/lit/ - Literature

Tai Pei

Because Tao Lin is cool :^)

Chobits

1984

It's good

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

>>4780337
A Wrinkle In Time, because I will never love anyone like I loved Meg when I was 10 ever again.

Absalom, Absalom!
idk

>>4780372
reddit pls go

The Ilustrated Man

The purest kinds of feels.

>>4780379
Is it still as good if some fucking shithead of a professor spoiled the ending for me?

>>4780388
Maybe 1984 is just a popular book you dilettante.

Back to /mu/ with your obscurism

>>4780424
It's a great book either way. It's not the kind of story that gets ruined by spoilers.

Ulysses
It made me happy to be alive.

>>4780388
Why do you think I am from Reddit?
Why do you think I should leave?

>>4780465
Dystopia a shit.

>>4780488

Perhaps not my absolute favourite, but this was the best written comedic book I have ever read and I dont even mind if 95% of all those supposed obscure allusion went over my head, it was just absorbing and hilarious.

>>4780424
Yes, it'd still be good. A significant contributor to its quality is its execution and narration style. It will pull you in immediately.

>>4780493
Agreed.

The Brothers Karamazov.
dat grushenka

>>4780489
>that BASTARD doesn't love Stalinism as much as I do!

>>4780465

>Maybe 1984 is just a popular book

You think? Great post.

His essays were good, his prose was shit.

Stop calling people dilettantes whilst defending shit books and get over your obvious complex with the word.

Wuthering Heights or The Age of Innocence. I'm a sucker for a good love story.

Watership Down
Characters were well made, and there weren't so many that you lost track of them all. Also reminds me of an journey epic, so thats nice.

>>4780549
I remember seeing a movie of that when I was about eight. I remember dead rabbit bodies and not getting to the end.

The Brothers Karamazov

For me its between The famished road or A thousand splendid suns.

War and Peace

because muh Russian epics

>>4780536
>>4780607

People actually like this garbage?

Of Human Bondage

>>4780361
>>4780379
>>4780607
>>4780662

>Why?

Blood Meridian because violence is fun

Naked Lunch, because it has a unique energy and forward motion that few books can manage while still being a poignant, complex work that is entirely effective in every moment.

The Sound and the Fury

I've never read such an abstruse yet gripping narrative. Quentin Compson's narration is one of the most surreal literary experiences I've encountered, through Faulkner's masterful use of stream of consciousness, he is able to create a mind that transcends the pages of the novel, a mind in which we as the readers can observe and fully understand every aspect.

Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust

Because I find his dark cynicism and sharp observational eye terribly intriguing, and he had his finger on the pulse of Los Angeles culture better than any other writer before or since, excepting Joan Didion.

And that final chapter is absolutely breathtaking. The entire novel tightens like a noose and in the last chapter the floor just drops away.

>>4780660
What's wrong with TBK?

>>4780660
Was it too hard for you?

don quixote

he is me at my lowliest and at my greatest

Catch 22

I'm a plen.

Les Faux-monnayeurs by Andre Gide
Im not sure why exactly. Reading it is just such an intense experience, it feels like it illuminates a path through some dark terrain

The Stranger

It got me into more philosophical works and was quite striking at 15, especially in the way it was written.

Permutation City

Interesting themes and ideas.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book IV, The Miserable Mill

Why? Because it is the most important piece of writing that has been produced in the past fifteen years.

The Fall. Because I fell.

>>4780337
War and Peace

i'm pretty sure it sums up just about everything that the novel format can do

Rebecca
those Gothic feels

Tropic of Cancer
I've read far better novels, but I always go back to this book. I just love it.

the jungle by Upton Sinclair
loved the entire thing except for all the commie shit
it would have been a 10/10 for me if it wasnt for that shit ending

All the Pretty Horses

because it's beautiful

Stoner

Feels of a thousand men in one book

gateway by fredrick pohl. mainly because of the ending, but it is entertaining and funny throughout

The Alchemist

The Tin Drum

Because it has a great beat and you can dance to it.

The Prague Cemetery

The Catcher in the Rye

Because when you're sixteen years old and a lonely, miserable bastard, it's fantastic the stumble onto it (no, it wasn't assigned to me, and I'd barely heard of it before reading it). When you're in that position, it's incredible comforting, reassuring, and even a little edifying to read something like Catcher, so it had a huge emotional impact on me that still resonates.

>>4784708
because /pol/

Agamemnon. Cassandra ;_;

Metro 2033

>Dat world
>Dat atmosphere and tone
>Kalashnikov's, Kalashnikov's everywhere

>>4780660
Then what's your favorite novel?

>>4785309
>that feel when in Russia this book is considered as shit for retarded teenagers.

>>4785370
USA, too.

Mason & Dixon

Because it is the most beautiful thing I have ever read.

My favorite almost always happens to be the favorite of the person I’m talking to.

As long as I can't pick all of yours I'll say that I don't have a favorite because having favorites excludes everything else.

>>4785309
meh it was alright
Some of the existential and philosophical themes were not so well presented i think.

*how do i even spoilers*

Artiom gets some hallucinations of stoner neckbeards talking about fate. Then whoah is there faith? i might as well go do some shit i am protected by god i am the chosen one... or am i?

And the Big worm. That shiz was dumb as hell. It represented well the ideas that you can manipulate people's faith so easily and make faith their only hope in life.
That they are good and the others, the machine using man are bad and ruined the world so big worm is now testing our fate and we gotta eat them...but a big worm...srsly
And then when the stalkers go tripping on the carrige and one of them(i cant remember the kid died too) dies that chapter was like WTF all of it.

Some chapters were good; the story carried well from chapter to chapter (i hate when i read a chapter about something and the following is about completely different shit) but the book had its flaws.
Shit i am late for school
gotta get off my ass and read 2034

>>4785374
Gravity's Rainbow for the same reason, plus it opened my mind to ideas I never knew I was missing.

>>4780543
>Wuthering Heights
>love story

>>4780720
This.

If you haven't read Don Quixote, you haven't lived. Cervantes was the greatest author of all time, and only for that book.

the great gatsby.

it's not the greatest book i've ever read, but it was the first great book i ever read. it was the first time i finished a book and, rather than picking up another or flicking on the television screen, all i wanted to do was stare at the ceiling and think about the characters and what had/would happen to them. it was the first book i ever wanted to reread (and have); i can happily pick it up at any time, flick to a random page, and--even if i know there's nothing new there any more--i also know i will definitely have fun, just based on the sound of the words alone. again, i don't think it is the greatest book by any stretch, it's a bit melodramatic and maybe too slow, but because it was the first book to show me that reading could be something more than just a way to pass the time, it'll always hold a very dear place in my heart.

>>4784575

This. I loved this book so much.

>>4785490
Nice post, made me want to read it again.

>>4785469
It's a fucking fuck story

A River Runs Through It, because it was beautifully written and told and just plain beautiful. It also taught me some good life lessons and how to live with dignity.

>I am haunted by waters

Fuck me, the tears are flowing.

Bridge To Terebithia

Valis.

Reminds me of good times, long gone.

Under Westenr Eyes.

>>4780385

Toss up between this and The Sound and The Fury. Quentin Compson is the greatest character of all time.

Brothers Karamazov. The first (and sometimes I think only) piece of literature I've ever appreciated.
I'm reading Moby Dick right now, and I find it to be pretty sweet. I'm not a big fan of the sequence of events though. He condenses all of the reflectionary shit to Ishmael's meditations, but doesn't really make him seem very reflective. But maybe people are like that in general. Actually, now that I think about it, that's an appreciable feature of his work, and probably ties in with some themes (the depths of the soul, etc).
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Moby-Dick

Because

>muh based Melville prose
>muh based Melville philosophy
>muh based Great American Novel