/lit/ - Literature

you are a bore.

you makin mah penis sawft with these threads

>Hunger games, Harry Potter, Twilight.
Not those ones, the rest of them. And then some.

LOTR, GoT, Dune. All year every year.

What do the books in the second list have to do with eachother?

>historical fiction not listed

stay pleb, op

The Story of the Stone, The Tale of Genji, Mahabharata.

Asian classics tier.

>>2540023

>not having the Monkey King

What.

>>2540028
Story of the Stone is the superior of the four Chinese classics, imo. I could only choose three.

>>2540023
>>2540028
>>2540031

You should read "The Three Emperors". It's the story of the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history. Or just watch the movie Red Cliffs. It has some god-tier battle scenes.

>>2540005
category 3 is an oxymoron that nobody can satisfy as long as you pair ayn rand with actual writers

>>2540036
I ran out of good yet still ridiculous masterpieces, I just threw atlas shruged for the heck of it

Infinite Jest, VALIS, The Things They Carried

>>2540040

>VALIS

I read the first chapter of this book then stopped. Also I giggled because his name is Horselover Fat.

Mein Kampf, Revolt Against The Modern World, The Turner Diaries

>>2540023

Is the Mahabharata in its entirety (as opposed to the Gita and a few other excerpts) any good? I've never tried reading it all the way through because the consensus seems to be that it's hugely tedious and digressive.

>LOTR, Game of thrones. dune.
>On the Road
>Slaughterhouse-Five
I don't know where the fuck I fit. It's just like real life, I'm ostracized.

>>2540037
Gravity's Rainbow? The Lime Twig? If you substitute one for Rand, that's me.

>>2540053
Gravity's Rainbow, perfect, long enough to belong.

>>2540047
Digressive as fuck, but you can say the same thing of works like Journey to the West.

I actually read the Penguin version, which is abridged and still 900 pages. I would recommend it to you if you have an interest in the history of India or Hinduism, or if you love involved and extensive epics. It's not something I would recommend to everyone.

>>2540060

I do, so I will. Thx anon!

First I was all like
>Harry Potter

Then I was all like
>Fight Club, American Psycho, Slaughter house-five, Catcher in the Rye, On the road, Catch 22.

Now I'm all like
>Infinite Jest, Ulysses, Atlas Shrugged

Plus I enjoy LOTR and the occasional Neil Gayman. I feel this is a generally correct progression of literary taste, but I'm wrong a lot, too.

pic related: I used to read Poe's stuff like it was the winning lottery number

>>2540083
Even as a satire, it was not originally meant as a very orderly and robust progression, but it is indeed tainted by said intentions.

i reject basically everything about this thread

fuck you

Harry Potter, Slaughter house-five, On the road, Ulysses, Game of thrones

Fuck all Y'all

Boswell's "Life of Johnson", Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. I gotta be me...

Shel Silverstein, Dr Seuss, the list can go on...

>>2540961
Boswell did pretty much write the greatest biography of all time.
(I know this is a pic of Swift and not Boswell, but I still feel it's appropriate.)

>Infinite Jest, Ulysses, Atlas Shrugged.

Uhh, what does Atlas Shrugged have to do with the other two? Switch it with Mason & Dixon or something and I fall into this category, I s'pose.

Waiting For Godot, No Exit, The Stranger.

pointless self-indulgent nihilism tier, word up

Tender is the Night, A Farewell to Arms, a Portrait of the Artist.

Who am I?

>>2541374

A prewar modernist who thinks time stopped in 1929?

catcher in the rye