[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 11 KB, 207x299, Nabokov_Pale_Fire.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11156222 No.11156222 [Reply] [Original]

Name some books that are entertaining and enlightening from start to finish. Pic unrelated.

>> No.11156226
File: 21 KB, 510x320, 510x320_70619.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11156226

>> No.11156228

>>11156226
Nice, what is it about?

>> No.11156287

>>11156222
you got me anxious about /lit/ being pleb again till I read 'pic unrelated', what a relief

>> No.11156306
File: 121 KB, 200x307, 435435.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11156306

>>11156222
>>11156287
This. Nabokov was trash and I hate him mainly just for bashing Dosto.

Anyway, Crime and Punishment taught me that everybody is worth something and should treated with respect. Now I believe that everybody is worth something and that I should treat them with respect. Sonya's also my gf haha. Nah just kidding, she's fictional character really.

>> No.11156312

>>11156306
well crafted satire

>> No.11156419

>>11156228
Some guy making a bunch of rules and then throwing tantrums when they aren’t followed. Then his son comes along and is all like “don’t mind dad. he is uptight. let’s hug it out.” Then the jews sell him out. Oh... and there is a guy who lives in a whale.

>> No.11156814
File: 260 KB, 772x1018, Flatland_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11156814

Might be lighter than what you're looking for, but Flatland is lots of fun and has interesting things to say about mathematics.
Speaking of math, if you're into that I highly recommend Conway's On Numbers and Games. It's rad as hell to see someone roll out an elegant and fully-functional interpretation of not just arithmetic but analysis and algebra on the basis of playable games.

>> No.11156829

>>11156222
How is Pale Fire enlightening? I've been meaning to read it for a while anon

>> No.11156859

>>11156829
>"Pic unrelated."

>> No.11156861

Moby Dick

>> No.11156864

>>11156859
Damn. Fuck this board. It has killed my reading skills.

>> No.11156915

>>11156306
Dosto is so fucking based

>> No.11156938
File: 396 KB, 1570x1536, 1496462749478.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11156938

>>11156864
>browse /lit/
>lose the ability to read
>mfw

>> No.11157080
File: 8 KB, 275x183, ED89832E-F0D5-42A9-9A72-1857274B9BAE.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
11157080

>>11156222

>> No.11157115

>>11157080
pictured: me and my cat one page in to Pale Fire

>> No.11157850

>>11156222
Finnegans Wake
Subahibi
Don Quixote
The Anti-Christ

>> No.11157892

>>11157080
me too, could hardly finish it

>> No.11158077

>>11157115
why do you hate it so much?

>> No.11158117

>>11158077
not him, but I'd say it's not really hate. the novel is just gimmicky, slow paced, not really entertaining to a XXI century reader. sure, for a reader from the 70s this could've felt like a literary acid trip or dashing through a maze, but once that becomes standard with PoMo lit, Pale Fire shows how tame and dull it really is at times.

>> No.11158128

>>11156419
Pretty sure thats Pinnochio dude