/lit/ - Literature

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

Generally approved readings. If you have questions about any of them, don't hesitate.

Well what genres are you interested in?
Some I like :1984
Breakfast of Champions
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Fight Club
Ulysses
Contact

>recommending a newbie Ulysses.

>>1323984
just trying to give a somewhat varied list of books that i have read and enjoyed

captcha: finally Hompin

>>1323980
>Ulysses
>never got into reading
>hasn't read the Odyssey or the Iliad

>>1323978
many thanks sir

>>1323980
not sure...the dystopia / sci-fi novels sort of interest me.

also: is there any place online where I can obtain good pirated ebooks? Most of what I can find on pirate bay is audio books, which is fine I guess.

My family doesn't really buy me things and my high school's library is boring.

inb4 underaged b&

>>1324001
Vonnegut.

Sorry, I don't know about the pirating books whatnot. I find books for a dollar in thrift stores, and 0.01 cents on amazon. Reading is not exactly an expensive hobby.

>>1324005
Yeah, this. Kurt Vonnegut is great.

I don't recall a single book he's written that I didn't thoroughly enjoy.

...well perhaps Slapstick....

>>1324001

The pirate bay and other torrent sites have some books, most popular ones. I suggest demonoid and TPB.

For anything you cant find there (which will be a lot)

Try #bookz see encyclopediadramatica/bookz

If you can't find it in any of those... tough shit go to the library.

>>1324017
What's your favorite Vonnegut? I think mine is either Sirens of Titan or Player Piano.
I really love Player Piano.
I didn't read any sci fi at all for years - then picked up Sirens of Titan. Mind was blown. I read the book in one day.

>>1324024
Player Piano was my fave for a long time. re-read sirens recently and wept (manly tears, of course). re-read tons of others too. now i gotta say that Bluebeard is my favorite. maybe it's b/c i'm a sentimental oldfag.

>>1324024
>>1324043
hmm Maybe I should get the Piano Plaer by the sounds of it. Ive read Cat's cradle and loved it, Slaughterhouse 5 was pretty good too.
Ive got Siren, Breakfast and Mothernight on the shelf yet to read

http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html
Chuck Palahnuik Read it now, post reaction.

>>1324043
>>1324062
Breakfast of Champions was really good - it's lots of people's favorite. It's very meta-literary. Unique. Has that element instead of sci-fi.
I have heard it said before that there were people who read and did not enjoy Sirens of Titan. I haven't ever met one of these uncultured, lifeless shells that passes as a human, as of yet. But I hear they exist.
Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse 5 share a common theme, of the dissolution of time.
Sirens is by far the most outlandish of his work that I have read.
Cat's Cradle was the first that I read by him. I realized instantly that I was going to have to read everything by Vonnegut. I also realized how liberally Chuck P. had been drawing from Vonnegut's work.
I have yet to read Bluebeard and Mother Night.

>>1324073
>Breakfast of Champions....
Yeah someone on here was saying how good it was before I ordered in a bunch, so I got it. Looking forward to reading it.
>Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse 5....Cat's Cradle ....
Sirens sounds interesting, looking forward to that too. I wasn't as impressed by Slaughterhouse5, kind of has me worried I wont enjoy the others as much, but im sure I will.
lol Yeah I read Cat's Cradle first too, and had the exact same reaction as you had. I thought it was fantastic.

>>1324079
>>1324043

EVERY DAMN DAY! Why does NOBODY KNOW HOW TO READ INDEPENDENTLY!? FUCK!

for free classics:
gutenberg.org

>>1324105
Er, maybe we all just want a place to talk about our favorite books with other people who like the same material?

>>1324105
Or do you really come here to talk with nobody about shit that nobody has read?

>>1323994
>He thinks we mean the Illiad

>>1324130

I doubt anyone comes to a literature board in order to talk to people who have never read books before.

>>1324315
yet we all come here...