/lit/ - Literature

What happened to Sunhawk? He was the friendliest tripfag who always talked about books.

>Freedom
>Oscar Wao
>NW (second half)
>Bleeding Edge

Can't decide. Some really good books, right there. Sadly, some I've read many times, i.e. Oscar Wao and Freedom.

Did I get the name right? Is he worth reading? Invisible looks like an enjoyable book, but I don't know. Is he part of the Latin Boom authors, or just some random Hispanic jerk?

Despite the genre, I always thought the Foundation books were excellent spiels about the human condition. Hardly any technology, not much sci-fi razzle dazzle, just talking about how humans behave in large groups and individually.

Bravo, Izzy.

1Q84 is alright, The Pale King is really good. More people should read TPK.

I'm about halfway through, and there have been plenty of cool references. Best so far was Hari Seldon. Sweetness.

Details.

I'll be going into my local Waterstones to get my copy. Hopefully reduced in price, £20 (about $30) is a lot for a book. Maybe talk to the cutie patootie(s) behind the till, try and make them think I'm smart (which will be a hard sell )no pun intended)). Go to the local park, start reading, go home, keep reading. OMG. New Pynchon book. And it's set in the 2000s.

I'd say The Crying of Lot 49. Just boring, from start to finish, and pathetically short for Pinecone. Doesn't even have a fun, playful feel to it.

This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
Girl With Curious Hair - DFW
Oblivion: Stories - DFW
For Esme with Love and Squalor - JD Salinger

<3 all these. I've read each at least 3 or 4 times, some more. What great books. They don't get much respect on /lit/, though, which makes me angry. I can understand This is How You Lose Her, since it's only been out for nearly a year, but what about the others? These are patrician books. They are very enjoyable to read.

He was a popular, even celebrated author, back in the 1960s and 1970s, then everyone forgot him. I'm told he had a medium-sized revival in the late 90s, but now NOGAF. Why not? He writes good, zeitgeist stories, that are dark and bitter enough to make most people happy.

If I can afford to, I'll go into Waterstones and buy a hardcover copy. Whoop whoop! Depends how much it costs though (probably £15), and how much I have then. And then I can say, without lying: I have bought a Pinecone book on release day.

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Nah, this is 100% real, totally legit, bona fide Sunhawk. Sadly. People may want to make a note of my current code, i.e. the rek one, so they can recognise me. I still see people logging into my other code, though.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/video/jk-rowling-announces-new-harry-potter-book/1567302972001

Thoughts?

I think it's bad. When a series is finished, it should stay finished.

A while back, I read The Human Stain, my first and only book he's written. I thought it was mostly boring, and a real slog. Now, for reasons I'm not sure of, I'm thinking of reading him again. I guess I like his clever prose, and (sometimes) ivory tower settings, plus his commentary on America, and Jewishness. Should I give him another go? Was THS a weaker book? I may read American Pastoral, although it looks like damn hard going from the first few pages.

>>3771118

Lol @ the Murakami comment. Apart from the obvious fact that he is a bit simple in his writing, there's the fact that this isn't a good to bad chart, but a high-brow to low-brow chart.

>>3763007
>tfw living the NEET dream in the most beautiful and rich part of England

Does /lit/ have any red flags?

>girls who think they are above the library
>girls who refuse to buy/read used books

I read the first 5 pages of The Road today. Where the fuck are all the commas? That isn't so bad, but he leaves out required apostrophes as well. And THAT wouldn't be so bad, but he isn't even consistent in it!

Explain this disgrace to me, and why his books are still worth reading.

>apply to work in major bookstore 3 times
>get interviewed 2 times
>fail completely all times

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I mean, really, ever? I know thatinternet elitism is very bad, especially on a lit board, but this is dreadful. Nothing is good enough. Everyone gets slammed by everyone else for reading any book. Each bad is either bad, or stupid, or low-brow, or plot-driven, or plebbish, or too short, or needlessly long, or with bad prose.

Well?

>>3723291

I want to read Buddenbooks, but not a rec. Was it goos or not?

The Paperboy - someone
The Taliban Cricket Club - someone

I almost bought them the other day, and may still get them. They seem interesting. I know that they're very modern, and /lit/ probably hasn't read them, but it'd be nice if I could get an opinion (or two opinions).

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>>3706732
Bye. :-)

>>3697473

A new trip.