/lit/ - Literature

Anyone here read Oblivion by DFW?

>>8532703
*boytoy

where to start with burroughs, /lit/?

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

>>7784009
I'm seeing a kind of paradox here.

has anyone ever incorporated the internet in written fiction in a way that isn't retarded

Why do you want to create art (in this boards case, write books). Keep your mouth shut if you don't want to create art.

>>4974120

Vonnegut and Bukowski are both funny, entertaining, easy to comprehend and (arguably) have literary value. I recommend:

>Notes of A Dirty Old Man - Bukowski
>Ham On Rye - Bukowski
>Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
>Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut

All of the above are actually the first "literary" books I read on my own one summer in high school, great memories there and it really turned me on to literature.

Hemingway and Steinbeck are more serious and require more effort on your part to understand what they're trying to get across, but the prose itself isn't dense and even if you don't understand the deeper implications of everything you should still enjoy the story.

>Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
>Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
>The Complete Short Stories - Hemingway

I'm of the opinion that Hemingway's short stories are excellent and his novels range from average to good. Either way, his short stories are the place to start.

If you want to try poetry, go for Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot.

Have fun man, I hope you try some of this out.