/lit/ - Literature

Really good book. A lot of ppl on /lit/ probably dislike it because it's a bit genre-y, but I thought it was fantastic. Gaiman knows his mythology but he also knows how to spin a yarn and keep a reader interested, and this is probably his best book
(I've heard good things about Anansi Boys though)

>>3986179
To each his own
Personally I find Woolf to be like a less insufferably clever Joyce in a way that's really appealing, but I can understand disliking the style, and 9/10 times I'd rather read McCarthy or Hemingway

>>3986165
Do you seriously not like To The Lighthouse? :(
but yeah Blood Meridian is an unfortunate snub, definitely deserved a place

>>3986126
>Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Nice to see he's not all bad

>>3920068
>Cummings
>Ginsberg
>Wittgenstein
I'm rly jealous
at least I've got the Joyce

>doesn't like E.E. Cummings
vacate the premises you plen

Aw he's great
America and A Supermarket in California are my favourites, there's a certain bitterness and subversiveness to them but they're so well-composed and (in the case of America) intense. So much personality and flavour.

>>3909559
my mum's reaction was a mix of indignant feminist anger and laughing at how ridiculous it was
she did think it had a certain social relevance to the period, but that some of it is just sexist nonsense

It's like watching Fight Club and Boogie Nights at the same time while masturbating over a fantasy based on the Marquis de Sade having sex with your ego

>that Lil Wayne quote
my, how ignorant

>>3908993
Halfway through Songs of a Dead Dreamer atm but I've got Teatro Grottesco to read next. I also really enjoyed (if that's the word) I Have a Special Plan for this World - that air of terror evoked using even fewer words and concrete ideas than usual.

>>3908809
Glad to see him mentioned, he's easily one of the best horror authors around. The Frolic (amongst others) is one of those short stories that, despite its brevity and initially simple setting, evokes an entire (very frightening) new world that somehow is at once utterly alien and nightmarishly familiar to me.

>>3900618
;_;
Notes from Underground was disturbingly easy to relate to, I found it more of a cautionary tale than anything

Dolores Umbridge

The Colour Out of Space is probably his best

>>3893276
Samuel II is far more interesting than it has any right to be
David was such an arsehole, but he was always dancing and writing psalms for the Lord
a complicated man

>>3887975
Not all of it, and it starts off relatively normal
It just has a bit of a learning curve, once you get used to it it's a very enjoyable book

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens", Fuhrer

Neyn

Zay gesunt

Any book written by Woody Allen

>>3882684
It's one of his essays where it feels like he doesn't have a powerful argument, more like he's scraping the barrel to find more points to conjecture. It's certainly not as compelling as some of his essays on metaphysics, and even if it's not genuinely spiteful it seems like he's being pretty blasé when it comes to disregarding such a large group of people as "Western women". It hasn't dated well.
That's true, but I still find his disgust at hypocritical Christians and his cheerful disregard for anyone he disagrees with a lot more enjoyable, personally. To each their own.

>>3882616
it's true that women can hinder the feminist agenda just as much as men, and that aspect (that is to say, the claim that Western women are limited by a self-perpetuating tradition of "ladies") of On Women I can almost agree with, but some of the stuff (about women being the less fair sex due to their figure, etc) seems almost spiteful.

>>3882381
>common sense
>brainwashed

lmao
shouldn't you be red-pilling sheeple about the Illuminati right now, squire? The truth is out there!

>>3882367
>new wave of 4chan
been here for three years m8, and there've been feminists and tripfags here all that time