/lit/ - Literature

finished it today
this isn't even trolling, i actually read it.

Loved it. It was to fantasy noir what Altered Carbon was to transhumanist sci-fi noir.

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ITT: Op reads a great book with a shitty cover

This cover is far superior. Actually, all the old King covers are superior

was alright I guess. Ilium was better. Hyperion is better than both of them combined.

>>534167
I agree entirely. I couldn't find one with that cover, so i settled for this one.

The Crying of Lot 49

Read it in one sitting this afternoon.

Today I finished Sophocles' Oedipus the King and then read Cortázar's short story La noche boca arriba [the Night Face Up].

Neither of which are entire books, so the last one would be the Tao Te Ching, which I prefer not to count. So I'll say Dany Laferrière's How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, final answer.

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>>534218

How was "How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired"?

I thought it was really boring. Don't know what people see in it.

>>534256

The World Jones Made by Dick

>>534245

Great. You really see the Bukowski influence.

I'd have cut approximately the middle 10 chapters, the beginning is the best.

Very much reading. I prefered Eroshima, though, but Laferrière is surely one of the best living writer.

>>534272

*Very much WORTH reading

>>534234
hi brandon

Lev Grossman

The Magicians

Fight Club by Pahlaniuk

>>534311
Did you like it? I thought the ending blew chunks. For a guy who has publicly advocated for a return to story- and character-based fiction, I thought he treated his characters unfairly, and contradicted the themes he had been building for the whole book with that ending.

It's hard to describe how I feel about this book. It was fun yet boring at the same time. I liked mostly everything up until what happened after Martin Chatwin. Mostly I feel like some characters were built up a little then disregarded a few times in the story but really once the story got to fillory everything was eh. I hope everything that happens winds up meaning something in the sequel he plans on writing because I wanted Quentin to do so much more.

Blood Meridian. Thought it was a masterpiece. To get your moneys worth from the book, after reading it look up Blood Meridian in Youtube and look at this 90 minute lecture from Yale on it.
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Finished Neuromancer a few days ago. So far, my most favored book of all.

Currently reading through Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

>>534504

Good choice. I am reading both of those after I finish To Have and Have Not.

What can I say; I like that guy.

>>534082
My favorite KIng book.

House of Leaves.

I didn't COMPLETE the book, but I'm sure as fuck finished with it.

Holy fuck.

>>534693
There is like one creepy moment in this entire book.

I loved it. The sequel's already in the mail.

>>534741
I've been looking at this for a little while now, tempted to grab it. What made it so awesome?

>>534756

Not >>534741, but I love the fuck out of the Forever War for way too many reasons. It reads like it was written recently, the war is brutal, and above all it really gets across the absolute perverse bullshit of the setting's military.

For some reason it kind of reminds me of Gateway, too, so if you like that it might help.

I've heard the sequel's terrible though.

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Didn't think it was anything special to be honest.

this was pretty good. a lot of people say space opera is dead, but Banks manages to keep it interesting, even with the idea of the Singularity hovering over everyone's heads. if they have heads.

Now reading part 3 of the series

riveting stuff
especially with all the murder and torture and brutality