/lit/ - Literature

many books. i liked most of the things i read at least a little.

>>2297770
Good news for you OP. You're a homosexual.

Othello by William Shakespeare
1984 by George Orwell
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

>>2297771
its hard for me not to find some kind of merit in a book I read. Even Even Cowgirls Get the Blues had that chapter about drinking champagne because it was the 100th chapter which was, if stupid, still adorable.

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

I read it for my English class last semester. I'm in college now and I can honestly say I never read a single book in high school. It's unfortunate, I'm sure I would have loved some of the books that were assigned to me.

The Road

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingslover

Walden Two - BF Skinner (now one of my favorite narratives)

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Life of Pi was pretty good
Lord of the Flies was great
Hamlet and Othello were masterpieces
Iago and Hamlet were my 2 favorite Shakespearean characters

I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for an oral book report when I was fourteen. It still remains one of my favorite pieces of literature of all time. Unbelievable that Shelley wrote it when she was just eighteen.

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Ethan Fucking Frome

I read it every winter and it makes you feel so bad inside - like very beginning of Harry Potter sleeping under the stairs bad

it's great for that

>>2300598
There's a lot of controversy over whether or not she actually did write it at 18. She had a lot of other writers in the house with her.

>>2300615
Because women can't write hurr durr.

Così (Australia) [Play]

Plot summary from wiki:
Lewis is always desperate for work as he states "I need the money". The venue is a theatre that smells of "burnt wood and mould", the cast are patients with very diverse needs, and the play is Mozart's Così fan tutte. Through working with the patients, Lewis eventually discovers a new side of himself which allows him to become emotionally involved and to value love, while anti-Vietnam war protests erupt in the streets outside.

>>2300615

There's no controversy, really. She, Byron, and one of their friends whose last name starts with P (whose story was about a vampyre) had a scary story-telling competition, and she won with Frankenstein.

>>2300621
*Set in a Melbourne mental hospital in 1971*

The Outsiders. Don't know why, I just really enjoyed it. I couldn't put it down until I was done.

>>2300623
There is a great deal of controversy.

http://frankensteinia.blogspot.com/2007/12/great-frankenstein-debate.html

>>2300639
>blogspot

>>2300642
Oh? Would you like the direct Amazon link instead?

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Wrote-Frankenstein/dp/0943742145

>>2300639

'The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein', as written by John Lauritsen, the same crackpot who denies the link between HIV and AIDS.

>>2300643
Oh god, you're right. A book has been published by an insignificant press, the literary world has been turned on its head.

>>2300652
What does HIV and AIDS have to do with his literary criticism? Are you the same guy who tries to invalidate Foucault's thought because he liked BDSM and spread AIDS?

Try considering the ideas presented instead of just attacking the integrity of the writer. It'll make you a more tolerant person.

>implying Percy didn't write that shit over her shoulder, and then let her slap her name on it so he could have some happy sex with his 18 year old bride
>implying this wasn't his way of getting her to forget the death of her sister

Great Gatsby. Always.

>>2300643

Read Edward Trelawny's biography of Byron and the Shelleys; he was their fucking friend and he describes the competition. He was with them when it was written.

>read Frankenstein
>think to myself, "oh hey, cool, a really talented female sci-fi author"
>pick up "The Last Man" by Mary

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I don't understand how anyone can with a straight-face agree that Mary wrote Frankenstein without heavy assistance from Byron and Percy. It reads completely differently from everything else she ever wrote.

>>2300660
>implying Percy didn't write that shit over her shoulder, and then let her slap her name on it so he could have some happy sex with his 18 year old bride
But you're saying Percy's gay bruh.
>implying this wasn't his way of getting her to forget the death of her sister
By confessing how gay he is?

I'll just add this. I haven't read it myself, so I can't really comment on it, but it looks interesting:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1851243968

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

Part of a upper-level post-modern lit class my university did but I felt it should've been named "Oh look, the chairman of Liberal Arts wants us to read shit that was relevant in the early 90's when he was getting his masters in comparative literature"

>>2300807
we also read Less Than Zero, fucking Gravity's Rainbow and a bunch of other pretentious nonsense I didn't even bother to buy at the bookstore because the class was lecture-based and the midterm and finals were essay. We did have a fuck-off day where we watched Bukowski clips on youtube though.

I only mention this because it was the only piece of fiction I read my 1st semester of my senior year and still pass all my classes with a 3.0

>>2300825
>didn't do his readings

Fuck off

>>2300825
Clearly you are what's wrong, anon. Please go into accounting.

>>2300838
I never did my readings either except in freshman year.

>>2300844
I bet you liked Atlas Shrugged because it was the biggest book you could find and you could also act snarky around all the other 8th graders because of it.

>>2300857
There isn't much snarkfood in Atlas Shrugged.

>>2300864
clearly you aren't doing your readings either

>>2300872
Now why would I do that?

Of Mice and Men
Was a TA in 8th grade, so I got to listen to it

Lord of the Flies
On tape, so kinda boring to follow

All Quiet on the Western Front
Same as above

Of Mice and Men. It's a little overrated, but it was simple and enjoyable, and it easily captured the attention of a kid (me) who regularly reads fantasy.
Other than that, I would hide a decent book in Scarlet Letter and To Kill a Mockingbird when the class was reading, and then go to Sparknotes to catch up.

Flower's for Algernon

besides OP's choice, that's pretty much it for me.

>>2297770
Ulysses~Joyce (yeah, yeah...)
Hamlet~Billie Shakes
Atonement~McEwan
Left Hand of Darkness~Le Guin
A Lost Lady~Cather
To Kill A Mockingbird~Lee
Ordinary People~Guest (saved my life)
More, I'm sure...

>>2300600

>Touching Spirit Bear

mah nigga

Aeneid, Iliad, Macbeth, Othello, Lord of the Flies.
Can't think of any other items of literature that I studied that I enjoyed.

>>2300600
your post just reminded me to add another book to the "shittiest books you ever read" thread

>>2300891
I cried like a little girl when I read that

First read the giver for school. Thought it was shit. Then for some reason ended up getting other books from her as a present from some family member (he likes to read lets buy him a book randomly from the BUY THIS shelf) and read some of the others and they were surprisingly good. Went back and read the giver with an open mind and it was decent.

That "reading it for school" mentality is pretty bad.