/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.830884]

All these threads suck.
Lets post what we are reading right now OK?
pic related.
It's really good.

[Anonymous No.830889]

I'm reading V. by Pynchon because tons of /lit/ people suggest him. It's alright, I guess, but I'm only about 100 pages in. It's kind of confusing so far, there's no cohesion to any of it.

[Anonymous No.830891]

[Anon No.830897]

This, fucking hilarious

[Anonymous No.830896]

haha, I'm reading notes from underground too!

[Anonymous No.830894]

>>830889
Welcome to Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.830892]

I liked Notes from the Underground.

As for me, Hunger.

[Anonymous No.830899]

>>830892
>One of the most disturbing novels in existence

sounds good.

[Anonymous No.830902]

>>830896

[Anonymous No.830908]

>>830899
I'd say it's similar to Notes from the Underground, so if you like Dostoevsky's book, you'll probably enjoy Hunger.

[Anonymous No.830909]

First 150 pages or so were slow as fuck, but now that the comet has hit the book is awesome.

[Anonymous No.830913]

>>830908
Cool, I've got a huge summer stack but I'll definitely check it out sometime.

[Anonymous No.831216]

Really enjoying this.

[Anonymous No.831270]

Love all Thomas Hardy.

[Anonymous No.831282]

>>830909

Did the comet come from Venus... he he he, because Lucifer is the morning star... get it?

Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.831298]

The Iron Dream.

I like the concept, but the completely unapologetic hatred expressed makes it hard to believe that "Hitler's novel" was as popular as it supposedly was, unless we're meant to assume that without the Nazi Party and WW2, all that Antisemitism would still be boiling in the backs of everyone's minds.

I just can't imagine Americans in the 50s and 60s reading "Lord of the Swastika" and taking it seriously, even as pulp fiction. That being said, it's an excellent satire of the crypto-fascist values early pulp sci-fi demonstrated.

[Anonymous No.831302]

Genji is a goddamn pimp.

[Anonymous No.831305]

Anna Karenina. I can appreciate the fact that its this huge arching story with multiple interconnected plots and great charecterisation but I don't really like what it's fundamentally about or the themes it deals with.

[Anonymous No.831304]

>>831302
Is this actually good? I'm very curious.

[Anonymous No.831310]

>>830892
>>830884

I have read these two. I just yesterday started reading Hamsun's Pan. I haven't read much fiction lately, but Hamsun shouldn't disappoint.

[Anonymous No.831311]

Absolutely riveting so far.

[Anonymous No.831313]

[Anonymous No.831322]

>>831304
I'm about a hundred pages in and really enjoying it. Sure, there isn't much of a plot, but the characters are really well-written and it's a fascinating look at a society extremely different from our own.

[Anonymous No.831328]

[Anonymous No.831329]

>>831298

PS. The first 50 pages were in desperate need of a thesaurus.

[Anonymous No.831429]

>>830892
This was so hard to read, I couldn't finish it because it just felt like a teenage drama movie where the lead was just accidently sabotaging himself at every step in the most cringeworthy fashion.

Pic is my current book, it's great!

[Anonymous No.831445]

>>831328
what's this book about?

fiction?

[Anonymous No.831450]

>>831445

It's about a magazine writer in Vietnam (ie, the author).

[Anonymous No.831463]

>>831429
I am also reading Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore" aren't you discouraged by the pop-culture references and the feelung of not getting anywhere?

[Anonymous No.831468]

>>831463
I felt that way up until the constant sexing.

[Anonymous No.831476]

>>831468
I know what you mean, but even after the sexing, the pseudo-psychilogical persona he tries to build isn't good, it isn't bad eithet but still not pleasant or fullfiling in anyway.

[Anonymous No.831484]

>>831476
True. I was mostly just interested enough in it because of the sex to go on. It felt like a waste of time though after reading it.
Did you get anything out of the part where he goes into the forest?

[Anonymous No.831498]

>>831463
I don't know about Kafka on the Shore, but in the Wind-Up Bird it makes sense that you're not going anywhere. That's just how the main character is. (also I love stories where nothing really happens, I cannot explain my love for it though)
I have no problems with pop-culture references, I feel like it's a necessity with any modern book. But it doesn't seem like it's going crazy with them or anything. There was a part where he mentions Michael Jackson playing on the radio, but I didn't feel like that made much of a difference

[Anonymous No.831547]

>>831484
Actually I did, it was one of the most riveting parts I have read, (I am still missing 10chpts)

>>831498
As the book itself mentions it, when Ms. Saeki tells Kafka that she wrote a book about thunderstruck but with no conclusions, I am getting the feeling thia book is like that.

Anyhow. Good night, it is 4:12am in the beatiful mexican desert. So long /lit/.

[Anonymous No.831560]

Just finished The Master and the Margarita, and fucking LOVED it!

Now in the first 50 pages of Snow Crash, it's taking a bit to get into... Please tell me it gets better, so many of you guys here recommended it! It's reminding me of The Dresden Files for some reason, which I hated.