/lit/ - Literature

>>2864258
Bibliophile.

So, guys.

Is there any possibility to download book from books.google.com ? I've used bookworm.evil.so, but it seems they closed the service..

Stealing books - the gentlemanly crime.

Haven't had one of these threads in a while. Your exploits, /lit/?

>implying you haven't filched paperbacks from crummy second hand book stores

ITT List three books you like and insult someone else's choices. I'll start with a few common board offenders.

>1984
Orwell was an essayist first and his prose feels like it was written by a man who refused to break any usage rules he was taught in high school.

>Infinite Jest
If you want people to read your works maybe you should make them a littler shorter before you resort to killing yourself.

>The Catcher In the Rye
Yeah, the book was so "good" the writer spent the rest of his life living in shame of it. More like the catcher in the bedroom. Fag.

White Noise (DeLillo)
Herzog (Bellow)
Couples (Updike)

Okay, so, the wishlist thing is in full force tonight, so I'll get on this right now:

First person to get doubles gets gifted!

Save me, /lit/. My boyfriend's birthday is advancing, and I want to buy him a book. Or more than one. He's in love with chess, and I think that it would be a really sweet gesture if I got him a book that had an actual storyline that involved chess.
Yes, I've been on wikipedia and looked at the page "Chess in Art and Literature." Apart from The Defense by Nabokov, I didn't see much that struck my fancy. And I've done all the google searches.
So, I come to you out of respect, humility, and hopefulness. Does /lit/ know of any literature involving chess?