/lit/ - Literature

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (reread)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (dnf)
The Black Book of Communism (still reading intermittently – it's very long)
[extended break in the spring]
All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet
A bunch of H.P. Lovecraft stories
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Currently reading: Conquest by Hugh Thomas; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (rereading) on audiobook which I have only roughly 1.5 hours left of so I hope to finish it before the year is out. Next I'll finish Conquest and Treasure Island. Then after that I'm going to read more on the Spanish conquest of Mexico in Bernal Diaz' memoir (the newest translation with the intro by Hugh Thomas).

>>20366375
Honestly, way better in fact. We as a whole take ourselves much less seriously than only a few years ago, much less seriously than the days of the worst and most autistic memes on 4chan (/lit/ 2013–2016).

>>18437025
I know what beat means, I more like, meant, what does it mean to you, maaaan? I've lived poor, and there's a certain wholesomeness of living as a NEET, with only a radio & CDs/LPs for entertainment, without even a landline phone nevermind a mobile cell, or TV or internet and going to the food bank and subsisting off of coffee & cheap, basic food, for many months or even years at a time. At my lowest I was even smoking resin & keeping warm in the winter without turning the heat on and going days with sleep for dinners. Yet somehow it was good, very humbling & yet I still managed to get up to no good with friends and such; so it was good and I was truly living like the doggone Beats. Doing that in this modern era, is truly beat, in my opinion.
>>18437107
That's good to hear. I'll read it someday for sure, but I think the next Kerouac I'll read will be The Sea Is My Brother. I have so much to read, man!

>Che Guevara biography by Jon Lee Anderson
>Stalin biography by Oleg V.K.
>The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
>Back On the Road; and Bolivian Diary by Ernesto Che Guevara
>Life Undercover by Amarylis Fox
>Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen
>A German Officer in Occupied Paris by Ernst Jünger
>Soldiers of God by Robert Kaplan
>Gerald's Game by Stephen King
>On Pain by Ernst Jünger
>The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
>Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
>Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
>L'morte du Arthur by Thomas Malory
>The Once and Future King by T.H. White
>The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
>The Sea Wolf by Jack London
>A Time of Gifts; and The Traveller's Tree by P.L. Fermor
>SOG Chronicles by J.S. Meyer
>On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
>Dispatches by Michael Herr
>Sabriel by Garth Nix
>Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
>For My Legionnaires by C.Z. Codreau
>The Book of Enoch
>Star Wars Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn
>Big Sur; and The Sea Is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
>The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
>Ringworld by Larry Niven
...I--I'll get around to all these, rr-right???
>pic only semi related