/lit/ - Literature

wally lamb - she's come undone
william faulkner - the sound and the fury
f.d. - crime and punishment (mostly disgust)
f.scott fitzgerald - great gatsb

>>3893220
>f.scott fitzgerald - great gatsb

wtf? why
Every character was obnoxious as fuck and deserved to be killed by Patrick Bateman, except maybe Nick.

Tess of de Ubervilles or however it's called.

It was at that moment, when I finished reading tha book, how full of SHIT most literature classes are.

>>3893215
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver. The feels.

Nikos Kazantzakis - The Last Temptation of Christ

The Stranger actually helped plunge me right into an existential crisis that I thought was depression for quite some time. I'd say that was the most emotional impact I got from a book.

Anything by Salinger or Kierkegaard usually does it.

The Stranger by Camus gave me such a shocking glimpse at myself as I really was an perturbed me enough to force myself to change and get out more

>>3893225
because I am a faggot and I subconsciously fell in love with the beta ass faggy jay gatsby. Seriously. All of the people I'd "marry" are the type that gatsby is: soft, faggy, but has a tinge of manliness without being aggressive. When he was shot, god I almost cried for Nick.

>>3893263
>>3893302
I'm convinced. I'm going to read The Stranger.

>>3893318
It's good, although look up the debate over the first line.

>>3893220
why mostly disgust for candp?

What was the one about that man who lacked all senses and was trapped in his mind (or something along the lines of that)? I never got to reading it, but the little I've heard was utterly disturbing...

>>3893344

Anyone?

>>3893344
Johnny Got His Gun?

>>3893215
Crime and Punishment
White Nights
The Brothers Karamazov
The Late Mattia Pascal
Lolita
Invisible Cities
Verstörung
Sarrasine

>>3893362
>II plebeian IV myself

My brother Jack - George Johnson

Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (if novellas count).

call me a pleb, but the way Gregor Samsa's family treated him and the life he lived in The Metamorphosis shook me emotionally.
there is so much that the people could have done differently, like calling a fucking doctor, but nooooo. if little Greggy ain't pullin' dat cash, he ain't gettin no doctor.

>>3893455
>>3893428

Read The Judgement and In The Penal Colony. Both are completely different, but show the same genius for 1) turning an idea into a metaphoric story that is actually interesting and 2) unnerving the reader.

Lolita

>>3893455
>call me a pleb

Kafka is one of the very best 20th century authors, imo he is the best.

johnny got his gun, definitely. yeeeeesh.

The Brothers Karamazov for sure.

>>3893687
"What would my son?"

;_;

>>3893362
>>3893485
can any of you give me a recap of the topics in lolita?
i've wanted to read that book

The Stranger - I got some serious reflections about freedom, death and existance.
On the road - One day I'm gonna try to be a Sal with a Dean.

notes from underground

it was me, i was the underground man

>>3894111
are you euphoric ?

>>3893687
>>3893687
the funeral chapter
i couldn't handle it, no father should go through that

Flowers for Algernon

Roots. Especially at the end of Kunta's part, and the part near the end when the Alex Haley goes to find out stuff in Africa.

Faust from East.
Very obscure, but shit hits you hard.

Molly's soliloquy from Ulysses destroyed my vision of love and women. I took it as my duty to restore it from then on. It might be impossible. I've expected that.

Lord of the Flies, when I was 12/13 I picked it up from the library on a whim and it changed my worldview, and forced me to start examining society from a viewpoint I had not previously been exposed to. Say what you will about it, when you're 12 that shit hits hard.

The Poisonwood Bible.

>>3894351
aww fuck man, i put off reading it when his descent began until is way in the right mood. Still bawled.

>>3893687
Yeah this probably

>>3894351
>flowers for algernon


I was chuckling and tearing up at the same time lol

>>3893355

I'm pretty sure that's it, thanks.

I swear there was another similar to this, though... Can anyone think of others similar to this?

Dostoevsky completely shook my perception of virtue in each and every one of his books, but The Idiot must have struck me hardest, as is evident by my tripcode.
The confession of sins as a parlor game, Rogozhin's madness, and the ending sequence had me nearly in tears.

>>3894559
Well, maybe not the confession of sins. Ah, I am such an idiot.

East of Eden

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe hit me pretty hard and had a lasting impact.

>>3894105
does anyone know?

>>3893215
which novel is this picture from

Doesn't Dostoevsky fuck everyone up? Greatest mind of the 19th century.

>>3895011
It's not from a novel, it's a painting of a real event that happened. I think it was Tsar Nicholas, or something. He got buttfurious and kicked his son's ass so hard that he killed him. This is an artist's rendition of pure regret. Quite haunting.

I need strong stimulus in order to feel emotional and experience feeling. I'd really appreciate something that would provide such stimulus; because in these few seconds, I feel most humane and natural. Thank you.

>>3894932
Nabokov said he was inspired to write Lolita after he read an article about a gorilla in a zoo who could paint. The first thing the gorilla painted was his bars.

I honestly couldn't tell you what it was about.
I guess I could say that it details a man's morbid obsession with a taboo, and what the consummation does to him, but any interpretation I have is likely to be overshadowed by what you can find on wikipedia.

>>3895041
Listen to "The Antlers - Hospice".
Read the lyrics while you are doing it. http://antlersmusic.com/lyrics/hospice/

This was the only thing that made me cry and feel for months after I got into it.
Good luck

>>3895050
Will do so tomorrow night, thanks.

the fault in our stars by john green

>>3895035
It was Tsar Ivan the Terrible killing his son Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich

>>3894451
How did LOTF change your worldview? I read it and it was and still is one of the worst books ive ever read.

Such an effective narrative structure.

war and peace
anna karenina
death of ivan ilych
hadji murad

king lear

Not a novel but the short story "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant. I said "what the fuck" aloud and to myself after I finished reading.

>>3897765
Do you like Tolstoy?

>>3894559

Agreed. Except I cried like a baby at the end. Only time this has ever happened.

I decided to become an English teacher because of the scene in War and Peace where Andrei reunites with Natasha

>>3893318
beware that analysis is everything with this book, nothing has any impact until you take a second look.

stop posting that damn painting

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Very strong emotions were experienced upon finishing these two books. For FOTR I felt sad, depressed. I felt like there was no hope and yet there was this small feeling of hope that seemed hidden. After finishing ROTK there were many emotions going through me. Happiness was the main one. The feeling of immortality. I just felt like life was so much better than before reading.

The Chocolate War.

I know some will think it's silly, because it's youth lit, but that ending man. Holy shit. You grow up coddled into thinking that they're will always be a happy ending or at least the situation will be defused, but no, that doesn't happen here. That kid gets beaten into a pulp and sent to the hospital, all because he wouldn't sell some fucking candy bars. And no one does anything to stop it.

Notes from Underground
Catch-22
1984
A Song of Ice and Fire (come at me)

>>3893494
yeah easily one of the most emotionally stirring novels ive ever read and insanely good.

>>3895050
I thought /lit/ liked good music.

>>3899488
I thought Notes from Underground was absolutely hilarious.

>>3900748
The Antlers is good music

>>3893225
that would make a better ending

>>3900777
I'm disappointed in you, anon.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest... Poor McMurphy

That and Fahrenheit 451 when I realized that Clarisse wasn't coming back.

Sons and Lovers

>>3900777
lol

oh ummm

The Unnameable really fucked me up for a while. Just reading it made me feel disoriented and lost, almost as if cognitively and actually dizzy

>>3900806
You fucking cunt, now I know something bad is going to him you goddam jew.

The things they carried by Tim O'Brien.
Several times, I had to sit the book down, and just cry. The year I read it, I has officially pledged to go to the marines, and several of my friends had gone already. It was intense.

>>3900821
mfw reading that book

>>3893215
Of Mice and Men, obviously.

>>3897775
Is it the one where a girl borrow her friend necklace ?

>>3900879
rabbits....

Picture of an artist as a young man, shit was a bit annoying in the middle ( all the catholic bullshit , cant really relate) butit was one of the nicest books i've ever read

>>3900879
Damn, I still didn't expect the denouement

Do short stories count? Mateo Falcone if they do.

>>3894108
I really pitied Dean.

>>3894108
>the stranger
>on the road

pls b in high school

The song of Kali

Return of the King.

>>3900752
For me it was more depressing and unexpectedly revealing than hilarious.

A friend of mine thought 'Flowers for Algernon' to be quite depressing. I think it's something you might like. I really liked it as well.