/lit/ - Literature

>>15147397
"Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II.

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!"

Mark twain wrote fun books

>>15147397
You are not allowed to have fun.

>>15147439
please

>>15147451
It is not allowed.

>>15147416
Essential intro to Mark Twain reading list?

Read some light novels.

>>15147397
Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir

It's really funny, an easy read, and is short.

Discworld?

>>15147397

Runyon On Broadway.

>>15147484
Still waiting on some suggestions big guy.

Books I've enjoyed.

Haruki murakami. The wind up bird chronicles and Norwegian wood I enjoyed most.

Mark twain buckleberry fin.

Ernest Hemingway for who the bell tolls.

John Steinbeck east of Eden.

>>15147491
>Norm Macdonald
The Holocaust denier?

>>15147470
Connecticut Yankee is very fun
Huckleberry Finn has great episodic scenes like the King and the Duke, Disguises, Faking deaths and so on
Hunchback of Notre Dame - just read online and read certain chapters in the beginning only, the fun ones. Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe is Gothic but kind of funny.

You can also read the apocryphal Infancy Gospels which are somewhat silly and can subtly provide understanding of then popular theology

1) I haven't read Kundera in years, but I liked him in middle school, so he must've been quite light.
2) Asimov's prose and characters are pretty bad in and of themselves, but his worlds are very cool, and his books are easily read in one or two sittings.

Also, just read about whatever non-fiction topic you like – spiders, exoplanets, Tungusic languages or culinary history. We're on 4chan; you certainly have some sort of spergy niche interest.

>>15147397
Wodehouse is fun.

>>15147512
Sevens

It gets really good after Shannon joins the team.

>>15147512
Norwood by Charles Portis

>>15147470

All Mark Twain is (more or less) fun. I'm assuming you've read Tom Sawyer already; if not, do that. Then Huckleberry Finn.

A Tramp Abroad is really funny. It has an Appendix, "On The Awful German Language", which is one of the best things Twain (or anyone else) ever wrote.

If you want something shorter, try The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg.

>>15147561
Yes an Innocent Abroad is very funny. He travels to the Middle East also, so the humor is very contemporary

>>15147397
Daphnis and Chloe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHrstmOPKBQ

>I want to read some fun books
No, that isn't allowed. Here's an edit of your pepe image to punctuate my point.

>>15147397
Also Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to in Search of Lost Time by Eric Karpeles

>>15147538
>>15147561
Thanks, I'm going to look into some of these.

>>15147397
Read the Arabian Nights stories they're very light and interesting - Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Read short Biblical Stories like Jonah or short Quranic Stories (Chapter 18):
https://legacy.quran.com/18

"He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm is adopted to suit the time and opportunity, to practise imposture upon the British and Austrian millionaires. In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. In this respect I did not differ from him materially; --I was skillful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could.

It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased to see him that I thought I should never have done wringing his hand." Cask of Amontillado

Revenge of the lawn is grand

>>15147514
based

>>15147595
>red how Muhamed devastates an entire tribe
based chill book reader

Don Quixote is simple to read and always fun.
Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" is also really cool, structurally-wise, and not hard at all (unlike some of his other metaphorically denser books). Would also recommend his essay on reading the classics, it's interesting to see how literary big guys like him also have the same feeling you're having now, sometimes.

Eve’s Diary
On the Decay of the Art of Lying

Two short stories by Mark Twain that are both funnier than his more popular books. Eve’s diary is an especially fun read.

>>15147397
You should be able to have fun intellectually expanding yourself anon

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

>>15147397
>Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, an easy-to-read epic about a man who becomes and develops as a samurai.
>Redshirts, a parody of Star Trek
>World War Z, other books about zombies
>The Stormlight Archive by Sanderson, which reads like a Shouenen
>Translated light novels

>>15147518
First of all, Stalin was just as bad

>>15147397
Important books are fun to read books. If you don't enjoy them, why bother? Just stick to genrefic like the rest of your people.

P.G. Wodehouse's Wooster & Jeeves collection - you'll figure out if you love them or hate them in the first 20 minutes of reading them, so no worries about investing time if you're not having fun.
If you like short stories and clever ones, Arabian Nights and Grimm's Fairy Tales.
If you want to add to your list of classics while having fun, Moliere's Comedies, Candide, The Odyssey, The Aeneid. (The epics are always fun.)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stoker's Dracula, Interview With a Vampire other classic mainstream titles are relatively entertaining.
If you want "informative" entertainment, John Muir's Nature Writings are good (albeit a little redundant) and old Ben Franklin's Writings are also entertaining.
Anything by Mark Twain - Dickens too, if you can get past the fact that during his time authors got paid by the word.
If you want to recreate (or experience if you were unfortunate) the innocence of a good and pure childhood, Frances Burnett caters exactly to that - The Secret Garden, The Lost Prince, Two Little Pilgrims' Progress, etc. Maybe not the most relatable, but they have a little magic in them.
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All books are fun, from a certain point of view.

Homer is both important and entertaining

Farmer Giles of Ham; tolkien

Ramayana, by Menen (irish indian; satire)