/lit/ - Literature

>>12506992
don quixote what's yours

>>12506992
Crime and Punishment

Strangely enough
Jeff Grubb - The Brothers' War

Sabato's The tunnel

The Naked Lunch

Rant casey
Main reason why I've started reading more now

>>12506992
Pricksongs and Descants

>>12506992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AgDbAT56I0

>>12507141
awful choice

>>12506992

>>12507706
brainlet.
Burroughs is the Picasso of literature.

>>12506992
A Personal Matter- Oe

>>12507787
who the fuck said that

Odyssey

>>12507790
Picasso did

>>12507789
a very good book. unironically saved my life.
>>12507790
i said it faggot. that was the whole point of that book. he noticed painters using information in new ways, and he wondered why writers were still writing like 19th century faggots more or less, or else like journalists, and so, he created a new novel. i honestly can't see how someone would not enjoy Naked Lunch, it is genuinely funny with a captivating design.

>>12506992
East of Eden

>>12506992
Hamlet

The Bible

>>12506992
Months Dick

Stoner

>>12507810
What a life that must be.

100 years of solitude

I miss her so much bros.
Dead Souls

>>12506992
pedo faggot kys
>>12508209
you too

>>12508213
Agatha Is literally one year older than me

>>12506992
Fahrenheit 451, since elementary school.

>>12506992
Riddley Walker

>>12507141
This is literally my least favorite book

A Canticle for Leobowitzs

the Unconsoled

>>12506992
The Horse and His Boy

>>12506992
The Epic of Gilgamesh

>>12506992
Lolita

Probably As I Lay Dying for a novel

I really like a few Wallace Stevens, Keats and Blake poems that I could consider favourites

>>12508711
this and clockwork orange.
I love both the writing styles and prose. where do I go from here? I want to read Ada or Ardor next

correction by thomas bernhard

>>12506992
The Holy Bible.

>>12509164
yeah pretty good fantasy

Platero and I

>>12509196
*tips fedora*

Silence

el llano en llamas

>>12506992
I haven’t seen her in forever

>>12508199
Mine too.

This book.

>>12510178
poor taste

>>12510178
He’s a nonce

>>12508838
I’m in the middle of Pale Fire. There’s a good chance you’ll really appreciate it, and it’s a decent stepping stone between Lolita and Ada, from what I’ve heard.

>>12506992
The Lord of the Rings

>>12510178
How? It’s not even really a book. It’s just a collection of random newsletters within one very small neo-nazi group

>>12508838
Whaaat.
My favourite is Clockwork Orange. Nowhere hast here been a character as perfect as Alex. No one has ever written such a linguistic masterpiece. Nowhere has there been a man so intellectually arousing and sadistic at the same time. God, I want to read it again.

I read Lolita and apart from the story itself, I did not like the writing at all. I actually thought it got really boring after her mother died.

Invisible Man

>>12506992
War and Peace.

>>12506992
Probs the Iliad or Hamlet. For a long time it was Leaves of Grass. I’m also a softy for Sound and the Fury though I know it’s not cobby’s best.

Northanger Abbey, and I just discovered it too - so much smarter and more complex than anyone gives it credit for, /lit/ collectively is missing out on a lot with Austen.

Bely's Petersburg.

>>12510536
>undergrad detected
>austen
i promise all the gothic parody buildingsroman shit will fade.

>>12506992
I most like the magic mountain and also the first act of tender is the night.

>>12510536
weird choice, not what I'd put forth as my favourite of hers

>>12510569
That's just the surface level, she tapped into the real qlippothic horror of Capital in a way the accelerationists have yet to. Hegel in a crinoline dress and fangs.

>>12506992
Cunt.

My favourite is Mason & Dixon.

>>12507141
It's a lot of fun to read. Sadly, I let someone "borrow" my copy and never saw it again. I always keep a lookout for a good second hand edition while I'm out shopping.

The Idiot

>>12510736
Thanks for introducing yourself. Now what's your favourite book? I know the cat in the hat might be a bit too complex for you, but you've got to have at least finished one book before.

>>12506992
Kavalier and Clay and Kafka on the Shore.

>>12510760
who hurt you, sweetie?

>>12510760
What's your problem? It's a good maybe not best by Dosto but it's my favorite

>>12506992
Lolita and Gravity's Rainbow

>>12510404
good opinions anon

>>12510198
This is probably my favorite too, however I have to say whenever I am in a dark place the book I grab is the silmarillion. I know people laud it for its density/incoherence/lack of flow but I find it beautiful and it feels like a great workout for my brain, memorizing the names and details of each story.

>>12506992
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler and The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald.

Solaris and Space Odyssey

>>12512023
Tender Is the Night is the best Fitzgerald if you haven’t read it yet, probably the greatest American novel by prose at least

>>12506992
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

I can't even pinpoint why but so many parts in it hit me on a such a fucking gut level and I've been reading it once a year for the last few years, reading certain passages more often

>>12506992
paradise lost

The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

>>12512829
I really do need to read Tender Is the Night but I am always finding new modernists to read and can't be bothered to read a second novel by anyone I have read before. Currently reading Rose Macaulay who is pretty good.

I love B&D because it seems like one of the most honest works I have ever read without trying to be. I know a lot of his novels are similar in truthfulness but I just love the period of his life that was focued on in B&D. It's all about finding meaning in the waning years of youth and his own struggles with that just come out so strongly in the subtext it's like you're getting to know this author like a good friend from nothing but his writing. I am sure his other novels can compare though.

>>12514163
Fuck off, cunt.

>>12506992
please stop posting her, you're making me sad again

Am i bad3 for saying that my favorite is 120 days in sodom . It's just so beautifully written

>>12510543
care giving an opinion about the content? I’m thinking on buying it

brothers karamazov

>>12513567
I've been doing the same thing with Blood Meridian, it keeps drawing me back with the setting and tone.

>>12514242
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>>12514209
this desu ne wa

>>12514251
cunt

>>12514251
nice, me too

>>12506992
Ariel, sylvia plath

Moby-Dick
Or, The Whale

>>12506992
Chronicles Volume One

>>12506992
Fifth business

read it in highschool, it really got me back into reading

>>12510015
My man.

>>12508689
First story best story

>>12506992
More photos !

It's sort of a tie between A Clockwork Orange and Musashi for me

>>12515425
P.S., same dude from this post here, just wanted to add that I thought the ending to Musashi was a little abrupt, yet at the same time, i can't think of a better way to have done it. It was a story that I could have just kept reading and reading. Also, I was annoyed I never got to see Otsu meet her brother, like wtf man, i was looking towards that reunion

>>12507883
Fucking kill yourself Christfag.

>>12511692
Thank you :3

>>12507122
could you please convince me to read it without spoiling

>>12506992

>>12516088
STOP

Probably Cat’s cradle or Sirens of Titan.

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>>12506992
The Brothers Karamazov
Only 2 years into reading but nothing made me feel the way that book did.
A special mention to A Hundred Years of Solitude though.