/lit/ - Literature

>>1216259
sauce?

>Naked Girls Reading

>>1216272
first sauce on pic

So.. no recommendation charts? sadpanda.jpg

>>1216259
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

here you go OP:

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

>>1216277
WARNING

These are troll charts.

bamping

>>1216272
Going to write an introduction to literature for you. Give me like 15 minutes+.

>>1216280
No, no they aren't. One of them on there is, but everything else - the novellas chart, all the world literature charts, the sci-fi chart - is legit.

>>1216283
>>1216278
>>1216277

Thanks.

>>1216283

Keeping it bumped for this.

>>1216272
Not with books. It really depends what you're looking for.

Personally I devour everything, but for the purpose of introducing you to literature I am, based on friends of mine, going to give you a few types of readers I know, and then you can see which you identify with the most and read something suggested beneat those. Also. These are shallow stereotypes and are in no way meant to offend anyone!!

> THE SAGE

If you're the sort of guy that thinks reading history and doing things that are classically deemed usefull I imagine you could grit your teeth, as it can be tiring for a beginner, and start plowing through some classics. You can't go wrong, really, if you're one of those knowledge people that get a kick out of that. RECOMMENDED: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (An arrogant, poor student murders someone he thinks is evil. Psychological and philosophical tension ensues.); 1984 by George Orwell (*The* dystopian novel. A ruined sci-fi society warning us about how we do not want the world to be. Also check out Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.); Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Savedra (Considered the first novel ever written. Pretty much this delusioned guy who reads to many books and then rides around believing himself to be a knight. Full of stories within stories. They will for example stop at an inn, find something in a book shelve, and then the following three chapters is someone reading it aloud.). DIFFICULTY: 7/10

TO BE CONTINUED!!!

>>1216301

> THE MODERNIST

Had enough of the optimism we have of the future? Perhaps think that science is just another religion or not really good enough as it is? Are you also kind of very open-minded, do you enjoy jigsaw puzzles, and does the idea of spending weeks upon weeks exploring the same book, trying to grasp it, fascinate you? Well, then this might interested you. RECOMMENDED: Ulysses by James Joyce (James Joyce first and, surprisingly enough, lesser attempt, hitherto en Hipster, at breaking through the very fabric of language in at attempt at seizing truth. In English: Crazy Irish guy writes an epic molded after The Odyssey about a day in lots of random people's days. Uses pretty much every writing style ever used before, switching between them, plus more. One chapter is 90 pages about someone masturbating; also, like the sixty last is some chick contemplating marriage for 60 pages with no punctuation.); In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Pretentious, sensitive French guy writes 3 million words, that's like 6 really thick volumes, about his own life, and nothing else. Deals with themes such as memory and homosexuality. Is fucking unforgetable if you actually finish it, but few do.); The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Most people enjoy this. Not only modernists. The Sage would probably like it as well, par example. It's about a guy that wakes up as big bug one day. It's absurd, funny and not tough to get through at all. Comment on modern society or some such). DIFFICULTY: 10/10

>>1216283
Not OP but will wait for you as well.

>>1216301
>>1216302
IS THERE MORE?

Seriously I'm seeing bits and pieces of myself in both and while I've read some of those, that's INCREDIBLY helpful for a beginner. Any more fun stereotypes or whatever :D

I'm dying to hear what he has to say about postmodernism

>>1216302
>>1216301

OP here, bumping for more hopefully and thanks again. I'll be right back.

>>1216311
Me too.

>>1216302

> THE SENSITIVE POSTMODERNIST

Tired of those modernists wanting to fix the world by doing stupid experimental stuff? Think nothing makes sense anyway? But you're a sensitive, perhaps emotional person? RECOMMENDED: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami (800 page long epic about a guy looking for his lost cat in his neighbourhood. Not kidding. A personal favourite of mine.); Invisible by Paul Auster (It's... Nevermind actually. Just read it.); American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Urban fantasy about this guy who gets out of jail just to find out his wife has been killed in an accident. He becomes some sort of bodyguard for a guy calling himself Mr. Wedsnday who's actually the Norse god Odin. Hilarity ensues.). DIFFICULTY: 5/10

> THE MODERNIST POSTMODERNIST

Tired of those modernists wanting to fix the world, (nothing makes sense anyways,) but still like jigsaw puzzles and stuff being unreasonably complicated? Then this is you. RECOMMENDED: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Eh. Um. Ehehehe. Well. This book was apparently nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, but only 3 of like 11 board members or something finished it citing it unreadable. One second the guy is going on about nuclear physics, the next they're discussing obscure comic books and having highly detailed, socially unacceptable sex.); Underworld by Don DeLillo (It's about. Like. People. In a city. And it's huge.); Inifity Jest by David Foster Wallace (Google it. Bring a notebook.) DIFFICULTY: 8/10

>>1216280
Only the tier charts are troll charts. Everything else is pretty good.

>>1216324
Hmmmm. Go on :p

My writing was fucking horrendous in those earlier ones. I'm sorry I'm not writing very well today. Kind of dizzy. Going to try harder with the next ones :(

>>1216340
Hehe, no biggie. Rest assured you're being very helpful for at least one person today :D

>>1216324

> THE HIPSTER

You like your stuff to be quirky. Different. And since you've already lied and told everyone you've read all the classics, what is left to you are the black sheeps of contemporary, serious literature. Personally, if I had to classify myself, I would probably have one feet in this one, and the other in the sensitive postmodernist. Most of these books are hate/love. RECOMMENDED: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (It's about this guy who finds the notebook of an old, blind, dead man who was writing about a movie that doesn't seem to exist; the movie being about a couple who discover their house is larger on the inside than the outside. The whole thing is a footnote hell with footnotes going several pages, and several narrators fighting for your attention. It's more accessible than it sounds, and very fun. It does some really cool stuff which, at least in my opinion, lead to an experience that couldn't have been done differently. Pic on this post is a page from House of Leaves. It's all like that. At one place there are also musical notes.); Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (It's about an 11 year old kid that loses his father during 9/11 and sets out to find out what a key that used to belong to his father was for. The boy, of course, writes like a 30 year old, but nevermind that; this book is so many layers of false sentimentality and gimmicks, that it actually adds up to a pretty substantial whole.); Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (It's about this guy that feels alienated in society and all its consumerism so he joins this club where people beat each other up. Pretty snappy, rhythmic prose, but it gets on the nerves of a lot of people really fast. If you've seen the film, don't bother, but read Choke by the same writer instead.

>>1216354

Oops. House of Leaves pic here.

Note-to-self: Don't do these sort of things when you're drunk.

>>1216354

> THE ESCAPIST

Fuck reality. You want to escape into another universe, and stay there. These are the type of books that you sit at work or school or wherever you're forced to go when you can't read, looking forward to get home so you can return to your world again. RECOMMENDED: A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (Gritty and long fantasy serie about lots of kings who end up going to war. The prose is about as straight-forward as it gets, but the character development and the way the plot unfolds is very intricate and exciting without being that hard to keep up with everything that's going.); The Nemesis by Jo Nesbø (Norwegian writer doing modern pastiches of noir novels with this drunk detective catching serial killers, and doing dialogue exchanges like: “I have no reason to share this information with you,” countered by the pointing of a revolver and: “I have six goddamn reasons right here.”); Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.

All right, people. I'd write way more but I'm about to, like, hit the floor or something. Some other time, maybe?

I'm sorry :(

>>1216372
Poopy :( I'll try to lurk /lit/ more often :P

>>1216372

Thanks a lot, guess I'll lurk /lit/ for some more info later too (OP here)

Thank you Melancholy! Will check out the "thrones" series you mentioned given we've read and enjoyed a good proportion of your list. Sincere thanks!

What is your opinion of Terry Pratchett as entry level fantasy/satire? Anybody else want to chime in go right ahead.

I read his novels to relax. They're not long but each time, I get something fresh out of them. Yes, I'm a re-reader in general.

bump, wondering if Melancholy is up yet :D

Thanks Melancholy. This was interesting.

bump

;_;

daily bump