found it incredibly easy because its so similar to spanish. if youve studied any romance language in school, jumping into another one will be easy.
i stopped after high school, though, and have since forgotten pretty much all of it.
i started studying japanese after gradating college in religious studies and deciding i wanted to focus on japanese religion in grad school. i have to admit, theres plenty of things i hate about japan and the japanese and their weeab fans on this website (been living in japan for a year now to shore up my language skills), but learning a language that is grammatically so very different from western languages is pleasant, if particularly time-consuming. you can feel your mind cracking open a bit with that light from the clouds parting in the sky when you analyze or even just hear a sentence that would make no sense if translated literally into english, but which you can understand anyway.
learning kanji, the chinese characters used in japanese, is also fun, though theres still many many more i have to learn.
one word of advice if you jump into a new language, is flashcards are your friends. the drill is necessary to absorb stuff, and i use both laptop flashcards (a program called anki) and ones i make on my own and carry around everywhere. a friend uses a program on his smartphone for that too. good luck.

A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce.
Just finished the sermon about hell and sin. It was like reading Inferno all over again.

>>2113031

THANK YOU! For the life of me, I couldn't think of the name of what this reminded me of, and google wasn't yielding any good results.

you get a Murry pic for that, my compadre.

>mfw I'm only in honors English because I'm not big on doing work
>mfw i'm stuck with an English teacher who reads celebrity tabloids
>mfw most AP kids, albeit two or three, can't hold their ground in any philosophical conversation and cannot discuss any book of literary merit without rehashing their teacher's opinions.
>mfw 'existentialism? isn't that when a doctor cuts a baby out of a woman's uteris?'
mfw 'no, that's a cesarean section.'

It was pretty good, relaxing read. Nothing groundbreaking, sometimes navie but still good.