/lit/ - Literature

What are the best characters in pic related and why are they chaplain and major major major major

Before finding out about /lit/ I've read mainly books from my language (Montenegrin/Serbian) and few Dostoyevski books.

Also few high school books like The Trial, The Stranger, Hamlet,...

After coming to /lit/ I read some "starting level" books found in some infographic that you guys upload:

Lolita - good book, expected more honestly

Catcher in the Rye - decent book but a little childish

Ham on Rye - pretty bad, like reading a cartoon comic or something, somebody told me to read whole Bukowski trilogy but I can't return to those books

Old Man and The Sea - decent book, a little bit boring

Siddartha - fun to read but pretty naive message in my opinion, don't know how can anybody consider it a classic

and lastly Catch 22. I've had doubts on reading it since I don't have much time for long books and also don't like war thematic, but oh I was so wrong.

Catch 22 is my personal best book ever, my favorite writer is Dostoyevski and I loved his books before but Catch 22 just topped them

Catch has everything, it's entertaining, it's funny, it has love stories, friendship stories, it is doubious at some points, it has quirky parts ( that dreamy sequence when Yossarian is in Rome nearing the end of a book).

I don't want to ask anything , just to thank the board for recommending me this book multiple times.

I might read it again right away, or consider watching a 1970 movie about it.

Guys share your best quote from Catch 22

>"Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy."

That's it. That's the meaning of life. Your philosophy isn't worth shit if you end up dead.

>>9515242
Catch 22 is the only one that made me laugh out loud but characters from Alice in Wonderland all seem to have strong witt to them 'I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, 'so I can't take more.'
"'You mean you ca'n't take less,' said the Hatter, 'it's very easy to take more than nothing.

Are this and Slaughterhouse V worth reading?

>War kinda sucks
OK Joe you made your point already

What do you think about this book? Personally i expected more.

Is it pretentious to tell people this is your favorite novel?

what is your favorite novel

What should I suspect?
Ia it as good as everyone has told me?

Is there some good-tier banned books.

Hi /lit/, I need to read a book from this list:
http://www.tokyoacademics.com/uploads/5/0/1/9/50198725/ib_book_list.pdf
I'm a pleb but even I know most of them are memes, so which one do you recommend?

Discuss

I am halfway through pic related and I am having trouble understanding it and enjoying it. I figure that beneath the humour there is a story of incompetent soldiers being tired of the war but what more is there? Is the humour supposed to be funny?

How did Milo made profit? It's been a while since i've read this and cant remember

Holy fuck who thought it was a good idea for this to be 450 pages? This would have been one of the best 200 page books ever.

>>7916008

Can we have a discussion about this? I just finished reading it and none of my friends have, would like to hear others' opinions on it.

Can someone recommend me any books like Catch-22 please? It doesn't have to be a black comedy.

I went on goodreads and they recommend The Deptford trilogy (I mention this one because The Manticore's cover caught my attention), is it any good? Also it's probably worth noting that I'm not a fan of Vonnegut.

http://youtu.be/7fQL0-_rrpM

Is this worth reading?

So I recently picked up pic related, and decided that I want to read more satirical novels. Considering Candide by Voltaire next. Suggestions?