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/Lit/, I need your help:

My best friend recently read "The Hunger Games". Given that it is a masterpiece of literature, she forced me to read it so that she would have someone to talk to about it.

Please, /lit/, give me a book that she will enjoy that is not a piece of shit. I need to show this girl what a real book is.

>> No.2427436

Battle Royale.

Now fuck off.

Is there a movie of this book coming out soon? Is this why all the shitpost around it?

>> No.2427438

Looking For Alaska

>> No.2427440

Tale of Two Cities or Pride And Prejudice or something

>> No.2427444
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>>2427438
>looking for alaska
>a real book

>> No.2427441

>>2427436

I am not asking for a book I would like- allow me to clarify.

I need a book that a feminist, atheist, grad student who doesn't read fiction would enjoy. However, the recommendation must be fiction.

>> No.2427451

Party Monster

You're welcome.

>> No.2427453

>>2427444
it's real enough, old sport. got paper pages with ink spots in the shape of words and proper binding and everything. heck it's even a pulitzer winner.

>> No.2427454

>>2427441
The problem, to put it bluntly, is that you want a good book that someone who liked Hunger Games would enjoy. This brings up a few dilemmas. First, what do you understand by a "good" book? Second, should we recommend a book that is entertaining and thrilling (like Hunger Games) or one that is not full of action and thriller-esque (like most big-l Literature)?

>> No.2427462

>>2427444
I always get excited when the world reveals that other people also like Robbe-Grillet.

>>2427441
>feminist grad student
>doesn't read fiction

What? How is this possible? She sounds irritating. Getting through a humanities subject in grad school and still resisting fiction... and thinking Hunger Games is a worthwhile exception... wow. It makes me sad that these people exist.

>> No.2427467

>>2427444
"I'm going to get hate for this, but am I the only one who feels somewhat better about yourself when someone calls you pretentious."-
lit

>> No.2427469

>>2427454

Excellent questions.

For me, you could recommend anything by Pynchon, Nabokov, or DFW- but I am positive that she would hate any of these.

For her I was thinking something along the lines of "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. Or maybe one of Haruki Murakami's shorter novels.

>> No.2427477

>>2427462

>What? How is this possible?

While I was a Phd student, I didn't read any fiction for four years. I literally didn't have the time, particularly since I was working as a lecturer in the university at the time. Almost all academics compile lists of holiday reads that they'll get round to once they've dealt with the masses of reading they have to do just to keep in touch with their subject.

Then they don't read it on holiday either, because fuck that, I read for a living, I'm watching TV and boobies on the topless beach.

If you like to read, don't get into academic life, because it will make you hate reading in the same way you hate working at burger king right now.

>> No.2427479

The Bell Jar

>> No.2427484

>>2427441

I just fucking told you: Battle Royale.

It's japanese, so has enough exoticism to be acceptable. The movie has Takeshi Kitano in it (one of Japan's great polymaths, so all you have to do is read his wikipedia article, spout some shit and she'll be impressed), it contains many of the same themes as Hunger Games, and it's pretty easy to read, with short, digestible chapters. Your bird will be able to read it and feel she's engaged with world literature to some extent and then you'll be able to use her holes to your own satisfaction. Everybody's happy.

>> No.2427492

>>2427479

Thank you! That might be perfect, she's getting a PHD in psychology.

>> No.2427493

>>2427479
i hope yr joking and i honesty don't understand the love this book gets. it's boring, sad, and dry. depressing without being rewarding imo :(.

>> No.2427498

>>2427484

I might just want to hold her hand or take her out for coffee.

>> No.2427506

>>2427498

Fair enough. then give her The Bell Jar. Later you might want to give her some roofies if you change your mind - you can always tell the police that she was suicidal and the semen inside her was consensual, especially if the wench is dead.

>> No.2427515

>>2427477
There's a difference between wanting to read or having enjoyed reading and now no longer being able to and having been so resistant to literature through a university education that you can be a grad student who reads Young Adult fiction exclusively.

>> No.2427525

>>2427506
>>2427484
>>2427436

My faith in /lit/ was well placed. Thank you, kind sir. Now get back to your reading while I gather a copy of "The Bell Jar" and some lube.

>> No.2427527

>>2427469
Murakami would work. South of the Border, Sputnik Sweetheart, Norwegian Wood will probably be best for her.

>> No.2427529

>>2427525

Don't forget the benzos.

You kids have a good night, now. Don't do anything I wouldn't do.

>> No.2427532

This may be utter blasphemy here on /lit/, but I'll say it any way.

I honestly don't think that "The Hunger Games" is that bad.

It tells an interesting story and is much better than the recent wave of Young Adult novels that came out since the start of the Twilight craze.

Is it high-class literature? God, no.

Is it the next Harry Potter? Probably not.

But it's still better than Twilight-clone #42.

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2427548

So is someone who's a big fan of The Hunger Games called a Hunger Autist?

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>>2427548
Kafkatiem?

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>>2427548
Tiem?

>> No.2427558

>>2427548

That is about 2% as funny as you thought it was.

well done, you look like an arse, but you're anonymous at least.

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>>2427548
>>2427558
Tiem?

>> No.2427564

>>2427558
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

>> No.2427566

I dont know what the fuck is wrong with me but i actually enjoyed the hunger games.

Now that I have admitted that to my fellow brothers and sisters on /lit/ im going to kill myself.

Farewell

>> No.2427608

>>2427558
You have to admit that http:www.4chan.org/lit/ is the only place that that highly sophisticated joke would work.

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2427611

His Dark Materials

/thread

>> No.2427701

>>2427451
Perfect suggestion...no comments.

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