/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6679497]

ITT: books that you like that /lit/ considers uter chronic cancerous pleb tier

It's a John Green book but I'm afraid o say which it is

[Anonymous No.6679511]

>/lit/ considers
/lit/ is not a hivemind.
>cancerous pleb tier
OP.
>utter chronic
Stoner.

[Anonymous No.6679537]

most Vonnegut is good (except Breakfast of Champions, which sucks)
the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series are both fine, Hunger Games is even decently well written
Guns Germs and Steel is pretty good if underwhelming
Toni Morrison's entire corpus is better written than most of the stuff people here like

[Anonymous No.6679542]

>>6679497
It's Looking for Alaska isn't it

[Anonymous No.6679561]

>>6679497
Just fuck off now

[Anonymous No.6679597]

>>6679537
breakfast of champions is great, you fiend

[Anonymous No.6679714]

Cities of the plains
Walden
Hemmingway

[Anonymous No.6679727]

>>6679714
>Walden

I'm reading this right now; on page 25. What did you like about it? Apart from the chapter where he describes the red ants vs the black ants, I find Walden to be a snooze.

[Anonymous No.6679732]

>>6679727
>on page 25

Kek

[Anonymous No.6679735]

>>6679714
>Walden

I'm reading this right now; on page 205. What did you like about it? Apart from the chapter where he describes the war between the red ants and the black ants, I find Walden to be a snooze.

The "silly loon" was good too.

[Anonymous No.6679736]

I could never figure out what /lit/'s stance is on Hemingway.

I find that he is extremely skillful at writing and his books felt very well constructed.

[Anonymous No.6679739]

>>6679732
>>6679732

Clearly, I meant to type page 205.

[Anonymous No.6679745]

The Catcher in the Rye

[Anonymous No.6679765]

I see a lot of Nabokov hate on lit.

[Anonymous No.6679776]

>>6679765
/lit/ loves Lolita, and I never see Nabokov hate.

[Anonymous No.6679795]

>>6679537
I was given the Hunger Games set as a gift because it was 50p and I'm afraid of touching it; is it really that good?

[Anonymous No.6679800]

>>6679795
First book: 4/10
Second book: 2.3/10
Third book: 2/10

[Anonymous No.6679802]

>>6679795
It would serve better for starting a housefire.

[Anonymous No.6679806]

>>6679537
>he doesn't like breakfast of champions

[Anonymous No.6679807]

Will Self in general. My favourite novel is "My Idea of Fun".

[Anonymous No.6679810]

>>6679765
My favorite author. He'll come back into fashion on here once people finally get tired of the "Nabokov is a hack" meme.

[Anonymous No.6679814]

>>6679806
Vonnegut is total garbage.

[Anonymous No.6679953]

>>6679795
This guy >>6679800 has it about right. It's a kids' version of 1984 or Brave New World (and it's appparently ripped off of some Japanese book or movie I haven't seen/read?) but the worldbuilding is pretty good and the prose is totally decent (like I said, better than Rowling). It's hardly a masterpiece but it's fun and you can read all three in a week. The third one really goes off the rails though.

[Anonymous No.6680970]

>>6679542
Katherines

[Anonymous No.6680999]

>>6679953
>some Japanese book or movie I haven't seen/read
Battle Royale

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

[Anonymous No.6681035]

>>6679953
A lot of people claim it ripped off Battle Royale. For a plot summary:
Government sends random class of highscoolers to a deserted island and tells them all to kill eachother with an assortment of wacky weapons (from paper fans to machine guns), survivor gets a prize and is allowed to leave the island alive. That's the movie version of it, dunno if there's much difference with the book.

[Anonymous No.6681041]

>>6679814
yeah.

one thing tho, i saw that bloom wrote a preface to one of his books. was wondering if anyone knew what bloom thought about vonnegut

[Anonymous No.6681234]

/lit/ hates genre fiction (despite providing not a single useful argument as to why), but I have enjoyed books by Asimov, Herbert, Brunner, Zelazny, and several other well-known sci-fi authors.