/lit/ - Literature

>>5256162
OP

you're not even looking at the right part of the wiki

We already have a recommendations section with many, many separate areas in it.

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading


How do threads get this large with no one knowing how to use a wiki?

why didn't you read the sticky instead of repeatedly bumping

>>5219223

On what basis do you choose the next book you read?

Is it based on the experience of your most recent book? Do you read to fill in the holes of what you think you should have already read? Do you try reading several different books and see which one you fall into?

This is the story of the last 5 books I've read and why:
>Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A friend suggested this book after a conversation regarding acceptable ways in which a man can write a female character.
>The Name of the Rose
Was sort of disappointed by the last third of ECGTB and wanted to read something that sounded intriguing and carried more literary weight; this was suggested on /lit/. Loved it.
>Eeeee Eee Eeee
Wanted to read a short book because I was sort of weary from having read 2 relatively long books back to back. It was sort of good but insanely brief.
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Again wanted to read something short but far more substantial than Eeee Eee Eeee. I also have always meant to read Portrait – and feel as though I 'should' in an attempt to fill the holes I mentioned earlier – and have tried about 2 or 3 times before but never built up enough momentum to get past the first chapter and a half. This time I blew through it.

My next book is Howard Bloom's "How To Read and Why", because, after reading Portrait, I had so many questions about the experience of reading it and, after reading some secondary bs about it, realized a lot of intuitions about the book that I suppressed out of the assumption that I was wrong and uninformed were actually things that others (who were informed) had latched onto and explored deeper. Bloom was recommended to help me be more confident about what I think I am seeing in a book.

Why do you read what you read?

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>>5072524

The wiki has a whole section for good surreal stuff.