/lit/ - Literature

book of fart jokes, sitting in a floor basket at a gas station bathroom

>>14388112
Diary of a wimpy kid. I read like the first 5 books. Last one I remember reading had blue cover

>>14388112
12 rules for life

>>14388112
Catcher in the rye

don quixote, hated every oage

fascism: a warning, after my grandma recommended it. it read like a novel-length clinton speech transcribed.

The Circle

>>14388112
Dune

>>14388112
kramer was a jewish plant, a false flag to make racists seem like bumbling fools. his handler jerry was behind the whole thing.

off the top of my head? probably 1984 desu

>>14388696
Giddyup

>>14388519
Pseud

12 rules for life

>>14388707
faggot

>>14388170
The last one I read was yellow and was set during the summer break

Jo Nesbø

>>14388112
Probably Diary by Chuck Palaniuk (or however the hell you spell his name). I actually enjoyed it and liked having something to talk to my younger sister about (despite having been a 24 year old man reading something written almost explicitly for teenage girls). It's not so bad but definitely not much going on there beyond the basic teenage edginess surrounding "but what if we're actually the oppressive ones forcing her to paint???" silliness.

Fight club

>>14388170
this is up there for me too

>>14388112
>mfw I read so fast I read trash lit for side pleasure

Kafka on the shore - Murakami

uncle john's bathroom reader(s)

1984

John dies in the end

Extreme Ownership

>>14388112
I read some Halo (the video game) books when I was a kid. When I was a teenager I read a lot of terry pratchett

>>14388112
The Black Swan

>>14388112
Lots of books like this. It triggers me when I see fags on youtube collecting these books for their covers and openly admitting that they're never going to read them.

Bolaño.

>>14389201
Got about 5 pages into a book in the Fable videogame universe but gave up because it was poorly-written trash. I have a dead space book on my Kindle, I should get around to reading that because the Deadspace universe is kino.

The first two Konosuba Light Novels

>>14388112
a PDF of londonfrog's diary (desu)

Different Seasons - Stephen King
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

>>14389350
I love anime and manga but even the best light novels are complete shite desu.

hannibal rising
absolute trash that i only read because i had read the rest of the series

>>14388112
Book of mormob. Grew up mormon believing it was gods word. Shit sucks. Gods a terrible writer

Self help books

R.L. Stein or whoever wrote the midwestern ripoff Michigan Chillers.

Loved this shit when i was 11

The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard by Shawn Wunjo

either the warriors (the cats) or percy jackson and the olympians

>>14388112
The brothers karamazov

Probably the Garth nix keys to the kingdom series

>>14388112
The Crisis of the Modern World
don't (you) me

>>14388173
>>14388710
I'll take the bait, gentlemen. How about you take these opinions and shove them right back up your assholes?

>>14388112
Dresden files

>>14388184
Yes

>>14388592
>Woman who killed half a million iraqis warning me about fascism.

>>14388112
Ender's Game, I was dumb enough to not notice that this is a book for tweens.

>>14388683

>>14388112
I had to take a "Literature of Globalization" class to satisfy a diversity requirement at my Alma Commune.
I read some truly vulgar books in that class.
I don't even remember most of the names because I would drop them halfway and write some generic social justice essay, but Caribbean "literature" was by far the worst.

Imagine the simplest SJW "whitey bad" social messages told through a barely literate historic-ish narrative. They turn magical realism into tenable fantasy.

It was a shame because I used to live in the Caribbean and it is one of the most interesting cultural and historical regions in the world; but there we were, a bunch of rich white people studying works that belong in an anthropology class acting like they have the same literary depth and importance as Shakespeare.

>>14391483
Based. This is why I’m incredibly selective about my electives. Also why I’m not in an English degree as they’d probably make me take something like this.

>>14391494
The whole class wasn't bad, we did read some of the Western Canon and had a pretty high level of discourse.

The professor was even a bro, he made it clear that the administration was tyrannical.

>>14391633
That’s cool then, so long as the prof is somewhat self aware about it.

I read a Richard Laymon novel about every other year

the goblin slayer LNs 1-8

enjoyed them desu

>>14391263
I think we are the same person

>>14391330
Politics as usual. cope and larp as an anarchist

>>14391263
Tbh Percy Jackson is the perfect YA series. It has all of the classic tropes and gets kids interested in Greek mythology. It’s honestly more educational than all of Harry Potter.

>>14388112
vintage porno novels, yes i was a coomer

>>14389285
This isn’t a book dumb fucking faggot

Blood meridian

I've read all of Dan Brown's novels and I don't care

Received this as a gift because I "like books". It's as bad as you expect.
The worst one I received was The Tattooist of Auschwitz, I couldn't get past two chapters of that bile

>>14392092
Are you a homosexual?

>>14388112
anything by Chuck Wendig

one of the assassins creed novels, don't remember which one.

DELTORA
For some reason in my child mind Barda was a nake Runescape model with a huge brown beard.

Comics, capeshit specifically

>>14391790
The part where that one goblin turns into a divinely-ordained paladin and risks his life for a footsoldier was honestly fantastic.
But yeah it’s mostly drudgery and I’d be ashamed beyond belief if any of my coworkers knew I read it

A romance novel my elderly grandmother had been reading about a young witch. Recalling it now there was an explicit sex scene within the first 50 or so pages. I wonder how young I was when I realized what sex was now because I was like 8.

>>14393439
This
he is insufferable.

>>14388112
Heart of Darkness
>oh no my ivory-collector friend! the horror the horror!

Titty Mangas

>>14393481
*Deltora Quest

How about the lowest brow book you've read past middle school/high school (or equivalents)? If you go far back enough anyone would give you something like "everybody poops."
I reread Cornelia Funke's "Dragonrider" last year because it was a favorite of mine when I was about 10.

>>14388112
>What is the most 'low-brow' book you've ever read?

Doom novelizations, although the last two turn into an acid trip with aliens named Sears and Roebuck, intergalactic antideconstructionists, and almost zero Doom videogame content. I have no idea how they got published

>>14393481
Based and a childhood classic.
>>14393530
Great bait, I rate eight outta eight.

>>14388112
Anything by C.S. Lewis.

Good Omens. Loved it

Anything by Mary Beard, """historian"""

These pieces of trash. I might just burn them later

>>14393647
I recently tried to read one of the Halo novelizations and it was absolutely awful. It's a shame because the Halo world is pretty compelling but the writing sucks shit.

Cell, by Stephen King. Being labelled by my family as a reader in my youth led to a lot of gifts like these. I always read them, but I don't think I was ever given a good one.

>>14393968
That sucks. Some of the battletech and MechWarrior novelizations were great as a kid. Doom was unique in that the books seem to be written by guys who lost interest in the job and smoked a bunch of weed half way through the series. It ended on a truly insane note that left 13 year olds across the country wondering wtf they had read. Safe to assume nobody high up at ID software was even reading the manuscripts.

>>14392076
We’re all the same person, dumbass.

>>14389928
Nogger these books were fucking amazing

>>14388624
This. Fuck Dave Eggers

>>14388112
probably something by evola

When I was in 4th grade my library had a bunch of Snoopy mass-markets. I read these while waiting for the next Calvin and Hobbes. One day I brought home a Snoopy book only to find giant dicks drawn on every character in every panel. Even Woodstock. It freaked me out and I felt pretty dirty afterwards. I know Peanuts isn’t quite lowbrow but those dicks made it unbearable.

>>14390881
>Richard Marcinko blurb
Absolutely based

>>14394260
>One day I brought home a Snoopy book only to find giant dicks drawn on every character in every panel. Even Woodstock.
lol that was me

>>14389062
based and same. top comfy stuff

The surrender by Toni Bentley

A Metal Gear Solid novel that came digitally on my copy of MGS2.

>>14393971
Cell? Really? I wouldn't call that low-brow, it was pretty good.

>>14394781
>I wouldn't call that low-brow, it was pretty good
Good/bad and low/highbrow are different things.

Lowbrow, bad: a book of fart jokes
Lowbrow, good: Different Seasons
Highbrow, bad: Freakonomics
Highbrow, good: The Selfish gene