/lit/ - Literature

a bookmark

>>5006531
A book.

a job

>>5006535
>>5006536
lulz

>>5006538
Believe me, I am trying.

>>5006531
One of those little desk toys that bookstores love to sell so much these days

Black by Ted Dekker
Amazing book full of good feels.

>>5006531
Guys, I meant what books should I get?

If you like sci-fi, get ender's game or 2001 a space odyssey. Other good misc books are the catcher and the rye and lord or the flies

>>5006547
What genres do you like?

>>5006549
Pretty sure I've read and have 2001. Read Catcher in the Rye last year. Didn't like it for some reason.

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

>>5006551
>Fantasy
>Sci-Fi
>Historical Fiction
>Steampunk
>Fiction
>Drama
>Comedy
>Romance
>Mystery
>Thriller

>>5006558
What's this one about?

>>5006561
Black encompasses all of those.

>>5006559
What's this one about?

>>5006561
>steampunk
>fantasy
>scifi
...and you haven't read Perdido Street Station? I doubt bookstores will carry it though

>>5006564

"Someone is shooting at Thomas Hunter. He runs for his life—zig-zagging, hiding, and executing some awesome martial arts—as men chase him through the streets of Denver. But when a silent bullet grazes his head, his world goes black and he wakes up somewhere else.

In darkness. He doesn’t know where he is. Hideous bats chase him, clawing at him until he loses consciousness again and wakes up back in Denver, in an alley. He manages to get to his sister’s apartment, clean himself up, and lies down on the couch.

Only to wake up in the strange place again. He finds his way out of the scary, dark place and into a perfect land, somewhere in the distant future. He meets kind people who embrace him, a beautiful woman, and embarks on an amazing adventure.

But still, every time he falls asleep in one world, he wakes up in the other. And as the stories weave together, Thomas discovers that the past, and his life in Denver, was destroyed by a deadly virus. He wakes in Denver and enlists the help of his very skeptical sister. The two set off to save the world, with Thomas traveling back and forth looking for clues and trying to convince everyone of his sanity.

Woo! What an amazing book. From page one, Black, by Ted Dekker, captivates, taking the reader on a journey of cunning wonder. It’s no surprise of this trilogy is such a huge success. The book ends on a cliffhanger, leaving the reader one his own adventure: off to buy book two. Nice job!

Highly Recommended."
(A goodreads reviewer)

>>5006576
I'll look for it.

>>5006576
Don't buy this OP. Just.... Don't.

>>5006579
Also I recommend 'Thr3e' by the same author.
It's one of those thrilling books that has you wishing you could read/flip pages a lot faster.

>>5006582
Why not?

>>5006582
Haters gonna hate

>>5006585
Because this guy is giving you terrible book recommendations. Disregard anything by Ted Dekker

>>5006603
Disregard anything this anon says.

>>5006609
How about I disregard both of you?

>>5006618
You decide. You asked for recommendations, so I recommended. (He/she disapproved)

Any other recommendations for books I should get?

a whole in the back of your backpack so you can smoothly steal a couple of books.

>>5006716
No, I'm not going to steal. If i really wanted to, I wouldn't be going to the bookstore. I'd be torrenting all of my books in epub format.

>>5006531
So, what did you end up getting?

>>5006843
I haven't gotten anything yet. Keep the suggestions rolling in.

This book has a very epic story.
Get it, you won't regret it.

>>5007069
I'm pretty sure I've read that.

All right folks, that's it for now. I'm going to the book-store..

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look for them at the book-store.

If this thread stays long enough, I might even be able to post the books I get on this thread.

>>5007147
Sweet.
Hurry back now ;)

>>5007159
While I'm gone, all of you can debate books amongst yourselves, while I'm gone. That might help keep the thread up and keep it from being deleted or pruned. If it doesn't, I can always create a new thread, and try and link this one to the new one.

>>5006531

a kindle paperwhite

Okay, I'm back! I got six books!

>>5007511
Nice! Post 'em!

>>5007548
no fuck off you idiots

>>5007550
/lit/ in a nutshell.

>>5007550
Uncalled for... ;-;

>>5006570
magical realism short stories, highly recommended

I originally got all three of them as a trilogy, but then I lost it while I was at summer camp. I still have the first one and the third one on my shelf (from the original set).

I think I got this one because I thought it said Blade Runner not Maze Runner.

This one looked like a pretty good book. It was a book titled book store, in a book store. How could you go wrong?

>>5006531
Get The Goldfinch, read it thoroughly, then come back and give us two reviews:

The first should be a scathing, UberArchPatrician evisceration of its infantile banality, and the toxic and stultifying effects such sub-plebian waste has upon the standards of readers now and forever after.

The second should be a brilliant and erudite exegesis that is both sufficient and necessary at establishing why The Goldfinch is not only badly maligned and misunderstood, but stands as the singular literary accomplishment of the current decade, if not the current century.

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>>5007577
If you are OP, you must be kidding.

I got this one because it's about fangirling. And if it's about fangirling, it's got to have Tumblr in it, right? I mean, how can you have a book about fangirling without Tumblr in it?

I'm expecting to destroy the book by water damage, from the all the tears I will have.

And this one, I am expecting to destroy by water, from the tears from my face, and the blood of all the characters spilt, then throw into a fire in a fit of rage, and freeze the fire with ice in an attempt to prevent the book from being reduced to ashes.

>>5007583
And why must I?

>>5007630
Yes? Why are you disappointed?

Sorry, I've got to go again. Talk to each other to keep this thread up, okay? I'd like to see the thread still up when I get back.

>>5007668
You are either a shitty troll, or you simply don't belong on this board m8

>>5007720
What makes you say that?

"Trout Fishing in America" by Richard Brautigan.

(It will not be in the Fishing section.)

>>5007991
Great book. Pomo as fuck.

>>5007991
Sorry, fishing isn't my thing.

>>5006531
1984

>>5006531
'My Dick: A novel'

>>5008994
That's a good one. I'm pretty sure I read it in year 9.

>>5009038
Not reading that one. I go the other way.

I might go again on Sunday. You can still suggest more books to me.

here is a preview of the book I'm working on, and it's free to read this so if you're looking to be entertained you might as well.

https://medium.com/@charlonmusk/the-last-dda2cd7f1465

>>5009693
Great! When can I buy it?

You can buy it when I have completed it :( Hopefully very soon.

>>5009693
Charlon Musk? Related to Elon Musk?

Are my predictions about each book accurate?

Since there's not one in the catalog, can we use this as a recent purchases thread as well? I just got all this for 21.50 at the nearby thrift store.

>>5012536

>>5012536
Yeah, sure. I told about my recent purchase.

>>5012544
You could also post this picture on /v/.

What is a video game doing in that pile of books?

>>5012536
I spent about £86 on six books.

>>5012577

I found it in the same bin that I found the coverless copy of The Decameron that's next to Nietzsche. At 5 cents, I felt like it was a bargain.

Also, is this a first printing? I can't imagine it is because it's way too pristine. The book hasn't even been read; the only problems are a missing dust jacket and a couple of dinged pages on the top.

>>5012607

What did you get? I imagine they must have all been new hardcovers for that price.

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>>5007644
These six books for £88.00.

And no, not all of them were hardcover.

>>5007566
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>>5007644
These ones were paperback.

>>5007601
And this one was hardcover.

>>5012673

That seems like a lot, but I admittedly don't know if you guys have to pay comparatively more on books despite the exchange rate.

>>5012709
I forget the exchange rates (I believe it's like 2 or 3 dollars to a pound, assuming you're from America), but I believe something that costs 45 pounds here, costs 72 dollars over there or something.

Did anyone else buy some books recently?

Oh, and by the way, if this thread gets deleted or pruned, or whatever, I'll try and link the new thread to this one.

>>5006558
Black and Dekker?