/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15418284]

ITT: best book you found out about through /lit/.

[Anonymous No.15418447]

>>15418284
Werner Herzog recommended this book to me a few years ago. Easily one of the most poetic and beautifully written books I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.15418457]

>>15418447
Nice. Are you a personal friend of Herzog? If you are, give me his contact, I got an idea for a movie and I am sure he'd like to hear it.

[Anonymous No.15418463]

I’m an unabashed Flashman stan, thanks to /lit/

[Anonymous No.15418469]

>>15418447
Is it that good?

[Anonymous No.15418500]

qrd on the peregrine?

[Anonymous No.15418693]

>>15418284
JR by William Gaddis

[Anonymous No.15418701]

>>15418469
Not him but it's an amazing book

[Anonymous No.15418719]

>>15418284
This book woke me up.

[Anonymous No.15418771]

>>15418284
The audio book narrated by David Attenborough is pure kino

[Anonymous No.15418797]

>>15418284
Probably Doctor Faustus. I picked it up last year after reading a thread where a couple anons were discussing it

[Anonymous No.15418917]

The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq

[Anonymous No.15419062]

>>15418284
Probably Ficciones

[Anonymous No.15419467]

>>15418917
this

[Anonymous No.15419476]

Stoner

[Anonymous No.15419482]

>>15418284
I'd never heard of Machado de Assis until I came here. Epitaph of a Small Winner blew my mind.

[Anonymous No.15419514]

>>15418284
I found Invitation to a Beheading through /lit/ and it's absolute trash. Thank god I only have 30 pages left.

[Anonymous No.15419552]

>>15418284
the death of virgil by broch. some anon a few years back recd it on a shelfie bread and to this day remains probably the greatest book i've ever read. thank you, anon if you're still here.

[Anonymous No.15419596]

>>15418693
Would you recommend starting here? Not looking to dive headlong into The Recognitions just yet.

>>15418771
Truth

[Anonymous No.15419606]

>>15418284
I mostly come here for some burguer lit, that is seldom published in my country. I like Cormac, Blood Meridian and Suttree were nice.

[Anonymous No.15419733]

>>15418284
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. Read it while waiting to get out of Jury Duty. Was fantastic, and so comfy. Don't want to give away the ending, but it's great

[Anonymous No.15419775]

Stoner. Enough said really

[Anonymous No.15419788]

>>15419514
Yeah man I don't get why everyone rides Nabo's dick so hard, I really dislike his work. I've read Invitation, Despair, and Lolita.

[Anonymous No.15419792]

>>15418284

[Anonymous No.15419798]

>>15418284
The book of Disquiet by Pessoa. Thanks anon, whoever you were.

[Anonymous No.15419819]

>>15419733
It all comes together in the end

[Anonymous No.15419825]

I really enjoyed norwegian wood from some anon who recommended it in a age/profession/rec.book thread.

[Anonymous No.15419869]

my diary desu

[Anonymous No.15420052]

>>15418284
My exit level will always be Krazsnahorkai, Seutonius, and Nick Land.

[Anonymous No.15420058]

>>15418284
Book is entry level

[Anonymous No.15420061]

>>15418463
what's this one?

[Anonymous No.15420092]

>>15418719

[Anonymous No.15420104]

Some anon randomly mentioned The Betrothed by Manzoni a while back, and now it’s easily my favorite book. I wish I could individually thank all the anons who have helped me widen my horizons.

>>15418463
Is it just me or has this series blown up on /lit/ in the past month? I’ve been lurking here for years and had never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.15420139]

The Tunnel

[Anonymous No.15420401]

>>15419775
that and gene wolf. really enjoying latro in the mist rn

[Anonymous No.15420428]

>>15420052
You got memed.

[Anonymous No.15420761]

Ficciones by Jorges Luis Borges is the best book I read in my life and I discovered because of this board. I need to talk about von Doderer too, his books are the definition of hidden gems.

[Anonymous No.15420769]

>>15418797
I like the idea that maybe I was one of them

[Anonymous No.15421219]

>>15419596
Uh I'd say A Frolic of His Own is a good starting place

[Anonymous No.15421237]

>>15418284
BetterThanFood recently reviewed it.

[Anonymous No.15421299]

>>15418284

[Anonymous No.15421301]

>>15418463
My Granddad loved these.

[Anonymous No.15421305]

>>15420092
Go back.

[Anonymous No.15421315]

[Anonymous No.15421327]

>>15421305
why don't you, to /pol/ or /v/ you parrot

[Anonymous No.15421354]

>>15421327
Just go back, tourist.

[Anonymous No.15421708]

>>15421354
Not him, but you seem flustered. Have some water, but then you have to go back.

[Anonymous No.15421745]

>>15419596
Dive headlong into The Recognitions. It's amazing. I just finished it this morning. It ain't really a difficult of a read save for that one dense chapter somewhere in the middle and its intimidating length.

[Anonymous No.15421752]

>>15418284
The Recognitions by William Gaddis.

[Anonymous No.15421762]

>>15419788
Try Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. I'm not a big fan of Nabokov, but that book was an absolute delight for my inner languagefag. I also come from a similar multilingual immigrant background, so it was pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.15421795]

>>15421299
elaborate.. whats so geh about this book? why the gay cowboy screencap?

[Anonymous No.15421797]

>>15421708
Just go back.

[Anonymous No.15421803]

This.

[Anonymous No.15421808]

>>15421803
Great taste

[Anonymous No.15421879]

>>15421795
Will Andrews, the MC, watches Miller shoot for paaages, just like in pic related, and then, SPOILER, after the turning point of the book, they have four unwashed men have to sleep tightly together so as not to die.

[Anonymous No.15422028]

>>15421803
Basado

[Anonymous No.15422506]

>>15421315
This.

[Anonymous No.15422530]

This was /lit recommendation

[Anonymous No.15422539]

Stoner.

On the other hand, I fell for the Evan Dara meme. Bought Flee and it was shit. I'm sure the dude shilled himself here a couple of years ago.

[Anonymous No.15422760]

>>15420428
No I didn’t. You got filtered.

[Anonymous No.15422806]

>>15422530
saved to my lit recs as well, how did you like it?

[Anonymous No.15422834]

>>15422806
I was told its similar to Lolita and better, no fancy prose and more content... It met and exceeded my expections. However if you are not looking for that kind of thing then its just an ok book.

[Anonymous No.15422872]

>>15421327
You fuck off. This is our turf.

[Anonymous No.15423029]

>>15418771
can you give MEGA link?

[Anonymous No.15423095]

>>15423029
just do the audible free trial

[Anonymous No.15423096]

>>15418719

Cringe

[Anonymous No.15423265]

>>15419596
>>15421745
TR is like climbing a mountain: the first time through, your mind’s probably half occupied with actually getting to the end. It’s a book that’s meant to be reread, you’ll enjoy it a lot more when you focus on the small details that make an impact.

[Anonymous No.15423342]

>>15421327
fuck off and get out

[Anonymous No.15423602]

I hate jewish ppl because of what they did to Palestine
fucking invaders

[Anonymous No.15423641]

>>15423602
based and same

[Anonymous No.15423768]

>>15421803
>>15421808
>>15422028

also a great fan of the tartar steppe. one of my all time favourites. check out the oppossing shore by julien gracq. really similar vibes, although it's a bit more tedious to read (longer, convoluted prose at times). Any other Buzzati recs?

[Anonymous No.15423830]

I don't read books.

[Anonymous No.15424045]

>>15419552
Same here, amazing book. Want to read his Sleepwalkers as well.

[Anonymous No.15424084]

This was a neat read.

[Anonymous No.15424093]

The Crying of Lot 49 or Fanged Noumena.

[Anonymous No.15424421]

>>15424084
what's it about?

[Anonymous No.15424428]

I honestly haven't learned of any good books through here. /lit/, collectively, has about the worst taste in books of any board I've ever been on.

[Anonymous No.15424543]

>>15424428
i disagree ,first i was watching booktube which rekindled my love for reading the problem was they kept recommending me YA shit and jewish ppl's weakest shit
when i came here i found out the most horrendous shit on top of my most enjoyable reads such as :
stoner
once on a winters night a traveller
the name of the rose
the crying of lot 49
the master and the meme
dead souls
and so many more

[Anonymous No.15424566]

>>15421301
He must have had great taste

[Anonymous No.15424568]

>>15423096
Have you read it?

[Anonymous No.15424604]

>>15418284
>>15418797
>>15419062
>>15419476
>>15419552
>>15419775
>>15419733
>>15419798
>>15420401
>>15420761
>>15421299
Good taste

>>15424093
Genuinely subhuman

[Anonymous No.15424753]

>>15421803
target acquired, thanks anons
>>15418463
investigating this series now

[Anonymous No.15424759]

>>15421299
never read a book that produced such vivid imagery in my mind as butchers crossing. must reread soon

[Anonymous No.15424765]

>>15419792
based

[Anonymous No.15424771]

>>15421803
>"The Tartar Stepp"
>not "The Tartar Deser"
fucking anglos

[Anonymous No.15424808]

>>15424771
more like the tartar sauce wahey

[Anonymous No.15424824]

id say all my lit knowledge came from here for the most part. prior to that i was reading dickens, tolkien, GRRM, and don quixote. very grateful for lit tbqh

[Anonymous No.15425454]

A lot of italian /lit/ here. I'm pleased
Here's a rec for you

[Anonymous No.15425862]

>>15418284
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink

[Anonymous No.15425874]

>>15419482
more like Epitaph of a Small Weiner

[Anonymous No.15426048]

>>15421327
faggot

[Anonymous No.15426220]

>>15418469
It's extremely repetitive. You'll need a lot of patience.

[Anonymous No.15426258]

>>15418284
I learned about it through Better than food guy on YouTube. I'm pretty sure he browses here.

[Anonymous No.15426280]

>>15426258
that dude loves the smell of his farts

[Balebo No.15426291]

Eve was forcibly separated from Adam and sent Cain was moved; back to Earth to avoid Eve; (in Hell) and Adam was in Heaven and Eve was in Hell and Adam was in Heaven and Eve was in Hell so I had Sophia's body raped and Yave was in it at the time and it made a kid between us called um Arrow in his mind not her rotting; womb Athena styles

Yave is not Eve's son it is YHVH himself.
Elomihn is YHWH; the father of Adam.

[Anonymous No.15426296]

>>15424753
Just jump in and read Flashman #1. You’ll be hooked, it’s only about 300ish pages too so it can be read in a couple of days

[Anonymous No.15426297]

>>15421327
Im currently banned on /v/ so i cant

[Anonymous No.15426306]

>>15418284
Williams' August, has since become one of my all time favorite books.

[Anonymous No.15426320]

>>15426296
that's exactly what happened to me with Philip Marlowe, thanks anon!

>still getting good recs here after all these years...

[Anonymous No.15426321]

>>15418284
You convinced me.
I want to read more poetry.
Which version do I get?

[Anonymous No.15426334]

>>15426321
this is prose.
but get that complete works blue version.

[Anonymous No.15426349]

>>15426334
>432 pages
>13.99
damn just noticed
the cover art looks trash but i'm probably getting this one
thanks senpai

[Anonymous No.15426381]

Aside from the Peregrine, what else should I get?
I could get another book by Lem, he's a good writer, after all.

[Anonymous No.15426437]

Stoner or Fiasco (Lem)?

[Anonymous No.15426467]

this was from before /lit/ went to shit

[Anonymous No.15426469]

>>15426349
Trust me anon Hill of Summer is extracomfy.

[Anonymous No.15426478]

>mostly fiction. novels.
>there's not much fiction, novels or literature on /lit/ anymore

fuck off

[Anonymous No.15426503]

>>15426469
Shit, is this one of those dictionary-must have reads?

[Anonymous No.15426510]

Hey all, please could someone curate a list of /lit/'s recommendations? I'd honestly like to form my opinion by reading them all.

[Anonymous No.15426641]

>>15426437
Lupe Fiasco?

[Anonymous No.15426703]

>>15426641
Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem.
Astronauts arrive on a planet harbouring intelligent life but instead of little green men they find something really alien.

[Anonymous No.15426997]

>>15426503
Complex sentence structure doesn’t mean difficult words.

[Anonymous No.15427083]

>>15418719
based

[Anonymous No.15428484]

>>15418284
Realized how much books were capable of after reading this

[Anonymous No.15428680]

>>15418284
Love that book.

To answer your question, Claudio Magris, Danube.

[Anonymous No.15428683]

>>15419792
this

[Anonymous No.15428689]

>>15418693
Start with Carpenter's Gothic.

[Anonymous No.15428813]

[Anonymous No.15428825]

>>15428689
Have all his works minus CG. Wat do

[Anonymous No.15428830]

>>15426381
Pic related is a lesser-known Lem book that I really liked, and it's on-topic since I first heard about it here. It's not really science fiction, but more of a surreal comedy about bureaucracy, paranoia, and the tendency to see secret messages and meanings in nonsense.
The interesting thing about it is that the introduction sets up a post-apocalyptic US vs. USSR story that has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the book and contradicts it in places (according to the intro, the protagonist's manuscript was found in a secret bunker, but he and other characters in the book make multiple references to being able to freely enter and exit the building the story takes place in.) I'm pretty sure Lem only included it to make it abundantly clear that he wasn't trying to satirize the Soviet government. Funnily enough, almost every summary online focuses only on the introduction and ignores the rest of the book.

[Anonymous No.15428852]

>>15428484
What does that even mean with regard to this book

[Anonymous No.15428881]

>>15418719
cringe
protocols is better and much more influential to early 20th century politics
CoC is just some intellectual kindly saying "Maybe the Antisemitism is coming from uh...socio-economic factors...and not from nowhere! I'm not an antisemite I swear!"

Protocols is just pure based.

[Anonymous No.15428926]

>>15428813
Am I the only one who didn't especially like this? why does everyone keep recommending it? I found it to be about a 6-7/10 honestly.

[Anonymous No.15429083]

>>15419788
I too dismiss writers after reading one of their famous ones and avoiding the 2-3 other works people give a shit about.

[Anonymous No.15429137]

>>15429083
I understand not dismissing an author after one book, but by three you have a decent understanding of whether you like their writing or not. You don’t have to read all their most popular either. I’ve read six of Nabokov’s and the only one I truly liked was King, Queen, Knave.

[Anonymous No.15429159]

>>15429137
You're in the minority. The most important shit from him is Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada. It's like if someone read Sound and the Fury, Pylon, and The Unvanquished. It's funny, especially if you're going to exclaim how you want better stuff from a writer. So yeah, lets wander into the stuff only scholars read....

[Anonymous No.15429342]

>>15418719
Yikes

[Anonymous No.15429346]

>>15421803
You're welcome

[Anonymous No.15429855]

>>15418284

[Anonymous No.15430618]

>>15418284
Don't be modest. Is this for big brains?

[Anonymous No.15430856]

[Anonymous No.15430868]

>>15430618
not at all. don't be discouraged by redditors and MFA hacks calling it purple prose. It's comfy and beautiful.
It's much easier than the most of the stuff that gets memed here.

[Anonymous No.15431376]

>>15429855
I agree

[Anonymous No.15431427]

>>15428830
I've been looking forward to read this one, he seems to write real good stories about bureaucracy.
I loved the short of the Steelipips in Cyberiad.

Also, the reason he was covert about his communism parable was probably because it'd be censored otherwise. His political affiliations aside, the only way to publish behind the Iron Curtain is to make it abundantly clear you're not critiquing the system.

[Anonymous No.15431564]

>>15418457
Herzog recommended it in one of his online courses. It was in the trailer, so many people probably heard the recommendation...

[Anonymous No.15431967]

I've only read a few books that I wouldn't have known about if it wasn't for /lit/ but out of them this is hands down the best

[Anonymous No.15432011]

>>15426503

Are you a native English speaker? It's simple prose with moderately advanced vocabulary - American high school students would have no problem with this.

[Anonymous No.15432029]

>>15428926
It probably went over your head

[Anonymous No.15432065]

Finally an ok thread

[Anonymous No.15432635]

i relentlessly pushed two books on /lit/ about five years ago: the peregrine and skylark
i'm glad one stuck

[Anonymous No.15432672]

>>15418457
No, I'm a colorist that worked on a project with him a few years ago that got shelved. This was back while I was training. He came into the studio one day and sat with me and my mentor.

[Anonymous No.15432706]

This collection of short stories is pretty meta and also has characters from one story appear in some other

[Anonymous No.15432782]

>>15418284
Ezpz answer

[Anonymous No.15434109]

>>15421301
Based Grandpa

[Anonymous No.15434709]

>>15423768
A lot of Buzzati's stuff is hard to find in English, but a collection of his short stories called Catastrophe was released last year, and NYRB has an edition of Poem Strip that should be available. I thought both were very good.

[Anonymous No.15435096]

>>15432635
I just read Skylark earlier this month. Fantastic book, I’ve owned it for like nine or ten years, and finally got to it.

[Anonymous No.15435372]

>>15435096
one might say you were skylarking yourself

[Anonymous No.15435759]

>>15431967
read this at BAP's recommendation, not bad.

[Anonymous No.15435827]

>>15418447
I'll check it out. This seems like my kind of book.

[Anonymous No.15435885]

>>15418719
>people are reading culture of critique

I got into this message board run by Polish culture of critique cultists who talked in code and once I got to know them I learned that this shit is actually dangerous. Like gangs of people (10-20) running around committing hate crimes and vandalizing all while talking in weird fucking code and feigning ignorance

[Anonymous No.15435996]

>>15418284
Pretty much 95% of my favorites I've found through /lit/ like:

>Pedro Paramo
>Suttree
>Dom Casmurro
>Augustus
>Three trapped tigers
>Kiss of the spider woman
>short stories of Flannery O'Connor
>The Star Diaries

etc.

[Anonymous No.15436014]

>>15426703
Fuckin' based taste, Lem is an utter delight.

[Anonymous No.15436077]

>>15421354
Go back.

[Anonymous No.15436184]

>>15430856
Great book