/lit/ - Literature

What's the one book that changed your life, /lit/?

I can't really be bothered to risk wasting my time reading this, especially because it's only the hype that even made me interested in it (and I have a lot of other books that I need to finish right now).

I need /lit/'s opinion since it's usually one I agree with, what did you think of this book?

I'm 28 and male by the way, not really into young adult fiction. Maybe I'll just watch the film to satisfy my curiosity.

So guys first of all Hi.
Yeah, i finished reading the hunger games, it's actually the first book i read like in my entire life(apart from robin hood) and i actually really enjoyed it. I never watched the movie or trailer, but i thought that by far the book is much better.

I want to know if you people can recommend me another book, i want to still keep reading because i just realized how fun it was.

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Here you go, chief. This piece of shit might be more your speed.

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you are now aware that this is considered required reading in some schools

how do we save the education system /lit/ ?

I have to read this shit for School
Someone kill me.

What does /lit/ think of the Hunger Games?

I didn't know first person view in reading could be this annoying.

Hunger Games>>>>>>>>>>>>Battle Royale

Why read fiction? Why pay someone to tell you an idea they had in their head? I'm not trolling, I look at J.K. Rowling and wonder why some made up characters she came up with on a train ride are so popular, she's now a billionaire. Anyone could have came up with child wizards and pedo sorcerers.

Pic related: same with this lump of shit.

For what it is, this book was actually pretty good and extremely entertaining.

Pic related, very related.

American's can't write for shit,

ITT bad "literature"

bonus points for mainstream "literature"

pic very related

So what's the general opinion on this? I just finished it up, didn't really care for it, there were a few cool parts and the world was kind of intresting, but other than that it was pretty shitty. Battle Royale is just so much better.

what does /lit/ think of this book?

The greatest gobbledygook of all time.

best series thread?

And there's nothing you can do to stop me.

What's up with this? Is this just Twilight all over again with another horrible message?

So I'm trying not to be an elitist, to read a little bit of everything, and pick up The Hunger Games. And sure enough, the characters are sympathetic, the world is imaginative enough to keep me interested, and the writing practically reads it by itself. I sat up until 6 AM finishing it. At times it's harsh, but then at others it's so warm.

But then ... And now I don't know what to say, because when the main characters finally do live through the game, forget all the dead children, the grandest tragedy is that the main character faked her love for Peeta to win the viewers sympathy and receive prizes ... Yet how can I not think it's wrong to care about this after Rue's burial where we're constantly made concious about the cameras watching, and I'm thus made to feel bad about caring about Rue, because ... How am I any better than the viewers of Panem, accepting the entertainment I'm given at its horrible premises ... I mean, it's a book about children killing each other, yet the love triangle it creates is the biggest issue, the dramatic realization of its creation the way to end the first novel, deserving of such emphasis? It's almost ridiculous.

I'm not saying it's a bad book, but Battle Royale was digestable because it was a satire. The fact that one is enjoying the game much like the viewers of it only makes it ... deeper. With The Hunger Games, I'm given nothing such ... Instead I'm put in a conflicted situation where I'm not sure if I think it's moral to read anymore, and the book itself is what got me thinking like this, yet I'm still very curious about what happens in the two next books ... Thoughts?

I usually write off over hyped tween trash like this, but I've even seen grown men who have admitted to like these books.

Has anyone here read it? Is it as much of a mess as Twilight?

ITT: Best books of the last decade. Il'l start

So kids. This is my first post on /lit/. But guess what? I just finished The Hunger Games after about 3 months of reading. Fucking finished it. And you know what? Possibly the best book I've ever read, I think it ties with Jitterbug Perfume. What do you folks have to say about it?