/lit/ - Literature

I know neither guilt nor pleasure

>>11138308
I thoroughly enjoyed those too anon. I think the closest to a guilty pleasure would be the first few Horus Heresy books and the Eisenhorn trilogy, but I hesitate to call it a guilty pleasure at all as they're legitimately quite good.
As much as this board will shit on you for it, not everything you read has to be the Greeks or Jordan B Memerson. If you find it fulfilling and enjoyable to read, read it and have fun. Who cares what a bunch of people on a Vietnamese MySQL developers forum have to say.

>>11139464
Peterson is light reading. He is pop.

>>11139491
He's a pseudointellectual as well but this is all quite orthogonal to my point.

>>11138418
What a faggot

>>11138308
i've read every dirk pitt adventure until dark wind

>>11138308
Wouldn't tanks be completely obsolete at that point.

I admire Child's sincerity as a writer of Airport fiction.

>>11139678
I can usually respect an unpretentious genre book done with some panache and professionalism.

Manga romcoms and smut.

>>11140981
Archimboldi is it u?

>>11140991
I've always been painfully in love with natural history. Even as a baby I would demand to be read animal encyclopedias at bed time. I'm very lucky my mother did that for me.
Studying natural history allows you to read what Bateson called the "syllogisms in the grass" no formal literature comes close to the poetics of living. It makes me so sad that humans are losing touch with it, the common ground of all art that we have been nested in for all of evolutionary history and with all our gifts to understand it we are alienated from it. Not being able to share the experience with people around makes me very lonely, especially when I was young. I still feel a connection to all the life surrounding me but the ecologically literate people who can relate a feeling of mutual understanding back to me have been few and far between.

>>11140902
Have you read anything by Alistair Maclean? I recommend "Fear is the key." Maclean is a thriller writer that knows not over stay his welcome. As much as I enjoyed "Killing Floor," a good number of thrillers have no reason to be longer than 300 pages. I tried "Persuader," by Child, and the padding was noticeable. Still I respect him.

Shlocky Horror I guess would be mine.

>>11140902
as a teenager i devoured wilbur smith books, i think i read at least 70-80% of all his novels.
also i enjoyed some thrillers of sydney sheldon

I enjoy it. It's straight forward and does what it needs to.

(non godzilla) Kaiju fiction

>>11138308
Crime pulp with the sleazy covers

I've read all 48 books of the Horus Heresy.

>>11143381
Eisenhorn is goat.

>>11143587
I didnt like Eisenhorn as much. Shit inconnex stories, abrupt endings and some of Abnett's worst writing overall. I was very disappointed because I came into Eisenhorn after reading the others and thinking I was leaving the best for last. I dont understand the love for Eisenhorn at all.

Gaunt's ghosts > HH > Eisenhorn

>>11138308
I masturbate 8-12 times a day

>>11143597
>Abnett's worst writing overall
Are you high? Pariah: Ravenor vs Eisenhorn was way worse than Eisenhorn, a few of the Horus Heresy books were pretty lame as well.

>>11143113
Well is it good kaiju fiction?

>>11143972
Worst of what I read, I had no desire to carry on with ravenor and such after the Eisenhorn trilogy.

Some of the HH books are p lame, yes, its a mixed bag, but the good ones I liked a lot. HHwise I pretty much disliked all anthology books, those short stories were useless 99% of the time.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

>>11143613

That sounds exhausting.

>>11143613
wheres the pleasure in that? Only guilt.

Dragonlance and The Legend of Drizzt for muh nostalgia.

>>11143613
1-2 times a week during the weekend is peek peasuer. Try that

>>11138308
Pic related and Magician's Guild.
I don't know, I have a boner for stories with little girls with special super powers against some authoritarian regime
>>11146960
>The Legend of Drizzt
I just read that trilogy and I find it pretty good I was about to read The Crystal Shard but I want more variety for now

>>11138308
Pic related and it's continuations.

>>11147714
Always enjoyed Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency more than Hitchhiker, not exactly sure why tho.

It does everything I hate and I still enjoyed it

>>11147822
One was a radio play adapted as a novel, the other was written as a novel.

Stainless Steel Rat

>>11139645
Clive Cussler is my guilty pleasure as well. Have you read the Isaac Bell adventures? Almost, if not more enjoyable than Dirk Pitt adventures.

>>11138308
Am I the only one? Also, the film didn't do this justice at all, should've either made it a mini-series or given up completely.

>>11147852
Yeah, he's a surprisingly talented storyteller. I was impressed.

>>11143980
kinda

>>11149302
yeah read them. beasty.

>>11149302
I enjoyed them in middle school

I love me some Orson Scott Card

>>11138308

i unironically dab when i'm having a good day and also i laugh at my own jokes

my guilty pleasures aren't /lit/ related

Murakami

>>11150293
This is me but i dab when something bad or sad happens to me

>>11150293
Hey, if you’re living life and enjoying yourself, then who gives a fuck. Dab away, anon.

>>11150293
based