/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8913457]

ITT: Your Mom's favorite book

[Anonymous No.8913464]

this is very mom-tier but also god-tier desu

[Anonymous No.8913469]

[Anonymous No.8913472]

>>8913457
My diary, desu

[Anonymous No.8913474]

My mom never read a book in her life.

[Anonymous No.8913475]

Edipo

[Anonymous No.8913486]

>>8913464
yo how is that shit. will it make me cry?

[Anonymous No.8913489]

>>8913472
lmao I hope my kids have a diary. I'm gonna read that shit for sure.

[Anonymous No.8913510]

I think it's Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

[Anonymous No.8913531]

>>8913486
it made me cry so yeah, maybe

[Anonymous No.8913543]

She's pretty lit as far as classics for women go. Also a really big fan of the Canterbury Tales

[Anonymous No.8913562]

She's actually fairly /lit/ (enjoyed Finnegan's Wake, loves obscure Shakespeare plays)

[Anonymous No.8913579]

Murakami is the ultimate this

[Anonymous No.8913982]

Franny and Zoey

[Anonymous No.8914011]

>>8913457
pic related
haven't read it

[Anonymous No.8914018]

Some garbage like Danielle Steel

[Anonymous No.8914063]

>>8914011
>>8913543
>>8913464
>>8913457
Good mums

[Anonymous No.8914070]

>>8913562
My mom's favorite as well. She's read the Greeks and Shakespeare but never made it to any quality contemporary works(also she thinks Finnegan's Wake is rubbish)

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>>8913457
I guess Hesse or Grass

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[Anonymous No.8914803]

can anyone tell me if its good? I don't like to talk to my mother

[Anonymous No.8914812]

>>8913510
My mother is reading that right now. I don't think she'll like it because she mainly reads crime novels.

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>>8913562
Oh my god, my mom too.
That makes 3 of us: wtf?

[Anonymous No.8914824]

>>8914011
Oh! I did!
There's like 4 volumes, and it's super weird, and also pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8914827]

some shitty napoleon hill book

[Anonymous No.8914846]

>>8913474
this

[Anonymous No.8914863]

I don't think my mom has read a book since like high school.

Who else /unintellectual working class family that you feel increasingly detached from (communicatively) in a way that simultaneously makes you feel pity and like a huge dickbag for feeling the pity and regretting the limitations caused by a plebian ubringing/ ?

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[Anonymous No.8914911]

Ride the Tiger
My mom is weird

[Anonymous No.8914917]

My mom died when I was nine. I don't know if she enjoyed reading.

[Anonymous No.8914922]

>>8914863
your parents worked to get you can education at least remember that

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[Anonymous No.8914967]

I know she likes Rilke and Agee.

[Anonymous No.8915076]

something by Woolf. she named my sister Virginia

[Anonymous No.8915085]

>>8914863
I understand this feel. Just have to get over it though. Accept the difference, but be present.

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>>8913457
Anything by Dickens.

[Anonymous No.8915358]

>>8914863
Start easy? never to late to read.
For example me and my mother we started reading some books together, like two person book club. She's been reading more and better, also I enjoy sharing something and we have more to talk about on sundays when I call them.

And m8, they are your parents. Unless they straight up abuse you or or neglected you completely or something terrible, the fact that you're able to read, attended school, and enjoy lit right now is thanks to their work (very likely, might not be the case).
They are probably proud of you for being smarter than them.

[Anonymous No.8916209]

:/

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[Anonymous No.8916361]

My mom's a writer and got me into reading and writing, for which I am eternally indebted to her. She's v middlebrow which is comfy, I think I would be intimidated by highbrow parents.

[Anonymous No.8916389]

She mostly reads crime novels now, I believe she read mostly classics growing up.

[Anonymous No.8916394]

>>8914911
If a girl likes Ride the Tiger she wants you to hit her

[Anonymous No.8916515]

Her two favorite authors are pic related and Dostoyevsky, but I think this is her very favorite.

tfw ur dad found a russian lit gf, but u cant

[Anonymous No.8917021]

>>8913469
M A T R I C I A N

>>8916389
Came here to post this word for word. Are you my brother?

[Anonymous No.8917027]

>>8914863
I'm from a working class family and my mother reads. It's all trash, though.

[Anonymous No.8918128]

>>8913457
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

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>>8916389
Did your mom tell you to read Breakfast of Champions because there is a drawing of a butthole in it?

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>>8917021
Did your mom tell you to read Breakfast of Champions because there is a drawing of a butthole in it?

[Anonymous No.8918282]

The Bible

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>>8914863
t. Stoner

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>>8916515
>TFW you will have a russian /lit wife
>tfw you will never raise a child with her
>tfw you will never have the kind of sincere love that lives on your entire life due to their general virtue as a human being
a-at least i assume humans love eachother like that

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>>8914803

All you have, my friend, is another good reason not to talk to your mother.

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[Anonymous No.8920184]

I think she liked this one the best, she's from Louisiana and told me to read it when I was a teen.

[Anonymous No.8920210]

>>8913562
>>8914070
>finnegan's
you're both rubbish

[Anonymous No.8920492]

>>8913457
My mum hates reading. I'm convinced it's because she's intimidated and has no incentive to read besides intimidating browbeating, which will convince no one.

More worrying is what my dad likes, because he's a massive bohemian pseud but he likes similar stuff to me. My uncle at least is better, because he is the committed kind of pseud who makes short indie films.

/blog

[Anonymous No.8920617]

I don't know which book but her favourite author is Hemmingway.

Other than that she has recently been going on a lot about 'Seven Years in Tibet'.

[Anonymous No.8920781]

I have no idea, the only books my mom reads are these post-WW1-pre-WW2-set-in-England novels about God knows what.

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>>8914917
:(

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[Anonymous No.8920837]

Almost certain it's the Bible, which I guess is quite good on the literary scale

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>>8914967
That's an intense favorite

[Anonymous No.8922201]

>>8913457
My mom loves Dune and pulp sci-fi, it's pretty endearing desu

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[Anonymous No.8922218]

Danielle Steel or Nora Roberts were all I remember her reading.

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>>8920210
It is possessive in the context of the story. Not my fault Joyce didn't use punctuation in the title

[Anonymous No.8923001]

It's one of the Hercule Poirot books. She has them all

[Anonymous No.8923018]

>>8913457

I'm not entirely sure my mother can read. It would explain a lot.

[Anonymous No.8923036]

>>8913457
my mom would probably say something by king, like something accessible like stand by me or something. the furthest she has gone is slaughterhouse five. i love her but she is only decent at analyzing movies, not literature. which is fine by me, books more often than not suck ass

but i must say im reading portnoys complaint right now and am very intrigued, despite the lack of momentum

[Anonymous No.8923089]

>>8923036
The story Stand By Me is based on is called The Body, just in case it ever comes up in a life or death trivia game.