/lit/ - Literature

>>22316035
I'm currently halfway through Pale Fire. It could be a decent read, but his pseudo-intellectual, liberal-arts-educated way of writing ruins it for me. Nabokov seems to be a writer for the sake of being a writer, when he really has nothing to say.

>>20599117
13/24 but that's cause I got wise to some tricks like including audiobooks and novellas and graphic novels in my count. I'm off track in my habit but I'm 2 books ahead of schedule. So far I've read:

The Shallows (audiobook)
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Stoner
The Toll
Lurking (audiobook)
Anxious People
Internet Addiction: Kicking the Habit
The Alchemist
Flowers for Algernon
Why Does He Do That?
Seconds (graphic novel)
I, Robot (took forever to get through)
Fragments of Horror (manga)

Currently halfway through another audiobook, 1/4th of the way through a nonfiction, halfway through Siddhartha, and reading a novella.

This is significantly better than the 9 I read in 2019 or the zero read in 2018.

>>18065535
Of course I have, it's just that I feel like there needs to be objectivity to what good writing is. Surely it's not as simple as things being purely subjective, at least those are my thoughts. In the end, things I like should, and is more important than what everyone enjoys but I always thought writing is objective when it comes to the level of writing we see. I'm esl so if that doesn't make sense let me know.