/lit/ - Literature

>Book you've last finished
Tender is the night by F Scott Fitzgerald. I definitely liked the atmosphere and the characters of the novel - Fitzgerald is quickly becoming one of my favourite writers.
>Book you're reading currently
Just started Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Can't say anything at this moment.
>Book you'll read next
I'll probably try Anna Karenina.

I think Steinbeck's writing style is pretty easy to grasp for beginners, and the themes and ideas are pretty universal for everybody so you should enjoy them. Grapes of wrath, Of mice and men, Cannery Row etc.

Some "modern classics" (I hate the term) like To kill a mockingbird, Kurt Vonnegut's works and Orwell are pretty easy to grasp and fun. If you want to throw in some genre fiction, most people have enjoyed reading Agatha Christie's novels.

>>2816206

I have read East of Eden and generally liked it very much - some aspects of it were rather stiff, but I love Steinbeck's style.

I have not read The last tycoon or This Side of Paradise. How do they compare with The Great Gatsby or Tender is the night? As in themes, characterization etc.

John Steinbeck - The grapes of wrath
F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the night
Alexander Dumas - The count of Monte-Cristo

John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Cannery Row.

>>2815989

As a Finn, I approve of this post. Great, great books.

Some Finnish "classics" and modern likeable literature:

All of Mika Waltari's work
Väinö Linna
Minna Canth
Juhani Aho
Sofi Oksanen
Tove Jansson

As for Swedish literature, I enjoyed Moberg..

KJ Taylor's The Dark Griffin is dark fantasy at its best. No elves, no dwarves, just humans and Griffins.

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches,' by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing."

To Kill a Mockingbird
Of mice and men
Les Misérables

David Eddings' The Belgariad and The Malloreon would be awesome as a HBO mini-series.

Just read:

To kill a mockingbird
Cannery Row
Of mice and men
Crime and Punishment
To whom the bell tolls
The three musketeers

To be read:

The old man and the sea
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
The idiot
The Brothers Karamazov
The grapes of wrath
East of Eden
Sweet tuesday
Breakfast of champions

Cannery Row
Sweet Tuesday
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of wrath
For whom the bell tolls
The old man and the sea

I'm trying to get into literature in general. Thought I'd start with some "classics" or "modern classics". Already read Dostoyevsky, Dumas, Dickens.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Pillars of the earth
Of Mice and Men
Les Misérables
The count of Monte Cristo