/lit/ - Literature

Tales from Jabba's Palace :>

Yeah yeah I'm a fag

>>5442612

I'm reading The Everlasting Man and I quite dig Chester.

Journey to the West.

Its fun.

Then again I like pretty much all of the classic chinese works excluding Dreams of Red Mansion. That thing was a total bore.

The Plum in the Golden Vase was a pretty early example of Erotic Fiction too.

>>5442622
>hating dream of the red chamber
Why? That was my favorite of the Chinese classics.

The Eyes of the Dragon

>>5442628
Only anon with good taste itt

Grapes of Wrath. I also really like Mice. I'm afraid to read more Steinbeck because I'm afraid it's going to suck.

>>5442588
didn't read much in my life but I really like Brother of Sleep

The Fountainhead

The Sound and the Fury

Moby Dick

>>5442643

>I'm the guy who posted Catcher and Ender, too, I just love all these novels, though Karamazov is a monument in my opinion; if I had to choose only one, that'd probably be it

>>5442660
why did you greentext that

>>5442666

Satan, it's like a green whisper, as if uttered from the moist lips of green leaves in the forest shrubs.

>>5442588
The Old Man and the Sea

>>5442628

Second.

>>5442588
>Don't be a faggot
too late OP, you're a faggot

>>5442588

Finnegans wake

>>5442588
yes i have wincest fetish

journey to the end of the night

Gorky's Childhood.
I think it took hell out of him to tell that story.

>>5442630
Patrician-tier post.
IJ. Haters gonna hate.

>>5442836
My Nigga...

>>5442630
>>5442879
Shit.

Robinson Crusoe

I read it when I was 8 and it's still my favorite.

>>5442628
Tolstoy is garbage

>>5442628
literally this

>>5442606
Yes all the yes!

>>5442606
>tfw you literally thought up a better ending for this piece of shit as you read it

>>5442962

I liked it. For once I didn't feel fluffed up at the end.

Anna karenina (inb4 war& peace fags)

>>5442962
>don't be a faggot

i don't care if vonnegut is entry level pleb shit. i don't think this is the greatest literary accomplishment or anything, but it was my first "literature" book that sucked me in, and i relate to it on so many levels that it makes me cry every time i read it.

in particular, i seriously relate to boaz's plight, whose ambient condition of consciousness is constantly trying to convince himself that he appreciates the power he's been given and pretending that he knows the body that's given it to him, as well as his attempts to apply meaning to everything when he knows deep down it's meaningless just to avoid catatonic depression and find solace to the shitty, bleak truths of the world.

>>5442655
Me too

>>5443057
that last sentence makes me sound like a nihilist faggot; that was not the intention. i mean more generally pretending to understand and appreciate things, making an imaginary leap of faith that only exists as long as you forcibly ignore the facts and do your best everyday to deny the truth.

>>5443057
>i don't care if vonnegut is entry level pleb shit.

Don't perpetuate their bullshit. There is no "entry level", this is bullshit for the birds that only retards on image boards like to discuss.

You can't rate books based on your sole opinion.

Like what you like, never let anyone tell you otherwise.

>>5443070

>corrected text

Does this have the colours that Faulkner wanted for each narrator so we'd know who's who?

Sauce on the painting, I love that style.

>>5443073
i don't think he's "entry level pleb shit" either, which is why i said "if" and not "that". just a disclaimer for pretentious fucks who would immediately shit on my post just because it's vonnegut related and ignore the content. i suppose that's hopeless anyway.

Been years and I don't want to re-read and if I did I'm pretty sure that I wouldn’t like it as much.

But it's always in the back of my head.

If I were to select one from this year it would be Crime and Punishment. But The Idiot left a bigger impression when I was done but the act of reading it wasn't as good. ( I read both of them this year obviously )

Awesome in every way.

>>5443084
what the fuck is this?
isn't that the prometheus rising guy? red pill(green pill) /pol/ comic

>>5442612
i'm half way in right now fun book so far.

>>5442588
this or Gravity's Rainbow, probably

>>5443076
No colored text. The corrections are from comparisons between his carbon typescript versus the 1929 first edition. Mostly correcting misplaced punctuation, though there are a few sentences changed.

Cover illustration is by David Tamura. No title listed for the illustration.

>>5443108

What's this about?

All I know of Rushdie is that he liked to tickle some Muslim cock of fury and got speckled with fatwa cum for a long time.

>>5443097
Yes it's him.
Lots of weed, mysticism, conspiracies, politics, religion, violence all cut up and pasted together in a order that you need to get used to.

VS

Wikipedias explination ( because I felt that mine was inadequate )
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975.[1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third and first person perspectives and jumps around in time. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism.

>>5442588
Mysterious Skin

It's split between two; Autoportrait by Édouard Levé, and the first of the My Struggle novels, Karl Ove Knausgård.

I guess I like novels that play with the blurred lines between a novel and a autobiography

Easily my favorite novel.

>>5443121
Magical realist novel where the first 100 kids born after midnight on the day of India's partition all have various superpowers. It's like One Hundred Years of Solitude crossed with superhero comics and it rules.

>>5442588
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

>>5443286
0/10 are you even trying

>>5443286
suddenly the book makes sense and has a plot

>>5443073
I don't think he's pleb so much as pseudo intellectual, and someone who relies a little too much on the edge factor. I think a lot of things that are described as pleb (like palahniuk) can be better described as trying to pass cynicism off as insight.

>>5443312
kek

>all these people who haven't read Infinite Jest

It's the novel that go me into literature.

>>5443084
Why did The Idiot leave such an impression on you?

>>5442840
I'm reading that right now.

pic related

>>5442653
i've been meaning to read this, what's it like?

>All that Alpine scenery

Not only because of that of course.

>>5442818
I haven't got around to reading this yet, is it really that good?

>>5443467
>>5443443
pale fire also has beautiful alpine scenery at one point

This is one of my favourites.

>>5443471
Yes, but I hope you don't mind whale biology chapters.

Read it in high school and it's still my favorite.Far from the best writing style/prose/whatever, but hit me harder emotionally than any other book has.

>>5443474

Kind of plebby, but it's like novel porn to me; The cozy, New England setting, the precocious child, and the coming-of-age narrative. I can't get enough.

>>5443480
I only read part of it but still got a A on the test lel. I still have it tho.

>>5442879
IJ = I jest?

I only read it this last summer, but I find it more engaging than anything else I've ever read. I'm fascinated with every character in this book

>>5442879
I call bullshit, nobody enjoyed that book.

>>5443443
mah niqqa

>>5442648
Read his magnum opus, faggot.

>>5442818
Second.

The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

Malone Dies

>>5442629

Because it was pretty much Rich People's Problems: The Novel, as told by a Rock.

nothing else even compares . . . it's practically ruined literature for me

>>5442818

No. That is pure shit.

Everyone only remembers the whale and Ahab dynamic and forgets that a good 9/10ths of that shit was simply talking about life on a boat.

>>5443480

I was the only person in the class who liked this book. I could finally understand what people meant when they said "war is hell"

A world where people are cloned instead of born has led to humans making perpetually young babies for their own amusement. After a few years of them being used as just babies, it became common place to use them as sex toys.

The best selling babies are the ones modeled after famous people. The most popular being those modeled after Jesus Christ.

When a new couple gets a baby jesus, they are told this one is special and not to use it in any sexual way. They ignore that advice and the results are something completely unexpected.

>>5443776

>>5443759
I haven't read it. Looking forward to it.

>>5443759
I just bought this. I really enjoyed both The Road and Child of God.

>>5443443
I posted Midnight's Children but Pale Fire is extremely very good and I keep thinking about it constantly even though it's been 6 months since i read it.

>>5443776

>>5442628
This

>>5442818
My nigga
>>5443762
That's an exaggeration at worst. And the parts that you are probably referring to made the book the most immersive experience anyone with an actual attention span could reward themselves with.

>>5443762
>and forgets that a good 9/10ths of that shit was simply talking about life on a boat

>Implying those parts weren't also great

>>5442588
Hate to be 'cliche'......but this book made me see things I never knew existed in literature.

>>5443776
I'm intrigued

>mfw

>>5443762
if it was all ahab and the whale it wouldn't be nearly as good. the parts about life on a boat are incredible. they are incredibly comic and vibrant and develop ishmael's character in contrast to ahab's. to remove those chapters is to remove ishmael

>>5442698
What a glorious choice.

>>5442818
>>5443739
>>5443975


closeted gays reading closeted old school homosexual erotica

>>5443776
I saw carlton mellick one time.
He walked out of a mexican food restaurant with two big plastic bags full of food(he was by himself) and was approached by a homeless person who must have asked him for money or food, I wasn't within hearing range. Well he sat one of the bags down and pulled out a handful of those plastic cups full of hot sauce, crushed them in his hand and slapped the homeless across the face and at this point he made eye contact with me and my heart skipped a beat, he winked at me and pulled a burrito out of the bag and tossed it to me turned and ran in the opposite direction and then turned right on the next block. He forgot his other bag so I picked it up and ran to follow him but when I turned the block he was nowhere in sight.

>>5444444
Didn't even read.

>>5444444
THOOOOOOOOSE NUMBERS

>>5443480
"You know what I just noticed, man?...

.....Death sucks."

>>5444444

That's a good post...

4 you
4 you
4 you
4 you
4 you
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Why is no one calling OP out on his bait?

Be it known OP, I hereby call you out on your bait.

>>5444858
>>5444869
same fag plz go

>catcher is fav book
>must be bait

fucking /lit/ is full of shit eating idiots

>>5442588
I'll post one or two of my favorites.

Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822


I

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave,until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!


II

Thou on whose stream, ‘mid the steep sky’s commotion,
Loose clouds like Earth’s decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,

Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith’s height,
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge

Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre
Vaulted with all thy congregated might

Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O hear!


III

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,
Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams,

Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave’s intenser day,

All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic’s level powers

Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know

Thy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!

(1/2)

>>5445437
(2/2)

IV

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O Uncontrollable! If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be

The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed
Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne’er have striven

As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.


V

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

>>5445437
>>5445445
Damn. Wrong tab.

>>5444444
Holy Fuck

>>5442962
What was your better ending, oh wait...you dont have one

>>5442648
You won't be disappointed, you actually might like East of Eden more
>>5445522
how's that, tell me about it.

>>5445614
forgot to add fav. book.

>>5442588
I don't have a single favorite but The Savage Detectives comes to mind.

>>5442648
Steinbeck is one of the only authors who's bibliography does not have a book that isn't great.

>>5445623
Grand choice.

Flowers for Algernon... I fell in love with it when I read the short story version in elementary school and cried in class. The novel killed me.

Probably Gulliver's Travels if I'm not being a homo and saying Gravity's Rainbow

>>5445643
Gravity's Rainbow is fucking incredible, but you are automatically a tryhard if you mention it as your favorite.

People don't jump on you the same way if you say V. or Mason & Dixon for some reason.

>>5445658
maybe because V and M&D are better :^)

>>5445637
Let it be known that I am calling you on your bait

>>5444444
Fucking beautiful digits

>>5445658

It's because the poetic sensibility of out age is atrophied. Anybody who says they like something as lyrical as G.R is viewed as a try-hard because of course this is insurmountably difficult for everyone, not just people who have decent enough interpretive skills to follow non-narrative forms and an ear made of something other than tin.

>>5445716
no sorry that's not why

it's just because tryhards commonly like gravity's rainbow

of course, that says nothing about gravity's rainbow, which is a wonderful book

>>5444444

horey shit you got sexts

>>5445615
Very underrated book, imo. It needs more attention.

>>5442612
More like we're a fag, friend. :^)

A Personal Matter is a close second. It's funny, japanes authors write about the misery and dullness of the average nobody's life, but in such a poetic way that it almost seems desirable to be the average nobody in these stories.

Not the most complicated, challenging or even well-written book I've read, but its my favorite

implying

>>5443057
lol hell yeah, my favorite book is Sarah Horne Canby's Unk and Boaz in the Caves of Mercury too!

but honestly this excerpt just wrecked me

>>5444895
Actually, the funny thing is the second post isn't even me.

Catcher in the Rye is a good book. But if it's your favorite, chances are you don't read enough.

>>5442588
Also the Brothers Karamazov

>>5442653
What's the best edition of Pale Fire?

>>5446644
I meant to quote >>5443443
Sorry.

my first book with big boy themes that i read on my own when i was in hs
made me cry

>>5446644
The one with all the words in.

>>5442588

How do you decide what's your "favorite"?
I've read a lot of good books, but they were all fairly different. I can't say what was the best, or which I liked the most.

>>5446681
Which one is that? Sometimes I buy books that have typos not present in other editions. It's a shit.

These three may not be the best, but they've managed to keep me coming back. I've read each several times and every time I do you pick up extra little details that adds to the experience

>>5443325
nice

>>5442628

How is David Magarshack's translation for this?

I'm reading his translation for Crime and Punishment currently which i quite like but was curious which is the better/preferred translation for Brothers Karamazov.

>>5446910
I have an English question:

what's the difference between "The Brothers Karamazov", "Brothers Karamazov", "The Karamazov Brothers" and "Karamazov Brothers"?

And a question regarding English translations from Russian:

Why do all translation choose "The Brothers Karamazov" instead of, let's say, "The Karamazov Brothers"?

>>5446801
what a cool read starship troopers was

>>5446932
Damn near everyone has seen the movie. I find that barely anyone has read it.

>>5446946
theyre pretty much similar in name only. such a quick read too, im also suprised its not more widely read

>>5442643 >>5442720 >>5442942 >>5442950 >>5443865 >>5446910
Nice samefag

>>5446958

It was a real question ;_;

>>5446954
>they're pretty much similar in name only.
The same goes for Jurassic Park. Unfortunately most people who've seen the movie won't like the book. In fact they probably don't know either started as books

>>5446926
In Russian it's literally "Brothers Karamazov".

>>5446966
I know who you are, stop advertising this shit on /lit/.

>>5446973

I'm legitimately confused. Who/what are you talking about?

Does my post come across as a shill asking for which translation is best?

>>5444444

Look at this shit

>>5446979
I see your threads for this overrated piece every day. You come off as a communist shill but may be legitimately retarded.

>>5443325
yes

>>5446968
i didnt know that, im checking a synopsis of the book now, wow youre right. reccomend?

>>5446988

That's not me. I only lurk /lit/ every so often. Not enough to know that there is someone who shills it.

I was curious about the translation as i've got it on my next to read list.

Is it that overrated? What's wrong with it?

>>5446997
the original movie is fantastic as well, one of my favs actually

>>5444444

>>5447002
Starting with cartoonish characters that represent different psychological types.

>>5446999
Absolutely most of his work is good.

It's hard to choose one.
I'll go with Dying inside from Roger Silverberg.

>>5447021
will do. 'Day of the oprichnik' was my addition. good short read if you ever get the chance

>>5447017

That's a shame then. Could you expand on your reasoning?

Is it worth reading? I haven't read much about it but i'm about 3/4 way through crime and punishment and thought it might be good too.

>>5447028
I'm gonna look into it. Thanks for the suggestion

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There is a brand new chan ( m sterchan.org, it´s name is censored here), it´s only 5 months old but it´s already the second fastest english speaking chan. It´s /b/ already gets 1k posts a day. It has done something really fucking remarkable, 7chan which was made years ago doen't have a fraction of its activity.
How did it get so popular? Because it was based on allowing freedom of speech, and it has a unique moderation style to support that without the need for mods deleting or banning people.

It´s truly freedom of speech chan and it got popular fast because of that. You have no idea how hard it is for a 4chan alternative to get popular, it never ever happened before, except with this chan because it is so different. It´s still under construction, so it looks like shit, but that´s also good because you get to start browsing it when it all began.

Pic related. 4chan deserves to die for all its censorship.

I will be immediately be permanently banned for posting this. It´s up for each one of you to spread the word of mchan

Mchan, this place, by default, by design, is what you always wanted 4chan to be.

The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West

There's such a tension in his writing. Every sentence is taut with barely-restrained violence and he can be damn funny, too.

>>5446926
The title in Russian, Bratya Karamazovy, literally translates into "Brothers Karamazov". The first English translation by Constance Garnett rendered it as such, and it's "traditional" for other translations to use this name.

However, Ignat Avsey's translation (in my opinion the best one, surpassing even P & V), calls it The Karamazov Brothers.
He claims in the introduction it's ridiculous to use the Russian order of the title in English, as we wouldn't call the film company The Brothers Warner, or the comic troupe The Brothers Marx.

>>5447053
Was really disappointed when I got round to this, there were many a purple passages, and it just wasn't interesting.

>>5442628
fuck off r eddiit

>>5443396
I'm not sure, might be because I had a harder time getting the message out of The Idiot so I had to spend more time thinking about it. And I also had some things I disliked about it but it resulted in me thinking more about it and wondering if I was being picky or if I was right.

So I probably because I spent more time analysing it.

Diamond Age
Just read it a second time after a couple of years, and it seems more relevant than ever.

>>5443776
There is no God, and you know it now.

>>5445628
>one of the only authors

>>5443776
What the fuck?

>>5443776
cant tell if want to read

>>5446679
God-tier cover

>>5442701

Come here brother.

I like it

>>5447387
>Was really disappointed when I got round to this, there were many a purple passages

>>5442588

i read this recently, it blew me away

>>5449430
so what do you think of Oedipa? Was it all in her head?

>>5449133

I hope you read the Bormashenko translation.

Also anyone who has read Solaris. Suck shit you read a terrible translation from Polish to French to English that Lem didn't like and because of stupid rights bullshit has only been re-translated properly in an audio book.

>>5449451
I don't think the conspiracy was as extensive or alive as she thought it was. The post horn was just a symbol, and she transformed it into the Tristero behemoth (though it did have some truth to it)

But I DO know that it doesn't really matter.
(what a fucking book)

>>5449548
There was a thread here a long time ago about the significance of the turned badger symbol and Torquato Tasso's(Turned Badger) incarceration in a madhouse suggesting Oedipa Maas' insanity. check the archive

>>5442612
That's a great book, not even faggy, this cover art sucks though

>>5443543
Does he want to fuck his mother in this one, too?

>>5443652
hey me too!
the fifth time i read it, it had me bawling my eyes out from pages 79 on. it was really weird.

>>5443776
awesome

>>5443189
Like the Araki film starring JGL? Is the book even good?
I actually love the film, despite primarily dickriding Korine and Linklater

>>5443477
Haha, fuck, I always forget about the whale biology chapters

count of monte cristo

>>5442826
You did not even understand it.

>>5443013
Holy shit, I never knew anybody else had even heard of this book. It blew my mind the first time I read it, but in a really low key way, you know?

Catch 22

fucking loved this book

>>5451594
Nice. If you haven't check out his short stories yet, they're fantastic.

>>5443776
Ordered this book.
Thanks, Anon.
This ought to be interesting.

who /grapes of wrath/ here?

Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami. Some will probably see it as edgy college student bullshit. It was essentially about my state of mind and character at the time of me reading it though. Had no job, running out of money to stay in school, was perpetually in a state of boredom, and all of this was compounded by my thinking that school, a career, and the popular definition of adulthood might not be for me and how much I resented everyone in my past who forced this path on myself and my peers.

>>5442612
Orson Welles did a great radio play of this, totally worth looking up.

I have never been more sucked into a book than I was the first time I read this.

The OED

>>5454430
I especially enjoyed the entry on "Hippopotamus".

>>5454435
A measure of resolution directly proportional to the resolved ratio of a given pulse's digital code.

Book that made me like to read again.

>>5454657

Is the penguin classics translation of this worth reading? I was reading many people stating that it 'ruins' the original.

I can't seem to find anywhere to buy the original however. All seem to be the new translation.

>>5454657
i fucking hated that book

I enjoy memoirs, my favorite at the moment is 'Glass Castle' by Jennatte Walls. It's a very touching and beautiful story. On reccomendation from a friend I am going to be reading Pride and Predjudice, I am also starting The Odessy. So far I am enjoying it.

>>5453383
Personally I find it kind of sad that Yates is only known for his biggest novelyest novel with all the American Dream shit. 11 kinds of loneliness is where it's at.

>>5454420
Like that cover. Have always been meaning to try some more by him.

>>5447002
You're being trolled you retard

>>5444444
It's good to see that even on the literature board we still get 8 replies to a get without anyone responding to the content

>>5454639
I was under the impression Brautigan was good lols but that 1970s photograph and ludicrous quote do not make me want to touch that.

>>5450334
you and me both. read it at age 16 and wept at the end

>>5455380
>>5454657
Out of curiosity, have you Dumas fans read Dickens? Bleak House smokes everything for mega-plotted C19th dramatics

>>5443759

last 100 pages at the min, it is fucking spectacular.

>>5455380
it's that sad? i never read it but i read 'huckleberry finn' which mentioned some stuff from there (how tom taught negro jim the proper way to flee from a jail) and that was one of the funniest places of the novel

>>5442612
My comrade of African-American descent!

>>5443674
Just finished that. Great book.

>>5446429
Yeah, man, great book. I think I like Natsume Soseki's Kokoro more, though

>>5455426
a mix of it being sad, as well as touching, and me being a pussy at that age. yeah the escape from jail is a fun read

>>5455355

fml. I was drunk as shit when I was posting then. I should've realised sooner.

>>5444444
>your shitposting will never get sexts

>>5455607
>tfw i once got sexts on /lit/ and there were no replies

>>5450352
That's exactly why i like it

>>5442588

Probably haven't read as many novels as most people here but I used to love reading as a kid but sort of stopped. I picked it back up near the end of high school but mostly just out of boredom and never really enjoyed reading as much as I had when I was young until I read this book.

>>5453884
Edgy college student bullshit is kind of fun and interesting though.

>>5457411

What's edgy about it?

I read this book when I'm sad because it always cheers me up.

>>5455368
fair lol
the cover put me off too

>>5442588
Don't make fun of me

>>5458632
You're not alone in your suffering.

This holds a special place in my heart because it reminds me of home. The Monk by Matthew Lewis is in a close second.

Several billion golden years ago,
I lost a planet that I loved to the cold.
civilization blooms and then it erodes,
And that’s it.

>>5442588

>>5443057
this post literally gave me aids

>>5443443
Pale Fire is so unbelievably good. Time to reread it

>>5459239
is this book that good? I almost got it the other day but I bought War and Peace instead

>>5459628
"the novel is considered a masterpiece by literary critics."
from wikipedia

>>5459650
Mah nigga.

My favourite autobiography.

>>5459650
but that's not a novel

>>5443776
Mellick is hilarious. As are most of the other bizarro lit authors.

I recommend checking out the starter kits for bizarro, which are collections of short stories from a variety of authors. Also, Shatnerquake, which follows William Shatner battling the fictional incarnations of himself, and The Ass-Goblins of Auschwitz, which is a re-imagining of the WWII Concentration camp, in that it is run by goblins shaped like enormous butts.

>>5446932
Are you fucking stupid? Lashback against 1960's anti-war zeitgeist condensed into one warhawk propaganda pamphlet. Two thirds of this book is boot camp with literally jack shit happening.

Infinite Jest. Yes, I know. I'm a huge faggot.

>>5459690
In that case it's a draw between Catch 22 and War & Peace

>>5442628

9.9999999/10 need to re-read at some point

Jude the Obscure. I like the prose, I like depressing shit, whatever.

every single chapter made me laugh at some point

oh ah dracula

>>5457488
Really? I thought it was alright, but it just fell apart at the end.

>>5442836
>enjoying "Children of Hurin"
>shigdig

>>5457451
Protagonist has a bro ass bro, gets bitches, parents fully support him, but life is just dull and pointless.

>>5461631
I'm not sure you understand what edgy means.

>>5442588
Catch-22

>>5461394
Begone, blep.

Favorite I've read this year.

>>5442612
Also my favorite, though Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler is a close second.

>>5459628
It's very good, especially for science fiction (but even without grading it on the sci-fi curve it's very good).

>>5453354
The title can also be interpreted as "Nothing new on the western front."

>>5453884
Looks like a guy sitting on a fat turd.

A picture of Murakami "creating" his next novel, perhaps?

>>5461881
Nigga you got good taste.

Those are my top two, only reversed order.

>>5443202
My fucking nigga

>>5442846
>look at muh mac guys

>>5464262
thats not a mac lol

So uncompromising that the best chapter was censored.

>>5443202
julien sorel its muh nigga

>>5443325
I KNEW I had heard that title before
I read part of it back in high-school
Worth reading? How long is it?

>>5446434
man, fuck Marquez
I FOUGHT my way through Chronicle of A Death Foretold
his writing style is so fucking boring

>>5465803
>So uncompromising it was compromised

I know a lot of people like the movie, but it's such an awful, awful adaptation of this masterpiece.

>>5466042
>read ASoiAF
>Dany goes into the House of the Undying
>immediately remember the Temple of A Thousand Doors from this book and smile

GRRM's version developed in a smarter way but it was nice to immediately recognize the inspiration.

>>5466042
Oh fuck, I loved this book. Shit only gets real in the second part, when in the movie it just has some stupid cheesy ending but in the book Bastian creates the new universe. It's been 15 years since I read it, but I still remember parts so vividly, like the dream mine, and the color desert, and the sad giant maggots that work metal with their tears.

>>5466075
>Looking for books about dogs/wolves when I was much younger.
>Already read White Fang and Call of the Wild
>See a Jack London book with "Wolf" in the title
>Get it.
>Deeply disappointed that the seawolf is a ship.
I don't even think I finished more than a chapter or two. I should probably read it again now that I'm not looking exclusively for dog stories.

>>5466340
You should, especially the first half is great for its character constellation, and the antagonist Wolf Larsen is one of my favourite literary characters. A great attempt of picturing Nietzsche's Übermensch, and very influential with his rational yet uncomfortable thinking for my teenage self. Kickstarted my interest in literature, and to this day I adore and often read it. The second half is weaker, but still interesting, and very much worth it for the in my eyes allegorical ending.

>>5466360
Alright, I will add it to the list.

>>5446801
Forever War was pretty great, though I kinda disliked the whole "well now we're all clones so its cool" ending.

>>5445624
hell yeh fellow bolano fan up in here.

>>5447053
I'm just reading that, the whole trilogy. Around 20% in, Steerpike just got a job for the two weird sisters.
I gotta say I like it so far, but I really couldn't say why.

>Read 1984
>Read Animal Farm
Still think Harry Potter is my favorite series
....Let the shitstorm winds blow