/lit/ - Literature

>>23262671

Ugly love - colleen hoover

>>23262671
read these kinos

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Pride and Prejudice
Notes from the Underground

Instead of Quit, try Put down and Come back to it later a book

Ježeva Kućica

>>23262671
Sherlock Holmes unironically

>moby dick
>boring
???
it's fun from the first page onward.

Ok guys I found something to read hear me out:
The Martian

>>23262671

Stop reading classics.

>>23262671

>>23262709
what are you talking about, it's a fucking snorefest

Annie Ernaux is pretty straight forward.
Short stories by Chekhov.

Finnegans Wake

Don't read a book unless you feel interested in reading it. The experience is much better when you have actual curiosity about some question that the book might be able to answer and the pages practically flip themselves.

Avoid all the /lit/core pseud shit (at least in the beginning) and jump into /sffg/ or find what's currently popular and read the descriptions and pick something that catches your eye. Chances are you'll enjoy something with an actual plot more than some existential faggots gay musings, unless you're in the mood or stage of life where you feel the need to read that kind of stuff. If you can't get into it after a certain number of pages, drop it and pick up something else. The book is either not for you or you're not ready for it yet, so don't waste time forcing yourself to plough through it just to tick off a checkbox.

>>23262675
/thread

>>23262671
the war of the worlds

I cannot even begin to fathom what it must be like to live as someone who gets filtered by Moby Dick. Any recs to fix that?

>>23262678
The Phantom Tollbooth is unironically nuclear giga-kino

>>23262709
delusional

>>23262671
Literature is a humiliation ritual

Wuthering Heights

>>23262671
Lolita

>>23263582
Can you elaborate?

>23264066
>23262968
The fuck? I can understand it if you are talking about the whale-pedia chapters (Which are fun in their own way but I can understand why people call them boring), but the start isn't even close to being boring.

Gravity's Rainbow

>>23262671
Read Balzac, Dickens, or Walter Scott. Most of the great Japanese novels are easy reads.

>>23262671
Tiktok rotted brain. Read count of monte cristo. If that's impossible then just stick to tiktok, because reading is not for you

>>23262671
try harder retard

>>23262679
lol

>>23262671
>recommend me something less boring and more straightforward
Anton Chekhov's short stories.

>>23264363
>if you don't like [SPECIFIC SELECTION OF BOOKS I THINK HAVE MERIT] then reading isn't for you!
Retarded pseud

>>23262709
Out of all the classics you could have called fun, you picked Moby “here’s 50 pages of inane bullshit about whales” Dick fun lol.
You haven’t read Moby Dick.

>>23264363
Count of Monte Christo is boring and for teenagers.

>>23262671
The Poseidon Adventure
Make Room! Make Room!
The Hellbound Heart

Read brothers karamazov again, it gets good. You just need the attention span of a normal pre-internet human. 20 pages is pathetic

>>23262671
The Catcher in the Rye

>>23262671
Lolita

>>23262968
>>23264066
>>23266189
You are all completely wrong, it's the least boring book ever written. Even the whale autism is great. You just have to find the voice, it's legitimately hilarious and profound and all sorts of contradictory things from chapter to chapter and all at once.

I didn't read Moby Dick until I was out of college because everyone told me it was all boring descriptions of rigging for 100s of pages. The 19th century produced an avalanche of tedious novels, but Moby Dick is nothing like that at all. It's a phenomenal story, the characters are unforgettable, the writing is inspired, and it continually changes direction and tone and focus without ever seeming disjointed, just rich and surprising and inventive. It's not a meme, it's a great read and a great re-read.

>>23262671
The Discworld Novels

>>23262671

Moby Dick is dry but Brothers K is awesome

>>23262671
I liked moby dick a lot but if I reread it I will skip most of the whaling lectures

>>23268263
OP here. I've already read this dozens of times.

>>23262671
Why do you feel the need to read these particular books? Just read what you like, it's not a job.

>>23262671
Saga of the Seven Suns series. Kevin J. Anderson is about a direct of an author as you can get

not OP but I havent read a full novel since highschool 10 years ago, Ive read some short sotries since then and I want to get into the habit of reading but I feel exhausted by the time I get 14 pages deep into something, its a real struggle. would love to find captivating literature from within the last couple decades or maybe 90's.

>>23269126
>exhausted after 14 pages
You do know you can stop reading for the day and read 14 pages the next day, right? Hell, 14 pages could be week's worth of reading back during the serialization era.

>>23262671
>Rendezvous With Rama
>At the Mountains of Madness
>Ringworld

>>23262671
Cat in the Hat

>>23262709
skipped the whale autism intro, did you anon?

>>23262671
You have to read what sparks a genuine interest. Not just pick whatever book you've seen suggested on /lit/
A random book can spark that intense interest, but often you have to seek out writing that sparks that interest.
If you find a story bores, stop reading it

>>23269126
>I havent read a full novel since highschool 10 years ago
classic /lit/

>>23269126
Start by reading something simple and fun, like John Green, Stephen King, whatever is on the best seller list currently and happens to have an interesting description. Swallow your pride and read something for "young adults". You're exhausted because you're reading something difficult that's above your reading level and that you probably aren't even interested in.

>>23262671
Household Tales by the Grimm brothers (the original versions if you can find them). Some of them are short and weird

>>23268196
It's one of my favorite books, but I can still acknowledge that some parts of the book are dry on a first read. A preliminary understanding of the entire story, and its characters, is necessary to enjoy the portions that appear meaningless. Of course, one may argue that pleasure lies in making unrelated interpretations of passages, but most readers prefer some degree of cohesion.

>>23262671
Read books with great prose, because it helps maintain reading interest, and those that are short (<250 pages). Some recommendations:

1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
3.The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

>>23268196
I just finished reading it for the first time and loved it, it has humor and emotion and everything you said, but it definitely could have used an edit. You don't need that many encyclopedia entries on whales, and if you do want to touch on the anatomy of a whale, do it briefly and poetically, not academically just because the narrator used to be a school teacher.

>>23268288
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

>>23268196
I just finished reading it for the first time and loved it, it has humor and emotion and everything you said, but it definitely could have used an edit. You don't need that many encyclopedia entries on whales, and if you do want to touch on the anatomy of a whale, do it briefly and poetically, not academically just because the narrator used to be a school teacher.

>>23270378
russians dont like him because they got brainwashed by their communist goverment to hate his anti atheist anti socialist work

>>23262671
this may help

Neuromancer

>>23262678
should add the lord of the rings and harry potter. they're good kid books

>>23262678
>no the promised neverland

>>23262678
>no the neverending story

The whale autism is world building.
If the whale autism was replaced with “magical creature” autism no one would be complaining.

>>23271499
>If the whale autism was replaced with “magical creature” autism no one would be complaining.
I would. "Worldbuilding" is plebspeak for "author doesn't know how to trim the fat."

>>23262671
I'd recommend following Dostoevsky's literary career in chronological order, at least partially. Start with his smaller Novella's like the The Double or The Gambler and if you enjoy those go to Crime and Punishment.
If after that you aren't a Dostoevsky fan don't bother with The Brothers, because that's Peak Dostoevsky, it was the last novel he wrote and is his "greatest work" in so far it is the crystallization of a his entire lifes literary journey.
I don't particularly care for Dostoevsky's writing but I'm really interested in him as a man and sort of see him as the only modern literary mind that genuinely didn't have his head shoved up his own ass which gives his writing a real genuineness to them that I really don't see in any of the other great literary authors of the 19th century.
It's humility, I think. Dostoevsky was a great author because that's who he was not who he was trying to be. He was the guy.