/lit/ - Literature

do you still listen to the radio? i just started listening to see what was on offer late at night and the local college & co op stations are iight.

having an ereader has given me a greater appreciation for the books out there that haven't been digitized. it's turned typical bookstores into banalities whereas it's places like Value Village that actually have the (secondhand) cool shit worth buying nowadays.

>>22260793
BRILLIANT! Jack Kerouac is one of my favourite authors, who was very formative for me in my late teens/early twenties. Catch-22 is exceptional bt w - I read it last year and it was the best book I read all 2022. The rest are a bit beyond me tho. I'll probably read Crime and Punishment someday, and very well Moby Dick, but I'll likely miss me with the others. But who knows, maybe someday I'll get the Dosto bug in me.
>>22260809
I know what you mean, but OtR is just so jubilant and free to the point where it eclipses almost everything else Kerouac wrote, to my mind - other than TDB which is kind of differrent, but is still almost just as good, and yet not quite a high, don't you think? Anyways, I advise you to read Desolation Angels after Dharma Bums because it's basically a direct sequel.
>>22260830
I thought it was stupid too.

2023 has been such a shite year for me, reading-wise. Been constipated with like 5 dnfs and several books on the go right now, several of which I've been almost finished for weeks and weeks now, and I've only finished one single book this entire friggin year and that was a YA novel I re-read from my teenage years.
I need to finish The Dunwich Horror asap (on chapter X); and I'm only two-odd hours from the end of The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (I've been listening to it on audio for at least two-plus months) which incidentally is narrated brilliantly in English; I'm also on my second attempt at Andrew Roberts' (admittedly masterful) Napoleon: A Life, also reading on audio.
I dnf'd that Timothy McVeigh book everyone was screeching about at the beginning of the year. I started The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall (on audio) but I think I've dnf'd it as well. I also dnf'd but read the majority of a book on Aleister Crowley (which I may actually come back to when I think of it).
I think I have to admit that utilizing audiobooks is not going to make me read any greater number of books, and that I'm just not cut out for long books. As much as I loved it, it took me 3 months to read Catch-22, at just 450 pages. However I do admit I like a well-narrated audiobook. I have so much to read actually.
Next I think I'm going to read Post Office by Charles Bukowski, audio, but I need to finish The Cyberiad and Dunwich Horror FIRST.