/lit/ - Literature

>SpongeBob, sooner or later you're gonna have to go outside!
>Listen, I've told you but I'm never leaving my house again.
>Never ever?
>Never ever ever!

An enjoyable, contemporary read. It's centered around a guy who locks himself in someone else's house for a while, while each part of the novel is narrated (with differences in prose based on the person) by someone with some connection to him, and each part rounds about the end of the novel.

This. A book with an interesting premise and different points of view. I think it's a pretty good read.

"There But For The" Ali Smith

Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough.
Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out.
Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever.
This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people?
Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliché and grace.
Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.

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>Last book you read
>Thoughts
>Current book you're reading
>Thoughts
>(Optional) Next book you're reading
>(Optional) Predictions

For me:
>Last book
Leaves of Grass - Whitman
>Thoughts
Beautiful. I loved every part of it.
>Current book
There But For The - Ali Smith
>Thoughts
Saw it in a "recently bought" thread a while ago. The poster said that he liked her other books, so he had high hopes for this one. So far I really like the characters and the prose, but I'm not yet halfway through and I don't know how where it's going to head. Have you guys read this yet? Did you like it?